"Yo, Harry, Ron, Hermione, you're out?"

On their way to Percy's residence, Zhangjialou, Harry and his party meet Percy's landlord.

The Harry trio tried to retaliate against Zhang Xu, but were suppressed by Mrs. Weasley.

"Why are you here?" Harry asked.

"I'll go to Percy and collect their rent." Zhang Xu replied, "Isn't this just the time to collect rent?" ”

"Mr. landlord, do you have a habit of spraying four perfumes on your body and then collecting the rent?" Percy's teammate James suddenly shouted in surprise after passing by Zhang Xu's side, "Or did you just have a physical entanglement with at least four ladies?" ”

Zhang Xu ignored his harsh words, but said lightly: "Your rent will quadruple from next year." ”

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After Percy and the other four went through a united and loving internal education for James, Zhang Xu decided to maintain the original rent for next year.

Because a large number of wizards have now taken refuge in Hogsmeade, the rent here has skyrocketed in a short period of time. And when Percy first negotiated the price with Zhang Xu, the rent here had not yet risen, so they picked up a big bargain.

This is one of the reasons why after Zhang Xu caused a big explosion on the roof of the building in the summer, Percy and his family would repair the house by themselves without knowing it.

Although their rent was lower than the market price at the beginning, even if it quadruples, it is a little lower than the current market price. But Percy had no choice but to take credit for it as an achievement, and their budget for next year had already been approved. If the rent rises like this at this time, they will have to make up for the deficit by saving food expenses and other means in the following time.

So, at this time, you can't offend the landlord by offending anyone.

"Then why do you smell so much perfume?" Percy asked, curious and cautious, "Did you try it out when you went to buy perfume just now?" ”

(?? _??) "Framed! They actually sprayed me with magical perfume after taking Gabrielle away. The smell of these perfumes can't be easily cleaned up, and there is no way to wash them or cleanse them. Didn't you tell them about Gringotts in advance? ”

"What's wrong with Gringotts?" Harry got to the point with a lot of playfulness.

"You can go and ask Bill." After Zhang Xu reminded Harry, he didn't say much about this matter.

"Why do they spray perfume on you?" At this point, Ron caught another important point in a very uninteresting way.

The corners of Zhang Xu's mouth hooked, patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "You'll know if you try it yourself in ten years." ”

"Ahem, Mr. Landlord, in fact, as long as you rush home now, you won't be bothered by this matter." James came over and tried to make some amends for his impression in the landlord's mind, "As long as the total time divided by four gives you a much smaller average time than you used to do, you know, then their attempt to frame you has failed." If you spend too much time trying to eat with us until the smell of perfume dissipates, then they have succeeded. ”

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"You have a point." Zhang Xu smashed his left palm with a fist with his right hand, "Just do as you say, and wipe out your three months' rent." ”

Looking at the back of the landlord leaving, James asked Percy for credit, "Look, I didn't save a few gold coins for our rent." ”

Percy glanced at him and said, "The fraction he spoke of, unless otherwise specified, generally refers to copper coins. ”

“……”

Just as the people of Hogsmeade were jubilantly preparing for Christmas, the top leaders of the Death Eaters fell into a dead silence.

Because they only sent food to the prisoners in Azkaban every few days, they only got the news today that Azkaban had been captured, all the remaining Dementors had been destroyed, and all the prisoners had been rescued.

Since the Dementors defected to Voldemort, the dark wizards in Azkaban basically came out to follow Voldemort, and the Dementors began to go to England en masse for "hunting".

Initially, Scrimgeour sent the Aurors to Azkaban to investigate the situation, but there were no other people and Dementors except for a few starving prisoners. In addition, the Dementors have been served once in a pot, and the rest of them are missing. So the Ministry of Northern Magic thinks Azkaban has been abandoned.

But what Scrimgeour didn't expect was that after the capture of the Ministry of Magic, the Death Eaters reactivated Azkaban. The surviving Dementors all returned to Azkaban to gather their strength, and the Death Eaters locked up the wizards, Aurors, and even Muggles they had caught, even Draco Malfoy after he made a mistake.

A few months earlier, after Voldemort had personally arranged the kidnapping of Mrs. Weasley, he had taken her to Azkaban without anyone else's knowledge.

In the ensuing operation, a large number of Death Eater strongholds were attacked, but Scrimgeour and the others did not send half of them as if they had forgotten about the existence of Azkaban.

Until the last two days, Azkaban had been captured, and prisoners, including Mrs. Weasley, had been taken to St. Mungo's Hospital.

What Voldemort and the Death Eaters couldn't figure out was that the rescuers, whether it was Azkaban or St. Mungo's Hospital, left no clues, as if they didn't exist.

Voldemort and the Death Eaters first thought that the Ministry of Magic in the north had sent a handful of people, but the idea was rejected immediately.

Because the best thing for the Death Eaters right now is to attack Gringotts tomorrow Christmas Eve, and the Northern Ministry of Magic is currently focused on the security and maintenance of order at the Hogsmeade Shopping Carnival. One doesn't want the other party to have someone block them when they attack Gringotts, and the other doesn't want the other party to hinder their fortune. So Malfoy and Scrimgeour secretly reached an agreement, and the two sides temporarily ceased war for a short time.

And both Ministers of Magic have made an unbreakable oath that unless Scrimgeour doesn't want to live for Christmas, then he can only send people to attack Azkaban.

However, now that Scrimgeour is still alive and well, it shows that there are many people sent by him.

Excluding Scrimgeur's possibility, then the biggest of the remaining options is Zhang's move.

The problem is that there is no reason for Zhang to go all the way to attack Azkaban at this time, Lao Ma and Scrimthier have already considered the situation of the other party sending mercenaries and agents when they made an oath, and if Scrimthier asks them to be mercenaries, they will also die.

At that moment, among the Death Eaters, who had been silent, one of them spoke.

∫￣0￣?? "The most likely reason for the destruction of Azkaban is that someone will rescue the Weasleys who are being held there. ”

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