Chapter 164 162 Set Sail
Chapter 164 162. Setting Sail
Jon did not need to control the direction of the ship's sailing. It seemed that the target direction had been set a long time ago. The position of the helmsman was now obviously just a decoration.
Jon did not stay on the deck for long. He did not forget that there was a group of students waiting for news in the restaurant. They did not know what happened yet.
He fumbled and pulled the reins of the night thestrals on the deck. Biqi, who had circled the deck three times, jumped back to Jon's head. Then he opened a wooden door in front of him leading to the cabin.
The cabin was no different from the carriage before. Jon entered the door at the entrance of the driver's seat before. After entering, it was still a straight corridor.
He brought the night thestrals to the room in the carriage where they were originally raised. There was a meadow and a small forest here, which was enough for them to get enough rest after work. Now that the carriage has become a wooden boat, they naturally do not need to work anymore. They can spend a comfortable vacation in the next period of time.
After settling the night star, he returned to the restaurant.
There were still students from grade one to grade five left, about fifty or sixty in total. When Jon came in, most of them were lying by the window. Obviously, the changes outside had already attracted their attention.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, everyone in the restaurant focused their attention on him, and many students couldn't wait to ask him about the current situation.
"Are we out of danger?" The first person to speak was Colin, who was a student rescued from the castle by Jon at the beginning of the year and had just been promoted to grade two after the start of school this year.
His question was also what many people wanted to know, and everyone looked at him eagerly.
Jon did not answer immediately, but pulled out a chair and sat down, and at the same time he signaled all the students in the restaurant to sit down first.
Next, he had to explain everything clearly, although even he still felt that what happened today was so sudden.
"I will now explain our current situation. Please listen patiently. If you have any questions, I will answer them one by one."
At this time, Jon's reputation accumulated from his feat at the beginning of the year played a crucial role.
Even before, he was a leader among students of the same grade, but in the whole school, especially the senior students, there must be some people who didn't even know his name, let alone believe in him.
But now it is completely different. The students who stayed on the ship, even the fifth graders, have absolute support for Jon.
"Let me answer Colin's question first."
The students were all looking at Jon quietly, and Jon was also looking at these students seriously.
"From the current situation, we are not in any danger for the time being, but at the same time we have to face another biggest problem-from today, there will be no professors to protect us in this carriage, or on this ship, and we can only rely on ourselves from now on."
His words caused a commotion among these students, and not many people even paid attention to the transition between the carriage and the ship. A first-year girl asked in a crying voice.
"Yes, do the professors not want us anymore?"
Jon did not blame her for interrupting his speech, but said in a comforting voice, very seriously.
"It's not that the professors don't want us anymore, it's that the current situation in Britain is very bad. Professor Dumbledore and other professors are about to go to war with the bad guys in the Ministry of Magic. In this war, they are not sure to guarantee their lives, and they have no extra energy to protect our safety, so the professor found a way to get us to a safe place."
He looked at everyone again.
"Now all we can do is take care of ourselves and not let the professors hold us back."
Finally, someone started asking questions about where they were now. George was the one who stood up and asked excitedly.
"Where are we now? It seems like there is a sea outside?"
Jon nodded and said.
"Yes, we are on the sea now. There is no change inside the carriage, but the carriage has actually turned into a big ship. That's why we escaped the pursuit of the Ministry of Magic."
This news immediately attracted the attention of most people, distracting many people from the panic that they had just separated from the adults.
"Can we go out and take a look?" Fred asked excitedly.
The Weasley twins are usually the most active two in the carriage. They can always make some farces to make everyone laugh, but they are also the most difficult to be locked up. They often complain about boredom in the lounge.
Jon naturally has no objection.
"Of course, but you have to be careful even on the deck. I don't know if there is any protective magic on the guardrail to prevent people from falling into the sea."
With his consent, George and Fred were the first to lose their patience and rushed out of the restaurant.
After seeing the two of them running out, the other students couldn't stay in the restaurant anymore and started running out together. Even Gabrielle waved to Jon and said hello, floating past him.
The first-year students were at the back. They had just arrived at the carriage not long ago and were still not over the novelty of life here, so they were not as touched as the senior students about turning into a ship and going out to sea.
Jon followed behind these students, and Neville and Hermione walked side by side with him, walking along the corridor towards the carriage.
Neville still felt unreal.
"So. Are we really the only ones left?"
Hermione looked at the professors' offices with their doors closed, and she was much better than Neville. After all, the current situation was much better than the one she was in before.
"The youngest among us is 11 years old. It's not that we can't take care of ourselves, but we can't study magic anymore?"
Jon was obviously thinking about this question too.
"We can only think of a way to deal with this later."
They walked out of the carriage. At this time, the students had already come to the deck. The wet and salty sea breeze blew up the hem of each little wizard's robe, but the cold night wind could not reduce their enthusiasm for sailing at the moment.
Even the first-year freshmen who were not interested at the beginning began to smile, lying on the fence, watching the big fish jumping out of the waves from time to time.
George and Fred were very happy. They found a hook glove and a one-eyed eye patch from somewhere, and were dressing up as pirates. They stood on one foot on the chair and looked up at the front of the wooden boat, muttering that they still lacked a parrot that could speak human language.
Jon didn't have much such mood at this time. It was not that he lacked any enthusiasm for the ocean, but he knew very well that there were still many problems that he needed to solve in the next voyage.
For example, they still didn't know which sea area they were in and what direction they were sailing.
For example, although the students are very enthusiastic about sailing at this time, we don’t know how many of them will get seasick later. There is no Lily on the ship to prepare potions for them, so they need to find a way by themselves.
There are also fresh water and food in the storage room, which need to be counted to find out how long the reserves can allow more than 50 people to survive on the sea.
There are also magical plants in the greenhouse that need to be taken care of by special people, and some magical animals raised in specific rooms cannot be left alone. We must find a way to contact Dumbledore and others as soon as possible, but this requires waiting for Fox’s news.
In general, although they are not in any danger for the time being, they still have to solve many things later, and before that, Jon must do one thing first.
He gathered all the students on the deck together. There was a kerosene lamp on the mast that swayed gently in the sea breeze, illuminating this space on the deck.
"Everyone, none of us know the destination of this voyage yet, nor how long it will take. But no matter what the future holds, we must now determine who will be the leader among us."
Jon's voice was not drowned out by the waves, and all the students present heard his words.
"Before leaving this carriage, Professor Dumbledore gave me the task of leading you. However, at the beginning of the voyage, I still want to confirm with you whether anyone has any doubts or questions about my leading this voyage?"
Young children will definitely not have any problems, and the fourth and fifth grade students who are older than Jon have been living in the carriage for so long. These children who are more sensible than their peers know very well that taking over the leadership of Hogwarts in this situation is not a good job.
And what Jon did in the second grade is enough to prove that he has the ability to lead them, not to mention that he has been recognized by Dumbledore.
No one asked what the meaning was, and George and Fred smiled and put a pirate captain's hat on Jon's head together.
"We absolutely obey your leadership! Great Captain Green!"
With the Weasley twins here, there is no need to worry about how depressing the atmosphere will be.
The students below all smiled and shouted together.
"That's right, Captain Green!"
Jon also smiled. He did not refuse the hat and eye mask that George and Fred put on him. He said loudly.
"Does anyone have any better suggestions for the name of our ship?"
"Our name has never changed, Captain!" A student responded loudly.
They all looked at the old and yellowed school emblem on the long sail.
Yes, whether it was in the castle, the carriage, or the current ship, their name has never changed.
[Hogwarts]
No one can tamper with or cover up this.
The wind blew the long sail. Under the brilliant starry sky, Jon looked at the endless sea and said softly.
"Then, let's set sail!"
"We have searched all of Wormtail's memories." Lupin said.
On the cliff full of tombstones, the wizards of the Order of the Phoenix were resting here, and during this time, Lupin, Lily and Sirius were reporting to Dumbledore the clues they got from Wormtail.
"After the Dark Lord took control of the entire British wizarding world, that is, seven years ago, he sent his most trusted men to France. They used various methods to imprison people who were not so famous at the time and Adele Roland, Eric Amalric and others who had high status, and then used their identities to start operating in the French Ministry of Magic, and Wormtail was among these people."
"Through the various help provided to them by the Dark Lord in the dark in the UK, coupled with sufficient financial support, and their personal minds. In these seven years, they quickly reached the position originally planned. This By that time they had gained enough power, that is, after Rodolphus Lestrange disguised himself as Amalric and became the French Minister of Magic more than a year ago, they began to carry out attacks on pure-blood wizards in France. Coercion and inducement.”
"During this period, there were several times when the Dark Lord appeared in person. Before, he never paid attention to us. It was probably to win over these people in France."
"Among these pure-blood wizards, there are some who would rather die than surrender, but they were all allowed to resolve the matter in private, and then arranged for Death Eaters to change their identities. Others who chose to surrender, such as Wormtail, were also very cautious. Use the forgetting spell to temporarily block this memory, and then lift the spell when necessary to prevent someone from violating it. "
Dumbledore listened to Lupin's story with a calm face, and here he asked.
"Those key positions in the French Ministry of Magic are all held by the Dark Lord's own people?"
Lupine nodded and said.
"Bellatrix Lestrange disguised herself as Adele Roland, and her husband Rodolphus Lestrange was her apparent political rival Eric Amalric. There was his brother Rabastan Lestrange, who became Head of the Auror Office, and Igor Karkaroff, who assumed the alias of Ivan Garras and became Beauxbatons earlier this year. "
Voldemort's erosion of the French wizarding world is almost comprehensive. The chief justice, minister of magic, director of the Auror office and principal of the magic school have almost full control over law, politics, military and education.
He has only begun to close the net now, which means that the current situation is completely irreversible, and the entire France will fall into his hands.