"You should know that these are special times!"
Filch's sharp voice echoed in the corridor, and he glared fiercely at every student present.
"The person who did this had better come to me and surrender immediately. Maybe I can be lenient and punish him according to normal school rules! But if no one admits it and I am caught in the end, I will Let him regret not coming to me to admit his mistake at this time!"
The students looked at each other in confusion, and no one seemed to want to admit their mistake. Filch's threat seemed more like he was angry and angry. In fact, he had no clue to pursue it further. In the end, when lunch time came, he could only let it go.
During lunch, Jon looked at Ron suspiciously.
"You didn't do this, did you?"
Ron immediately shook his head like a rattle.
"How is it possible? I haven't opened the door randomly since I was punished last time. If you don't believe it, ask Neville. He has been with us all morning. He would definitely stop us if he were here."
Neville nodded.
"We did all stay in the common room this morning, but you, what did you do this morning?"
Jon didn't hide this too much. From now on, he would go to Slughorn's office every night. Neville, who shared the same dormitory with him, would find out sooner or later.
"Professor Slughorn wants to teach me something alone and asks me to go to his office every night for a few days."
Hearing his words, Ron and Justin both had sympathetic expressions on their faces.
"Then your spare time will be much less in the future."
Lavender rolled her eyes at them both.
"You think everyone is like you."
Neville patted Jon on the shoulder with a happy expression.
"This is a good thing for you. Professor Slughorn is very respected in the wizarding world both before and now. He is the only one on this carriage who is not wanted by the Ministry of Magic. You and him You can definitely learn something.”
Jon was a little curious about this.
"Why is Professor Slughorn the only one not wanted?"
Before Neville could speak, Ron spoke in a lower voice.
"Because he was the headmaster of Slytherin House before and held this position longer than Dumbledore was the headmaster of Hogwarts. Now almost all the pure-blood officials in the Ministry of Magic are his students. , and was taken care of by him when he was in school. There are rumors that even that man was Professor Slughorn's former protégé, so if the professor did not come to us and he went to another party, he would definitely get Higher power and fame. Now he is our professor. The Ministry of Magic has not spoken out about this matter, as if it does not know about it at all. I heard adults say that this should also be done intentionally by that man. .”
Jon thought about Ron's words.
He certainly didn't think that Voldemort was thinking about his old relationship when he treated Slughorn this way. For a man who was more suitable for the title of Dark Lord than the Dark Lord, feelings and so-called ideals were just as complete rubbish. Only power and dictatorship are what he really cares about.
Jon felt that the main reason why Slughorn could be on Dumbledore's side, but Voldemort didn't push him too hard, was because he held the secret about Voldemort's immortality.
Now Jon doesn't know whether Slughorn told Dumbledore this secret, and Voldemort certainly doesn't know either. He is telling his former dean that he has left some room for it and hopes that the Fat Walrus will be the best. Be nice and smart, there are some things you can do and some things you can't say.
Of course, the premise of these speculations is that Voldemort's arrangement of the Horcruxes is still the same as in the original work, without any changes.
The situation in the entire magical world is in chaos now. Who knows what happened to those Horcruxes.
He didn't think too much about these things that were currently out of Jon's reach. All he could do now was to strengthen his self-protection capabilities in a down-to-earth manner.
Apart from the fact that the students on the carriage were frightened for a whole day, there was no follow-up to this attack.
As if it was true what Dumbledore said, the Aurors who launched the attack on Hogwarts only accidentally discovered the whereabouts of the carriage during a patrol. Before the support from the Ministry of Magic arrived, they were already trapped by the professors. Trouble solved.
Except for the tense atmosphere on the carriage a week after the attack, as time went by, this tense atmosphere slowly dissipated, and the school returned to normal teaching life.
In the Charms class on the third week of school, Jon finally learned the first spell in his life - the Levitation Charm.
This is almost the first spell that every wizard comes into contact with after learning magic. It is not difficult to cast, and its effect is only to make light objects fly and heavy objects become lighter. It is a simple but very practical spell. Spell.
As Slughorn said, Jon's magical talent is indeed very good. In the Charms class, he was the first student among the five freshmen to successfully use the levitation spell, even if there were already Neville, who had no experience in casting spells, also failed to make the feathers on the desk levitate.
For this reason, Flitwick, whose leg injury had completely healed, excitedly exempted Jon from his spells homework.
And on the same day, Slughorn officially began teaching Jon.
"The study of Occlumency has nothing to do with what I will teach you later."
There is a stone basin placed on Slughorn's desk. The stone basin looks very old and can be called an antique.
"The most important role of learning this magic is to protect what I will teach you later, as well as the existence of this ring. There are many means in the magic world that can destroy people's memories, potions, spells, and even people. Being born with the ability to read people's minds, Occlumency is undoubtedly the best protection against these means."
Jon naturally knows the effects of Occlumency. Even if Slughorn doesn't take the initiative to teach him now, he will find other ways to learn this magic in the future.
The memories of his past life in his mind are very important. If they are not protected, in this dangerous magical world, it is equivalent to exposing the memories in his mind to others.
But now Jon is concerned about how Slughorn will teach him.
If Snape were to directly forcibly invade Harry's memory to speed up the training of his Occlumency, as in the original book, Snape taught Harry Occlumency, there was no way Jon would accept it.
