Time Moved Forward Another Year

The next day was the day the students left school.

Jon came to the rooftop of Hogwarts Castle. As he watched the students leave the grounds one after another like a chain, he suddenly noticed something unusual.

Normally, at this time every term, Peeves would be sitting here, but he was nowhere to be seen today.

Jon glanced around and found him elsewhere. He was sitting on Hog's shoulder. Although it looked strange for a ghost to sit on the shoulder of a spirit, the two of them somehow seemed perfectly natural together.

After all, Hog was quite sturdily built. He was a little smaller than Hagrid, but compared with the hulking men in the Muggle world, he was about the same.

After all, they were both spirits of the same castle.

Like Jon, they were watching the departing students, as though seeing them off.

Jon smiled, then finally left the school as well, following the students onto the train. Naturally, he still sat with Stephen and the others.

There were bound to be a few unpleasant little incidents on the journey home, but all of them were within his expectations.

First of all, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had clearly waited an entire week for a chance to beat Harry up without any teachers around.

They ambushed Harry on his way back from the lavatory. If they had not accidentally chosen a spot right outside a compartment full of D.A. members, the attack would certainly not have failed.

The D.A. members saw what was happening through the glass and hurried out to help.

In this fight, Ernie Macmillan, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, and the others used every kind of spell Harry had taught them.

By the time Harry, Ernie, and Justin had carried Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle into the luggage