Owen spent a few days peacefully in the Rozier family's estate.

A lot has happened in the meantime.

First of all, his grandmother, who wanted Merlin to talk to several times, but was rejected by the other party.

But Wenda Rozier will always have a way.

Owen didn't know how Grandma had managed to convince Merlin of that guy.

But in the end, the two communicated normally for dozens of minutes.

In the dozens of minutes of conversation, the green light around her did not stop like a flashing light, and several times my grandmother lost control of her emotions and wanted to rush over and strangle each other.

Unfortunately, no matter what means are used, it seems that no means can be inflicted on Merlin.

Exactly what happened, Owen is not clear.

He just saw that his grandmother had been standing alone in the garden for a long time, for several hours, without talking to anyone.

I didn't leave, I just stood there.

It wasn't until nightfall, when he ran to call for dinner, that she came back to her senses.

Unexpectedly, when Wenda saw him, she gave him a hug after being stunned.

Let Owen notice a little bit of family affection?

I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Merlin poured her

But he didn't dare to ask, for fear of being beaten, so he just forgot it.

The second thing was that her grandmother announced that she had left the estate to him.

Well, he managed to recover some of the Rozier family's assets.

But what Owen is more curious about is, what exactly did Merlin say? It can't be a Imperius curse.

One day after that, Master Mei ran into a wall when he went to the wine cellar, because he didn't know when all the hundreds of barrels of red wine in the wine cellar had disappeared.

He laughed and reprimanded his grandmother for being stingy, saying that at least he had compensated for her eternally young appearance.

On the other hand, Miss Granger had been asking him how to cast the Transfiguration Charm lately.

In the past two days, Owen has also resumed practicing this spell, and asked her grandmother for a few manuals on practicing the illusion transformation charm, which can be regarded as a theoretical reference for Hermione.

In fact, Hermione wanted to learn magic from Merlin

That's a living magician!

The figure standing at the top of the wizard.

However, Merlin has repeatedly stated that he does not know how to chant spells, and that he prefers to beat them with a holy sword rather than cast spells.

So there was very little magic that could be taught to Hermione.

Because most of his magic was an application of ancient magic, he really couldn't teach Hermione anything.

Miss Granger was disappointed that she had a treasure when she was young, but she could only watch.

What could be more uncomfortable?

Have it?

Anything else?

And, of course!!

Soon Hermione got even more uncomfortable news from Wenda.

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Compared to the calm in the manor.

The outside world has long been because of the four monsters brought back by Sirius, and the information they provided has set off a huge wave.

The first reaction of the Ministries of Magic of many countries was - are you kidding?

How could there be such a monster?

Don't believe it!

They don't want to wash the fact that there is a strange monster that can disguise itself as someone else, and it is in the wizarding community.

How long have they only been coming out of the aftermath of the Battle of the Sea Gods?

After a few days of resting and calming, this kind of thing suddenly broke out, which is simply challenging the limits of the hearts of all countries.

And most importantly, after the Battle of the Sea Gods, all the Aurors from all over the country devoted themselves to maintaining local order.

Especially with the extortion of the Italians and Greeks, it is really difficult for them to squeeze out the manpower to deal with this matter.

So it's not true, even if there really is such a monster, they decided to be ostriches, anyway, as long as I don't investigate, it's definitely not.

It's a pity that such an idea was soon ruthlessly debunked.

Sweden – Headquarters of the International Confederation of Wizards.

Vice President Babajid Akinbad displayed and had a bloody monster dissected in court at a conference site, and released the testimony of the four monsters.

Now, when the idea of the ostrich is directly blown up.

Subsequently, under the leadership of the Federation, the European countries were able to squeeze their teeth and draw a part of the already insufficient Auror team to form the International Wizards Joint Action Group.

This is the prototype of the International Wizarding Peacekeeping Force that Dumbledore envisioned.

And the first step of this joint action group is to station in Egypt.

Hundreds of Aurors are on the battlefield to find out the monsters hiding beneath the land.

There is no end in sight to this war. Those who have good deeds in later generations call it [Dark Holy War].

This is the first time in so many years that wizards have united to fight against evil things that threaten the lives of wizards, rather than a fratricidal war, worthy of the name of [Holy War].

And those monsters have a new name, and the Federation calls them [Pretenders].

It's also appropriate to disguise yourself as someone else.

However, the official history still collectively refers to this war that lasted for more than ten years as the [First Wizard Purge War].

Decades later, when wizarding historians summarize this glorious history, there is one name that is absolutely impossible to get around.

She is destined to be in the annals of history.

Named the first wizard to discover the Pretender's conspiracy.

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Two days after the manor -

On the morning of the fourth day, the courtyard suddenly became lively.

It's noisy outside.

A large crowd gathered.

Wuyang Wuyang looked at hundreds of people.

They erected a huge platform in the courtyard, and reporters pointed their magic cameras at the gate of the manor.

Waiting for someone's entry.

Owen, who was woken up, was bored lying in front of the window, looking down,

In the crowd, he saw several familiar figures.

Luna's father, Xenophilius Lovegood, editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, Barnabas Gufe.

And then there's Professor McGonagall, who sits with a cold face and a wizard who is also an old man—Celsus Kunrat, the chief reviewer of the Alchemy Today newspaper, an excellent master alchemist whose book Alchemy of Nature has been hailed as the greatest alchemical work of the twentieth century.

He is a master who is known all over the world as a "sage".

And this gentleman is also involved in Transfiguration, and he is also a master of Transfiguration.

Speaking of which, Dumbledore's alchemy achievements have always been only in the discovery, although the twelve uses of dragon blood, such a discovery is indeed ancient, but Dumbledore did not systematically sort out and study his findings in depth.

As a result, he only discovered a new magical material, although there may be countless results developed based on his discoveries in the future, but in short, his discovery did not subversively change the system of contemporary alchemy, and his work was only tinkering, so he did not earn the name of [Sage].

In addition to this, Owen also found several wizards whose costumes were obviously different from those of other wizards, who were supposed to be wizards from South America and South Asia.

He even saw a Japanese sorcerer dressed in a wizard style and a modified kimono

Well—that's nothing.

Hogwarts was still relatively familiar with Japanese wizards, and decades ago, the school's flying professor was a Japanese wizard.

But—what are so many wizards of all stripes doing at his manor?

Is it a gathering of nobles?

What kind of meeting can Professor McGonagall attend?

Could it be the wedding scene of Dumbledore and his grandfather?

Just as Owen was wondering, he saw through the window that the door of the manor was opened, and his grandmother, Wenda Rozier, smiled and took Miss Granger's hand and walked out of the manor.

Today's Hermione—all dressed up and down.

The clothes were clearly in his grandmother's closet.

A completely different style from the dresses he had given Hermione before.

It was a dark blue silk dress, with a very slim neck, cuffs, and waist, which accentuated the wearer's figure.

He wears a pair of black travel boots on his feet.

The overall style is elegant and restrained.

Her hair, which had been messy, was tied up and combed into a bun at the back of her head.

On his slender neck is a necklace that looks like a vine he bought in Egypt.

A face painted with delicate makeup with an embarrassed and reluctant smile.

"Suck-" Owen sat on the windowsill and took a bite of the apple in his hand, and in an instant the juice exploded in his mouth.

As he ate the apple, Owen had doubts in his heart.

When did his grandmother have such a good relationship with Hermione?

Strictly speaking, Wenda Rozier did not think of Muggle-born wizards as mudbloods, like the Death Eaters, as Muggle gaps in poaching wizard power.

The Saints Order treats all wizards equally.

But after all, Grandma was a wizard from a pure-blood family, and she might not persecute Muggle-born wizards, but it was impossible to be so close.

Seems to have changed a little since she talked to Merlin.

This made Owen even more curious about what Master Mei said.

Under Owen's gaze.

Grandma, who walked out of the manor, was under the high stage and handed Hermione's hand to Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall then led Hermione to the high platform.

"Oh — it's an awards ceremony."

Leaning against the window, Owen saw the truth, as he saw Babajid Akinbad, the vice president of the federation.

Beside him was a witch holding a box containing seven or eight medals of all kinds—the most dazzling of course the green ribbon, engraved with swords and wands, and countless names engraved around them, Arthur, Gawain, and Lanstrow. of the Order of Merlin of the 1st degree.

"So grand?"

Owen had an extra magic speculum on his hand.

Through it, everything that happened not far away seemed to be in front of you.

Professor McGonagall, who was not at all upset, kept communicating with Hermione in a whisper.

In Justin's brain, I know that it is definitely not a good word.

It's definitely some kind of admonition or something, or going back to confinement or something

Owen guessed.

On the other side, Babajid Akinbad, vice president of the International Federation of Wizards, and his female assistants also took the stage to confer the medal.

He shook Professor McGonagall's hand.

Then he shook Hermione's hand with a smile on his face.

The next moment, countless flashing lights lit up, and the 'click' was about to blind people's eyes.

In fact, the flashing lights hadn't stopped since Hermione walked out of the manor, and now it was just a little more dense.

This strobe lasted a minute or two.

Owen had finished eating an apple, and it was finally over.

Babajid Akinbad did not present the award immediately, but took out a piece of paper from his bosom and began to read Miss Granger's exploits aloud.

From the book "Ancient Alchemy Revealed", which she co-wrote with Owen in alchemy.

and then to the outstanding performance in the defense of Hogwarts in the third year.

and the shocking World Cup, the Goblet of Fire won the championship.

Finally, the goddess of the Battle of the Sea Gods descended to earth, and this time to see through the conspiracy of the [Pretender], etc., Babajid Akinbad babbled on and on for five or six minutes in flowery language.

It wasn't until the reporters in the underground were a little impatient and everyone's faces didn't look good that he stupidly put the paper in his hand back into his pocket.

Then, in the anticipation of everyone, he began to award Hermione with honors.

This time.

Everyone noticed that the female assistant to the president had a lot of medals in the box in her hand.

There were many of them that they hadn't even seen.

Others, as you can tell from the style, are by no means wizards' medals.

Because several of them turned out to be cross-shaped.

Wizards don't use this style.

Sure enough, it was accompanied by the continuation of the award.

Everyone knows that a large part of so many medals belong to the Muggle government.

The first medal awarded by Babajid Akinbad was the George Cross of Great Britain.

It was a silver one, with St. George slaying the dragon and the words "Heroic and commendable" engraved on one side, and a cross with the Queen's portrait on the other.

The second is the Greek Medal of Honor.

The third.

Spooky –

The wizards present all looked at Babajid Agumba in surprise.

And some politically sensitive wizards have sensed that a different kind of political atmosphere is blowing.

It's a sign that it's not difficult for wizards to get a Muggle medal, or something that is forbidden by the Ministry of Magic and not tolerated by the wizarding world.

On the contrary, people are actually quite proud of it.

Who would be hostile to honor?

Many people, especially pure-blooded families, were themselves nobles of the kingdom in the era when the "Secrecy Law" was not enforced, and the Malfoy family also had the hereditary title of English viscount.

However, the knighthood of the former dynasty will definitely not be recognized by the current British royal family.

The Rozier family also holds titles in the various kingdoms of France, but no one mentions it now.

But it's all a personal honor.

As long as individuals do not use magic to force Muggles to issue medals, the Ministry of Magic will not care.

But now—Babajid Aquimba is presenting a Muggle medal to a wizard in full view.

This is clearly politically motivated.

But compared to the active-minded wizards, Hermione was more pure.

She's happy. She was happier than she was awarded the Order of Merlin, because it was an honor that could be shared with her parents.

No matter how much merit you may have in the wizarding world, the Muggle world itself will always be unknown.

But with the British George Cross, her parents can really do it and be honored.

After that, Babajid Akinbad continued to present awards, Italy, Egypt, Greece, etc.

In short, the countries of the Mediterranean coast sent a medal.

There were more medals, and Hermione even had some neck strangulation.

She secretly cast a light-like spell on these medals to feel relaxed.

After the miscellaneous medals have been awarded.

It's finally time for that heavyweight, first-class Merlin Medal, to come into play.

But at this moment, there was a sudden change at the scene.

Someone broke into the award ceremony.

The security guards on the side quickly stepped up to stop him, but Hermione stopped him.

The man climbed the tower without any hindrance, and then took out the last medal from the box held by the female assistant.

"I miss it."

The person who came was none other than Merlin, the Great Magician.

At this time, he looked at the medal in his hand.

Look at the sword and wand, the names, and the Camelot carved on the back.

"The one in charge of making these medallion styles was a little Celtic witch, haha - she loved the legend of Camelot so much that she had to engrave all these names on the medals"

Merlin smiled.

"In the blink of an eye, it was five or six hundred years ago."

He weighed the medal in his hand. Then he muttered, "Now this is the only sign of their existence." ”

"Sir—" Hermione called.

"Oh—a little distracted." Merlin looked up again and smiled apologetically.

"Sometimes I envy you. I can live happily. And I—" He reached out and held the medal above his head, and in the sun, the royal city of Camelot on the back of the medal shone brightly.

Those purple eyes reflected Hermione's figure, and also reflected the brilliance of Camelot.

"I'm a man who can only be watched.

I love the stories that humans portray, na-na--the only time it's a story, but it doesn't end well. There are enough failures. He smiled self-deprecatingly.

Then he picked up the ribbon and hung it around Hermione's neck.

"That's all we can do now."

"Mr. Merlin." Hermione wanted to speak, but she didn't know what to say, she could only hold the medal in her hand, and she looked helpless for a moment.

Merlin reached out and rubbed her hair.

The smile on his face never went away.

"Take it, but don't believe it." He said, "As the boy said, don't believe in Merlin, that will bring misfortune." ”

"But you've saved countless people, haven't you?" Hermione finally spoke, "I don't know what you and Owen are planning, but it's definitely for all of us, right?" ”

Professor McGonagall looked at the strange wizard in front of her, and although he was very young, those eyes—those eyes told her that he had been weathered.

She had only seen such an eye on one face, and that was Dumbledore.

"Yes - for everyone's sake - but, well- I'm the kind of person who will bring misfortune to others."

He tapped Miss Granger on the shoulder, then said flatly, "I'm sorry, Hermione. ”

"I'm destined to take your most precious things."

"Huh?" The little witch looked puzzled.

Merlin didn't explain, and with a smile on his face, he turned and left the ceremony.

Leaving behind a back full of ramparts.

This episode did not attract the attention of many wizards in the past, and the male wizard, who was obviously acquainted with Miss Granger, sold people a face.

Babajid Akinbad is not Fudge, let alone MacArthur, and will not be angry at others for stealing the limelight from him.

Finally, he declared that the Federation belonged to the young witch with the title of 'war hero'.

This was the end of the ceremony.

Next, it's the main event.

Interviews with reporters from various newspapers.

But it was clear that Miss Granger seemed to be at the mercy of someone who had been instructed to do so.

To sum it up, it's either you have no comment

Or, she doesn't care about the questions raised by the reporter, she just keeps explaining her own opinions, such as the cruelty of the battlefield, the bravery of the Aurors, etc.

Once the reporter started asking her about her background, Hermione would smile and say that it wasn't the point, and then repeat her previous 'acceptance speech' to thank Hogwarts.

The main one is not leaky.

This is obviously under the guidance of a master!

Otherwise, although Hermione is also very smart, how can there be so many twists and turns.

Most likely it was her grandmother

Owen was puzzled and began to eat breakfast by the window.

After the reporters ended their interviews with indignation, it was the representatives of the countries in the federation and the eminent personalities who came forward to express their gratitude.

Everyone showed great friendliness towards the rising star.

After all, judging from the current situation, the witch in front of her is destined to grow into a legendary wizard who surpasses Dumbledore.

As for whether she can grow to that height safely.

What- Dumbledore is still alive!

He was only over a hundred years old, and according to the lifespan of a wizard, he was just middle-aged, and if he wanted to do something shady, he had never seen how fast Dumbledore cast spells

Therefore, in the eyes of the delegates, the girl in front of her is a real, genuine future star, and this legendary little witch named "Stargazing Girl" is destined to grow into a great meteor shower that sweeps the world.

The banquet lasted until noon.

However, the officials present did not pay all their attention to Hermione, in fact, an hour after the ceremony, the little witch was free.

The rest of the time, the various officials began to negotiate some things on a small scale, which is also a common scenario in diplomacy, and when nothing can be discussed at the negotiating table, the table must be tried.

At lunch, Owen hadn't seen Hermione again. According to his grandmother, she seemed to have been sent back to China by Professor McGonagall.

Ah-what a poor Granger, who had been subjected to Professor McGonagall's harsh education so early, and think of himself—well, a dozen days of jolly life.

After lunch, her grandmother also left the estate.

After all, she was still the headmaster of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, although he had only heard from some Federation officials today that it was only a stopgap measure, and they really couldn't find a better wizard.

There aren't many wizards in the stormy wizarding world looking for a wizard who has survived war but has survived and risen again.

Well, I don't know how long his grandmother's position will last, and I don't think there will be a change of person at least this year, otherwise she wouldn't be in a hurry to leave the estate for Sweden. (Durmstrang Location)

(End of chapter)