Admiral of Hogwarts

"It seems that Fudge has made a decision." Early the next morning, Hugo glanced at that day's "Daily Prophet" and said to his sister and Veneto.

Because in the Daily Prophet, apart from writing about the success of the competition, they only wrote about the sudden attack of British werewolves on France last night in an inconspicuous corner of the fourth page.

Beyond that, most of the rest is devoted to the platitudes Fudge uses to whitewash the situation and Ben's snark about Professor Dumbledore being an old fool.

This situation is not unexpected. Since Fudge believes that Principal Dumbledore wants to seize his power, it is not incomprehensible to launch some public opinion preparations at this time.

"Isn't this something we thought of before?" Hermione folded the newspapers into a pile and said with disdain. "This stupidity is not a bad thing if you think of them as enemies."

Taking advantage of this time, Veneto also signed a cooperation agreement with the Weasley twins in his own name. Of course, this is not mainly to make money, but to obtain all kinds of important information.

After all, the relationship between the twins' brains and the pure-blood family will make their business prosperous in the future. In this way, they will be able to master a lot of secret information from all parties involved during the war.

Of course, the Weasley twins only knew that Veneto, as a marrow wizard, hoped to take this opportunity to invest and gain a foothold in the wizarding world, and did not know the contents of their behind-the-scenes planning.

"What do your parents think of the current situation in the British wizarding world?" Just as the two parties were signing the agreement, Hugo pretended to casually ask about the opinions of those pure-blood wizards on the current situation.

"My parents definitely support Mr. Principal, but most of the people they know think that Dumbledore is a little allergic, and even think that he is a bit like Mad-Eye Moody before he retired." Fred shook his head. .

"This is mainly due to the recent publicity from the Ministry of Magic." George sighed. "Fudge has even taken the opportunity to remove the Aurors who previously patrolled Knockturn Alley or other places in the past few days, on the grounds that it would cause unnecessary panic."

"Unnecessary panic? Fudge is definitely crazy." Veneto felt that it was a rare phenomenon for humans to be stupid to this extent. "He will only make the situation gradually worse."

"Who says it's not?" Fred showed a helpless expression. "The French guest was inexplicably killed in the school, and Harry was kidnapped. Anyone with a clear mind should see that the current situation is obviously abnormal."

"In this way, there are still people who echo Fudge. For example, my father said that Umbridge, the senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Magic, sang praises for Fudge on various occasions. I really don't know if her mind is full of splendens or if she has a despicable character and wants to please her boss. Ignore all morals." George added at this time.

"It's a pity that now Fudge likes to promote people like this the most, and then the situation of the entire Ministry of Magic will naturally go from bad to worse."

After chatting with the twins for a while, Hugo and the others were going to visit Hagrid. Compared to the somewhat gloomy castle, the bright sunshine outside obviously made people feel a lot better.

As soon as they approached the door of Hagrid's hut, Fang jumped out from the open door, squealing happily and wagging his tail.

"Who is it?" Hagrid asked after hearing the barking of the dog. He walked to the door and saw Hugo and the other three people walking towards his hut.

"Hugo, Hermione and Veneto!" He strode out of the door and rushed to greet them. At the same time, he gently patted their shoulders with his big hand:

"It's so nice to see you. It's such a pleasure to see you come to visit me at this time."

They walked into Hagrid's hut and saw two sets of bucket-sized teacups and saucers on the wooden table in front of the stove.

"Having a cup of tea with Olim," Hagrid noticed Hugo and the others staring at the teacups. He smiled and said, "She just left."

"It sounds like your relationship is making some progress now." Veneto joked. After hearing this, Hagrid immediately became nervous, and a small area of ​​skin on his face that was not covered by his beard suddenly turned red.

"Speaking of which, I really want to thank you for your advice. It has not been easy for her over the years. I almost caused him trouble. But now through communication, I find that we have a lot in common between the two of us."

said Hagrid cheerfully, taking out a few more cups from the cupboard. He made tea, brought a plate of rock cakes and distributed them to Hugo and the three of them. Then he leaned on the chair and looked at Veneto carefully with his dark eyes.

"How does it feel to win the Triwizard Tournament? I heard from the twins that you invested most of your money in the Weasley twins' business. I hope the twins' plan can get their mother's approval-"

"Do you know Mrs. Weasley?" Hermione asked in surprise.

"Of course I do." Hagrid nodded. "As you know, I have been in school for more than half a century. When I first met Molly, she had just entered Hogwarts. At that time, her strong character was already reflected-"

Listening to Hagrid's stories about the past, Hugo and Hermione realized that although the half-giant in front of them looked similar to a middle-aged man, he was actually the same generation as Voldemort, and he was also in his 60s today. .

Of course, the giant bloodline gave him a longer lifespan, and physically he was still a middle-aged man. Therefore, his love affair with Madame Maxime is not considered a twilight love.

This is a characteristic of the wizarding world, that is, the life span of different creatures is also different. Although wizards who can live to 150 to 180 years old are much stronger than ordinary people, they are still compared with giants and so on. Can't compare.

Hermione showed a thoughtful expression at this time. At least she would have a long life after becoming a ship girl, so today's chat made her realize that she should talk to other ship girls about immortality. Knowledge.

"By the way, what does Madame Maxime want to see you for? It can't be just to chat with you, right?" Hugo took the opportunity to ask when Hagrid stopped after telling some of the past events.

"Find me something to do this summer," Hagrid said, "but it's confidential. I can't say, the only thing I can tell you is that Olim - what you call Madame Maxime - might Will do it with me. I think she will, it seems that I have convinced her."

"Does this have something to do with the mysterious man?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Probably," he said vaguely, "Anyway, I definitely won't tell you, so don't ask me again."

Obviously, the headmaster, who has always believed that the giant werewolf should be won over and the Ministry of Magic should fire the dementors, the job he asked the two half-giants to do at this time is most likely to win over the giants.

Unfortunately, their operation this time was destined to be in vain. Because now less than 1/5 of the neutral faction among the giants have been completely won over by Hugo and the others with the help of the atavistic giant, and almost all the rest are radical factions.

However, considering that Mrs. Maxim was traveling with them, the two of them felt that their action would be a failure at most, and there would be no fatal problems.

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