Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 964
On the day he became the Assistant Minister, Percy locked himself in the room and tried hard to think about the next thing. He knew that he had to stand in line, especially if he wanted to secure the position of Assistant Minister, he had to make a decision between Fudge and Dumbledore. The right choice.

Dumbledore is really old and confused?

Of course Percy wouldn't be so foolish as to think that, anyone with any sense knew what was going on at the Ministry of Magic.

"Saint" Albus Dumbledore's actions obviously touched Fudge's interests, which led to a direct break between the two who had a good relationship.

This kind of thing is actually very normal, just look at the bad ideas Dumbledore gave Fudge. Maybe he doesn't have any special ideas, but it's not surprising that Fudge, who is a politician, has other ideas.

At present, Dumbledore may face a series of suppressions, and Percy has no interest in joining in the fun, otherwise his future is estimated to be ruined, and it is undoubtedly the best choice to stand by Fudge, even if Fudge may step down in the future, but Percy The benefits have already been obtained.

To train an excellent official of the Ministry of Magic, one needs to be given enough experience, and Assistant Minister is a great position.

If you want to be promoted in the future, although network resources are indispensable, your own ability must also be strong enough. If you want to have good ability, you need to go through experience and trial and error. The resources of the Ministry of Magic are limited.

The idea of ​​Fudge making him a spy, though, seemed ridiculous to Percy.He suspected that this was a bad idea that Fudge had thought out of his head. He really wanted to climb up, but he never thought of betraying his family. How to live, Percy has four brothers and sisters who are still studying at Hogwarts, and they need a lot of tuition fees every year. Do you expect the unreliable Bill and Charlie to support the family's finances?

No kidding, they are barely able to support themselves, let alone others.

Every time he thought of the empty Gringotts vaults, Percy felt strangely sad.

Why is his father so stupid? The wizards in the entire ministry are trying to disassociate themselves from Dumbledore. Although most of them are pretending to show Fudge, at least they have to pretend to fool Fudge first.

If he was really fired by the Ministry of Magic, would he still expect the Order of the Phoenix to help him find a job?

Now Fred and George, who asked him about the patent of funny products, have become the most worry-free people in the family.He knew that those two mischievous people were planning to start their own shop with Albert.

Percy planned to move out of the house. As long as he moved out, Fudge would not be able to count on him to inquire about the family's information, but what should be done to prevent Fudge from doubting himself?

After finally getting the post of Assistant Minister, Percy didn't want to lose it out of nowhere. It was related to his future. If he wanted to get along well, he had to be flexible enough.

However, you can't think of Fudge too stupidly, otherwise he will be a real idiot. If he pretends to be too fake, he will definitely be seen out, and he must remind that idiot father, so that he will not be caught by Fudge one day. He was fired, and the family's source of income was cut off.

At this moment, Percy thought of Albert, and he felt that the guy might have expected this situation from the beginning, thinking about the last letter he wrote to him a while ago.

The relationship over there has to be cut off temporarily, after all, Albert is very hateful now, and he is obviously aware of this.

I heard that Fudge was disarmed a while ago, and Amelia Bones was tricked abroad. The Aurors searched for a long time but failed to find anyone. In the end, Amelia Bones came back by herself. .

"It's a bunch of worry-free guys!" Percy muttered, and patted his cheek hard in the mirror, showing a smug smile. He knew it was time to start acting.

While everyone was eating, Percy triumphantly announced the good news of his promotion to everyone.

The Weasley family, who were discussing joining the Order of the Phoenix, fell silent instantly.

"You were promoted?" Fred was shocked, "They actually promoted you?"

"Why not?" Percy glared at his brother disapprovingly.

"I thought you were getting in a lot of trouble with Crouch." George wondered too, the fact that this was so out of the ordinary.

"That's just an excuse they made for themselves. As long as you use your brains, you will know that no one will take the initiative to suspect that there is something wrong with their boss. Does this mean that they don't want to work in the Ministry of Magic?" Percy said contemptuously: "Mr. Crouch's investigation It's over, they thought I was good enough, so they gave me a promotion."

The Weasleys looked at each other in disbelief.

Mr. Weasley, who noticed something was wrong, asked tentatively: "What kind of position did they give you?"

"The position in the office of the Minister of Magic, I became the assistant to Minister Fudge." Percy excitedly announced the good news to everyone.

For someone just a year out of Hogwarts, it was a dream job.However, no one in the Weasley family was happy about Percy's promotion, because some time ago, Fudge was furious in the Ministry and banned anyone from having any contact with Dumbledore.

Now that Percy was Assistant Minister, it seemed odd.

"This matter is quite weird. I suspect that Fudge put you in his office just to use you to spy on our house, or—to spy on Dumbledore." Mr. Weasley put down his knife and fork, staring at his son, " You agreed?"

The atmosphere in the kitchen suddenly became weird, and everyone held their breath.

"Yes, I agree." Percy admitted directly.

"How can you allow others to spy on your family?" Mrs. Weasley looked at her son angrily, she already realized that something was going to happen.

"Why don't you agree." Percy looked at his father and said, "You probably don't know how bad your situation in the Ministry is, and you probably don't know that because of you, I have a bad time in the Ministry of Magic." How hard it is. People will look at me strangely when they hear my name is Weasley. Ever since I entered the Ministry of Magic, I have been struggling desperately to get rid of the influence of your bad reputation, otherwise there is no hope of getting Ascension, you can only hang around at the bottom, do you know how desperate it is? Fortunately, I am the only one in the family who entered the Ministry of Magic, otherwise, do you know how many people will blame you for this?"

Percy ignored Mr. Weasley's gradually distorted face and confided all his sufferings this year.

"You haven't even considered my situation, why you haven't been promoted for so many years, and why the situation at home is so bad. Have you really never thought about the reason?"

"Are you finished?"

Mr. Weasley slammed the plate in front of him on the ground, and stared at his son dissatisfied. If Mrs. Weasley hadn't pulled him, he would have gone up and beat him up.

"Percy, you should apologize to your father." Bill frowned and stared at his younger brother. He suddenly felt that Percy had become very strange.

"Fudge is already suspicious of you," Percy warned coldly. "He's considering whether to kick you out of the Ministry of Magic. What will happen to the family if you lose your current job, Fred, George, Ron You and Ginny are still in school, do you plan to let them suspend school? You have no idea how miserable they are in school?"

"Shut up Percy."

Bill felt that Percy was going too far, and planned to stop the other party from continuing.

"Bill, you haven't experienced it yourself. You don't know how many strange eyes you have to bear to go to school with second-hand books and second-hand robes. Especially in the first year of freshmen, I have been laughed at a lot." Percy glared at his father annoyedly: "Don't you know that this is likely to make us lose our heads in front of others?"

The others all stared at Percy dumbfounded. Although what Percy said was true, how dare he say it.

At some point, Mrs. Weasley started to cry, and everyone glared at Percy. They all thought he had gone too far.

"I know you want to join the Order of the Phoenix, but haven't you really considered Dumbledore's current situation? He has a lot of big troubles himself, and you are still joining Dumbledore now. Is it unlucky together? It's so stupid." Percy stared at his father without showing any weakness, and sneered: "Everyone thinks that Dumbledore is old and foolish, let Azkaban out of the control of the dementors, You dare to say the bad idea of ​​sending a peace envoy to the giant, don’t you really know what will happen if you let Azkaban out of the control of the dementors? Can sending a peace envoy to the giant really win over the giant? "

"Dumbledore has his reasons for doing that. The mysterious man returned to Percy. Harry and Dumbledore both saw it with their own eyes." Mrs. Weasley looked at her son with pleading eyes, hoping that Percy would stop making trouble. down.

"Without evidence, who would believe it?" The expression on Percy's face became even weirder: "The only evidence now is what they said, but this alone can't convince anyone, especially Dumbledore's stupid words Afterwards, many people thought he was old-fashioned and confused, and thought he was untrustworthy."

"Albert thought for a long time that the mysterious man would come back. He said that in the next few years, the entire wizarding world would be in chaos." Fred and George looked at each other and reminded: "I remember your relationship with him." The relationship is not bad, you should know his divination ability!"

"Did you see Albert stand up and claim that the mysterious man is back?" Percy looked at his younger brother and asked, "No, Albert didn't do that, because he knew very well that without evidence, random What a stupid thing it is to spread the news that the mysterious man is back. Most of the wizards in the Ministry of Magic are working overtime because Dumbledore spread rumors indiscriminately. "

"If Dumbledore really wants to solve all the troubles, he should propose to kill all the vicious prisoners in Azkaban, so that the giants will be completely wiped out from Britain, instead of suggesting that it is impossible to succeed at all. to cause trouble for everyone with stupid suggestions."

"Are you done?" Mr. Weasley threw his contents at Percy.

"I know exactly who I owe my allegiance to. If you insist on betraying the Ministry of Magic and joining that illegal organization, then I will no longer belong to this family." Percy avoided the things thrown by Mr. Weasley and went upstairs to pack his luggage , Apparating away from the Weasleys.

Mrs. Weasley realized something was wrong only after the sound of Apparating upstairs, and when she hurried upstairs, Percy's things were gone.

Percy was gone, left the house.

"He's gone." Mrs. Weasley looked like he might break down at any moment.

"Let him go, just pretend I don't have this son!" Mr. Weasley said indifferently, and the hall fell into a strange dead silence.

"No, Arthur, you can't."

Mrs. Weasley was going to find Percy, to have a chat with him, and she could probably guess where Percy was going.

In fact, there weren't many places Percy could go right now.

After eating in a hurry, everyone gathered in Bill's room to discuss the matter, and soon heard the sound of throwing things from downstairs.

"It's kind of weird," George said bluntly.

"What's weird?" Bill asked puzzled.

"Percy is not a fool. It is impossible not to guess the return of the mysterious man." Fred analyzed seriously: "Then why did he do that?"

"Why?" Ginny's mind was in turmoil.

"Because Percy is a power-hungry moron," Fred sneered.

"Assistant to the Minister of Magic is undoubtedly a dream job for him." George said helplessly: "He must have been very frustrated in recent months. You know, Percy wants to be the Minister of Magic, so...he chose Trusting the Ministry, it's in his best interest to use this opportunity to climb the ladder."

"So, he didn't hesitate to fall out with his father and leave our house?" Ginny's face was quite exciting, as if she couldn't believe such a thing.

"Don't be surprised, he's just on the side." George said helplessly, "on the side that's more beneficial to him."

"Dad hasn't thought about these questions?"

Bill suddenly realized something, and looked at Fred and George with strange eyes.

"He's probably mad!" Fred shrugged and said, "Don't look at me like that. After getting along with Albert for a long time, the way of thinking will always become somewhat similar to him."

"Is that true?" Ron stared at the twins dumbfounded.

"Probably!" Fred shrugged and said, "Percy is a greedy idiot in the first place, so I'm not surprised to do this."

"A lot of problems are actually related to interests. Fudge and Dumbledore fell out because of this reason." George explained to several people, "Dumbledore's actions will pull Fudge down from the position of Minister of Magic. This kind of thing Fudge Naturally, it cannot be tolerated, in order to preserve his status and power, Fudge can only discredit Dumbledore and Harry, and deny the fact that the mysterious man has been resurrected."

"But……"

"There's nothing wrong with it." Fred interrupted, "Fudge can't bear to lose his position as a minister, because it will greatly damage his interests, and the resurrection of the mysterious man is a matter for the entire British wizarding world. What does he have to do with Fudge, maybe he has resigned."

"That's why Albert hates politicians." George spread his hands and said, "They always say that they have no integrity and will do anything for their own benefit."

(End of this chapter)