Volume 5: The Burning Golden Flame Chapter 323 Okay, good night then
Jon and his team were no longer paying attention to how the Nice police were salvaging bodies from the beach.
Their original plan was to travel here for only three days, and after today, they would head to their next stop, Marseille.
Although New Century's reputation on the Internet has always been spread as a comedian in France, its humanistic and artistic level is extremely high throughout Europe.
For example, the famous French national anthem, La Marseillaise, was named after the city’s workers who sang it in rebellion during the French Revolution.
After arriving here, Jon and his friends toured the Old Port of Marseille and visited an art museum. In fact, as wizards, except for a very small number of people who are interested, not many people are interested in the culture and history of Muggles.
The Weasleys and the Longbottom family basically just took a cursory look at those artistic creations. Even Arthur only really liked the Muggles' technology and machinery, not the literary youth.
After staying in Marseille for three days, they left the coast and began to head towards inland cities in France.
This journey continued until early August, when Jon asked Bill to help him return to Lyon.
After two failures, he finally caught up with the right time and put the third leaf of Mandrake into his mouth. One month later, on this night, the weather in Lyon was very clear, and the moonlight of the full moon sprinkled softly on the ground.
Jon chose a piece of grass in the backyard of the school, then took out the small crystal bottle that he had prepared long ago, and placed the leaves that had been contained in it for a month into the bottle facing the moonlight.
Then he began to actively secrete saliva from his mouth and spit the saliva into the bottle until the bottle was full.
After doing all this, Jon couldn't help but look at the bottle of liquid, and took out a small bottle from his pocket. In it was dew that had not been exposed to sunlight for seven whole days. Lily had started to collect it for Jon a week ago.
He also put a silver teaspoon of dew into the crystal bottle. Jon pulled out a strand of his hair and stuffed it into the bottle. Finally, he took out a hawk moth pupa and put it in.
After completing all this work, Jon used magic to dig a hole about half a meter deep under an oak tree.
This potion made with his saliva must then be hidden in a place where it will not be disturbed by sunlight and sound, and underground fully meets this condition.
And after it is buried underground, the next condition for the potion to be completely completed is truly a matter of luck.
Jon had to wait for a thunderstorm.
Moreover, such weather cannot be simulated by magic, it must be generated naturally. Such weather does not exist in every season, but usually only in summer, and sometimes it may not be encountered for several years.
Jon must have enough patience to wait, and during this time he must use the ring to chant a spell towards his heart at sunset and sunrise every day until he digs out the bottle of potion during a thunderstorm.
If there is any problem in any step, it will affect his final casting.
After completing all this, Jon did not return to the Weasley family with Bill. The beginning of summer is the peak season for thunderstorms, which is why Jon couldn't wait to try holding the mandrake leaves in his mouth. Once winter comes, even if he succeeds in burying the potion, it may take about a year to move on to the next step.
Jon will stay in Lyon for the rest of the time until the start of the fourth grade.
After returning to Hogwarts, Nick found John, and he was not alone, he also brought a tall and beautiful female ghost.
"This is the Grey Lady, Jon, former resident ghost of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Nick introduced Jon and Mrs. Grey to each other.
"This is the Jon Green that Mr. Slytherin told you about. He is also the one who will go to Hogwarts Castle to participate in the Triwizard Tournament."
As for Ms. Grey's visit to Hogwarts, Jon had heard about it from Hermione when he was at the Burrow 3.
At that time, he did not take it seriously, thinking that it was just the news about Slytherin's portrait that had been leaked, causing the daughter of Ravenclaw to want to come back and see her old friend from a thousand years ago.
Unexpectedly, she had been waiting in Hogwarts for a month, and judging from the attitude with which Nick brought her here, it seemed as if he was waiting for her.
Jon glanced at Nick and found that Nick was secretly winking at him, so he nodded and greeted the ghost who had been deceived by Voldemort.
"Hello, Ms. Grey."
The Grey Lady's only response was a nod, and she looked at Jon with a scrutinizing look.
"You were the one who brought back the Slytherin portrait?"
She did not use honorifics for Slytherin, and when she called him out directly she only used his surname instead of his first name, and it sounded like their relationship was not very close.
Jon seemed a little confused, guessing that Ms. Grey said this on purpose to hide her true identity, or maybe she simply didn't have a very good relationship with Slytherin.
"Yes ma'am, I found Mr. Slytherin's portrait in the North Pole maze and brought him out of there."
"He said you are a Slytherin recognized by Gryffindor." When Ms. Grey said this, the expression on her face was a little subtle, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Jon shrugged.
"Maybe. So, Ms. Grey came to me just to confirm this?"
"Nick also said that you can summon two patronuses, and they are a lion and a badger?"
Jon glanced at Nick, who spread his hands helplessly at him.
"It's already late, ma'am. If you don't have anything else to do, I'm going to go back to bed. Now is the time for me to grow. If I don't grow taller after staying up late, it will be a big problem."
Jon didn't have any opinion about Ms. Grey, but he was a little dissatisfied with her attitude.
No one knew each other before, and this ghost acted arrogant from the start, but Jon didn't indulge her.
Having said that, Jon walked straight towards the dormitory, with no intention of continuing to tangle with her.
Ms. Grey watched him pass by her, his attitude still so arrogant. She held her head high and spoke calmly as she looked at Jon's back.
"My real name is Helena Ravenclaw. Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the founders of Hogwarts, is my mother."
However, Jon did not do what she expected. After hearing his identity, he immediately turned around in panic and greeted her again, and then apologized for his "arrogance and rudeness".
Jon didn't even pause for a moment. He continued walking forward and waved casually to Ms. Grey with his back turned.
"Okay, good night then, Ms. Helena Ravenclaw."
