In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

On Christmas night, it snowed at Hogwarts.

Dolohov didn't stay with them long. He suddenly returned to the castle early as if there was no purpose at all. He gathered the Mudblood students and rewarded each of them with a small cake. At 9 o'clock, the students He returned to the dormitory and locked the basement door.

After Hermione returned to the dormitory, her heartbeat had not calmed down yet.

She knew very well how bold her move today was. Once she failed to find Jon in the place she guessed, she didn't know whether Jon would be able to escape in the end, but she would definitely be doomed.

Dolohov will definitely ask someone to change her memory again, turning her into a robot like Taylor who only knows obedience and has no other emotions.

But she still made up her mind to do it, because Hermione knew clearly in her heart that just relying on these children in the castle, they would not be able to resist the oppression and rule of pure blood in their lifetime, and they needed to rely on outside power.

And Jon is this outside power!

The night gradually deepened, and she lay quietly on the bed, not feeling sleepy at all, nor having the slightest intention of sleeping like this.

Waiting like this until midnight, there was suddenly three slight knocks on the door outside her room.

The sound was so subtle that if Hermione hadn't been so focused, she might not even have noticed it.

After the knock on the door, she immediately sat up from the bed, got out of bed wearing a thin and worn nightgown and opened the door.

The moment the door was opened, Jon walked in very quickly, and then turned around and closed the bedroom door again.

The dormitory was located underground, with no windows, and there was no way for the moonlight to shine in. Only one candle was lit, and the light dimly illuminated the narrow space.

Jon watched as Hermione didn't speak first, but took out the Marauder's Map that had been opened and placed it in the most conspicuous position in front of him. This would allow him to observe the movements around the dormitory at all times and prevent Doroho from doing so. My husband conducted another surprise inspection at night.

After completing the protective work, he looked at the girl sitting in front of the wooden bed, wearing a gray and worn-out nightgown, with a thin figure, her arms folded in the cold and her body was trembling slightly.

"I suggest you put on some thicker clothes first, because I may have to ask you a lot of things next."

Although Hermione's face was a little pale from the cold, her eyes were extremely bright when she looked at Jon.

Seeing her obediently wrap her slender body in quilt, Jon took a deep breath, looked serious, and spoke in a volume that only the two of them could hear.

"First of all, I want to thank you very much for your help tonight, Miss Granger. If it weren't for you, I would probably have been exposed by now. But after all, I still have a mission, so I have to ask some questions. It’s clear, you must answer me truthfully.”

He asked, staring into Hermione's eyes without blinking.

"When did you realize there was something wrong with me?"

"It's your first night in the castle." Hermione said softly, blinking.

Jon couldn't help but frown.

"First night?"

"You received a reward from Dolokhov for your excellent performance during the summer vacation. When I looked at the sandwich he gave you as a reward, you took the initiative to push it to me." Hermione explained softly, "I know Randy is very timid and would never take the initiative to do something like this. The most he would do is not touch the sandwich and let me take it away."

Jon's face became weird. He had actually been careful about his performance and tried his best to imitate Randy's habits, but who would have thought that a 12-year-old girl could notice this?

"Just because of this?"

"As for your performance in the first spell-casting class, Randy actually has no talent in gesture-casting. When he was learning various gestures last semester, in order not to be punished, he always invited me in private. I came to help teach him, but you learned the first cleaning spell in only one class. And I carefully observed that your waving habits are completely different from his. Although your movements are standard, they seem very unfamiliar. , just like a beginner, this is very unreasonable.”

Hermione spoke seriously about the various problems she had discovered from Jon.

The two points before were just her noticing that something was wrong, but what really made her sure that the current Randy was no longer the same Randy was actually the day when they were preparing to clean the public washroom together for the second time.

"Before I went, I reminded you not to eat too much for lunch. I said that when you were in first grade, you were made to cry when you went to clean the bathroom for the first time. After that, you forced yourself to get used to it, and you gradually became able to accept it. In fact, it was a lie. What Randy hated most was cleaning public bathrooms. For most of the semester, whenever he had to work in the bathroom, he would cry while doing it. It was not until the end of the semester that things got better. Some."

Jon listened to the girl's story and recalled that day, and the expression on his face became weirder.

So what sounds like a casual question is actually a test?

Hermione stared at Jon's face, but there was no trace of complacency on her face, but she continued cautiously.

"After I said that lie, your reaction was very calm, as if you fully recognized my words. It was at this time that I was really sure that you were not the Randy before."

It sounds like Hermione was able to discover Jon's identity purely because he was careless and didn't prepare well.

But no one can completely play another person, and Dumbledore did not use Legilimency on Randy. After all, the high-ranking professors in the castle generally did not pay any attention to a cowardly Mudblood. The classmates around me are all 12-year-olds, and they have known each other for less than a year. No one would have thought that such a young child would have such keen observation skills.

And Hermione just went against common sense. Even though Jon had read the original book and knew that she was actually the most careful of the three, he never thought that she could be so careful.

It can only be said that such a harsh and difficult environment catalyzed her growth and made her more cautious and careful, paying careful attention to her surroundings every moment.

For example, right now, when she was answering questions, she had been paying attention to Jon's face and emotions, as if she was afraid that her tone would cause him displeasure if she sounded even a little bit showy and arrogant.

Jon rubbed the corners of his eyebrows and put aside his sighs for the time being. He looked at Hermione and continued his questions.

"It's understandable that you can judge from this that I am not the real Randy, but why are you helping me? Aren't you worried that I am actually helping those pure-blood wizards?"

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