Carl Pratt's letter was about a meeting at an ancient castle near Loch Lomond in Scotland, and Phyllis chose to fly there instead of the quick and magical means of transportation such as Floo powder, giving the reason that she didn't like the feeling of being covered in soot, but in reality, she just wished she had a little more time to think. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The venue for this gathering is an ancient castle with a history of more than 500 years. Although it was given a lot of fantasies, it was not a particularly beautiful thing to live in the castle, it was a fortress, not a villa, in those days, this kind of building was mainly used for the military, thick walls, narrow windows, and winding and cramped corridors, even if the enemy attacked, it was not easy to occupy this place. As a military facility, the first thing to consider is defensiveness, in order not to be easily conquered by the enemy, it will inevitably sacrifice a lot of living comfort, this kind of place is not so good for people, poor lighting and ventilation make the interior of many ancient castles dark and damp, and you can smell a rotten smell after entering.

Of course, this castle for hospitality has been properly renovated, with many modern facilities, and it has well preserved those elements that can bring a thick sense of history, although it has a strong sense of age, but there is no dust and ants, even if it is a four-story castle with forty or fifty rooms, it seems that it is well maintained by the owner's family.

"Miss Kate, this castle belongs to the Goldstein family, it looks pretty good." Carl Pratt said that he had come three days earlier as the initiator of the party, and that this time Phyllis had come and offered to show her around the castle.

Phyllis agreed, and said, "It's very good, it's beautiful, it's magnificent, it's rare in England to have such a long history and so well maintained." "The maintenance of the castle is definitely a big expense, and some families who inherit the castle do not mean that they can't afford to spend this money, but not everyone is willing to pay such a large amount of money every year to throw it on.

Speaking of this, Phyllis asked a little strangely, "It's just that I don't understand one thing, wizards also build castles?" "Although it has been remodeled, it can still be seen that this style of castle is obviously used for war, how can a wizarding family be mixed into the war of ordinary people?

Carl explains: "The Goldsteins are a pure-blood family that has been passed down for over two hundred years. After a pause, Carl continued, "and they're proud of it." ”

Phyllis nodded understandingly, the Goldstein family has a long heritage, and it seems that it is also a nobleman to have such an ancient castle five hundred years ago. But at first, Goldstein was not a wizarding family, and later entered the wizarding world because of some chance, which is also normal, in the thousands of years of history of the wizarding world, there are constantly families dying out, and new wizarding families are constantly emerging. It's just more than 200 years old...... Of course, it depends on who you compare with, like the Pratt family has been inherited for nearly a thousand years, and it is not uncommon for families in the wizarding world to inherit more than five hundred years, so in comparison, the history of the Goldstein family is indeed a bit short. Wizards of pure-blood families care about their own family history, and the Goldstein family has a short history that can't be said to be something to be proud of, but their family cares more about this, after all, if you count it all, this is an ancient family with a history of more than 600 years. Carl's later sentence was to remind Phyllis that the Goldstein family was quite concerned about this, and that they should be careful when chatting later.

Phyllis and Carl were chatting while admiring the oil painting hanging on the wall, when she saw a strange style of painting, the painting showed the back of a girl, she was standing on the top of a mountain watching the sunrise, the color of this painting was a little gloomy, especially the gray and blue of the sky, giving people a sense of oppression.

Phyllis said, "This is Montena's work, right?" "Mondena was a nineteenth-century sorcerer and a painter, and her work is divided into two periods, the first of which is lively and cheerful, full of the youthful vibrancy of a girl, and when her beloved man (an ordinary man) died in the Napoleonic Wars, her work begins to become gloomy and increasingly bizarre. Mendena is also a well-known artist, with his own unique place in the history of the development of the art of wizards.

The corners of Carl's mouth were slightly hooked, and he smiled, not knowing whether to laugh or smile, and said, "Yes, this is a late work of Mendena, called The Man Who Sees the Sun." ”

Glancing at Carl's strange smile, Phyllis thought about it and understood, she had heard Lia say that her father didn't like Mendena, especially her later works, although they performed very well in the current market, but he thought that it was not a work of art that conveyed beauty at all, but just a catharsis of negative emotions, such a painting had no artistic value, and the reason why it could be auctioned at such a high price now was purely market speculation. The Goldstein family hung such a painting on their family's castle, and in his opinion, it was also a very tasteless nouveau riche behavior.

Carl took Phyllis around the castle, and finally came to the rooftop terrace on the top floor, the castle was built on a hill, where it overlooked the beautiful scenery of the entire Lomond Lake District, and the beautiful scenery of the world and the world was indeed a good place to recuperate, but this party probably had nothing to do with relaxation and joy.

Phyllis asked, "Mr. Pratt, may I ask about the purpose of this gathering?" She had seen the list of attendees, and there were very few people who attended the party, only eight, and that was counting Carl and herself. She was the youngest of the eight people, and the rest were all heads of various families, and they didn't bring their children and relatives, so many family leaders were obviously not gathered to have a lively celebration, but to have an important agenda, in other words, this was actually a meeting, not a banquet.

Karl looked at the mountain peaks in the distance and said: "Miss Kate, you also know that Voldemort is about to make a comeback, and the war that was unexpectedly interrupted is about to be rekindled, which is bound to have an important impact on the pattern of the entire wizarding world, and those who are in charge of the fate of the family naturally need to take precautions, so let's get together and talk about the current situation and see what to do next." "As the head of the Law Enforcement Division, a tough man known for catching fugitive Death Eaters, of course Carl dared to mention that person's name, if he didn't even dare to say the name of the leader of the criminal syndicate, how could he assign his men to arrest the Death Eaters.

Seeing that Carl's tone was a little depressed, Phyllis comforted and said: "Things don't necessarily go in the worst direction, Voldemort does want to rise again, we know about this, Professor Dumbledore also knows, Voldemort wants to really come back, I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”

"Dumbledore made a move?" Karl asked, no, didn't he always want to use Voldemort's hand to lure out those wizards with extreme pure-blood supremacy and then catch them all?

Hearing that Carl's tone was wrong, Phyllis suddenly thought that she had leaked her mouth, of course she didn't know Dumbledore's plan, in fact, she had never been able to get Dumbledore's trust, even if there was any plan against Voldemort, she wouldn't tell her, just now she just casually said a word to confuse Carl's audio-visual.

After realizing his previous mistake, Phyllis said without changing her face: "Of course I made a move, Dumbledore does have that kind of plan, but it doesn't mean that he hopes that Voldemort can be resurrected smoothly, no one knows if the resurrected Voldemort can return to his peak state, and even if it will go further because of this death experience, in the face of Voldemort, Headmaster Dumbledore is not so easy, don't take this opportunity to weaken him, will he wait for him to return and then beat the British wizarding world to pieces?" ”

"Oh, that's right." Karl said that Dumbledore wanted to use Voldemort to lure out the extremists in the wizarding world, but he also had to consider whether he would raise tigers, a mistake he had already made once. Dumbledore hadn't thought that the young Tom would be able to make such a wave and almost shatter the wizarding world, and this time he would definitely think about it carefully.

Carl thought for a moment and said, "But this may not be a good thing for us, by the way, I forgot to tell you that these students who attended this party spent their days in Ravenclaw." In other words, these families are all affiliated with Ravenclaw, and it was a gathering of the Ravenclaw family.

Phyllis said: "It's too early to say this, we are just speculating that Voldemort has a plan to return, but it is not clear what step it has taken specifically, this kind of matter is very important, I'm afraid those Slytherin families don't know, maybe it's too early for him to return, we don't have to worry too much about whether our situation will be passive after Dumbledore's Gryffindor wins the final victory." "Phyllis really didn't expect that Voldemort's resurrection plan was already being implemented, and when he returned, the entire Rubik's Cube world would be shocked.

Karl sighed and said, "I hope so." ”

After a night's rest in the castle, the next night, the "party" began, there was no music, no dance floor, no flowers, no wine, not even delicious food, everyone had a glass of water in front of them, and sat around an oval table, and this "party" was carried out.

It's a party, it's actually a meeting, and it's a huge boring meeting, Phyllis now finally understands why the wizarding world is led by Dumbledore's Gryffindor and Voldemort's Slytherin, Hufflepuff doesn't know, but Ravenclaw really doesn't have much talent. The people here are all in charge of the Ravenclaw family, and they can be regarded as figures in the wizarding world, but they really disappointed Phyllis, not that they are not smart, of course they are all smart people who can enter Ravenclaw Academy, but their overall view and judgment of things are ridiculously poor. I don't know if it's because I read too much art and read my brain badly, in Phyllis's opinion, they are all too emotional, a guy actually wasted half an hour of her time listening to him accuse Voldemort of the crimes, this is not a public speech, as for saying so emotionally, in the end, the forty-year-old uncle even had tears in his eyes, it seems that he was moved badly.

This strengthened Phyllis's determination, Ravenclaw would be completely hopeless if he didn't have him, and these guys had no hope. Among them, Carl Price is more reliable, and he still has some ability to sit in such a high position in the Ministry of Magic.

While Phyllis was drowsy, the seventy or eighty-year-old man named Nat Goldstein, who was also the patriarch of the Goldstein family, and the owner of the castle, mentioned her.

"Phyllis Kate, I heard you're very close to that Malfoy boy." Nat deliberately said in a slow and leisurely tone, as if to emphasize that he was an old-fashioned and respected man.

Before Phyllis could speak, Karl smiled and said, "Miss Kate is a teacher at Hogwarts, so she naturally has a lot of love for her students, and although Drake Malfoy is a Slytherin, she is also a student of the school. ”

Nat snorted coldly, blew his beard flying, and said, "Malfoy, they don't have any good things in their house, and every time I see Lucius with no one in his eyes, I want to punch him in the nose." ”

At first, Phyllis was still a little angry, she could do whatever she wanted, and it was not the turn of others to point fingers, but she almost couldn't hold back her laughter when she heard this, it turned out that this old man who had to be held by someone when he walked was so hot in his heart.

The Malfoys succeeded in attracting everyone's firepower, and everyone in the audience began to speak out against the corrupt Slytherins, who supported Voldemort and allowed the British wizarding world to endure years of war. After listening for a while, Phyllis realized that they all had family members who died in that war. As a trialist of the seventh dimension, Phyllis didn't have any intuitive impression of the previous war, and her so-called death of her parents was also a setting she made up herself, and she couldn't understand the pain that war brought to everyone in the wizarding world, just like she couldn't understand why she didn't dare to call Voldemort by his name.

At the end of everyone's speeches, Old Man Nat also asked, "Phyllis, why don't you say a word, if you have any opinions and ideas, please listen to them." ”

What is there to say? Phyllis muttered in her heart, if she told her plan, she was afraid that she would be scolded to death by these affectionate guys, Phyllis smiled and said: "I'm a junior, so I don't think as well as you, so it's good for me to listen." (To be continued.) )