Chapter 463: Bagman
If it weren't for Professor Burn's room, which had been used to deal with the Necrogens and Hinkpunk, and was now a gym training room, Harry would have been amazed at the space in Sirius's father's tent.
The tent looked half the size of Hagrid's hut on the outside, but the space inside was dozens of times larger than the outside, and the wizard who made the tent seemed to have moved a seaside villa in. Harry's aunt and uncle had always been desperate to buy a holiday house in Majorca, and they had bought a lot of magazines and brochures, and the enviable luxury houses on top of Harry were similar to the white four-story bungalows in front of them.
"Huh-"
What had just happened outside was not pleasant to them, but when they saw the villa in front of them and the huge swimming pool in front of the villa, the little ones of the Weasleys who were not strong enough let out an exclamation, and Ron ran straight out of the group, he came to the pool and knelt down and tapped the water with his fingers, and then, staring at Sirius with a confused face,
"It's a real pool, oh my god, I thought it was just a trick!"
"It's an eye-opener, Siriusβ"
Mr. Weasley stared at the soft glow of the sky and said in amazement,
"Much bigger than the tent I borrowed from Perkins."
Harry didn't care who Perkins was, and the glamping tent didn't hit him as hard as Sirius and the Malfoys were relatives. After holding his head up for a long time, Harry's neck finally couldn't stand it anymore, and he put his hand on his cheek and looked at Sirius with a frown.
"Remus, see if you can help Harry's head recover, he just ate a piece of bubble gum and his head is like this."
Sirius looked at Remus and said calmly.
"I know the bubblegum you're talking about, not long before you came, when I went to fetch water, I saw a little boy with a head ten times bigger than yours, Harry-"
Remus said as he stared at Harry's head with interest,
"But the little boy swallowed the other half of the bubblegum and immediately returned to normal, I guess you must have swallowed the funny half and the antidote, right, Harry?"
Harry muttered quietly, and then, under Remus's recovery spell, his head began to leak with a whizz.
"What the hell is going on, Sirius, you and Draco's mother?"
Remus went into the villa to inform Kreacher to serve them food, and Mr. Weasley, who saw that the father and son were going to talk, also gave a guilty Ginny a look, and they also walked into the villa to visit, and by the pool, Ron, Fred and George had already begun to take off their shirts and jump in to show off their skills.
"Hehe, just like Ron said, Harry-"
Sirius laughed dryly twice,
"There are some diehards in the wizarding world who have always been unwilling to abandon anachronistic traditions, they are pure-bloods, they are madly obsessed with the purity of blood, and it is a shame to combine with half-blood wizards, but in this case, they themselves have few choices, in order to ensure that the family is not finished, these pure-blood wizard families intermarry with each other, so--"
Sirius spread his hands and gave Harry a helpless look.
Harry wasn't unaware of what Sirius was saying, he also knew that these pure-blood families generally graduated from the same house, just like Ron's family members all went to Gryffindor, and Malfoy's ancestors were basically from Slytherin.
Sirius rarely spoke to him about his parents, and Harry assumed that the Blacks, like the Weasleys, were the 'outliers' of the pure-blood wizarding family.
But judging from what Malfoy's mother said just now, it seems that Sirius is the real outlier.
After a moment of silence, Harry suddenly frowned and said,
"Draco's mom just mentioned. Walburga, who is she? β
"She's my mother--"
Sirius's gray eyes flashed with a hint of gloom, and after taking a deep breath, he nodded,
"You guessed it right, Harry, she's my mother, yes, Narcissa Malfoy is right, she doesn't like me very much, and even, in order to prevent me from having a chance to take over the family fortune, she made a will on her deathbed and gave the family over the centuries of gold to my two cousins, one of whom is Narcissa Malfoy, and the other, oh, I don't want to mention that woman, Bellatrix Lestrange."
cousin
Harry suddenly remembered that on the night of his fourteenth birthday dinner, Sirius and Remus had spoken to him about his dream, Sirius had suspected that the woman in his dream was his cousin, but then he mentioned Narcissa Malfoy, that is, this Bellatrix Lestrange?
"That's right, it's her."
Sirius said in disgust, "She's locked up in Azkaban with me, and of course, she's not like me, she's definitely worthy of all the things she's done there." β
"What did she do?"
Harry asked urgently, only today did he realize that he knew nothing about Sirius's origins.
"What did you do?" Sirius sneered, "She used Voldemort as a dog's leg, trust me, Harry, you won't find anyone more loyal to Voldemort than Bellatrix Lestrange, even in Azkaban, tormented by those Dementors, I've heard her screaming many times over the years that when Voldemort returns, she will have to pay the price!" β
"But--"
Harry was puzzled to say something, but Sirius was a little impatient, and he waved his hand and said impatiently,
"Don't you understand, Harry, I don't know who my mother, my relatives are? The vast majority of them were Voldemort's direct loyalists, and some of them were not involved, and they were secretly contributing to Voldemort's terror cause, and my mother, well, yes, she wasn't a Death Eater, but according to me, if she could be twenty years younger, maybe what would she do! β
Sirius's words made Harry's heart heavy, and it was only now that he realized that Sirius had suffered more than just being misunderstood and persecuted by the world, and his own family might have caused him more damage.
Mr. Weasley came out of the villa, presumably about to call them to dinner, but this was, the wind chimes outside the tent suddenly rang, and at the same time, a light voice also reached their ears with the pleasant sound of wind chimes.
"Ahh
"Oh!"
Mr. Weasley immediately became excited, and he hurried around the pool and Sirius and Harry to the tent door, and greeted Sirius in a delightful manner.
"The most important person at the moment, Ludo!"
"Hey, Arthur, old fellow!"
Mr. Weasley's voice caught the people outside a little off guard, but then, realizing whose it was Ludo, broke in directly from the outside, and he shook hands warmly with Mr. Weasley,
"Is this your tent, Arthur? That's good, I bet this tent will sell for at least six thousand gold gallons! β
"Who the hell is he?"
As Mr. Weasley and the man exchanged pleasantries, Ron, along with Fred and George, climbed out of the pool one by one, and Harry whispered to Ron,
"Ludo Bagman, the director of the Department of Magical Physical Sports, is a former Quidditch player, and his father has a good relationship with him, and he helped get our Quidditch tickets."
Harry nodded, indeed, Mr. Weasley had said that.
Ludo Bagman was undoubtedly the most striking man Harry had ever met, wearing a striking Quidditch shirt with a wide yellow and black crossbar and a huge wasp splashed on his chest.
"Ludo has received a report that there is a conflict here and that he has used a magic wand, and he is here to investigate the matter, but I have explained the misunderstanding to him."
Mr. Weasley led Ludo to them and said hurriedly. He pointed to Sirius and said to Ludo,
"Actually, this tent belongs to Sirius, and I'm sure you've heard of him, Ludo?"
"Ah, of course, the daimyo is thunderous!"
Ludo looked eagerly at Sirius,
"I was in Paris and heard about you in the newspapers, and asked me to say, what a hero you are, Sirius!"
(End of chapter)