A squeezing feeling, like his whole body being run over by a wheel, occupied all of Jon's senses.
This kind of nausea and pain, as if a person was about to be crushed, made his stomach churn. After his feet, which had been hanging in the air for less than a second, stepped on the solid ground again, Jon finally couldn't bear it anymore. He arched his back and retched while holding his stomach.
"It's inevitable that you won't be used to this feeling when you Apparate for the first time. Sit down and have a cup of hot chocolate to make you feel better."
Although Lily's tone was cold, it was obviously caring voice that sounded beside him.
Jon took a breath and took a cup of warm chocolate from her hand. He lowered his head and looked like he took a sip, but in fact he didn't let his lips touch the liquid in the cup at all. He also suppressed his physical discomfort. Pay attention. Focus all your efforts on the surrounding environment.
This is a small cabin with very simple furnishings. There is only a stove, two shabby single sofas around the stove and a dirty wooden table. It looks like it is just a place for temporary rest. safe house.
Through the narrow window, you can see a lush forest outside, which is obviously an inaccessible place.
Jon held the cup of hot chocolate with both hands and looked at Lily who was lighting the stove lightly with her wand to make the weak flames on it become strong. Only now could he carefully observe this thing that should have been there ten years ago. Just a dead witch.
She is undoubtedly a very beautiful woman, but her dark red hair is a little messy, her face is pale as if she doesn't get enough rest, her eye sockets are deep, and her large gray robe makes her extremely thin.
Lily noticed his gaze, and looked at Jon with those deadly green eyes that were missed by a certain Potions professor in the original novel.
Jon took a deep breath and asked the first question after arriving at a safe place with a serious face.
"I followed you to escape. Will Mrs. Chris and the others be in danger?"
Although he didn't have much sense of belonging to that orphanage, the director, Mrs. Chris, took care of his food and accommodation and took care of him for more than a year.
From the bottom of his heart, Jon didn't want to see the people who helped him get implicated because of himself.
Lily raised her head and glanced at him. Her eyes, which were originally as calm as dead water, were obviously a little softer.
"Those who want to take you away have done all kinds of evil before, but after they have completely mastered the power of the magic world, their masters no longer allow them to kill easily. They will only clear the minds of everyone in the orphanage related to you. Memory, destroying all traces of your existence in this world, will not harm the people related to you."
After hearing her words, Jon breathed a sigh of relief, and his hand holding the teacup relaxed slightly.
"You look much more mature than your peers. You don't look like an 11-year-old child." Lily didn't take her eyes away from Jon.
From the tone of her voice, it was obvious that she was just saying this out of emotion. Jon didn't show any sensitivity because of this, so he blinked and said.
"Children living in orphanages always need to know more things, right? Although I don't think this is something worth boasting about."
Lily fell silent. She didn't know what she thought of, and her mood seemed to suddenly become depressed.
But this silence did not last long. Her expression returned to calm and indifference again, and she spoke to Jon.
"As for your general situation, Crouch already told you when you were in the orphanage. At least he didn't lie about your magical talent and being a wizard. There is no need for me to repeat this to you again.
If so. I know you have many more questions in your mind besides that. Fortunately, we still have time until dark to let me answer these questions."
"But before I give you formal admission guidance, you have to answer me a question first."
Lily's expression didn't change much, but her tone became slightly more serious.
"Why, in the end, when you heard the name Barty Crouch, did you become so decisive and choose to follow me? Have you known him before?"
Jon's expression did not change. After arriving at the safe house, he had already thought that if Lily had no problems, she would ask him this question sooner or later, so he made preparations in his mind from the beginning.
Judging from Lily's current attitude, she didn't have too much wariness or vigilance against herself because of this incident, which also made Jon quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
He didn't know if the Lily in front of him knew magic like Legilimency. Even if decent wizards knew it, they would rarely use it on others secretly, especially on an 11-year-old child. But if the situation was dangerous,
At a certain point, even decent wizards will not be so pedantic that they have any reservations about suspicious elements.
Now Jon's performance is obviously far from this level, but first he must be able to explain it reasonably.
"I don't know him, but from the first time I met him, I felt that he was not as friendly as he appeared." Jon and Lily looked at each other without any intention of avoiding her gaze, "He
He dislikes and dislikes me very much, and I can feel it from the first moment he sees me."
"The more he described the beauty of that magic school to me, the more I felt like he was being false. Besides, except for the title above, I couldn't understand a word of the admission notice he asked me to sign.
, after signing, who knows whether I really went to a magic school or whether I sold myself? I never thought about signing and going with him when you didn't show up. It's just that he is an adult who understands magic. I
I am a child and cannot resist directly. Your appearance gives me more choices. Although this choice is unknown and very dangerous, it is still stronger than another person who is more suspicious, right? So I
I only asked his name during your confrontation to draw his attention, and then ran away with you."
What Jon said was reasonable and 90% true. Only the last sentence was false. Unless you pry into his heart, you would never find the problem.
Of course Lily didn't "dissect" his brain, but she still stared at Jon strangely.
There was silence in the air for a while, and it wasn't until Jon was staring at her that his whole body was hairy that she finally spoke.
"I've never seen any 11-year-old like you..."
She seemed to be struggling with her choice of words, and Jon carefully reminded her at the right time.
"clever?"
"No, it's like a ghost who looks young but has been dead for thousands of years. He actually has so many twists and turns in his heart."
Jon's face suddenly turned foul.
We have only known each other for a short time and are not familiar with each other, so there is no need to beat around the bush and scold him like an old monster.