The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

“I can only ask you to go and see for me, my friend,” he said to Rimbaud.

After all, those ordinary crows couldn't understand anything too complicated, nor could they discern the true attitudes of the other members of the Burke family towards Mr. Burkin.

Although Scott often speaks to Rimbaud in a commanding tone, Rimbaud, as a "product" of Scott's transfiguration, is essentially incapable of refusing any of Scott's requests.

So it only complained a couple of times before obediently setting off to attend the funeral.

After Rimbaud left, Scott, who was alone in the cabin, spent the whole day studying the Reiss map in his hand.

He first tried reciting various secret commands related to or unrelated to Antarctica, and then tried to decipher the hidden magic on the map, but all of them ended in failure.

In the end, Scott had to admit that he had wasted a whole day on this damn map.

Although he managed to keep the map in his possession through his risky efforts, he clearly didn't gain anything useful from it.

After comforting himself with excuses like "the timing wasn't right" or "the opportunity hadn't come," Scott put the map away again.

He didn't carry it with him, but instead placed it directly in the room hidden by the Curse of Loyalty.

In a sense, this place is safer than the morphing lizard skin pouch he's wearing.

After putting away the map, Scott suddenly remembered that the thief Fletcher's shapeshifting lizard skin bag was also in his possession, which he hadn't opened yet. So he quickly found the dirty, dusty bag.

Now that Fletcher was dead, he could easily open the leather bag.

But Scott suddenly stopped in his tracks as he untied the drawstring of the leather bag.

After thinking for a moment, he used the prop to shield the contract effect of the trace thread once again, and then waved his wand to cast a protective spell on the floor.

He simply sat cross-legged on the floor and slowly cast an armor spell in front of himself.

After doing all this, he finally reached out and untied the drawstring of the leather bag, poured the contents of the bag directly onto the floor, and then quickly threw the bag away and withdrew his hand.

His caution proved to be useful.

The contents poured out of the leather bags filled Scott's already cramped floor.

The moment they appeared, several magical attacks of different colors scattered outwards.

The magic of these automatic attacks swept through like a hurricane, leaving the cabin in a mess.

Scott, protected by protective spells and armor charms, escaped unharmed.

He used a long branch to clear away the pile of things on the floor, while simultaneously taking stock of the thief Fletcher's possessions.

It is worth noting that the magical items that had automatically launched their attacks after being taken out of the bag were all broken, leaving piles of debris on the floor.

Scott first removed the Galleons that Fletcher was carrying.

There are over 200 gold Galleons, over 100 silver Sickles, and over 100 bronze Nats.

Scott was immediately satisfied with this achievement.

It seems that the thief-turned-underground businessman is making quite a bit of money.

He gathered all the coins to the other side and began to carefully examine each item that had been poured out of the leather bag.

Chapter 271 The Ministry of Magic Also Gets Involved

Before Rimbaud returned, Scott had already packed everything in Fletcher's leather bag.

He acquired several low-quality magical items, a bunch of strange materials, and some items of unknown purpose.

Apart from the materials, everything else looks old, and many are even damaged.

Clearly, the origin of these items is unknown.

After tidying everything up, Scott waved his wand to repair the damaged floors and furniture in the cabin.

Rimbaud returned to the forest before Scott's dinner.

Unable to enter the house hidden by the Curse of Loyalty, it could only wander and call out in the treetops.

Scott flew out on his broomstick and retrieved it.

While Scott was having dinner, Rimbaud told him about Mr. Borgin's funeral.

According to Rimbaud, the first half of Mr. Bokin's funeral was very quiet.

Apart from the expressionless and grief-free members of the Burke family, very few other guests attended the funeral.

"The Burke family does not welcome undignified guests!"

Rimbaud mimicked the speech of some members of the Burke family.

"Although most of the wizards Uncle Karaktakus usually comes into contact with are guys who wallow in the mud, he can only represent himself."

“I don’t want him to be buried as Mr. Bokin of Knockdown Lane. When he goes to meet his death, he should be Karaktakus Bok of the Bok family.”

"Of course, I don't think those guys who are used to hiding in the shadows will show up rashly."

In short, the Burke family turned away many wizards who wanted to attend the funeral, and only received guests who were also pure-blood wizards.

“Looks like I miscalculated,” Scott said. “Even if I disguised myself as the dark wizard of Knockturn Alley, I couldn’t get into the funeral.”

He listened intently to Rimbaud's vivid narration as he ate.

"You mean this is the first half of the funeral?" he asked curiously.

“That’s right.” Rimbaud seemed a little excited. “The second half of the funeral refers to after the burial, when all the guests had left, but the Burke family members almost came to blows with each other!”

"Well……"

Scott wiped his mouth and immediately understood what was going on.

He asked casually, "Are they fighting over Mr. Borgin's estate?"

Rimbaud said, "That's right. Although they all seem to look down on Mr. Borgin's Dark Magic Shop, everyone wants it!"

It couldn't quite grasp the complex psychology of those Burke family members.

“Mr. Boggin’s legacy?” Scott murmured with interest. “I don’t think it will be easy for those guys who look down on Knockturn Alley to inherit that store.”

"Why?" Rimbaud asked curiously.

Scott waved his wand as he cleared the dishes, answering it, "I think it's very dangerous to enter a dark magic shop without the owner's permission. If they want to take over the shop safely, they must ask an expert to go."

Moreover, in the days since Mr. Bokin's death, the store may have been targeted by thieves more than once.

After all, that's Tumbler Alley.

Even if the Burke family successfully took over the shop, it wouldn't be considered as inheriting Mr. Burke's estate.

For a dark magic shop located in Knockturn Alley, the supply and distribution channels that Mr. Borgin once controlled were more important than the goods in the shop.

In this semi-underground industry, those unfamiliar with industry rules and unable to acquire useful resources cannot survive for long.

Scott explained at length, but Rimbaud only seemed to understand.

It was just a simple raven, unable to comprehend the complexities of human society.

It asked Scott, "Why are you so sure the Burke family won't inherit the store?"

Scott said, "It was incredibly foolish of the Burke family to refuse Mr. Burkin's 'old friends' the invitation to his funeral. They have clearly abandoned the network of connections that belonged to Mr. Burkin."

He was now certain that even if the Burke family fought tooth and nail, they would at most only get a share of the shop's goods.

That shop was clearly unable to continue operating.

Of course, Scott himself was only talking about it on paper.

However… Scott, coming to his senses, felt that it was somewhat pathetic to be lecturing his own creation of shapeshifting…

As a result, he quickly lost interest in talking about sex.

For the next two days, Scott stayed quietly in the cabin studying his Transfiguration techniques, without making any other moves.

Of course, the crows kept bringing him all sorts of news.

The news of the Yaxley brothers' attack on their doorstep and the death of the newly crowned Duel Champion, Jake Yaxley, has spread throughout the British wizarding world.

Scott felt that the Yaxley family would certainly not want this matter to be spread so widely if they could.

But this matter was so bizarre that certain intrusive reporters became very interested in it.

That's right, it's Rita Skeeter, who keeps courting death but just won't die.

This veteran journalist seems to be bursting with inspiration lately, producing several exceptionally brilliant articles in the daily and evening papers over the past two days.

She first made bold and brilliant hypotheses about the poisoning of the Yaxley brothers from multiple perspectives, including revenge killing, crime of passion, and fratricide.

Later, she connected this incident with Mr. Bokin's death from poisoning and told a fascinating story.

Later, she connected these two events with Travers' death in Azkaban, and wrote an exceptionally convoluted and bizarre story.

Later, she added the death of Jasmine Travers to the list.

She believes this is a scheme targeting the Travers family's assets.

It was also a sinister conspiracy that began last Christmas and lasted for more than half a year.

In order to obtain the Travers family's property, a certain person or family first plotted to eliminate Jasmine Travers, the heir of the Travers family, and then poisoned the last Travers in Azkaban a few months later.

It's clear from her words that she's implying to everyone that the masterminds behind the conspiracy are either the Burst family or the Foley family.

Scott followed her reports like a serialized story, and was very impressed by her boundless imagination.

He felt Rita Skeeter's report came at just the right time!

It was almost as if they were unconsciously cooperating with Scott's plan.

Moreover, these reports helped Scott completely shift the blame for Jasmine Travers' death before Christmas last year onto others.

But Scott would not be grateful to Miss Skeeter.

He simply muttered with a sigh, "It seems the Travers family's inheritance is just too tempting; now even the Ministry of Magic is involved... Is it because they don't have the money to prepare for next year's Quidditch World Cup?"

Chapter 272 An Unexpectedly Lively Event

In Scott's judgment, Rita Skeeter was undoubtedly a pro-Ministry of Magic journalist.

This can be seen from her previous published articles.

Anyone who is good at summarizing will notice that this journalist, who has no taboos, dares to write about anyone, and is never afraid of offending anyone, actually rarely writes articles criticizing the Ministry of Magic.