Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

Fudge looked awkward, not sure if Dumbledore was talking ironically.

As a bystander, Lockhart can see clearly—this is Fudge's move.

Throwing a stone on his own foot.

According to Aunt Rowling, Hogwarts is funded by funding from the Ministry of Magic.If this is the case, then the so-called 12 school directors are not so much the "owners" of the school as they are the "co-decision makers" selected by the Ministry of Magic and the castle.

In other words, without Fudge's troubles, Malfoy would not be able to get the signatures of the other 0 school directors to dismiss him.

It's just that in the original book, everyone's attention is mostly focused on Malfoy's threat to the school trustees, but Fudge's own attitude towards this matter is ignored.

Although Fudge kept saying that he believed in Dumbledore, he was forced to.But Malfoy was still able to come to Hogwarts with the removal order, and after Dumbledore left, he still took Hagrid and detained him.And Hagrid is Dumbledore's most loyal three-headed dog - everyone knows that.

In this case, it doesn't really matter what Fudge says.Look at a person by how he does it, not how he says it.

Of course Dumbledore understood this, and Fudge was not stupid. He knew that this dismissal incident deeply offended Dumbledore, especially after Dumbledore quickly persuaded the 11 school managers to change their minds. The current Dumbledore still has considerable energy in the political arena, and it is not appropriate to turn his face immediately.

That's why later, after Sirius escaped from prison, he tried to show his favor to Dumbledore by protecting Harry with great fanfare, repairing the relationship between the two, and giving the credit to Snape of the Snake faction, but In the end, because of all kinds of mistakes...everyone knows.

In the same way, now that Malfoy came to the school with a dismissal order, this more than anything explained Fudge's attitude. The sweet words he was speaking at the moment paled in front of Dumbledore.

But luckily Lucius Malfoy saved him.

He blocked Fudge nonchalantly, and shoved the removal order under Dumbledore's eyelids

Bottom: "Very well, it seems that the matter has been settled for the time being...but this cannot be used to offset your failure of duty, Dumbledore."

"So?" Dumbledore watched the two play in front of him coldly.

"Your dereliction of duty caused a Muggle student, a respectable college ghost, and a cat to be attacked, and it took more than half a year to find the real culprit, even though she was in your school, in under your nose."

When Lucius Malfoy said this, his confidence was somewhat lacking—not to mention whether their pure-blood family would care about the safety of Muggle students, even a ghost and a cat couldn't be said to be such a tragic loss.

Before anyone could speak, Arthur Weasley rushed over and grabbed him by the front.

"Muggle students? Are you embarrassed to say it? I don't know when you started to care about this. How many threats, blackmail, and blackmail did you use to get other school managers to agree to sign with you?"

Lucius pushed his hand away coldly: "Pay attention to the way you speak, this is the third time, Weasley! Accusing others without evidence can easily be sued for defamation."

He wasn't afraid of Arthur, although the Ministry did raid under his living room later, but thanks to Snape's reminder, he moved most of the dark magic supplies in time, leaving only a few slightly illegal gadgets.

For this reason, he also scolded his son and threatened him that if he heard him talking nonsense again, he would send him a shouting letter.

The threat worked well for Draco Malfoy, because face was more important to him than anything else.

Seeing Malfoy mentioning the evidence at this moment, Harry and Ron exchanged glances, and immediately took out the diary they had chopped into shreds—at this time, except for the cover, which could still be seen as a book, the rest It doesn't hurt to end up in the shredder bin

People are surprised.

"He must have put it in there!" said Ron, pointing at Lucius, "Ginny said it was hidden in her old Transfiguration textbook, and he must have put it in, during the fight with Dad in Diagon Alley! "

"As expected of the Weasley family." Lucius replied coldly, "It has perfectly inherited the fine traditions of the family in terms of nonsense."

"You..." Mr. Weasley raised his right fist and was about to punch him.

"Oh, Arthur, don't fight here, we will definitely investigate this matter, clear and clear," said Fudge.

At this time, Fudge was simply grateful to Lucius in his heart—before his relationship with Dumbledore was torn apart, Lucius used this way of confrontation with everyone present to attract most of the attention. And blamed himself for trying to fire Dumbledore.

In this way, it is very convincing that Fudge was "forced to agree". Anyway, he has always been an indecisive fat man in the eyes of the world.

But Arthur Weasley, he actually wears a pair of trousers with Dumbledore... As long as I'm around, he won't even think about being promoted!said Fudge.

Seeing that several people had finished their performance, Dumbledore stepped forward to clean up the mess.

"Of course this matter needs to be investigated, and the results of this matter will finally appear in the newspapers in a 'form acceptable to all'.

Arthur, what your children need most right now is comfort, why not take them to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer?

If possible, please leave me alone, old man, I want to study this diary...Harry, Gilderoy, you two stay, I have something to ask you

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After everyone else had left, Dumbledore stopped hiding and asked the question he had been caring about.

"Harry, you said just now that you heard a person talking after the Deathday party, and later found out that it was a basilisk swimming in the pipe... May I understand that you can understand snakes talking?"

Harry hesitated, but told the truth anyway.

"Yes, in fact, when I went to the zoo with my uncle's family, I found out - a boa constrictor told me that it had never been to Brazil..."

There was finally a change in Dumbledore's eyes—his emotions had never been so fluctuating when Fudge came to say that he was going to be deposed just now.

It is absolutely impossible for the Potter family to have intermarried with the Gunter family, there is no doubt about it, then...

Then Dumbledore turned to Lockhart.

"The magic you used on Tom Riddle just now is "mind block", that is to say, you also think it is a creature, right? "

"Of course." Lockhart replied without hesitation, "I don't know if you have noticed that the cabinets in my office are made of imported "Peruvian holy wood"? "

"You actually used Peruvian sacred wood for your cabinet."

"Do you want Peeves to break into my office and smash it around?" Lockhart asked. "I remember he just smashed a disappearing cabinet in the school this year."

Deng Buhe nodded his head more, expressing that he understood what Lockhart meant.

Whether it's a ghost, a ghost, or some other kind of undead, burning the holy wood can temporarily deactivate it, since the last time the attackers didn't come because of Lockhart's office.

If the cabinet in it burns and loses its mobility, it means that the attacker is not a dead spirit.

Dumbledore sighed heavily, he finally had the most direct evidence for what he had been most worried about all along.

But that's good, he won't have any illusions about Voldemort now.

"It seems that after Voldemort failed to kill you with a spell last time, he inadvertently transferred a part of his own soul to you. Although he didn't know it, this is how you feel about Tom Riddle. Why," said Dumbledore, looking at Harry.

Harry was too surprised to speak.

He bid farewell full of thoughts, but before he left, Dumbledore asked Harry to call Snape over, and then began negotiations with Lockhart.

"Gidero, I'm afraid I need an oath from you."

"You can get my oath at any time." Lockhart shrugged. "No matter what conclusion you draw from the conversation just now, you can trust my ability to keep my mouth shut."

"Of course, I believe it, but what I need now is an 'Unbreakable Vow'" Dumbledore emphasized.

Lockhart shut his mouth suddenly and just stared straight at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore also didn't speak, and also stared at Lockhart, there was a kind of tone between his eyebrows that you dare not swear that I won't let you go out of this room easily

Dumbledore was right to be so nervous, because a possibility suddenly occurred to him, the possibility of defeating Voldemort.

In the West, "T" is a very magical number and the most stable number. Not to mention that God created man in seven days, music scores are divided into 7 notes, and the seven deadly sins and so on also represent their attitude towards 7 superstitious.

Even mathematicians have discovered the uniqueness of 7—no matter any number, as long as it is not a multiple of 7, the infinite loop decimal obtained after dividing by 7 is an infinite loop of the loop section of 142857.

The same is true for geometry. In Ren 9, other regular polygons can be drawn with straightedge and compass, but only the regular heptagon cannot be drawn with ruler and compass. This undoubtedly adds a new dimension to the number 7. A symbol of magic.

The same is true in the magic world, not to mention the origin of Druidism and the number 7, that is, when many wizards study astrology, occultism, and number divination, they can also find that the number 7 is different.

Dumbledore can cast spells with seven minds at the same time, and Voldemort can do the same, but neither of them went further. This is not because they can't, but because no matter how much they discover, their magic power will become Extremely unstable.

Although there is no evidence so far, Dumbledore instinctively believed that Voldemort would divide his soul into seven parts, that is, make six Horcruxes.

But Voldemort probably doesn't know one thing now, that is, Harry Potter also has a piece of his own soul.In other words, he possessed a Horcrux that he didn't even know existed.

If Voldemort continued to make the "six Horcruxes" he thought he had, he would actually make seven, and the soul would thus be divided into eight.

If the soul is divided into eight parts, then Voldemort's profound magic power obtained through many magical transformations will also become extremely unstable. Wouldn't it be easy to defeat him by then?

If this is the case, Dumbledore may kill Voldemort without the need for a savior.

Just the thought of this possibility made Dumbledore's heart skip a beat.

By the way, Sybill Trelawney's original prophecy was actually carefully divided.

The analysis does not say that the Savior will be born in July "this year".

Her original words were "the one who has the ability to defeat the demon king is approaching", "born in a family that defeated the demon king three times", "has power that the demon king does not understand", "the demon king regards him as a strong enemy" and "born in a family that has defeated the demon king three times". end of July".

In other words, the savior does not have to be born at the end of July of the year when the prophecy was made, but also in earlier years, as long as he has defeated the Dark Lord three times, and has "powers that the devil does not understand" and "the devil does not understand." Treat him as a strong enemy" these two conditions.

When is Dumbledore's own birthday?

July 18&.

As for defeating the Dark Lord three times?

Sorry, in the history of the Dumbledore family, they really defeated the famous demon king twice. If you count Dumbledore's defeat of Grindelwald, it would be three times - the prophecy did not say which "Dark Lord"

There is also the most important "Dark Lord regards him as a strong enemy" one by one, if Voldemort hadn't heard the incomplete prophecy, would he have regarded Dumbledore as a strong enemy more - or a baby as a strong enemy? ?

Otherwise, how can the prophecy be unbelievable?Because it's true anyway.Whether Dumbledore defeated or Harry defeated the Dark Lord, the prophecy was true.

Dumbledore didn't think of this at first, because he couldn't figure out what "power the devil didn't know" he had

But thinking about it now, basic love is also love, and does Voldemort, the unlucky kid who fell in love with a love potion, know what is love?

No matter who will defeat Voldemort in the future, the fact that "Voldemort accidentally created an extra Horcrux" must not be exposed, especially if Voldemort himself cannot be informed, otherwise he probably will not be the seventh Horcrux up.

Dumbledore stared at Gilderoy Lockhart firmly, with a very firm attitude.Don't you kid just walk out of this office so lightly.

Chapter 110 Belongs to the Politician's Counterattack

Half an hour later, Lockhart and Snape walked out of the headmaster's office together.

"Congratulations, you have finally officially become the dog of the old bee." Snape said to Lockhart with a stick in his words.

"I'm somewhat different from you. After all, I just want to keep a secret. You probably want to keep more than this one. I can see that." Lockhart replied.

Snape didn't answer, it was tacit consent.

As a witness just now, he made an unbreakable oath for Dumbledore and Lockhart, that is, the kind that violates it will die.

Lockhart was forced to promise not to reveal that Harry Potter also had Voldemort's soul in his body.

Without this promise, it is estimated that Dumbledore would never be at ease with him, especially when he still volunteered to be a politician.

However, Lockhart was not in vain. Dumbledore finally acquiesced in Lockhart's practice of treating Hogwarts as a place for political talents, and promised to give him the right to expand the student union in the school.

Probably Fudge's forced palace behavior today gave Dumbledore a warning. Dumbledore realized that while he was concentrating on school affairs and cultivating the savior, his right to speak in the Ministry of Magic was gradually disappearing, so he increased his investment.

Knowing that the opportunity was rare, Lockhart took the opportunity to come up with the outline of the new student union he had planned and asked him for approval.

The authority of Hogwarts student president is currently not enough. Seriously, only the prefects and student presidents have authority. Their job is to help professors lead new students, maintain order or discipline, and assist in organizing the Quidditch odd cup.

But here at Lockhart, he plans to expand the authority of the student union, and set up the organization department, the discipline committee, and the student election office respectively, creating a small "separation of powers".

Of course, the expansion of authority will naturally be accompanied by an increase in responsibilities, otherwise Dumbledore will have some opinions in his heart even if he doesn't say anything.

Lockhart is going to register the student associations one by one, and the student union will regularly distribute club funds to these legal associations, and also organize regular activities.

In his opinion, there are still too few student activities at Hogwarts.

Activities such as regular alumni gatherings, homecoming small concerts for parents, field trips in spring and autumn, homecoming lectures by outstanding alumni, magic shows and flea markets, Hogwarts is actually a None, it would be too cold

As long as these activities are held, the authority of the student union will naturally increase.

Dumbledore was a little worried, because the increase in activities would mean an increase in the school's funds, and the funding from the Ministry of Magic and alumni donations alone might not be enough, even if the event prizes at most were small gadgets such as chess and card books.

Lockhart was prepared for this

He persuaded Dumbledore to boldly appoint talents and hire a school property manager from the Muggle world to run the school property for Hogwarts.

In his opinion, Hogwarts' school property actually has a good business prospect.

Hagrid is now helping Dumbledore run the school farm, but the output of this farm is only enough for the school teachers and students to eat, which is too wasteful, because the area of ​​arable land can continue to expand, and even if he doesn't grow it himself, he can still rent it out.

In addition, the finished products made in the herb and potion classes produced in the Hogwarts greenhouse: if there are qualified ones, it is not impossible to sell them, and it is not impossible to even build a school-run factory.

With the school-run farm and school-run factory, it is also a problem to set up a special store

As it should be, hotels, publishing houses, overseas study business, magic research and consulting services, etc., are all businesses that schools can do.

In addition, their excess funds can also be used to invest in Muggle securities. Even the most secure fixed-income bonds and currency funds, a few points of income per year are better than watching a pile of gold galleons piled up on the market. Gringotts is strong, Gringotts will not pay interest on the savings of wizards.

Dumbledore didn't agree to his overall plan right away, but he allowed him to expand the authority of the student union first. If the new student union can operate smoothly, it won't be too late to consider other things.

Although the two had the same views, they quickly reached an agreement on one thing, that is, to immediately use the follow-up effects of the Chamber of Secrets incident to strive for a relatively independent status for Hogwarts, and at the same time It is possible to suppress the status of snake wizards in the Ministry of Magic.

Although Lucius said that the matter of the diary had nothing to do with him, no one could be fooled, even if he did not leave any evidence.

Because for some people, this kind of thing doesn't need proof.