In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter
Chapter 142: Brother Conflict

"He scored better on his final exams this time and got top marks in not only those major courses but also in many elective courses. It was because of this kind of performance that he got the position of Head Boy this year."

Ron didn't look much happy for Percy, instead, he was full of dissatisfaction.

"He's really too flamboyant, and he hasn't even become head boy at school yet, but he claims at home that George, Fred, Ginny and I have to listen to him. It's ridiculous that Mom still speaks in his favour as if she's proud of him."

Neville, as always, comforted from the sidelines.

"Percy senior also proved to be excellent, he has the best grades among the seniors and has always been the most observant student, if he wasn't the student's head boy this year then there wouldn't be anyone else qualified for the position."

"Of course, I know that. I'm not denying that he is excellent, but his attitude is really annoying. I guess when he becomes the head boy in the future, he will ask everyone to obey his wishes!"

At that moment, an abrupt, somewhat cold voice suddenly sounded from behind Ron.

"Am I that bad in your heart? Ron."

At the table, the second-year students all froze, then they all pretended to eat the food in front of them as if nothing was wrong, but the corner of their eyes was peeking towards the boy behind Ron who also had red hair, with glasses and a cold expression.

Ron couldn't help but shiver when he heard the voice, but he soon calmed down and turned his head to look at his third brother.

"I'm just being honest, Percy!" His face did not show any semblance of backing down, originally he showed the least respect to this one older brother in his family, although the others did not necessarily show it either. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the ɴovᴇlꜰirᴇ.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

Percy, who had the head boy's badge pinned to his chest, looked awfully scary, and the whole second-year table went silent, everyone felt uncomfortable from being looked at by him with such a gloomy gaze.

Hermione unconsciously leaned toward Jon's seat; Hanton seemed to be studying whether the pattern on his plate was exquisite; Neville wanted to open his mouth to ease the atmosphere, but when he opened his mouth he didn't know what to say; Lavender and Justine both kept their heads down and tried to pretend they didn't exist in the face of such an awkward situation.

The atmosphere on this side of the table even attracted the attention of the students at the other tables, and the two brothers George and Fred, who were sitting in the adjacent seats, looked this way.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Percy didn't continue to let the scene stagnate like this, his face still looked bad, but he simply said in a casual tone.

"Then we'll see."

He then turned around and left the great hall all alone.

After he left, the atmosphere at the second-year table gradually recovered again, and Neville sighed and spoke persuasively to Ron.

"You should have just apologized to him, saying that would have made him step back in a more good tone, after all, he is the head boy when the school year starts."

"You just didn't see him at home." Ron looked angry too as he said loudly, "He always thinks everyone else should listen to him and thinks he's better than everyone else, but all I can see is his stupidity!"

Neville said nothing more, in the end, this is a Weasley family matter, even though it is Hogwarts.

Jon remained on the sidelines watching the scene without saying a word, he did not open his mouth to persuade anyone, before it was clear that Percy's attitude toward him is quite wrong, so Jon naturally did not take the initiative to jump out to participate in such matters.

He didn't think it is a big deal; the younger Weasley children are not comfortable with their older brother, because he is a little too hungry for authority, and follow the rules to the extreme, which made people feel very uncomfortable to get along with him.

After dinner, instead of going straight back to his dorm room, Jon went to the office of the new professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that came to the wagon this year, Lupin.

Remus Lupin turned out to be a very good Defense class professor.

He only officially started teaching in the wagon at the beginning of March this year but was liked by the students, at least his teaching level was not worse than Slughorn, and he was very easy-going, and if any students encountered some problems he would try to help to solve them.

When Jon had just returned to the wagon from the castle, he had learned from Dumbledore the reason why he was able to successfully rescue Hermione and other students from the castle, a big part of the success was due to the infiltration of Lupin in Azkaban, as well as Sirius Black, two people, together organized a prison break plan to pull the attention of the Ministry of Magic.

They spent three years working on this plan, transporting the wands of the Order of the Phoenix members to the prison island, trying to help them reduce the influence of the Dementors, and teaching them the Patronus Charm, before finally choosing to start the prison break at noon on Thursday decided by Dumbledore for Jon.

Lupin's actions attracted the attention of most of Voldemort's Death Eaters, including Hogwarts' Snape and Barty Jr. all went to reinforce.

That's why Dumbledore had no way to give Jon more help, only let Kingsley and McGonagall over to pick them up, because Moody had to bring the rest of the Order of the Phoenix to assist Azkaban's prison break plan.

Finally, without any communication between the two sides of Azkaban Island and Hogwarts Castle, the prison break was successful at the same time students were rescued, through Dumbledore's arrangements.

Jon is well aware that he, Hermione and those children rescued from the castle, were indirectly assisted by Lupin and them, so just after a few days of returning to the wagon he specifically took the time to take a dozen students, including Hermione, who escaped from the castle to thank Lupin.

Lupin welcomed them gently, without half a professor's posture, and gave them a magic book on defence against dark arts, which allowed Hanton and other students' good feelings towards this professor to skyrocket, since they had only received the attitude of disdain and indifference from those professors in the castle.

In the rest of the second-year classes, Lupin appreciated Jon's talent in magic and gave him a lot of guidance in private.

However, his identity as a werewolf had not been announced yet, although most of the students on the wagon probably wouldn't care much about his identity, after all, in the current magical world, the status of "mudbloods" is no better than that of werewolves.

But perhaps because of Lupin's personal concerns, he asked people who knew about the matter to conceal it.

Every full moon, he would get off the wagon alone, to find a quiet place to drink the wolfsbane potion Lily prepared for him, and then he would wait for the transformation to end before returning the next day.

After the start of the summer holiday, he did not organize any hobby club due to this, then he taught him some knowledge about the Patronus Charm at Jon's request.

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