Archaeologists at Hogwarts

416 Dumbledore
The Burrow.

"My dear, don't you want to eat any more?" Mrs. Weasley asked again at the table: "Would you like another piece of pie?"

"No, Mom." Percy pretended to puff out his chest, "I have to go to work in the ministry as soon as possible. The minister can't live without me for a moment. He will go crazy when he finds out that I'm not here."

"Then I'd like to see it." Mr. Weasley said with interest, "I've never seen Dumbledore become panic-stricken."

"Of course he won't be seen by ordinary people." Percy pushed his chest higher: "But I'm an assistant minister, so—"

"So you've seen it?" Mrs. Weasley asked dubiously.

Percy blinked.

"I have to go, see you tonight."
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Ministry of Magic.

There are many gilded fireplaces embedded in the walls on either side of the nave: the one on the left for arrivals, the one on the right for departures.

A flash of fire flashed, and Percy arrived smoothly from a fireplace on the left. He shook his head to get rid of the dizziness caused by the Floo powder, and then formally walked out after carefully arranging his witch robes.

"Mr. Weasley."

"Good morning, Mr Weasley."

Although not many people took the initiative to greet him, Percy was still very satisfied, otherwise he would not have come to the Ministry of Magic so early in the morning.

According to the minister's usual habits, he would have to wait another two hours before coming.

Percy had a warm smile on his face. This is a move he learned from Dumbledore, which can make a good impression.

And he really didn't want to be a nuisance like Umbridge.

Percy had heard of the former assistant secretary.

In general, basically, after she left office, almost no one in the entire ministry missed her.

Percy didn't want to become the next Umbridge, or Dumbledore would fire him sooner or later.

After continuing to wander in the hall for a while, he walked slowly towards the elevator until he didn't say hello to Percy again.

With a heavy creak, the elevator door opened.

"It's time to lube."

Percy kept this matter in his heart silently, and it was his first task of the day.

Before he walked into the elevator, he saw that something was wrong inside - a person was dozing off while standing inside, and his face was a little grim.

"Mr. Lupine. Well, Professor Lupine?"

Lupine's eyelids trembled twice, he opened his eyes slowly, and saw Percy who suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Why are you here? Did the Ministry send you undercover? It's too dangerous, I have to persuade them to withdraw this order"

"You're so tired and dazed." Percy shook his head and said, "We're in the Ministry of Magic, why did you fall asleep in the elevator?"

"Is it the second day now?" Lupine asked in a daze, "I forgot what day it is, I still have things to do."

"You should go to rest."

Percy grasped Lupine's arm tightly involuntarily: "I'll take you to Tonks in a moment—forget it, you'd better go to the Department of Magical Sports and Sports, I remember you have a roommate who shared the room there, right? ? It seems to be an official in charge of the official Gobstone Club."

Percy was reluctant to go to the Auror offices of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to see Tonks, in case he would be embarrassed to see Scrimgeour there.

Until now, Percy still didn't know what attitude he should use to treat Scrimgeour. He knew that Scrimgeour had conflicts with Dumbledore. Two hearts.

After reaching the seventh floor, Percy helped the drowsy Lupine out of the elevator, and he kept asking in an adult tone along the way: "I know you care about your work in the Werewolf Registry. , but you can’t do it so desperately, everyone knows how wary werewolves are of the Ministry of Magic, persuasion alone is useless, and it’s also very dangerous. Here we are.”

Percy took Lupine to the official Gobstone Club's workstation, and he rubbed a finger on the table suspiciously, and when he brought it back, it was covered with a fine layer of dust.

"I know Gjeon is staying at Hogwarts now, but his situation is quite special. But how long has it been since your other roommate came to the Ministry of Magic? He won't be expelled, will he?"

Lupine lay on the table without hesitation, and while falling into a coma, he kept muttering: "You don't understand. Werewolves also long for peace. You don't understand"

"Yeah, yeah, I don't understand." Percy muttered dissatisfiedly, and he took out a note from the side, wrote down instructions for Ludo Bagman to pay more attention, and then pressed the note on Lupine's arm under.

"I'm not a werewolf, of course I don't understand. Besides, Minister Dumbledore is not willing to send me as an undercover agent. He needs me so much."

Percy returned to the elevator alone.

After the elevator door opened again this time, he was surprised to see the two people inside.

"Minister, are you here so early today?"

"But it's not as early as you, Mr. Weasley."

Dumbledore responded with a smile, and Percy subconsciously thought that the other party had discovered the little secret of why he had come early, so he lowered his head in shame.

"Come in." Dumbledore said gently, "We still have a lot of work to do today."

"Yes, Minister." Percy walked into the elevator with his head down.

At the same time, he was also somewhat puzzled as to why Scrimgeour was here.

After the elevator doors closed, Scrimgeour didn't seem to care that Percy was there, and he said in a very serious tone: "In two weeks' time, Hogwarts will hold the final test of the Triwizard Tournament. Are you going to do nothing before this? Just watch Toby Highmore decide everything on his own?"

"Since when, in front of this person, has the Ministry of Magic even had to back away from normal work arrangements?"

Percy quietly raised his ears to listen to this passage, but he knew the normal procedures and rules.

Logically speaking, the Three Guns Tournament is actually jointly organized by the Ministry of Magic and the school, and the Ministry of Magic may have a larger proportion, especially in the design aspects of some competitions.

But when he thought of Professor Highmore who was staying at Hogwarts now, for some reason, Percy took it for granted.

Otherwise, what else can we do?
In the ancient magic class, there was always only Professor Haimer's assistant, and I never saw him allow others to intervene in his teaching content at will.

Not even Dumbledore, otherwise Percy wouldn't have seen so many weird things in his last few years at school.

"I understand your concerns." Dumbledore replied calmly: "If you want to intervene in this matter, I will not stop you. But you should also know that since the reform of Azkaban, the ministry It's always been short staffed, so I'm afraid I can't let you bring too many people there - except for Tonks, who has been doing well recently and worked with you once, I think she was the one who went to Hogwarts Ci is in charge of the interview."

"Do you think I don't know?" Scrimgeour said angrily, "How could Tonks belong to me, she almost wrote the words [Dumbledore's men] on her face. There are three people you arranged in the Department of Magical Sports and Werewolf Registry, and they lived directly in Tonks' house—"

"To be precise, the work of the Department of Magical Sports and Sports was arranged by Toby." Dumbledore interrupted: "I just offered Lupine an extra job, and he is also very dedicated. Am I right, Wei?" Mr Sly?"

"That's right." Percy said loudly immediately: "He was so tired that he almost fainted just now, but I have already sent him to the official Gobstone Club's station, and I also left a special note to wait for Mr. Bagman When you see it, you know what to do."

Dumbledore gave Scrimgeour a look as if to say: Look, even my assistant knows this better than you.And he was just a fresh graduate.

"That's not the point." Scrimgeour stared at Dumbledore closely: "Toby Highmore is, I know you have a good relationship—"

"That's what you said wrong again." Dumbledore shook his head: "Our relationship is very bad, it's terrible. He didn't even give me a present at Christmas."

"Gift?" Scrimgeour was stunned for a moment: "He actually refused to give you a gift? No, it's not important, what I want to say is—"

"I know what you want to say." Dumbledore interrupted again: "Yes, I understand very well. When the game officially starts, I will go to Hogwarts in person. This is what I have talked about with Toby. Good thing, everything will pass smoothly-although this is just a hope, but no one wants to cause trouble, right?"

Even Percy could hear the warning in Dumbledore's voice.

Scrimgeour stared at Dumbledore in silence for a moment.

The elevator stopped slowly, and a voice announced:

"The second tier, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, includes the Misuse of Magic Office, Auror Command and the Wizengamot Governing Body."

"That's right," said Scrimgeour, before leaving. "Nobody wants trouble, and I suppose you do too."

Dumbledore didn't answer him again.

The elevator doors closed slowly, and Percy breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

At this time, he heard Dumbledore say abruptly: "Mr. Weasley, do you miss Professor Highmore of Hogwarts?"

Percy thought about it seriously.

"Maybe some." He said with some uncertainty: "Professor Highmore's classes are indeed very attractive, and he treats students very fairly, not like Professor Snape. In short, he is very fair."

Dumbledore turned slowly to look at him.

"Then what if I say that he won your job opportunity for you?"

Percy opened his mouth wide in surprise, and didn't close it for a long time.

"I don't know." He murmured helplessly, "Is this true, sir? I never knew that I would be so valued by Professor Highmore."

Dumbledore turned his head back.

"It's not just you." Percy heard Dumbledore continue: "There are some other students, he learned this skill from me, so he used it on you. Perhaps, in the whole Hogwarts , he cares most about you students."

Percy listened in a daze, until Dumbledore said "It's time to work", he gradually regained his composure and walked out from the exit of the elevator.

On the first floor of the Ministry of Magic, there are many offices of senior officials of the Ministry of Magic. The floor of this floor is covered with thick carpets. All offices have shiny wooden doors, and there is a small sign on the door with the name of the person in the room. and job title.

Percy came to his office door, and the small sign on it read: [Office of the Assistant Minister of Magic: Percy Weasley]

All of this was achieved by Professor Haimer for him.

Percy had never known this before.

He turned his head to see Dumbledore walk into the office of the Minister of Magic and disappear.

So he also opened the door and walked into his own office, which was cleaned very cleanly, and it must be much easier to use than his father's one.

Percy had been to Arthur's office when he was a kid, and it was a disused broom closet, the worst possible working environment.

Percy couldn't stand being in that environment himself, he'd had it the first time he'd seen it, or he wouldn't have worked so hard to learn it.

He's not like Bill or Charlie.

Both of Percy's older brothers have chosen career directions they like, but Percy feels that he is not qualified to continue to be so self-willed. Otherwise, who will give this responsibility to?
Fred, or George?Not even Ron.

As for the fact that everyone in Ginny's family loves the youngest sister, it is naturally impossible to entrust this important task to her.

That left Percy alone.

He took a lot of deep breaths and tried to return his attention to his work several times, but he couldn't calm down.

After hesitating for a while, Percy pulled out a piece of parchment, and he wrote nervously and excitedly:

【Dear Professor Highmore:】

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He was also alone in Dumbledore's minister's office.

Since he came to the Ministry of Magic, the phoenix Fawkes was also arranged in this office, and it screamed after seeing Dumbledore's arrival.

"Do you want to go back?"

Dumbledore smoothed Fox's feathers, and he said with a smile: "But my student doesn't allow me to do this. I think he is right, and many contradictions cannot be resolved. But in the end, he hopes that I will be in the Is it because of uneasiness to go back to the joint of the last test? Is Toby also afraid?"

"I think so, and I hope he is. That would mean he still has a lot of people who care."

Fox stayed silent. It saw that Dumbledore did not sit down behind the desk, but stood where he was, and took out a wand from his cuff.

This is the Elder Wand, invincible.

"I left him many things, except this wand. I hope I don't need it one day."