Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

The only problem is, the gold mine is actually in Northern Ireland...

It seems necessary to soften my position on Sinn Féin a little, Major thought to himself.

Seeing that Major took the bait, Lockhart was not in a hurry, but first took out the invitation card for the opening ceremony of the Big Five Tournament, inviting him to come and give a speech.

If it hadn't been for Lockhart's reminder, Major would have almost forgotten the size, but after Lockhart's reminder, he also remembered another important thing, but it's not easy to say it publicly.

He subconsciously glanced at the portrait in the office, and after realizing that the wizard in the painting was not in the frame, he lowered his voice and whispered to Lockhart:

"By the way... I just remembered that the people who went to your village brought back a potion that grows hair... Is that true?"

Hearing his question, Lockhart naturally set his sights on the Prime Minister's head.

Major noticed his movement, and quickly clarified loudly: "It's not me! My hair is very fine, and I'm asking for someone else."

The corner of Lockhart's mouth twitched: "Of course, I believe you are also inquiring for others... As for the effect of the potion, I believe you have heard about it from people who have "rehabilitated". "

Of course, Major was well aware of where the group of people went to "rehabilitate".

"So, that potion for long hair does work? And it has no side effects

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"Overdose may cause side effects such as loss of appetite... The overdose I mentioned means drinking 5 bottles at a time."

Seeing that Major wanted to ask more questions, Lockhart hastily added.

Hearing that the side effects were so minimal, Major didn't take it seriously: "That's no big deal, I can... I mean, do you still have that thing? I'm going to give it away."

Lockhart thought it wasn't sleepy who came to deliver the pillow, and he was about to slowly talk about it to the Muggle Prime Minister, but instead he brought it up first.

He pretended to be embarrassed: "Who is it for? According to the "Secrecy Act" of our wizards, unless it is a Muggle who has a close relationship with a wizard, in principle, the use of magical products is not allowed."

"Not allowed? But those who go to the resort..."

"They speak well of companies that our rich and powerful have formed and bring in investment, so of course it's a 'close relationship'"

Lockhart blinked, seeming to mean something.

As an old political fritter, Major certainly understood such obvious hints.He smiled knowingly, as he did when he was fooling the backbench with the rest of the ministers.

"I see... I probably understand the standards of your wizards... Don't worry, the client I want to introduce is definitely "closely related" to the wizarding world. "

After speaking, he also winked at Lockhart.

Seeing that the Prime Minister understood what he meant, there was no need for Lockhart to put on a gesture: "Really? Maybe you can tell me about it and let me know how close their relationship with wizards really is."

"Very closely, because that is the royal family we all love and love, Queen of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and her children

Lockhart understood in seconds: "Could it be that His Highness Charles and His Highness William..."

Embankment's. Major cut him off. "You think that's all right?" "Not only is it possible, it is quite possible. Lockhart thought to himself. The British have a very high rate of baldness, and as their national symbol, the British royal family has naturally inherited the great tradition of the British people—bald before they are old. Whether it is the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, or their children and grandchildren, they will basically start the journey of claiming a mortgage after the age of 25.

The only one with fairly lush hair is Prince Harry. The British thought that he would become a fig leaf for the phenomenon of the royal family’s hair loss, but it only took Harry a year after he was 25 to make his head become soft. Like his brother, it can only be said that the power of genetic genes is too powerful.

Judging from the fact that they asked Major to help find the medicine, although the members of the royal family didn't say anything, they actually cared about it in their hearts!

Lockhart shouted "Great" in his heart, but he still showed embarrassment on his face.

He pretended to think for a long time before opening his mouth again: "It's like this... If it's only used by a small group of people, then it's not a big deal. But the problem is that they are all royal families, and they need to be exposed all day long. People under the media, once their baldness is cured, the media will find out soon, and then we wizards will be exposed too9”

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Major seemed to have just thought of this question, and was a little taken aback by Lockhart's words.

"You're right, the last time His Majesty's steward was still complaining to me that she just changed a hat and the media was about to put it on the front page, which made Her Majesty very unhappy because she felt like she had become A monkey exhibited in a zoo... oops, that's a real problem!"

The relationship between Major and the royal family is really good, Lockhart captures the key point

"In that case, could you please do me a favor and have the Food and Health

Someone issued us a license plate. "Lockhart came up with an idea, ^If we dilute the hair growth potion and sell it as an ordinary special medicine, and then invite a few highnesses to endorse this hair growth potion and sell it to the public, I believe the public will never There will be no doubt."

"Good idea! I owe you another favor, Lockhart!" The Prime Minister looked tall

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"Of course, friends are meant to help each other." Lockhart echoed.

Chapter 270 Design

Although Lockhart has been reminding himself not to work too hard, since he entered the Ministry of Magic, he still works non-stop every day.

What Dobby likes to say "work makes me happy" is the same for Lockhart now.

Due to his status in his previous life, Lockhart seldom saw important people.Occasionally having a drink with a few ministers, or attending some international occasions as one of the entourages of several ministers, is already the limit of what he can achieve.

But now he can not only have a face-to-face conversation with the British Prime Minister, but at the same time, the highest political leaders in the magical world still have a lot to rely on him. If this kind of thing was put in the past, Lockhart could not even imagine it.

This day is getting more and more hopeful, and of course he is more and more motivated to work.If Fudge hadn't offered to take over half of the work for the Big Five Tournament, he might even be so busy that he would be forced to cross again.

To be honest, Fudge’s behavior was very unethical. After Lockhart had worked hard for more than a year, he ran over to pick peaches. Although this conformed to the superficial rules, it did not conform to the unspoken rules among civil servants.

But Lockhart thought about it carefully, and the preparations for the tournament have basically been completed, and all that remains to be done is to accompany foreign guests, give speeches everywhere to gain a sense of presence, and attend various promotional activities.

Showing your face in this way is certainly showing, but showing it is worthless.

Because the spectators always watch the game to see the performance of the players on the field, and almost no one cares about the long and smelly speech of the leader, and no one cares about what the organizers of the game have done, or what they have done. How hard it is.

Of course, this does not include the Tokyo Olympics. Everyone doesn’t like the Tokyo Olympics.

Instead of watching the game, they are more concerned about what hellish tricks the organizers of the game have done.

In short, Lockhart does not think that doing these superficial things can bring him anything. Doing those things is neither free nor profitable. On the contrary, serving sponsors can bring him closer to power.

So he readily handed over the work of showing up at meetings and receiving foreign guests to Fuji, and then, to his overjoyed, took over the work of connecting with sponsors, promoting services to foreign tourists, and receiving guests.

After all, many of the sponsors are foreign, and it is justifiable to entrust these tasks to the International Department.

As for the operation of the tournament, it is natural that the Sports Department is in charge, and the acting director of the new office, Hesska Jones, is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix, so Lockhart is not very worried that she will make trouble on her side.

In this way, Lockhart, whose workload has been greatly reduced, has room to fish. He can take the opportunity to devote his energy to dealing with Muggle affairs, and at the same time, he can secretly watch the security work of the Big Five Tournament. .

Although Barty Crouch Jr. could no longer pretend to be Moody and sneak into Hogwarts, and Lockhart didn't quite know how he would resurrect Voldemort.But what Lockhart can be sure of is that if Voldemort wants to be resurrected, he will definitely use Harry Potter's blood.

From God's point of view, Voldemort is undoubtedly digging a hole for himself by using Harry's blood to resurrect, but Voldemort himself really wants the protective magic left to him by his mother in Harry's blood.

On Voldemort's dark magic path, he has experienced many dangerous transformations, and the reason why he is willing to take this risk is nothing more than to obtain more powerful magic power, and the magic power of love in Harry Potter is what he possesses. Never got that.

In line with the principle of "things you can't get are good things", it is natural for Voldemort to covet this kind of magic.

It was precisely because he knew that Voldemort would dig a huge hole for himself, so Lockhart did not go to Old Riddle's grave, and burned his bones to ashes in advance.

After all, there are so many types of black magic, even if Voldemort doesn't use the Philosopher's Stone or "father's bone", he probably can find a way to get a new body.But without Harry's blood at that time, whether Harry can successfully let Voldemort remove the piece of soul in his body becomes unknown.

However, since Voldemort paid the price of a loyal servant for Harry's blood in the original book, Lockhart can't let little Crouch live, because from his point of view, the threat of little Crouch is even greater. Greater than Voldemort himself.

Now that Little Crouch doesn't have Pettigrew's cooperation, and he can't pretend to be Moody to sneak into Hogwarts, so how on earth are you going to catch Harry?

In his heart, Lockhart made a declaration of war to Crouch Jr. Not only was he going to kill this guy, but he also wanted to use Crouch Jr. to complete his reverse osmosis lure to Death Eaters and even Voldemort.

This was not a joke, because he knew that Voldemort would not trust Crouch Jr. 100%, even though Crouch Jr. was already the most trusted of the Death Eaters.

Because little Crouch wanted to get a "reward" from Voldemort, and the reward he wanted was something Voldemort would never give him.

And the reward that Voldemort will never give is eternal life.

For Crouch, who was born in the holy 28 pure blood and whose father almost became the real Minister of Magic, whether it is money, beauty or power, these things are all within his reach.But because of the environment in which he grew up, Crouch Jr. didn't think those things were very attractive.

The reason why he worships Voldemort and is willing to advise him is that there are only two things he wants-one is "the right to legally torture others" and the other is "the power to torture others legally".

is "the power not to be governed by anything"

And this "anything", of course, includes "death"

The word Death Eaters (De3th_E3te「s) originally has the meaning of "conquering death". Voldemort's business Death Eaters promised that as long as they were loyal to themselves, he would give them "eternal life" as a reward sooner or later.

The reason why little Crouch worked so hard to advise and work for Voldemort was that besides the elements of "worship" and "self-imprinting", what he pursued was nothing more than eternal life.When being fed with Veritaserum, the phrase "I will get a reward that all wizards can't dream of" expresses his greatest appeal to Voldemort.

But Lockhart knew that it was impossible for Voldemort to grant immortality to others.When killing Snape, the sentence that Voldemort blurted out except me, no one can live forever" is probably the true thought deep in his heart.

—On the one hand, little Crouch also wants eternal life, but on the other hand, Voldemort will never give it to him. There is a fundamental contradiction between the master and servant, but little Crouch has not realized it yet.

As long as there are conflicts, Barty Crouch Jr. is no longer a "perfect dog". There must be a strategy that suits him best, and Lockhart firmly believes in this

In addition, although Lockhart did not know how Voldemort planned to get Harry's blood this time, he did understand one thing—no matter what Voldemort planned, there was a key link in this plan that cannot be omitted , that is, Harry Potter himself.

More intelligence and the meticulous thinking of the civil servants allowed Lockhart to quickly sort out the current situation. As long as he knew the fundamental contradiction between the enemy and ourselves, he would be able to deal with it.

Since Fudge was going to take over his job, Lockhart didn't mind playing a new game with Voldemort's master and servant.

He let little Crouch win the first game, but he didn't intend to lose the second game,

Not even a draw is considered.

So he handed the schedule he compiled to Dumbledore for review, and then waited for him to give his opinion.

Dumbledore watched it carefully for a long time, and finally remembered to ask him if he had talked to the Director of Sports about it.

Lockhart has always been very obedient in front of Dumbledore: "Not yet, I want to discuss it after you read it."

Dumbledore returned Lockhart the schedule compiled by him, and then gave him permission.

"I have no opinion. You and Hai Sijia have discussed it. As a criterion for judging warriors, I think this is very good."

Of course that's nice, because that's exactly what you're doing.Lockhart thought.

In order to prove to the wizarding world that his course was correct, Lockhart introduced business into the Tournament, but with business alone, he could not satisfy Dumbledore.

Therefore, as a first-class marketing master, he must add "symbolic meaning" to the competition-that is, various items used to test the character of the warriors.It's as if some writers insist on adding philosophy and literature to the story in order to forcibly sublimate the theme.

Don't even mention it, Dumbledore really only eats this set.

Chapter 270 Eight People Who Buy Ads

After obtaining Dumbledore's permission, Lockhart went to discuss the organization of the tournament with Hessica Jones.

Because of Ludo Bagman's bad governance, the Sports Department failed to achieve any real results in the previous year. The only Quidditch World Cup that was considered good was a vicious case. Now the Sports Department is holding a sigh of relief: Want to prove it.

Although Lockhart came to the Sports Department after discussing with Dumbledore, which did not conform to the "rules", but I believe that Jones, as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, will definitely give Dumbledore more face.

After seeing the projects that Lockhart planned to vote in the competition, Hessica Jones was a little speechless.

"Do we have that much money?" was her first reaction.

But when Lockhart told her the funds raised in the past six months, Jones suddenly discovered that at the time when everyone thought Lockhart was "distributed", he actually did it. So many things.

If you only look at the money received from sponsors and the media, the budget and revenue of this "strong school joint tournament" has already exceeded the Quidditch World Cup.

o To sum up, as long as we don’t spend money indiscriminately, or there are relatively large accidents in the competition, then our budget is more than enough, and the newly built tourist facilities and trading market in Hogsmeade Village can also bring us benefits, But these are variable income, we can't count on it too much...what's wrong? "

Lockhart finished talking about his idea in detail, but found that Jones was looking at him with a very strange look.

Probably because he also realized that his reaction was not right, Jones quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I just suddenly felt...you are very suitable to work in the Ministry of Magic."

Lockhart opened his hands exaggeratedly, making an unbelievable look:

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm here for? Retirement?"

Jones was blunt: "Thought you were tired of the risky life and were preparing to enter the Law Enforcement Department and cultivate a group of Aurors."

Lockhart was puzzled: "What gave you this outrageous illusion."

"That's what everyone says." Hasska Jones shrugged. "This is the opinion of the readers of "Witch Weekly". The one I just mentioned has the most votes."

"Ha, then should I be thankful that you didn't believe the words in The Quibbler?" Lockhart laughed, "I remember it said that I found Fudge in the Department of Mysteries secretly researching the black magic of world destruction, I am preparing to smash his conspiracy with one hand."

Hai Sijia blurted out: "That's not enough, besides, the Department of Mysteries is a bunch of old Ravenclaw scholars... Oops, I almost forgot, you are also a Ravenclaw

"Thank you for remembering." Lockhart threw the project preparation materials on her desk.

In his plan, in order to include those projects with a strong commercial taste, he had to divide the five-wild tournament into many projects. Various ceremonies and social occasions were also in Lockhart's design, and the main match was As a "main course", it is interspersed in various commercial projects.

The Triwizard Tournament mode in the original book is not within the scope of Lockhart’s consideration. On the one hand, it is too uncommercial, and on the other hand, it does not take much care of the audience.

The two-wizard competition among the original players is held at the end of October, and the opening match is at the end of October. The second event will run until the end of February of the next year, and the third event will be held in June. Outside of a Yule Ball, there are hardly any extra items.