In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

  Chapter 31 31. Interloper

  A week before Christmas, snow began to fall in most places in the UK.

  Jon occasionally went to sit with Hagrid in his spare time, holding black tea, eating biscuits, and watching the scene of heavy snow falling outside the carriage.

   But most of the rest of the time is still studying in the car.

   His learning progress in Occlumency has exceeded Slughorn's original expectations. Before Christmas, he has already built a simple "wall" in his mind.

  Although it is not yet possible to construct false memories outside the "enclosed wall" to make Occlumency the most perfect, it has already met Slughorn's teaching requirements for him at the beginning.

Regarding the learning of the ring spellcasting method, Slughorn didn't mean to start before Christmas, but gave Jon a week off so that he wouldn't stretch the time so tight, even if it was another Diligence and hard work must also know how to combine work and rest.

   Of course Jon himself knows this truth.

So this week, he has been chatting or playing chess with Neville and the others in the lounge after dinner. Wizard entertainment is really lacking, especially on the carriage, even Quidditch, the most famous ball game in the wizarding world. When there is no way to hold it, the students can only have fun by themselves.

The so-called Wizard Chess is actually chess that comes alive and can follow human language commands to act. After playing a few games, Jon felt really boring, so he asked Hagrid to help him find a lot of hardness on the road while the carriage was driving. A suitable stone, and then went to Professor Flitwick to help him cut the stone into squares of the same size with the top-notch crushing spell. Finally, Jon carved cylinders, strips and One to one hundred thousand in English, etc., make a simple mahjong.

Of course, it is more convenient to directly use the transformation technique to create a pair, but it is impossible for Jon to remember the patterns on each mahjong so clearly for a while, and there is still a time limit for the maintenance of the transformation technique, so it only took three days. Just made a set of mahjong that doesn't know how many pieces are incomplete.

  The rules of mahjong are very simple. In fact, there are many mahjong fans in the UK, and they will hold several games from time to time, but the rules are slightly different from those in China.

   But this is only limited to the Muggle society. Of course, mahjong has not been introduced in the wizarding world. The pair Jon is making now is estimated to be the first set of mahjong for British wizards.

   Just played a few rounds while explaining the rules to Neville Ron and the others, and they basically figured out how to play this kind of square card.

   Then the five freshmen gave up Wizard Chess completely, and indulged in playing square cards in the lounge every day after class.

   "Two barrels."

  In the warm lounge, Lavender hesitated for a long time before clicking one of the cards in front of him with his wand, and using the levitation spell to make it fly to the center of the table.

   And the moment her voice just fell, Ron flicked his wand with excitement, and pushed all the cards in front of him directly.

   "Aha! I'm crazy!"

   Justin immediately showed a happy expression on his face. Even if he didn't win, he didn't lose too much.

  Neville looked at Ron's cards in confusion, and he was only one card away.

   Lavender looked frustrated. Even if they just played casually when they were bored, they didn't have any bets at all. She was still very unhappy that she kept losing today.

  After teaching them, Jon, who basically watched the battle with relish, guided Lavender.

   "You still win only by luck, but you can't rely on luck to play this kind of cards. You have to guess his business ideas through the cards played by others."

In fact, he has a lot of theories in his mouth, and his real poker skills are extremely smelly. In his previous life, he played a few times in the dormitory with his college roommates. Now the reason why he pretends to be unfathomable and stays out of the game is purely because he has self-knowledge. With Neville and the others becoming more and more proficient at playing, I couldn't beat them at all, and I didn't want to break the founder's undefeated golden stature.

   "Shuffle! Shuffle!"

   Just as Ron was yelling, the door of the lounge was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

  Filch's old face full of wrinkles and age spots was so ugly that he gave the jumping Ron a hard look, and then shouted at everyone in the lounge with a sharp voice.

   "Everyone come out, all gather at the restaurant!"

   After speaking, he turned and left angrily, as if to inform other students who were still in the dormitory.

  Not only Jon and the others, but every student in the lounge looked at each other, not knowing what happened.

   "Let's go, let's go to the restaurant first."

  Jon led the way towards the dining room, and Neville and the others followed him to the dining room. Most of the students had already gathered here, and McGonagall stood in front of the students with a serious face.

   But after seeing McGonagall, Jon knew very well that this was definitely not a small problem, because it can only be a major event that can make the vice principal come forward.

   After Filch gathered all the students in the carriage, Jon and the others understood what happened.

   Someone broke into the locked room without a sign!

This time the intruder's method was very clever, and he didn't show any flaws, but after what happened last time, Filch asked Flitwick to put a bullet on every door that students were not allowed to enter privately. A small spell, as long as the door is opened, it will definitely leave traces on it.

   And now Filch obviously found traces of being opened on a certain door, he did not hesitate, and directly reported the incident to McGonagall.

This is not a trivial matter. In the rooms that students are not allowed to enter privately, some dangerous magical animals or plants are locked up, such as thestrals, or some animals brought out of Hogwarts castle are stored, which are dangerous. But also valuable magic items.

   Now that these rooms have been broken into silently twice in a row, they must be investigated to the end.

   Frowning and looking at all the students present, Mag's stern voice sounded in the restaurant.

   "I believe that this may be the unintentional act of some people. He didn't want to steal anything, but just broke in accidentally. Now, as long as this person takes the initiative to stand up and admit his mistake, I will not impose such strict punishment on him."

   McGonagall has always been very dignified among the students, and no one would doubt what she said.

  But the students at the scene were all looking at each other. No one wanted to stand up and take responsibility for this matter.

  Seeing this scene, Mag frowned even deeper.

   "Filch, please make another trip and invite Felius here for me."

  (end of this chapter)