Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

The same is true for the elderly who participate in "health training courses". They will say that your physical function, figure and weight are all standard, but there are some problems with the XX indicators, and then recommend a lot of "high-tech drugs" to you.

Another example is if you go to XX bathing center" Even if you finish the consumption in 3 minutes, the conscientious waiter will say "husband, you are awesome" when you are done... Cough cough, this does not count.

In short, when someone speaks well of you, you must think about what his intentions are next. This is true in politics, and it is also true in life.

Sure enough, Lockhart said the second half of the sentence: "If this matter can be resolved, the British people will thank you for your great contribution."

"The wizards of Britain...can they understand what we're doing? I doubt it," said Fudge.

"Could it be that the price of medicine in Diagon Alley has come down, and they don't understand 0" Lockhart

rhetorical question.

Fudge thought so too, but he still had a problem to solve: "But, Malfoy... I mean, if some parents of students who are worried about education and their children's safety disagree with this matter, then what should we do?" ?”

Flitwick and McGonagall immediately turned their attention to Lockhart.

"Hey, Minister, raising dragons is a hugely expensive business, from venues to personnel to importing dragon eggs... My God, I think that the Ministry of Magic alone may not be able to do this. We have to Absorb private talents and private capital." Lockhart pretended to be very distressed.

"You mean..." Fudge seemed to realize something.

"Do you think there is a family in Britain willing to take on this responsibility?" Lockhart showed his cards.

Speaking of which, if Fudge doesn't understand, then he has been Minister for 12 years in vain.

"Ha! I think someone would be happy to take on this responsibility." Fudge nodded.

Lockhart, Flitwick, and Professor McGonagall all looked at each other and smiled.

"Then I'll leave it to you. Apart from you, no one in the Ministry of Magic can take on the heavy responsibility of contacting this matter." Lockhart complimented.

Well, I think I need to talk to some people. Fudge finally let go) "Thinking about it carefully, the current students are becoming more and more squeamish.I remember when I was in school, we had to risk dealing with 4X magical creatures in order to rehearse a play, and Professor Kettleburn lost a hand for it. "

Having said that, there is no need for everyone to continue talking.Although things have not yet happened, the overall situation is actually settled.

So the few people changed the topic tacitly, and started talking about the changes in Hogsmeade, the movie at night, and the dementors who became honest.

Hermione's eyes lit up when she heard it from behind: "So that's what happened... As expected of Professor Lockhart, to solve a problem, you can't just start with what you see on the surface, you have to analyze the logic behind it, Buckbeak is saved!"

Ron still looked a little confused: "What? What logic? Aren't they talking about the farm?"

"You are simply stupider than Hagrid!" Hermione rolled his eyes at him, "To build a breeding farm, they need more talents in this field. If they want talents, the protection of magical creatures class needs to be strengthened, Buckby. The misfortune Ke made this time is nothing."

"But Malfoy won't let it go, that guy..." Ron curled his lips.

"That's why Professor Lockhart suggested that the Malfoy family should shut up with the dragon farm!" Hermione said with a look of resentment.

Ron hadn't figured it out yet, but Harry had figured something out.

"Is this politics, Hermione?" Harry asked quietly.

"This is politics." Hermione said firmly, "It's not a simple power struggle, it's "administration" and "governance". Those who can do this well can bring benefits to the entire wizarding world."

Neither Harry nor Ron spoke, and it seemed that they should have listened more or less

"Now that I think about it, I thought it was too simple to promote the rights of house elves from the very beginning." Hermione was thoughtful. If someone benefits from it, naturally no one is willing to promote it. ..."

"Stop talking about your "vomit (SPEW) 5." Ron complained, "Everyone else is annoyed by you. Harry and I went to the kitchen with you, but they... privately told you that they don't think 'vomit' is cool at all."

He had expected Hermione to argue with him, but she hadn't.

"So...what on earth would make them feel that caring about house-elf rights is

Cool, and it gives them a benefit 0 or rather, what the hell do they care about. Hermione turned to Harry, as if to get an answer from him.

"I don't know," Harry replied honestly, "but the whole house is wondering what new broom I'm going to buy. We've already lost one Quidditch game, and we can't lose a second."

"Sweeping Stars, nothing to say."

Red Dan Wood said that Nimbus 2001 is good, Bell suggested Comet 260, and Lee Jordan strongly recommended Cornflower, but Cedric said that he has been paying attention to Thunderbolt 5 for a long time,... Oh, sorry, Hermione, we digressed. "Harry apologized quickly.

"No." Hermione was surprisingly not angry. "Quidditch... I think I understand what you care about. So, what is the fastest broom?"

"Firebolt." Harry and Ron said in unison.

When the Firebolt was mentioned? Harry's voice was a little louder, causing the people sitting next to him to look over suspiciously, as if trying to figure out why two people here made three voices

Harry quickly closed his mouth and continued to pretend to be transparent.

Fortunately, the other party just looked at it and didn't pay attention any more. It was just an auditory hallucination after drinking too much.

"Then why not buy a Firebolt?" Hermione asked back.

Ron answered the question for Harry: "It's too expensive, I heard that the iron parts are all made by goblins, but their output can't keep up...you know, anything as long as it is made by goblins, Then death is more expensive than death."

"That's right." Hermione paid attention, what would happen if the house-elf learned to forge broom parts? "

"They will be gathered and locked up by all the pure-blood families, and they will be enslaved to produce broom parts." Ron replied without thinking.

Hermione choked: "Well, it looks like we'll have to think of other ways.

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While the three children were talking, the neglected big black dog had been lazily lying on the seat, remembering his past, and it was not until they talked about brooms that their attention returned to reality.

Is the Firebolt... why are you so expensive?Blake thought to himself.

Ever since Regulus Black died because of "weakness in energy needs", Sirius Black has become the sole heir of the Black family, regardless of whether the members of the Black family are willing or not.

Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Andromeda are also from the Black family, but they all have to change their surnames in the end. Andromeda even married the Muggle Tonks, so they are all being called After a small amount of property is distributed, the inheritance right is automatically cancelled.

In other words, as the "forever pure" branch of the "sacred 28 pure blood", the wealth they have accumulated over thousands of years now all belong to Sirius Black.

Although Sirius has no concept of his family's financial resources, he has never been short of money even when he ran away from home since he was a child, so the words "I have no money" and "a can't afford it" are in his dictionary. nonexistent.

As long as you can buy it, what is money?

He had already made up his mind to give Harry a Firebolt.

But there are two questions - first, whether Gringotts will allow him to withdraw money; second, whether to mark his real name as a gift.

But he didn't have to think about this problem any longer, because it was solved by the group of people next to him——

"What a filthy stinking traitor!" Hagrid yelled.

The whole Three Broomsticks were silenced by Hagrid's loud voice, as if they didn't understand what this man was going crazy again.

If you let me see that bastard Blake before Peter, I will tear him to pieces with my own hands! ' shouted Hagrid.

Sirius:? !

He found that when he was thinking, he seemed to have missed something inadvertently.He didn't hear it, but that didn't mean Harry, Hermione and Ron didn't hear it either.

After Fudge and the others had finished chatting about the business, the topic naturally turned to tonight's movie, the changes in Hogsmeade, and Black's attack.

Rosmerta complained a lot about the Ministry of Magic's actions-because the dementors came to search every other day, the residents of Hogsmeade were not in the mood to drink, and the tourists from outside disappeared, and her business was greatly affected.

She wanted the Ministry of Magic to get rid of the dementors, but Fudge didn't dare to make this decision, because if something happened, his decision to remove the dementors would definitely be criticized.

On the contrary, if he does not withdraw, even if Black really attacked Harry, he will not be held responsible, because he "did his duty and sent the guards"

Compared with his own political future, the "slight inconvenience" of people's lives is not a big problem in his opinion.

But he couldn't say this clearly, so he had to talk about him, and began to exaggerate Sirius Black's cruelty, tyranny, and "horror plan"

In his narrative, Blake betrayed the Potters, and then appeared in Godric's Hollow, waiting for "his master" to kill the Potters, but finally heard the "bad news" that the master was dead, and then began escape.

As for the reason why he was caught, it was because Peter Pettigrew found him, and then he blew up Peter to death, and then the Ministry of Magic used "twenty Aurors" troops

Surrounded, seized and imprisoned.

"...we have reason to believe that Black is working on a grand plan, perhaps to kill Potter, and then reconvene the Death Eaters to bring his master back to life... Besides, isn't Gilderoy here too? He can scare those dementors."

In order to frighten Rosmerta, Fudge deliberately played up Black's ferocity and terror, as alarmist as he could be, and finally let her stop talking about removing the dementors.

Lockhart saw it clearly, but he had no intention of stopping it.

They just asked the minister to let Hagrid and Buckbeak go, so they couldn't just jump out and hit the minister in the face right away?In addition, everyone came out to drink, so there is no need to be serious about such trivial matters.

They don't care, but the big black dog lying on the side was stunned when he heard it-what the hell is this me?I have done such a thing?I also want to summon Death Eaters and resurrect the Dark Lord?Are you sick?

Although he had already guessed that after he was arrested voluntarily, the world would have some misunderstandings about him, but he didn't expect this misunderstanding to be so big.

It’s fine if I’m still in prison, misunderstanding or not has nothing to do with me, but if my godson is like them, he thinks that he betrayed his parents.

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But these three children are so smart, they must be able to see the contradiction in Fudge's statement?

He glanced to his left hopefully, but saw nothing, but half a glass of butterbeer was suddenly splashed on the floor, and then an empty glass appeared on the table out of nowhere.

"Let's go." came Harry's suppressed voice.

It could be heard that he was trying his best to suppress his anger.

It's over, said Sirius Xingxin.

Ron and Hermione hurriedly followed, took cover, opened the door of the bar for Harry, and then rushed in the direction of Honeyduke with four footprints.

"Send Harry into the secret passage, and then we'll be right back," Hermione said to Ron.Ron really wanted to say that he hadn't seen the movie called "Terminator" yet, and he had already bought two tickets, so he couldn't waste those 6 silver Sickles.

But looking at Hermione's expression, she was obviously not discussing with herself, so Ron had to obey after muttering twice.

Fudge, Crouch and the others obviously didn't care about the departure of the children beside them, they were still chatting happily under the influence of alcohol.

Although Fudge still didn't promise to spare Buckbeak, but judging from today's situation, Fudge's attitude is obviously inclined to let this matter go.

Hagrid saw the hope, and he was in a very happy mood, so after drinking a barrel of mead, he stood up comfortably and said goodbye to everyone, and McGonagall and Professor Flitwick also had to make corrections. The student offered to leave on the grounds of homework.

After the Hogwarts professors left, only a few colleagues from the Ministry of Magic were left on the scene.

In front of his subordinates, Fudge no longer had to maintain his demeanor, so he let himself go completely and started talking and laughing loudly.

Seeing the dirty jokes in Fudge's mouth, the speed of the car gradually increased to [-] mph, and his mood became crazy. Gemma Farley, who was accompanying him, couldn't help frowning.

Middle-aged men can be coquettish, but not greasy; you can be violent and melancholy, but you can't lose control.

Someone is still better - he has always maintained good self-control and demeanor, and even remembered to change his wine for lemonade while others were not paying attention.

Chapter 210 Unexpected Entry

Seeing that the atmosphere was already super hot, Lockhart seized no opportunity to encourage those present to buy two houses in Hogsmeade as soon as possible.

"I believe you have also seen that after the Triwizard Tournament is over and the resort facilities and intermediate market are built here, the land price will definitely soar." Lockhart tried his best to sell to everyone, "Just buy two in advance If you build a house on a piece of land, you don’t have to do anything while sitting, and your assets will double in two years.”

If he said this three months ago, I am afraid that Fudge and Crouch would just laugh and go on.

But just before they came to the Shrieking Shack for an unannounced visit, they had already visited the built facilities.And the speed of the construction progress can be said to be far beyond their imagination. If Lockhart says such a thing at this time, they can no longer take it lightly.

"After the Triwizard Tournament, will more tourists come here?" Fudge couldn't help asking.

"It depends on whether you are willing or not." Lockhart laughed very hard,

"In fact, apart from the resort, I also want to build an "intermediate trade market" in Hogsmeade, which is positioned to replace the export trade market in Knockturn Alley, and regularly allows some high-level Muggles to come in and trade , use the profits to offset the gold we consume in importing industrial products from Muggles, and the Ministry of Magic can also draw taxes from it to fill its finances... Of course, this is just an idea now, and discussions have not yet begun. "

Fudge struggled to move his mind, as if trying to figure out the pros and cons of Lockhart's idea.But under the influence of alcohol, he shook his dizzy mind, and finally gave up.

"Forget it, we won't talk about business affairs today, and we'll think about it later. But I want to discuss with my wife and family about the house you mentioned, and see how much money I can get... To be honest, Jide Luo, your movements are really too fast."

"I didn't expect it to be so fast, so I asked you to come and inspect it quickly." Lockhart said half apologetically, half proudly, "You'd better move quickly, after so many major constructions at one time, it is estimated that many families You will find that the price of land here will increase.

"Who said it wasn't? Otherwise, why did we keep it secret in the first place." Fudge slipped his mouth inadvertently.

^^ Just know.Lockhart curled his lips inwardly.

It is obvious that the holding of the Triwizard Tournament should be publicized earlier, so that the Ministry of Magic can maximize commercial benefits from it, but the senior officials of the Ministry of Magic chose to organize it in secret. It is estimated that some people in the Ministry of Magic want to obtain some benefits through poor information. For example, buying some land or shares in related industries in advance.

In terms of eating, the people from the Ministry of Magic and their colleagues in the previous life are simply a template.Lockhart thought.

Then Lockhart turned to Mr. Crouch again: "So what do you mean?"

While everyone was talking, Barty Crouch on the side seemed very quiet, barely speaking, until Lockhart asked him, he seemed to be awakened by something, and moved a bit.

Some people talk a lot after drinking, such as Fudge

And there is another kind of person who becomes extremely quiet after drinking alcohol, and looks like an autistic person in a mental hospital, such as the current Barty Crouch.

"The Crouch family has a vacant lot and a country house here, I just need to find someone to expand it." He didn't seem very enthusiastic.

"Aren't you going to buy new land?" Lockhart asked, "If you leave it for a few more decades...

"Let's leave it for another few decades, who can leave these things to?"

I don't know if it's because of telling the truth after drinking, but Crouch inadvertently spoke the truth.

Fudge and Lockhart were silent for a moment.

Although Crouch and Fudge are political enemies, but also as a pure-blood wizard, Fudge feels that he can understand Crouch's feelings "even if the Fudge family is not sacred 28