Because he came back too late and had some drinks with Bill and Charlie, Kyle slept until noon the next day.

"Oh, dear, how are you."

Mrs. Weasley pushed Kyle to the table, "I was going to wake you up for breakfast, but Arthur told me you had just slept for less than two hours. ”

"I did sleep late yesterday." Kyle said, "What about Mr. Weasley? ”

"I've already gone to the ministry."

"Did you go in the morning?"

"There's a lot of work to do." Mrs. Weasley smiled, "Don't worry, he often works all-nighters, just drink a refreshing potion." ”

The lunch was sumptuous, almost the same as the last birthday party.

"Mom was worried all night." Ginny whispered, "It's a celebration of your safe return." ”

"Mr. Weasley didn't care about last night." "But I didn't expect him to insist on staying, and to bring Bill and Charlie with him." ”

"That's what dad is like." Ginny said calmly, "It would be strange if he didn't." ”

"yes, you're right." Kyle rubbed his forehead, "But almost everyone's name points to 'lethal danger', so it's no wonder Mrs. Weasley is worried." ”

He knew that the Weasleys had a magical wall clock that didn't show the time, just what everyone was doing. For example, "Make tea, feed the chickens, you're going to be late." ”

Or the location, "home", "school" or something.

Corresponding to the status of each family member in real time, this is also the treasure of the Weasley family's bottom of the box.

"No, it's okay with that." Ginny spread her hands, "You may not know that all the hands on the dial haven't been repositioned since the Death Eaters first attacked the Ministry of Magic, in other words, it's useless for the time being...... Unless the mystery man falls again. ”

As he spoke, Sirius arrived, and after he handed Kreacher a bowl of beef stew and a few pieces of toast to Harry, the group began to eat lunch.

……

For the next few weeks, nothing special happened. It is worth mentioning that the Aurors did not come up with any particularly useful information from the Death Eaters, but that did not prevent them from celebrating the victory.

The Daily Prophet finally stopped reporting on the disappearance or even death of people every day, which was a boost of morale for everyone.

And in one manor, the atmosphere was frighteningly low.

A long table was full of people, all of whom had their heads bowed, not even daring to breathe.

And all this because there was a man with a wand in his hand, walking unhurriedly behind them.

"Someone here has betrayed us, and he has betrayed the great Dark Lord." Voldemort's voice was so soft that he couldn't hear the joy or anger, and his indifferent eyes swept over everyone here one by one.

No matter who he saw, he would break out in a cold sweat and bury his head lower, as if he wanted to get into the cracks in the ground.

Unfortunately, there are no cracks in the ground, and Voldemort won't allow anyone to be absent.

"Raise your head...... Lucius. Voldemort came to Malfoy's side and raised his chin with his wand.

If anyone could have betrayed him, it was Lucius, who had just been punished by him, who was the most likely one.

"Lord, master......" Lucius Malfoy's face instantly turned pale, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Voldemort stared at his terrified eyes.

"Why are you nervous, Lucius?" He pressed his wand to the other's forehead.

"The host...... I...... No...... Betrayal ......," Lucius Malfoy said with all his strength.

But if he could have been a little more coherent, it might have been more convincing.

"Of course I know, Lucius, you don't have the guts."

Voldemort withdraws his wand.

In just a few seconds, Malfoy's whole body was on the verge of collapse, but before he could catch his breath, a green light flashed in front of his eyes.

"Avada suo!"

Voldemort turned his wrist slightly, as casually as if he had swept away a bit of dust.

McNeil, the Death Eater, who was sitting across from Lucius Malfoy, fell to the ground motionless.

It was only then that Voldemort said lightly:

"Although Dolokhov did not fulfill my orders, he at least brought back news of the betrayal, but you, McNeill, I only see your cowardice."

Several successive defeats, combined with news of the traitor, had reduced Voldemort's patience to a minimum, and someone had to bear his wrath.

Originally, Voldemort wanted to find the traitor, but after looking around, he found nothing, and the dementor told him that everyone was loyal.

There was no way around it, Voldemort couldn't kill everyone who was suspected, so he had to pick another person.

For example, the two people who escaped from this failure.

Unlike Antonin Dolokhov's escape, McNeil ran away from the first time the Aurors appeared, and it had no effect, so he naturally became the best candidate.

Voldemort waved his hand, and a large snake with three heads slowly crawled over. But no one dared to turn their heads, not even to move a single look.

"Of course I believe in your loyalty...... But you've let me down too many times. Voldemort continued, without a hint of emotion in his voice.

"Please give me another chance, master......" Antonin Dolokhov, who had escaped, fell from his chair with a thud and fell to his knees trembling to the ground.

"I swear...... Master, I'll definitely bring Fosco back to you. ”

"But you've failed." Voldemort didn't even look at him, his gaze fell on the spread out Daily Prophet on the long table.

[The old enemy of the mysterious man, the most courageous legendary deputy minister, Dolores Jane Umbridge]

"Master, I'm going to kill her!" Barty Crouch Jr. said hurriedly.

"Nemesis?" A thick flash of disdain flashed in Voldemort's eyes, and he moved his fingers, and the newspaper immediately turned to the second page.

[The missing Ollivanders.] 】

"You've got two days...... Voldemort said coldly, "find him, and hopefully don't let me down again this time." ”

"Do your bidding, master!" Everyone at the long table knelt on the ground at the same time and said.

……

At the same time, Grimmauld Place XII.

After more than half a month of torture, Harry finally graduated, limped and left the basement full of joy.

"This is the white fresh essence, this is the blood tonic potion, this is the bone spirit ......"

Sirius shoved bottles of potions into Harry's arms and couldn't help but complain, "It's so barbaric, even if it's to learn Occlumency faster, you don't have to be so strict." ”

Kyle pouted beside him.

For more than half a month, Sirius hadn't been to the basement to see Harry once, and he didn't do anything to stop it, how could he be embarrassed to say such a thing.

However, in order to maintain the relationship between the godfather and godson, Kyle still chose to remain silent and did not say anything, except to ask Kreacher to help roast two warty pig legs as a hard money for the cats and leopards.

A few bottles of potions were poured in, and Harry's condition immediately improved, of course, he didn't drink potions like bone spirits.

"Harry? It's time in the cafeteria, and it looks like you've learned Occlumency, right? ”

At this moment, Bill walked in from the outside.

"Exactly, this is for you." He handed Harry a full purse across the table. "I took it out of the vault for you."

"Thank you." Harry said, taking the money bag.

"You're welcome." Bill turned his head and said, "Mom only gave me the key to Harry's vault, Kyle, if you need to withdraw money, I'll go back tomorrow."

"At present, the elves have strengthened their security and are heavily guarded, and it will take about five hours for ordinary people to withdraw money, but I still have a bit of a privilege in Gringotts, and I can shorten this time to half an hour."

"Thank you." Kyle shook his head, "But I still have a lot of money, it's enough." ”

His money, including all the valuables, was not placed in Gringotts, which was as porous as a sieve, but in his own box.

Part of it was in Nobber's lair, part of it was in Sniff's inner bag, and he had recently found two new places to keep his money.

The caves where the basilisks live, and the dens of the leopards, are safer than Gringotts.

Although Bill doesn't know this, he doesn't care either, and after learning that Kyle doesn't need to withdraw the money, he pulls out a few more envelopes.

Hogwarts sent, their new book list.

The moment he opened the envelope, Harry instantly forgot about the painful experience he had had in the basement.

He was chosen captain of the Quidditch team.

"Then you will be in the same position as a prefect." Hermione said happily, "Being able to ride in the prefect car and use our lavatory. ”

Harry was excited, too, but not because of the special prefect treatment.

He took the badge and looked at it carefully, wiped the dust that didn't exist on it with his clothes, and was reluctant to put it down.

"I've had this too, and it feels like it was yesterday, when I was like Harry, excited and didn't sleep all night." Charlie smiled and said, "Kyle, where is your badge, hurry up and take a look." ”

"yes," Harry said quickly, "this is a contest between us, and Gryffindor will definitely not lose again." ”

"Then you may be disappointed, I'm not the captain." Kyle opens his envelope, which contains nothing but a book list.

"How is this possible!" Ron couldn't help but say, "Who else can be the captain of the Quidditch team in Hufflepuff besides you?" ”

"Every single one will do." Kyle said, "They're no less enthusiastic and not less powerful than me. ”

"Wait." Hermione suddenly noticed something, "Why didn't you even receive the badge of the boys' student council president!" ”

This is even more incredible than Kyle not being the captain of Quidditch.

Because last year, Kyle was already the president of the boys' student council, but Cedric was still there at the time, so the corresponding badge was not issued.

But now that Cedric has graduated, there's no doubt that the president of the boys' student council must be Kyle.

But why is there no badge?

"The school must have made a mistake." Hermione said, "Kyle, you need to write to Professor Dumbledore quickly before school starts." ”

"No, Hermione, that's fine."

Kyle was a little surprised at first, but he quickly accepted it, and was even a little happy.

He loves Quidditch but prefers to play with friends, and now that Cedric, Fred, George have all graduated, Quidditch is a lot less fun.

And more importantly, he'd seen Cedric stay up late for days before the game to devise a tactic, and Kyle knew he wouldn't be able to do that to that level.

So whether it's for the team or for yourself to be easier, it's better to hand over the position of captain to others.

Kyle speculated that the new captain would be either Will or Grace, the latter being more likely, and that the girl was an avid Quidditch fan like Cedric, and her passion for Quidditch even exceeded her own results.

Let's put it this way, if.. If the exam was on the same day as a Quidditch match, she would never hesitate to give it up.

Not to mention the president of the boys' student union...... Kyle even gave Cedric's task to the prefect.

I guess Dumbledore should have known this, so he didn't send the badge over.

Kyle didn't get the boys' student council president and captain Quidditch, and Grimmauld Place 12 was a big topic, and everyone discussed it all day.

However, when Fred and George learned about it, they were not as surprised as the others.

"Kyle can go sideways in the Ministry of Magic, why should he care about a boys' student council president." Fred said unconcernedly.

"Just look at Percy." "He's the student council president, but it's not time to listen to Kyle." ”

Although Percy had apologized and obtained forgiveness from the Weasleys, Fred and George never gave him a good look, and when they met him at the Ministry of Magic, they pretended not to see him, as if they were strangers.

In the words of the two of them, "With the stupid things Percy had done before, not going up and beating him up was already their greatest restraint." ”

But no matter what, when they say this, the others react.

Yes, Kyle, as the youngest senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Magic, has already made and participated in a number of important decisions, and it seems that he really doesn't need to be the president of the boys' student council.

The conversation quickly shifted to the new book list and Harry's course selection.

"Which classes are you going to take, Harry?" Ron looked at his report card, "My Defence Against the Dark Arts and Charms classes were pretty good, and Transfiguration was just enough for Professor McGonagall's requirements. ”

"It's all a must." Hermione said, "You don't think you're trying to give up the Transfiguration class. ”

"Of course not, though Professor McGonagall is really strict......" Ron said, turning his head to look, "Hermione, why did you still take Potions class?" ”

"Of course, potions are just as important as Transfiguration!" Hermione said without looking up, "Actually, I won't give up as long as I can take a class." ”

"I don't think so." Ron muttered, "I'm definitely not going to Snape's class anyway." ”

"Me too." Harry nodded approvingly.

Since he was in first grade, he had fantasized about one day getting rid of Snape and no longer going to the dark underground classroom, and now that he had finally achieved his wish, he naturally did not find himself unhappy.

"I urge you to think again." Kyle, who was chatting with Charlie, glanced up at them, "There should be a big change in Potions class this year, even if you decide not to choose it now, you will make up for it later." ”

"Can Snape force us to take his class?" Ron raised his voice and said incredulously.

"Not Snape, it's something else." Kyle said, "But trust me, you can't be wrong." ”

"What the hell is it, do you know the inside information?" Ron asked.

But this time Kyle didn't answer him, just calmly ate the baked potatoes in front of him.

"I say......" Ron's face fell and he looked at Kyle indignantly, "You people who work in the Ministry of Magic don't like to finish talking. ”

"Did you know until now?" Fred couldn't help but laugh.

"It's an old tradition in the wizarding world." George raised an eyebrow.

Ron was even more upset, but no one spoke for him, not even Mr. Weasley, and it seemed that the angrier he was, the happier the others at the table became.

After hesitating for a moment, Harry next to him chose to believe Kyle and drew a stroke on the back of "Advanced Potions Making" on the book list.

"Wait Harry, you've decided to take Potions class too?" Ron said in shock that he didn't expect even his strongest ally to defect.

"It's just an extra book." Harry shrugged his shoulders and said, "I didn't get up to Snape's potions grade anyway, and he wouldn't let me take the class." ”

"Isn't that a waste of Galleons?" Ron didn't understand it even more.

But seeing that Harry had already made up his mind, he sighed, drew a mark on his book list, and muttered, "I must be crazy, and I don't know if the books I haven't read can be sold at the original price......

(End of chapter)

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