Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 337
Today is the hottest day since summer, the once lush grass on Privet Drive has been withered and yellow, and those square houses are baked by the hot sun, like big ovens.

On a day like this, it's obviously not a good idea to go outside.

The inhabitants of Privet Drive are now hiding in their houses, with their windows wide open, hoping to catch a cool breeze that doesn't exist.

However, the owner of one house did not do this. On the contrary, he even locked all the doors and windows in the house.

"I think I'll need a blanket, it's really cold."

In this house with locked doors and windows, Harry reached for the woolen blanket on the sofa tremblingly while talking.

"Is it cold?" Blake came out of the kitchen wearing an apron, stretched out his hand to feel the temperature in the house lowered by the freezing technique, and said, "Oh, it's a bit cold! Wait a minute, I'll raise the temperature a bit more."

With that said, Black hurriedly took out his wand, waved it around, and the temperature in the house finally rose to a normal level.

Harry took the blanket, a happy smile on his face.

This house was specially bought by Black after he was inspired by Mike, in order to be able to stay with Harry and live with him.

Of course, because of the blood curse, Harry needs to go back to his uncle's house to sleep every night, but every day, he can stay in this house and play with Black all day.

At first, Uncle Vernon's family could not accept Harry's lifestyle, and even wanted to ground Harry.

But when Blake visited Uncle Vernon's family once, they accepted.

It's kind of weird, because Uncle Vernon was a little too terrified after Black's visit.

Harry guessed that Black must have used some scary means, but it didn't matter, the most important thing now was that he was finally able to get rid of that terrible home and spend a good summer vacation with the people he loved.

Thinking of this, the smile on Harry's face became even brighter.

"Harry, I just made some gingerbread, eat some. The temperature was a little low just now, don't catch a cold."

Black came out with a baking tray, Harry hurriedly thanked him, stood up and took the baking tray.

At this moment, the window of the room was knocked suddenly, and the two of them heard the sound and looked around, and saw the owl that had been carrying a big bag pecking at the window vigorously.

"It must be the newspaper I ordered." Black took off his anti-scalding gloves, opened the window and let the owl in, "Oh, poor little guy, it's still necessary to deliver the newspaper in such a hot day. Harry, give it quickly Get some water, it looks thirsty."

"Got it, Sirius."

Harry hurried into the kitchen, took some cold water with a plate, and returned to the living room.

However, when he returned to the living room, he found that Black was staring at the newspaper in his hand in a daze.

"What's wrong?"

Harry asked with a frown, but Black didn't say anything, but handed the newspaper directly to Harry.

Putting down the plate, Mike picked up the newspaper and read it, and saw that it read:

"Shock!Gringotts suffered a terrorist attack, and the prisoner was suspected of being a Death Eater! "

It is reported that on the morning of August 8th, Gringotts, located in the center of Diagon Alley, encountered the worst terrorist attack it has ever encountered since its establishment!
On the morning of the same day, 8 disguised terrorists sneaked into Gringotts, released the fire dragon guards in the underground vault group, and used the Fiendish Curse in the underground vault in an attempt to destroy the entire Gringotts.

Fortunately, even if the Aurors arrived, they stopped the further actions of the eight terrorists.

But it is a pity that the sabotage of these eight terrorists still caused very serious consequences. According to preliminary statistics, a total of 30 Aurors and 53 Gringotts staff were killed in this attack. Eighty Aurors and staff were injured to varying degrees.

In addition, the underground vaults of Gringotts were also seriously damaged, and the estimated direct economic loss was as high as 10W Galleons!
【Picture】(Gringotts is smoking, and a giant dragon is struggling to get out of the roof.)
It is not known how these eight terrorists sneaked into Gringotts, but according to the testimony of a goblin, the reason why these terrorists were able to sneak in successfully should be related to a dark wizard named Igor Karkarov .

And this Igor Karkaroff was a Death Eater before. It's hard not to remind people of Dumbledore's speech in Hogwarts recently: Voldemort has returned!
【Picture】(Dumbledore is speaking in the auditorium.)
However, Mr. Fudge, the Minister of Magic, denied this. He firmly believed that Dumbledore was talking nonsense, and that the Gringotts heist was just a normal robbery. lack of regulation.

【Picture】(Fudge is speaking at the press conference.)
At present, the eight terrorists have not been arrested and brought to justice. The Ministry of Magic appeals to the public to report to the Auror Office immediately if they encounter any of the following persons. After verification, the Ministry of Magic will reward the whistleblowers with substantial rewards.

Warning again, the following people are extremely dangerous, please do not contact them in private!

【Picture】*8 (The photo of Karkaroff and Mike et al.)
Harry's hands were shaking, the news in the newspaper was really amazing!

"It must have been Voldemort's doing!"

Harry squealed, startling the owl drinking from the coffee table.

"Calm down, Harry." Black said, taking off his apron. "Although Voldemort and the Death Eaters are very much suspected, this matter is still a bit strange."

"Who else but him!"

"Uh, come on, Harry. Take a good look at those wanted portraits, do you think the Death Eaters would dress up like that to rob Gringotts?"

Harry took a closer look, and the expression on his face immediately froze.

At the end of the report, there were eight wanted portraits, among which Karkaroff's portrait was the most normal, while the portraits of the other seven people were more bizarre than the last.

Especially the one at the end, the one in the short tank top and hot pants, with heavy makeup and white hair.

Judging from his attire, this should be a woman, but the towering part of his body shows the truth of his male body.

Harry hastily moved his eyes away, it was really hot eyes.

"This seems to be a character in a comic."

Harry frowned.

"What are comics?"

"emmm, you can understand it as a drawn novel."

"Is it a Muggle thing?"

"Yes."

"Then it's even more impossible for Voldemort and the Death Eaters to do this." Blake said with a frown. "That group of pure-blood supremacists wouldn't pretend to be a character in a Muggle novel!"

The living room suddenly fell silent, Black and Harry were both bowing their heads in thought.

After a while, Black suddenly raised his head and said to Harry:

"Harry, I think I'll have to go away for a while, I have to go to Dumbledore's!"

Harry nodded yes, and didn't pester Black about going together, he knew very well that these things were beyond his control.

Moreover, it was too hot outside, and he really didn't want to go out.

Black used Apparition to leave, and when he left, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.

Harry moved cautiously to the door, and through the peephole, he saw someone coming from outside the door.

That was Dali who was sweating profusely!
……

At the same time, in the secret territory of the Freemasonry, Mike, Benjamin and the others were reading a newspaper each, and there was a thick stack of newspapers from other newspapers piled up on the table in front of them.

"Benjamin! They took a good picture of you!"

The Weasley brothers laughed, pointing to the copy of Jamin's wanted portrait in the newspaper and said,

"That's right! I bet the person who drew this picture is definitely an artist! Look at this stubble painting, tsk tsk, Benjamin, didn't you shave that day?"

Everyone in the room burst into laughter when they heard the words, especially Zhou Hong, who was so laughing that he was lying on the ground.

As the object of ridicule, Benjamin dared to be angry but dared not speak up.

The two Weasley brothers have ridiculed him in all aspects in the past few days, and it is not that he has resisted, but the Freemasonry does not allow force to fight, so he can only fight back with words.

However, how could he possibly beat the Weasley brothers in terms of talk?
So, after many times of being autistic, he is finally learning to be smart now.

Just pretend not to hear, and the Weasley brothers will calm down in no time.

Sure enough, seeing that Benjamin didn't respond, the Weasley brothers quickly changed the subject and started discussing the portraits of other people.

Mike in the corner looked at the crowd fighting together, feeling quite gloomy.

Regarding their last action, the Ministry of Magic officially gave it a very domineering name: The Gringotts Heist.

And the reports on the Gringotts heist can be said to have swept the entire country in the past two days, and even caused a wave of panic in Europe.

Nowadays, almost all newspapers and media in the market are frantically discussing this matter, and the focus of the discussion is also very clear, that is, Voldemort's return and Gringotts are no longer safe.

Even the most popular magic radio station in Europe, Witches Wireless Network (usually abbreviated as WWN), also made a special talk show, and invited Fudge, the Minister of Magic of China, and Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office, to talk about it. The Gringotts Heist' explained.

On the show, Fudge and Scrimgeour told the complete ins and outs of this incident in order to prevent the public from associating this incident with Voldemort, including the funny appearance of the robbers. The information of the Muggle comics was also narrated. Logically speaking, such an explanation should dispel the public's worries about Voldemort's return, but Fudge and Scrimgeour are still too young.

In the country, it is zz correct to scold the Ministry of Magic.

This move by Fudge and Scrimgeour not only did not dispel the panic of the crowd, on the contrary, since no robber was caught for a long time, the crowd's resentment towards the Ministry of Magic rose to an unprecedented height.

Some people even gathered together and ran to the hall of the Ministry of Magic to protest Fudge's various policies and force Fudge to step down.

Of course, this kind of protest is of no use. The strikers and Aurors who heard the news quickly arrested all these people.

But this incident sounded the alarm for Fudge. In order to make his seat more stable and to divert the attention of the crowd, he started to bring up other rhythms.

Large Business Antitrust Act.

Fudge's promotion of this bill was inspired by Gringotts. After some large enterprises form a monopoly in a certain industry, the rights of ordinary consumers cannot be guaranteed, so now a strict bill is specified to avoid The emergence of such a monopoly.

For those companies that have formed a monopoly like Gringotts, the Ministry of Magic will take strict supervision to ensure the interests of consumers.

Once this bill was introduced, it was well received by the general public, because they really felt the benefits.

The most classic example is that the minecart track of Gringotts has finally disappeared, and now you only need to take the magic elevator to get money from the underground vault.

The hatred was well transferred, and in order to obtain more benefits, the masses gradually began to turn their blood-red eyes to those large enterprises and families.

Mike's Los Santos Magic Group bears the brunt and has been greatly affected.

There is no way around this. The industries of the Los Santos Group are almost all emerging industries, and basically there are no competitors within the industry, which perfectly fits the Ministry of Magic's definition of a monopoly enterprise.

Ever since, the so-called supervision was delegated to the various branches of the Los Santos Group.

And through the attitude of these supervisors, Mike also concluded a conclusion.

That is, Fudge is deliberately targeting himself.

Because compared to the supervisors in other companies, the supervisors assigned to the Los Santos Group are more difficult to deal with. They seem to be specially sent to find trouble with Mike. No big deal, they have to dictate.

With their efforts, the Los Santos Group's financial report this month must be very ugly.

"Hey, business is getting harder and harder."

Sighing, Mike was about to get up and ask Penello to express his recent pressure, but at this moment, Shuke, the house elf, suddenly appeared in front of Mike.

"Master," Shuke knelt on one knee and saluted, "Mr. Dumbledore and others have visited your villa in Godric's Hollow."

"Ok?"

Mike was taken aback when he heard the words, Dumbledore would come to visit him, which he never expected.

'Could it be that the Gringotts heist has come to light? '

Mike thought so, but on the surface he acted calmly and said:
"Are they still around?"

"Yes, master. They are still waiting outside the door without your order."

"Got it, let's go meet them together."

After all, Mike put his hand on Shu Ke's raised hand.

Next, with a snap of the fingers, Mike and Shuke disappeared into the secret territory of the Masonic Society.

(End of this chapter)