At 9:05 a.m., Scrimgeour was giving an enthusiastic speech on stage. The content of his speech is nothing more than that the current form is very good, and everyone is ready to celebrate the holiday, so it is time to take advantage of this good situation to buy more New Year's goods.

And Zhang stood under the stage, Fleur on the left, Luna on the right, and Ginny who kept kicking himself in the back.

Ginny was "released from prison" last night, and the first thing she did when she came out of the dungeon was to seek revenge on someone, only to get the news that someone had already gone to Hogsmeade. So she waited until this morning to kick him a few times to relieve her hatred.

Fleur looked back at the angry Ginny, then at Zhang Xu, who pretended not to care, smiled and shook her head.

While the Minister of Northern Magic was giving a speech to a large group of wizards in the audience, the Minister of Southern Magic was also reporting to his master on his recent work.

Voldemort and Bellatrix had been missing for many days, and this was the first regular meeting the two of them had since returning yesterday.

As for where the two of them had gone, the Death Eaters in the room were very interested in asking. Rodolphus Lestrange had been captured during the burning of the Horse Farm, so the Death Eaters in the conference room were in a stable mood.

Only Snape vaguely knew that what Voldemort was going to do was related to the previous battle in front of St. Mungo's Gate, Voldemort first asked him to obtain all the memories of the Death Eaters who escaped that day, and then disappeared with the bottles containing the memories.

After that, no one knew where he had gone or what he had done, except for a few orders to kidnap Mrs. Weasley.

Snape's instincts told him that there was a guy who should know something, but he didn't say anything.

At this point, Malfoy reported on the Northern Magic's proposal for a truce over Christmas.

Voldemort listened noncommittally, but simply tapped the table with the Elder Wand in a certain rhythm, and then motioned for Malfoy to continue the report.

The next article was about the matter of Lord Gring, and Malfoy spent more than twenty minutes reporting the cause and effect of this incident to Voldemort in detail.

After listening to all of it, Voldemort didn't speak, but stood up and walked to the window and paced back and forth.

The Death Eaters on either side of the table watched the Dark Lord with bated breath, for fear that their own voice would interrupt their master's train of thought.

It took a full five minutes for Voldemort to return to his seat.

"Lucius, is Draco still locked up in Azkaban?" Voldemort asked.

The old horse didn't expect Voldemort to ask him this question first, and he was stunned on the spot. And Mrs. Ma, who was sitting next to him, looked at him anxiously, with pleading in her eyes.

Lao Ma ignored his wife's gaze, nodded and said, "Yes, he is still locked up there." ”

Since a large number of Dementors were wiped out by Zhang Xu and them in the Peak District National Park, the remnants of the Dementors have taken refuge in Azkaban to recuperate.

The Ministry of Northern Magic thought it was useless and ignored the place. But they didn't know that it had been reactivated by Voldemort. However, since the Dementors have been cut off from the source of "food additives", the situation of the prisoners there is much better now than in previous years.

Voldemort played with his Elder Wand and said, "To dare to disobey my orders for the sake of a girl is really a mistake made by being young." ”

Lao Ma and his wife did not dare to speak.

After Draco Malfoy's failed attempt to take Murie Lawrence from Hogwarts in hopes of fishing for the Death Eaters' internal spies, Voldemort ordered that Mury, who was no longer useful, be disposed of.

However, to the surprise of the Death Eaters who went on a mission, Master Malfoy actually wounded them and ran away with his cousin.

In the end, it was the old horse who personally came out to capture the ponies and them, and then threw the two of them to Azkaban first, taking advantage of Voldemort's lack of anger.

Although Voldemort was annoyed that the pony dared to disobey his orders, considering that the old horse was very useful to him, he sold his favor to the old horse first, and postponed the disposal of the pony.

For Voldemort, betrayal was an unforgivable crime. Seeing the master bring up the old matter again, the old horse couple suddenly became nervous.

"I should have killed both of them." Voldemort glanced at the pale Malfoys before continuing, "But it's not like I can't give the two of them a chance. ”

Under the expectant gaze of the old horse couple, Voldemort said, "Let them go and help me retrieve something, and then I will act as if nothing happened." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, my master." Although he could guess that helping Voldemort would have to risk his life, Lao Ma still thanked his master for giving his son a chance to live.

"But I don't want to see either of them again." Voldemort said.

"I'll send them to the United States afterwards." The old horse replied immediately.

Having dealt with the trivial matter, Voldemort glanced at the Death Eaters on either side of the long table. The Death Eaters knew that their master was about to give the order, and immediately straightened their backs.

"Fairies, greedy, lowly creatures, have been crawling on the bodies of noble wizards for hundreds of years." Voldemort said with a calm face, "This kind of history should be over, and those inferior animals should be kept in cages and work as slaves for our noble wizards." ”

The eyes of the Death Eaters present suddenly lit up, Gringotts is such a huge piece of fat, if you can take a bite, all the money that was cheated by a certain guy back then, and even divide the contents of that guy's vault. Magic is the foundation of everything for wizards, but no one is short of money.

Then Voldemort ordered, "Lucius, you reply to Hogsmeade, and we agree to a temporary ceasefire until the Christmas holidays. ”

"Severus, you start picking people today."

"August, Jargson, Selwyn, you are now in charge of monitoring Gringotts' every move."

One order after another was issued, and the Death Eaters whose names were called stood up to receive their orders.

Finally, Voldemort said, "I want Gringotts as your Christmas present to me." ”

Unlike other Ministries of Magic that only used economic and administrative means to attack Gringotts, Voldemort chose the most brutal and straightforward way to seize control of Gringotts. If you kill the goblins, then Gringotts will naturally fall into your own hands. If the elves dare to rebel again, they must first ask the Death Eaters if they have their wands in hand.

Only Bellatrix knew that much of his master's hatred for the goblins in Gringotts stemmed from the fact that a cup he had commissioned to collect had been moved to someone's vault by the elves.