Lockhart didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and to be honest, he was ready to force his hands to get his way to the locked door...... Unexpectedly, the other party took the initiative to provide a way to enter.

After leaving Landu's house, Lockhart took the key from Scrimgeour and took a closer look, the key was jet-black, barely reflecting light, and had a lot of protective magic on it, but barely emitted a trace of magic fluctuations.

"This thing looks tougher than a Horcrux!" Lockhart said in surprise, "How does it work?"

"I don't know how it works, as for how it's more difficult to deal with than a Horcrux, that's normal, this thing is more than two hundred years old, how many outstanding wizards have kept this thing, and theoretically it will be used forever. "And it doesn't need to protect the soul inside like a Horcrux, it can be full of protective magic inside and out." ”

"It was an eye-opener. Lockhart exclaimed, "What did you do to your friend?"

"To keep him safe, he must remain under my Imperius Curse until we no longer need to enter the Ministry of Magic's energy supply system...... Fortunately, he also knew this, so he didn't resist the Imperius Curse, so it didn't hurt him. ”

"Terrible, at least live under the Imperius Curse for a few months......" Lockhart shook his head.

"You haven't been charged by the Soul Snatching Curse, in fact, if you don't resist, the person who is accused is still very happy......" Scrimgeour smiled: "It's more comfortable than knocking on an overdose of Blessing Elixir, okay, let's go back." ”

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In London, Apparition didn't need to be so cautious, and the two went straight back to the small hotel where they were hiding, it was lunch time, Harry and Cyreth were playing chess, and Hermione had just gotten up. At this time, she saw Lockhart blushing a little. One more thing, two Aurors had already converged in the morning: Kingsley and Anna.

"Gadwin is dead, Joe is dead, Diana is dead...... Anna has a lot of wounds on her body, and her spirit looks like she is about to collapse, "it's just us......"

"Anna, you go to the rest party...... Scrimgeour hugged her and comforted her, "In the next room, Hermione, you go and help her with her wounds, let her take a shower, change her clothes, and someone will bring you food later." ”

"Hmmm......"

"Kingsley. How are you, are you going to go and rest?"

"No, I'm fine. Kingsley's voice was still deep, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with anything other than a little dirt on his body, "Have you discussed your next move, are we enough people?" ”

"I already have a plan, you can sit down first. Scrimgeour nodded, "Sit down." The next step is to find a way to contact acquaintances and members of the Order of the Phoenix who are still working in the Ministry of Magic, and try to get some reliable ones. Is there anyone else in the Order of the Phoenix who isn't wanted?"

"The Weasleys, McGonagall and Hagrid from school, and a few other peripheral members who gather information from all over the place...... Mundungus et al. Kingsley said.

"Hmm. Gidero, I'll give you ten notes, and you send two notes to every Order of the Phoenix member you can find, one for me and one for you. Scrimgeour handed over ten notes. Lockhart remembered that he hadn't finished his note, and Scrimgeour gave Kingsley, Harry, and Syris, "It's yours." What about yours. ”

Lockhart had only made nine of them last night, and he was busy knocking Hermione down, and he quickly took out all of them and gave one to everyone present.

"We're going to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic now, investigate the situation of the underground energy supply system, and when we need to completely cut off the Floo network in the future, or even deal with the Death Eaters hiding in the Loyalty Curse, we will directly destroy the energy supply system. Scrimgeour explained to Kingsley, "Once this is done, we'll separate from each other for the Horcruxes and ways to destroy them instantly. ”

"And what do I do?" asked Kingsley.

"Don't do anything, stay here first, and make sure that everyone who comes here is really my own person. "Then we'll go on a field trip to the Ministry of Magic, and when all the living Aurors who are still willing to resist are here, we'll be assigned the next phase of the mission." We've been waiting here for a month, and those who haven't come here are either dead and arrested, or they don't want to fight anymore. ”

"Why do you do this, didn't Harry use a very powerful spell that day, just seize the opportunity and kill the mysterious man next time Harry breaks his wand?" Kingsley looked at Harry and said, "Harry, what's the name of that spell of yours, how many times can you use it?"

"I ......"

"I asked him, it wasn't a spell he used. Scrimgeour sighed, "I thought the Savior was really the nemesis of the mystery man, but he said it was his wand's own attack, hehe......"

"Wands can't attack on their own. Kingsley looked directly at Harry, as if thinking he was lying. "You must have made an unconscious attack on the mystery man, only you thought it was a wand that attacked. ”

"No, it's a wand...... Lockhart said, "remember the last time we were besieging Mysterio in the halls of the Ministry of Magic, Harry and Mystery's spells were linked together, because their wand core was the same phoenix's feathers. I think it was that phenomenon that had built up a huge amount of energy in Harry's wand until the last time he met the Mystery, the magic was induced by the Mystic Man and destroyed his wand. ”

"That makes sense, what you're saying may be the case, that is, the savior can't show his might like last time?"

"Don't say that, Mr. Scrimthour, it's not Harry's business in the first place!" Blake said angrily to Scrimthair, "Do you want to blame a child for failure?" ”

"Well, my tone was inappropriate, I apologize. Scrimgeour didn't care, "Now, let's talk about the Ministry of Magic, we need a complete invasion arrangement." ”

Infiltrating the current Ministry of Magic is now a dangerous thing to do, even if they are Aurors who know everything about the Ministry. Lockhart didn't hesitate to have Harry remove the Occlumency again to see where Voldemort was staying - as a result, Voldemort had been hurt a lot last time, and he was still recuperating from his injuries in the estate of an unknown pure-blood family. It doesn't matter where you are, as long as it's not at the Ministry of Magic.

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For the next two weeks or so, they stayed at the small hotel. When Hermione tasted the sweetness that night, the jealousy that had been extinguishing was rekindled - it was because of Pandora that she might have enjoyed it months or even a year or two earlier. I don't know how many nights the man I love to die with another Slytherin girl doing this kind of thing in bed, and I can only lie in bed and look at his booklist love, and then miserable expecting to dream of him!

She pestered Lockhart and him every night as if she had skin craving, as if she wanted to make Pandora and Lockhart roll the sheets more often than she had in the past few years. In order not to be forced by Lockhart to drink contraceptive potions, she also secretly ran out to buy several large boxes of Muggle world condoms......

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Although they were repairing and entertaining, they were not idle, and everyone took turns to scout at the entrance of the magic department in the invisibility cloak. They followed the people in the ministry who went to work, eavesdropped on their conversations, and took a closer look to find out who would be alone at the same time each day. Occasionally, there is an opportunity to steal a copy of the Daily Prophet from a wizard.

Hermione sifted through the information and tabulated it for observation.

Five more Aurors found the inn based on the information left by Scrimgeur, and luckily, none of them were fake. When they left Hogwarts, there were forty-four of them, twenty-seven of them were lost in a siege, and there should be seventeen left, but a month has passed, and only twelve of them have returned to the hotel safely, including the two children, and five of them have either had an accident or are hiding and are unwilling to resist anymore, but at least they have not broken their oath and betrayed their teammates. For safety, Scrimgeour went out of his way to destroy the bricks that contained the information.

The Ministry's policy has also slowly changed over time - Dementors are no longer extinct, they have become protected animals, and every young wizard is now required to attend school, so that Voldemort can keep all wizards under his watch from an early age. This was also one of the ways to weed out Muggle-borns, as students had to have a certificate of descent - showing that they had proven their wizarding ancestry to the Ministry of Magic in order to be admitted.

――(To be continued......)