In this Hogwarts without a savior

Chapter 520 518. The Lost Gem

Regarding Draco's matter, of course Jon doesn't need to worry about it, Dumbledore will naturally have his arrangements.

The entanglement between Snape and Lily was also a matter between the two of them. Even if Jon wanted to eat melons, he couldn't bother him too much.

So in the following period of time, he was free.

In fact, it can't be said that he is free, because he still has some private affairs to do.

According to the memory that Lucius took him once in the original world, Jon found the address where Adrian once lived in England.

The world turned around after the night Voldemort killed Harry's parents, and Adrian was seriously ill before that, so the fact that he's not alive shouldn't make a difference.

The purpose of Jon's trip is to see if Adrian in this world has researched things like gems and rings like the original world.

If this has not changed, it means that the ring is still in Slughorn's hands, and the positions of the other gems have not changed.

But when he first arrived at Hogwarts Castle, Jon went to the restricted area of ​​the library once, but in the original place he did not find the notes left by Adrian and the gem that was identified as breaking the curse.

Jon wanted to find out what went wrong in the middle, and this room might be able to give him the answer.

When he found this place, the address was not covered up by the magic of the Ministry of Magic as before, and an Auror seal was affixed.

Lucius Malfoy in this world has never been the head of the Auror office, and he doesn't have that much power to do such a thing. Therefore, when Adrian stayed in the UK, he was not wanted.

It was precisely because of this that Jon judged that there might be more valuable things left in this room.

The door was locked, but it was not protected by magic. Jon just used a simple unlocking spell to enter the room.

Although the furniture in the house is covered with a thick layer of dust, it can be seen that no one has taken care of it for at least ten years, but the furnishings and placement of the furniture are enough to tell that the house was well taken care of before its owner left.

Jon didn't mess with other things, he went straight to the place where he got the gem, and tried to use the ring as a key in the same way, trying to make new discoveries, but in the end it was empty.

Like the missing notebook in Hogwarts Castle, the gem here is missing too!
Jon didn't have much disappointment and frustration in his heart, but fell into thinking.

He vaguely remembered the time when the note was written. It was when Adrian was a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in Hogwarts Castle, and lost a bet with Slughorn, so he left the note and the gem in the restricted area of ​​the library.

And this time point is obviously before Voldemort crossed over and changed the history of the place.

What happened in this room now happened after Voldemort crossed over, so it is normal for there to be deviations here, but why is there something wrong with the note in the restricted area?

There are only two possibilities he can think of.

Either after Voldemort had traveled through time, and during the time when Adrian was seriously ill and hadn't died, he had some kind of behavioral deviation from himself in the original world, and took away the gems in Hogwarts Castle, put them in other places or used them for other purposes.

Either someone who was affected by Voldemort's disappearance showed up and took the note and the gem from the library.

If it is the second possibility, then the person who takes the note and the gem can only be the person who owns the ring, and it is self-evident who this person is.

Horace Slughorn, Jon's teacher, is also the one who passed the ring on to him.

And if it is the first possibility, then there must be Slughorn among those who know the inside story!
After figuring this out, Jon left the house and returned to Hogwarts without hesitation. He found Dumbledore. If anyone knows where Slughorn is hiding now, he is the only one.

In today's world, the saying that Voldemort is completely dead is the mainstream, but Slughorn, who personally informed Voldemort of the existence of the magic of the Horcrux, must be clearer than anyone else. Before the Horcrux is discovered and destroyed, it is impossible for Voldemort to die no matter what.

In the absence of more information, he would not have guessed that Voldemort had traveled through time to another parallel world, so he has been hiding in an unknown place until now, fearing that his once most proud student would kill him, the only Horcrux insider, to silence him.

Dumbledore naturally did not refuse Jon's request, and gave him a letter, saying that he could help Jon explain his identity.

So on the second day, Jon took the letter and found the small Muggle village where Slughorn was hiding—Badley Barberton village according to Dumbledore's prompt.

Slughorn obviously avoided seeing people. Even if Jon had already entered the room, he would still hide from people like when Dumbledore brought Harry to find him in the original book, but it was clean and tidy here, just like the owner of the house was away from home temporarily.

Jon was not fooled by such an illusion at all, he directly inserted his wand into the armchair beside him, and the chair let out a scream the next moment.

"Ouch!"

Slughorn's magic could no longer be maintained, and he turned back into a human form, while looking at Jon unkindly.

"Do you know what a crime it is to break into a private house, little guy! I can"

However, before his harsh words came out, his eyes lowered slightly, and he saw the elder wand in Jon's hand.

He has been the head of Slytherin at Hogwarts for decades, of course he can recognize what this wand is, and his pupils suddenly twitched, and his voice began to change.

"Dumbledore called you?"

Jon took out the letter that Dumbledore had handed him.

"Good morning, teacher, maybe you should take a look at this, and it would be better for us to communicate."

Slughorn took the letter, and just as he opened the sealant, a cloud of green powder floated out of it, and then they flew into the fireplace that had been extinguished for an unknown amount of time in summer, as if they had been guided by some kind of guidance.

Then, a green flame ignited in the fireplace, and Dumbledore's head appeared in it.

(End of this chapter)