Chapter 144: The Disappeared Person

Chapter 144: The Disappeared Person

In past years, enrolling students on the wagon was actually a rather difficult task

There are only so many professors on the wagon, and every wizard in the Order of the Phoenix also has his or her own duties, so no one has so much free time to roam around in Muggle society all day. They can only try their luck with kids who are old enough to be 11 years old near the start of the school year.

The good thing is that the population of Britain is only so much, as long as you get hold of decent muggle population information, and then carry out a screening process to find them by following the Ministry of Magic's movements, there will always be some gains.

And in the middle of this, many times you will inevitably run into professors who got admission duty from the castle, just like when Lily confronted Barty Jr. and took Jon from the orphanage.

In the past, the annual admissions period was a thrilling one, and Lily and McGonagall, who were mainly responsible for this task, experienced an adventure almost every time they brought the new students into the wagon.

Lily for some special reason, her situation was somewhat easier, but McGonagall has been on the knife's edge many times.

And from this year, they finally didn't have to take the risk anymore and were able to go out and pick those kids back into the wagon long in advance.

The arrival of the new students gave the bored students on the wagon something new to do. The children who have just started school and are ready for first grade have just lost their families and now need someone else to give them comfort.

Each new student from a muggle family, after being told that they are in fact a wizard and will be studying magic at Hogwarts, Lily or McGonagall will cast an erasure spell on their identity, which is similar to a Memory Charm.

All traces of their existence in the world will be eliminated, including files, photos, and memories, as if they never existed at all.

This is actually a rather cruel thing to do.

It is said that at the beginning period of the exile, there was a great controversy in the school as well as within the Order of the Phoenix over whether to use such means of safeguards for the new students being enrolled.

But in the beginning, when Voldemort just started ruling the magical world, the suppression against Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix was at its peak, the Ministry of Magic found the families of the Muggle wizards in the Order of the Phoenix without any bottom line and arrested them as a means to blackmail.

These captured muggles, some successfully saved, while some have become a complete pain in the hearts of some people in the Order of the Phoenix ...

After that, no one had any objections to erasing the memories and existence of the muggle students, and after taking the muggle students away, Lily and McGonagall would properly deal with their parents and try to conceal the fact that they had a child and were picked up by the wizarding school.

Now that there are fewer and fewer "mudbloods", the bottom class of oppression is gradually disappearing, and the half-blood wizards who were originally in the middle class will become the bottom class.

This class downward will cause huge chaos in Voldemort's already stabilized rule.

What he should reasonably do now is either try to find some way to destroy the wagon, even if he can't kill all the students, he should try to ruin the existing teaching place, or he should reclaim the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance again.

But four or five months have already passed, but Voldemort did not make a single move, making it seem as if the book and quill being stolen, the students in the castle being rescued, and the prisoners in Azkaban escaping from prison had no effect on him.

Jon always felt that there was something wrong with this situation, and the present tranquillity simply didn't provide any peace of mind.

And just when all nine freshmen were brought into the Hogwarts wagon, the students and professors on board were ready to give them a little welcome ceremony in the great hall in advance, an unanticipated thing finally kinda happened!

Percy had disappeared.

His disappearance was discovered when Professor McGonagall was trying to call the head boy to help to manage the students in the great hall.

No one knew where he had gone, it was as if he had evaporated and disappeared from the wagon just as someone was trying to find him.

McGonagall immediately sensed that something was wrong, and she immediately gathered all the students into the great hall, and then together with other professors conducted a major search on the whole wagon, but still found nothing.

Percy's things were still in his dorm room, even his freshly laundered robe was still hanging by his bed, but he was gone.

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