Chapter 144 The Disappeared Person

In past years, enrolling students on the wagon was actually a rather difficult task

There are only so many professors on the wagon, and every wizard in the Order of the Phoenix also has his or her own duties, so no one has so much free time to roam around in Muggle society all day. They can only try their luck with kids who are old enough to be 11 years old near the start of the school year.

The good thing is that the population of Britain is only so much, as long as you get hold of decent muggle population information, and then carry out a screening process to find them by following the Ministry of Magic's movements, there will always be some gains.

And in the middle of this, many times you will inevitably run into professors who got admission duty from the castle, just like when Lily confronted Barty Jr. and took Jon from the orphanage.

In the past, the annual admissions period was a thrilling one, and Lily and McGonagall, who were mainly responsible for this task, experienced an adventure almost every time they brought the new students into the wagon.

Lily for some special reason, her situation was somewhat easier, but McGonagall has been on the knife's edge many times.

And from this year, they finally didn't have to take the risk anymore and were able to go out and pick those kids back into the wagon long in advance.

The arrival of the new students gave the bored students on the wagon something new to do. The children who have just started school and are ready for first grade have just lost their families and now need someone else to give them comfort.

Each new student from a muggle family, after being told that they are in fact a wizard and will be studying magic at Hogwarts, Lily or McGonagall will cast an erasure spell on their identity, which is similar to a Memory Charm.

All traces of their existence in the world will be eliminated, including files, photos, and memories, as if they never existed at all.

This is actually a rather cruel thing to do.

It is said that at the beginning period of the exile, there was a great controversy in the school as well as within the Order of the Phoenix over whether to use such means of safeguards for the new students being enrolled.

But in the beginning, when Voldemort just started ruling the magical world, the suppression against Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix was at its peak, the Ministry of Magic found the families of the Muggle wizards in the Order of the Phoenix without any bottom line and arrested them as a means to blackmail.

These captured muggles, some successfully saved, while some have become a complete pain in the hearts of some people in the Order of the Phoenix ...

After that, no one had any objections to erasing the memories and existence of the muggle students, and after taking the muggle students away, Lily and McGonagall would properly deal with their parents and try to conceal the fact that they had a child and were picked up by the wizarding school.

Today's Ministry of Magic has no scruples when it comes to dealing with rebellious forces like the wagon and the Order of the Phoenix. Once it is determined that a child is picked up by the wagon and will be raised to be a rebel with a "rebellious" mindset in the future, then they will do whatever they can.

Most of these 11-year-olds are ignorant of the grudges and conflicts in the wizarding world and their special status, they only know that the appearance of Hogwarts professors has separated them from their parents.

Generally, when conditions allow, Lily and McGonagall will give these muggle parents a clear explanation of the situation in the magical world and their children's situation.

After proving the existence of magic, they would show these muggle parents some of the Daily Prophets that had been published about the blood class policy. Most of the parents were still able to see the reality, and they were more reluctant to let their children become a slave than to be separated apart from each other.

And like Jon, muggle students who are orphans don't need to have this aspect taken into account.

The vast majority of orphans with magical talent will have little affection for the orphanage that raised them, and in the mixed conditions of growing up without blood as a bond, these children are almost always isolated from others because of their own unique qualities.

And the orphanage is relatively special, the Ministry of Magic generally will not do anything to the adults and children there, so Lily did not lie to Jon at that time, even if an orphan from the orphanage was snatched in front of Barty Jr, the orphanage will not be in danger.

All these students, like Hermione, who were rescued from the castle this year, on the night they were just received in the wagon, the group assisted Lupin in their breakout from Azkaban, Moody and other members of the Order of the Phoenix were not idle, they urgently moved Hermione's parents to complete the erasure and get rid of the Ministry of Magic's sight.

The men of the Order of the Phoenix can only do these things to the best of their ability.

The family of these children will be protected, and then they will inform these children, who have been completely forgotten by their parents and families, that there may come a time in the future when they can undo the erasure magic on their families to gain their identity as well as their existence so that they can be reunited with their families and walk in the sunlight in the future.

This is the reason they were brought to the Hogwarts wagon, and it is the same ultimate goal for which the vast majority of Muggle students on the wagon are motivated.

Not just for their own freedom and equality, but for their families as well!

After the start of August, in less than two weeks, Lily and McGonagall have brought all of this year's new students to the wagon, a total of nine Muggle students, according to the Book of Admittance, all of this year's age-appropriate Muggle students were brought in.

Nine students were brought into the Hogwarts wagon, which means that Castle didn't trick any of the "mudbloods" this year, coupled with the first and second-year students Jon brought back, that Castle has a full three grades of "mudbloods" vacancies.

This is a very serious matter for Voldemort's policy, after all, the key to improving the status of purebloods lies in the confiscation of the interests of half-bloods by purebloods, and to stabilize half-bloods, they are using the oppression of "mudbloods" to compensate.

Now that there are fewer and fewer "mudbloods", the bottom class of oppression is gradually disappearing, and the half-blood wizards who were originally in the middle class will become the bottom class.

This class downward will cause huge chaos in Voldemort's already stabilized rule.

What he should reasonably do now is either try to find some way to destroy the wagon, even if he can't kill all the students, he should try to ruin the existing teaching place, or he should reclaim the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance again.

But four or five months have already passed, but Voldemort did not make a single move, making it seem as if the book and quill being stolen, the students in the castle being rescued, and the prisoners in Azkaban escaping from prison had no effect on him.

Jon always felt that there was something wrong with this situation, and the present tranquillity simply didn't provide any peace of mind.

And just when all nine freshmen were brought into the Hogwarts wagon, the students and professors on board were ready to give them a little welcome ceremony in the great hall in advance, an unanticipated thing finally kinda happened!

Percy had disappeared.

His disappearance was discovered when Professor McGonagall was trying to call the head boy to help to manage the students in the great hall.

No one knew where he had gone, it was as if he had evaporated and disappeared from the wagon just as someone was trying to find him.

McGonagall immediately sensed that something was wrong, and she immediately gathered all the students into the great hall, and then together with other professors conducted a major search on the whole wagon, but still found nothing.

Percy's things were still in his dorm room, even his freshly laundered robe was still hanging by his bed, but he was gone.

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