358. Recent situation
The contradiction was wiped out by Duten's words, and Harry calmed down, realizing that he had been too irritable before. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info This may have something to do with his experience during this holiday, but it also shows that he is too immature, and if you think about it carefully, Du Teng said a lot of things that he has also experienced. But they need the other party to remind them, which shows that there is still a big gap between the two.
It's no wonder that Duten will be allowed to attend the meeting downstairs without exception, and the three of them can only wait for news in boredom, Dumbledore's choice is indeed right, it is he himself who is too impulsive and naïve.
Calming down, Harry suddenly remembered the question of the moth, and he turned to look at his three friends.
"What the hell is this place?" Poor Harry, he still doesn't know where he is.
"Order of the Phoenix." Ron replied without hesitation.
"Can anyone tell me what the Order of the Phoenix is—"
"It's a secret society," Hermione hastened, "it's Dumbledore, he created it." It's all some of the people who fought the mystery man last time. ”
"Who's in there?" Harry asked curiously.
"There are a lot of people—"
"We've seen about twenty of them," Ron said, "but there's certainly more to it." ”
"And then?" He asked, his gaze shifting from one to the other.
"Well," Ron said, "and then what?" ”
"Voldemort!" Harry shouted anxiously, "What's going on?" What does he want to do? Where is he? What can we do to stop him? ”
"We've already told you that the Order of the Phoenix won't let us attend their meetings," Hermione said uneasily, "so we don't know the specifics—ask Duten. Seeing the expression on Harry's face, she quickly added. then hurriedly sold his boyfriend and pushed Du Teng out.
"......" Harry turned his head to look at Duten, and although he didn't speak, his expression was full of questions.
"Actually, I can't say most of the content, Dumbledore wants us to hide it from you, naturally he has his reasons, you can ask him if you have any questions, when he wants to tell you, he will naturally tell you."
Du Teng shrugged his shoulders with a helpless look
"But we've heard something, and some of them are recruiting more people to the Order of the Phoenix—" Hermione said.
"There are also people who are standing guard about what is going on," Ron said, "and they've been talking about what guard duties they have." ”
"It won't protect me, will it?" Harry said with some displeasure.
"That's right." Ron said, with a determined look on his face.
Harry snorted softly. He paced around the room again, looking here and there, just not Ron and Hermione.
"So what have you two been doing lately, since you're not allowed to attend the meeting?" He asked. "You say you've been busy."
"It's busy," said Hermione, hurriedly, "we've done a thorough cleaning of this house, which has been empty for many years, and which has grown a lot of things. We finally cleaned the kitchen and most of the bedrooms, and I figured we should go to the living room tomorrow - oops! ”
Snap, snap, and with two screeching bangs, Ron's twin brothers, Fred and George, suddenly appeared in the center of the room. The little pig squeaked even more and swished over to rest with Hedwig on the top of the closet.
"Don't do that!" Hermione said to the twins in shock. They had the same bright red hair as Ron, but they were bigger than Ron, and slightly shorter than Ron.
"Hello, Harry," George said, smiling happily at Harry, "we seem to have heard your melodious speech just now. ”
"You don't need to suppress your anger like that, Harry, take it all out," Fred also smiled, "and there are probably two people fifty miles away who can't hear you." ”
"So, you two passed the apparition exam?" Harry asked angrily.
"Excellent grades." Fred said, holding something in his hand, like a long, flesh-colored string.
"It only takes thirty seconds to get down the stairs." Ron said.
"Time is the Golden Galleon." Fred said, "Anyway, Harry, you're interfering with the reception. Stretch your ears," he explained as Harry raised his eyebrows, and held up the string so that Harry saw it lead all the way to the landing outside, "We want to hear what's going on downstairs." ”
"You'll have to be careful," Ron said, staring at the telescopic ear, "if you show Mom ...... again."
"It's worth the risk, they're having an important meeting." Fred said.
The door opened, revealing long, fiery red hair.
"Oh, hello, Harry!" Ron's sister Ginny said happily, "I think I heard you." She turned to Fred and George and told them, "The retractable ears didn't work, and Mom had recited an anti-disturbance charm to the kitchen door." ”
"How do you know?" George asked, looking dejected.
"It was Tonks who told me how to verify it," said Ginny, "and you just throw something at the door, and if it doesn't touch the door, it's an anti-scrambling charm." I kept throwing big eggs at the door at the top of the stairs, but they all flew away from the door, so it was impossible for the telescopic ears to get through the crack in the door. ”
Fred let out a long sigh.
"It's a pity. I wonder what that old Snape guy wants to do. ”
"Snape!" Harry immediately asked, "He's here too?" ”
"Yes," said George, carefully closing the door and sitting on a bed. Fred and George followed. "Read a report. Top secret. ”
"Idiot." Fred said lazily.
"He's on our side now." Hermione said reproachfully.
Ron snorted. "That doesn't mean he's not stupid. Look at the way he looked at us. ”
"Bill didn't like him either." Ginny said that seemed to be the final word.
Harry didn't know if his anger had been extinguished, but he couldn't wait to find out more, and the desire overrode his urge to scream. He sat on the bed across from the others.
"Bill is here too?" He asked, "Didn't he work in Egypt?" ”
"He applied for a job in an office so he could go home and work for the Order of the Phoenix." Fred said. "He said he missed the tombs. But," he smiled mischievously, "it makes up for it." ”
"What do you mean?"
"Remember that Fleur Delacour?" George said, "She got a job at Gringotts to improve her English—"
"Bill has been giving her a lot of individual coaching." Fred said with a giggle.
"Charlie also joined the Order of the Phoenix," George said, "but he was still in Romania." Dumbledore wanted to absorb as many wizards from abroad as possible, so Charlie had extensive contact with people when he wasn't working. ”
"Can't Percy do that?" Harry asked. From what he knew last time, the third son of the Weasley family worked in the Department of International Magical Cooperation at the Ministry of Magic.
Listening to Harry's words, the Weasley siblings exchanged a melancholy look with Hermione.
"Don't mention Percy in front of mom and dad." Ron said to Harry in a nervous tone.
"Why?"
"Because every time Percy's name was mentioned, Dad would smash what he was holding in his hand to pieces, and Mom would cry out loud." Fred said.
"It's horrible." Ginny said sadly.
"I think we've finally gotten rid of him." George said, with a strange look on his face that was hard to see.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked.
"Percy and Dad had a big fight." Fred said, "I've never seen my dad fight anyone like that. Usually it's always my mother who is yelling. ”
"It was the first week after the semester," Ron said, "and we were getting ready to join the Order of the Phoenix." Percy went home and told us he was promoted. ”
"Are you kidding?" Harry said.
Harry was well aware that Percy had always been ambitious, but he had the impression that Percy's first job at the Ministry of Magic was not very successful. Percy was guilty of a more serious crime of negligence, and he did not realize that his boss was under Voldemort's control. In fact, even the Ministry of Magic didn't believe it, they all thought that Mr. Crouch was just crazy.
"Yes, we were all surprised," said George, "because Percy had gotten into a lot of trouble with Crouch, and then it was an investigation or something. They said that Percy should have been aware of Crouch's insanity and reported it to his superiors in a timely manner. But you know Percy, and Crouch left him alone, and he was desperate. ”
"Then how could they still promote him?"
"We're wondering about that, too." Ron said that seeing that Harry was no longer yelling, he seemed particularly willing to let the conversation go on as it should, "He came home looking triumphant—more smug than usual, just imagine." He told his dad that they had given him a position in Minister Fudge's office. For a man who has just graduated from Hogwarts for a year, this is a highly desirable job: Assistant to the Minister. I guess he was expecting his dad to be happy. ”
"But Daddy didn't." Fred said melancholy.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"Well, it seems to be because Fudge was furious in the ministry and forbade anyone to have any contact with Dumbledore." George said.
"Dumbledore has been discredited in the Ministry these days, you know?" "They all thought he was deliberately causing trouble by spreading the news that the mysterious man had returned." ”
"Dad said that Fudge made it clear that anyone who had anything to do with Dumbledore could no longer stay in the Ministry." George said.
"The problem is, Fudge is suspicious of Dad. He knew that his father had a good relationship with Dumbledore, and that Fudge had always found his father a little eccentric and so obsessed with Muggles. ”
"But what does that have to do with Percy?" Harry asked, confused.
"I was about to get to that point. Dad figured out that Fudge had placed Percy in his office to use him to spy on our house and Dumbledore. ”
Harry whistled softly.
"I guess Percy must love to hear that."
Ron let out a hollow laugh.
"He's just mad. He said a whole bunch of horrible things. He said that since he entered the ministry, he has had to struggle desperately to get rid of his father's bad reputation; He also said that Dad had no ambitions, which caused us to live so poorly—"
"What?" Harry said incredulously.
"There's worse," Ron said, lowering his voice, "and he said that Daddy was stupid to be in the company of Dumbledore, and that Dumbledore was in big trouble and that Daddy would be unlucky with him, and that he knew who he was supposed to serve, and that he was loyal to the Ministry of Magic." If Mom and Dad insist on betraying the Ministry, he's going to let everyone know that he's no longer part of our family. That night he packed his bags and left. He's living here in London right now. ”
Harry cursed silently. Of Ron's brothers, he had always disliked Percy the least, but he could never have imagined that Percy would say such a thing to Mr. Weasley.
Then we talked for a long time, after all, we hadn't seen each other for a holiday, and there were so many things we wanted to confide in each other, not only Harry, Ron and Hermione, but also the twin brothers, all of whom had too many things to tell Harry. Du Teng stood next to him, smiling and looking at several people discussing endlessly, with a faint smile on his face.
There wasn't much tension on Harry's face now, and he was clearly not aware of the changes in the outside world. But anyone with a discerning eye can already feel the solemnity of the coming rain and the wind filling the buildings in the wizarding world.
More and more people are disappearing inexplicably, just as they were back then, and the missing people are all against Voldemort, or Muggle-born wizards, who are the first enemies Voldemort wants to destroy, and with their disappearance, everyone in the wizarding world is in danger.
But Fudge, the minister of the Ministry of Magic, still deceived himself, not only did not allow anyone to believe Dumbledore's words, but also openly declared that Dumbledore was alarmist, and all those who dared to oppose him were beaten to the end by him, and he even sent his henchman Dolores Umbridge to Hogwarts House.
It's not news anymore, and Umbridge has officially accepted the appointment.
So in the near future, the whole of Hogwarts will become strange, but unfortunately only Duten himself knows about this matter at present, and everyone here still doesn't know very much.
Everyone chatted happily and exchanged their opinions, and the passage of time suddenly became fast, and before you knew it, the following meeting was over. Mrs. Weasley was the first to arrive in their room, and immediately took Harry in her arms, clearly caring for him.
Harry struggled, but his strength was not as strong as that of Mrs. Weasley, and he could only be held to death, unable to resist at all. The others watched and burst out laughing. (To be continued.) )