Harry Potter and the Old Ones

The Moon of Fire, the end of June.

The Ministry of Magic, which has just experienced one turmoil after another, is exuding fiery vitality just like the weather in June.

Today is the first day that the British Magical Alliance officially announced its establishment.

The first General Secretary of the British Magical Federation will also be announced today.

Soon, in less than a few hours, the nice gentleman Cornelius Fudge will seize the highest power in the British wizarding world.

It was 8:15 a.m. on June 28, 1996, three hours and 45 minutes before the official start of Cornelius Fudge's inauguration ceremony.

But now the hall of the Ministry of Magic has been re-decorated and filled with colorful flowers.

These flowers are not placed neatly, but appear everywhere in the hall of the Ministry of Magic as if they are growing wildly——

Some grow from the angles between the ground and the wall, some grow on completely vertical and smooth glass, and some grow upside down, seeming to completely overcome gravity or the growth laws of the plants themselves. Generally, they grow from the ceiling or the second floor. The bottom of the platform grows downward.

These flowers seemed to have been enchanted, exuding an extremely rich floral fragrance, swaying inside the Ministry of Magic where there should be no wind, as if they were alive or had their own vivid consciousness, welcoming everyone from the flight. Visitors coming out of the green flames of the road network.

When Harry followed Alastor Moody, Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and other members of the Order of the Phoenix out of the Ministry of Magic's floo network, he was immediately trapped in the Ministry of Magic hall. The strong floral fragrance made me sneeze three times in a row.

Harry wiped his nose helplessly. He hated the strong floral scent here.

He knew that Sirius, who had turned into a big black dog, felt the same way, because from the moment they entered the hall of the Ministry of Magic, Sirius had been wagging his tail anxiously and lying in a corner, very anthropomorphic. Hua covered his nose with his two front paws.

In order to avoid being noticed by interested parties, all members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived in separate groups——

The first to arrive were Shacklebolt Kingsley, Alastor Moody, and Sirius Black who had turned into a big black dog, a suspended Auror. It seemed very strange to appear together with a retired former Auror chief. Reasonable combination.

Then Mr. and Mrs. Weasley took Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and other members of the Weasley family out of the Floo Network one after another. Everyone knew it. Leigh was so close to the Weasleys that it would be strange if they weren't seen together during the summer holidays.

Remus Lupine, as a werewolf wizard, mixed with the team of wizards or other strange magical creatures from Knockturn Alley and arrived at the Ministry of Magic——

Remus Lupine can also inquire about information.

It's easy -

Thanks to Gilderoy Lockhart's previously published book "Harry Potter and the Godfather of Prison Break," Remus Lupine is also considered a celebrity among the werewolf wizards and the wizards of Knockturn Alley.

Especially when Lupine is also one of the few wizards among all werewolf wizards who has received a formal Hogwarts education.

As soon as Lupine walked out of the green flames, he immediately joined the group of werewolf wizards in Knockturn Alley and chatted. He did not say hello to the other people in the Order of the Phoenix. He only nodded slightly when he saw Harry. Even if He said hello and pretended not to be familiar with them.

Harry, who had been warned in advance, did not take the initiative to say hello to Lupine. Instead, he walked around with Ron and Hermione like three curious babies -

This was the condition Harry agreed to last night.

Others in the Order of the Phoenix can bring Harry and the others to Cornelius Fudge's inauguration, but the only condition is that Harry must pretend not to be familiar with or recognize the others after entering the venue, and cannot interfere with the Order of the Phoenix. actions of others.

Although this made Harry feel a little baffled, he agreed.

"Look, my God!" Ron said, pointing to the four long dining tables in front of him, "They actually prepared food!"

Harry and Hermione looked in the direction of Ron's finger——

Sure enough, right in front of them, the door frame that originally entered the Ministry of Magic's security check had been replaced by an arch made of flowers. Starting from the arch, four long and wide dining tables extended outwards, and the dining tables were filled with a variety of things. of eating.

"It's delicious!" Ron took a few steps quickly, picked up a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, and then picked up a small piece of foie gras skewered on top of the browned bread, "This is delicious too!"

"Delicious?" Hermione looked at Ron in disbelief, "You just drank two large bowls of milk porridge for breakfast, and Mrs. Weasley also made you a beef sandwich! How can you eat it?"

"Try it." Ron shrugged, picked up the plate with foie gras bread, brought it to Harry and Hermione, and said vaguely, "It's really delicious."

Hermione rolled her eyes and Harry shook his head to show he had no appetite.

Ron had no choice but to put the plate back on the table. After putting it back, he had to pick up two pieces of foie gras cake and eat them as they walked behind Harry and Ron.

"Tiera should be in front." Hermione said, "It shouldn't be too far away from Cornelius Fudge. To be precise, Cornelius Fudge shouldn't dare to be too far away from Tiera now."

Harry nodded, agreed with Hermione's statement, and then took out a gift wrapped in colored paper from the seamless extension bag hanging on his waist.

"Today is Tiera's birthday," Harry said. "I hope he likes our gift."

"Well." Hermione also took out a gift from her seamless extension bag, "Every time his birthday happened to coincide with summer vacation. Well, this time it also caught up, but fortunately we have today All attended the inauguration of Cornelius Fudge.

Ron wiped the oil on his hands and took out a gift from the seamless extension bag on his waist——

It's just that the seamless extension bag on Ron's waist looks much larger and uglier than Harry and Hermione's.

Normally, the Seamless Extension Charm is not learned until the second semester of sixth grade. By that time, minor students can make their own Seamless Extension Bags, or transform the inside of a suitcase into a moving animal world.

But after the summer vacation, Sirius Black saw that Harry was really bored, so he taught Harry and Ron how to make a seamless extension bag in advance.

Hermione had basically mastered it after attending Tiera's Dumbledore's Army cram school last semester. However, she had been busy preparing for the O.W.Ls exam and guarding against Umbridge, so she never had the time or the mood to make one. .

She was furious when she learned that Harry and Ron were actually using magic against the rules during the summer vacation.

Even after Sirius explained that the traces in the wizarding world can only detect whether there are magic fluctuations within a radius of 500 miles of underage wizards, and if there are other adult wizards around the underage wizards, the traces will have almost no effect, Hermione still can't do anything. Calm down the anger——

It wasn't until she stayed at No. 12 Grimmauld Place for a few days and made a seamless extension bag that she was not to be outdone, that her anger subsided a little.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked towards the inauguration ceremony podium while observing the hall of the Ministry of Magic——

It was completely different from the low-key and restrained obsidian and dark gold decoration style when they came before. Today, the entire hall of the Ministry of Magic is bright red as the base, supplemented by gold, and is also decorated with colorful and layered decorations. , bright red curtain.

The huge curtain is dexterously embroidered with golden threads with countless weird and twisted words and pictures that occupy most of the curtain.

The paintings are also outlined in gold wire and each one is different.

On the outermost layer, the huge curtain closest to the floo network is painted with portraits of a group of house elves. However, what is different from the house elves in reality is that the house elves on the huge curtain are neatly dressed as wizards. They were wearing clothes and holding wizard's wands in their hands. Except for those big round eyes and pointed noses, they looked like miniature wizards. The house elves on the curtain talked to each other and looked around with curious eyes from time to time. Looking at it, but whenever someone looks at the house elves' curtains, the house elves outlined with golden threads on the red curtains will quickly look away, then smile politely and humbly, and some will even take them off. The wizard hats on their heads bowed gently——

It was a completely different way of bowing from when the house elves were slaves. The house elves on the curtain were polite, restrained, and proud, as independent individuals paying respect to the wizards outside the screen.

Hermione was involuntarily attracted by the curtain, and her pace gradually slowed down.

"That's great." Hermione said softly, with a hint of joy in her tone that she was not even aware of. "This is the state that house elves should be in. They are no different from us in the first place -"

"No difference!" A sharp and untimely voice interrupted Hermione.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked in the direction of the sound——

A tall and thin boy with light blond hair and a relatively backward hairline stood behind them, staring at them with anger and disgust.

"Sure enough, mudbloods, like house elves, are a race that should be slaves." The boy said.

"Draco Malfoy." Hermione was not angry, but said in a tone that couldn't be more ordinary, "I really hope to see you in school next semester."

After saying that, Hermione looked at Draco Malfoy with a look of pity.

Draco, on the other hand, blushed and stared at Hermione fiercely, "Don't be too proud, Mudblood! I'll make you look good!"

After saying that, Draco Malfoy turned around angrily.

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other inexplicably, as if they couldn't figure out what Malfoy was up to.

They shrugged inexplicably and continued to move closer to the podium where Cornelius Fudge was about to deliver his inaugural speech——

Saw the second huge curtain.

Drawn on the curtain are portraits of a group of sturdy centaurs, running across the vast wilderness.

When Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at the centaurs in the curtain, the centaurs stopped running, raised their hands, waved enthusiastically at the three of them, and then continued running. got up.

The next one is a ferocious werewolf.

When Harry and the others looked at the werewolf, the werewolf stopped its violent movements, gradually shrank in size, and turned back into a normal human wizard.

On the next curtain is a group of vampires——

They look human, but their pointed ears and elongated tusks give them away.

Every vampire on the curtain is holding a parasol to avoid the sunlight mentioned in the scroll, sitting on the lawn and green space and having a tea party.

Whenever someone looks at them, they will gently raise the black tea or small piece of cake in their hands to signal.

After seeing this curtain, Harry, Hermione, and Ron looked around in unison, as if they wanted to see if there were any vampires attending today's inauguration ceremony, but soon, their eyes were lost in the bustling and chaotic crowd. ——

There are too many people today.

The three of them continued walking forward.

The front curtain also features giants, orcs, mermaids, and other magical animals with near-human intelligence.

On a curtain in front of the rostrum, there is a group of wizards——

There were men and women, old and young, standing among countless instruments, books and magic items. A few people seemed to be discussing something intensely. No matter how many people looked at them, they remained unmoved and continued to talk passionately. Discussing.

"Look, Tiera!" Harry said, pointing to the last curtain.

Hermione and Ron also looked over carefully——

It was discovered that the young man inside the curtain was Tiera.

"There are also Dumbledore, Nico Flamel, Mrs. Wu Wu, Slytherin, and the other two wizards that day." Hermione also said.

"Yeah." Harry said, and then looked towards the podium frequently.

"Where is Tiera?" Harry said strangely, "I saw Cornelius Fudge, but where is Tiera?"

"Harry!" At this time, Harry heard someone calling him.

Harry turned around -

I saw a kind-hearted old man with a white beard——

That's Dumbledore.

There is also a kind and stern lady——

That's Professor McGonagall.

There are also Hagrid, Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, Professor Trelawney, Mrs. Hooch, Mrs. Pince, basically all the Hogwarts professors except the dormitory managers Fitch and Snape. All are here.

"Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall!" Hermione shouted in surprise, "Why are you here?"

"We have to come and see Cornelius Fudge's inauguration, right?" Dumbledore said with a smile, and then his voice suddenly dropped, "We all know whose inauguration is actually."

"So Tiera is coming back too?" Harry asked.

"Of course." Dumbledore replied, "He has arrived a long time ago and is making preparations backstage now. He will show up when the inauguration ceremony officially starts at 11:30. What? Do you have something to do with him?"

"Oh no, no, yes." Harry said, "Today is his birthday. We want to give him a gift and wish him a happy birthday."

"He will receive it," Dumbledore said after a moment of silence, then sighed, "He will receive it."