Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 533 Sensation
Scrimgeour was right to be worried, because early the next morning, newspapers in the wizarding world across the country were publishing two pieces of news.

One is that Voldemort was killed by McTorney.

And it was Mike Townley, the driving force behind the recent rebellion, who was arrested.

These two things are actually one thing, and this is what the new generation of media led by "The Quibbler" did. They told the readers the truth of the matter, and there were private goods in it, such as "The Quibbler" implies that the Ministry of Magic caught up with McTownley and arrested Voldemort after he was seriously injured after killing him. This behavior needs to be condemned.

But like The Quibbler, the Daily Prophet has its own tendencies.

So in their old-school media newspapers, Voldemort's death and Mike's arrest became two things. They tried to use this method to dilute people's gratitude to McTownley for killing Voldemort.

It's just that it's useless. After all, compared with the upsurge of equal rights, Voldemort brought much more serious pain to the world, so the wind direction in society suddenly changed, and countless people began to sing praises Mike's merits, and called it the savior of the new generation.

On the surface, this is a good thing, but in reality it is not.

First of all, the news of Voldemort's death was really shocking. Its appearance took away a lot of heat that should have belonged to the affirmative-rights movement.

Coupled with the arrest of Mike, the originally strong equal rights forces suddenly lost the most powerful main force behind them, and instantly became weaker.

The merchants in Diagon Alley should have been deeply touched by it, because it just happened, and the affirmative groups who used to stay on Diagon Alley and held up the ky slogan disappeared, and replaced them with wave after wave The crowd that came to celebrate Voldemort's death.

This makes these merchants very happy. You must know that when people are in a good mood, their concept of money will gradually become blurred, which has made their business much better recently.

And the officials of the Ministry of Magic were as happy as the merchants.

Now the social situation is starting to improve rapidly, and following this momentum, they will soon be able to return to their previous state.

But when the Ministry of Magic was full of joy and excitement, the office of the Minister of Magic was filled with smoke. Scrimgeour smoked the cigar in his hand one after another, and the minister's assistant next to him was so smoked that he almost shed tears.

"call!"

Exhaling a long puff of smoke, Scrimgeour fiercely snuffed out the cigar in his hand.

The assistant was overjoyed when he saw this, but it wasn't long before Scrimgeour lit another brand new cigar.

This made the assistant lower his head silently. There was no way, Mr. Minister was angry at the moment, and he really dared not speak out.

What made Scrimgeour so irritated was the copy of "The Quibbler" on his desk.

It clearly stated that although McTownley did some wrong things, he did not cause too much loss to society. In addition, he made great achievements in beheading Voldemort, so the Ministry of Magic should balance the merits and demerits. He was acquitted.

Although this is just the opinion of the Quibbler, Scrimgeour knows from the data survey that this kind of statement has a great market among ordinary people. Now almost half of the people in the market support the Ministry of Magic's light sentence or the release of McTownley.

"Huh!!~"

Spit out a puff of smoke again, Scrimgeour crumpled up the "Quieter" in front of him irritably, and threw it into the trash can beside him.

Strictly speaking, this is actually just a trivial matter. After all, the situation has stabilized now. Although McTownley was indeed at fault, he didn't have to kill him.

After all, the Ministry of Magic has released many criminals in the past, and one more him is not too many.

As long as he is willing to cut the meat, hand over a large amount of property and promise to be honest and not make any more moths after he gets out.

But the crux of the problem is that he had already promised Chris to help the Ministry of Magic restore social stability at the expense of being the Minister of Magic.

But now that the situation has changed suddenly, doesn't this mean that Chris can pick up a minister position for nothing after he comes here?
You must know that his current ministerial position took a lot of resources to take advantage of the special timing of Voldemort's invasion and Fudge's mistakes.

Otherwise, it would be a daydream for a half-blood wizard from the military to want to be the Minister of Magic!
Such a hard-earned position just given away for nothing?

Thinking of this, Scrimgeour couldn't help feeling a strong sense of unwillingness.

So let Chris dove like this?

This also does not work!

Judging from the force Chris showed in Marie Gioia, he has already been promoted to legend in all likelihood.

The price to be paid to deceive a legendary wizard is absolutely unbearable, not to mention that there are more than a dozen pure-blood families standing behind Chris, and the combination of these families is definitely a huge and terrifying force!
For a moment, Scrimgeour fell into deep entanglement.

At the same time, the atmosphere in the meeting room of the Masonic Secret Realm was not very good.

Penello, Arthur, Franklin and other members of the Freemasonry sat with their heads bowed, but no one spoke. From time to time, a few extremely suppressed cries could be heard from the corner—it was Shu Ke and beta.

Since Mike was arrested, everyone has basically been in this state.

Especially Franklin, his eyes were swollen from crying, and Arthur had hit a big bag on his head, and now he was wrapped in gauze.

Everyone understands this, after all Franklin has followed Mike the longest.

They didn't doubt at all, if Arthur hadn't taken this guy away forcibly, otherwise Franklin would have chosen to live and die with Mike.

Franklin even had a fight with Arthur after waking up because of this matter. Although he hadn't fought, it was just a show of friendship, and the others couldn't say much.

"Okay, Franklin, don't be too sad, Mike will be fine."

Penello couldn't stand it anymore, and comforted Franklin in a low voice, but his tone was a little displeased.

After all, she is Mike's real girlfriend, and now Franklin is even more sad than her, what's going on?

If an uninformed person saw it, she would think she didn't care about Mike at all.

"How can you guarantee that Mike will come back? That's the Ministry of Magic! Maybe those Aurors are torturing Mike right now! No! I'm going to save Mike!"

Franklin's emotions suddenly became agitated, and he got up to leave as soon as he said a few words.

But just as his butt left the seat, Arthur stood up on the side, and at the same time raised the long sword in his hand at Franklin.

Seeing this, Franklin resolutely confessed, and sat back in his seat again.

No way, Arthur is too strong, he really can't beat him.

"Don't worry, aren't we manipulating public opinion to put pressure on the Ministry of Magic through "The Quibbler"? Judging by the pissing behavior of the Ministry of Magic, it's probably just a matter of paying a large fine."

Arthur frowned.

Speaking of it, he really didn't understand what Dumbledore was doing. When he parted with Mike, he thought that Dumbledore would kill Mike directly, but now Dumbledore handed Mike over to the Ministry of Magic. Isn't this just letting the tiger go back to the mountain?

Those people at the Ministry of Magic are not going to judge Mike well at all.

Or... is that what Dumbledore meant?
Arthur couldn't figure it out.

"Are you serious?" Franklin gritted his teeth, "What if the Ministry of Magic doesn't want to let you go?"

"Then we'll go in and rescue Mike!"

Arthur said viciously, and pulled out some of the long sword in his hand while speaking, a sharp murderous intent swept across the entire conference room, everyone present felt a chill on their necks, Soraka and other women especially Could not help but hit the chills.

"Anyway, Mike must be rescued, at all costs!"

"That's right! At any cost!"

"That's it!"

……

The echoes echoed in the meeting room one after another, and Benjamin and others expressed their attitudes one after another. Their eyes were extremely firm, and it could be seen that this was their cry from the bottom of their hearts.

But in fact, they can't help it.

You must know that the Freemasonry has linked all of them, they are a whole, and the oath they made when they joined the association is always restraining their behavior, and if they do something to abandon their companions, the chain of oath will kill them , Just like the unlucky ghost in the United States.

And seeing his companions so resolute, Franklin's expression finally looked much better.

He didn't think it was a big deal to break into the Ministry of Magic and save someone, as long as they worked together.

But the next moment his expression twisted again, and he got up and smashed the conference table fiercely, roaring and saying:

"And Dumbledore! He has to pay the price too, this old bastard is crazy! He will attack us!"

As soon as this remark came out, the originally excited crowd fell silent instantly, and an awkward atmosphere permeated the entire conference room.

Everyone here is Dumbledore's student except for Arthur, and each of them has a special feeling for the old headmaster, so when they first saw Dumbledore attacking them, many of them were a little bit surprised can't believe it.

It was precisely because of this that they were all silent in the face of Franklin's proposal. The image of Dumbledore in their minds was too great, and they really didn't want to be an enemy of Dumbledore.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Franklin became furious again. He pointed at everyone's nose and began to scold. The faces of Benjamin and others who scolded directly turned black.

"Okay, Franklin." Benjamin persuaded, "The top priority now is to rescue Mike. As for Dumbledore...even if we want to take revenge on him, we can't beat him."

Franklin's face was almost blushing, and he wanted to continue cursing while trembling.

But before he could speak, he heard Arthur next to him say:
"That's not necessarily the case. I was the closest to Mike and Dumbledore when it happened. According to the situation at the scene, Dumbledore should have been seriously injured. If there is no accident, the last time was his last. Power, now Dumbledore, hehe, should be just a paper tiger."

"However, what Benjamin said makes sense. Our focus now should be on rescuing Mike. As for other things, we can put them aside for now."

Hearing that Benjamin's originally frowning brows finally relaxed, he nodded towards Arthur, then looked at Franklin and said:

"Franklin, I know you are very angry, please believe me, everyone here is very angry like you. Don't worry, although we can't concentrate our efforts to retaliate, it's not easy on our side, and Dumbledore's side is also not happy. I want to live better!"

"Oh? What are you going to do?"

Franklin, who was still a little disappointed when he heard the words, suddenly regained his spirits.

"It's very simple. Now Mike's influence in Hogwarts is not much worse than that of Dumbledore. In addition, the previous agitation for equal rights also helped Mike attract a lot of fans in Hogwarts." Benjamin sly With a smile, "Then if those students know that Mike, the hero in their hearts who is running for the public interest, was captured by their dear headmaster Dumbledore, what do you think they will do?"

"Hi!~"

Franklin gasped, and looked at Benjamin in shock. Everyone else present basically had the same reaction.

They really didn't expect that Benjamin would come up with such a poisonous plan.

If things are really as Benjamin said, then Dumbledore and even other professors at Hogwarts should not think about it, because the chaos that broke out at Hogwarts not long ago will reappear, and it will change more violently.

Those angry students are sure to turn Hogwarts upside down!

"Good idea! I'll let someone do it!"

Penello got up and walked quickly towards the door. As the actual manager of the daily affairs of the Los Santos Group, only she has the ability to make Benjamin's vision a reality.

As the door was slammed shut, the corners of the mouths of the rest of the people in the meeting room rose.

They can't wait to see the show!

……

On the other side, while Benjamin and the others were still planning, a brown-haired boy in a pure black trench coat was slowly walking out of the Leaky Cauldron and came to Diagon Alley.

The boy seemed to be a foreign tourist who came to Diagon Alley for the first time, and he was full of interest in everything that appeared in front of him.

Passing by the shop where he bought the crucible, he would stop and watch, and when he met the clerk who was selling new ice cream to him, he would stop to taste it carefully, and then give his own opinion, even when passing by the Quidditch shop, he would still be like those children Surrounded by the window, curiously looking at the Firebolt inside.

At this moment, Diagon Alley is indeed worthy of his serious visit. Countless wizards in strange costumes are singing and dancing on the cobblestone road, celebrating that they have finally escaped from the fear named Voldemort. A magical firework, that strangely shaped bright flame will stay in the sky for a long time.

Looking at the crowd celebrating, a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the boy's face, and he said in a voice that only he could hear clearly:

"It's too early to celebrate now, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)