This was a small secret room. When Jon walked in, four or five candles suddenly lit up on the surrounding walls, illuminating the space.
Not only is the space not large, but all the furnishings in the room are also very simple. There is a bed, a desk, a bookshelf, and a mirror frame that was supposed to be a mirror, but the mirror is missing at the moment.
Jon quickly turned his attention to the small wooden box on the desk, which was the only thing in the room that could store items.
But when Jon picked it up and opened it easily, he didn't find anything inside.
This wooden box was as empty as this secret room, as if there was nothing. Jon sped up the time and searched the entire room, but still found nothing.
This made him frown.
The time is almost reaching the time he and Slughorn agreed. The purebloods here are very alert, and even a banquet cannot delay them for long.
Jon did not stay in the secret room any longer. He walked out quickly and took the egg off the door, and then the entire door began to close.
He stuffed the egg back into the transparent glass column, added water to it, and finally used a spell to change the color of the water.
It's just that the effect of turning an egg into a bird requires a special deformation catalyst liquid. Of course, Jon can't make it under his current conditions. However, he can directly use deformation to maintain such a deformation effect for a period of time. This effect is of course not as good as the deformation.
The deformation is as smooth as before, and the duration is not long, but at least it can be managed for a while.
And just when Jon had just finished all this, the door of the Time Hall was suddenly opened from the outside.
Dandy looked at Jon with a serious face, like an Auror watching a criminal.
"What are you doing!"
Jon's expression remained normal.
"Why are you so excited? I just want to take a look here and see if I can repair these time turners."
As he spoke, he pointed to the messy time turners placed on the glass counter that Jon had not yet had time to put back in their place.
Dandy didn't just listen to what Jon said. He quickly looked around the entire time hall, then walked in and checked around the place. He kept looking at Jon as he looked.
Jon acted innocent.
"Hey, what are you doing? Do you suspect that I will steal the things here? Can any of these old things compare to the wand made by my uncle?"
After confirming that there were no special changes in the entire time hall, Dandy glared at Jon fiercely.
"Get out! Don't wander around here when you have nothing to do!"
Jon did not leave in despair because of his words, but showed great dissatisfaction on his face. He took out his wand without hesitation and pointed it at Dandy.
"Damn bastard, do you think that because you are included in the pure blood category by blood law, you can do whatever you want to me? Try telling me what you just said again?"
Dandy's face also darkened. He had almost forgotten that "Spike" was an eldest son from an old-school pure-blood family. The reprimand he had just given was nothing to the young people who were also from the new school, but to those who had always regarded him as a young man,
For these people, who regard them as the higher-level pure-blooded Holy Twenty-Eight Families, this is a great humiliation.
"You have also joined us. I don't want to make things bigger. This room is very important. You can't just come in privately."
No matter how ugly his face was, Dandy's tone still softened a bit. Jon snorted coldly and put down his wand.
"It's okay to talk like this. I know you have a mission here, and I don't care what you want to do, but don't forget the most basic order of dignity."
After saying that, Jon turned and left the Time Hall, leaving only Dandy, who was flushed and angry but unable to express his anger, staying there.
Staring at the disappearance of Jon's back, Dandy closed the door of the Time Hall as quickly as possible. Then he quickly walked to the door hidden in the wall and observed it carefully for a while to make sure there was nothing unusual.
Then he withdrew his gaze.
He took another look at all the ornaments in the Time Hall. The bird-shaped ornament was still repeating the process of changing from egg to bird and back to egg. The gravel in the hourglasses of various sizes was also still changing.
As time went by, nothing changed.
In the end, Dandy also left the Time Hall, and after the room was completely plunged into darkness, not long after, the phenomenon of the bird-shaped ornaments changing from egg to bird suddenly stopped. After that, the egg could no longer maintain such a transformation, and just remained silent.
It gradually turned back into a transparent liquid and was suspended in it.
Late at night, Jon found Slughorn.
"I entered the room, but found nothing inside."
Hearing Jon's words, Slughorn also frowned.
"What did you see inside?"
"A bed, a desk, a bookshelf, a chair, a mirrorless frame, and an empty box."
"Are you sure that box doesn't have any hidden compartments or anything like that?"
"I tried to use the ring to absorb the magic in it, but there was nothing in it. It was not a magic item at all."
"What about the other stuff?"
Jon shook his head.
"I didn't have time to check other things. Time was too tight. When I came out, I happened to bump into Dandy. I felt that he had some doubts about me."
Slughorn paced back and forth in the office.
"Whether he is suspicious or not is not a big problem. Regardless of whether there is any harvest in the end, we can only stay here for two days at most, but the secret room must be checked again. If there is no problem with the box, it does not mean that there is no problem with the other furniture. I
I don’t think Voldemort went to great lengths to hide such a place, and even sent a team of Aurors to look inside but found nothing."
Jon also nodded.
"Christmas is only two days away, which means after tonight, we actually only have one day."
Silence fell in the office, as both Jon and Slughorn were thinking about how they were going to find the thing hidden by Voldemort.
...
"Malfoy and the others have already encountered the people on the Wu Ping line!"
Hearing the explosions and shouts from far away, Amycus was extremely excited.
The people he led were hiding in an abandoned utility room in the manor, and during this period, many teams from Wuping Line were seen passing by, heading in the direction of Moody to provide support.
This was the situation he had envisioned when he first decided to separate from Lucius, and only in this way could they have a greater chance of escaping.