The draw starts from Azkaban

Chapter 380
"Hey Harry, you know what."

The sneaky Ron approached Harry sneakily, and said to Harry mysteriously, with an expression of "I have a big secret to tell you".

They were in the Gryffindor lounge now, before it was time to go to bed, the flames in the fireplace were "crackling" burning firewood, bringing warmth to the cold stone castle.

It's just that this kind of warmth still can't resist the severe cold outside. I don't know why, Hogwarts, at least there is no constant temperature magic in the Gryffindor lounge.

So most people choose to go back to their warm beds at this time, read a book, chat, and then sleep.

Winter is the time for drowsiness, even though strictly speaking, it is already spring, but the weather still hasn't gotten that warm, and even started to get colder.

Anyway, Hogwarts is not low.

The snow is starting to change towards the rain.

After what happened today, everyone is not in the mood to play around, except for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, the "Big Three", which are Neville and a few students. Those students gathered together, whispering, and sometimes would glance at Harry, which meant they were talking about Harry, and poor Neville, he was looking for his pet toad.

That's right, that toad named Lefe, this little cutie escaped from prison again, and went somewhere, which made it easy for Neville to find.

The "Big Three" were in no mood to help Neville find Toad.

They all have their own things to do.

Harry was in a bad mood. He was staring at the fire in a daze. Ron took out a newspaper and read the stories on it with relish. Now the stories on it are very "curious", calling wizards It can satisfy the desire of voyeurism. These concentrated reports appear in the "Daily Prophet", and there is also a special issue.

This special issue is called "The Dark Lord's Unknown Past (Reporting at Risk of Death)". Ron sneaked here just for the later special issue, which wrote a lot of "news reports". real.

It was full of gossip about the Dark Lord.

One of the most important points is [speculation about the reason why the Dark Lord failed on Harry Potter].

The person who wrote this article is naturally the famous Ms. "Rita Skeeter"!
It’s so stubborn, even her real name is written on it. Now everyone knows that there is a lady named Rita Skeeter in the magic world, and her reputation is getting higher and higher. Some of the history of black magic she knows, carefully speculated by caring people, It can be found that it can be matched!

More importantly, she is still alive.

This is a very strange thing.

Death Eaters had attacked various branches of the Daily Prophet more than once, but for some unknown reason, Voldemort did not appear.

Even so, after being hunted down by Death Eaters like this, Ms. Rita Skeeter not only did not stop, but instead became more and more courageous. This is worthy of respect. Some people who originally disliked Ms. Rita Skeeter , also changed his mind.

Not to mention the original, some of her die-hard fans, these die-hard fans now hold Ms. Rita Skeeter on the altar.

Wrote so many secrets about Voldemort, and she is still alive, which is enough to prove that she is extraordinary!

And she is still writing more and more vigorously, and she is still outputting a lot of news about Voldemort.

Even the "Daily Prophet" would not dare to publish some "out of bounds" words, so the special issue was born!

The sales volume of the special issue is extremely astonishing, but the difference is that the special issue will not be ostentatiously bought and sold, the seller is careful, and the buyer is the same. Some students in Hogwarts who are not well-informed do not know this information, but fortunately Although the twins were very upset with Ron, his brother came back.

Charlie had some news coming in for him.

"Do you know what's written on it?"

Ron said to the two partners mysteriously, Harry shook his head, and Ron was even happier.

Harry didn't pay much attention to the outside papers these days, and Hermione?

Please, the exam is a few months away, and Hermione is studying hard, she is revising!
In her words, "It's too late to study now."

So she didn't read this special issue either.

Seeing that the two little friends turned their faces away, Ron became proud, and said mysteriously: "A prophecy, the mysterious man... well, don't look at me like that, it's Voldemort, Voldemort, okay?
The reason why Voldemort attacked Harry was because of Professor Sybill Trelawney's prophecy. "

"What are you kidding?"

Hermione reacted greatly to this.It's not to blame for her appearance, for the Divination class, Hermione has always held that this is a liar class, so Hermione can't accept it.

As for whether Hermione thinks the liar course is useless, or whether the teacher is a liar, it is a matter of opinion.

What Hermione meant was that she was more inclined that the teacher was a liar.

Magic is a subject that requires talent. Hermione is extremely good at some magic that can be understood with common sense, but when it comes to some more abstract and talent-hungry magic, Hermione resists these magics from the bottom of her heart. Learning, not to mention that she has no talent for divination and prophecy. Ms. Sybil's prediction is so accurate, part of her willingness is in her blood.

Magic is really passed down along the bloodline, which is why pure-blood families despise Muggles and non-pure-blood wizards.

Ron pretended to be mysterious and said in a low voice: "I tell you, you may not know, but to be honest, I think this matter is very possible, you don't know, in the Ministry of Magic, there is a level that cannot be said A lot of people in the Ministry of Magic on this floor know about it, but they don't even know about it, you know?"

Harry gave a casual "hmm", and didn't seem to want to know about it, but Ron was talking, and he didn't listen to him, so he chose to perfunctory, which was visible to the naked eye. Fortunately, Ron had a good temper , he doesn't mind being ignored like this.

Then his euphoria was interrupted by Hermione.

"I know, 'The real wizarding world', "In My First Hundred Years of Magic", someone said that, and he said that the Ministry of Magic contained the real meaning of magic."

Hermione said, and Ron was dumbfounded: "This is again, wait, no, what kind of book is this again?"

Ron was shocked.

Books are not cheap items, or in other words, books that carry knowledge have never been cheap items. Even Hermione bought a few popular items.

Like this kind of book that he had never heard before, Ron was stunned on the spot.

"It's a memoir of an old wizard. To be precise, it is the memoir of an old wizard when Minister Rich was in charge. When I was at Hogwarts, I read this book specifically to understand the world of magic. Don't you guys ever read it in the public area of ​​the library?"

The two boys shook their heads innocently, and Hermione was a little annoyed.

She said helplessly: "To be precise, this book is very interesting. The old wizard in this book is Minister Rich's best friend. He knows very well that Minister Rich, who is the first Muggle in the history of the Ministry of Magic, After becoming a wizard from birth, what kind of uproar did it cause in the magic world after becoming a minister?

A large number of Ministry members have threatened to resign, and they have succeeded. What, Harry, are you saying that it is worse than it is now?Of course, it was much worse than it is now. At that time, a large number of wizards in the Ministry of Magic were pure blood wizards, you understand?
If they go on strike and don't work together, the Ministry of Magic won't be able to operate. Minister Rich was devastated. During that time, the Ministry of Magic was almost useless. A large number of dark wizards walked in the world of Muggles. Minister Rich had to personally Hands-on, fortunately, there are quite a few wizards, like the old wizard who wrote the book, with a sense of responsibility.

They felt that no matter what happened, the law of secrecy could not be broken, so some wizards worked with him. "

"In other words, Minister Burns is indeed much more relaxed now. I heard that not only people from our family have been conscripted, but even some retired old wizards have been rehired. Some wizards who were originally unable to enter the Ministry of Magic are now recruited. Also entered the Ministry of Magic, which is still functioning normally."

Ron had long forgotten what he wanted to say, and was misled by Hermione, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "Percy used to admire Mr. Barty Crouch the most, but now Mr. Barty Crouch Mr. Kee was killed by Duvi Jones, and Scrimgeour is the man Percy admires most now."

"Well, Scrimgeour."

Harry said gloomily that he didn't like Scrimgeour. The main reason was that the person he trusted most now was Dumbledore. Dumbledore was the most powerful wizard in the entire wizarding world, and the only one Voldemort was afraid of. Scrimgeour didn't care about the way they looked, and Sirius Black, Harry didn't like it very much.

The rare quality of being matter-of-fact is extremely difficult to see in many people.

More importantly, who doesn't have a butt seat!

He's sitting right next to Dumbledore, what's up!
So he doesn't like Scrimgeour, and Ron doesn't like it either, Scrimgeour is too domineering.

But Ron wanted to hear Hermione's stories more now, and his heart for gossip was aroused.

"And then, and then, Hermione."

Hermione glanced at Ron speechlessly, and said angrily again: "This old wizard wrote a lot. Of course, the reason why this book was sold well at the time was because of conspiracy theories and some rumors. Minister Rich In the end, he got dragon pox and had to abdicate to Xian.

The wizard felt that Minister Rich's illness was not simply dragon pox. He might have been poisoned by someone. The person who poisoned him at the time was the head of the Malfoy family, who was in full swing in the magic world, that is, Draco Malfoy. Fu's ancestors. "

said Hermione.

"I knew that there are no good people in the Malfoy family!"

Ron said angrily!
"Let's talk next."

Hearing Draco Malfoy, Harry finally regained his energy. He wanted to hear about this annoying person and what evil things his family had done.

Hermione shrugged and said, "The reason why conspiracy theory is called conspiracy theory is because there is no evidence. Who can prove that he did it."

Harry was disappointed.

At this moment, the door of the lounge opened, and a person walked through the door with difficulty. A wizard who was obviously an adult walked into the student lounge.

Everyone stared at him.

The eyes were shocked.

"How did you get in?"

Hermione couldn't help but said that although she knew that a group of "uninvited guests" had come to the school, which would definitely affect their lives, she never thought that things would happen so quickly, and it was almost time to rest, Mad-Eye Mu Dee walked in here.

Also holds a wand.

"How did you get the password?"

asked Hermione, and Mad-Eye Moody, tongue-tied, gave an "uh" before saying, "I didn't get the password."

Mad-Eye Moody was very honest, he did not find the password, so he used the "Confusion Charm" to get in.

Hermione: "What? You didn't get the password?"

"Emmm, children, maybe you have to get used to one thing, that is, Hogwarts Castle is not safe, so if I were you, no matter who comes in, you have to pick up your wand...

It's so childish. "

Mad-Eye Moody's magic eyes swept around, pre-emptively, or called the villain's first complaint, and soon saw Neville here. Poor Neville was kneeling on the ground, with one hand propped on the ground, one Holding the sofa with his hands, he raised his head and stared at the person who walked in dumbfounded.

Mad-Eye Moody saw Neville. Under Neville's terrified eyes, he strode over, limped, and lifted Neville up. Neville: "?"

"I took him out to study. If someone asks about it, you can tell him so."

Mad-Eye Moody addressed the crowd, and Neville yelled, "My Rifle."

"Is that the toad?"

Mad-Eye Moody said, finding him in a blink of his eye, "Hey, boys, you might want to go first."

Several students sitting together were chased away, and then Mad-Eye Moody waved his wand, sending chairs and sofas flying.

A toad watched all this innocently.

"Lyfe!"

Neville let out a cry of happiness before he saw Mad-Eye Moody sticking out his wand.

【Total petrochemical】.

His toad became a stone sculpture.

"Oh my God!"

Hermione whispered, but Mad-Eye Moody ignored these people. He grabbed Neville and left. The portrait of the Fat Lady seemed to be malfunctioning, and it was wide open, allowing the cold wind to blow in.

"Oh my God."

Hermione groaned again. She looked at Ron and said, "Go to your brother Percy, go to the prefect, we need to tell the dean about this, it's not right."

Ron left here immediately and found Percy. Percy and the students came outside and saw the fat lady who recognized them as oranges.

(End of this chapter)