save the bachelors

Chapter 4137 [The Ministry of Magic has changed]

The next day, Xiang Nan and Lupin went to see the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.

But it's not easy to find him.

Because his office requires a password to enter, unlike other professors' offices where you can just knock on the door.

Xiang Nan and his companion first went to see Professor McGonagall and proposed to see Headmaster Dumbledore to discuss important matters.

Professor McGonagall knew that Xiang Nan would not make trouble out of nothing, so she took them to the third floor and stopped in front of a huge and extremely ugly stone monster.

"Cauldron Cake," Professor McGonagall said to the stone monster.

The monster suddenly came to life, jumped to the side, and the wall behind it split in two.

Lupin was startled, but Xiang Nan knew that it was a trap, so he remained calm.

Behind the wall was a spiral staircase that was moving slowly upwards, like an escalator.

As soon as Xiang Nan, Lupin and Professor McGonagall stepped up, they heard a loud bang behind them and the wall closed again.

They spun higher and higher until they came to a gleaming wooden door with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin.

When they reached the top, they stepped out of the stone steps and Professor McGonagall knocked on a door.

The door opened quietly and they went in. Professor McGonagall told Harry to wait and left, leaving Channan and Lupin there.

Xiang Nan looked around curiously and saw that it was a spacious, beautiful round room filled with all kinds of funny little noises.

On the table with slender legs, there were many strange silverwares placed, spinning and spitting out small puffs of smoke.

The walls were covered with portraits of former headmasters and principals, all of whom were snoring softly in their frames.

Behind the door, on a high gilded perch, stood a large crimson bird with a gleaming golden tail, as long as a peacock's, and a pair of glittering golden claws.

"What is this?" Lupin asked curiously.

"It's a phoenix." Xiang Nan explained.

"It's so beautiful," Lupin exclaimed.

Xiang Nan also nodded sincerely, and if he had not forgotten, the core of his wand came from this phoenix.

……

The office door opened and Dumbledore walked in.

Xiang Nan and Lupin hurried forward to salute, "Good morning, Principal~"

"Good morning." Dumbledore nodded. "Minerva told me that you have something to talk to me about?"

"Yes, Principal." Xiang Nan nodded, "I invented a magic potion called 'Wolfsbane Potion', which can keep a werewolf sober and rational after transforming on a full moon night."

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lupin.

Lupin's face showed a mixture of panic, guilt, embarrassment, etc., but he still nodded.

"Principal, I tried it yesterday, and I did manage to stay sane after transforming into a werewolf," he admitted.

"Severus, this is a remarkable achievement." Dumbledore then said to Xiang Nan with a smile.

Throughout history, humans have suffered from the threat of werewolves, and countless wizards have tried to find a way to cure werewolves, but for thousands of years, there has been no solution.

Although the magic potion developed by Xiang Nan cannot cure werewolves, it can allow them to remain awake after transforming, which is truly an amazing achievement.

It can be said that he can be called a potion master just based on this potion. "Thank you, principal." Xiang Nan nodded, then took out a bottle of potion and a piece of parchment and said, "This is the formula of the wolfsbane potion, and this is the actual wolfsbane potion, you can check it yourself.

If you can verify that it works, I hope to promote it so that the wizarding world will know about this formula and be able to save more werewolves."

"Okay, I will." Dumbledore smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your generosity, too."

"You're welcome, Principal. Helping others is the basis of happiness." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said.

……

Then came the exam season.

Xiang Nan still passed all the fourth grade exams with the most perfect results.

Lily also performed very well, especially in Charms, Potions, Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Her performance in these areas was second only to Xiang Nan, and Professor Slughorn even pulled her into his Slug Club.

This is the best affirmation of her talent and strength.

And with the exams over, the fourth year of study has passed.

Apart from studying, refining medicine, and practicing both magic and martial arts, there is almost nothing else to say about Xiang Nan.

But over the past year, the outside world has been in turmoil.

In the second half of 1974, Voldemort led the Death Eaters to continue causing trouble.

They ravaged and tortured Muggle-born wizards and carried out large-scale massacres of innocent Muggle citizens.

They committed many horrific murders in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and other places, killing hundreds of people.

The tragedy in Manchester was particularly bloody. They used magic to destroy a local landmark building, Manchester Cathedral.

Nearly a hundred innocent people who were attending mass in the church were crushed underneath, and more than eighty people were killed, making it the biggest tragedy in Manchester in the past decade.

The city government claimed that the church collapsed due to an earthquake and the aging of the building, but everyone in the wizarding world knew that it was the Death Eaters who cast the building-collapse curse.

But the Ministry of Magic was helpless. Not only could it not stop the actions of Voldemort and the Death Eaters, it didn't even know who they were.

This caused strong dissatisfaction among the people.

Therefore, at the beginning of 1975, the Minister of Magic Eugenia Jenkins was finally ousted due to her ineffective handling of Voldemort and the Death Eaters.

Harold Minchamp, a hard-line minister, then became the new Minister of Magic. He assured the British wizarding community that he would crack down on Voldemort and the Death Eaters and put them all in Azkaban prison.

Harold Minkan did take some measures, such as controlling public opinion, strictly prohibiting the Daily Prophet from publishing articles advocating "pure blood supremacy", strengthening the protection of Azkaban, and sending Aurors to hunt down Death Eaters everywhere.

His actions did show results in the initial stage.

Those disgusting articles advocating "pure blood supremacy" in the Daily Prophet finally disappeared. And the activities of Voldemort and the Death Eaters did stop for a while, seemingly shocked by the momentum of the Ministry of Magic.

But in fact, Harold's approach is only a temporary solution and does not address the root cause.

The articles advocating "pure-blood supremacy" in the Daily Prophet are gone, but the articles advocating "wizard supremacy" and belittling Muggles are still there.

As a result, Muggle-born wizards still suffer discrimination because of their bloodline.

Although Voldemort and the Death Eaters have stopped their activities, the activities of dark creatures such as werewolves, trolls, and vampires are becoming increasingly rampant. It is rumored that they are all Voldemort's men and serve him, which makes the people even more panicked.

(End of this chapter)