Chapter 11: The War Between the Old Watches

Order of the Phoenix.

This is a term Harry heard from Mrs. Longbottom, that is, this old photograph of his parents, Neville's parents, Dumbledore, and others forming an organization to oppose Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

As we all know, one of Voldemort's claims is the theory of blood, he believes that the world should be controlled by wizards of pure blood and noble birth like him, and laws such as the International Secrecy Act of 1689 that lead wizards to seclusion and avoid Muggles are crimes against all wizards - it unjustifiably deprives wizards of the right to live in the sun, and gives up the rich and beautiful world to those garbage races who cannot control magic, which is completely a step backwards in history.

It has to be said that such a claim still has a certain market in the wizarding world, especially for those so-called pure-blood families. They were Voldemort's strongest supporters, and if they hadn't contributed money and even joined the Death Eaters, Voldemort would have had to delay his start by at least twenty years.

In contrast, there were other wizards from pure-blood families who chose to join the Order of the Phoenix, including Harry and Neville's father, who died and went mad, and Ron's two uncles, who were besieged and killed by five Death Eaters......

The irony is that pure-blood families have intermarriages, and if you really want to trace it, most of them are relatives, and they are also alumni at Hogwarts, and they have known each other for ten years, but this relationship has not only made the two sides lighter when they started, but made this civil war between wizards more tender, but more ferocious and bloody.

For example, Bellatrix, who tortured Neville's parents insanely, was born in the Black family, known as the most unpopular Headmaster of Hogwarts, Phineas Nigelus Black, was her great-great-grandfather, and Phineas's granddaughter, Caridora, was Neville's great-grandmother and grandmother of Frank Longbottom (Neville's father).

If this bad debt is settled, Bellatrix should be Frank's distant cousin, and Neville should also call Bellatrix a great aunt, and the relationship between him and Draco Malfoy should be a distant cousin?

Then, Harry's great-grandmother, Doria, and Draco's great-grandfather, Pollocks Black, were siblings, so Harry and Draco Malfoy should also be distant cousins, and they were closer than Neville.

Anyway, the three of them should be no problem calling each other old watches.

As for Ron......

The Black family had a cousin named Lyukrisia who married Ron's great-grandfather, and Lyuklia had a cousin named Bellatrix and Draco's mother, Narcissa.

They are also distant cousins, and they can be regarded as old cousins.

(It is also said that Doria is Harry's grandmother, but I think this is more troublesome, and there is no official stone hammer, so I use a setting that is easy to calculate.) There may be mistakes in the specifics, which is normal, after all, I am not a professional archaeologist, just playing with memes. οΌ‰

It's just that the relationship between these old watches, it can only be hehe, in this matter, it is completely possible to dump the blame on their parents, after all, they have a very bad head.

Far from it.

Harry was already on the verge of fainting, the relationship between the wizarding family was enough to drive any adult with good logical calculation skills crazy, this is not just the complexity of intermarriage, the ghost knows 26 English letters, so many permutations and combinations, why there are people of different generations with the same name and surname in a family.

For example, Cyris Black, there are at least three people in the family who have this name, the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Phineas's brother is this name, and his son has taken this name.

God knows why he had to make the same name, don't you feel embarrassed?Or did the headmaster Phineas have some grudge against his brother, so he gave his son this name, and then when he rolled the sheets with his wife, he shouted in his heartβ€”

Siris, I. Exercise.. You.. Mother..

Uh, just kidding, the headmaster who took office shouldn't be so vulgar and obscene, not to mention that he and his own brother were born by the same mother.

Mrs. Longbottom was still tirelessly introducing the family genealogies of the wizards, and she really didn't look like an old woman in her sixties for her energy and quick thinking.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ That's probably the story of this photo. ”

Mrs. Longbottom put the photo back in the album and turned to the next page very naturally, and Harry did not notice that it was mixed in with the introduction of those complicated family genealogies, and the introduction of so many people in the photo was omitted by Mrs. Longbottom, I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional.

As for Neville, well, his attention is not on the photo at all.

"Can you lend me this picture to see?" Luna pointed to the photo of the Order of the Phoenix and said, "There is a person on it, who looks a little familiar, like he has seen it somewhere." ”

Mrs. Longbottom glanced at Luna, frowned slightly, and then handed over the photograph as she coughed lightly, raised her voice slightly, and began to show and introduce Harry to the other pictures.

In a sense, Mrs. Longbottom is a fan of Harry, and this album contains a fair number of photos of Harry, covering all ages, many of which seem to have been taken secretly or captured.

"This is ......"

Harry was holding a photograph taken when he was about five or six years old, but he had no impression of what was on it, and the only thing he could think of from this photo was that he wasn't really obscure and unnoticed for the first eleven years of his life.

But then again, until now, Harry didn't understand why he had been placed to live in his uncle's house for more than ten years, and his life there was not happy or happy.

If Harry might have felt that he had no relatives to rely on and had to stay at his uncle's house, he must have questioned something after the hospitality of Weasley and Longbottom.

"That...... Mrs. Longbottom...... I...... Uh, I have a question......"

Harry struggled with his words, not that he didn't want to ask a straightforward question, but that his question might be too presumptuous for a first-time acquaintance.

"Oh, what's the problem?"

"Can I ...... Hmm, you know...... The guardian is my parents who are gone, and then my uncle...... Ahem, can you become someone else?"

It was only with great difficulty that Harry was able to swallow this sentence.

It was a good start, and his words were much sharper after that, and under the gaze of Mrs. Longbottom's increasingly serious and solemn gaze, he briefly described what had happened to him at his uncle's house over the past ten years.

"Oh my God, how can they do this to you! These ungrateful fellows, if not for the sacrifice of your parents...... Ignorant Muggle ......"

Mrs. Longbottom was so angry that she couldn't even speak, and her face was so ugly that Neville didn't dare to look more just by glancing at it, and honestly continued to be a sculpture, and in his memory Grandma had never been so angry.

And Luna didn't seem to be aware of it, just holding a group photo of the Order of the Phoenix, and her fingers were swiped over it one by one, identifying the faces of these people.

Mrs. Longbottom's reaction was exactly what Harry had expected, but anyone who knew anything about him would be very unhappy with the behavior of his uncle's family.

"Poor Harry......"

Mrs. Longbottom's eyes were filled with pity and sympathy when she looked at Harry, and then she turned her head to Uncle Algie, who was working in the Ministry of Magic, and asked, "This kind of thing can't go on, Algie, you can go and help me ask now, if I want to change Harry's guardian to me, what operations need to be done, what procedures need to be taken." ”

"Huh?"

Uncle Algie, who was eating watermelon, paused for a moment, his gaze shifting back and forth between Lady Longbottom and Harry, as if he wanted to say something.

"Don't you hear me?" said Mrs. Longbottom, in a low voice.

"Uh, okay. ”

Uncle Algee's ass seemed to spring up, almost bounced off the couch, and he hurriedly put on his coat, unbuttoned it, kicked a pair of slippers, grabbed a handful of Floo powder, and ran from the fireplace to the Ministry of Magic.

"Don't worry, Harry, I'll take care of this for you. ”

Mrs. Longbottom said in a gentle voice, this kind and graceful appearance is the same as the two of them just now.

"Well, thank you. ”

Harry nodded slightly, heartily grateful. For him, it would be great if it could be resolved. And he will not live in the Longbottom family for nothing in the future, and he still has the inheritance left to him by his parents, which is not a small amount.

However, there was an opposition voice.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think this can be resolved. ”

It was Lyell, who had just pushed the door in, and stood in the doorway, with the sun shining behind him, smiling at Mrs. Longbottom's suddenly gloomy face.

The decision to adopt Harry by the family was actually due to the fact that Harry's mother had placed a spell at the cost of her life in order to protect Harry's health and safety. One of the prerequisites for this spell is that Harry needs to live with his blood relatives for a certain period of time each year, so even if the guardian is changed, to maintain the spell, Harry must live with his uncle for a certain period of time each year. ”

"I've never heard of it. Mrs. Longbottom said with an unhappy face, "Where did you know about this?" ”

Lyle smiled slightly, but did not answer positively: "This matter is not difficult for those who want to know about it. As a wizard, you know better than I do if there are such spells, and I remember that your grades at Hogwarts were excellent. Besides, the person who made the decision to deal with it in the first place was a hundred times a thousand times stronger than me, can he bear what you can't stand to watch?"

β€œβ€¦β€¦β€

Mrs. Longbottom frowned slightly, and she was silent for a moment, then her expression was slightly soothed, as if she had retrieved something from memory. Immediately after, she raised her head to look at Lyle, and said bluntly in a tone that was no longer so stern and not so gentle: "Since you said that, it seems that you have thought of some good way." ”

"Of course. ”

Lyle raised his right hand, he held an envelope in his hand, and said, "This kind of thing can be solved with just a letter, a check, and a lawyer's letter." After all, that family is one of the few relatives in Harry's world, and there is no need to make the relationship so stiff. ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to feel something, shrugged his shoulders, walked over and put the envelope in Harry's hand, and said with a smile: "That family may not be a good person, but it is definitely not a bad person, all in all, they will never be an obstacle to you again." ”

"You're ready again. ”

Mrs. Longbottom stared at Lyle with deep eyes, this was the first time he had taken precautions and had already solved the problem in advance?

"It just came at the right time. ”

Lyle smiled humbly, then put a hand on Harry's shoulder and said to Mrs. Longbottom, "Can I borrow him for a while? ”

"And, Neville, you can come too. ”

"Huh?"