MTL - In This Hogwarts Without a Savior-Chapter 402 400. Ghost Castle

   Chapter 402 400. Ghost Castle

  Nick seemed to be recalled by the cry, with a surprised expression on his face, and then drifted towards the direction of the sound without hesitation.

   "Aha! It's Myrtle!"

   Soon, Nick took Jon and they found the ghost girl who was hiding behind a tree and crying secretly.

  It was a girl with freckles on her face, not pretty, with a bitter face.

  Myrtle froze for a moment when she saw Nick, then saw Jon, and became extremely panicked when she realized that he was alive.

   "It's over! It's over! I'm making trouble for Mr. Barrow again! I was discovered by Muggles!"

  She floated up in panic, and just about to run away, Nick stopped her.

   "Don't be silly, Myrtle, he's a wizard if he comes with me. Hurry up and take us to that fellow Barrow."

  Myrtle, who was already a little nervous, seemed to be reacting now. She lowered her sobbing face in mid-air, looked at Nick and then at Ms. Gray who stood aside with an arrogant face and said nothing.

   "Yes, that's Nick?"

"Nonsense! Just forget about me after not seeing me for more than ten years! Hurry up, Dumbledore sent us here, are you following Barrow, right? Come on, take us to meet him. "

   Myrtle flew back to Nick's side again, she wiped away her tears, and only then noticed Jon's clothes and the end of the wand in his pocket.

   "Oh! Dumbledore sent you here!"

  Her mood seems to change quickly. One second she was still sad, and the next second she began to become excited.

"I thought he forgot about us! We also got news from Dumbledore here, knowing that he is now in France, and Mr. Barrow is still planning to wait for the next good news to come. Re-sell the castle to those Vampires, knock them off and take us to Dumbledore!"

  Myrtle led them towards the ghost castle, while floating happily in mid-air.

   "Is this a Hogwarts student? I haven't seen a student at the school for a long time. I used to be one of the students just like you, but an accident turned me into a ghost."

   When she said this, her mood seemed to become sad again, but soon her voice raised again!

   "We've also heard about the Triwizard Tournament recently! Barrow read us the newspaper and told us that Dumbledore will soon retake Hogwarts Castle! Everyone is overjoyed!"

  Nick had a chance to interject at this time.

   "Who was here with Barrow besides you?"

   "Professor Binns who taught me the history of magic, and the fat monk who has been staying in Hufflepuff before, and more than a dozen other Mr. and Ms. Ghost are here in Barrow."

   Myrtle happily introduced their life here to Nick.

"Barrow pitted those vampires. He used the relationship of Professor Binns' family in Germany before he was alive to contact the Ministry of Magic. He also found a descendant of the fat monk and asked him to help dig out one of us. Treasures hidden by dead ghosts in the goblin rebellion. Half of the property was taken by the descendants of the fat monk. At the same time, he also helped us complete the negotiation with the German Ministry of Magic, and assigned this previously uninhabited castle to the Barrow. Then we used the money to hire professional wizards, put Muggle-repelling spells and occult magic around the castle, and we transformed the castle into a Hogwarts castle, that is It's not as big as the real Hogwarts"

  Listening to her eloquent narration, Jon realized that under Barrow's management, the ghosts who left the castle were doing well.

Soon, under the leadership of Myrtle, Jon felt that he had passed through a cold barrier like a water curtain, but in fact he didn't feel any difference in his field of vision, but as he gradually deepened , an increasingly chilly aura began to sweep over his body, and at some point, the dense forests around him disappeared, replaced by a wasteland full of gravel, and in this In the middle of the wasteland is a towering gray-black castle!

   This castle is indeed not big, far less majestic than Hogwarts Castle and Durmstrang Castle, but being called a castle also means that it will not be too small.

As soon as he walked to the castle, Jon saw an old ghost sitting on the steps of the gate. He propped his chin and was staring at something inaudible but subconsciously chanting from a stone tablet next to him. Feel drowsy words.

   "Professor Binns!"

  Myrtle's loud cry seemed to have awakened the ghost. When he looked up, he saw Jon walking over, Nick and Ms. Gray floating beside him.

   "Ah, Sir Nicholas and Ms. Gray, are you also here to join Barrow? That's fine, after all, we have been together for so long."

  His voice is not loud, a bit like an old monk chanting scriptures, and he calls Nick and others an old-fashioned honorific but not alienated.

   Then he looked at Jon again.

"There is still a living person, is it the child you rescued halfway? The place where ghosts gather is not suitable for living people to live in, but it doesn't matter. I don't know if he feels the first wizard village established by Hengis. Interest, that is an unforgettable history”

  Myrtle doesn't seem to communicate with him very much, it will make people very depressed.

   "I'm going to take them to Barrow, Professor Binns."

   As she spoke, she took the lead leading Jon and the others past the ghost professor who used to be in the castle, and floated into the castle.

Just like what Myrtle said, although the whole castle is not big, it was deliberately dressed up by the ghosts to look like Hogwarts. Spiritual comfort.

  Nick met many acquaintances along the way. He was very popular with ghosts and students at Hogwarts before. Now he has met many old friends here, and he is very happy.

   Soon, they arrived at the place where Barrow was led by Myrtle.

   It was on the top floor of the castle, in an empty office.

  It is said to be an office, but there are actually no desks and chairs in it, and there are no bookshelves around it. There are only some Hogwarts castles and portraits of the Big Four that have not been attached with visible potions.

Barrow is just like the description Jon saw in the original book, with empty eyes, a thin face, and silver stains on the robe. Even if he just stands still, he can frighten many timid people. people.

  After seeing Nick brought in by Myrtle, a friendly smile appeared on Barrow's thin face, but that smile froze after seeing Ms. Gray.

   But this does not mean that the smile disappears, but is then replaced by a bigger surprise.

"ocean"

  He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to call Ms. Gray's name, but in the end he swallowed the words behind with shame.

   "You are here, just in time. We are discussing to find Dumbledore recently. The students he leads have stabilized, and I have almost done the preparations here. It is time to find him."

  Ms. Gray acted as if she hadn't seen him, and she didn't glance at Barrow at all.

  Nick is also very enthusiastic, but Jon can feel that even Nick himself is a little bit timid when facing Barrow.

   "That's why we're here, Barrow. Let me introduce you. This is the warrior representing us in the Triwizard Tournament this year—Jon Green."

  Barrow's eyes were on Jon at this time, with scrutiny in his eyes, but Jon didn't avoid it.

   "I've heard of your name. Your deeds have spread throughout Europe in the past few months. Did Dumbledore send you to find me?"

   As the envoy of this "mission", of course only Jon is qualified to convey the true purpose of their visit.

   "To be precise, it was not Professor Dumbledore, Mr. Barrow, who asked me to find you, but one of the founders of Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin."

  After hearing this name, Jon could tell that Barrow's transparent and empty eyes suddenly tightened.

   "Master Salazar Slytherin"

"Yes, it is this gentleman, but what conveyed his order was the portrait left by him thousands of years ago. He asked me to find you because he wanted to ask you about the things he asked you to keep when you left Hogwarts Did you save it?"

  Baro seemed to be crying. He covered his face so that people couldn't see what kind of expression he had at this time, but his hoarse and deep voice still sounded.

   "Of course. That thing, I dare not forget all the time"

  United Kingdom, Malfoy Manor.

  After the second project ended and Hogwarts Castle learned that Dumbledore himself had temporarily returned to France, Lucius had a rare period of vacation.

  Draco still has classes at school, so it's just him and his wife Narcissa at home now.

   Oh, yes, and Dobby the house-elf.

   "I told you to let the tea cool before serving it! What are you doing!"

  Lucius, who was always restless even when he got home, seemed to be holding back a fire in his stomach, holding the boiling tea book, trying to find an outlet to vent.

  Dobby is unlucky because he obviously has to do the punching bag every time.

   "But, but master, I want to put it here to cool down according to your request, you can't wait to come over"

   "So it was me who was wrong!" Lucius said with a bad look on his face, "Punish yourself!"

  The next moment, Dobby rushed to the wall, kept hitting the wall with his big head, and screamed at the same time.

   "Bad elf! Dobby is a bad elf!"

   Lucius didn't let him roll out of the living room until his forehead was bleeding.

  Narcisha heard the movement and came down from the upstairs bedroom.

  She was pale and emaciated, looking like she hadn't had a good time since Draco was chosen as a champion.

   "Why don't you keep watching your son at school?"

  The first time she saw her husband, she couldn't help asking.

  Lucius walked up and down the living room irritably.

   "There are still three or four months before the start of the next project. Dumbledore and his students have also temporarily left the school. There is no danger around Draco."

   "Is there any danger, not for us."

   "Okay, I know! But you have to trust me, I won't harm my son."

  Finally Lucius sat down on the sofa.

   "The point is, I always feel that something is wrong, Narcissa, especially in the castle, it is very wrong."

  As long as Narcissa talked about what happened to Draco today, she couldn't help the red eye circles. She sat beside Lucius and grabbed his hand.

   "Is it because of Dumbledore?"

"They must have made small moves, everyone knows that, but what's wrong is not here." Lucius said the source of his irritability, "It's Crouch and Snape, they seem to have something to hide Others, I can feel that they thought they could pretend to be in the past, but who is a fool after being under the master for so long?"

   "What do you think? Is it related to this game?"

"I feel that it is more troublesome than the game itself." Lucius said solemnly, "I have already contacted that Jon Green, and he promised to ensure the safety of our son during the game. "

  Hearing him say this, Narcissa let out a long sigh of relief, and her face looked better.

  She is not interested in the intrigue among the Death Eaters, the only thing she cares about is the safety of her son.

   And in the Triwizard Tournament, the most dangerous person is Jon. Even her own sister and brother-in-law's family died at the hands of that boy. How could her poor son survive.

   "But they rejected my private plan to provide them with some help, and the reason was that they couldn't trust my character."

  When he said this, Lucius' face was obviously a little dark, and he was obviously still thinking about Jon's outspoken words at that time.

   Narcissa comforted her husband.

"Don't worry, the situation is still not clear, isn't it? Even if they really won this Triwizard Tournament, they only have France and Hogwarts Castle. The master still controls the whole of England. We still have opportunities in the future .”

   Lucius didn't say anything more.

   Narcissa was at home all day, or had afternoon tea with the pureblood ladies, and she had no idea what was going on at the forefront of the conflict between Voldemort and Dumbledore.

  After the second match, especially after Draco survived from underwater and hugged him tremblingly, Lucius felt an uneasy premonition in his heart.

  He can only hope now that this premonition doesn't spread to his family, especially Draco who is in the middle of the vortex.

  (end of this chapter)