Chapter 668: Harry is fishing
The Hog's Head Bar was completely destroyed in the battle ten years ago, and everything in the Hog's Head Bar is now new, except for the portrait of Aberforth Dumbledore's sister Ariana Dumbledore, whom he desperately took with him during his retreat, and the signboard that was later picked up from the rubble and repaired.
The original two-storey building is now four-storey, but the first and second floors have been rebuilt in the same way as they were, with the addition of a few fireplaces, and the new third and fourth floors are built as modern hotel rooms. Every room was electrified, lights were switched on and off in both magic and touch modes, Muggle telephone lines and later fibre optic broadband.
However, since the construction of the new Pig's Head Bar on New Year's Day in 1999, the bar has been rented by the Ministry of Magic as a work location, and the rooms that were supposed to be comfortable rooms have become the offices of the various departments of the Ministry of Magic.
When the new Ministry of Magic office was procuring, more and more young employees were calling for computers, printers, photocopiers, etc. to be added to the purchase list.
To this end, the Ministry of Magic organized a document processing competition in Hogsmeade, in which ten people were divided into two equal groups to handle the same documents, one using "Muggle gadgets" and the other using traditional wizarding methods.
In the beginning, when it came time to prepare a hundred Auror health registration forms, the printer made the automatic quills several times faster. In the next series of table productions, the automatic quill was quickly defeated. Then there was the work of counting the last month's salary of the Ministry of Magic, and the automatic quill was again defeated by Excel.
Eventually, Scrimgeour approved a series of plans for the purchase of modern Muggle office equipment.
Then Hood and Nelson held a computer training class at Hogsmeade, leaving Ryan alone in the coffee shop.
Harry, who started his day's work, was opening the office system to check the July security reports that had been compiled by the Auror Command in various places.
One of the reports is that the Aurors captured 26 fake Voldemort in July, and asked people to pay him in return for seizing various official positions after seizing the Ministry of Magic on the grounds that they needed to buy resurrection ritual materials for their imminent resurrection.
Every time he saw a question like this, Harry's skull hurt.
When Harry first became an Auror, he didn't take it upon himself to catch such liars.
At first, he was worried that this would be true, but later on, he was expecting a real event in which Voldemort was about to be resurrected.
After that battle ten years ago, almost everyone present knew that Voldemort's body was gone. Although Zhang Xu repeatedly assured that he took Voldemort's body and burned it secretly, there were still many people who didn't believe it. For so many years, Voldemort hid in various parts of the planet waiting for the gossip to make a comeback.
"Brian, do I have anything important to attend to today?" Harry asked his secretary.
After years of working as an Auror, Brian Braddock has now climbed to the position of secretary to the Auror staff. For Harry, who was younger than him, to be his boss, Brian and the other Aurors were also convinced. Whether it was as a student or after a formal job, Harry's performance was outstanding.
Brian flipped through his notebook and found that Harry's schedule was all empty for today. After all, it's Friday, and no one wants to schedule too much work the day before the weekend except for emergencies, and if it can't be completed, it won't be overtime.
Knowing that he could fish today, Harry decided to {REDACT} and take a walk around {/REDACTED} to carry out surprise inspections in various places.
The first was to inspect the policing of Diagon Alley and Tumbledown Alley.
This is an inspection, not a shopping.
"Harry, you're lazy again."
As soon as Harry came out of the Leaky Cauldron, he was told by Hannah Longbottom, the proprietress of the bar behind the bar, that he was there.
"Don't talk nonsense." Harry deliberately said to Hannah with a straight face, "The Aurors walking on the street are not shopping, they are called patrols. ”
Then Harry walked over to the bar and grabbed Matthew Longbottom's fat face sitting at the bar and rubbed it.
"Have any suspicious people been in the bar lately?" Harry asked Hannah as he grimaced Matthew's fat face.
"Yesterday there were a few scammers here under the guise of 'unfreezing goblin assets', and then I called the Aurors here." Hannah reclaimed her son from Harry's clutches.
"Alas, there have been more and more scammers lately." Harry sighed.
"yes." Hannah nodded.
Ever since the wizards stepped into the sun, many problems have gradually emerged.
In the early years, both sides were cautiously approaching each other, and nothing had happened at that time. After the two sides have a certain understanding, various cases begin to appear.
"I, Voldemort, make money" and "unfreeze goblin assets" are two of the most popular scams.
Harry and Hannah chatted a few words before heading to Diagon Alley.
Diagon Alley, which had been depressed for a period of time ten years ago, regained its place as the commercial center of the wizarding world in the year that Hogsmeade was destroyed, and is now a must-see for ordinary people visiting London.
There are more people, and all kinds of petty theft and other crimes are also increasing, so the Auror Office has always listed this place as a key security point.
Ever since he wore a beard, Harry had been unrecognizable when he walked down the street, and he had fixed some of his hair to hide the scar.
Diagon Alley is bustling with tourists from all over the world shopping for a wide variety of goods.
For example, cosmetics, clothes, and snacks endorsed by a mysterious witch that were short-lived ten years ago. After her photo was made public by Zhang in a TV interview, many businesses who smelled business opportunities immediately handed over olive branches. Unfortunately, the witch only worked with them once and then disappeared, but because of this, the topic of her mysterious her has been circulating among ordinary people for ten years and has not diminished. However, there was a lot of gossip in those topics, such as the gossip that she was actually the secret lover of Zhang, who was the first to show her photo.
A patrol of Aurors and police officers passed Harry, who didn't bother them, but followed them to see how they were doing.
Today was a peaceful day, and Diagon Alley was full of laughter, and there was nothing to do with the Aurors and the police for a while.
Seeing that the patrol was doing their job well, Harry made his way to Tumbledown Alley.
There is no shortage of curious people in this world who are not afraid of death, and many ordinary people are eager for the goods in Tumbledown Alley.
The Ministry of Magic had to issue a new rule that dangerous things should be labeled with warnings.
Harry was reluctant to come to Tumbledown Alley, as there was a shop that he didn't feel comfortable with every time he saw it.
Every time he passed by the "Lily Potions Shop", he would quicken his pace a little.
After the end of the war ten years ago, Snape, Malfoy and Sons, Farranier and other undercover identities were all whitewashed. It was only in hindsight that Snape was forgotten, consciously or unconsciously.
Moreover, Slughorn, the Potions professor who had been rehired by Dumbledore at the time, had made it clear that he would be retiring after the end of the 1998 semester, and after this period of high stress, his body was now much less energetic. Since Slughorn was also the dean of Slytherin House, many people at the time would have assumed that the successor Potions professor would also be the dean of Slytherin House.
And everyone thought that Snape, who had previously held the position, would return to the role.
But when the opening party took place in September, it was Faranire who sat in the professor's seat.
At the time, this decision made Harry and the others who had just graduated very much, and in the end, they stayed on as an assistant professor in the herbal medicine class, and Neville told the story of the incident while drinking.
On the one hand, Snape died himself, and Snape passed the make-up exam in Percy's professor performance appraisal that year, so many people opposed him returning to Hogwarts to teach.
On the other hand, it is Faraniel who has a backstage. Faraniel had been on Lucius Malfoy's line when he was undercover, so his appointment as Potions professor and head of Slytherin was supported by the "Wizarding Power Party" formed by Old Ma.
Snape, who was unemployed, simply rented a shop in Tumbledown Alley to sell potions in front of the shop and behind the factory.
Because of his technical skills, bright signboards, and his usual gloomy paving and greasy and unkempt image that matched the average person's first impression of a wizard, his business has been good for so many years.
In order to eat, he had to put away his previous attitude of contempt for ordinary people. However, his cold attitude towards people is unexpectedly popular in some groups.
Perhaps because of the seldom of wizards with a muscular figure like Harry, he was quickly considered a Muggle by some as a tourist.
"Dude, do you want a potion?" Harry was approached by a wizard wearing a black hood, "I have my favorite potion for Harry Potter the Savior when he was a student." After you use it, you will keep it a hundred times more energetic, and the dragon spirit will be fierce. The original price of this potion is fifty pounds a bottle, I think you have this person is good, and I also have the heart to make friends with you, sell you a bottle of thirty pounds, and give euros and dollars without pounds. ”
Harry pretended to be curious and asked, "What kind of potion?" Can I take a look first? ”
"No problem." The black-hooded wizard pulled out a beautiful crystal bottle and handed it to Harry.
Harry guessed correctly, this bottle was wholesaled from Yiwu. Then he opened the cap and looked at it, and then he smelled it, and found that it contained nothing more than water mixed with a little energy potion and petrochemical potion. And such a large bottle of pure energy potion and petrochemical potion normally costs less than twenty pounds.
"Listening to the accent is not local, is it?" Harry returned the potion to the wizard.
"Yes, I'm German." The wizard said, "Do you want to make it cheaper?" ”
"No wonder you don't know me." After Harry finished speaking, he arrested the Polish wizard who had come to his door to sell counterfeit goods.
After handing the guy over to the patrolling Aurors, Harry decided to go to the Weasley Wizardry for lunch with Ron.