Chapter 960: Bluffing
Hogwarts, unlike the silence of the ugly giant stone beast at the entrance to the third floor of the staircase, which closed and did not split in half, at the end of the spiral staircase hidden behind the stone beast was a gleaming oak wood, and there was a brass knocker in the shape of a sphin's eagle's head on the door, and all sorts of comical noises came from the door.
In the headmaster's room, in this large, beautiful round room, there were many strange silverware on the slender legged table, spinning and belching small puffs of smoke, and the huge legs in the room were behind the claw-shaped headmaster's desk, and on a shelf next to the glass case with the Gryffindor sword, the school's sorting hat and the walls were covered with portraits of the old headmasters, male and female, who were complaining with some indignation.
"Merlin is on top! Albus has just left, and you're going to make this a miasma!" complained a portrait of a headmaster in the portrait, who looked like a very intelligent wizard in a silver and green Slytherin costume, with black hair and dark eyes. He has sparse eyebrows and a goatee.
"Complain, sir!" roared a big, fat wizard with a red nose waving his fists, "disobedience!"
"We have an obligation to serve the current master of Hogwarts!" shouted an old wizard who looked frail and Harry recognized it as Dumbledore's predecessor, Armando Duppet, "it, Phineas!"
On the huge table in the Headmaster's room in front of them, the personal belongings that Dumbledore had once placed were gone.
The dusty, worn-out Sorting Hat sat on a shelf on the edge of the table, and watched with great interest as a group of elderly wizards played poker and gambled below, "Dresse Devonte! Or who? take care of that noisy Phineas! He's just angry that his position as a member of the House Board of Trustees is gone! Ha, Owen, you've lost again, and I'm going to beat this King of hearts." ”
"I'll whip him!" said a shrewd-eyed witch holding up a very thick wand, like a birch strip, as she prepared to move from her frame to the painting of Phineas Nigelus Black, who had been judged to be the most unpopular headmaster of all time—causing Phineas to relent, and glancing at the wand with a little fear.
"Shut up, Broken Hat, if you hadn't revealed that I had this card, I wouldn't have been able to play it. Owen grumbled as he watched the old men divide up his chips.
"Owen, you have to forgive it! I've heard that this poor sorting hat in England has only one task for a whole year, and that is to write the song to be sung at the beginning of each school year, and how boring it is. The old red-nosed wizard, who sat across from him, cushioned his chips with some German accents
Owen didn't say anything more, and asked the long-eyed Vladimir, who was temporarily a dealer on the side, to reshuffle the playing cards, and then distribute them one by one to him and the wizarding old men sitting around the table, all of whom had been Grindelwald's subordinates, and now their descendants were working for the Harris family.
Owen, who had the cards, took a sip of the cards in his hand, leaned back to the right a little, and looked sneaky to avoid the mouthy Sorting Hat from leaking his cards again. The Sorting Hat made a very humane expression of helplessness, and it couldn't move its body on the shelf—but after seeing the cards, Owen held the cards in both hands, and the powerful thirty-third Minister of Magic seemed to have encountered something inexplicable at this time, his brows tightened, and he felt that his cards were particularly bad today, and most of his chips had been won by the red-nosed wizard Grimson opposite.
Elsewhere in the Headmaster's office, many wizards had gathered, and today was here to celebrate Alan taking ownership of Hogwarts, and Harris had an important announcement to make here. The remnants of the first Demon King period clamored for Dumbledore's victory over Grindelwald in 1945 to celebrate the victory decades late in the Harris family manor to Hogwarts' headmaster's office.
On the other side, covered in portraits of the old Headmaster, Lunn was talking to Evra's portrait, which also hangs in the Ministry of Magic, and Lunn knew him well, but this was the first time they had spoken in the Headmaster's room.
Fleur was dressed up today, and along with her mother-in-law, Morgan Lefay, surrounded by other noblewomen of all ages and witches, she was smiling and sharing her beauty and skincare tips - Hermione and Penelope were also pulled by Morgan Lefay.
Penelope looked very decent and even honest at this time after putting on the evening dress, she only spoke out when necessary, and Hermione, who served as an executive officer under the umbrella, was not as abnormal as Penelope, so that the group of old witches who had some contempt in their eyes saw her domineering side, but the aura maintained was finally ruined by Anka, who was originally perched on a high gilded perch behind the door, and it couldn't help but nest on top of Hermione's head again。
And on the side of the witches, Daisy, who was put aside by her mother to let herself play, rolled her eyes involuntarily, she knew what her mother meant, Penelope and Hermione's Muggle background would be more or less looked down upon by those conservative old women, so her mother was showing her attitude so that they were at least restrained on the surface, but Daisy couldn't stand Fleur's fake smile and hypocrisy in her eyes, so she and Nymphadora as her bodyguard. Tonks took a few steps away from them in the opposite direction, having never had the opportunity to enter the Headmaster's Office during her studies, and began to observe and study the various places with great interest.
It's just that Tonks, who was beside her, was not interested in it, she felt uncomfortable with being in such an occasion where all the core figures of the Harris family were present, but as a guard for her friends, she had to be here since Daisy wanted her to accompany her.
Daisy touched the glass cover and looked at the Gryffindor's sword inside, the hilt was inlaid with rubies, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Tonks's uncomfortable god from the reflection of the glass: "Tonks, what are you awkward, it is beyond reproach that you and Lupin are here, no one will object." ”
"Of course I'm not worried about you... Dumbledore was in a bad situation the other day, and now all wizards in the wizarding world all over the world know that he is the worst headmaster in the history of Hogwarts... And those pure-blood school directors... The former Trustee's magazine is also attacking him, trying to portray the areas criticized by the founder as being fooled by Dumbledore..."Tonks said that her hair became a lot darker, "In Sirius's ancestral home, Phineas has a portrait that says he finally got permission from Allen, describing that Alan has actually taken control of Hogwarts for a long time, and then using these portraits to spy on Dumbledore and them... Moody's was very angry that they had been toyed with... That's why Lupin didn't dare to come over tonight, and to be honest, Moody has been very irritable lately and doesn't know what's wrong, and we're starting to suspect that he's under a spell, and we didn't check why, I mean, he's so old that he can't be attributed to his second menopause, right?"
"Uh... If the Order of the Phoenix is angry with you like that, then it's not worth worrying about, Tonks, you can't just because the Mad-Eye has brought you something about him. Daisy didn't look back, her tone was a little embarrassed - in fact, as a member of Harris, she already knew that Moody's state was related to Luna's casual use of several magical spells that affected her emotions, and it was estimated that it would take a few weeks for the mad-eyed man's rage to completely subside.
Tonks didn't notice Daisy's expression, she opened her mouth and looked hesitant - after the Hogwarts change of ownership, she began to doubt the correctness of Luna's claim that she was Ravenclaw, and she was very worried about seeing Luna. I hope to use some Auror words to test it: "By the way, I didn't say that I was going to announce things, why haven't I seen Alan and Luna come over yet?"
"Ever since he got to school, he didn't know what he was busy with that we ordinary people didn't understand!, except that he managed Hogwarts at the beginning and pacified the professors..."Daisy looked left and right, and found that Hermione and Penelope were not around, so her tone became nonchalant, and she replied with a suffocated mouth: "Now these two people lock themselves up whenever they have time and don't know what to do anymore, I ask Alan curiously, how do you guess he responds to me?" My scumbag brother looked at me like a pumpkin in a field and said I don't understand... To be honest, since the Ministry of Magic came back from ancient times last year, I think they've been a bit of a chatter, I think my brother was influenced by a crazy girl and became a crazy boy...
"Daddy, you're going to raise thirty bets on such a bad hand?" called out her sister Emily in a surprised and somewhat disgusted tone at the table not far behind Daisy.
When Emily's words fell, in addition to the old wizards who were sitting on the temporary chairs at the headmaster's table, there were also some slightly younger wizard gamblers who were not seated, and they all hurriedly piled their chips in the middle of the long table, and couldn't wait to shout: "Call!"
Owen pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows, looked at the red-nosed wizard and said, "A pair of Qs, the others are all 9s." ”
"Oops..."All the wizards who had just followed the bet leaned back helplessly.
The red-nosed old man Grimson couldn't help but ask Emily, who was leaning next to Owen, "Hey, kid, do you know what 'three of a kind plus one' means?"
"Of course I do! I often play cards with my classmates in my lounge. Emily tilted her head and smiled well, "I also know what it means to bluff." ”
Everyone else at the table couldn't help but laugh when they looked at the red-nosed old man's deflated expression and the little girl's cunning appearance.
"I love you to death, baby. Owen excitedly raised his hand to high-five Emily, and Emily couldn't help but shake off her palm, which was a little painful from being slapped by Owen.