In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 480: The Secret Room in the Hall of Time

It was a small secret room, and when Jon walked in, four or five candles were suddenly lit up on the surrounding walls, illuminating the space.

Not only was it a small space, but all the furnishings within the room were also simple; there was a bed, a desk, a row of bookshelves, and a mirror stand that was supposed to be a mirror, but at the moment it was missing the mirror on it.

Jon quickly shifted his gaze to the small wooden box on the desk, which was the only thing that could store items within this room.

But when Jon picked it up and opened it very easily, he didn't find a single item in it.

The wooden box was as empty as this secret room like there was nothing in it, and Jon sped up his search through the entire room and still found nothing.

This made him frown.

The time was nearing the point he had agreed with Slughorn, the purebloods here were alert, and even a banquet wouldn't slow them down for long.

Jon didn't continue to linger in the secret room, he walked out quickly and then removed the egg from the door, after which the entire door began to close.

He shoved the egg back into the clear glass cylinder while adding water to it, and finally changing the colour of the water with a spell.

It was just that this effect of the egg turning into a bird required a specialised metamorphosis catalyst liquid, and with Jon's current condition he certainly couldn't produce it, but he could just use a transfiguration spell to make such a metamorphosis effect last for a period of time, and this kind of effectiveness certainly wasn't as smooth as the transfiguration as it had been before, and it wouldn't last as long, but at least it could barely manage for some time.

And just as Jon had finished all of this just now, the door to the Time Room was steeply opened from outside.

Dandy looked at Jon with a serious face, as if Auror was staring at a criminal.

"What are you doing!"

Jon's face was as usual.

"What's all the fuss about, I just want to have a quick look here and try to see if I can get these time-turners fixed."

He said as he pointed to the time-turners that were placed on the glass counter that was in a messy state as Jon hadn't had a chance to put them back in place yet.

Dandy didn't just listen to what Jon had to say, he took a quick glance around the entire time room, then walked in and checked around the place, glancing at Jon as he did so.

Jon acted innocently.

"Hey, what are you on about? Suspecting that I would steal something from here? Would any of these broken old things look as good as the wand my uncle made?"

After making sure that nothing, in particular, had changed throughout the Time Room, Dandy gave Jon a vicious glare.

"Get out! Don't come wandering in here when there's nothing else to do!"

Instead of leaving in disgrace at his words, Jon's face showed a great deal of displeasure, and without hesitation, he pulled out his own wand and aimed it at Dandy.

"Bloody bastard, think being included in the purebloods by the blood law gives you authority to be reckless towards me do you! Try saying what you just said to me all over again?"

Dandy's face was also gloomy, he had almost forgotten that "Spike" is a young master from an old-school pureblood family, the reprimand he had just given was nothing special when it comes to young people of the same new school, but for the Sacred Twenty-Eight Families, who had always regarded themselves as some high-level purebloods, this was a great humiliation.

"You have also joined us, I don't want to make a big deal out of it, this room is important, you can't just come in privately."

No matter how unpleasant it was on his face, Dandy's tone finally softened a little, and Jon grunted coldly, putting his wand down as well.

"That's more like it when you talk like this. I know you have a task here, and I don't really care about what you want to do, but the most basic order of honour and respect should not be forgotten."

After saying that, Jon turned around and left the Time Room, leaving only Dandy, who was red-faced and had anger but couldn't vent it, to stay where he was.

Staring at Jon's disappearing back, Dandy closed the door of the Time Room as fast as he could, then he quickly walked to the door hidden in the wall and carefully observed it for a while, making sure that there was nothing unusual before he withdrew his gaze.

He took another look at all the ornaments inside the Time Room, that bird-shaped ornament was still repeating the process of changing from an egg to a bird and back to an egg again and again, and the sands inside the hourglasses, large and small, were all still passing by without showing any changes.

Eventually Dandy left the Time Room, and not long after the room was plunged into complete darkness, the transformation of the bird ornament from egg to bird suddenly stopped, and then the egg could no longer be transformed in such a way but just remained suspended in the liquid that was gradually turning back into a transparent liquid.

Late at night, Jon found Slughorn.

"I went in the room, but I didn't find anything inside."

Hearing Jon's words, Slughorn frowned as well.

"What did you see in there?"

"Bed, desk, bookshelf, chair, a mirror stand with no mirror on it, and an empty box."

"Are you sure that box doesn't have any hidden compartments or anything like that?"

"I tried to absorb the magic in it with my ring, but there was nothing in it, it wasn't a magical artefact at all."

"What about the other stuff?"

Jon shook his head.

"I didn't have time to check the other stuff, it was too tight, and by the time I got out I happened to run into that Dandy, and I have a feeling he already has some suspicions about me."

Slughorn paced back and forth in his office.

"Whether he suspects or not isn't much of a problem, we'll be here for two days at most regardless of whether we end up gaining something or not, but that secret room will have to be checked again, just because the box is fine doesn't mean that the rest of the furniture is fine, I don't think that Voldemort would go to all the trouble of hiding a place like this and having a team of Aurors specifically to keep an eye on the inside and yet there's nothing in there. "

Jon nodded back.

"Christmas is in two days, which means that after tonight, we'll really only have one day left."

Silence fell in the office as both Jon and Slughorn pondered how on earth they were going to find that thing that Voldemort had hidden.

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"Malfoy and the others have had an encounter with the Witching Horizons' men!"

Hearing the explosions and shouts coming from the distance, Amycus acted unusually excited.

The people he had brought with him were hiding in one of the Manor's abandoned utility rooms, and during this time a number of Witching Horizon's squads had been seen passing by, heading in the direction of Moody to support them.

This was the situation he had envisaged when he had decided to separate from Lucius in the first place, and it was the only way to give them a better chance of escaping.

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