Chapter 109: Opportunity

Chapter 109: Opportunity

Jon stared at Dolohov's back while glancing at Lestrange from the corner of his eye, who was walking towards Dolohov and looked like he had something to discuss.

Unobtrusively, Jon shook his head at Hermione, who was also standing by and waiting.

Hermione pursed her lips and turned her back from outside the iron gates of the underground dormitory, and together with Jon settled at the very end of the line of mudblood students, heading back towards their own dormitory.

"Wait for the night." Jon whispered beside Hermione in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

Hermione did not speak, just nodded looking a little disappointed.

And Dolohov, who was not aware of their little gesture, was listening to Lestrange's invitation.

"-You know if you hadn't made a big splash at the Christmas banquet, Mr Crouch wouldn't have extended an invitation to you. In previous years, we only just included the few professors from the Sacred Twenty-Eight Families at our club gathering."

A smile appeared on Dolohov's face, knowing that because of a few words from Voldemort at the banquet that day, he now actually seemed to have squeezed his way into the inner circle of purebloods.

"Of course, I've always longed to attend this club that Mr Crouch started, it's just. You know, never had much of a chance before. What time is the gathering scheduled?"

"It was originally scheduled on Friday night, but the Carrow siblings had to go home that day for their mother's birthday and spend all this weekend at home. Mr Crouch then re-scheduled it on Thursday, when none of them had any classes, while Mr Crouch did have a charms class himself, but that was in the afternoon, so the gathering got scheduled at nine o'clock on Wednesday night."

Lestrange looked at Dolohov and reminded him.

"I know you have to patrol after 8:00 every day, be careful not to be late for the gathering then, there were already some other people who were not happy with the fact that you were invited."

Dolohov asked hesitantly.

"The professors do not have classes on Thursday, but I still have work during the day, will the gathering be held all night?"

"We usually play cards for an all-nighter, and if you still have things to do during the day, there are rooms for lodging upstairs at the Three Broomsticks where you can rest. We have also known each other for so many years, don't blame me for not reminding you, you can rest if you want, but pay attention to the occasion, don't spoil everyone's mood, otherwise, this, your first time participating in the gathering is estimated to be the last time."

"You don't have to remind me of this, I'm not insensitive to that extent."

Jon crossed his fingers, and his face became dim, as he whispered.

"Then we need to find a chance at night, the day after tomorrow is the time scheduled for the operation, I'll try to sneak into Dolohov's room tomorrow night, there's no one to disturb him at night, and he won't be alert."

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On Wednesday night, after curfew had completely begun, Jon sat up from his bed, took out the Marauder's Map, lit a candle and began to stare at Dolohov's every move.

He watched from the map as the castle caretaker left the underground mudblood dormitory, then walked all the way up, checking every floor of the castle, and then at eight-fifty, abnormally actually left the school grounds through the Hogwarts gates.

Jon couldn't sit still in his dorm room.

He knew very well that if he still wants to carry out the plan of pretending to be Dolohov, then tonight is the only chance.

Without a moment's pause, he immediately put on the invisibility cloak and also left Hogwarts through the secret passage and arrived at the brightly lit Hog's Head Inn.

Now the time is only nine o'clock, and there are still many wizards in the Inn drinking and chatting, Jon carefully avoided everyone, walked to the back counter of the bar where Aberforth is preparing cider for customers, and pulled the hem of his robe.

Aberforth was instantly aware of the situation.

Instead of closing the Inn immediately, which would have been too obvious, he called for a wizard he knew well and asked him to help watch the Inn below, then excused himself to get the liquor from the cellar and took Jon with him to the underground cellar in the backyard.

"I want to attack Dolohov then pretend to be him and bring the students to the secret passage tomorrow, but this night he left the school. I need your help to check on Hogsmeade to see if he's still in this village, and if he is alone, then both of us together can handle him with more certainty!"

Jon quickly told the current situation, Aberforth also instantly decided not to wait, instructed Jon to stay in the cellar and wait for his message, and then went back to the ground.

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