Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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To put it bluntly, he wants Ivan and Harry to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic, but for him, this kind of cooperation will definitely not just stay on a simple level, but wants Ivan and Harry to completely join the Ministry of Magic. If so, it would be best to let the Ministry of Magic manipulate it.

Under the rhododendron bushes, the little goblins began to dig up worms near the roots of the trees.

Soon, it caught one and was pulling it upwards, trying to pull it out of the frozen ground.

"Tell me, what do you two think?" Scrimgeour asked, staring at Ivan.

Because Harry was also looking at Ivan, he knew that it was Ivan who made the decision now and gave him an answer.

"As members of the magic community, we are naturally obliged to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic." Ivan paused and said tactfully, "Excuse me, Mr. Minister, I still don't quite understand what you want the two of us to do , how do you want us to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic?"

"Oh, the content of the cooperation is very simple and not troublesome at all, I assure you both." Scrimgeour said, his breath calmed down, "For example, I remember you have a newspaper, Alvin?"

"Yes, "Hogwarts Magic Newspaper." Ivan said.

"Yes, it is currently the most popular newspaper in the wizarding world. As one of the contents of the cooperation, I think that at this time, the "Hogwarts Wizarding News" should not continue to publish articles that are unfavorable to the Ministry of Magic and cause panic. gone."

"Even if those reports are true?" Ivan asked.

"Nothing is absolutely true, Evan. As I said just now, the key is what people are willing to believe. What they need is not the truth, but what they want to happen and what we show them." Scrimgeour said.

"Okay, Mr. Minister, if this is also an obligation, I will consider it." Ai Wen said, "Is there anything else about the content of cooperation?"

Scrimgeour seemed satisfied with Ivan's attitude, and continued, "Well, speaking of news and publicity, I think it would give a favorable impression if the two of you could visit the Ministry of Magic from time to time. I'm going to send the little Bring Sirius Black back and make him an Auror again. Before that, of course, I think you'd love to talk more with Gadvin Robards, the head of the Auror office who will succeed me, he is An experienced Auror, Harry, I've heard Dolores Umbridge tell me that you aspire to be an Auror, it's easy to arrange..."

Harry didn't answer, feeling jealous: so Umbridge is still at the Ministry?

"Umbridge is still working at the Ministry of Magic?" Ivan asked in surprise.

It wasn't that he doubted that Umbridge would return to the Ministry, but that he was surprised that she had returned to the Ministry so soon.

"That's right, I just came back not long ago." Scrimgeour said indifferently, noticing Harry's expression, "Oh, I know, she did some wrong things at Hogwarts last year, but her personal ability is still very strong Yes, and she has also been taught a lesson, you may not know, she seems to have been tricked by a troll or something..."

He stopped abruptly and didn't continue talking, as if he felt that it was not good to talk to Ivan and Harry about it.

After all, one is 16 years old and the other is 15 years old, and the two cute young wives are not yet adults, so some topics are still too heavy.

Scrimgeour smiled awkwardly, trying to hide it, "In short, basically, I hope to see the two of you have more positive interactions with the Ministry of Magic, and participate more in the activities of the Ministry. Inspiring……"

Chapter 1411

"So basically, you want to give people the impression that we work for the Ministry?" Harry asked.

At this point in the conversation, he finally understood Scrimgeour's true intentions.

The other party hoped that he and Ivan would come out to speak for the Ministry of Magic and change the wizards' impression of the Ministry of Magic, as if they were mascots that would bring good luck.

"It would be encouraging to see both of you more involved," Scrimgeour said eagerly, as if relieved that Ivan and Harry had grasped his words so quickly, "Savior , Dumbledore's successors, you understand...it is to give people hope and make people feel that exciting things are happening..."

"I still don't understand a little bit." Ivan said, "If this is the content of the cooperation, what is the use of us doing this besides giving everyone confidence in the Ministry of Magic? I mean, how do you plan to fight Voldemort?" and the Death Eaters?"

"The most important thing now is confidence and hope, Aiwen, the Aurors will catch the devil and the Death Eaters." Scrimgeour said, frowning slightly, "The most important thing to do now is to convince people , we can defeat that devil who can't even mention his name..."

To put it bluntly, there is nothing left to do, faith and hope alone cannot defeat Voldemort.

Ivan shook his head. If the Ministry of Magic continues to follow the current practice, I am afraid that the hope that has just risen will soon be exhausted.

By then, his and Harry's reputations would be as bad as the Ministry of Magic is now.

Looking at Scrimgeour, Ivan insisted on his previous judgment. He suddenly felt that the once-famous Auror had become a politician after becoming the Minister of Magic. Even if he really wanted to defeat Voldemort, but at that Before that, he had to consider saving his precarious ministerial position.

How to improve the impression, Scrimgeour needs to do something that will win people's support but is actually useless, typical politician thinking.

That's why he came to invite Ivan and Harry to work for the Ministry of Magic instead of really looking for a solution to the problem.

Thinking about it, Scrimgeour probably wouldn't believe that Ivan and Harry would have any good solutions to the problem.

"If Ivan and I do what you say, will it make people feel that we agree with the Ministry's approach?" Harry said, trying to maintain a friendly tone, but he was very impressed with Scrimgeour's request and his answer just now. dissatisfied.

"Uh, of course." Scrimgeour said, "I can understand what you are worried about, but please believe that the current approach of the Ministry of Magic is absolutely effective, and we will eventually defeat that demon who cannot even be named Yes, since 15 years ago..."

The failure of Voldemort 15 years ago seems to have nothing to do with the Ministry of Magic.

"Sorry, Mr. Minister, I don't know what Ivan thinks, but I can't." Harry interrupted Scrimgeour, making up his mind and trying to be as polite as possible, "I won't accept your offer." Request because I don't like some of the things the Ministry of Magic is doing right now, like jailing Stan Sampak."

Scrimgeour didn't speak for a moment, but his face immediately sank.

"I don't expect you to understand this matter," Scrimgeour said patiently, but there was still an inadvertent trace of anger in his words, "but as I said before, I hope you understand, Harry, that the situation is dangerous now." , certain measures are necessary."

"So you put Stan Sampak in Azkaban as a scapegoat and us as gods of good fortune?!"

Scrimgeour fell silent. He and Harry stared at each other for a long time, seeming to see the determination in Harry's eyes.

"Okay, okay." He retreated, turned his head to look at Aiwen, "Aiwen, what do you mean?"

"Harry's answer is my answer." Ivan said, "but I am still willing to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic."

"How to cooperate?" Scrimgeour frowned.

"I have some suggestions here. For example, Stan Sampak should be released immediately. This has no meaning except to make people more desperate for the Ministry of Magic; in addition, revise the rules for werewolves, vampires, giants, centaurs, and house elves as soon as possible. They are our potential allies, but what we are doing now is pushing them to Voldemort." Ivan said, "Also, I suggest that we increase efforts to clean up and rectify the underground world of Knockturn Alley; Well, if..."

Aiwen made more than a dozen suggestions in a row, and Scrimgeour's complexion became worse and worse.

There are many suggestions here that Dumbledore told him before, but they were rejected by him. He doesn't know if he can defeat Voldemort by following these suggestions, but in a short period of time, the Ministry of Magic will definitely fall into a huge crisis. In controversy, the Ministry of Magic did not do this even during the last war.

"Finally, Mr. Minister, I suggest that you should have a sincere talk with Dumbledore," Ivan said.

"Well, if that's your suggestion, I'll consider it," said Scrimgeour perfunctorily. "About cooperation?"

"What I just said is the content of cooperation." Ivan said, "It is also the premise for us to serve the Ministry of Magic."

"Is that so?" Scrimgeour said, but his tone was no longer so friendly. "It can be seen that you two very much hope, like Dumbledore, your hero, to leave the Ministry of Magic?"

"I don't want to leave the Ministry, but I don't want to be used either," said Harry.

"Some would say it's your duty to serve the Ministry!"

"Yes, some would say it's your duty to find out if someone is a Death Eater before you put him in jail," said Harry, getting angry, "but you haven't, in my opinion, You're doing the same thing as Barty Crouch. You've never done it right, either Fudge, people get killed right under his nose and pretend it's all right, or you, imprisoning innocents and killing Alvin Work with me for you, pretend I'm some kind of savior..."

"Aren't you?" asked Scrimgeour, startled.

"Didn't you say it wasn't important?" Harry said, laughing sarcastically, "at least not to you."

"I shouldn't have said that," said Scrimgeour at once. "The wording is inappropriate..."

"No, this is very honest." Harry said quickly, "I think this is one of the few truths you have said since you met us. You don't care about the life and death of Ivan and I, and you don't want to adopt what Ivan said That advice, what you need is for us to help you convince people that you're in Voldemort, make your position stronger, because..."

"Okay, Harry!" Ivan said, stopping the furious Harry, "Sorry, Mr. Minister, we can't agree to the request for cooperation. To be honest, I want to do my best to serve the Ministry of Magic, but I don't want to do useless work .”

He was not very optimistic about the Ministry of Magic. It is impossible to expect them to defeat Voldemort. However, if Scrimgeour is willing to believe in him, he can save a lot of trouble, speed up the current progress, and let the balance of victory in the war be on their side. Tilt a little, but now it seems that this is probably impossible...

Chapter 1412 Drinking milk and going back to school

Scrimgeour's requests were all unilateral, and he hoped that Ivan and Harry would help him, giving the wizards the impression that the situation was still under the control of the Ministry of Magic, but he refused to adopt Ivan's suggestions, and also There is nothing to exchange.

At least, in Ivan's view, the current Ministry of Magic has nothing to impress him.

Naturally, his request could not be agreed by Ivan, Harry or Dumbledore.

After this effort failed, Scrimgeour tried to inquire about Dumbledore's plans and whereabouts, but was also rejected by Ivan and Harry. In the end, he left a sentence that Ivan and Harry were "Dumbledore's people through and through." " evaluation, he said goodbye and left.

Obviously, in the eyes of Scrimgeour, Dumbledore and his people are part of the people who are against the Ministry of Magic.

In a sense, it is the "enemy".It's unclear how Scrimgeour formed this wrong impression, but looking at his and Percy's figures, Ivan felt that the Medal of the Order of Merlin, First Class, had nothing to do with him.

Scrimgeour and Percy's visits make the joyful mood created by Christmas disappear quickly.

Mrs. Weasley cried from time to time now, and the slightest thing made her sad.

She had been like this ever since Fred, George, and Ron splashed parsnip root jam on their glasses and rushed out of the house on Christmas Day, regardless of Fred, George, and Ron. Personal apologies are useless.

Even the fact that everyone was going back to Hogwarts after the holidays was over made her worry.

No, that seemed to be the one thing that worried her most.

"Don't cry, Mom, it's okay..." Ginny said, patting her on the back.

Mrs. Weasley put her arms around Ginny, sobbing on her shoulder.

"Don't worry about Percy, he's just a stupid pig and not worth worrying about, is he?" said Ron.

Mrs Weasley's answer was to put her arms around him, and sob even harder.

No matter who it is, even if outsiders such as Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine went to persuade, Mrs. Weasley's reaction would be the same.

She would hold everyone and cry for a while, and then repeatedly told them to take good care of themselves at school.

She was just too worried, worried about everyone, too tense.

The minister's visit, Mrs. Weasley's sensitive reaction and the coming to an end of the holidays made everyone's hearts heavy.

The only consolation was the letter from Sirius, which was delivered by a very tired owl on the second day of the new year.

In the letter, he briefly talked about the current situation. Because of the need to keep it confidential, he didn't go into details, but from a few words, it can be seen that "Raven's Claw" is very difficult to deal with, and his actions are related to whether he can defeat Voldemort. , is a big deal.

To be more precise, it has something to do with understanding and defeating evil gods.

Regarding this major event, Ivan was a little puzzled, what exactly did Sirius discover?

The letter didn't say that Sirius couldn't be asked in a short time.

It seems that we can only ask Dumbledore.

In addition, Sirius does not seem to plan to return to England in the short term, which is also Dumbledore's request.

In it he asked everyone if they liked his Christmas present, which he ordered months ago...

In the final days of the holiday, the conversation centered on the house-elf homeland and the big things Sirius was up to.

One evening a few days after New Year's Eve, Alvin, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Elaine, and Ginny lined up by the kitchen fire to return to Hogwarts.

A one-time Floo connection has been arranged by the Ministry of Magic to allow students to return to school quickly and safely.

Only Mrs. Weasley saw them off, and Mr. Weasley, Fred, George, Bill and Fleur were all at work.

When saying goodbye, she wept again, hugging everyone one by one, and asked them worriedly.

Even to Elaine, whom she just met, she talked a lot.

From Mrs. Weasley's point of view, Elaine's biggest problem at present is that she is too thin.She didn't care if Elaine was a vampire or not. Anyway, she had a bad habit of drinking only dragon's blood. This Christmas holiday, under Mrs. Weasley's strong request, she got into the habit of drinking milk before going to bed.

Of course, a little blood still needs to be added to the milk to suit her taste and to drink it...

However, this bit of blood is not dragon blood.

Elaine said that dragon blood is food, and it contains too much magic power, so it is not good to drink it before going to bed, so there must be a substitute.

But why, this substitute will be Aiwen's blood?

Ivan asked, and Elaine's answer was, first of all, she was not interested in the blood of other animals at all; second, there was no magic power in his blood, so there was no need to worry about indigestion; finally, it was the taste, which she liked very much. It is also a point that Ivan cannot refute.

Ever since the last Night Raid bit him in bed, she couldn't forget the smell of him.

Ivan was very skeptical. Did she agree to Mrs. Weasley's request to drink a glass of milk every night, was she trying to trick his blood?

In order to prevent himself from being attacked suddenly, Ivan finally agreed to add a drop of blood to Elaine's milk every night.

This amount of blood was nothing to him at all, but it felt weird.It's as if he is really raising a vampire. Although he has been raising a vampire for a long time, buying dragon blood with gold gallon and feeding it with his own blood are completely different feelings, okay? !

But if you don't pay this little blood, you won't support Elaine drinking milk to grow her body.In addition, be careful of her attack. Elaine will not really bite Ivan's skin, but there is no problem at all in his mouth. Imagine that feeling, being suddenly dragged by an Elaine Hold on tight...

Give her some blood, after witnessing Elaine's "attack", even Hermione persuaded Ivan in this way.

This is something that cannot be argued at all. Elaine is a vampire and has this privilege.She didn't really want to suck Ivan's blood, but she needed to mix it with milk for seasoning. This has nothing to do with whether it is evil or not, and it has nothing to do with whether it is ethical or not. It is entirely the vampire Elaine's personal hobby.

Before leaving, Mrs. Weasley also asked Elaine to drink milk on time when she returned to school, so that she would grow taller.

Elaine readily accepted this, and I don't know if she really likes drinking milk or the condiments in the milk?

Anyway, until Elaine gets bored with milk or grows physically, Alvin has a lot of tasks and responsibilities...

The next time you see Keresis, make sure the guy pays for a big meal.

In addition, Mrs. Weasley told Ivan to take care of himself, watch Harry and Ron, and don't let them get into trouble.

Ivan agreed, said goodbye to Mrs. Weasley, walked into the fireplace of the Burrow, and took a last look at the kitchen of the Weasley family and Mrs. Weasley's tears.

In an instant, he was surrounded by flames...

Chapter 1413 Apparition Course

On the last day of the holiday, the students returned to Hogwarts one after another, and the castle became lively again.