170 Chapter 169 The ghost ship

At the first moment, Jon had all the students hide in the cabin!

The moment he saw the pirate ship, an extremely bad feeling rose up inside him.

It is clearly not a modern ship.

With a faint luminescence, ragged long sails that look like a virtual illusion, and a skull emblem with a captain's cap, it is clear that the hull is also made of wood, but a sense of unreality filled everywhere with ethereal transparency.

As if this ship is not from earth, but a ghost ship that wandered into the realm of living!

At the same time that the ghost pirate ship appeared in Jon's eyes, a white fog rose silently at some point in the piece of the sea they are in.

The sound of the waves was absorbed by the white fog, and the whole sky was also obscured as if Hogwarts was forcibly pulled into another quiet and dead world.

The ghost ship is obviously aimed at them, its course from the beginning of the emergence did not have the slightest change, sailing straight toward Jon and co.

The only people on deck are Jon, George and Neville, all holding a monocular in their hands, looking at the ghost ship that appears to be some distance away from them, but at an unusual speed, it's getting closer and closer.

"That ship looks just like me!"

A little girl's voice sounded from above their heads.

Jon and the guys looked up and saw Gabrielle, who had come back from the cabin once again.

She is indeed right, the ship's state looks exactly the same as hers; both bodies are emitting a faint white luminescence, and look transparent and illusory.

This further confirms the existing speculation in Jon's mind that this is a ship with ghost characteristics.

Jon turned his head to look at George and Neville.

"When you guys were at home, did you ever hear your family talk about the legend of a ghost ship in the sea close to England?"

George shook his head decisively.

"No. Mom and Dad never talked to us about such a thing, and neither did Bill nor Charlie or any of them." After a moment's pause, he pondered, "Even in the fairy tale books I read at home when I was a kid that had a lot to do with wizards, there were no stories about these legends."

Neville, for his part, let out a deep breath.

"My father did tell me something similar, he told me that the ghosts of the wizarding world are not a scattered mess, they have died once and will exist in the future almost as ghosts forever. Although ghosts no longer have the various feelings of the living, and there is no way for them to touch the entity, they still retain their former emotions and memories when they were alive, so ghosts also have their own social circle."

"The most famous ghost organization within the UK is called the Headless Hunt, it is an organization jointly formed by a group of ghosts who had their heads cut off, they have harsh conditions for recruiting members, they must have their heads and bodies completely separated to be eligible, and many times they even use their heads for polo matches. But most ghosts thought they are pretty cool, so they became the most well-known ghost organization."

"This proves that there must be similar ghost organizations, far more than just the Headless Hunt. When you think about it this way, it's not so strange to see a ghost ship out at sea, too, even though none of us has heard of it."

Jon put down the monocular, his face did not relax but became more and more serious.

"Are there any ghosts that have defected to the Ministry of Magic?"

His question made both George and Neville flinch, but soon both of them reacted again.

Neville said hesitantly.

"Maybe there are ghosts who approve the idea of Pureblood supremacy, but. There should be no ghosts will go to work with the Ministry of Magic, after all, they are all dead, and become ghosts only because they are still full of unfinished attachment to this world of the living, very rarely we have heard of ghosts involved in disputes of the living."

George also said with a nod.

"The ghost who has died once cannot die again, so even the dark lord has no way to coerce them by force, and I have never heard that there is any department related to ghosts in the Ministry of Magic."

Both of them have a point.

No one can force a ghost to do certain things, so what camp does the ghost ship that is sailing towards them right now belong to?

Just a maritime organization of British ghosts, like Neville, said? Seeing their magic ship, they are specially coming over to say hello?

Although there are doubts in Jon's mind, there is also not much fear, normal ghost wizards have no way to do any harm to them just like how they have no way to kill ghost wizards, It's just there was a special case in Hogwarts Castle before - Peeves the Poltergeist.

Just as they were talking, the ghost ship was already close at hand.

Jon and the group could even clearly see a cannon pointed right at them from the ship's raggedy deck!

The ghost ship is getting closer and closer to them, the front of the two ships already showed signs of a collision, but whether it is Hogwarts or the other side, neither has any intention of stopping.

The next second, the two bows touched each other, but not even the slightest sense of collision came through.

The ghost ship passed through Hogwarts without resistance, and both old wooden ships overlapped together!

This overlap did not stop from the very beginning of the contact but was expanding, and soon the hull of the ghost ship passed through the bodies of Jon and the three of them!

An icy cold feeling that had never been felt before spread throughout their bodies.

It was like being poured a bucket of cold water from head to toe, making Jon involuntarily shiver.

The overall hull of Hogwarts is slightly taller than the ghost ship, and after the hulls of the two ships overlapped, the cabin where the students were located has been overlapped with the ghost ship cabin and is exposed.

And just as Jon and the three of them looked at the pirate ship that had completely overlapped with the Hogwarts at their feet, and the two ships were moving forward together as one, a sharp, rude voice suddenly sounded from below deck!

"Little brats! Cry out! You have been surrounded by the great Captain Jack!"

As the words sounded, a small ghost floated up from below the deck of Hogwarts!

He was wearing a pirate cap with a certain tattoo of a skull on his head, one foot was intact, the other was propped up by wood, and his left arm was not intact either, instead, an iron hook was attached to a broken section of his arm, and his face had a hideous scar slanted over the bridge of his nose, and one eye was covered by an eye patch of some kind.

The words of intimidation to Jon and co. did not come from the mouth of this small ghost, but rather from a phantom, transparent parrot standing on his shoulder!

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