Text Chapter 199 Arrival

Until Hogwarts arrived at the station, Black and Lupin didn't say what Darren wanted to hear, after all, to them, Darren was just a fourteen-year-old child, but they wouldn't have thought that Darren already knew a lot of things, from Bagman.

With the magic contract in his hand, Darren not only asked Bagman about the lack of gold coins, but also learned a lot of internal information about the Ministry of Magic from him, of course, as Bagman himself said, he was a fool, under the cover of the magic player given to several directors of the Ministry of Magic, he thought that Darren was doing business, and even praised him for this kind of business acumen, completely unaware that thanks to his big mouth, for Darren, the Ministry of Magic has no secrets at all.

With the guy's good popularity, Darren figured out why Harry was scheduled to spend the entire holiday at 4 Privet Road, because in Little Hangleton's Riddle House, a body was found without any scars on it, and the Ministry of Magic knew that he had been killed by the Avada Curse.

The rest of the matter is not difficult to speculate, considering that Dumbledore already knew about the Horcruxes, and knew that Voldemort was not completely destroyed, this matter must have caught his attention, because this is simply Voldemort's typical method, and he is back!

At that time, there was a person in Darren's heart, a suspicious Lockhart, he remembered that when he was in the Burrow, Mrs. Weasley had said that he had not had his new book for a long time, and when he was contacted for the last time he saw Lockhart, the other party's very abrupt sentence, "Abinia", was very similar to the Albanian pronunciation......

Voldemort's return is naturally not good news for Harry, and the strongest protection that can fight Voldemort is the family that once saved his life under the curse of Avada, so it is understandable that he stayed at No. 4 Privet Road all the holiday, maybe at this time, Dumbledore has realized Harry's identity as one of the Horcruxes, no wonder Harry will have such a strong lineup of Blake, Lupin, Moody, and Kingsley to protect him.

In addition, based on the four of them, Darren felt that Dumbledore might have reassembled the Order of the Phoenix to deal with Voldemort, so he couldn't find Blake and Lupin for the entire holiday.

In addition to the matter of Riddle House, Bagman also talked about the Triwizard Tournament, although Dumbledore now has more important things, but as a matter that he has been trying to promote, it can't be canceled temporarily after it has been finally coordinated, even Dumbledore can't bear the consequences, because it will delay the magical exchange of the whole of Europe.

However, Darren estimates that since Dumbledore has reconvened the Order of the Phoenix, Moody should not be impersonated this time, because the Order of the Phoenix has its own identification method within it, which ensures that there will be no spies in the Order of the Phoenix, only traitors......

By the way, from Bagman, Darren also knew that Crouch Sr. was brought back to the Ministry of Magic by Fudge, and he never showed up since, and even about the Triwizard Tournament, Bagman was in charge of contacting, after all, he could still hang on the sidelines of the sports department.

Presumably how to deal with old Crouch must have given Fudge a lot of headaches, logically speaking, although he did not show favoritism and sent Barty Jr. to Azkaban, that is also normal, after all, the evidence that Barty Jr. was identified as a Death Eater is very obvious, even if it is a change of judge, but he did not avoid this, which is somewhat unreasonable.

But then, although at the request of his wife, Crouch still participated in Barty Jr.'s escape, harbored the prisoner, hid him in his own home, and even deliberately harmed others in order to cover up this fact, and cast a strong amnesia spell on Bertha Jorkins, which not only made her forget about Barty Jr., but also caused serious damage to her memory, resulting in a decrease in her ability to work.

However, Crouch had been working for the Ministry of Magic, and a public trial would have caused serious damage to the reputation and image of the Ministry, especially after the Quidditch World Cup riots, and Fudge certainly didn't want the Ministry to make headlines again......

It's just that when approaching Hogwarts, there was a little accident, Ron went outside to go to the bathroom, but when he came back, he was obviously angry, and even when he closed the door, he smashed the glass on the door because of too much force.

"Ron!" reproached Hermione, drawing her wand and whispering, "Fix it as before!" The pieces of broken glass automatically snapped together into a single piece of glass and returned to the doorframe.

"That's bad luck...... It's as if he knows everything, and we're all in the dark......" Ron yelled angrily, "'Daddy's contacts are all high-ranking people in the Ministry of Magic'...... My dad can improve at any time...... He just loves the location he is ...... now."

Harry, Hermione, and Darren guessed that Ron must have said something about the Triwizard Tournament, and as for why he was angry, congenital hostility must be caused by congenital hostility.

"Malfoy told me, 'Your dad and your brother both work in the Ministry of Magic, and you don't know? My dad told me a long time ago...... It was from Conliner Fudge. Anyway, Dad was in contact with high-ranking figures in the Ministry of Magic...... Probably your dad's rank is too low to have the right to know, Weasley...... Yes, that's right...... They probably never talk about important topics in front of him......" Ron said, picking up the remaining piece of crucible cake and pureing it into a sauce.

For the rest of his journey, Ron's mood has been bad. He was silent as they changed into their robes, and his face was still gloomy when the Hogwarts Express finally slowed down and stopped at the dark Hogsmeade station.

The doors opened, and thunder rumbled in the air. Hermione wrapped her cloak around Crook Hill, and Ron still put his gown robe over the cage of the new owl, the piglet, that Darren had bought for him. They got off the train, their heads bowed and their eyes squinted in the pouring rain. The rain was falling so hard that it was like buckets of cold water pouring over their heads.

"Hello, Hagrid!" Harry shouted at the sight of a large figure on the other side of the platform.

"Hello, Harry!" Hagrid replied in a gruff voice, waving his hand, "If we don't drown, we'll see you at the banquet!"

As is customary, first-year students are ferried from the lake by Hagrid to Hogwarts Castle.

"Oh, I can't imagine ferrying across the lake in such weather. Hermione said as she shuddered as they moved a little bit as they walked past the dark platform. (To be continued.) )