Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"Wait!" He quickly stopped: "I haven't agreed yet."

"Don't worry, even if you are willing, they may not be willing to take you." Lockhart sarcastically said mercilessly, "Ten years from Azkaban, I'm afraid your skills will not be enough."

Sirius refused: "Nonsense, my skill is very good, I just won a motorcycle hill climb championship."

"Forget it, who knows what you added to your motorcycle... Let me tell you, even if Muggles are willing to train you, I'm afraid your 30-year-old body can't run two steps. I won't let you go to the one who makes the move."

Sirius didn't agree with him at all: "So, you don't have to come to me at all."

"Harry, look at your godfather. I'm afraid he will spend his whole life like this. When you go out to meet people, you must never mention him, or you will be looked down upon..."

"Shut up," said Sirius.

Although forced to play for a long time, Sirius is a person who can still distinguish the seriousness of the matter. He bargained to the end, and finally agreed to Lockhart to give it a try.

The communication between wizards and Muggles must be two-way, not like it is now, unless Fudge and Lockhart are willing to go to them, Muggle high-level can't even contact wizards.

The so-called strategic misjudgments are often made when the two sides lack communication channels.

will be born.It's like the Soviet Union and the United States before "Star Wars". Both sides thought that Fang had a set of black technology that could destroy the country a hundred times. It wasn't until after the victory was decided that the intelligence agencies of both sides were tacitly defrauding funds.

But if the powerful ministers of both sides have the opportunity to sit down and have a frank talk: many things can be solved easily.Although the final result still has a high probability that the two parties will continue to act, but at least they will not act until the guns go off the rails.

For this purpose, Lockhart confessed to Sirius very carefully: "When you go to the Muggles in the future, your main task is to clock in and go to work every day, work for them seriously for a period of time, and learn their knowledge by the way." Work thinking and methods, and strive to learn how Muggles deal with terrorists"

"But Muggles can't teach us everything," said Sirius.

"It doesn't matter, the main function of you going there is to tell the top of the Muggle Intelligence Service that "we wizards are human too", as long as it plays this role.As for your ability to work, in fact, I don't count on it at all. ' Lockhart told him

Sirius's violent temper suddenly came up—since you said so, then I will show my face to you, and let my godson know how awesome I was back then.

"When will I go?" He asked with a dark face.

"When the second Thanksgiving project is held at the end of October, the Muggles should send an expert over, and I will take you to meet him. You are the "sincerity" we want to show to the Muggles."

"It looks like I can play for another half a month." Sirius shrugged, looking indifferent.

Chapter 320 Training Juniors Is a Sense of Achievement

Lockhart actually had the idea of ​​security cooperation with Muggles very early, or when he was helping the Prime Minister catch IRA prison escapees, but he never took the initiative to bring it up to the other party.

Because Lockhart was very worried that when Voldemort returned, no matter how much the Lions took precautions, they would still be at a disadvantage in terms of absolute power.

That being the case, it would be good to borrow a little bit of Muggle power.

But the problem was that Lockhart couldn't take the initiative to bring this up to the Muggles.

Because as long as he took the initiative to tell the Prime Minister, it would be equivalent to admitting that wizards need Muggle help so that they can deal with their "civil strife".

Losing face and so on can only be regarded as small problems. If Muggles really kill a few wizards, let alone whether Muggles will lose their respect for wizards. Completely turned into a "traitor"" Even if those wizards are all Death Eaters.

But if Muggles took the initiative to resist Voldemort for "self-preservation", then it's none of Lockhart's business, right?

It would be best if Dumbledore and Harry could get rid of Voldemort smoothly, but if they couldn't get rid of him, then Lockhart could only use his own methods to try to get rid of him.

Two days later, the Quidditch charity match was held on the Quidditch pitch in Hogwarts in the Knockout Tournament of the Big Five.

As Lockhart had expected, none of the warriors refused, even Vagadus and Ilvermorny.Because the principals of several schools would not allow the students of their own schools to show no sympathy on such public issues, Lockhart's moral bondage

The frame was a big success.

The most famous player in the game is undoubtedly Viktor Krum. After all, he is the main force of the Bulgarian national team, so in addition to his school's attendants, his team also brought Beauxbaton's little girl in by the way. The two teams were evenly matched to form a "forest team."

However, the Hogwarts lineup is not bad. Although the Ilvermorny warriors on the same team are not very good at Quidditch, Cedric and Harry are the main Seekers of the school team, let alone Harry also had a Firebolt.Although Furong can only ride a broomstick sideways, she unexpectedly flies well, so the "Ocean Team" here is also playing decently.

Because it was only a public welfare competition, no one made some rough fouls during the competition, and Krum obviously showed mercy.After two hours of the game, the two sides fought 120 to 100. The Forest team won by 20 points. The game ended in harmony, and the more than 600 Galleons raised in this game were also handed over by Dumbledore. Estonian Ministry of Magic, everyone is happy with that.

Especially Dumbledore, he believes that such a game promotes the friendship of the warriors and inspires their sense of social responsibility, which is a rare and good game.

The only person who complained was the representative of Sweeping Company. He thought that since he was the sponsor, their company's sponsorship advertisement should appear in such a competition.

Seeing that he was about to make a fuss, the people from the sports department had to pull him aside: tell him that if such a public welfare competition has commercial behavior, it will damage their company's image. Besides, the Warriors in the second project We will use the sweeping company's products throughout the whole process, so there is no need for them to be so impatient.

After listening to the latter part of the sentence, the representative immediately stated that for the noble common ideal of all wizards, Sweeping Company will fully support the Ministry of Magic to hold a five-wizard tournament full of love and peace.

Of course, Lockhart just listened to fart.

In the last few days before the competition, Hermione Granger suddenly became very diligent, sometimes even writing two or three letters to Lockhart a day.

The main issue she was writing to inquire about was of course the matter of the "Wizard Express", and she wondered if the house-elf's status could be improved if she demonstrated the ability to send items quickly.

Lockhart was amazed by Hermione's keenness—because in his conception, the courier company really needed to hire a large number of house elf employees.

He thought about it, and decided to tell Hermione part of his plan.

"If you have followed the news on the Muggle side, you will know that (C)tyLink', an old British courier company, is now facing the risk of bankruptcy.

The Muggle government doesn't want it to go bankrupt, because if it goes bankrupt, not only its [-] employees will lose their jobs, but even their executives, civil servants who have retired from the government, will lose an extra income.

You can use your brain to think about it, what would I do, and what would you do? "

Shortly after the reply letter was sent, Hermione sent another letter soon.

"If I were you, I would buy this company with a loan from a Muggle bank, and divide the company's business into three parts --- one for VIP customers.

Li, with the selling point of "delivery within 2 hours to any part of the country", is in charge of the wizard; the second part is set up for corporate users, promising to transport large quantities of goods quickly without damage, and this part is in charge of the house elf; the third part is It is the general express business, which is handled by Muggle employees."

After seeing Hermione's countermeasures, Lockhart felt extremely relieved, like a father watching his daughter finally grow up as he wished.

Especially the one in the reply letter, "Looking for a loan from a Muggle bank to buy", Lockhart was absolutely flattered. It's not that they don't have money, but the one who is in debt these years is the uncle,

If they don't find a bank to borrow money, it is impossible for the British banking industry, which is the largest in the UK, to exert influence and let a group of people of unknown origin buy an old company.

Lockhart's reply was not lacking in praise:

"Perfect move, Hermione! I'd give Gryffindor 30 points if I were still teaching at the school.

Let me give you a suggestion - if you want to really improve the status of the house-elves and convince them to accept freedom, you must first convince the wizarding families who have house-elves to hand over the subordination of the elves. Going to a unified company, counted as "technical shares" After they hand over the control of the house-elves, you can use the name of the company to improve the treatment of the house-elves, by the way you use the "Attitude Change and Social Influence" "The knowledge learned in the book helps these house-elves to subtly change their minds.

Take this as my homework for you - how are you going to convince those pureblood families to hand over their house-elves?Friendly reminder, they are not short of money now.

Hermione looked elated when she received the reply.

"Isn't that simple?" she said to herself, ""To master Muggles' logistics is to master their lifeblood, and this power must be in the hands of pure blood'.. Ha, I like to use brains more and more up. "

Chapter 320: Luring wolves into the house.

On the day when the second event of the Big Five Tournament was held, Mrs. Rimington woke up early, washed up hastily, and then rushed to Whitehall.

In London in October, if you don’t expect to see the sunrise until 0:7 am, it is extremely difficult for cancer patients to get up early.

But this is not true for Mrs. Rimington, because as people get older, they sleep less and less, and even if they are sleepy, it is only in the afternoon.

According to the agreement, the wizard will send someone to pick her and the Prime Minister to watch the competition at the venue of some hegemony tournament today. This makes her feel extremely excited, and even rarely loses sleep.

Although she did not tell the Prime Minister, Mrs. Rimington has to admit that the reason why she is going to visit the wizard is not entirely because of "national security".

After all, their t youth newspaper department didn't know about the existence of wizards in the past hundreds of years, but there was no problem with Britain's national security. Even if she didn't worry about it, the problem shouldn't be too big.

The reason why she had to take a look was plain and simple, just like the prime minister, she was just curious.

When she returned to the UK from India with the rest of the civil servants and had to be transferred, the reason why she accepted the job in the intelligence department was because she was curious about such things as "secrets".

But when she actually started working as an agent, she realized that she had been fooled.

Regardless of whether it was MI[-] or other departments, they were far less miraculous than the outside world said. Not only did they not have access to so-called alien intelligence, even the spy work was not as grand as she imagined.

Many times the job of a spy is to go to a foreign market to buy something

Prices, buying a few newspapers by the way, contacting a few NGs, and participating in activities is over. There is no need for them to shoot guns, climb trains, drill caves, or sneak into the enemy's headquarters to take photos of so-called confidential documents.

Although she was very disappointed, Mrs. Rimington also knew that this was the so-called job, and since she accepted it, she couldn't quit easily.

Life has passed so plainly for decades, and she has changed from a small employee to the current head of MI[-].

She thought that the curiosity about unknown things in her heart had long been forgotten, but when she learned again that there was an anomaly called a wizard in this world, the fifty-year-old woman suddenly discovered that she and her youth were unexpectedly It doesn't make a difference either.

She came to Whitehall just in time for Downing Street to open, and had breakfast there leisurely, pretending to be unhurried.

And her demeanor really deceived the Prime Minister. At least when Major saw her reading the newspaper while drinking coffee, he said with emotion that people who engage in intelligence have a strong psychological quality. The night he learned of the existence of wizards But he couldn't sleep, and he didn't sleep well the night before he went to Hogsmeade.

Of course, if he knew that Mrs. Rimington had read the news on the front page for half an hour, he would know that Mrs. Rimington's current state was not very normal.

"Good morning, Stella, they say they'll send someone at eight, but they want us to have a room with a fireplace, so let's go upstairs," the Prime Minister greeted her.

"Fireplace?" repeated Miss Rimington.

"Yeah, so I chose that drawing room...the one that's dedicated to the 'fireside chat'. "

Mrs. Rimington put down the newspaper in her hand: "I doubt whether the wizard can understand what you mean."

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, let's go!

After all, the two of them used the name of "confidentiality" to screen away all the internal affairs personnel and came to the special reception room.

At exactly eight o'clock, Lockhart, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, knocked on the door of the reception room, and walked in politely amidst the Prime Minister's "Come in".

"Good morning, I kept you two waiting for a long time!" Lockhart turned and closed the door, "Long time no see, sir, who is this lady?"

Without Major's introduction, Mrs. Rimington took the initiative to greet her: "Stella Rimington, it's an honor to meet you, Director Lockhart."

"Ms. Rimington, hello." Lockhart gently squeezed the tip of the lady's finger.

Just as Lockhart was wondering who this lady was, Mrs. Rimington had already started asking him:

"I remember the Prime Minister said, the last time you took him directly into the air? Why didn't you do the same this time? Did you only take one person at a time?"

Lockhart suddenly felt a familiar negotiating atmosphere rushing towards his face - not letting the other party think, and throwing out a question that needs to be answered instinctively, this is a routine commonly used by veteran negotiators, and it is also very familiar to Lockhart Routine.

"No, it doesn't matter how many people I bring." Lockhart boasted, "We have you in mind, so we took you there in this way."

"What's the difference?" Mrs. Rimington went on.

"For the elderly, we usually do not recommend that the elderly over the age of 60 use morphing, entourage morphing, or door keys, mainly because they are worried that their bones cannot bear the pressure of morphing.

For example, Nicolas Flamel (Nicole Lemay) in France, although he lived to be nearly [-] years old, due to osteoporosis, he has long been unable to show his appearance, and he can't even shake hands.If you don't believe it, you can ask the Prime Minister, he should have some experience of the pressure that the appearance brings. "

Seeing Mrs. Rimington looking at him, Major shrugged, confirming what Lockhart said.

"It's true, it felt like being roughly shoved into a tube-like, my bones were about to be crushed."

Although Mrs. Rimington is only 8 years older than me, she is still regarded as a "young man". This fact undoubtedly makes the Prime Minister feel happy from body to heart

In contrast, Mrs. Rimington was not in a very good mood.

"I'm only 59 years old this year." She said with a gloomy face, "Since that's more convenient, let's follow the old rules and let's show up."

"Why? The Floo Network Management Center has clearly opened a passage for this fireplace." Lockhart wanted to get him, "We just need to get into the fireplace and warm it for a few seconds..."

"I said one by one, use the "revealing" that you took the Prime Minister to, and don't bother you to open any network. "

Mrs. Rimington repeated her request for the appearance of her entourage again, and the tone was so strong that it cannot be questioned. Lockhart even smelled a dangerous breath from it,

So he decisively stopped discussing this topic, and then took out a blank sheet of paper.

"Temporarily canceled, we will manifest in the past."

He wrote a line of words on it and folded it to form an airplane.

With the Prime Minister and Lady Rimington watching, Lockhart came to the fireplace.

"Flaming...ahem...God, how long has your fireplace been useless? The firewood is so wet it looks like it was freshly cut from the tree."

After being choked by the smoke, Lockhart couldn't help complaining.

"It was indeed just cut down." The Prime Minister said with a smile, "We haven't used a fireplace for a long time, and there are electric heaters in the office."

Lockhart shook his head, took out a little Floo powder and sprinkled it on the fireplace, all the while Mrs Rimington was watching him closely, wanting to see what tricks he was up to.

"Ministry of Magic Floo Network Management Office!"

He yelled, and then threw the plane into the fireplace, and the rising green flames instantly engulfed the paper plane.

Although he did deliberately use this method to divert the old lady's attention, in order to prevent the other party from continuing to question her aggressively.

Seeing that Mrs. Rimington was no longer speaking, Lockhart drew his wand.

"Okay, since you insist, please come within two meters of me, and be careful not to let the corners of your clothes go out of the circle..."

After another whirlwind "drilling" trip, Lockhart brought two distinguished guests to "Jack Pea" in Hogsmeade Village

Unlike the Prime Minister who hid in the bushes to vomit, Mrs. Rimington continued to stand at attention, as if she was demonstrating to Lockhart.

But Lockhart knew that it was almost impossible for someone who experienced apparation for the first time to adapt immediately.

"Although drinking early in the morning is not very good, the wizard's wine is different. It can make the two of you more sober.The second game may take more than ten hours, so for this game, let us find a quiet place and watch it from a high place! ' he suggested.

Mrs. Rimington suppressed the discomfort in her stomach, and nodded reservedly, expressing her agreement.