After staying in the cabin until the afternoon, Lily took out a pocket watch from her robe pocket, looked at the time on it, then stood up and led Jon out of the safe house.
Outside is a dense forest. It should be in an inaccessible mountain range. It is a very secluded place.
"Are we going to Hogwarts now?"
Even though Lily had deliberately slowed down her pace, Jon, whose body was still growing rapidly, still had to speed up in order to follow her.
"right."
"Then why don't you just use the magic you used to take me away?"
"The Ministry of Magic can determine the landing point of the Apparition through the starting point of the Apparition. This safe house can help us temporarily hide the landing point, but this kind of magic cannot be used when going to Hogwarts. "
Jon raised his head and continued to ask doubtfully.
"Then do we have to walk to Hogwarts like this? Or have you prepared some kind of transportation?"
Lily said calmly
"We just have to walk a little way first, and then Hogwarts will come to us."
...
Just half an hour after they left, Barty Crouch Jr. led a team of Aurors to the safe house in the woods.
Looking at the extinguished fire and the tea cup with chocolate left inside, the Charms professor from another Hogwarts school turned pale.
"Well, well, it happens every year, again. Once again we have that woman escaping with a Mudblood right under our noses."
The Aurors lowered their heads obediently, and no one dared to look at the young man in front of them who was deeply favored by the man.
Little Barty's eyes were cold, completely different from his previous gentle behavior in front of Jon.
"I really want to know why the Auror Office hasn't figured out a way to deal with these safe house magics after so long!"
Among the Aurors, a young wizard swallowed and explained with a trembling voice and gritted teeth.
"Professor Crouch, the command has devoted a large part of its manpower to cracking this kind of magic. If it were the kind of magic used by these fugitives a year ago, we would definitely be able to crack it as soon as possible, but they are safe The hiding magic cast on the house has been changing, and this year’s one has a new spell cast on it, so the previous research has no effect.”
Little Barty stared at the wizard who spoke, the coldness on his face gradually disappeared, and the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a smile.
"May I have your name?"
The young wizard seemed to feel the friendliness from his smile, but he did not see that the old Aurors around him were secretly looking at him with pity.
He stammered with a smile on his face.
"My name is Andrew Williams, Professor. I took your Charms class during my last two years at Hogwarts."
Little Barty gently turned the wand in his hand with three fingers, his voice sounding extremely gentle.
"I remember that there seems to be no pure-blood family with the surname Williams, and the Ministry of Magic will never recruit Mudbloods as employees... So, you are a half-blood?"
"Yes, yes, Professor..."
"Heart-breaking and bone-cutting!"
The smiling face that was gentle one second turned into extremely ferocious and terrifying the next second.
Under the tip of Little Barty's staff, the young wizard curled up and twisted violently on the ground like a cooked prawn. The pain from the depths of his soul, accompanied by the wails from his mouth, shocked the woods. A large flock of birds.
"ah!!!"
"Who do you think you are, a bastard with dirty and impure blood flowing in your body!"
He stepped heavily on the young Auror's body with his leather boots again and again, as if venting the anger he had been holding back all day.
"The only person in the entire Auror Command who is qualified to explain these words to me is your director, Lucius Malfoy. You know what? Bastard!"
...
Half of the sun had already set below the horizon, and the afterglow of the setting sun covered the surrounding houses with a layer of orange gauze.
After Lily led Jon out of the woods, they soon arrived at a nearby Muggle town.
When she got out of the woods, she took off the gray robe and wore an ordinary top and jeans underneath. Her dark red hair also turned into dark brown with a spell.
The two of them walked together on the streets of the town, like a mother and son out for a walk, without attracting any attention.
After Jon followed Lily out of the safe house, he had been walking non-stop for two or three hours.
After all, he still has the body of a child. After walking for such a long time, his body has long been exhausted.
Fortunately, after arriving in this small town, Lily had no intention of continuing and took Jon to find a bench on the side of a secluded road to sit down and rest.
Jon was still very curious about the phrase "Hogwarts will come to us."
In the original book, the castle built by the four founders has apparently been occupied by Voldemort.
So in what kind of place will Hogwarts, led by Dumbledore, who is wanted at all times, conduct teaching?
He didn't rush to ask Lily, since he would know the answer himself soon, but he raised his own question about another matter.
"Professor Potter, am I the only one coming to Hogwarts today?"
Lily always kept her right hand in her jeans pocket to hide her wand, and at the same time, she could take immediate countermeasures when encountering an accident.
"I am not the only professor who has gone out from the school to guide Muggle students to enroll. And you are not the only one I am responsible for bringing back today."
At this point, her face turned obviously gloomy.
"Before I went to find you, I also went to the home of another girl named Hermione Granger. When I got there, that girl's parents no longer remembered that they had a daughter."
Jon was stunned on the spot.
Hermione Granger, this name is naturally very familiar to him who has read the original novel!
This is also the first situation he heard about the people in the protagonist's team, and what Lily meant by these words...
Jon took a deep breath and looked at the witch beside him with a complicated expression.
"You said that if a student like me was taken away from another Hogwarts, those people would erase the memories of everyone who knew me. This girl named Hermione Granger... ..”
Lily's voice was calm, but the anger, self-blame and powerlessness hidden under the calmness could not be concealed at all.
"Yes, she signed the admission letter and was taken away by someone like Barty Crouch Jr., a professor from another Hogwarts school."
