After all, it's not a hierarchical organization, and the atmosphere inside the Order of the Phoenix is still very relaxed.

Although Dumbledore's tone was a little heavy, everyone soon became more relaxed.

There are so many difficulties in this world, they are used to it.

Even if it was to fight Voldemort, they had already done it.

Paying attention to each other strategically and despising each other tactically is something that these old magic warriors have been able to do.

So under Sirius and Lupin's gags, everyone laughed easily.

Then it was quickly served, and we chatted while eating.

Ted: Voldemort or something...... Let's order first!

Everyone was happy now, except for Snape, who had been gloomy and didn't see a smile all year round.

He didn't stay to eat either, and before the meal began, he took his leave.

I hate to say that, but after Snape left, the atmosphere seemed to be more harmonious. Everyone is more active.

Hagrid stroked his big back and neatly trimmed beard and sighed: I didn't expect that he was already more handsome than the school grass seniors back then!

When Tom was at school, it is not an exaggeration to say that everyone loves him, and he has the meaning of blonde Ted.

What was Hagrid's situation at that time? Don't mention it, bring up a handful of bitter tears.

Let's put it this way, he was expelled from the third grade, and he didn't have a good friend. So much so that he could only stay with the magical beasts.

At that time, Hagrid was a stupid big man, he didn't know his strength was big, he had a big voice, he was fuss and sloppy, and he didn't understand a lot of etiquette-

His father was a terrible man who dared to go to the giantess and succeeded in keeping the seeds, and although he took good care of Hagrid, he died when he was just starting school.

This is a child without a home...... It's all tears.

Hagrid, who was disliked by everyone back then, was framed and fired from his wand and could only be a hunting groundman......

Now he's got a new look, he's become Dumbledore's most trusted person, a professor of magical beast protection at Hogwarts, respected by all students, publishing articles in professional journals, and falling in love with Beauxbatons' Headmaster, Lady Maxime!

And Senior Tom, who framed him back then, has already pulled ~ into a human-like monster, and only four features are left.

Everything is unpredictable, feng shui takes turns, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life!

Of course, you also have to meet good people. I'm not afraid of no good things, I'm afraid of no good people.

Now Malfoy feels a little bit of that!

Fighting Voldemort, are you serious? We?!

Malfoy's face was somewhat pale.

Because of his father's words and deeds, he feared Voldemort more than anyone else.

But Harley kept holding his hand under the table.

If there was no meeting, it is estimated that the two of them would have to take advantage of the holiday to communicate more, avoiding Sirius.

……

Although Ted didn't say anything, he actually had a certain amount of pressure in his heart.

It was easy to say in the previous years, because Voldemort hadn't really done much at that time.

But even in the original books, when Voldemort is resurrected at the end of the fourth year, the situation begins to get serious.

Anyone who watches the movie can have a feeling - after Voldemort's resurrection, watching the Harry Potter series of movies needs to turn on the screen. Because the painting style is a little too dark.

It's not a children's fairy tale. Or rather, it is beginning to return to the era of black fairy tales in the early ancient period.

In the original book, it begins with Cedric's death.

This time he was lucky, and he shouldn't be involved.

It was Karkarov who died this time......

Ted was a little worried about his friends...... I have to find a way to improve the strength of my friends!

Now the situation is different, Voldemort was resurrected early, and he got some magic that didn't belong to this world, and he also got the snake staff, which is much stronger than in the original book!

If only his strength is improved, the main thing is that he also has brains.

even sent people to rescue his group of die-hard Death Eaters.

Now, as long as he does something and makes it look like a wind and water, the peripheral Death Eaters who have escaped the reckoning in the past will immediately surround him.

He is back to the peak of more than ten years ago when he was calling for wind and rain and setting off a bloody storm in the wizarding world of Great Britain.

"However, most people still don't believe Voldemort has returned. That's what Dumbledore said! Hallie grumbled.

Hermione slipped a piece of meat into Ted's plate and said, "After all, they are not like us, who knew from the beginning that Voldemort was not dead. ”

Ted said as he slipped the steak, "People don't believe that Voldemort is resurrected, and that's normal. Most people only believe what they want to believe and don't want to understand what is going on. Subconsciously seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is instinctive. ”

Hermione juicy snatched the chops from Ted's plate.

Ron on the side stuffed a meatloaf in his mouth and muttered, "Voldemort's Horcrux, can he really not die?!" ”

Jerry and Malfoy both pricked up their ears in a look of great interest.

Who doesn't want to live forever!

Ted glanced at his friends and the adults who were quietly watching them, and said, "At the end of last summer's vacation, Mr. and Mrs. Nicolame passed away. Before that, I studied alchemy with him for two months......"

"He used to tell me that only a fool would think that death is the worst thing in the world."

"Being is meaningful, and being that is immortal is meaningless."

"I know what it's like to be alive. To live is to exist, and then to pass away. It's a complete process. ”

"When you're afraid of death, remember that – death is a gift, and what you should be afraid of is eternal life."

The crowd listened, thoughtful.

……

Here, Dumbledore has begun to gather forces and prepare for war with the Death Eaters led by Voldemort.

The first task at the moment is to confirm the number of Voldemort's Horcruxes, which I am afraid will have to be investigated since decades ago when he was still in school.

Who was the first person he killed? Crying myrtle!

So where did he learn about Horcruxes? This should be a crucial clue.

And the head of Slytherin at that time was Horace Slughorn.

Dumbledore's side began to prepare, and even the International Federation of Wizards had secretly made preparations - because this time Voldemort had obviously reached out to Ilvermorny in North America, and this was no longer a "civil war" in Great Britain.

However, the British Ministry of Magic is still talking nonsense!

Something like this:

Minister, Voldemort is resurrected!

Fudge: Calm down!

In the first stage, we declare that nothing has happened.

In the second stage, we say that something may happen, but we shouldn't take action.

The third stage says maybe we should take action, but we can't do anything.

In the fourth stage, maybe we could have done something about it, but now it's too late.

It belongs to the ancestral art!

There is a Muggle wizarding phenomenon~

The Daily Prophet has written everything, but it doesn't mention the Dark Lord.

Even the news of the Azkaban prison break is starting to be heated, and it is all in the corner of the fourth and fifth editions.

Why did Fudge strenuously deny Voldemort's return?

For two words, stability!

To put it bluntly, even if Voldemort really returns, this matter can't be said!

The price of acknowledging Voldemort's return, in addition to the loss of stability, is above all - you have to fight Voldemort.

Would Fudge be willing to lead the Ministry of Magic in a fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters?

That's naturally unwilling.

Originally, I had no hope of being re-elected, and I had less than a year left in my term.

As a result, the old man Sykes lost his horse, but he didn't expect it to be a blessing!

I'm a few hundred Galleons a month, what kind of life am I playing with you!

The current situation is very unfavorable for the Order of the Phoenix, wizards who are preparing to play with Voldemort.

Originally, it was not considered an advantage in terms of combat effectiveness, and if it fell into a disadvantage in public opinion, there would be no one to help him.

It will even be labeled as making a fuss about nothing, alarmist, spreading panic, etc., which is really not easy to do.

And if you occupy the position of public opinion without occupying the enemy, Voldemort may even use public opinion and the Ministry of Magic to turn its head against the Order of the Phoenix.

It is said that there is a lot of help for the righteous and little help for the unjust.

When the time comes, the black will become white, and the white will become black. That's a laugh.

Therefore, we must not relax in this regard. It is necessary to unite all the forces that can be united......

It is now impossible to count on the Daily Prophet, the official media of Great Britain.

The most correct thing Fudge has done in the past few years is to hold the Daily Prophet in his hands.

The Daily Prophet is the mainstream media in the wizarding world, in Muggle terms, the official media, mainly reporting on political and business trends, social news, sports events, and so on.

Of course, there will be occasional entertainment gossip, most of which is written by Rita Skeeter.

The Daily Prophet was not the mouthpiece of the Ministry of Magic from the beginning, and even many of the early articles were mostly critical of the Ministry. But as Fudge's ambitions for power intensified, his further grip on social media eventually led to the takedown of this key mouthpiece.

According to Ted's questioning of Rita Skeeter in his dream, the current president and editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet are Fudge's men.

He even sent a stocky old pink woman to oversee it—all the articles and pictures to be in the newspaper needed her approval.

Fudge has really learned the essence now!

Don't give up, though!

Ted also has the most powerful propaganda weapon in his hands - the ideal town of the magic network!

Not to mention Fudge, even if Dumbledore and Voldemort join forces, don't even try to snatch this thing from Ted.

Now, the magic network has been built all over Europe, except for very remote places where no signal towers and leyline magic networks have been built, and other places can land in the ideal village without delay.

Even Egypt has a net......

However, it is not enough to rely on the ideal township alone, for conservative and backward adult wizards, the status of paper media is still irreplaceable.

Besides, Ted can't really go against Fudge and the Ministry of Magic openly, so as not to make Old Deng laugh off his big teeth.

I am an assistant, not a pioneer.

Therefore, we have to put on a layer of skin, and we have to find some other ways to disseminate information.

At least the print media is indispensable, and in fact there is already an alternative, the last stall magazine in the wizarding world, "Singing and Singing".

Before the holiday, the Daily Prophet elaborated and reasoned about how ridiculous Voldemort's return was, but there was a large article in "Singing and Singing" that Voldemort had returned.

Even a lot of "insiders" were written! That's a nose and an eye!

If it weren't for the fact that Ted knew the inside story, I really thought they had some exclusive inside story.

You could say that Lovegood, the editor-in-chief of "Singing Against the Tune", is rubbing the heat, but he really believes that Voldemort is back!

That's you!

Take "Singing and Singing" as the position of public opinion in the paper media!

Of course, there are also difficulties.

Although the content of the Daily Prophet is high-sounding, at least it is not absurd in its attitude and has authoritative endorsement.

"Singing Against the Tune" is somewhat similar to the stall literature of the Muggle world.

As the name suggests, this is a magazine whose claims are contrary to mainstream voices.

The main reason why everyone treats these contents as jokes is that the style of this magazine is too absurd, and in today's words, it is a marketing account.

You can imagine that there are many marketing media in the West that are saying: Hitler is resurrected, bin Laden is not dead, the Apollo moon landing is fake, the United States is controlled by the lizardmen, and the Freemasons control the world......

It's really a bit difficult to convince most people of the views of "Singing Against the Tune"!

Ted: No, I'd better find another way, shall I? How about broadcasting?!

But before Ted could transform the magic radio, something unexpected happened.

……

On the second day of the Order of the Phoenix, Ted was tinkering with the magic radio when a mountain about 1,200 meters above sea level suddenly appeared in Switzerland!

Alone, at the end of a mountain range, after a morning fog, it suddenly appeared.

Nothing had happened that day.

But after all, the local area is inhabited, and they have lived there for decades, so they still know the surrounding environment very well.

This suddenly has an extra kilometer peak, I didn't pay attention to it that day, but I found it the next day!

Could it be that Yugong moved mountains to Switzerland?!

So there were young people from the small town who didn't know whether they were alive or dead to form a team to go on an adventure, and the good guy directly found a team of fifty or sixty half-orcs!

The kind of orcs whose skin was grayish and white as rock, and who were very ugly, though much shorter, but fierce and bloodthirsty, who had mastered certain metallurgical and construction skills, and were able to domesticate the terrible wolf.

Needless to say, the six young people who explored the town were in the pot that day. And the town, which was not too far away, could not make it and was attacked a few hours later.

The good news is that the local sheriff is a veteran of the war, and he has a drawer of war medals alone, although he is already fifty or sixty years old. But the habit of preparing for war has gone deep into the bone marrow!

It was under his leadership, mainly with the support of his family's arsenal, that the townsfolk repelled the first wave of the Orcs.

But there were many caves on the peak of the mountain that suddenly appeared, and there were obviously an unknown number of orc monsters in them.

Even among them, there were even taller orc warriors wearing rudimentary armor and holding large knives, and when small-caliber bullets hit their bodies, they trembled and continued to charge!

Before more orcs rushed to the town, the town's hundred or so people, led by the sheriff, shifted strategically.

And behind them, some strong orcs even rode ugly and huge wolves in pursuit, and some could use bows and arrows! Shot several townspeople.

And the sheriff even saw a terrible monster with a height of more than three meters through a telescope!

After about five or six hours, the Swiss local garrison was on the town.

Sure enough, there are still some orcs who haven't left yet, and they are scavenging everything everywhere.

Then modern firepower fights with the otherworldly barbarians.

With the help of heavy machine guns and portable bazookas, the human army repelled the orcs.

But after chasing to the foot of the mountain, he did not dare to continue moving. If you really chase into the cave, it's hard to say.

Moreover, this mountain is not on the map!

This kind of thing is not only happening in Switzerland.

In the territory of Spain and Portugal, a large river suddenly appeared to connect the land of the two countries, and the flow of water was not small, and directly turned many low-lying areas into reservoirs!

As a result, there are more than ten or twenty meters long pythons in the water!

There is also a huge rift valley more than ten kilometers long between Poland and Lithuania, in which many unknown giant birds of prey nest......

In short, it seems that all of a sudden, a lot of terrain that does not belong to this world has been crowded in!

There are more than 20 incomplete statistics in the world!

The Wizards' Federation directly came to the conclusion - it is likely that the third large-scale Celestial Star Convergence is about to begin again!

(End of chapter)