"Mr. Minister, long time no see." Zhang Xu said hello after catching up with Fuji.

Fudge and Dumbledore had a broken conversation just now, and when he walked out of the ward angrily, he saw Zhang Xu, but he was not in the mood to greet Zhang Xu at that time.

Now that his anger has subsided, and his impression of Zhang Xu has always been good, Fudge exchanged a few words with Zhang Xu, who came to say hello.

After the greetings, Zhang Xu made his request straight to the point, "Mr. Minister, I want to go to Azkaban, and I hope to get your approval." ”

Hearing this, Fudge looked at Zhang Xu with a strange expression.

It's big or small, and no one is going to run to a national prison for nothing. If Zhang Xu was going to visit the prison, it would be a natural small problem, but Fudge knew that there were no acquaintances of Zhang Xu in the Azka class, and if Zhang Xu was going to do something, it would be a lot of fun.

Seeing Fudge's doubt, Zhang Xu explained, "I have a fancy for a house in Hogsmeade, and I want to buy it. The house belonged to Rodolphus Lestrange and his wife, Bellatrix Lestrange, and I needed their consent to buy it. But both of them are now locked up in Azkaban, so I want to talk to them. ”

Fudge was relieved after listening to Zhang Xu's explanation, such things were not uncommon after the fall of Voldemort.

For hundreds of years, when prisoners were imprisoned in Azkaban with their families, their property was swallowed up by a group of people at a low price.

Wizards, like Muggles, are greedy when it comes to gold.

A man who has been tormented by Dementors to the point of madness is clearly a good bargaining target.

It's just that everyone talks about face, and the appearance of eating is not too ugly, when people are not dead, everyone will only eat less than forty percent of each other's property, and when people are ready to die, everyone will swallow the remaining sixty percent.

So when Fudge knew that Zhang Xu was just asking for money, he readily agreed to Zhang Xu's request.

Fudge said to Percy on the side, "Weasley, you are now in charge of taking Mr. Zhang to Azkaban, and then help him complete the formalities of the property by the way." ”

Percy, who received the minister's order, naturally nodded in agreement, saying that he would definitely get things done.

After Zhang Xu thanked him repeatedly, Fudge declined the suggestion that everyone go to dinner together and went back to the Ministry of Magic alone.

After leaving St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, Zhang Xu first invited Percy to have lunch at a nearby restaurant, and Zhang Xu rushed over before he had lunch just now.

After lunch, the two found an alley where no one was around, and Percy used the illusion to take Zhang Xu to Azkaban.

In Azkaban, Zhang Xu received a warm welcome from the Dementors.

After Zhang Xu sent a large package of food additives, the leader of the Dementors personally led Zhang Xu to Bellatrix Lestrange's cell.

After the Trouble Dementor was far away from the cell, Zhang Xu, who walked into the cell, saw a scrawny woman lying on the ground in the corner.

Just like the addicts in the anti-drug propaganda films that Zhang Xu has watched, Bellatrix is now like a living skeleton with a layer of flesh and skin.

Bellatrix noticed someone entering the cell, and she struggled to get up from the ground and sat against the wall, staring at the wizard who walked in with empty eyes.

At this time, Zhang Xu put on the hood of his robe, and others could not see his face under the effect of magic, and his voice changed at the same time.

Zhang Xu stood in front of Bellatrix, revealing his finger with Marvolo Gaunt's ring, and asked Bellatrix, "The Dark Lord asked me to ask you, are you still his faithful servant?" ”

The ring was found by Scarlett in the old mansion of Gaunt and asked Zhang Xu to keep it, and she asked Zhang Xu to dispose of the soul fragments inside before returning it to him.

It's just that Zhang Xu has never been able to find the opportunity to come to Azkaban, so this matter has dragged on to this day.

Bellatrix heard Zhang Xu's question, and recognized Marvolo Gaunt's ring, and the whole person suddenly had a brilliance.

Bellatrix immediately got up, knelt in front of Zhang Xu, pulled Zhang Xu's hand with the ring, and kept kissing the ring on Zhang Xu's hand.

At this moment, Zhang Xu felt a chill in his heart, and he had the urge to take out a gas canister and smash her to death.

"I will always be the most faithful servant of my master." Bellatrix said excitedly.

"Very well, I'm sure the Dark Lord will be pleased with your loyalty." Zhang Xu said, "Now that the Dark Lord has returned to England, but he is still very weak, are you willing to help him?" ”

What followed was Bellatrix's words of loyalty.

"The Dark Lord once asked you to keep a gold cup, and only the Dark Lord and you knew about it. Now the Dark Lord needs it to regain his strength, and when the Dark Lord regains his strength, he will come here himself and fetch you out. ”

After Zhang Xu finished speaking, he saw Bellatrix's skeletal face full of pride and excitement.

"That gold cup is in my vault at Gringotts." Bellatrix said.

Zhang Xu nodded, took out the parchment and quill, handed them to Bellatrix, and said, "Very good, you write an anonymous letter of transfer of the treasury property, and I will give them all to the Dark Lord." ”

What Zhang Xu said to Bellatrix was to hand over "them" to Voldemort, implying that all the rest of the property would be handed over together except for the Hufflepuff Gold Cup.

Zhang Xu is not afraid that Bellatrix will be reluctant to give up those money, as Voldemort's number one fan, Bellatrix can even help Voldemort with his children, so why not contribute some money?

Bellatrix, who understood Zhang Xu's hint, immediately took the parchment, wrote down the transfer of all the property in his vault to the person who held the document, and then bit his finger and pressed a bloody fingerprint on the signature of the document.

With this bloody fingerprint, Gringotts was able to determine that the document was authentic and valid.

Zhang Xu had asked Percy about the transfer in Gringotts before.

In the absence of the owner of the vault, the transfer from the vault will need to be submitted to Gringotts with a document proving that it is the owner of the vault. Just like when Hagrid first took Harry Potter to Gringotts, he issued a letter from Dumbledore before he could take the Philosopher's Stone from the vault.

Moreover, there are two types of transfer documents: registered and bearer, the former is transferred to a specific person, and the latter is transferred to whoever holds the transfer document.

After receiving the anonymous property transfer letter written by Bellatrix, Zhang Xu breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Zhang Xu fooled Bellatrix again and asked her to give Zhang Xu their house in Hogsmeade.

After explaining a few words to Bellatrix that he wanted to eat more to take care of his body and wait for the Dark Lord to pick him up, Zhang Xu left Bellatrix's cell with the property transfer documents and the property gift documents.

As he walked towards Rodolphus Lestrange's cell, a bold idea popped into Zhang Xu's mind.

Two hours later, when Zhang Xu and Percy returned to London together, Zhang Xu's treasure bag contained a thick stack of documents for the transfer of the Death Eaters' Gringotts vault property.

The Death Eaters in Azkaban, under the dual effect of Dementors and food additives, have been brainily disorganized.

Voldemort's soul fragment in Marvolo Gaunt's ring is not as active as the one in the notebook or locket, but it can still affect others.

Zhang Xu used the ring to open the way, and the Death Eaters who felt the warmth of Voldemort's soul saw the ring one after another under the effect of the Horcrux, and without a trace of suspicion, they regarded Zhang Xu as Voldemort's messenger and donated their own treasury.

In the end, Zhang Xu made a windfall, the Death Eaters learned of Voldemort's return, and the leader of the Dementors enjoyed the delicious meal inside the ring, and for a time all three sides were happy, gratifying, congratulating.

After returning to Diagon Alley, Zhang Xu said goodbye to Percy, who was going back to the Ministry of Magic, and came to Gringotts by himself.

Zhang Xu, who was wearing a hood, walked straight into the VIP reception room in Gringotts, and opened a new vault with the highest level of secrecy in Gringotts.

Men, how can you not have some private money. This time, all the money collected from the Death Eaters was transferred to the newly opened Vault 233, instead of Vault 666, where she had taken Fleur before.

Zhang Xu stood in front of the vault door, watching the goblins pull cartloads of gold coins and various valuable collectibles into their vaults, and his face was cramping with a smile.

After the goblins pulled the last cart of gold coins into the vault and put all the collectibles on the shelves, Zhang Xu sent the goblins out of the vault, and then found the Hufflepuff Gold Cup on the shelf with the help of the Horcrux Probe, and finally left Gringotts with the gold cup.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Zhang Xu decided to solve the problem of the golden cup immediately.

Zhang Xu went to the Weasleys' Burrow through the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron Bar with Floo powder.

Zhang Xu's surprise visit surprised and delighted the Weasleys.

After a sumptuous dinner, Zhang Xu asked Percy to take him on another trip to Azkaban and deliver a late-night takeout to the leader of the Dementors.

When Zhang Xu returned to Hogwarts after all the work, it was not too early.

Zhang Xu, who returned to the dormitory, sat at his desk and wrote a letter.

The house that Zhang Xu pit from Rodolphus Lestrange and Bellatrix Lestrange is located in the center of Hogsmeade, and Zhang Xu, who likes quiet, does not like the location of this house very much, he likes the house he now rents on the mountainside.

Anyway, there is no concept of school district housing in the British wizarding world, so after obtaining Fleur's consent, Zhang Xu wrote to the owner of the house, that is, Neville Longbottom's relative, to discuss how everyone would come to a property exchange.

Zhang Xu tied the written letter to the leg of the owl he had brought back when he returned to the dormitory just now, and then sent the owl out of the window.

Sending the owl away, Zhang Xu took off his robe and walked into the bathroom with the sound of water.

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