Chapter 116: The Dark Tide Behind the Case
It's another Hogsmeade weekend, and the students of Hogwarts have another day of rejoicing.
Scarlett, on the other hand, took the Animagus detector he had just made, and searched around the Screaming Shack for Blake's traces.
At the Three Broomsticks Bar, Zhang Xu, Harry's trio, Zhang Qiu, and Cedric Diggory sit at a table in the corner.
Zhang Xu and the others were listening to Cedric's story about the just-concluded "Hippogriff Horse Winged Beast Injury Case".
As soon as the case was closed, Amos Diggory, the head of the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control, sent the results of the case to his son, who was in Lady Padiv's teahouse, through the fastest owl of the Ministry of Magic.
After Cedric received the letter, he immediately found the trio of Zhang Xu and Harry and told them the outcome of the case.
"The final verdict is that the Hippogriff must leave Hogwarts, and someone must buy it within half a month, and the person who bought it must ensure that it does not hurt anyone again, and if one of them is not done, it will be executed." Cedric said to a few people.
"How much?" Harry said he was not short of money.
"Someone has already bought it, and Cho's father paid for it in my father's name, and it will be fostered at Mr. Weasley's house in normal times." Cedric said as he pointed at Zhang Qiu, himself, and Ron.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were dumbfounded, and they couldn't figure out why it was doing this. Especially Hermione, who had made some preparations for this, suddenly found that she couldn't understand the world.
"Do you think it's as simple as Buckbeak hurting Malfoy?" Zhang Xu shook his head and said to the stunned Harry and the three of them.
"In the beginning, Hogwarts had to sacrifice Buckbeak and put it in the hands of the Ministry of Magic in order to keep Hagrid as professor."
"And in the Ministry of Magic, the Buckbeak case began as a struggle between Lucius Malfoy and Hagrid. Then it developed into a struggle between the Malfoys and Hogwarts. Eventually, the Malfoys were on the one hand, and the other families and Hogwarts on the other, and Buckbeak's case became a battleground for both sides. ”
"If Buckbeak dies in the end, then the Malfoys side wins, and if Buckbeak survives in the end, it is the Hogwarts side that wins."
Cedric continued, "Among the families that support Hogwarts, we are led by the Diggory, Zhang, and Weasley families, so in the end, the Hippogriff is dealt with by the three of us. ”
Harry, Ron, and Hermione continued to look confused, they didn't understand the adult world.
"Are there many families that support Hogwarts?" Harry asked.
"There aren't many, except for the Weasleys, the others are relatively weak and small families." Zhang Qiu said.
"Isn't your Zhang family also a powerful family?" Hermione asked.
"It is only the Zhang Qiu family of the Zhang family in Britain that is involved, if the entire Zhang family in China participates, it will cause a world war." Zhang Xu spread his hands and said.
Harry and Hermione then looked at Ron together, the two of them had always thought that the children of a powerful wizarding family should be like Draco Malfoy and other Snake Academy students, and Ron's art style was clearly different from theirs.
"Don't underestimate the Weasleys, they're just a little low-key." Cedric said with a smile.
"Can my Potter family join you?" Harry said suddenly.
"As the current patriarch of the Potter family, Mr. Harry Potter, your first task is to graduate and get married, have a large group of children, and let the Potter family continue." Zhang Xu said to Harry with a funny face.
Harry's face was as red as Ron's hair.
Zhang Xu was trampled hard by Zhang Qiu, who was sitting on the side.
"So, now the wizard family is divided into two factions?" Hermione turned the conversation back.
"You can say that, but there are many more families who are neutrals." Cedric said.
"Why, it's like this?" Harry asked, confused.
"It all started when he came to Hogwarts." Cedric pointed at Zhang Xu and said to Harry, "His arrival has stirred up the wizarding world, which was originally a pool of stagnant water. For more than two years, he has shown the wizarding world a side that he has been deliberately ignoring all along, and has brought more benefits. ”
"Don't blame me, I just made the cake bigger. It's just that some people don't see the bigger cake, but only see the proportion of their share that doesn't change shrink. Zhang Xu shrugged his shoulders and said.
Looking at Harry and Ron, who were confused, and Hermione, who was half-understood, Zhang Qiu explained to them: "For example, if the original interests of the wizarding world are a ten-pound cake, some people get half of it, which is a five-pound cake. Now there is a forty-pound cake next to this cake, and the two cakes together are fifty pounds. Those people still only got the five pounds of cake on the original small cake, and they realized that they could only share 50 percent of the whole cake now, but now they can only share 10 percent. But they didn't think about how to divide the pie or make a new one. All they can think about is how to destroy the new cake so that everyone can continue to share the old one. ”
After saying that, both Harry and Ron had cake in their eyes, and only Hermione nodded thoughtfully.
Some topics are just right here. The conversation quickly turned to Quidditch, where it was not difficult to find a conversation with three active Seekers and one former substitute among the six men.
Chatting and chatting, when everyone talked about the captain and goalkeeper of the Lion Academy team that will graduate this year.
"Ron, why don't you join the Quidditch team?" Zhang Xu suddenly said to Ron, "Go and try to take Wood's place." ”
Ron himself didn't think about it, and when Zhang Xu brought it up, his own mind began to come alive.
Ron is a bit of a showy person, and whenever he gets into the limelight, people go crazy.
After all, he has been suppressed by several of his excellent brothers, even his sister, who was fooled by Zhang Xu to go to the Lion Courtyard Quidditch Reserve Team as a chaser, so he also needs to do something to prove himself.
Ron himself wouldn't let go of every opportunity to be in the limelight. It's only been a few days, and the incident of Blake's night attack on him that night has been told by him that he only relied on his own strength to fight to the death with Blake, who was armed with a 40-meter-long knife, and finally defeated him.
When Ron remembered Zhang Xu's talent for seeing people, he couldn't help but feel moved, maybe he could do it.