Chapter 680: Is This Talking About Human Words?
Although the interview caused a stir in the wizarding world due to Allen's admission of possessing the art of transforming into a magical beast, the appearance of his exaggerated five-headed dragon patronus seems to confirm his name as a savior.
Compelled by the current deterrent power of the Harris family, no one in the wizarding media in the UK dared to say too much about the Animagus affair except for the incident itself.
On the contrary, the foreign media reported it hype, and some even made a request - if the Harris family finds a method that can improve the success rate of the Animagus change or can turn people into magical Animagus, I hope that the Harris family can publish the method, which can benefit the wizarding world- But the Harris family didn't pay much attention to their unreasonable demands, but only investigated the forces behind these newspapers, and asked their media to respond to their requests to make their family's secret skills public.
At the end of the interview, Alan was ready to return to Hogwarts with Hermione and Luna for the final semester of the last short period.
Now that he has been busy with the important things in hand, Alan feels that he should still go and meet Dumbledore, who has been waiting for him for a long time, although the conflict between them has deepened a lot in the concept and the current form, but Alan feels that as long as he can persuade Dumbledore to let go of his stubbornness and compromise with himself in the cause of education, then there is no need to make things as drastic as his father Owen designed - Dumbledore is still worthy of admiration on major issues of right and wrong.
The British Aurors were now more efficient than ever before, and they had a thousand ways and means to extract the information they wanted from the minds of the suspects they were arresting, as long as they wanted, and they had been given the authority of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. And the reporter who was asked to go back to assist in the investigation was obviously not a hard guy, nor was he a wizard with profound magical powers. Penelope even had a pity, the other party recruited too quickly, and Penelope easily dug out from his mouth the murderer behind the instigation of him like this - the pure-blood family in Britain, the Flint family of the Holy Twenty-Eight Clan, who bought him to do it.
The former Slytherin Quidditch chaser and captain of Hogwarts, the over-ranked Marcus with big teeth, treacherous grey eyes and messy black hair? Because of the death of his father, he has become the patriarch as the only male heir, and after being squeezed by other pure-blood families who tried to deliver an olive branch to Harris this time, Marcus, who had a conflict with Alan at school, obviously forgot about Allen's threat to him on the train because of his status promotion, so he stupidly ran to test and try to make some trouble for Allen - anyway, he thought that even if it was exposed, it was not a crime that would make Flint break his bones.
"What an idiot, how could the Harris family swallow their anger in this situation, if we don't retaliate immediately, there will be a second and third time, those pure-blood families want to try to make us compromise through this means," Owen Harris directly instructed after receiving Albert's report, "just let them see our determination." ”
Lunn, the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, sent a lawyer's letter directly to the Flint family, and the Harris family directly sued the patriarch of the pure-blooded family, Marcus Flint, for defamation.
But this alone is not enough, it is not enough to appease the anger of the Harris family, a crime of buying others to slander, at most only make the other party pay some gold Galleons, and the amount of defamation set by law is insignificant to a pure-blood family, and it does not pose any threat at all.
Within an hour of the interview, the Flint family's business was greeted by a joint effort by several departments of the Ministry of Magic.
The Division for the Prohibition of Misuse of Magic under the Department of Magical Law Enforcement controlled by Alan's second brother, the Division for the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items, and the International Standards Association for Magical Trade under the Division of International Magical Cooperation, controlled by Daisy, the eldest sister, worked together to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Flint family's merchandise to find all kinds of contraband that were not actually contraband at all, and the crucibles made by their family for export were not up to standard thickness and were seized.
Allen's aunt, Josephine Harris, controls the Department of Magical Creatures, and sent someone to the Flint family's few magical creatures farm.
The Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Communications, the Floo Network Authority, even cut off almost all the fireplaces in the Flint family's properties from the Floo Network on the grounds that the fireplaces in the Flint family's properties did not meet safety standards.
In order to avoid Scrimgeour from doing anything to prevent this, the Harris family did not even use the armed Aurors to assist in law enforcement, but only directly demonstrated their control over the rest of the Ministry of Magic, and at least on the surface, it was completely compliant and legal.
These departments inspect the Flint family's grounds for irresistible reasons, and strictly check for violations, even the slightest small thing, as long as it can be interpreted as non-compliance, it will inevitably be punished by the corresponding laws and regulations.
Unfortunately, even the pure-blood families who supported the Order of the Phoenix in the first war were not completely innocent and legally compliant in the growth of their profits, and many of the means relied on to create huge profits were not above board, and the long family development process made them form too many gray parts.
Therefore, as the Flint family, which has always had a bad reputation, it is conceivable what kind of losses their property will suffer.
Confiscation of goods, payment of fines and even suspension of business for rectification are the three ends of them, Marcus Flint simply felt that he had nowhere to complain at this time, he could not even beg for mercy, and the Harris family's revenge against them was completely legal at the legal level, which made some wizards with a sense of justice like Amelia Bones who originally thought that Harris was a little too much to take revenge, and could not see it.
Many of the local pure-blood families were also so frightened by Harris's revenge that they were well-informed that they tried to ease their relationship that night.
Owen Harris accepted their intention to reconcile, but rejected their attempt to intercede on behalf of the Flint family, and the thirty-third Minister of Magic publicly stated to them that this lawful inspection was also a reform of the Ministry's previous inefficiency, and that the goal was to maintain this intensity for three years, although the current goal was only to revolve around the Flint family's estate, and not expand for the time being.
Marcus Flint is clearly not the only one feeling angry and hopeless today.
That night, in the Malfoy family's small remote estate in Wales, there was a bang, a firelight splashed, the brightly lit hall suddenly became dark, the mild and pleasant night suddenly became bitterly cold, and only one television in the whole room was still glowing, under the influence of the sudden burst of magic, the picture on its broken fluorescent screen was still flickering unsteadily, and the light shone on a pale and hideous face, on which the two thin slits of nostrils were swaying one by one in irritation.
"Ah!! shameless! Shameless Allen, Harris! Is this a human speech?! This is a slander against me! Ahhh!!h
After seeing Allen's daytime interview news tonight, this is the second TV he has blown up in the past few days, Voldemort feels that he is even a little suffocated by anger and can't breathe, at this time his eyes are full of anger and angry, he is roaring angrily, venting his emotions, and his hands are even trembling and tearing open the collar of his robe to make his breathing easier: "What does my filthy Muggle father's surname have to do with me!! Salazar running in my veins?" The blood of Slytherin himself!!was passed down to me through his daughter!""
The Death Eaters gathered around him, no one talking, no one daring to move, just trying not to keep their eyes on their master.