The rest of the holiday season was a busy time for Jon.

Every day is three o'clock and one line, from the Hufflepuff common room, to the Room of Requirement, to the restaurant.

Although the snow outside the castle was heard, the grounds were still covered with a thick layer of snow. Zacharis called him every day to go to snowball fights and build snowmen, and he promised to do so, but he didn't participate once.

Astoria and her sister went home, after all, there were still ten days of vacation left.

Jon was busy all day long with nothing more than two things, one was to continue to try to explore the Potions sequence......

He had been reconfiguring a truth-spitting potion in the Room of Requirement all this time, and he would be able to complete the configuration by mid-January. Some of the materials consumed (such as the feathers of the Absolute Bird, the signature herbs of the Truth Teller) were bought by writing to Diagon Alley, and the other part (ordinary herbs) was cheeky to ask for Professors Snape and Sprout.

Then there's the Secret of Cutting-Edge Dark Arts, which is pretty much the most esoteric spell book Jon has ever seen.

With Principal Phineas Black's quote that "the evil of power does not depend on itself, but on its master", there is no fear of dark magic and Jon.

Of course, he still has the most basic respect for unknown forces.

The yellow, crunchy pages of the book "Secrets of Cutting-Edge Black Magic" make a sparse and unpleasant sound every time it is opened, which is quite annoying.

But there's a lot of it that Jon is interested in...... A typical example is the Fire Spell!

However, Jon is most concerned about "Horcruxes".

Horcruxes, similar to the Lich's lifeguards, are some of the Dark Wizards' way of preserving their lives, though Jon feels weaker than the Broken Lockers of Owo.

To make a Horcrux, the dark wizard needs to break his soul through murder and other evil things, and then separate a part of the soul from the body and seal it in a vessel, which is called a Horcrux.

In this way, even if the body is destroyed, you will not be able to die. Because there is still a part of the soul that has not been damaged and is still in the world.

At the same time, relying on the remnants of the soul, you can also find a way to restore your body and be reborn and resurrected!

In Jon's personal opinion, soul-level things are almost the most important thing for a wizard, and the so-called "immortality" obtained at the cost of actively splitting souls is really not worth it......

It's no wonder that in the end, Voldemort lived into the appearance of a man who was neither a human nor a ghost.

Moreover, in the process of splitting souls, there is a lot of pain that needs to be endured, and in general, it is rare for a dark wizard to endure such pain once and obtain a Horcrux.

Therefore, Voldemort is worthy of Dumbledore's evaluation, and is indeed a very good Hogwarts graduate...... It must have been extremely difficult for him to split into six and a half Horcruxes, and I wonder what kind of pain he endured in the process?

Any item can be crafted into a Horcrux, but along with the transfer of souls, extremely powerful spells are required to protect one's own Horcruxes in order to maintain its existence.

The Horcrux and the vessel that holds it are directly related...... Once the vessel containing the Horcrux is destroyed, the soul inside will also collapse naturally.

The damage to the Horcrux will inevitably affect the main soul, making the already extremely unstable soul even more fragmented, and the most direct consequence is that the dark wizard will lose his mind and gradually go crazy. To put it bluntly, the destruction of the Horcrux does not affect the wizard's power, but it does make him brainless.

This is in line with Voldemort's crazy and stupid performance a few years later!

Jon looked it up several times in this chapter...... Unfortunately, it only seems to describe how to make Horcruxes, but it doesn't give a soul-splitting spell.

That's what Jon was most interested in.

This disappointed Jon a little...... It seems that the soul-splitting spell was found by Voldemort through other means.

......

The last day of the Christmas holidays.

As Jon returned to the Hufflepuff common room with the book, he suddenly heard a whisper inside.

"What's going on?" Jon asked, curious.

"Hagrid......" Ernie McMillan put down a copy of the Daily Prophet with some horror.

"Professor Hagrid!" Jon said calmly.

"Okay...... No matter what it's called...... He's a half-blood giant!" Ernie handed Jon the copy of the Daily Prophet as he spoke, "Half-blood giant, that's terrifying!"

Looking at the look of fear on Ernie's face, Jon wondered if the education of pure-blood wizard families had rendered giants so terrifying?

Jon picked up the newspaper and opened it, revealing a front-page headline with a picture of Hagrid.

In the photo, Hagrid's expression looks a little sneaky due to the angle.

The headline reads: "Shocked, Dumbledore made a terrible mistake!"

The author, unsurprisingly, is none other than Rita Skeeter.

Jon only skimmed the article cursoryly...... Rita Skeeter hacked Dumbledore Hagrid together, and in her writing, Hagrid became a terrible butcher and Dumbledore was a sinister conspirator.

Objectively speaking, Jon felt that Rita Skeeter's description of Dumbledore was quite correct.

"My dad will definitely protest to Professor Dumbledore!" Ernie McMillan said with a look of certainty, "He will never tolerate a half-blood giant being my classroom!"

"Actually, the Hagrid people are not bad...... "I accidentally fell off the boat when the freshmen started last year...... It was Hagrid who swam and fished me up! He also draped his moleskin coat over me, though it weighed me a little out of breath!"

"Do you know how terrible giants are!" Ernie made a hideous expression, startling the second-year girl, "Do you know how many people they have eaten...... During the rampant operation of the mysterious people, they made several of the most brutal massacres of horse coats, and they did it......"

Jon didn't get involved in the argument between them.

After all, Hagrid was actually pretty good to him, and he had no reason to speak ill of the other party.

At the same time, he was well aware of the level of trust Dumbledore had in Hagrid...... Even if the parents of the whole school wrote him a yelling letter, he would not fire Hagrid.

Dumbledore was such a person, and when he trusted someone, he trusted him unreservedly.

And he seems to have made a mistake once in his life.