Chapter 685 Meeting(1/2)
The departure time of the Hogwarts Express was forced to be postponed. Except for some parents who came to attend the funeral, they were allowed to take their children out of school directly, and the remaining students were driven back to the castle.
Because of the existence of the Weasleys, Sirius, Remus Lupin and others, Harry and others were not asked to return to the Gryffindor common room, but were allowed to stay with their families, and they were temporarily placed in the school auditorium. Harry saw many familiar faces, Ernie, Zacharice
Smith, Seamo, Coummike McLagan, Hannah, Susan Bones, Anthony Goldstein, Marcus Belby, Draco,
Pansy Parkinson, Breissshabini…
Many of them are regular guests at Professor Slughorn's banquet.
These students were all family members or relatives, including the Weasleys. They stayed in the auditorium and spoke quickly, stopped from time to time, looked at the police in the direction of the staff lounge with a gloomy and anxious look, hoping that someone would come out and Aba Jinde temporarily borrowed the school venue to discuss important matters with the magic ministers of various countries.
"Ms. Bones sent a large number of Aurors before entering to prevent unrest..." Percy said seriously. He was wearing a formal outfit and had a small meeting with Bill, Sirius, Lupin, Moody, Longbottom and other members of the Order. When the incident happened, Percy originally planned to return to the Ministry of Magic immediately, but was asked by Mr. Weasley to stay. He argued with reason, "The Ministry needs me now!" As a result, Penelo said sarcastically: "What are you going back to do? Prepare for the celebration for the world of magic to be exposed to the world?" So Percy stayed.
The old man and the children of the Order of the Phoenix sat together, "There is nothing to worry about!" Neville's somewhat scary grandmother said with a tough attitude.
Mrs. Weasley responded absent-mindedly. Fleur had just sent Mrs. Maxim away. When she came back, she saw Penelo and Mrs. Weasley sitting intimately, pouting in dissatisfaction.
"Oh my, I saw Mrs. Maxim kissing that big guy. It was incredible, right?" Furong shook her waterfall-like hair and forced her to squeeze among them. "Maybe it was because of the true love in times of adversity, or it was purely courteous." Mrs. Weasley hummed in an unknown attitude.
Ginny was pushed aside, looking very unhappy. She stood up, shook her hair and walked to her two twin brothers. Her beautiful head was raised proudly, and she looked like another lotus.
"So you were taught by a hidden black demon for half a century for a year, and your school life is really colorful," Fred said.
"Don't look unsighted," George said seriously: "You must know that someone among us killed another black demon with his own hands."
Harry said with a gloomy expression: "Thank you, George, I will be happy to share this part of the experience if you want to learn." After that, he glared at Ron, who just said that he just let it go.
Ron looked around, as if interested in what Professor Machiban shouted on the other side of the auditorium. The old woman shouted loudly: "Silly!
I was wondering, when was our government so keen on dealing with criminals? I told me that Dumbledore shouldn't have retreated at all, and that Abakid wouldn't be another Forge, right?"
The real Forge stood in the corner and turned his hat awkwardly. He also attended the funeral, but he was alone, even the Malfoy family was more popular than him.
Ron withdrew his gaze, pretended not to see Harry looking at him, shrugged and said, "She is right, there is never a shortage of people like Fudge in the world.
"I think," Hermione said in a matter matter, "it is not fair to him to put Abakind and Fudge together, at least his original intention is good,
To avoid war, though he obviously underestimated Grindelwald."
"That's his biggest problem, Hermione," Fred pointed out.
At this time, Harry saw a figure flashing at the entrance of the auditorium. He jumped from the chair and his heart was pounding, but he immediately realized that he had thought it was a mess. He fell back to his seat, as if he had lost all his strength.
"What's wrong with you, Harry?" Ron asked in surprise.
Nothing—" Harry opened his mouth, "Well, I thought I had seen Dumbledore, but that should be Abforth.
"Oh, they're a bit like a little," Ginny said, "but I didn't seem to see him at the funeral?"
"He went to Classroom 7."
Nick, who was almost headless, floated around behind her, and his head shaking, Ginny and Neville, who were closest to him, froze and gave him a seat quietly.
"Class 7?" Ron asked with interest, "Why? Oh," he understood, "his family is there."
"Yes, but he was unlucky today and was almost kicked out by the memory of several professors." Nick, who almost lost his head, said.
"What's going on?" Harry asked sensitively.
"It has something to do with a new memory. He is about the same age as Dumbledore. Well, I mean Dumbledore in Classroom 7." Nick said: "I know something about Abforth. He has come very hard lately. Not only me, a ghost, has met him during dinner... But he usually just watched from a distance, but when he saw that new memory today, he suddenly jumped out and got angry."
"That's all about that new memory?" George asked, "Who is that person?"
"I don't know." Nick, who almost lost his head, said restraintly. He shook his head, his head turned to the side, his whole face turned completely upside down. He screamed in surprise and hurriedly reached out his hands to adjust his position. Harry looked away with chills.
There is a new memory in classroom No. 7, which makes Abufors so angry. Who will it be?
Harry's eyes lit up, and he thought of it. He looked at Hermione, and she seemed to guess it from her shocked expression.
It is likely that it is Grindelwald's memory. Judging from the words of Nick, who almost lost his head, what Grindelwald should have left behind is the memories of his youth, but when did he do it? Does Professor Hepp know? If he knows why he doesn't stop it, is it because of his special relationship with Dumbledore? Did they reach an unknown agreement in private? Harry was so impressed,
"You can find time to ask Professor Heip. Classroom 7 is his territory. He must know the identity of the memory." Ron said to Nick, and he glanced at an inconspicuous door in the auditorium. "But he should be very busy next time. Alas, I thought he could detect and stop Grindelwald in advance. But it is also true that it is hard for normal people to imagine Grindelwald's madness." A trace of fear appeared in his eyes.
"Why do you say that?" Neville asked in a low voice. Does the professor know something?
Ron shrugged.
"He is simply omnipotent in my heart. You know, looking for clues through clues - like a detective in Muggle's mouth, I didn't expect to miss this time."
"It's totally different, Ron" Hermione shook her head and said seriously, "Grindelwald seems to have done a lot of things - convening the core saints, negotiating with the president of the International Wizards' Federation, revealing the news of President Dumbledore's death, making an unbreakable oath, and attending today's funeral, but these things are actually optional and irrelevant to the overall situation."
Harry's somewhat numb mind started to work again. Hermione's words brought him a new direction of thinking, and he seemed to have cleared the fog in his heart.
"I understand! Grindelwald's purpose from beginning to end is only one: to expose the entire magic world, force the wizard society to integrate with the Muggle society,
Complete his and Dumbledore’s original dream,” Harry said excitedly.
"Then all the things he did before were foolish? Everyone was fooled by him?" Ron looked at the two of them and asked hesitantly.
"At present, we can only guess." Hermione said softly: "From the strength Grindelwald showed today, he can complete the plan alone - he may not be able to beat Professor Hepp, but at their level, he can escape from the battle at any time, so it will be so difficult to capture Voldemort alive. Ordinary wizards cannot get involved at all. I even think that once Grindelwald judges that the plan is not going well, he will immediately give up the details and go straight to the topic."
"Why did he make things so troublesome?" Ron said irritably.
"Because Grindelwald is also a human being." Harry said slowly, the memories he saw in the meditation pot with Dumbledore in the past provide evidence for what he said at this moment.
"He was arrogant and arrogant, wanted to prove that he was right, wanted to announce the arrival of a new era to the world, and perhaps he wanted to let Dumbledore be buried with decent decently from the moment he escaped from prison, and everything he did afterward was nothing more than to make the process as consistent as possible while ensuring the results remained unchanged.
"Professor Na Haip—"
"He might have guessed some of it." Hermione thought of what Felix said before, "but he guessed it shouldn't be much earlier than us, maybe because of what Grindelwald said at the funeral, or what Grindelwald said during the brief fight at the school gate was noticed by the professor, thus linking it all up."
"…Think about it, the professor knows Grindelwald's character better than we do. We can all immediately think of the conspiracy hidden in the negotiations led by Grindelwald. How could the professor not have imagined it? The same is true, including the publication of Dumbledore's death. A professor did not believe that Grindelwald's purpose was so simple. He wanted to find out Grindelwald's true intentions, and the professor always planned and then acted. This was the case. Grindelwald deceived everyone. But it was too late,
"But he clearly made an unbreakable oath!" Ron shouted.
"But he clearly made an unbreakable oath!" Aba Jinde shouted in the temporary meeting in the staff lounge,
The lounge was filled with people, each of which was an undisputed figure in the magic world, the ministers of magic from various countries, the president of the union, and the president of Hogwarts, the owner of the place.
Aba Jinde stared at his arm in a daze, and his oath still worked without any sign of damage.
"Mr. Abakinder, I have also heard of Grindelwald's oath, but I still don't know what your oath is?" Professor McGonagall asked seriously.
Aba Jinde licked his dry lips.
"I can guarantee that the alliance process is completely open, and there are more than a dozen magic ministers witnessed the scene... The oath is two-way: Grindelwald promises not to kill people by chance unless someone attacks him first, of course, the dispute is not included; he will not provoke a war of wizards; he will not conspire to subvert the existing wizard regime; and I want to do it to give up the responsibility of the saints, allow him to openly act, and not issue orders against him."
The person in the lounge frowned. At this time, Felix said: "He really didn't provoke the wizard to fight Jing'." He emphasized the last few words. None of the people present was a fool. They instantly figured out the key.
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall shouted fiercely, "Have you not even studied his political claims carefully before the negotiation?"
Aba Jinde's dark face turned into purple, and he defended himself: "We didn't expect that he had never done this before, and he had been seeking his position in the wizarding world."
"A similar thing happened. A very old magic minister said slowly: "Before being locked in Newmont Gaardburg, Grindelwald had reached its peak twice. At that time, he was ready to declare war on the Muggles, but in the end they were thwarted by Dumbledore.
Aba Jinde's face turned pale.
"Even if Muggles are counted, he is not considered a swearing. After all, he just made the existence of magic to the world and did not provoke a war... He is really flawless." Professor McGonagall said sharply, and everyone present was a little uncomfortable.
"Mr. Hepp," Abakind said, with a hint of desire in his tone, "I admit that there have been huge mistakes in our work and we cannot continue to make mistakes. Only you have the ability to catch Grindelwald, I ask you to stand up and I will let the newly formed Auror team cooperate with you."
Felix warned him.
"Some things can only be said here, Mr. Aba Jinde—One of your content is not to issue orders against him. Unless you plan to carry the oath first."
Aba Jinde was speechless, as if he had suddenly lost the ability to speak. After a while, he opened his mouth again. At this time, his face was completely bloodless, "I, I will resign voluntarily, so that it won't be considered one."
"You'd better not go anywhere," said Felix. "This vow is a little more important than this. When we deal with the huge crisis in front of us, we can't consider Grindelwald's influence for the time being. He is also restricted by the "unbreakable oath". As long as we don't go to trouble him, he will not be able to intervene in what will happen next."
"You, you mean," Aba Jinde widened his eyes, "He made a huge wave, but he stood by and watched?"
"I think it's more accurate to hold back and wait," said Ms. Borns. "He won't be an enemy of us, but he is the source of all unrest. Don't forget that the problem is that the magic world is exposed to the world, and we must come up with a solution as soon as possible!
The old wizard who spoke before shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not one or two people involved, nor one or two cities. There is no way to hide it. Alas, the secret law... the secret law is completely over."
"What is Grindelwald waiting for?" Abakind murmured, and then his pupils magnified by fear. "No need to say... naturally, waiting for the situation to fall into chaos. Chaos is what Grindelwald wants to see. Maybe he doesn't have to do anything. The angry wizards who are swept by the war will naturally lean towards his claims. Then he will stand up one by one because I allow him to openly act as a savior,
Declare war on Muggles."
After a disturbing silence, "He even counted this?" someone shouted incredibly.
"Think positively," Felix said meaningfully, "If we deal with it properly, Grindelwald could only stare at me, and even didn't have the chance to show up in the whole process... Who knows!" He leaned on the back of the chair and stared at the ceiling and fell into deep thought. Could this be Grindelwald's true thought?
How can a good person be more intimidating than a total bad person?
If the Muggle government and the people realize that once the end of the two ends to war, they will personally help a hostile black wizard to get rid of the limitations of the oath, and this black wizard was not afraid to destroy a city with powerful magic decades ago, would they be more cautious and sincere?
Felix was thinking too much, and he was not in a hurry to make a decision. It was better to talk to some of the core saints... Grindelwald gave him a way to summon the saints,
But it may not be used, maybe there are people waiting for him now at Hogsmeade.
The meeting made almost no substantial progress, and what it received was nothing more than some very conservative opinions. If the police were careful to collect information from the outside world,
All the wizards were hidden on the spot, but these magic ministers could not reach an agreement on what to do later, and their thinking was completely bound by the "Secret Law".
Two hours later, the magic ministers of various countries hurriedly left. Now there was no idea what the chaos was going on outside, and there were too many things waiting for them to go back to deal with. After these people left, Ms. Bones stayed.
"We must find a way for ourselves." She said seriously, softening her forehead with one hand in pain, "Everyone has their own position. Aba Jinde's reputation has plummeted and he cannot convince everyone at all. In the end, he is still arguing.
"We have to do something in this matter and as soon as possible, not passively waiting for the results. Felix, I want to know what you think.
Felix spread his hands.
“Grindelwald caught everyone off guard, I don’t have a complete plan yet, but there are a few things that need to be addressed first.”
To be continued...