"It wasn't until I actually started working that I realized that I was a waste who could only eat, drink and have fun. Cyris smiled wryly and said, "I basically can't help here." ”

"No, you've helped a lot, you just don't know. What's more, in this situation, you, as an excellent wizard, can guard the Ministry of Magic with us, which is the greatest help. "Martin also had a headache to death, they managed to take back the Ministry of Magic, but it was not easy to manage, compared to being an Auror. If only Scrimgeour hadn't been seriously injured and was bedridden......

"Not many people apply, mainly because the Floo network has been cut off, newspapers can only be delivered by owls, and those who want to apply have to come by car or broom......"

"The situation will soon get better, and when the seventh year students at Hogwarts graduate this year, I hope they all go to work in the Ministry of Magic. "But we can't wait, there's a lot to deal with, and first, I'll have to start looking for the Dark Lord's last Horcrux." And then...... It's time to exterminate the escaped Death Eaters, and despite being out of the Ministry, the pure-blood families still have a large number of family members and followers in various places...... As long as the Dark Lord doesn't die, most of them will be called up against us again. ”

"But now that Floo is unusable, the number of Aurors and Strikers—" said Lupin, "is not enough to guard the London Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. ”

"Well, I understand. Lockhart said, "I'll take someone to Gringotts to search for it now, and you can help me find out the list and addresses of all the Death Eaters who have applied for the protection of the Loyalty Charm and have been approved." ”

"What are you going to do?" asked Arthur.

"That cup, there are three places where it is hidden, probably the largest. "The third and worst case scenario in the vault of one of Gringotts' Death Eaters, or the home of a Death Eater protected by the Loyalty Charm, is to be taken by a mysterious person......"

"It's possible that it's hiding in the wilderness or something. Lupin asked. "I don't think it could be in Gringotts, otherwise these two days would have been enough time for the mysterious man to break into the vault and take it. ”

"It's impossible to search for it too. "It's even more impossible in the wild than Gringotts, and if that's the case, we can't do anything about it." But at the same time, it is more troublesome for the mysterious person to be resurrected if he dies. ”

"Why?"

"Can I say it's intuition. Lockhart laughed and said that this secret could only be known to those who had been resurrected with Horcruxes, and he would not tell anyone else. "By the way, Remus, Severus promised me that he would continue to serve as Headmaster of Hogwarts and Professor of Defense at the same time. But he now needed a Muggle professor and Gryffindor Headmaster, and Professor McGonagall was still lying in St. Mungo...... The therapist said he couldn't make it—"

"No, she'll make it. Arthur said in a confident tone, "Professor McGonagall is a strong woman!"

"I understand your feelings. Lockhart shook his head, "But even if I can wake up." Can you bear to let her continue as dean?"

"But I'm a—" Lupin frowned.

"You want to say you're a werewolf again?" Lockhart said dissatisfiedly, "This is not the judging criteria for selecting the Dean at all, right, you are from Gryffindor, and they have seen the scene of you protecting the students during the defense of Hogwarts, you see who will, or who dares to oppose it?"

"Okay, I'm just temporary. Lupin nodded.

"Well, you can concentrate on helping Severus with all things Hogwarts, and you can leave the Ministry of Magic alone. Lockhart said. "The perfection of the castle's energy supply system, the matter of the wizard level exam and the examiner...... In short, be careful. ”

"I'm not going to schedule exams—"

"I'll go to the Department of Education to get a list later, contact the examiners of the previous wizard level exams above, and let them deal with it. "What kids should be learning is already being learned in the first six years." In addition to learning some advanced mantras and reviewing, the seventh year is to identify and understand your interests and strengths. It's enough to go through the exam - I hope they can pass most of them, and then come to the Ministry of Magic to help, understand?"

"It's irresponsible—" Arthur was a little worried.

"I'll train them when the time comes. It's not like they're going to war as soon as they come!" Lockhart said, "Alright, do your own thing. Albert will be discharged from the hospital today, and when he arrives to take him to the Auror Command, I'll search Gringotts now. ”

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Back in Diagon Alley, this time, not as a customer or depositor, but as the Minister of Magic, with a dozen strikers.

The streets of Diagon Alley were really quiet - because the Floo network had been cut off, there was not a single pedestrian on the street, and the new Ministry of Magic had requisitioned a large amount of magical materials, so there was no need for a single shop to open now.

The wanted notices and posters with the portraits of Scrimgeour and Harry have been removed, and a new wanted notice for the Death Eaters is still in the works.

The dozen or so strikers who came with him weren't very powerful - but they really didn't need to be very powerful, after all, they were on a mission with the new Minister of Magic, who was said to have just defeated the Dark Lord.

They walked along the winding cobblestone streets towards Gringotts, the snow-white tower that towered between the streets. Along the way, meet several wizards who live in Diagon Alley, who look at Lockhart in awe and avoid it from afar.

Soon, they reached the bottom of the marble staircase that led to the bronze gate. The two wizards who were supposed to be guarding the door on either side of the gate had escaped, as they had been hired by the Death Eater government, and were now back to being guarded by two goblins in uniform.

"Mr. Lockhart—" said one of the elves, a little alarmed, "you have so many people with you?"

"Search Gringotts," a clever striker preemptively explained to Lockhart, "the Ministry of Magic suspects that the Death Eaters have hidden dark magic items in the family vault. ”

"But—"

"You can't be the master, what are you doing so much? I'll go see the person in charge. Lockhart didn't look at it, but stepped straight up the steps and walked in, followed by a line of strikers.

In front of the second gate stood two elves, and the silver gate was still engraved with the verse that a thief will be punished. Lockhart looked up at it and smiled contemptuously, and a somewhat vague memory came to mind: when he was twenty-three years old, he published his first novel, which unexpectedly became popular, bringing him tens of thousands of Galleons. After spending a little bit of money to buy something for his parents, he opened a house here and stored all the remaining Galleons in it.

At that time, Gringotts seemed to him a solemn and mysterious place, a treasure trove of magic, a symbol of strength and wealth, which contained gold that he could not earn by writing a hundred novels, and treasures that he was not qualified to touch by writing a thousand......

When Cyreth took him into the Black family's treasury for the first time, the veil of mystery was lifted, and Gringotts was relegated to a well-guarded storage room in his eyes.

Now, it was even more defenseless to him – Gringotts was delicately guarded, but it didn't have a near-infinite energy supply system. Lockhart could have fought his way in, broken the guards, taken whatever he wanted, and walked away......

Of course, he wouldn't do that, because he was now the Minister of Magic.

Seconds later, they were standing in the massive marble foyer.

Behind the long counter, the elves sit on high stools and receive the first customers of the day. Unlike the closed shops outside, there are still some customers in Gringotts, and the war, especially the successive major incidents, makes some wizards worry that their money will be robbed of their money, but more often they are worried that they will not be able to get out of their savings...... Wizards from around and around London rushed to Gringotts to deposit and withdraw money.

Lockhart led his men to an older elf at the end of the counter on either side.

"Search Gringotts. A thug placed a search warrant on his desk, "confiscating all the property of the Death Eater-related family in Gringotts." ”

"Mr. Minister!" said the goblin, visibly surprised, "Ahh ”

"My patience is limited. Lockhart said with a blank face.

The elves left in a hurry, and the new Minister of Magic glanced around—many of the wizards in the hall were watching, and even several of the elves who were taking care of their business raised their heads to stare at him.

A minute later, a goblin with gold-rimmed glasses and what seemed to be more powerful hurried over.

"Mr. Minister, I'm the manager here, and you're going to search Gringotts?" said the bespectacled elf uneasily, "Wizards are not qualified to do this under the Lich Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance—"

"The new wizarding law will soon give me this power," Lockhart looked a little domineering, "but for the sake of insurance, I would like to exercise this power in advance, and I would be grateful for your cooperation-"

"If the new wizarding law requires wizards to search Gringotts—" said Bogrod unhappily, "then please come back after the new wizarding law is introduced, at least for now, I'm afraid I'll stick to my principles." ”

"Stick to the principle?" said Lockhart impatiently, "I also have a principle, that is, I will never run in vain, then I'm afraid I will enforce the search today." ”

"If you insist on doing so, you will tear up the Lich Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, Mr. Minister. The goblin said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Lockhart doesn't like goblins, they are greedy, bullying and afraid of the hard, and they have a different understanding of property than humans - goblins believe that whatever they make belongs to them forever, and the wizard only gets a temporary right to use it after he buys it, and has no right to leave it to others after death but to return it to the goblins. The most famous example of this is when the Goblins took Hogwarts to the Ministry of Magic, demanding that they return the Gryffindor sword, but the Wizengamot did not accept it.

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――(To be continued......)