Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"Fail less"

"It's not just a failure, it's a disaster." Mr. Weasley sighed. "These villages are beautiful and peaceful, but the problem is that all wizard villages are beautiful, you know what I mean?"

There are only so many people in the wizarding world, and there are only so many people who have money and leisure to hang around

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For these people, where they live is actually the same, and instead of going all the way to another village to live for "recuperation", it is better to live in their own manor: and their own cattle are better.

Lockhart was very grateful to Mr. Weasley for his explanation, but his plan was not that simple.

"Thank you, Arthur, but the holiday sanatorium I'm talking about is for Muggles," said Lockhart.

The air in the club box was suddenly quiet, and in the obviously small room

But as if there was an echo, what kept echoing in everyone's minds was his last words.

o for Muggles? "

"Yes, only Muggles are allowed to enter."

"I must remind you,

Mr. Weasley repeated.

And only rich Muggle people, dignitaries and other high-class Lockhart explained his thoughts.

The Secrecy Act states—”

"It is stipulated that no magic shall be cast in front of Muggles: the existence of the magical community must also be concealed from Muggles, and any magical activity that may attract the attention of Muggles is a serious offense." Lockhart added for Weasley. On the back of the words.

"You know perfectly well," said Weasley in disbelief.

Although he was already quite "friendly" to Muggles in the wizarding world, he never thought of taking the initiative to introduce Muggles into the wizarding community.

"It's all right?" said Lockhart plausibly. "As far as I know, Dingworth in Cornwall, Upper Fleagley in Yorkshire, Ottery St. Catchpole in Devonshire Village, and Godric's Hollow in England, these villages are populated by wizards and Muggles... Ah, I almost forgot, Arthur, don't you just live in St. Catchpole Village."

"That's different. We will deliberately stay away from those Muggle villagers, and the house has been cast with a concealment spell, so we can't be found by them with daily magic. We have also cast a simple confusion spell on those Muggles, so Not a big deal," Weasley argued.

"But I remember that you often exchanged the vegetables and fruits grown by your own magic with the Muggle villagers for food."

Weasley shrugged: "It's not illegal. Molly often uses the vegetable patties she made to find villagers for ham and cheese. Anyway, Muggles can't eat them."

"So as long as you can control the consequences, it doesn't matter if you put Muggles in, right?"

Lockhart summoned a roll of parchment as he spoke, and unfolded it in public.

After the paper was unfolded, everyone discovered that it was a statistical table.

"This is the result of my statistics for more than a month-in fact, even in Hogsmeade Village, the villagers don't use magic much in their daily life, mainly when cleaning and cooking. .

Things could be fixed if we made it a rule that magic items be controlled during the time the resort is open to muggles - or let the villagers secretly cast spells in the basement. "

"But is it necessary?" Mr. Digory couldn't help asking, "To make some money, to make such trouble?"

"That's not a few bucks, Amos." Lockhart sighed, "The customers we're targeting are those fat-bellied financial capitalists among Muggles who spend 10,000+ a year just playing golf. Gallon... By the way, you reminded me that another golf course can be built around Hogsmeade. Anyway, golf originated in Scotland, and we spend almost no money on maintaining the turf, just dig a few holes. Mountains, lakes It’s all ready made.”

"Can you find so many guests?" Everyone expressed doubts.

Lockhart seemed full of confidence: "As long as that oil well is put into operation, then we will have to deal with them. When they realize the benefits of recuperating in the magic village, we will form a secret club for them. The annual membership fee is at least Starting from [-] pounds...To be honest, I didn't know that the Malfoy family had been secretly playing futures for a long time without dealing with them."

"What are futures?"

"It's a kind of transaction where the price is agreed on early—you can understand it this way. The Malfoy family is doing grain trading. They put the grain on their land on the Muggle grain futures market for hedging—this is simply is cheating because

Their land yields far more than muggles

Although I don't understand what futures Lockhart is talking about, one thing everyone can understand is that some people in the wizarding world have been secretly trading with Muggles for a long time, such as the Malfoy family.

Only then did they understand why Lockhart had brought them here.

If Lockhart wants to transform Hogsmeade into a "health resort", everything from avoiding and hiding magical creatures around the village to prohibiting the abuse of magic controls, to hiring professional healers from St. Mungo's, and magic transportation Planning is indeed not something that Lockhart or the Department of International Affairs and Cooperation can accomplish alone.

This kid actually wants to drag us all into the water!This is a common thought in everyone's mind at this time.

Lockhart is not in a hurry to convince everyone at once, he only needs to bring his own ideas to this reception, and as for the project, if he wants to start it, he has to wait until the end of the Triwizard Tournament.

The only problem is legal. He has to get enough allies to push this project forward, because this is actually playing around the edge of the "Secrecy Act".

As for the source of customers, he is not afraid. As he said just now, the people in the Muggle financial world have almost everything. If they are not worried about their bodies that are gradually decaying due to hedonism, they will be more indulgent than they are now.

Taking advantage of the fact that Muggle medicine has not yet developed to that point, Lockhart has reason to believe that this particular sanatorium will be favored by the rich.

Chapter 180

After planting a seed in the minds of his colleagues, Lockhart did not rush to let it germinate immediately, but chose to wait patiently and let it ferment for a while.

His work report has been handed in, and has been affirmed by the above. The next step is to see if his request can be met.

"I've got the staffing you asked for. It just so happened that some of last year's graduates have not been assigned." Mr. Crouch said to him, "She will report to you within two weeks and you have to get her ready." An office and a place to settle down."

"Her? Female intern?" Lockhart asked sensitively.

Embankment's.We asked all eligible interns, and asked if anyone volunteered, and the lady agreed. " Crouch answered his question.

If it was someone else, Crouch would definitely not make excuses, but he didn't mind making an exception for a subordinate who easily broke through a situation in a month. Compared with the "original" Percy who had worked for half a year and had not been As far as the treatment of remembering the name is concerned, it is really a heaven and an underground.

But to be honest, Lockhart was not too happy about the fact that the intern he was about to assign was a woman.

This is not a prejudice, because of magic, women in the wizarding world are actually not much different from men in terms of physical strength and physiology, but the perceptual thinking mode always makes him feel a little hindered.

Because he is a "thinking" creature, even if he falls into a certain emotion, he will quickly struggle out of it and maintain himself and rationality, which also makes it difficult for him to indulge in a certain emotion.

"Is there no one else. I mean, it's not very easy to arrange in life..." Luo

Hart couldn't help asking

Mr. Crouch's reaction told him immediately that he had gone too far.

"It's not easy to find an intern from a pure-blood family." Mr. Crouch straightened his face, even though his expression was not much different from before: "As for the treatment, there is no need to be too strict, no one will pay attention to this aspect." Gossip... In fact, you don't need to worry about this issue."

After Crouch said so, Lockhart had no choice but to stop raising any objections, and was going to spend a day in the office, and return to Hogsmeade after doing some private matters.

Of course, compared with public affairs, he should be more conscientious in handling private affairs.

He first informed his brother-in-law about the progress of the oil drilling company, saying that because of the sufficient data, Aiming Company is likely to dig the first oil well within a few months, and start trading oil within the year. Be careful.

Although he was a little surprised by the progress of the oil well development, William didn't ask any more questions, because this was not his style.

But when he saw the financial statements submitted by Lockhart, he still couldn't help frowning

"Don't your people have professional accountants and lawyers?" He pointed to the report submitted by Lockhart and asked, "This kind of thing can't handle the tax bureau, let alone pass the listing audit."

"The tax bureau is out of our hands for the time being." Lockhart said proudly, "I registered the company in the Virgin Islands, and the company there can provide all legal procedures, as long as we pay the money."

Of course, William is well aware of this. In fact, his brother-in-law is not the only one who digs big corners. Among the people who have opened accounts in the bank, there are not [-] but [-] customers who do this. He has long been used to it. .

"But if you want to start business in the UK, join the futures system, and finally go public, you have to issue a qualified audit report. And if your company

If the company has no insurance, no professional legal advisors, and no tax and legal firewalls, no one will be willing to trade with you, so you'd better make preparations early. ’ he reminded.

Lockhart was a little puzzled: "Delete the video and delete the sauce =" pay the gray letter Liaoqian hang up? Fluke? Although Ai Ming said that it will be accelerated later, but...is it necessary to start preparations so early?

"Of course, because going public requires auditing three years of annual reports, the sooner you start preparing, the faster you will go through the procedures."

William explained briefly, but then he remembered something: "But you can also choose to go public through the back door, but it will cost more money, and I personally don't recommend it."

In just a few words, Lockhart exposed the fact that he really doesn't know much about the financial market, so he can only leave it to professionals to take care of it.

However, William said that these are not problems. As long as he has money, no one in the financial center of London will be willing to provide him with services.

Lockhart also thought about it, there is no need to save such a small amount of money.

"Then please pay more attention and recommend me talents in this field... In addition, you can also communicate with powerful people who are involved in oil futures and finance. If you have time, I would like to invite them to a private resort." Lockhart buried again——Fruit Dingzi

"Resort? Could it be..." William had some guesses in his mind.

"Yes, that's what you think. They'll have a great time there, and they'll thank you when they come back." Lockhart winked at him.

William agreed with a wry smile.

Lockhart originally wanted to take the opportunity of buying film reels to hang out in London for two more days. After all, big cities are more interesting than rural areas.

But the Ministry of Magic suddenly sent an urgent notice, saying that Hogwarts discovered

He found traces of Sirius Black, so he was asked to go back quickly to cooperate with the dementors.

Lockhart thought to himself that Black was really strong enough to act, and he directly moved without even looking for the way.

Of course, he only dared to complain secretly, but on the face of it, he immediately complied with the request from above, and immediately returned to the Shrieking Shack from the fireplace of the Ministry of Magic.

When he returned, he found Dobby bathing Sirius.

I only heard Dobby complaining to the big black dog while washing, saying that it ran around again and came back covered in ashes.

Strange, I didn't see it having the habit of rolling around in the house, so why did it get dusty on its back when it went out? "

Sirius Xin said that if you go through a passage that has not been touched by anyone for almost 20 years, you will also come back covered in ashes.

Seeing Lockhart come back, Black knew that his affairs had alarmed the Ministry of Magic after all, and he was secretly proud.

During the three days when Lockhart was away, he took advantage of the night to re-pass two of the three secret passages leading to Hogwarts that he knew.

His progress was very slow, because whenever he came to a familiar scene, he couldn't help recalling the past, and moved forward after a while.He was almost re-exploring while immersed in the memories of his student days, and the speed naturally couldn't be fast.

Of course, Dobby's hard work is undoubtedly a strong support for his actions - if he hadn't eaten and drank during the day, and could sleep soundly on the soft carpet, he would never have revisited the old place so leisurely.

The one closest to the Gryffindor tower is undoubtedly the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor, but Sirius had a bad start, and when he was almost at the end, he found that this passage had collapsed, so he had no choice but to return;

The second one worked, the one from the Shrieking Shack to the Whomping Willow.

No one, Sirius could tell from the thick dust in the passage, hadn't been passed by for more than a decade since Remus' last transformation in the Shrieking Shack in seventh grade

In other words, he can completely regard this place as an "absolutely safe" passage.

In addition, Sirius knew of a secret passage from the cellar of Honeydukes to the corridor on the third floor of Hogwarts, but it was not easy for him to go through this secret passage often, because the entrance was in someone else's house.

Fortunately, the boss of Honeydukes recognized the dog 7 and knew that it was Lockhart recently adopted to watch the nursing home, so he didn't make things difficult for him. Sirius is not easy to break through.

In the end, Sirius slipped in when the dementors came to inspect and Froome went out to deal with the dementors.

Facts have proved that this passage can also be walked, but there are too many stone steps, it takes a little longer, and it is not concealed enough, and there are gaps exposed under the eyes of the boss of Honeydukes

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But the advantage is that you can go directly to the castle, unlike the one in the Screaming Shack, which requires sneaking in from outside the castle.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, there are many secret passages leading to the school outside the school, and it is not difficult to freely enter and exit.

After exploring the way to the castle, Sirius reconnected with Crookshanks inside the castle by relying on the smell left in the corner.

Crookshanks told him in his own way that the red-haired boy, Ron Weasley, was very wary of him now, and he had no way of getting the mouse.

And Black also told it, let it figure out a way to get the password to enter and exit the common room, and the rest will be figured out by itself.

Crookshanks showed some distress—because it was not smart enough to recognize the English alphabet, nor could it repeat the passwords of the students to let Sirius know

But Black said it doesn't matter, he will find a way to let Gryffindor let students in and out through new methods.

So he did a big thing - he took advantage of the night to change back to his original shape in the corner, and then went to the door of the Gryffindor lounge to yell on purpose, woke up the fat lady, and then pointed his wand at The fat lady at the door seemed to cast a spell aloud, and destroyed the frame of the portrait.

After finishing this important event, he was not in a hurry to sneak back to Hogsmeade immediately, but returned to Hogsmeade from the Whomping Willow after a few circles, and took advantage of Dobby's awakening before returning to Hogsmeade. The wand returned to its place.

Since the Fat Lady had been Gryffindor's entrance portrait when he was in school, he was sure the other party would recognize him.

Next, Blake quickly went back to sleep in his kennel, pretending to have slept there all night, perfectly completing his alibi.

Hogwarts will probably be in chaos for a while, and security is the most prone to mistakes during changes. He just needs to wait patiently for Crook LU to help and find the loopholes in the security.

Peter Pettigrew...we'll see!Take advantage of the last period of your life, hurry up and repent!

Chapter 180 Nine

After Lockhart came back without saying a word, the first thing he did was to check his old wand, because he was not sure whether Sirius had that kind of heart, and destroyed the evidence in time

He was very satisfied with the result—this guy's brain is really easy to use, and the last few magic spells flashed by the Flashback Curse were all forgetting spells.

Seeing Lockhart go to check his old wand, Sirius was very proud - he used a flashback spell first, and after confirming that the last two or three spells cast by this wand were "forgotten", It was used to cast a spell on the fat lady.

After casting the spell, he used the wand to release several Oblivion spells in succession before putting the wand back in place.

Hmph, I'm afraid this confused Ministry of Magic staff can't find anything, right?

However, even though Black put it very carefully, not only did the box in which the wand was placed remain unmoved, and he wiped it carefully when returning the wand, but Lockhart's mental calculations or inadvertently showed his flaws.