10. Bribery
"Shut up! How dare you come here to steal! Moody slammed his long wooden cane directly on Montungus's head, causing him to nearly fall unconscious.
Even Lupin felt that Moody's attack was a bit too heavy.
"I ...... I...... There's no owner here anyway, it's an empty house, and I can't let some of the things here fall into dust in vain. Mundungus was still pleading, but it obviously didn't work in Moody's hands, and Moody didn't have a good opinion of Mundungus in the first place.
"Harry is the owner of this house, and he inherited it from Sirius." Lupin shouted.
Harry got straight to the point.
He asked directly, "When you've found all the valuables in the whole house, you put them together in the kitchen cupboard, where there's a souvenir box." ”
Harry suddenly felt his mouth dry, and at the same time he could feel Ron and Hermione's nervousness and excitement, "What did you do with it?" ”
"What?" "What are you talking about?" ”
"You understand what we're talking about!" Ron shouted.
"No, he doesn't understand," Hermione said smartly, "and he's wondering if he'll be able to ask for more money with this." ”
"More?" "It doesn't get any worse than that, I just give up, don't I?" I didn't have a choice!"
"What do you mean?"
Mundungus sighed heavily, "If you think of it this way, I'm just a little person in the wizarding world, I have to run around to make a living by selling things in Diagon Alley, but I don't even have a shop in Diagon Alley, and even their search for petty traders like me is more severe when the Ministry of Magic suppresses Death Eaters and mystery people." ”
"I've been checked many times, and I've been fined many times for not having a license to sell magical artifacts," said Mondungus, helplessly. ”
"I can only use my brain for such a certificate, but I know that I can't apply for it under the regular channels of the Ministry of Magic, so I can only think of other ways, and I really need that little book, which is just a small thing in the eyes of some big names in the wizarding world, and it can be done with a word."
"I also knew I couldn't ask for it in vain," said Mundungus, "and found that souvenir, an antique, perhaps of great value, and a woman's best fit." ”
"I gave it to her, and she was very interested and helped me get a permit with a word."
Mundungus was a little glad that he didn't spend his own money anyway, and everything was stolen.
"Who's that woman?" Harry asked.
Montungus thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "You don't want to think about any other woman in the wizarding world who can have such a high level of courage, in fact, she is not a member of the Ministry of Magic. ”
Mundungus looked at Asinsa, who was standing behind and didn't say much, and whispered, "It's Mrs. Mephisto, Miss Asinsa's mother." ”
Asinsha directly pulled out her wand and pointed at Mundungus, if it wasn't for Lupin in the way, it is estimated that Mundungus would have been shot in the head.
"Miss Axinsha, you have to be calm, you have to be calm, I specially selected the best one to send over." Mundungus shouted, he still didn't understand what was going on.
"You actually gave that thing to my mother!" Asinsha's image at the moment was so terrifying that even Harry and Ron didn't dare to come forward.
But come to think of it, it was Voldemort's Horcrux.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Am I doing something wrong? "Mundungus was terrified, if Asin Sha killed him here, then he really died in vain, and according to the current power of the Mephisto family, pinching him to death was as simple as pinching a worm to death.
He also argued: "Madame Mephisto loved the necklace pendant. ”
Moody and Lupin took one look, and then Moody pushed Montungus out and warned him that he would never be allowed to enter the Black family's ancestral home.
"What should I do?" Asin was about to cry when Mongtons gave one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to Ellie Mephisto for a license to sell magical artifacts, so that Ellie would have to wear the broken necklace all day.
Horcruxes are very evil dark magic items that tend to cause unimaginable damage to their wearers and are even capable of manipulating spirits.
"Don't worry, there must be a way, why don't we contact Master Sherlock?" Lupin said that since Voldemort's Horcruxes had been brought to Mephisto's compound, Sherlock Mephisto should know about it.
And Funmond Mephisto should have been informed.
"So split up, one of them will go to Hogwarts to find my brother, and the other I'll take the others back to Mephisto House." Asin Sha said.
In the end, it was decided that Lupin and Moody would go to Hogwarts.
Hermione and Asinsha, along with Harry and Ron, made their way to Mephisto Lodge.
"You have to be careful." Moody and Lupin didn't forget to tell them before leaving.
"I'm just going home, what's the danger of this, I'm just worried about my mom and her......" Asin didn't finish before Hermione hugged her behind her back, and they decided to leave through the Floo Net fireplace in Black's ancestral house.
At Hogwarts, Sherlock had only come to understand the difficulty of teaching in a school since he volunteered to be a professor at Hogwarts for Defense Against the Dark Arts.
First of all, Hogwarts professors need each one to teach all classes from Year 1 to Year 7.
To put it simply, for example, Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class is the only one Transfiguration professor in the entire school, so she is responsible for all grade levels from Grade 1 to Grade 7 at the same time.
That's a lot of work.
The point is that the curriculum is different in all seven years, and Sherlock now knows why no one has come back to apply for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and even if there is no so-called Voldemort curse, no one will like a job as a professor at Hogwarts.
Today was Sherlock's first class to the first-year students.
The first time a first Defence Against the Dark Arts class was on the fourth day of school.
All courses are specially scheduled.
And when Sherlock went in with the first-year Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook, the first-year wizards were all chattering and yelling.
"It's him! It's him! It's ...... him."
"Prince of Spells? It's a living person. ”
"My mom wasn't going to let me come to Hogwarts because she didn't think it was safe and the Death Eaters wouldn't even dare to stop the train, but when he heard that Sherlock was the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, he sent me over the next day."
A little wizard said rather excitedly.
"Wow~~ He's really handsome~~~~~"
Almost all the little witches of the first grade are guilty of nymphomaniac.
But in Sherlock's eyes, all first-year witches are a bunch of budding loli, although they look cute and can only be seen from afar......
"Ahem~!" Sherlock coughed lightly.
"His voice is so magnetic!!" This state of the first-year witch makes Sherlock very helpless.
Excluding the first-year students, the second-year to seventh-year students are much more normal, after all, those senior students were classmates when Sherlock didn't graduate last year.
So we still understand each other.
"This course ...... It will give you a taste of the darkness beneath the glitter of magic, which is dangerous, terrifying, and even accompanied by death, but after learning this course well, you will reach the pinnacle of a kind of magic, and the best defense is also offense, and the really powerful wizards are very accomplished. ”
Sherlock continued, "Truly powerful wizards are definitely not weak in this area, and learning this course well will put you at the top of the wizarding community. ”
At this time, there was a little witch of the first grade who raised her hand timidly.
"Of course, please say Miss." Sherlock politely told her to stand up and speak.
The other party was wearing clothes from Slytherin House, and it was obvious that he was a first-year Slytherin freshman, a beautiful little witch.
It looks as cute as a little Barbie doll.
"And Professor Sherlock, do you have a girlfriend?"
Sherlock was stunned, "What?" ”
"Because I think if it's your girlfriend directly, you're also standing at the pinnacle of wizards." The little Lori witch seems to be expounding something that values are very incorrect.
Sherlock was going to give him a verbal lecture to get the other person straight, but all the girls in the classroom began to chatter.
"It is rumored that he has an illicit relationship with the eldest lady of the Prince family, that is, that Fimia Prince."
"It is said that two people got involved in school and they had a very improper relationship."
"And the wizard singer...... It's that very beautiful witch, and the other party is also well-known in the wizarding world, but she has been hooking up with this prince of spells, hoping to get the protection of a certain big family. ”
"It seems that many well-known celebrities in the wizarding world have something to do with him."
"Wow~~~ It's so flowery, but why do you like it so much?"
"Ahem!" Sherlock could only cough heavily this time, interrupting the chatter of the little witches.
Sherlock also found the first-year students to be in a really interesting position, with almost all the witches sitting together and occupying the front row, while the boys were only in the back.
"Let's start the lesson, since you're all first-year wizards, so I don't expect you to be proficient enough to use a wand, and as far as I know, you should have only recently gotten your wand!" Sherlock said.
"Indeed!" It's the little Slytrian girl again.
"Because Ollivander was captured by the mysterious man, we had to order wands from Germany, and it seems that Grigovich no longer makes wands because of his age, and this time it seems to be back to work."
"Sorry Professor Sherlock to interrupt me, but Headmaster Snape would like you to visit his office." At this time, a fourth-year Slytherin girl came to the first-year dark arts classroom and called Sherlock away.
"Looks like you're going to have to do self-study." Sherlock snapped his fingers, and a piece of chalk came out of the blackboard and wrote down the words he had studied with.
Sherlock, who had come outside with the girl, breathed a sigh of relief.
"I remember I wasn't as naughty as they were when I was in first grade." Sherlock muttered to himself.
"Maybe they just saw their idols, I still thought it was a dream, but I didn't expect that the previous outstanding seniors would become professors in the school." The fourth-year Slytherin girl looked at Sherlock with admiration.
"Professor Sherlock, whether you're a senior or a professor, always gives others a sense of security."
Sherlock "......"
His thoughts at the moment are that these little wizards will not be idle among themselves on weekdays, they always like to think about some messy things, or it is better to assign them some homework, sure enough, as long as the pressure of homework is in place, these little wizards will naturally be very motivated.
When I arrived at Snape's office, Dumbledore's portrait was already hanging next to the portraits of the previous headmasters, and at this moment, the portraits around me were showing the old professors taunting Dumbledore's early retirement.
Two of the portraits of the old headmaster were protesting that Snape should not be made headmaster.
If Snape had become Headmaster, McGonagall's portrait would not have been able to hang here.
Snape was also helpless about this, when did the portrait start to discriminate against gender.
Moody and Lupin looked excited to see Sherlock come in, but it was clear that Snape's hostility towards Lupin was still high, and even Moody had a seat with a teacup and Lupin was just standing alone.
However, Sherlock thought about it and understood, fortunately, Lupin was also Snape's rival back then, and he also teased Snape, so it is not realistic to let the two of them release their suspicions.
Snape was a good man, but unfortunately he was too cautious.
"Although I don't want to bother you, Professor Sherlock......" Moody said as he stood up and said to Sherlock.
"Ahem!" Sherlock coughed lightly, in fact, as a Hogwarts professor, it still sounds good to be given the honorific title of professor after his name.
"We've found a clue about Voldemort's Horcruxes." Moody's continued.
"Harry, did they let you come to me?" Sherlock looked at them suspiciously, Harry in the original book, and they directly found all of Voldemort's Horcruxes without the support of foreign help.
Why did you just come to him now when you were looking for the first Horcrux?
"Yes, Slytherin's locket, something happened in between, but it's safe to assume that it's in your mother's possession right now."
Lupin added, "It was unexpectedly in the Mephisto Lodge, and I have to say that the place where the Horcruxes were kept, was the most surprising and safest place for Voldemort." ”