Chapter 518: Ivan: What? Am I so ambitious that I want to do something big? (2-in-1)
Althea's expression was very strange, could it be that Hogwarts would teach these things on weekdays? Or is your child a natural leader?
Doggett is also lamenting this.
Originally, he thought that this meeting would be familiar, let Ivan hone it, and he was even ready to be messed up by Ivan.
After all, among the more than thirty wizards present, except for the seven werewolves such as Fren, the others met Ivan for the first time, and the two sides were very strangers, and there was no basis for trust.
The dozen or so friends he brought were even more shrewd, all of them were masters who didn't see rabbits and didn't scatter eagles, and they were very difficult to deal with.
For a thirteen or fourteen-year-old wizard, it is almost impossible to gain their approval in a short period of time!
However, Ivan did just that!
In this short assembly of less than an hour, it directly conquered everyone present with great strength, unparalleled potential, and grand goals and determination!
Not to mention those uninformed listeners, even after listening to Ivan's speech, there was an idea in his heart to follow this kid to do a great job!
Ivan on the side couldn't help but smile after getting praise from Doggett and Althea,
He didn't read so many books in his previous life, and his theoretical knowledge was very rich, but he couldn't find room to play.
Of course, theory is theory, and before that his actual combat experience was basically zero!
When he was fooling these wizards in the conference room just now, Ivan's legs were weak, and if his acting skills hadn't reached the point of perfection, he would have been unable to hold back his stuffing.
"By the way, I kept forgetting to introduce you to... Dobby! Ivan suddenly remembered something and snapped his fingers.
The crisp voice rang out in the conference hall, startling Doggett, who hadn't forgotten that Ivan had just killed Rhys Knott with a snap of his fingers.
Fortunately, this time the snap of the fingers did not seem to exert the corresponding power, and in front of them appeared a short, wrinkled-skinned house-elf.
"Sir!" Dobby blinked, bowed to Ivan, then looked at Althea, and greeted him a little nervously. "Hello, Mrs. Hals!"
"Is it?" Althea glanced at Dobby curiously, then at Ivan.
When she saw this house-elf in that alley before, she wanted to ask, but there were too many people present and she delayed.
"It's called Dobby, and it used to be the Malfoy family's house elf, but now it's free...", Ivan spoke to Althea about what had happened last year.
Due to Doggett's existence and not wanting Althea to worry too much, Ivan directly omitted the experience of the basilisk and the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, and only mentioned that Lucius Malfoy sold him a dangerous diary during the summer vacation of his first year.
And this dark magic prop is very special, with its own ideas, waiting for the opportunity to control the new Defense of Magic professor, wanting to "clean" the entire Hogwarts and kill those low-blooded Muggle seeds.
"Lucius Malfoy! How dare he hurt you like this?! Hearing this, Althea was very annoyed.
Proficient in alchemy, she understands how powerful a thinking dark magic object can be, even if she doesn't know about Horcruxes.
Thinking like this, Aisya couldn't help but be a little afraid, and she said with some complaints. "Why haven't you mentioned anything so dangerous to me before, what if something goes wrong?"
"I knew there was something wrong with it, so I wanted to look into it!" Ivan explained in a curt, and then pretended to be relieved that the thing had been destroyed by himself.
"So you asked me to teach you to be fierce in the first place, just to destroy it?" Althea immediately remembered that Ivan had suddenly asked her for advice on how to release the Fire Charm, and now it was supposed to be used to destroy this magical item.
"That's right! I tried a lot of things but couldn't do any damage to it, so I came up with the Fire Charm! Ivan nodded, it was because of the fifth-level brain occlusion technique and the fierce fire ring that he dared to hold the Horcrux for so long.
Although he almost overturned in the end, the benefits were obvious, and in that semester, his magic level could only be described as coming in by leaps and bounds, and he had successfully found a way to fuse multiple bloodlines.
If other factors are put aside, Ivan has to admit that Tom is a great teacher, and he is still the kind that can carry it with him.
"Okay, Althea, I think little Ivan has his own ideas, hasn't he always handled it well?" Doggett also said that he didn't want Ivan and Althea to be stiff because of this trivial matter.
Doggett was also very surprised by Ivan's various legendary experiences in school, no wonder Ivan's strength would increase greatly every time he came back, and this campus career was too exciting.
Althea had also lost her anger at this time, she was just a little annoyed by Ivan's risky behavior.
Ivan continued, telling Dobby that he was worried about Harry's safety, disobeyed orders and secretly reported the news, and was eventually discovered and punished by Lucius.
"After I destroyed the journal, I set up a game, put a glove in the journal and gave it back to Lucius, and he threw the damaged journal to Dobby as I thought...", Ivan added.
Althea and Doggett were immediately aware of this.
House-elves are slaves of wizards, and the only way to be free is to receive a piece of clothing from their master.
But this is a shame for normal house-elves, because once they are expelled from the family by their owners, it means that they have lost the meaning of their existence.
But the house-elf in front of him was obviously a freak, Dobby said proudly. "Yes, the great Lord Hals freed Dobby and made Dobby a free house-elf..."
The more Dobby talked, the more excited he became, especially when he talked about Ivan's willingness to hire him with a weekly silver coco, his light bulb-sized eyes were filled with tears, and his nose twitched...
Doggett and Althea looked at Ivan with a strange gaze, and Ivan quickly interrupted the house-elf's words.
"Dobby! In the future, without my order, the matter of employment should not be mentioned again! ”
He finally created an image of caring for his subordinates in front of those wizards, and Ivan didn't want to be ruined because of this!
"Dobby understands that Sir must not want people to know how kind he is to a house elf," Dobby said, sobbing.
Dobby's peculiar brain circuit made Ivan speechless, he shook his head and didn't say anything, but turned to look at Althea, asking if Dobby could stay at home in the future.
Althea naturally has no opinion, she has been busy dealing with the wizard market lately, and she doesn't have much time to take care of housework, and Dobby's presence just fills this vacancy.
Doggett frowned, a little suspicious of Dobby's loyalty, a house-elf who betrayed his original owner was not very likable.
However, he was relieved to think that Ivan had fooled so many wizards in just one hour, so that he would not be able to deal with a single house elf.
After convincing Althea to accept Dobby, Ivan turned to curiosity to ask the two about what had happened in Tumbledown Alley over the past few months, and how they had come into conflict with the Wizarding Market.
"After you're gone, Althea and I feel the need to tidy up Tumbledown Alley before you come back, and that's one of the few things we can do for you!" Doggett was proud to explain to Ivan what had been achieved over the past few months.
They gathered enough men to get rid of some of the disobedient thorns, and as for the large number of ordinary wizards, they didn't care, because those people were easy to deal with, and when they achieved the final victory, they would automatically cling to them.
"I wanted to persuade the Nott family to join us at first, and I didn't want to embarrass him if he knew the times, but that old guy didn't know what to do, and he blasted out the people I sent..."Doggett said with a sneer, he gave the other party a chance, but unfortunately the other party didn't cherish it.
"Wait, Dean Doggett... Shouldn't it have started because we made a big fuss about the wizarding market two years ago, and the Notts family deliberately got revenge on us? Ivan interrupted Doggett's words in confusion and couldn't help but ask.
"That's a good statement..."Doggett's eyes lit up, why hadn't he thought of using this as a reason before?
Fortunately, it is too late to remedy it now, Doggett immediately said that he had not thought it through before and did not notice the influence of public opinion, and tomorrow he would order someone to collect the guilt of the Nott family.
Althea saw something, and couldn't help but remind Ivan that in order to achieve a more lofty ideal, he didn't have to be rigid about whether the means were righteous or not... If you want to do something big, you can't be too kind!
Listening to the words of the two, Ivan fell into confusion,
What the? Do I have bigger ambitions and want to do something big?
Why did I never know?
"Who are you listening to?" Ivan was very suspicious that Althea might have misunderstood something, and couldn't help but ask.
"From Bock, of course! If he hadn't told me about your arrangements, I'd probably still be kept in the dark by you..."Althea sighed and said with emotion, and then she glared at Ivan dissatisfied, and continued.
"You shouldn't have told Bock such a secret plan, if he passed it out, it would be bad!"
"But I only talked to him about alchemy and asked him how to put a secret door on the magic props." Ivan looked confused, completely confused, is there any connection between the two things?
"That's why I've always said that old boy is very clever, and he guessed that you were going to apply the technique of arranging the secret door to the protective ring you sold to the Aurors, so that when the time is right, you can solve the strongest force of the Ministry of Magic in one fell swoop!" Doggett opened his mouth to explain.
At the mention of Bock, Doggett still hated a little, and he still remembered the old guy blowing up his house.
Ivan was stunned, he recalled the scene when he first chatted with Bock.
It seems like... Probably... Maybe I used to say that?
But he did this just to keep an eye on it, so as not to be cheated by the magic items he sold!
Just to protect yourself! It has nothing to do with the ambition to rule Tumbledown Alley!
After all, he and Althea have done a lot of things that violate the laws of the wizarding world, and maybe one day a large number of Aurors will come and arrest them.
Ivan couldn't wait to use the time turner to go back in time and screw Bock's head off, lest he make up some strange things in his brain, and pass on this kind of brain to Althea and the others.
It's no wonder that when he was at Hogwarts, the quest to unify Tumbledown Alley would increase his progress every once in a while, and it turned out that Althea was fooled by Bock...
Thinking of this, Ivan was ready to explain.
However, before he could speak, he heard Doggett say with admiration. "Neither Aisya nor I thought that you would unknowingly plan such a meticulous plan!"
"yes, when Bock told me about it, I almost thought he was mistaken... It's not like a layout that a kid can come up with. Aisya also said with a smile.
It's a mistake!
Ivan secretly smiled bitterly, but looking at Doggett's admiring gaze and the smile on Althea's face, he swallowed the words again.
Ivan couldn't imagine how embarrassing it would be if he told the truth now and let Althea and Doggett understand that they had worked hard for months and ended up in an oolong scene...
All the previous efforts will become meaningless!
And those wizards who had spent a lot of money to gather were already boiling under his speech, ready to attack at any time.
If you go out now and tell them that everything is a misunderstanding, and then disband on the spot and go back to their own homes, there may be a big mess!
Not to mention that the relationship between them and the wizarding market has already reached the point where it cannot be eased, even if they are willing to stop now, it is impossible for the Nott family to let them go!
So now there is only one way to go to the dark, and the wizard market can be eliminated according to the original plan, so that the large amount of gold galleons spent will not be in vain!
Most crucially, Ivan remembered Trelawney's prophecy,
With Peter Pettigrew escaping from Azkaban, part of the prophecy has now been fulfilled, and Ivan feels he must prepare for the worst.
At this time, a group of strong and loyal subordinates is very important!
Given this, Ivan really didn't know how to explain it to Althea.
Could it be that although he is content with the status quo and has no big ambitions, he still needs some loyal subordinates to guard against the resurrection of the previous Dark Lord for some special reason?
Then it's better not to explain!