Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 14: A war without a winner (14)
Chapter 1564 A War without a Winner (14)
In a dark room in Parkinson Manor, Draco Malfoy, who was on the Auror blacklist, was sitting on an armchair with dull eyes, with the latest issue of "The Daily Prophet" spread out in front of him. 》.
Failed!
In the blink of an eye, he was completely defeated!
Draco Malfoy really couldn't understand what had happened to the world and why it had changed so quickly, making him feel strange and helpless.
The war has clearly just begun. The Dark Lord has just led countless dark wizards into Hogwarts Castle with overwhelming force.
But just for a moment, they lost inexplicably.
A large number of Death Eaters under the Dark Lord were killed in that gloomy castle, and even Malfoy almost lost his life.
If Snape hadn't disappeared inexplicably, which made him panic and give up following the Death Eaters into Hogwarts Castle, he might have turned into a cold corpse like other dark wizards.
What Malfoy couldn't accept the most was that it was clear that the Dark Lord had personally killed the savior Potter and was trying to turn the tide of the war on his own, but...he was actually killed by Albert Anderson in full view of the public. killed.
The two sides did not even break out a decent battle. Voldemort was killed by Albert Anderson when everyone was caught off guard. Also killed were the futures and lives of all Death Eaters and Dark Wizards.
They were defeated so completely and so unexpectedly.
If Draco hadn't run in time and fast enough, he might have followed in the footsteps of his other colleagues, which made him so frightened that he even needed to rely on sedatives to keep himself calm.
"It's time to take your medicine, honey."
Pansy came to Malfoy holding a cup of potion that bubbled like earth, and handed Malfoy the compound potion that she finally bought from the black market.
As a remnant of Voldemort and a former Death Eater, Draco Malfoy naturally had a difficult life. He would disguise himself as a distant cousin from the Parkinson family and come to take care of Pansy during her pregnancy in order to continue to stay by his wife's side.
Although this was once an extremely annoying thing, Draco Malfoy now showed no reaction to his need to dress up as a woman. After being manipulated into changing into women's clothes, he was in the hall. Mr. Parkinson is seen listening to an interview with interim minister Kingsley by the radio.
"I can only wrong you in the near future. As for Eileen, there is no need to worry. She has quietly left the UK and traveled around the world. Even if people from the Ministry of Magic have suspicions, it will be difficult to find any flaws." Parkinson. Sir said about Malfoy's arrangements.
"Dad, is the situation really bad?" Pansy couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, the situation is changing too fast." Mr. Parkinson turned down the volume of the radio and shook his head. "We thought it would take Kingsley a few months to secure his position, but no one expected that He actually gained everyone's approval in just two days, completely disrupting our original plan."
If the original plan had been followed, the purebloods would have hoped to get the other party to compromise on certain things through the deal with Kingsley, but they couldn't think of such a thing now.
"What should Draco do?" Pansy looked worried.
"The best case scenario is to find an opportunity to surrender to the Ministry of Magic." Mr. Parkinson glanced at Draco and talked about the solution he came up with while listening to the radio.
"Surrender?" Everyone was stunned
"The status of a Death Eater is very bad, but as long as you have never killed anyone and the crime is not serious, you can reduce your sentence by actively cooperating with the Ministry of Magic. Then you will donate a large sum of galleons. It should be within two or three years. Then you can be cleared and released from prison."
"As for the issue of using Veritaserum to interrogate prisoners, there is actually no need to worry at all. As long as you have money and an antidote to Veritaserum, this thing will be useless, and it can also help Draco escape and clear his name. ”
"That's really great. Then you won't have to hide anymore." Listening to her father's analysis, Pansy couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at her husband who was a little distracted and comforted her softly, "Don't Don't worry, everything will be fine, and my children and I will wait for you to come back."
"Oh, will they really let me, Voldemort's remnant, go?" Malfoy showed a bitter expression.
"As long as you make a good deal with Kingsley, he will definitely not mind letting you go. After all, there are many employees in the Ministry of Magic who are forced to commit crimes with Voldemort. It is impossible for the Ministry of Magic to kill everyone. They also need to set an example and appease the emotions of other wizards." Mr. Parkinson knew the rules of the game at the Ministry of Magic.
The biggest problem now is to hide Malfoy and wait for the right time to let him appear.
Just as he was thinking this, Mrs. Parkinson appeared outside the hall clutching a letter from an owl with a restless face.
"What's wrong?" Mr. Parkinson noticed something strange about his wife.
"Letter from the Ministry of Magic." Mrs. Parkinson said tremblingly, "They seem to think Draco is hiding in our manor and plan to search..."
"What should we do now?" Pansy was completely panicked.
"Don't worry, we've long expected this might happen, haven't we?"
After reading the contents of the letter, although Mr. Parkinson looked calm on the surface, his back was soaked in cold sweat.
If he hadn't reacted quickly enough, it would have been completely over. Just being charged with hiding a wanted criminal would be enough.
Fortunately, Gadwin, who took over as the director of the Auror Office, was polite and sent a letter in advance to remind him of the search of the manor.
However, what Mr. Parkinson didn’t know was that the friendly Auror Office Director in his mind, Mr. Gadwin Robards, had actually led a group of Aurors to seize the Parkinson family after receiving the intelligence. The manor was surrounded, and not even an owl could escape.
Sending a letter to the other party before the search is actually a courtesy to everyone. In Kingsley's words, there is no need to make the relationship too tense.
So, when the Aurors broke into the Parkinson family manor for a routine search, they still behaved extremely politely.
The members of the Parkinson family were kindly invited to the hall, and Gadwin Robards personally communicated with them to ask for some news about Draco Malfoy. The Aurors use some kind of magical detector to walk around the manor, searching for fugitives who may be hiding.
Of course, everything went as smoothly as Mr. Parkinson expected. Although they expressed doubts about Draco's transformation into Ms. Eileen, after urgent communication with Eileen's family to confirm that there was such a thing, they downplayed it. The ground was skipped.
"Sorry to disturb everyone."
After Gadwin Robards was about to say goodbye and leave, the assistant next to him handed him a report on the search process for him to sign.
"No, no, I can understand. If we see Draco, we will definitely convince him to surrender to the Ministry of Magic. The child was only affected by his family." Mr. Parkinson said to pave the way for the follow-up. He said polite words, but found that the Aurors who were about to leave suddenly stopped.
"Is there anything else?"
Gadevon Robards suddenly asked someone to bring a basin filled with water, and said apologetically, "There is one last process, which you also know. We are just doing a routine search. Now we can Could you please use the water in the basin to wash your face?"
The Parkinson family looked at each other, wondering what the Ministry of Magic was doing, but their intuition told them that the situation seemed a bit bad. However, under the gaze of more than a dozen Aurors, they still had to wash themselves. Fortunately, nothing happened, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ms. Eileen, you are the only one left."
Gadwin Robards actually knew very well that this guy was Draco Malfoy, because according to intelligence, that guy was hiding in this manor. If no one could be found, there was a high probability that the other person was Draco Malfoy. He was pretending to be someone else, and the woman in front of him was very suspicious.
Sure enough, when the young lady named Eileen gingerly held up water to wash her face, part of her skin seemed to have melted, and her original facial features returned to that of Draco Malfoy.
Before the Parkinson family could react, the professional Aurors had already pulled out their wands and pointed at him.
Before that, Gadwin had already asked the Parkinson family to put all their wands on the table some distance away from them.
So, this arrest operation was undoubtedly quite successful, and it also brought the Parkinson family into trouble.
"Mr. Parkinson." Gadwin narrowed his eyes and looked at the owner of the manor, "I don't know if you know about this, but there is no doubt that you are in trouble."
As he spoke, Gadwin asked the Auror next to him to get a metal bracelet for the other party to wear, and reminded him kindly, "For the reputation of the Parkinson family, I hope your family will not do anything without permission in the next period of time. Leave the UK and do your best to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's investigation in order to clear the suspicion."
"I will." Mr. Parkinson said stiffly. He never expected that things would turn out like this. Didn't they already successfully deceive the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic? Why did Draco Someone arrested him?
"Let's go~IndoMTL.com~Mr. Malfoy, I hope you won't make any pointless resistance. No matter how powerful you are, you will never be a match for a group of us."
Gadevon looked up and down at the young Death Eater in women's clothing and reminded kindly, "Mr. Kingsley has authorized us to use black magic during the capture of extremely vicious criminals, even when necessary. Use Avada Kedavra to kill enemies trying to escape."
However, Gadwin did not relax his vigilance, and while bringing the person back to the Ministry of Magic, he first knocked down Draco Malfoy.
He never looked down on any Death Eater.
"Go and investigate Ms. Eileen's situation, and notify Lord Kingsley to hold a press conference." Gadwin made the arrangements in advance in an orderly manner. He didn't know if it was because of bad taste, but Ao The Romans did not change Malfoy's clothes, but asked him to appear hurriedly in women's clothing in front of reporters' cameras.
This undoubtedly directly aroused the curiosity of reporters and became an extremely topical event. When countless people talked about this incident, Kingsley's reputation was further enhanced, and everyone was full of confidence in their new minister.
(End of this chapter)