Chapter 80 Halloween Eve

Near noon, after cleaning up the Quidditch pitch and preparing to return to the castle, Jon broke away from the second-year mudblood students midway through the process saying he had to go to the lavatory.

He used the same method as before with just an addition of using a marauder's map to make sure no one else was around and went to a remote location near the wall, where he hid a piece of paper with a phoenix feather emblem on it in the place where he had originally found the potion materials.

After doing all this, Jon returned to the lavatory and then rejoined the mudbloods, during which no one noticed or cared whether he went to the lavatory to go to the loo or not.

In October, it wasn't just the Quidditch tournament officially began, it also signalled that the Halloween feast was getting closer and closer.

There are only a few days when all the purebloods and half-bloods at Hogwarts get together to celebrate: the opening dinner, the Halloween dinner, the Christmas dinner, and the closing dinner.

For the first holiday dinner after the start of the school year, the students in the castle have a relatively high level of enthusiasm.

This enthusiasm is not just limited to the half-blood and pureblood students, even Jon could feel that the mudblood students around him also seemed to be looking forward to this day of the holiday.

Only this anticipation of theirs was obviously not due to fantasizing about any big feast, or what kind of candy they could get, something they wouldn't dare to think about even in their dream now.

They were looking forward to something else that Jon didn't know about, and the anticipation only spread among the second-year students, and in the other grades, he didn't notice anything unusual.

This was both somewhat within the realm of possibility and somewhat beyond Jon's comprehension.

Before coming to the castle, he had already known from the Malfoy father and son's conversation in Diagon Alley that the mudbloods in Hogwarts Castle were not exactly just going along with the oppression without making any resistance.

He lived here for almost close to two months and learned a lot about some of the things that happened last semester.

Basically, it was the senior mudblood students who privately organized and taught the junior mudbloods the true meaning of the insulting name mudblood, as well as telling them that children from a full muggle family are not inferior to half-bloods and purebloods and that everyone was an equal wizard in the British magical community not long ago, regardless of their origin.

Besides this, there was nothing more they could do than tell the younger children things that went completely against the history of magic and ideology classes they had attended during the day.

Then, during an assembly near the end of the semester, they were finally caught.

Castle caretaker Dolohov personally fed the leading students Veritaserum, forcing them to tell what they had done, and then this whole thing was even notified to Voldemort, who was largely absent from Hogwarts Castle.

After the incident, the Ministry of Magic sent a man, a wizard who is well-versed in the Memory Charm.

All the mudbloods involved in the gathering, except for the first years, had their memories wiped off, and the leading seniors, whose memories had been modified, were given a flawless set of memories by the wizard to replace them.

Then, in front of all the students in the school, whether purebloods, half-bloods or mudbloods, Dolohov flogged the leading students, beating them to the point of death, while asking them to express their gratitude for the school's "education" from the bottom of their hearts.

This is the reason why the student named "Taylor" looked so strange like an emotionless mannequin when he was hung up, got beaten and verbally abused by Dolohov on the night Jon first came to Hogwarts Castle.

He was one of the seniors who led these gatherings and one of the students whose memory was most thoroughly modified.

Only the students, who were still first years at the time, were not subjected to this memory wiping.

They were only 11 years old, so young to be wide-scale memory erasure, the human brain is inherently most sensitive, even in the magical world.

The professors at Hogwarts thought that these students had not been exposed to "abnormal" views for too long and that there are still six years ahead to correct them, plus the example provided by Taylor and the others was enough to intimidate them, so they just gave them a verbal education.

But from the current situation, it seems that these mudbloods who have now advanced to the second grade are not that intimidated, in the first two months of the school year they did behave obediently, but after October, others might not have felt the change, but Jon, who is part of the second-grade students himself, felt the obvious change.

Jon was a little surprised that these children who are only 12 years old this year, after going through those things in the last semester, now actually dare to make some small moves in private, but when he thought about it, if there is Hermione in the lead, then these kinds of things are not that surprising.

The last day of October is the night before Halloween.

After the afternoon classes ended, the pureblood and half-blood students were completely liberated, and skeletons walked around the great hall which had been decorated with pumpkin lights, flying bats and skulls.

The young wizards all changed into pure black cloaks and put on pointed wizard hats and carried pumpkin lanterns and ran around in the castle, reaching out to the professors to ask for candy when they met them.

On such a festive occasion, even the usually cold-faced Deputy Headmaster Snape would take a handful of candy out of his pocket and give it to the students who had hesitantly stretched their hands to him when they encountered him.

Only all this joy and excitement has nothing to do with the mudblood students.

They were all locked in their underground dormitories after an ordinary dinner under Dolohov's watchful eye.

On such a festive night, the presence of the mudbloods would only spoil the fun for both professors and students alike. The only good thing was that there was no work for them to do this evening, except that they were forced to stay honestly in their dormitories.

The Head boy and Head girl, who were in charge of patrolling and monitoring, returned to their dorm rooms after eight o'clock, no one wanted to be out in the cold in the corridor after such a late hour.

Tonight is actually the second time that Jon has to go to get the potion materials, but he did not do anything rash and stayed inside his dorm, he had a feeling that something different would happen tonight.

Sure enough, at a time when it was about to close to nine o'clock when there should be a lively dinner party in the great hall above, a soft knock sounded at the door of Jon's room.

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