Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

why?

"Because in doing so, the position of the Order of the Phoenix will be opposed to that of the Ministry of Magic," Lockhart explained.

Dumbledore disagreed: "Isn't it? I thought the Ministry of Magic already knew this."

"Alas..." Lockhart didn't know how to persuade him - Dumbledore obviously looked down on the political arena, let alone politicians.

Although Lockhart himself despised Fudge, he was not opposed to an administrative system. If he also opposed this constitution, then all the things he had pursued so far would be invalid.

"I'll find a way to deal with it," Lockhart promised.

Dumbledore didn't ask Lockhart how he planned to solve the problem, he just

Lanerkouhe:

"How long will it take you?" he asked.

Lockhart thought for a moment: "How about next school year?"

Dumbledore frowned: "That means it will take more than half a year... This is too long, and Voldemort can do many things during this period."

"Then when do you wish?"

"I would like to be able to let the students know about this before the exam, so that at least international friends can also be notified."

Lockhart calculated 7 and found that Dumbledore only gave himself three months

"It's quite challenging." Lockhart didn't immediately agree, "And I shouldn't do this kind of thing alone."

"Of course there are challenges, but if a person wants to lead the entire wizarding world forward, he has no next home who can continue to shirk responsibility." Dumbledore hinted

In this way, Lockhart felt that he could not refuse.

"I'll try it." He agreed.

Chapter 280 Seventh Dumbledore Attacking Quietly

When Lockhart left, Dumbledore asked him to call Sirius, because he also wanted to say something to Sirius.

Lockhart suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask what Dumbledore wanted to say

Regardless of whether Dumbledore intends to follow the original plan to find Horcruxes while organizing the Order of the Phoenix to find Death Eaters, or has some new plan, the task Dumbledore gave himself is obvious, that is, to deal with political problems. Propagating and letting wizarding families beware of Death Eaters' sneak attacks in advance, and this task is not without difficulty.

Don't forget, this is a task that the Order of the Phoenix has never been able to accomplish in the original book.Moreover, the Order of the Phoenix also paid a high price because of the lack of cooperation of the Ministry of Magic. Bode was cast with the Imperius Curse and died in the devil's net in St. Mungo's hospital bed; Arthur Weasley was attacked by Nagini, and once Life is dying; and Harry is lured to get the prophecy ball: Sirius saves his urge with his life...

But even so, if everyone hadn't seen Voldemort with their own eyes in the end, making Fudge unable to continue pretending to be confused, it is estimated that even if the Death Eaters lined up to tell him that their master had been resurrected, Fudge would not Can continue to pretend to be confused.

And Fudge wasn't the only one who pretended to be confused—think about it one by one, if the Ministry of Magic had reached a consensus early on, what could a mere Minister of Magic do?And the reason why Fudge can continue to pretend to be confused, and use various means to suppress Hogwarts such as issuing education orders, isn't it because a considerable part of the political forces in the Ministry of Magic support his behavior of pretending to be confused?

And these supporters include some lazy officials, some wise and safe people who are afraid of Voldemort's revenge, and a large number of Fudge's promoted cronies.

Of course, these are not the main ones, the most important ones are those pure-blood family members who have joined the ranks of Death Eaters.

They have property and vassal families at their disposal, and with their financial resources, they can effectively lobby the officials of the Ministry of Magic. For example, Harry accidentally bumped into Lucius Malfoy's suspected bribery before his trial.

Under such circumstances, it is even more difficult to forcefully construct a "consensus" within the Ministry of Magic.

But Lockhart is not completely out of luck—after all, the logic of the officials of the Ministry of Magic pretending to be confused is to "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages", so he only needs to make arrangements for this point, and it is not impossible for him to turn the situation around.And in the process of turning around, Lockhart can also lead a team of his own.

——Order is a barrier that can resist cold and death.

As he thought this, he found Harry.

During the period when he was reporting to Dumbledore, Moody also called all the people who kept the Order of the Phoenix at Hogwarts for a meeting as instructed.

When Lockhart rushed over, Moody was talking to Professor McGonagall and Cedric and Harry themselves.

For some reason, Ron and Hermione were there too.

Although Dumbledore claims to treat everyone equally, at this critical moment, you can still see the closeness and closeness in his heart.Except for people like Snape, the one he chose to disclose at the first time was Professor McGonagall of the Lion Academy, and the other two colleges would probably give it later.

This is not good, to be honest, this is really not good, because it will affect the attitude of the other two academy deans towards the Order of the Phoenix in the future.

Although in the end they all undoubtedly joined the army against Voldemort: but this does not mean that they regard the Order of the Phoenix as "one of their own"-not to mention anything else, if the "Battle of the Seven Potters" If Professor Flitwick could join the battle, perhaps the people in the transfer team wouldn't be so embarrassed at all.

Thinking of this, Lockhart immediately called out, asking Moody to notify him later

In place, at least at the level of all deans.

Moody was a little puzzled: "But they are not members of the Order of the Phoenix."

"But they have a right to know." Lockhart emphasized.

Moody didn't intend to tell the truth to those he didn't trust, but Professor McGonagall took the initiative to take the job. She thought Lockhart was right—the head of Hogwarts should know what happened. what.

Both Harry and Cedric looked very bad at this moment—they realized what they almost encountered just now.

"The mysterious man is back? And you already guessed it?" Ron was very surprised

"It's not 'guessing', but Dumbledore's 'predicting'." Moody corrected his statement, "In fact, we knew that he would be resurrected 13 years ago, but we didn't expect it to be delayed." for so long."

This wasn't good news, especially since Harry thought he was busy enough, even he had a hunch about it.

"My scar has been hurting a lot lately," said Harry suddenly, "and it was getting really sore right at the end of our match."

Seeing that everyone was looking at Harry, Professor McGonagall took the initiative to explain for him: "That's true, Rita Skeeter also published an article on this, saying that our warriors are "insane" and good at using scars as an excuse." Pretending to be poor. "

Speaking of Rita Skeeter, Audio-Technica snorted coldly.

This reporter has recently become famous. Not only did he break the big news that Hagrid is a half-blood giant, but he also vaguely hinted at Madam Maxim's bloodline, which aroused strong protests from Beauxbaton College.

In addition, she is also very talented in mining gossip and gossip. She is most concerned about the private life of the warriors, especially the emotional life. Patton's malicious girls

The "Secret History of Delacour's Debauchery" collected there also angered Fleur, and even Ouagadou was outraged by what she described in the report as "living and thinking stuck in the 15th century". serious protest.

But these are useless, because readers of the "Daily Prophet" or foreign readers like to read these, and these protests from home and abroad have increased the dissemination and controversy of the topic.

The "Daily Prophet" suddenly found that its sales volume increased significantly, and many readers wrote to express their concern for the emotional life of the warriors, and even foreign media asked to reprint it.Under such circumstances, they naturally refused to kick Rita Skeeter out.

They just found a piece of tofu in the newspaper, added a few words such as "the opinions of all parties do not represent the position of this newspaper", and continued to indulge Skeeter's nonsense in disguise.

Everyone felt sick just thinking about it, so they quickly brought this part of the topic to the past.

After explaining the cause and effect of this incident and the recovery of the Order of the Phoenix, Lockhart told Harry that Dumbledore was looking for Sirius, because he knew that only Harry had a two-way communication channel with Sirius.

Harry was curious about the fact that Dumbledore was looking for his godfather.

"What did he want with Sirius?" he asked.

Lockhart could only shrug his shoulders: "I don't know either. Dumbledore didn't tell me, so I didn't ask. He always doesn't like letting one person hold all the secrets."

Harry didn't think much of it, and took out the two-way mirror his godfather had given him.

Unlike the "landline phone" fireplace, this two-way mirror is equivalent to a "mobile phone" in the wizarding world, and it is born with a video call, which has been playing Muggles for hundreds of years.

In the book "Order of the Phoenix", it is clear that Sirius gave the two-way mirror to

Harry, but Harry never used it.He would rather have risked going to Umbridge's office to use the fireplace than think of using the two-way mirror, not even before the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, which is undoubtedly a tragedy - although it is very likely that Harry or Rowling forgot about it.

It doesn't feel good to have a tragedy that could have been avoided happen for a very nonsensical reason.

Not long after, Sirius received Harry's "call" and put down the wine glass in his hand.

Because of the urgent notice from MI5, after cursing for a long time, he still didn't go to the scene to continue watching his godson's game, but went to carry out an urgent task - hijacking

Because this guy has passed the age of learning, so no matter how MI5 trains him in information science, Sirius' progress can only be described as "touching", so in the end Mrs. Rimington also gave up brainwashing him into training. Su's idea of ​​being an agent, and instead let him go to the action team to perform tasks, and then subtly infiltrate him.

Looking at it now, this kind of infiltration was very successful, because if it was the former Sirius, he would never have succumbed to some "national interest" and gave up watching his own godson's game.

It's just being hijacked by terrorists. Why should I solve the problem you Muggles have caused?

But now he came back with the terrorists tied up in a circle and threw them to the interrogation office. Then he lay sprawled on a bench, drinking and bragging with his colleagues.

Had Harry not triggered the two-way mirror, he would have almost forgotten that his godson had participated in the Big Five Tournament.

"What, old... boss called me.! I'll come! I'll come right away!" He was drunk

Say.

Throwing down the two-way mirror, he returned to the bar counter, told his colleagues that he had something to do temporarily, and then took out a wad of pounds to settle the bill for himself and his colleagues. very popular.

In this hijacking case, these agents first tried to delay and negotiate, and successfully dragged the plane until the plane landed due to lack of fuel. Throwing a bottle of Dreamless Sleeping Potion into the plane's air-conditioning system subdued all the robbers on board...and the passengers in an instant.

According to the regulations, Sirius can get a bonus of 5 pounds this time, no wonder he is so generous.

In this way, he came to Dumbledore's headmaster's office drunk, but Dumbledore - a word made him sober.

Dumbledore took out a strange pendant and placed it in front of Sirius.

"Do you know someone with the initials RAB?"

Chapter 380 Eight Brothers Are Not Brothers

This odd-shaped locket didn't surprise Sirius, because it was too rough in workmanship, and it couldn't catch the eyes of his brother.

But the "RAB" that Dumbledore said made Black a little surprised-if I remember correctly, isn't that his younger brother Regulus Alphard Black?

Although Dumbledore was asking him "who is that", I believe that Dumbledore already had the answer in his heart, otherwise he would not have dragged himself from London.

Thinking of this, Sirius opened his mouth.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should mean my brother... but he should be dead."

Dumbledore picked up the rough pendant on the table and fiddled with it for a while, looking thoughtful.

"Dead? Are you sure? I investigated several Death Eaters, and they all said that your brother "disappeared suddenly", and no one suspected him of mutiny before his disappearance."

In this regard, Sirius gave him a 7100% guarantee.

"It's definitely dead." He said with certainty: "My family also has some methods to confirm the status of the clansmen. I'm sure he must be afraid, and when he wanted to quit, he was...

Dumbledore interrupted him: "But you were expelled from the Black family, and as far as I know, you should not know about your mother's death (in 1985), when you were in Azkaban."

Sirius scowled: "Sorry, I know."

"How do you know 0"

"Because 12 Grimmauld Place came to my name, and so did the house-elves, and the goblins at Gringotts wouldn't have given it to me if the family, especially the grannies and pussies, were still there , especially when I was expelled from the clan by the old lady."

After hearing "house elf", Dumbledore heaved a long sigh of relief.

"If that's the case, it's perfect...can you allow me to visit your house? Also, your house elf, I want to talk to it too." He said.

Sirius suddenly showed a disgusted expression: "I don't want to go back there, and it's not my home."

Dumbledore felt that he really didn't like Sirius.

As an old man who only realized how precious they were after losing his family, Dumbledore couldn't understand Sirius' rebellion against the family, let alone the hostility he showed towards his mother and younger brother.

Dumbledore's tone became a little blunt: "Then, can you please take me back to the Black family's ancestral house to have a look? I feel that there may be something very important there."

Sirius agreed without thinking: "I can give you the key,

Just don't make me go back there, I've had enough. "

"Really? Maybe just look at this and you'll change your attitude."

As he spoke, Dumbledore pulled the locket open, revealing a note inside.

"This is?" Sirius showed a curious look.

"Just look at it." Dumbledore ignored him.Sirius quickly took the note and glanced at its contents.

"To the Dark Lord:

I know that I will be dead when you read this letter, but I want you to know that I discovered your secret, and I have taken the real Horcrux and will destroy it as soon as possible.

I'd risk my life for you to meet a mortal of flesh and blood when you hit your opponent

RAB"

After reading the note, Sirius showed an extremely surprised expression for the first time.

"Uh... this is... him? Weak... I mean, my brother Regulus?" Sirius didn't realize that the name he called his brother had quietly changed.

"I'm afraid so." Dumbledore nodded slowly. "I checked all the lists of Death Eaters, and he is the only one whose initials are RAB."

Sirius was so surprised that he couldn't speak, then he looked down at the note again, and after a long time, he couldn't speak again.

"Uh... the lion cub seems to be saying he's found out about Voldemort's secret... um, what's a Horcrux?"