Chapter 139: Follow-up Development
Early the next morning, when Zhang Xu and Furong were eating hot dry noodles in front of the breakfast stall, an owl flew towards their place.
As soon as the owl flew to the outside of the stall, it was struck by a spell, then tied up with a rope and hung on the edge of the stall's awning.
"Whose owl, hurry up and get it." The owner of the breakfast stall said to the guests, "These owls are real, isn't it good to find a place to wait outside, you have to jump on the dinner table, it's not hygienic at all." ”
Zhang Xu noticed that the owl hanging was a little familiar, and remembered that it was a Hogwarts owl.
Zhang Xu walked over to untie the owl and took a letter from its feet, revealing that it was written to him by Dumbledore.
Zhang Xu let go of the owl and sat back at the table with the letter.
In his letter, Dumbledore expressed concern about the appearance of the Dark Mark last night, so he hoped that Zhang Xu could help protect Harry Potter during the rest of the holiday if it was convenient.
There was still almost a week left during the holiday, Zhang Xu and Furong discussed it, Furong was going back to France to prepare for the start of the next semester, and Zhang Xu went to the Burrow by himself.
When Zhang Xu saw the Burrow, Harry and the Weasleys were playing Quidditch, Mr. Weasley and Percy had already gone to work at the Ministry of Magic, and Mrs. Weasley was preparing lunch.
Mrs. Weasley was overjoyed that Dumbledore had sent Zhang Xu to protect Harry, and handed Zhang Xu a basket of potatoes.
Zhang Xu helped out in the kitchen while listening to Mrs. Weasley's nagging about the aftermath of last night's incident.
Because Mr. Weasley and Percy work at the Ministry of Magic, they worked on this matter overnight last night, and only took the time to take Harry back this morning, and simply had breakfast before going back to the Ministry of Magic to continue working, so Mrs. Weasley knows a lot of inside information.
The three signs that Zhang Xu quietly made out last night scared the Ministry of Magic so much that he had a heart attack.
It would be fine if Zhang Xu made the avatars of Pleasant Goat, Twilight Sparkle, and Doraemon last night, but the logos he made were all based on skulls.
With the Dark Devil mark in front, no one would think that the organizations or individuals represented by these three marks would be harmless to humans and animals.
The marks of the three organizations or individuals that seemed to be not of the good class appeared at the same time as the marks of the Dark Lord, and the relationship between them, whether they were allies, affiliates, or the new generation of evil forces preparing to seize the position of the third generation of the Dark Lord, all of which made the officials of the Ministry of Magic very troubled.
And the troublesome wizards who have been caught, and the Ministry of Magic is working overtime to interrogate them as their own.
In addition to some former Death Eater members, there are also many wizards who usually live in the gray area.
These wizards didn't do enough to get into Azkaban, they did the little things that were the most fine if they were caught.
These wizards are now considered by the Ministry of Magic to be members of the other three forces, so they are the focus of interrogation.
But the Ministry of Magic couldn't even ask for the information they wanted from their mouths, and they used methods such as truth elixir and soul retrieval methods, but they didn't get any information about the organization represented by the three skull marks.
In the past, they might have been assumed to have nothing to do with these organizations. But now the Ministry of Magic thinks that the Dark Mark appeared last night, and there were former Death Eaters among the wizards who participated in the trouble, so there must be people from the other three organizations among the troublemakers.
As the initiator, Zhang Xu expressed satisfaction with the current situation.
In last night's attack, those wizards were obviously targeting the Huaxia camp, and the Aurors didn't show up until the last minute, which made Zhang Xu very unhappy.
If Zhang is unhappy himself, he wants to make his unhappy people unhappy as well.
Although the follow-up matter will be resolved by the government and the Ministry of Magic, Zhang Xu himself has a way to block the Ministry of Magic and those wizards.
So after the Dark Mark appeared, he decided to muddy the waters, leaving the Ministry of Magic exhausted and finally working in vain, and making the wizards involved in the attack suffer more.
As for how this matter will end up, and whether the Ministry of Magic will arrest Eiichiro Oda in a few years, it is not his concern.
After finishing his work in the kitchen, Zhang Xu picked up today's "Prophet Daily" in the dining room and read it.
His focus was on the reporting written by Rita Skeeter.
Rita Skeeter can be said to be the "public knowledge" of the British wizarding community, and her articles are almost exclusively against the Ministry of Magic.
In the "plot" that Zhang Xu knows, she often uses methods such as making things out of nothing (such as claiming that Harry and Hermione have a leg), inducing hints (such as suggesting that Dumbledore and Harry have a leg), seeking to refute rumors (such as seeking to refute rumors about the removal of corpses from the woods after the "Dark Mark Incident"), and using information asymmetry to selectively publish information (such as writing a book about Dumbledore after Dumbledore's death) to achieve the purpose of attracting attention.
Zhang Xu read her report on last night's incident, mainly focusing on the Ministry of Magic's slow response to the failure, the failure of key criminals to be caught, the impunity of the dark wizard for many years, the injury of the masses in friendly countries, and the shame that the incident brought to the country.
From the perspective of those who have experienced the incident, some of the accusations in Rita Skeeter's article are quite pertinent.
Last night, the Ministry of Magic did not respond effectively to the riot in a short period of time, and allowed it to expand in size, which shows how slow the Ministry of Magic is to respond.
In addition to the three skull marks in the back, the caster of the Dark Mark that had the greatest impact on the British wizarding world failed to catch it, and in the eyes of the masses, it was incompetent.
Among the wizards who were later arrested were former Death Eaters, and this incident touched a sore spot among the masses, and no one wanted the Death Eaters to make a comeback. The Ministry of Magic cast a lot of "innocent" Death Eaters back then, which has given them a bitter taste now.
In last night's riots, many foreign wizards in the camp were injured, and several wizards from the two countries directly involved in the war, China and Russia, were also injured. The news is also accompanied by a row of Chinese wizards lying unconscious on the ground, but Zhang Xu can be sure that when he finished work last night, Ye Someone, the second lying on the right in the photo, was still alive.
Such a serious incident in front of tens of thousands of foreign friends is enough to be called a disgrace and thrown to the whole world.
If it weren't for the last-ditch rumor-mongering, Rita Skeeter's article would be a masterpiece of the times.
"It seems that I will have the opportunity to teach her more in the future." After reading the article, Zhang Xu thought.