In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 533: Situation

Jon did not lack natural talent when it came to magic.

But the experience of wizards like Dumbledore and Grindelwald in magic was ultimately much superior to his.

So even after hearing and seeing that the attempt Jon was currently making was very ridiculous to them, Grindelwald and the others still provided Jon with quite a lot of useful advice.

According to the contents of the notebook left behind by Adrien, Jon even wanted to take it a step further and perfect the General Counter-Spell which is a bit more unique.

And it was also right after he finished his discussion with Grindelwald and left Durmstrang's headmaster's office when Lily found him once again.

"The kind of spell I used to absorb magic power?"

After listening to Lily's account, Jon showed some surprise; he hadn't expected the Slytherin to remember the magic spell he had used.

"I indeed know a spell like that, but it's really just a variation of the general counter-spell, and if it really does help Harry in his current situation, then I'm certainly willing to help."

Lily looked at Jon with a complicated expression, one that was filled with gratitude within but didn't know how to express it.

She was the one who brought Jon into the Hogwarts wagon in the beginning, but since then, Jon had directly or indirectly helped her an unknown number of times as well.

There were times when directly expressing gratitude just like that would be blasphemy for the help received.

Therefore, Lily didn't say anything more than that and gave Jon a big hug before heading over to the Slytherin portrait with him.

"Although you can only absorb magic power with that spell now, in my opinion, this kind of forced means of separation is practically universal, and with a slight alteration, it can be just as effective for souls."

Slytherin had a bit of a discussion with Jon about souls and made a number of suggestions about his research on the improvement of the means of casting spells.

The issue of Harry was settled after that, and after ascertaining from Jon and the Slytherin that the remnants of Voldemort's soul could be uprooted from Harry's body later, Lily let her mind relax completely.

After that she threw herself wholeheartedly into the Witching Horizon's current endeavours as well, leaving Harry entirely in Jon's hands.

The Witching Horizon situation was now getting increasingly worse.

Word had spread about the outcome of the showdown between Voldemort and Grindelwald.

The impact of this was not only the duel itself, but the fact that Dumbledore never showed up from the beginning to the end despite Voldemort's fierce aggression had directly proved what the British Ministry of Magic had been propagating, that Dumbledore had died in the last battle, to be true!

The fact that this matter was confirmed was the biggest blow to Witching Horizon.

All along, even during the most difficult period of exile from Hogwarts in Britain, there was a part of the outside world that believed that as long as Dumbledore led them, they still had the possibility of turning the tide.

But now that Dumbledore is really dead, even if the remaining Witching Horizon still seems colossal, it is like a castle in the air, and it is only a matter of time before it comes crashing down.

And the duel between Grindelwald and Voldemort is seen from the outside world as them still struggling to hold on.

As for Jon, the opinion of those on the outside was consistent.

His age is still too young. Some people who have seen Jon become smaller because of the Phoenix Nirvana, and don't know the truth, even thought that Witching Horizon had deliberately exaggerated his age before and that he was actually only as big as he appeared to be.

Even though there were rumours that he had done all sorts of great things, including killing Voldemort once, not many people believed them.

They preferred to rely on their personal experience to believe that Jon was still too young to compete with the truly invincible Voldemort.

As for the rumours circulating within the Witching Horizon that he had once killed Voldemort, many people thought that only by using Dumbledore's dying counterattack, that Jon escape from there, and that it was just a lie by the Witching Horizon to deceive themselves and others.

It was in this context that Witching Horizon had cowered into Northern Europe, facing a dead end on all sides.

Almost no one thinks they can still have a chance to turn the tide, fortunately Grindelwald controlled the Alliance, so the control of the whole of Northern Europe is still quite solid, so there has not been any problem within their internal situation, although some of the small ministries of magic have been privately prepared for the Witching Horizon to completely fall down later, and preparing for a direct surrender, but at least before the real disintegration of the Witching Horizon, they would not make any small moves.

At a time like this when Witching Horizon was in the midst of a storm, Voldemort wasn't going to give them half a chance to catch their breath.

It hadn't even been three days since the showdown with Grindelwald had ended, he was on the verge of making a new attack.

This time, it was far more vigorous than the previous one, just as if it was a gesture to completely determine the situation of the whole of Europe and eradicate the whole Witching Horizon in one go.

This time was exactly two days after Jon and Lily had returned from the other world.

The Horcrux problem on Harry was sorted out, and Slytherin and Jon worked together to pull out the deeply rooted Voldemort soul fragment from him.

After that, even though Harry strongly objected, he was sent back to his original world after Lily made the call.

Up to this point, all of Voldemort's Horcruxes in the other world were purged, and the time-turner device that had helped him time-travel over was also destroyed, so according to the current situation, he no longer had any means of resurrection.

"The loss of that time-turner in the Department of Mysteries will definitely cause him to be on guard, and the attack he launched three days ago was most likely a test mission."

Grindelwald and Voldemort rarely interacted, though he still seemed to be familiar with the other man's nature.

Jon nodded back and said.

"From all the plans he has made over the years, he has hardly missed a single detail, and he must have been well aware of what my teacher and I did in the Department of Mysteries on the day of the final showdown between Professor Dumbledore and him, which means that he knew that we had investigated the matter of his origin. According to his character of not trusting anyone and being cautious to the extreme, it's likely that he has prepared something else."

"We can't give him another chance." Grindelwald said in a cold voice, "It's like this every time. He can fail over and over again, while we can't fail even once. If it continues, we'll be finished with this world even if we do win, we must make sure to vanquish him once and for all, no matter what the cost is."

Jon didn't speak first, he just thought for a moment before speaking again.

"This matter, perhaps, can be left to me."

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