169 Chapter 168 Halloween

On the previous Halloween on the wagon, although Hagrid would not find a special place to stop the wagon for a feast like the opening dinner as well as the Christmas dinner, but, the professors would still make the festive decorations in the great hall.

For the dinner, the students will prepare a good feast, and each professor will carry a lot of candy with them, and whenever a student passes by them, they will grab a handful of candy from their pockets and stuff it into the children's hands.

Now even though the adults are gone, Jon doesn't intend to simplify this festive celebration.

It's important to unite the children together and keep the same sense of routine as in the past to make them feel more appreciated and secure.

Early in the morning on Halloween day, the seniors of the fourth and fifth-year students got up and began to decorate the deck.

After a collective vote the day before, everyone was excited to have this year's holiday dinner held on the open deck of the ship.

Many of the students who had been seasick had slowly begun to adapt, and the ocean, which they had rarely been exposed to before, evoked a sense of novelty in almost everyone.

They had celebrated dinner together on the beach by the seaside once before but had never celebrated a holiday like this on the ocean.

By late evening, the deck was all properly tidied up, and today's weather was very good, although it was starting to get some winter chill, there was no big wind and waves.

Several long tables in the great hall were moved out of the cabin, the bats transformed using transfiguration flew over their heads, and the pumpkin lamps hanging from the mast, the candelabra floating in mid-air, accompanied by the soft sound of the waves, let the Hogwarts students' restlessness from the absence of the professors' protection gradually released.

Especially after Jon informed everyone of the exact position where they are now, which undoubtedly calmed down the hearts of those who were obviously a bit agitated before.

But again, after solving the current location problem, Jon did not just forget about the tasks and duties that they, as students, had to take the initiative to assume even in the absence of the professor.

Before the Halloween dinner began, Jon used the captain's identity and started to assign tasks for everyone on this ship in the following days.

"The professors are sending us overseas for our safety, surely they don't want to see us on the ship all day without thinking, just eating, drinking and having fun, if we really acted like that, we wouldn't deserve to be their students and be protected by them in such a way."

Jon's phrasing was harsh, and he knew that if he wanted to be truly responsible for everyone here, he couldn't always show a gentle disposition.

Even in the wagon, there was still a need for strict professors like Professor McGonagall as well as Lily to discipline these children who are not yet grown up and are playful by nature.

Even if they know that the current situation is pressing, they may not be able to do anything, and doing nothing like this is obviously wrong, but in the absence of supervision and control of the situation, their hearts will still subconsciously want to be lazy and give themselves an excuse to be lazy.

So in this case, Jon must take up a role identical to that of Professor McGonagall and Lilly.

The students who had originally been indulging in these days, living happily without classes or homework, could not help but bow their heads in shame at this time.

But there were still some students who expressed doubts about his words.

"We don't want to stay on the ship and do nothing, but without the professor, there will be no one to teach us new magic knowledge, so what else can we do here?"

The question was posed by a fifth-year student who is a close friend of George as well as Fred - Lee Jordan.

Jon could tell he wasn't trying to make some excuse to be lazy but really didn't know what to do.

"It's true that it's not easy to carry out the teaching for fourth and fifth year students, but the curriculum required for the students from the first to the third year is not something too advanced."

Jon looked at all the students and said.

"No matter what, we can't stay on the ship without doing anything, that's a waste of our own potential and time, and all of this is what the professors who bet their lives to earn it."

"The library in the ship's cabin is completely open, and the seniors have already handed the textbooks that we are going to study this year along with notes, with that we can spare time to study on our own without the professor's teaching."

"The older students will have to take on more responsibility for the younger ones, and we will not only have to study on our own, but also devote some time to teach the third years and below."

"All of the fourth-year students will be responsible for the third-year students' classes, and the fifth-year students will be divided into two parts to teach the first and second years respectively."

"You guys have all advanced from the lower grades and know all the specific lessons they've taken, and we can all talk together about how to do the lesson preparation. We don't have as much experience and knowledge as the professors, but there are enough of us, and there are always better ways to solve problems with more people."

No one had any objection to Jon's statement.

Many students need external supervision before they are willing to work hard, only some students like Hermione are passionate and motivated to learn, and even without Jon's arrangement today, they will take the initiative to raise this matter.

The professors set an example in the wagon, all these students know what it means to assume responsibility, the oldest will take care of the youngest even before, although it will make the fourth and fifth-year students busier than others in general, it will also make them all feel deserved.

After the tasks of all the students on the ship were determined, Jon did not give any more long speeches, and soon announced the start of the dinner.

Everyone had a great time at this dinner, and just when the feast was proceeding, someone suddenly faintly saw a light white dot in a dark sea.

Soon many more people noticed the white dot.

In the darkness, it was too noticeable, Jon also looked over the white dot, it must be a luminous body, otherwise, it would not be so remarkable in the darkness of the night.

And soon, that white dot came closer and closer to the view of these students at Hogwarts, and also grew bigger in size.

Within a few minutes, almost everyone could see what that thing was.

It is a ship too!

A ship similar to the Hogwarts, which should not appear in the modern sea, and its whole body is lit with a faint fluorescent, it appears like a transparent and illusory pirate ship!

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