Chapter 21: Impressions of Jon

Chapter 21: Impressions of Jon

Curls of white steam rose from the cauldron.

Lily carefully tilted a vial containing dark green liquid and put three drops into the cauldron, and instantly the potion in the cauldron turned from purple to grass green.

And just as she placed the vial down, there was a sudden soft knock at the door.

The movement of Lily's hand jerked for a second, and then she spoke.

"Come in."

Slughorn walked in carrying a box of crystallized pineapple, and Lily looked up at him with a noticeably softer expression on her face.

"How come Professor had time to visit me?"

"Just happened to get some from the storeroom, so I brought some over for you too."

He placed the box of crystallized pineapple on the desk while also taking a seat in one of the chairs in front of it, and Lily looked at the content he brought helplessly.

"Eat fewer sweets, you're already very old, so too much sugar intake is not good for your health."

"Okay, okay, don't start teaching me, without this my life would become at least 50% less enjoyable. Well, your cauldron of calming potion is almost ready, but I suggest you put in a tiny pinch of fairy wing powder, it will give you another 0.3 to 0.5 pints of the final finished potion, it's my unique recipe."

Lily did as she was told and found a small vial of fairy wing powder from the cupboard at the side, she tapped it twice and added the powder into the cauldron.

"Thank you for your generosity in sharing the recipe, Professor, but I always felt you definitely came to me with more in mind besides bringing me this box of crystallized pineapple; surely there should be no need to beat around the bush so much between us, right?"

Slughorn laughed dryly twice; when dealing with this once his most favoured pupil, the little thoughts in his mind could always be guessed.

After coughing twice softly, the smile on Slughorn's face narrowed, and he looked at Lily seriously.

"The boy named Jon Green was brought by you?" Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

Lily heard the shift in Slughorn's tone and turned her attention from the potion in the cauldron to this conversation.

"Yes, what's the matter? What's wrong with him?"

Slughorn asked, shaking his head as he stared into Lily's unblinking eyes.

Neville hadn't slept much this afternoon, he already had a little nap in the morning.

The two left the dormitory together, quite a few students were coming and going in the long corridor, all of them seniors who were getting ready to go to the great hall after class.

They met up with the Ron trio at the table, and everyone else was curious about Jon's whereabouts at lunchtime today, which he brushed off with the excuse that he had gone to give Slughorn a hand.

Astronomy class didn't start until close to midnight, and the five of them stayed in the common room together for a long time after dinner until Flitwick himself led them to the astronomy 'classroom'.

"Follow me and be careful to keep your voices down to avoid disturbing the rest of the people."

Flitwick advised them before leading the group through the long corridor in the direction of the entrance hall, stopping only when they reached a room near the entrance hall.

On the door, there was a sign that read "Astronomy Classroom".

Flitwick pushed open the door and instead of a classroom, there was a stairway with a revolving staircase that went vertically upwards, directly opposite the door.

It was not as large as the space in the wagon, the roof was only comparable to the size of the wagon as seen from the outside, probably an open space three or four metres long and two or three metres wide, with a guardrail around the edge of the wagon up to the waists of the freshmen.

Hagrid was still driving the wagon across the British Isles, and they were passing through a town where the street lights automatically went out every time the wagon passed, and those lights came back on when it left.

The freshmen had just arrived at the roof of the wagon when they were greeted by the marvellous sight around them, which caused Flitwick to tap his wand disgruntledly on a chalkboard that had been set up in front of him.

"I know the view around us is spectacular, children, but tonight our real goal is the wide open sky rather than the land, so it's time for you to find your seats."

Five desks and chairs had been set up in advance on the roof of the wagon, and an astronomical telescope was set up on the side near the guardrail, obviously, these had been prepared in advance by Flitwick prior to the start of the class.

The evening breeze, which was mostly blocked out, blew very gently around them, and Flitwick's voice sounded at the same time.

"In the last lesson in the classroom within the wagon, I only gave you a brief introduction to the basics of astronomy, whereas from this lesson onwards we are going to really start to understand this starry sky above us."

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