Chapter 74 73 Breathing

Chapter 74 73. Breathing

"Remember what you have to do! I know that Professor Sinistra has taught you the cleaning spell this week, and this is an opportunity for you to practice the spell. You must clean this auditorium before noon today, otherwise I will tell Mr. Dolohov who is slacking off!"

The male prefect was giving orders to Jon and several other second-year students. As managers among the mudbloods, the two prefects would of course have preferential treatment.

Not only can they command and supervise other students to work, but they can also not participate in this collective labor, but instead act as supervisors for the castle manager.

After assigning the tasks, he turned and left. Not only the second-year students, as a prefect, he also had to inform other mudbloods of Dolohov's arrangements.

After the prefect left, Jon and the others did not dawdle. Everyone knew what the consequences would be if their task area was not completed by the time.

Even though they had learned the cleaning spell this week, the difficult-to-master technique of using hand gestures to cast spells was so difficult that only Jon and Hermione could barely cast effective spells.

So for this cleaning job, both of them consciously took on the main labor. With the help of magic, they would undoubtedly save a lot of effort.

The weather in September was still very hot. As time went by, the sun gradually rose, and everyone's face was sweating a lot.

"Spotless."

After using hand gestures to cast spells and cleaning another seat in the auditorium, Jon straightened his sore back.

He wiped the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his robe, then turned his head and said to Hermione and the others as if nothing had happened.

"I'm going to apply for the toilet."

No matter how strict the management was, Hogwarts Castle would not restrict the physiological functions of mudblood students, but only controlled the time they went to the toilet, each person only had five minutes.

The restroom on the Quidditch pitch is right below the audience seats. It takes about 1 and a half minutes to run there, and more than half of the time is used up in the round trip. No matter which way to go, the remaining two minutes must be rushed.

The prefect guarding the entrance to the Quidditch pitch imitated Dolohov and stared at Jon fiercely.

"You know the consequences of not coming back on time, the countdown starts now!"

Jon didn't stay for long. He ran down the stands quickly and rushed towards the restroom. Looking at his anxious back, the two mudblood prefects couldn't help but laugh.

It took more than a minute to run to the restroom. There was no one here now. It was the time Jon calculated accurately.

The fast running made his breathing a little rapid. Without stopping, he walked directly into a cubicle.

He quickly unbuttoned the buttons of his gray robe. There was a cloth bag sewn on the inside of the robe. Jon took out the pendant with a ring from the cloth bag and put it on his neck!

The familiar cold feeling pressed against his sweaty skin, and then he recited a spell that he hadn't used for two months.

"Wingardium Leviosa!"

It was not a floating spell that eliminated gravity, but a regular one used on the body. The moment the spell was used, the long-lost feeling of lightness filled his whole body.

Two minutes.

Jon counted the time in his mind, and then his two thin arms grabbed the edge of a small window above the bathroom cubicle and climbed up with great ease.

The front exit of the stadium faces the large lawn between the Black Lake and the Hogwarts Castle. If you run out directly from this direction, you will most likely be discovered by the half-blood or pure-blood students who play by the Black Lake on weekends. Behind the bathroom window is the wall that surrounds the entire Hogwarts campus area. Unless you come here on purpose, no one usually passes by here.

After jumping down from the window more than two meters high, Jon ran straight along the wall towards the main gate of Hogwarts and the Forbidden Forest.

His speed was surprisingly fast. In less than half a minute, he had already run to the wall that was separated from the Hogsmeade Wizarding Village outside the school by a road.

On the grass here, there was a small cloth bag of the same color as the soil lying there quietly. Jon did not hesitate, and directly reached out to pick up the bag and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his robe to hide the ring, and then quickly returned the same way.

He quickly went back to the bathroom, took off the pendant from his neck and put it back in place, and simply adjusted his breathing rate. Jon slowed down his movements and ran towards the audience seats at the same speed as when he came to the bathroom.

When he returned to the stadium, the prefect guarding the entrance glared at him and let him in.

Only four and a half minutes had passed. Even if the prefect wanted to deliberately make things difficult, he couldn't find any excuse.

After returning to the area cleaned by the second-year students, Jon breathed a sigh of relief. This was his first time to go through this process of getting potion materials. It was the easiest to go wrong at the beginning. Now there was no mistake. It would be much easier when he was familiar with it in the future.

Just as he was about to continue his previous work, Jon suddenly felt a pair of eyes looking at him.

He turned his head and met Hermione's eyes.

"Randy... do you want to take a break?"

The girl asked hesitantly.

It was only at this time that Jon realized that because of the relaxation just now, his rapid breathing, which had been pretending to be after intense exercise, had unconsciously slowed down a little.

There were 12-year-old children around, so this should not be a big problem, but Hermione was obviously more sensitive and careful than normal children.

He did not do the unnecessary action of making his breathing rapid again, and said with an unchanged expression.

"It's okay with me, speed up the progress, if it is not cleaned up by noon, you will be punished."

Hermione also seemed to be just concerned for a while, and did not say anything more, and put her attention back on the seats covered with dirt and dust.

After this little episode, the second-year students did not stop for a moment in the remaining time, and finally completed the tasks assigned to them before lunch.

The lunch on the weekend was better than the previous few days. At least everyone could get a piece of bacon, but the fatigue of the whole morning made the students not in the mood to enjoy such "delicious food". After a quick lunch, they returned to their dormitories and started the few rest time this afternoon.

Jon also returned to the dormitory, but he did not move during the day. He was very patient and waited until dark to create a safer environment for him to open the cloth bag.