Chapter 195: The tacit understanding of the two people
The burial ground of the Black family is not far from the Black family's house, half an hour's walk.
By the time the funeral was over and everyone had left the cemetery, the sun had already set and the stars were above the night.
In the group, Dumbledore was at the front, Blake and Lupin were behind, Harry, Ron and Hermione were behind Black, and Zhang Xu, who was at the back, was a little behind Scarlett who was ahead of him.
Suddenly, Zhang Xu found himself a little out of place with this team.
Dumbledore had a reason to eliminate Voldemort.
Lupin, Black, and Harry had a blood feud with Voldemort, and Ron's maternal uncle died at the hands of the Death Eaters.
Hermione was for her friend, but also for herself.
Behind the fact that the Scarlett family was forced to move east by Voldemort is a history of blood and tears, otherwise she would not have agreed to come to Hogwarts to teach. Why would a doctor of mathematics teach mathematics to middle school students, Dumbledore didn't know the relationship between a doctor of mathematics and middle school mathematics, but Zhang Xu did. She came to Hogwarts because she saw hope for revenge. And she also said that after cleaning up Voldemort, she would quit her job at Hogwarts and go to work in Zhang Xukai's company.
As for Zhang Xu, there is no deep hatred between him and Voldemort.
Voldemort's philosophy is that a pure-blood family rules the wizarding world, and from this point of view, Zhang Xu still belongs to the ruling class with strong roots.
If Voldemort could win over a wizard like Zhang Xu, whose family inheritance was four figures, he would laugh so much that his nose grew when he slept.
In this war against Voldemort, Zhang Xu's position is more like a mercenary invited by Dumbledore.
Zhang Xu asked Dumbledore to start dealing with the Horcruxes in advance, and he even dealt with several Horcruxes himself.
There are also the Death Eaters in Azkaban who are locked up in the death pit, Peter Pettigrew who killed in advance, the hidden danger of werewolves eliminated in advance, and Barty Crouch Jr. who is ready to clean up in advance, all of which are done with the mentality of working for Dumbledore.
In addition, unite the forces of Hogwarts and gradually form a assembled force belonging to Hogwarts, then promote Harry Potter to the throne, participate in creating and provoking conflicts between pure-blood wizards and half-blood wizards outside of Hogwarts, etc.
Dumbledore knew all these things that Zhang Xu did, and he also saw the meaning behind Zhang Xu's actions.
So Dumbledore also reciprocated the favor and gave Zhang Xu a lot of invisible privileges.
Without Dumbledore's acquiescence, Zhang Xu didn't have the courage to take Fleur back to the professor's dormitory.
In addition to the deal with Dumbledore, Zhang Xu's motivation was only to save the lives of his friends, such as Fred, Cedric and others.
Zhang Xu sometimes thinks that in this world, Dumbledore came to China in the year when Harry Potter entered Hogwarts, most likely in order to leave a way back for Harry Potter, and in case the anti-Voldemort career suffered a serious setback, Harry Potter and them could have the possibility of a comeback.
If it was just an ordinary Chinese wizarding student who came to Hogwarts back then, then under Dumbledore's covert operation, that student and Harry Potter became friends like Ron, and then hinted that Dumbledore's plan had a good chance of success.
As a result, the wheel of history and fate fell into the ditch once a long time ago, and Huaxia sent Zhang Xu, a guy who does not play according to the routine.
Zhang Xu's super-level performance made Dumbledore very satisfied, Dumbledore wanted to pull Zhang Xu into the Order of the Phoenix, but Zhang Xu rejected it with official rhetoric.
Zhang Xu is not afraid to face Voldemort, he can't beat him, but Zhang Xu wants to run, unless Voldemort can kill him in seconds for the first time, no one can stop him.
Zhang Xu has a lot of life-saving measures, in addition to a bunch of things in the treasure bag, the insoles on one of his feet are an unactivated door key, as long as he enters the magic power inside, he can fly back to the safe house of the embassy with a "biu".
Zhang Xu didn't think that Voldemort would dare to send someone to Portland Street to find his own trouble.
After Zhang Xu came to the UK, he realized that the water in the British magical world was deeper than he imagined. Voldemort just caused civil strife in Britain, and if he dared to do something that would surprise his "friends", other wizarding forces would come forward and make trouble for him.
Besides, based on Zhang Xu's merit of burying the jade seal of the country in the Monument to the People's Heroes, if he has a problem under Voldemort, China will definitely dare to let Voldemort know what it means to "no matter where you are, a group of epic alchemists are your strong backing".
Not to mention that there are some legendary alchemists like Zhao Lao who can go from five to four or six with Dumbledore who began to be unhappy with Britain a century ago, if they want to go to Britain to make trouble, these old guys who fish with one or three or five kinds of flowers on weekdays, and run to the South Pole to climb Mount Everest and go down the trench will definitely bring their own dry food to join in the fun.
Originally, Zhang Xu was not a person with too much ambition, his initial life plan was to make money, get married, retire early when his children worked, and wander around the world, and then take his grandson to play when his grandson comes out. As a person who has passed through rebirth, it is not too difficult to make a big buck by one or two steps ahead of others to achieve such a life.
Zhao Lao found him in the late eighties, but he saw that he was bent on eating and waiting for death, so he didn't go to him in the first place.
Later, when the matter of studying at Hogwarts fell on Zhang Xu's head, Zhang Xu agreed with a mentality of playing games, looking for excitement and hugging the country's thighs. If he had told him to fight Voldemort in the ring, he would have said that he would have asked someone else.
Sometimes Zhang Xu himself is laughing at himself, he has watched so many "Harry Potter" fandoms in his previous life, and if his story is written as a fan, he should be the happiest and most relaxed protagonist among the many protagonists.
A ghost, the ghost of Lord Voldemort, hovers over the heads of the protagonists.
And Zhang Xu dared to point to the nose of the devil and say, "If you dare to move, I'll try."
"What are you thinking, Zhang?" Dumbledore's voice woke up Zhang Xu, who was thinking about it.
At this time, Zhang Xu realized that Dumbledore didn't know when he walked to his side, and the others had already walked far ahead.
"Thinking about Voldemort." Zhang Xu replied.
"Thank you for everything, Zhang." Dumbledore looked at Zhang Xu with a smile on his face and said, "If you want, you don't have to get involved. ”
Dumbledore understands what Zhang Xu meant, if you are instigated by seeing Regulus's death, you can quit, he will not blame you, and your treatment will not change in the future.
Zhang Xu knew that Dumbledore was not using a radical method against him, but really cared about him.
What Zhang Xu could think of, Dumbledore could also guess.
Dumbledore also knew that Zhang Xu did not have the responsibility and obligation to fight Voldemort endlessly, and what he did was more like a transaction.
Recalling what Zhang Xu had done in the past few years, Dumbledore found that his side now had a great advantage, and even if Voldemort recovered again, it would be difficult to support it alone.
As long as the soul fragment of Voldemort in Harry Potter's head is removed, it will be more stable than the face of the Wyvern.
If he doesn't win in the end, he can jump into the lake.
Look at the current Zhang Xu, he has only passed his fifteenth birthday not long ago, but he has been working so many things in secret. And Harry, who is the same age as him, focuses more of his energy on playing outside of studying every day.
At the beginning, he gave Zhang Xu, who was very familiar with the Muggle world, a position as the acting professor of Muggle Studies, which was arguably the most relaxing course in Hogwarts, just to take the opportunity to give him a little privilege and make it easier for him.
As a result, Zhang Xu played this course out.
Dumbledore had been paying attention to what Zhang Xu was teaching in class.
The third and fourth years were fine with a general knowledge of the Muggle world, while economics in the fifth year, philosophy in the sixth grade, and political science in the seventh year were the ones that even Dumbledore looked struggling with.
On a Friday evening, he was also blindsided when students asked him questions about "the creation and nature of money" and "the relationship between the universal and the particular of contradictions."
The changes that Zhang Xu brought to Hogwarts were also visible to Dumbledore.
Not to mention that he brought a lot of gold to Hogwarts.
The four schools were united like never before, and the students of Slytherin House, who had been somewhat out of step with the other houses, were now able to twist together with the students of the other three houses.
The students' minds are also becoming more and more active, their thinking is becoming more and more open-minded, and all kinds of wonderful ideas are emerging one after another. Dumbledore had been at Hogwarts for so many years, and it was the first time he had met a student like the Weasley brothers who were able to play the transformation cookies on land, sea and air when they were students.
After Zhang Xu first proposed the importance of mathematics, Dumbledore set up a mathematics class for a variety of reasons, and the results were also remarkable. Through the study of mathematics, students develop a rational, methodical, and systematic way of thinking. This way of thinking plays a very important role in solving many of the problems that students encounter in the study of magic.
Dumbledore was very grateful for what Zhang Xu had done to Hogwarts, and he also knew the dangers Zhang Xu faced, so he had been protecting Zhang Xu openly and secretly.
Due to the content of Zhang Xu's Muggle studies class and the articles he wrote in Youth Magazine touched the interests of some people, Dumbledore received letters to dismiss Zhang Xu from his position as acting professor, and even to expel him, and these pressures were resisted by Dumbledore.
Lucius Malfoy had reminded Zhang Xu that several families wanted to hack him, and Dumbledore also knew about it. When those families secretly induced the werewolf army to attack Hogsmeade at night and tried to take advantage of the chaos to attack Zhang Xu, Dumbledore personally used his identity as the chief magician of the Wizengamot to make those families peel off a layer of skin.
Not long ago, after someone tried to use the fire dragon of the Triwizard Tournament to attack Zhang Xu and the Weasley twins, Dumbledore joined forces with the Weasley family and several other families to give the initiator a hard blow.
Zhang Xu is not a fool either, he knows everything Dumbledore has done for him. Some of Dumbledore's secrets were also mentioned in the information given to him by the domestic intelligence system.
In public and private, Dumbledore took great care of Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu is not the kind of selfish person who respects me and is righteous, and I respect you and then coerce me to repay you. What he said was that you respect me for a foot, and I respect you for a foot.
An old man and a young man walking under the starry sky, the two of them are either public or private, and they have tacitly helped each other for several years, or they have traded secretly.
Zhang Xu thought about it, and finally shook his head with a smile and rejected Dumbledore's suggestion to let him quit.
There are many reasons to keep yourself out of the situation, but maybe it's to earn more benefits, maybe it's for the safety of your friends, maybe it's for someone, Zhang Xu can also find many reasons to continue to be an enemy of Voldemort.