Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

However, the moment they made up their minds, the American Ilvermorni warriors finally rushed back, and they saw the task board in front of Fudge's divination hut at a glance.

"Wait a minute!" Bout shouted to the two, "Excuse me, can you leave this task to us?"

Cedric turned his head back, with some hesitation on his face.

"Sorry, this is a matter of honor to the school," he replied.

"Yes, but you are already the first, right?" The warriors of Ilvermorny tried to negotiate, "We do have a way to catch the invisible monster, but you don't seem to guarantee that you will be able to catch it."

"But that's better than giving it to you," Harry pointed out.

"No, no, no..." Bout shook his hand again and again, "Don't forget, we need to collect all the materials for this divination, and we can only get the "complete" prophecy. If we lose one material, we can only get the "incomplete" one. 'Prophecy. Under the circumstances that you have already guaranteed that you can get the first place, it is in our common interest to entrust this most insignificant task that you cannot guarantee to complete to us."

Both Cedric and Harry are honest people. Hearing what he said, the two felt that it seemed to be the same.

Is it true that Mang Jixingyi can't block the prophecy of the invisible monster? "Harry asked again.

"Absolutely not." Cedric shrugged. The mangji suit was made of the fur of invisible monsters. "

As soon as he said that, Harry understood—it was impossible to stop it.

"Then I'll leave it to you, you have two hours," he said.

The warriors of Ilvermorny were overjoyed and hurriedly took this task away from Fudge.

And Fudge didn't care too much about it—because he knew what the third game was, so he naturally knew that the number 0 really didn't mean much to the third game, maybe its only function was to make up the current number [-]. The results of Mangjizo's fortune-telling at the end of the two games"

Of course, Harry and Cedric don't know yet, although ordinary invisibility cloaks can't block the prophecy of the invisible beast, but Harry's one can.

Because Harry's invisibility cloak is a "Deathly Hallows", although it may not be made by the rumored god of death, its magical ability is indeed extremely powerful.

Although it can't block the sound, and it can't block Moody's blue magic eye that I don't know how to get, but it is unique in blocking the prying of fate such as divination.

In fact, when Harry said that he wanted to take the Invisibility Cloak just now, Dumbledore was actually ready to stand up and stop him, because he didn't want to expose the existence of the Deathly Hallows because of such a small game.

The warriors of Ilvermorny dared to accept this task, and they naturally had their confidence. The ancestors of the Boot family were the founders of the "Cat and Leopard Academy" in Ilvermorny, and Boot also brought his own magic weapon- --Piece added by cat leopard's eyeball after death

Artifacts from work.

With this thing, he is sure that he can find the hiding place of the invisible monster.

Chapter 330 Negotiations End

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the warriors of Ilvermorny finally returned to Hogsmeade.Considering the long duration of the competition, the organizer had to leave a rest period for the spectators and tourists, and this period of time was just for Hogsmeade to sell some things, such as drinks and lunch.

But for Lockhart and his distinguished guests, these final hours were a time for bargaining.

Sometimes "confiding to the other party" is not a bad choice in negotiation. After both parties understand each other's needs, the speed of negotiation can be greatly accelerated.

But the premise is that both parties have a minimum level of trust.

Lockhart claimed that although he graduated from Oxford University, it is not fake, but it should be said that he has never been to Oxford in this world. He mentioned this just to show that he can understand the way of thinking of the prime minister, and he also hopes that they can treat civil servants with the same attitude. treat yourself.

Of course, the prime minister would not fail to understand the implication. He finally straightened his mind and started negotiating with Lockhart with a more normal attitude.

First of all, the government must gain some control over wizards in order to be completely relieved of the wizarding world, which is a certainty;

Generally speaking, the methods used by the government to control citizens are nothing more than violent intimidation, control of income channels, and instilling common ideas.

But none of these three have any effect on wizards.

Thanks to Lockhart's misleading, both Major and Mrs. Rimington thought that wizards could conjure food out of thin air, and the pea yellow dessert made with the fruit of "Jack Pea" seemed to prove this point.

Since wizards cannot be controlled from food, if wizards want to hide their

In other words, the government also needs to spend a lot of money to find wizards, and there is a high probability that they will not be able to catch them, so violence is difficult to work.

As for the common ideas... Not to mention the huge differences in life and common sense between the two sides, didn't Muggles persecute wizards because of religion?As long as the state religion in England is still the Protestant Anglican Church, I am afraid that wizards will not regard Muggles as their own.

So at present, the Prime Minister feels that the only thing he can control is the income of wizards.

"Whether it is oil or pharmaceutical trade, as long as it passes through our hands, it must be taxed. This is our bottom line." Major declared with a straight face.

Originally, he was still thinking about how to educate or fool the wizards so that they understand the importance of paying taxes.But since Lockhart graduated from Oxford, it is impossible for him to understand the meaning.

Lockhart knew that this step was inevitable, but he still had to bargain: "But the registration place of the Sniff Drilling Company is the Cayman Islands, and the Extraordinary Pharmacy is the Virgin Islands.

"In this case, it will be difficult for me to fight for parliamentary authority for you. In the British Empire, rights and obligations are always equal." Major insisted, "Don't you want to say that your oil company did not take advantage of the government in the process of making profits?" Departmental resources, right?"

Lockhart still didn't see rabbits and didn't spread eagles: ""This kind of "occupation of resources" is better than "passive acceptance", and our activities will only bring benefits to London's trading center. "

Of course, this level of stubbornness was not enough to make the Prime Minister give up. He immediately brought up the loopholes in Lockhart's words and pointed out the biggest loophole in the "normalization of wizards".

"Then why do you still insist on forming a parliament? Don't forget, you haven't even registered your household registration," he said.

If paying taxes isn't unacceptable to wizards, the election of the House of Commons

household registration is a complete dead end

It is impossible for the Ministry of Magic to hand over all the names and places of origin of the wizards to the Muggle government, even if the Muggle government declares it to be confidential.

But if it doesn't pay, it will be difficult for the government to reassure the wizards, and Major has no way to explain to other citizens and opposition parties why a Hogsmeade village that has never been heard of has two large companies registered overseas, and There are still 1 voters, all of whom support the Conservative Party.

"Let's forge a household registration file." Lockhart suggested without blushing and heartbeat: "Anyway, we keep it ourselves, and the government only needs to claim that there is a backup.

Of course it was impossible for Major to agree to this absurd request. After the two had been arguing for a long time, Lockhart finally decided to hand over 20 or so "guarantors" and hand over their files to the Muggle government for sealing. problems, the government can hold them accountable.

These 20 people were planned by Lockhart a long time ago - 15 of them are members of the Lions, and most of them are members of the Order of the Phoenix, and the other five are from the "Golden Hand" family, especially Lucius. Malfoy, he said that he would very much like to find a chance to see Her Majesty the Queen.

Lockhart had to make it happen before the Dark Mark on his arm became more apparent.

As for taxes, Lockhart really had no choice.

Because the trading center and customs in London have their transaction records and delivery records, and chain pharmacies also have purchase records, so they have no way to escape this part of the "UK value-added tax (VAT)" even if they want to.

The only thing Lockhart could fight for was Major's preferential policies for Hogsmeade. Although the Prime Minister didn't make any guarantees about it, fortunately there were interests involved, and Lockhart believed that he would do it with all his heart.

As for security, Lockhart sold Sirius out of the blue.

Spellgreen helped us train an agent—yes, the idiot. "He kicked Sirius out as he spoke, "Please assign him the most dangerous mission. "

Although he hesitated for a while, after thinking about it carefully, Lockhart realized that there was not much information that Sirius could reveal to the Muggles.

Of course, "Mrs. M" will definitely extract as much information from Sirius as possible when training Sirius, and will also use the "repeated mention" method to judge whether Sirius is telling the truth, but Lockhart don't care.

Because it has only been a year since Sirius came out of Azkaban, and he was still working as a dog here in Hogsmeade for less than half of the time. The current economy and politics of the wizarding world have a relatively comprehensive understanding. Even if information can be revealed, it should be the kind that is scratched and scratched.

The Aurors also have some shares in the oil company. If Sirius can't complete a task, he can use money to find them to do some private work, which should be okay.

After reaching the two key agreements of political and security cooperation, such as the acquisition of the CityLink courier company, providing medical and nursing services to the royal family, and helping to contact Irish wizards to influence local policies and other "little things", the two parties did not bargain any more. Just discuss it directly and let the commissioner do it.

The first more formal political meeting between wizards and Muggles came to an end in such a relatively harmonious atmosphere.

Because Fudge was still flatteringly being his "divinator", so Lockhart did not tell him about the agreement with the Muggle Prime Minister, lest Minister Fudge, who is busy with everything, need to worry about such trivial matters .

Chapter 330 Settlement of Chapter 2

Under Fudge's "one-force auspices", the warriors made the final settlement.

Ilvermorny, who got the second place in the last round, fell from No.2 in the first round to the fifth place now due to poor runes, and only scored 2+0 points in total;

After taming the unicorn, Beauxbaton managed to get the red hair of the five-legged monster again, and scored 1+5 points, ranking fourth, the same as at the end of the previous round.

Although Waggadu performed poorly in the last round, they scored 3+4 points and jumped to the third position by virtue of their excellent ability to deform the human body;

Durmstrang rose one place from the third place in the previous round. In this round, he had an intellectual contest with Hydra and scored a full 9 points;

As the host, Hogwarts still won a big victory, they scored 8+6 points, and their first position is still unshakable.

After getting the materials handed in by the warriors, Fudge started his own "divination"

"Ah, warriors, your plea has been rewarded by fate—the holiness of unicorn hair tells me that the opponent you face is evil."

Several warriors were noncommittal about this—if the "plot" is followed, the existence that can attract so many demons and ghosts to the small village must not be a kind person, and they can guess this without even divination.

It can be seen that in this trial, the hair of the unicorn is really not very important.

In divination, the number 1 also represents the meaning of "beginning". The only function of this material is to lead the warriors to start their adventures.

The 2 represented by the horned camel represents tranquility and intuition.

"The horned camel powder tells me that the peace of these souls is disturbed, and

The things that disturb them come from there

With that deliberately pretentious and unpredictable tone, Fudge pointed to the distance.

All the warriors looked in the direction he pointed, and found that the direction he pointed was actually the castle of Hogwarts.

Come on, it looks like we're going to attack Hogwarts. ’ the warriors of Ilvermorny joked.

"In other words, the third game is at Hogwarts?" Harry asked sensitively

This didn't feel very good to him, because he always regarded Hogwarts as his home, even if he knew he was acting, he didn't want it to be said to be a place of evil.

"No, no, no..." Fudge hurriedly corrected him: "The position of the third game should be in the middle...I mean, the third adventure of the warriors will start on the journey to the castle, and the fourth adventure will be in the middle." Outside the castle, the fifth adventure will enter the castle."

After hearing what he said, the people from the Sports Department of the Ministry of Magic covered their faces in pain.

Minister, you spoiled it!

The reason why everyone uses this method to unfold the adventure journey one by one "chapter" is not just to learn the routine of serial novels in newspapers - breaking chapters

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String five games into one story, and at the same time leave a suspense or foreshadowing at the end of the previous story, so as to arouse the interest of the audience so that they can continue to watch the next game. This is what everyone has discussed. It turned out that Fudge's big mouth actually directly stated the positions of the next three games. This is purely to increase the difficulty of everyone's work.

No way, who made him the minister.

After Fudge finished speaking, he also knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly continued divination in an attempt to change the subject

"Next came the eggshell of the rune snake...it told me that the evil

The author was originally a noble and charming person.The feather of the Witchbird revealed to me a secret, that is to be careful of the betrayal from behind the warrior. "

When he said this, Fudge paused, and smiled with satisfaction seeing the puzzled expressions on the faces of the warriors, and then threw a big bomb.

"—As for the five-legged monster's hair, it told me that in the next adventure, a fierce conflict will break out between you warriors!"

As soon as these words came out, the warriors scanned their surroundings almost instinctively, and vigilantly distanced themselves from the people from the other schools.

"Could it be a duel? We're not afraid," Harry whispered to Cedric.

Cedric nodded silently—as the duel champions of Hogwarts senior and junior groups, even if warriors from other schools are also proficient in this skill, they are not afraid.

Also buzzing are the spectators watching the game -- if they can see the Warriors duel in Game [-], then it's definitely worth the price of admission.

Seeing that his words aroused everyone's "enthusiastic response", Fudge was very satisfied with the effect of his words. At this moment, he even forgot that the author of this "script killing" was not him, but Lockhart.

He no longer kept secrets, but revealed all the remaining "divination results".

"The blood of the salamander tells me that after you have experienced friction with each other, you need to cooperate to fight against the powerful enemy in the adventure; the reaction of the acromantula venom shows that you are very likely to encounter it in future adventures. The test of "morality"; as for the scales of the hydra - you must have a very firm will in order to have the final victory over the powerful enemy. "

He finished the results of these divinations in one breath, and then waited for the warriors to continue asking questions.

he question.

"Wait...then?" asked the Ilvermorny champion in confusion. "What does the invisible monster's fur represent?"

If he didn't remind him, maybe Fudge would really forget about it, but he wouldn't show it.

"As for the secret represented by 9', it involves whether your adventure will defeat the "true evil" or the "superficial devil" but since you have brought it, you might as well tell you that it is invisible The strange fur said that the instigator of the disaster in Hogsmeade is actually someone else, and you need to work very hard to collect evidence to find the real culprit behind the scenes."

"What, and a hidden ending?" Harry blurted out.

"Yes, it depends on whether you can catch the invisible monster and collect the evidence behind it..."

While talking, Fudge redistributed the divination materials to the warriors: "Take them well, these things will be useful in the third game. As for what they are for, you will know when the time comes."

The warriors looked at each other with the things in their hands, but in the end they shrugged in unison and walked towards the castle together.

In order to obtain these task materials, they hadn't eaten anything after breakfast, and they had a lot of activities in the day, so they were already hungry.

After the negotiation, Lockhart also sent away two distinguished Muggle guests, and made an appointment to establish the Hogsmeade Wizards Council early next year.

While eating, Cedric took an opportunity and told Harry, "We'll go to the Dueling Club to practice tomorrow."

Harry also knew the seriousness of the matter: "Okay."

Chapter 330 Three Training

For Harry, the biggest benefit of being a Hogwarts squire wasn't the limelight, but a reason enough to make all the students ecstatic.