A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 687: Letter
The next day, the day after the magic world was exposed, the Ministry of Magic.
Felix, Amelia Burns, and Sirius walked into a small conference room, where they had just turned their heads after a meeting with senior officials of the Ministry of Magic. In the conference room were the former members of the Order of the Phoenix.
"Where's Kingsley?" Heska Jones, with dark hair and rosy cheeks, asked lively.
"He was ordered to protect the safety of the Prime Minister." Ms. Burns said: "We cannot guarantee that Grindelwald or the Saints will take the opportunity to find trouble. His role in the next period of time will be critical."
"Ah, is Kingsley going to be the Prime Minister's secretary again?" Hestia Jones said in surprise. (especially after the Prime Minister's assistant at the time had already been under the Imperius Curse, which was not successful), Kingsley was sent to perform this task. Without knowing it, the Prime Minister felt that his work efficiency was comparable to that of two people. Very satisfied.
Of course, the Prime Minister himself was very surprised when he learned the truth.
"So the Muggle Prime Minister is on our side?" Moody asked gruffly.
Ms. Burns said cautiously: "He promised to try his best to achieve a peaceful outcome, but we cannot take it lightly. He alone cannot control the situation. It is easy to start a war, everyone. Any fool can do it, but peace But it is not easy to come by, it needs hard planning.”
"Well said." Sirius slapped twice.
Felix was thinking about another thing. At present, no one knows where Grindelwald is. Devo hid in the dark, waiting for the situation to be chaotic, so that he could take the opportunity to climb up and seize the power of the magic world.
Felix didn't see Grindelwald either, but he saw Rozier, who was once again aliased as Nicole Noel, in Hogsmeade. Vita Rozier refused to disclose the traces of Grindelwald, and it may She didn't even know it herself.
As the second person of the saints, she has two missions: one is to serve as a transit point for members of the saints, collecting information from all directions; the other is to teach Felix how to disguise himself as Grindelwald flawlessly .
"Since everyone is temporarily joining the Ministry of Magic," Ms. Burns looked around, "I'm not being too polite, I really need people urgently now
—First things first, the Panmagic League. Felix agreed to let the "Future World" company cooperate, with Lupine in charge. "
Lupine nodded, took a deep breath and said firmly, "Leave it to me."
"Bill will follow you, he knows goblins well." Ms. Burns continued, and Bill in the seat said seriously: "And Fleur,
She has long wanted to join the Order of the Phoenix. "" Yes, you can arrange it yourself. The second thing is to go out. Before the negotiation results come out, the Ministry of Magic will adopt a shrinking strategy. Ordinary people should stay at home as much as possible, and the Ministry of Magic will send special personnel to check the defense measures of each family—"
"Do you want us to do this too? You're overqualified." Mundungus asked as if he hadn't woken up.
"No need." Ms. Burns said with a straight face: "You are in charge of another matter, monitoring, patrolling and warning all kinds of gray areas in the country. All transactions are suspended, of course, you just need to lead the way, this should not be difficult for you, right?"
"This, this..." Mundungus was sober and said with a bitter face, "You can't ruin my job."
"Is smuggling, theft, and black market trading your job?" Moody yelled at him.
Mundungus shyly avoided his sight, lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "What do I do, you don't know how many times you caught me before you retired? It's over now, even The ban is lifted, and no one will be willing to do business with me anymore"
"A Medal of Merlin, Second Class." Ms. Burns said bluntly.
Mundungus' eyes lit up. During the last war, he didn't get anything. There's nothing he can do about it. His contribution is too little, and there's no way to put some credit on the table. Unlike others present, they basically all received rewards after the battle.
"If that's the case..." His attitude softened, and he seemed quite moved. Sirius "chi chi" laughed out loud, Burns glared at him, "You continue to be my secretary."
"I refuse," Sirius said carelessly, "I'm going on a field trip."
Ms. Burns ignored him, "The third thing, I need some people to go abroad to listen to the outside world, including the thoughts of the local wizarding people,
The non-magic world's attitude towards wizards and so on. "
"Are you worried that the conflict is coming from abroad?" Lupine asked shrewdly.
"That's right. Our representatives at the federation are sending back a steady stream of news," Ms. Burns said solemnly, "but unfortunately,
As far as I know, most of them have adopted a conservative strategy. "As she spoke, she glanced at Felix. If she hadn't suffered the mental shock of Lian Fan before, she would have been psychologically prepared for the exposure crisis of the wizarding world. I am afraid that she would be the same as the choice of those ministers of magic now-active contraction , and leave it to fate.
'The word resignation may be a bit exaggerated, but apart from them, there is no second Ministry of Magic that actively embraces changes. The most radical thing they do is to re-discover the proposals she submitted before, and then hold a meeting to discuss . It is estimated that it will take two or three months until the results come out.
"The living environment of wizards in each region is different." Ms. Burns explained: "The relationship between wizards in America and the local government is not harmonious, and the two sides lack a basis for mutual trust; the situation in Africa is more complicated because of differences in language and customs. Multiple functions are comparable to the Ministry of Magic, but the actual size of the wizarding autonomous organization is much smaller. Don't expect them to reach a consensus in the short term"
After finishing the business, Ms. Burns relaxed, and everyone talked in twos and threes.
"Where are Harry and the others?" Lupine asked Felix, "I saw you take them into a conference room when I came."
"That's right," Sirius straightened his body and rolled his eyes, "Why don't you assign Harry to me, and we will go on missions together. Apart from his poor experience, this kid's fighting ability is not much weaker than mine."
Felix glanced at him, Harry's current strength has completely surpassed Sirius, and Sirius is purely putting money on his face.
He said slowly: "Don't think about it, they have a lot of homework to do."
"Homework?" Sirius widened his eyes, seemingly confused.
"Yeah, they're charged with breaking down the barrier between wizards and non-wizards," said Felix, exchanging glances with Ms. Burns, remembering last night's rent at Rita Skeeter. Conversations in the apartment.
After being in close contact with the tornado incident in front of the Parliament Building, Rita Skeeter took half a day off on the grounds of being frightened. The reporters are very tolerant (even if it is not, they will be made into it). They think this is a historic event comparable to the third type of contact, and they are going to create a series of hot news around her.
In fact, however, Rita Skeeter was indeed frightened, but it was not because she was "hit by a wizard's spell" as her superiors thought, but because the wizarding world was completely exposed. understand what happened.
"You have to stay, Rita." After hearing about her bizarre experience, Felix said happily: "Next, you will have a lot of opportunities to get access to confidential information, not on paper— You have a keen insight into people's hearts and know what they want. I hope you will continue to use your talents to dig out their true thoughts from the mouths of people from all walks of life. Also, in the next report involving wizards Moderate, impartial, and take a neutral attitude.”
"I can't influence the high-level decision-making." The expression on Rita Skeeter's face was half expectant and half ugly. She scratched her chin with her long nails, and said slyly, "Unless you allow me to use magic."
"We're not going to do that," Ms. Burns snapped.
Rita Skeeter rolled her eyes and turned to look at Felix. Felix thought about it and said: "The hidden danger of using magic to change people's hearts is too great. This is not an isolated incident. In modern society, people have established various connections with each other. A sudden change of attitude will arouse suspicion, especially at this time. We would rather trouble A little bit, the situation is not that urgent."
"What if the situation is urgent and urgent?" Rita Skeeter pressed.
"You have to think about one question, who holds the power?" Felix gave her a meaningful look, "Do your job well, and you will become a legend among reporters."
Rita Skeeter was deep in thought, she didn't feel angry, she knew what she wanted.
"How are you going to influence the attitude of the newspaper executives?" Skeeter asked shrewdly: "I have to know, so that I can cooperate with you, right?"
"You've gained some fame in the banning guns series, put it to good use, and that Ilvermorny wizard who put you in a petrified spell,
I know you can't wait to scold him, but he actually created an excellent condition for you, so let's put away the resentment for now... Well, our original plan was to send some basic information to the newspaper to understand It was the first step to take down my guard, but I suddenly had a better idea, and I had some enthusiastic students on hand who were more than happy to help. "
"Okay, I want to see..." Rita Skeeter smacked her lips in dissatisfaction and asked, "What about my safety?
"The Ministry of Magic will send Aurors to provide protection," Ms. Burns said.
...
"This is worse than I thought, I thought I was just making tea, running errands, or writing a bunch of inexplicable reports like Percy," Ron couldn't help complaining, "but who Can you tell me, why do we write papers in the Ministry of Magic?
"Ron, what we did is significant!" Hermione said seriously.
Harry didn't speak, he stared listlessly at the parchment in front of him, not a word on it moved. He'd seen a dozen wizards in their Pensieves, but none of them helped - none of them had the skills to contribute to a Muggle newspaper.
He, Ron, Sirius and others stayed at school overnight. Hermione was taken home by the professor, but they did not expect to meet again in the hall of the Ministry of Magic this morning. The professor did not ask them to do chores, but led them to an empty conference room, took out a quill and an ink bottle and asked them to write a letter, probably introducing their life as a student at Hogwarts, Professor Hemp warned They cannot disclose names, addresses and any confidential information.
Harry looked around, there were only three of them at first, but not long after Professor Haip left, he brought back some people one after another, all of whom were his classmates at school.
These students can be roughly divided into two camps. The first category is related to the Order of the Phoenix, such as Neville and Ginny, and of course him, Ron and Hermione; the second category is the family members of the Ministry of Magic officials, Susan Burns, Ernie McMillan, Cormac McLaggen, Zacharias Smith (Harry and Ron hated him), Draco Malfoy, and Cho Chang, she brought her friend, Harry couldn't remember the girl His name changed, it seemed to be Mary or something.
But——Harry turned his head, staring at Luna's shaggy flaxen hair, wondering why she was here. Perhaps it was because Luna's father, Mr. Lovegood, had a working relationship with Professor Hemp? He knew that the magazine "Who Determines the Ancient Runes" was printed together with the Quibbler, and when he read an article, he found that there was an extra page of the Quibbler in it, and Ron collected that issue of the magazine.
Luna looked at Harry with light eyes
"Dad and I stayed in Hogsmeade last night and he wanted to thank Professor Hemp himself."
"Oh," Harry blinked, "I heard that the room of the three broomsticks is full?" He actually wanted to ask why he thanked Professor Haip, but he suddenly remembered that the professor had lent the resurrection stone to Lu Na, suddenly in her heart, so she changed the subject.
"Yeah, so we live in the Pig's Head pub," Luna said happily. At that time, I happened to see Felix from the window, they chatted for a while, and the professor mentioned that he needed some student helpers, so I came here.”
"It's lucky." Harry said, he knew how bad the environment in the Pig's Head Bar was. But he couldn't help but wonder in his heart that the purpose of the professor's appearance in Hogsmeade was to meet someone?
"Is Aberforth okay?" interrupted Hermione.
"He may have never seen so many guests in his life, I don't know if it's a good thing for him." Ron said with a frown.
He's fine," Luna said seriously, "but he's going to sell the bar.
"What's going on?" Harry asked in surprise.
Luna slowly shook her head, "He didn't say anything, I think he has more important things on his mind."
Harry turned his attention back to the parchment. He looked around. Hermione had already written a third of the parchment, and it could be seen that she was writing very seriously, biting her lip and thinking, Ron only wrote two lines, and Harry stared at the freckles on his nose for inspiration, only to find that Ron showed a surprised expression, and then seemed to have a spring of writing, bowed his head and began to write.
Harry couldn't help leaning over curiously.
The first sentence is that I have a friend. Harry was stunned, and continued to look down, "He was abused by those Muggle relatives since he was a child, oh Muggles mean non-magical people, he lacked clothes and food, and was locked up by his uncle once and almost starved to death. Fortunately, I Noticing the abnormality, drive a flying car to rescue him, don't make a fuss, although we only finished the first grade at that time, this is not the first time we have taken risks...
"Ron," Harry couldn't help protesting.
"What's the matter? I didn't mention your name." Ron said with a smile.
Harry sat back and sulked alone, wondering if he should also write an article on 'My Muggle Uncle, Aunt, Aunt, Cousin's Family', if both he and Ron were selected, they could just testify to each other, but he Don't want to be cheap Ron, after thinking about it, he also started with 'I have a friend'.
I have a friend whose whole family is a wizard, this friend's parents have seven children, so life is not rich (now much better), of course it doesn't matter because they are the friendliest people I have ever met , especially compared to my relatives.
Harry paused, but still couldn't help but secretly poked at the Dursleys, he felt a little stingy, "I met this friend on the train, and his two twin brothers helped me Suitcase, he's the first guy my age I've ever met in the wizarding world - 1' as I write this, Harry realizes it's wrong, the first guy he's actually talked to in the wizarding world is actually Draco Malfoy , so he crossed it out and changed it to 'He was the first guy my age I met on the train and the first friend I made in the wizarding world, but I soon had the second, third friend!
One of the elective subjects in school is Muggle Studies, the textbook is very old and completely out of date, but another friend of mine (she is also Muggle-born, so she knows this stuff very well) said that from a wizard's point of view It's fascinating to look at these things, and I've seen her papers:
Why do Muggles need electricity? My first friend watched it too, and he asked enthusiastically, even though he didn't take the course. I think it's a pity...
At noon, Felix came over and read a dozen letters one by one.
"McLagan, there is no need to mention your father's contacts in the Ministry of Magic in the letter again and again;"
"Smith, the sense of superiority in your writing is too strong, I don't guarantee that the readers will want to hit someone after reading it"
"Luna, your perspective is very unique and detailed, but you mentioned several unproven magical animals. Forget it, it fits your style~IndoMTL.com~ Well, Granger—— Yours is not very good, it is too rigorous, analyze the similarities and differences between the two sides from the perspective of Muggles and wizards, as if it was written by an expert in this field, what I want is something written by a teenager aged sixteen or seventeen, but you can vote To the Daily Prophet."
"Miss Burns, your "aunt of the Minister of Magic" is very interesting, you might as well write more, you can master the scale yourself."
"Weasley, you confessed to your violation of law and discipline, especially those few psychological descriptions are quite wonderful, it can be seen that you are the mastermind
—Don’t change it, it’s quite interesting, but I suggest you cross out the part where you suspect that I’m the heir to the Chamber of Secrets.
"Potter, I'm not sure- well, how did you know Mr. Weasley was snoring in his sleep? Oh, Ron told you Well, it turns out that Arthur has so many good things hidden in his garage- Does Molly know?"
Felix supervised them to revise it, and finally tailored a very targeted opening, and then picked a few of them and handed them to an Auror.
"Send to the Sun newspaper station.
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In the afternoon, the press conference was held as scheduled in the conference room of the Ministry of Magic, and countless wizarding families stood guard in front of the magic radio. Felix's calm and confident voice spread to thousands of households:
"... We are forced to be involved in the unprecedented torrent of the times, and everyone is in it. I hope that when we look back on this history in a few years, each of us can point to the world behind us and proudly say to the younger generation, That is the age we created.
At the same time, the front desk of The Sun also received several letters from enthusiastic young wizards.
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