Chapter 1164: Gambling
Madame Maxim turned her very handsome olive cheeks, which did not match her figure, to Allen: "You seem to have a good relationship with your parents... Unlike me and Rubeus... But for Owen's sake, for Owen's sake, get around him. ”
"I was just going to tell him I'd show it to my mother, but I didn't really give... Okay though. Alan put the camera away a little stupidly, and then the person returned to a more happy appearance, "Orim, you should go to the library in the Ravenclaw Temple at Hogwarts in a few days, although the book target is not much more than the other libraries, but because I have been upstairs all this time, it is more interesting." ”
Madame Maxim nodded: "Let's communicate with the members of our respective magical transportation divisions, and let Beauxbatons and Hogwarts make a fireplace to connect to the Floo Internet café... Your floating city is running all over the place now, and if you can't make a mistake with phantom shifting, you'll be able to make someone who reacts slow fall to death..."
Alan smiled: "Oh, it was my negligence... Speaking of which, I think it's better to connect the fireplace to the fireplace in Hagrid's new house, it's at least high enough... I'll let Director Percy Weasley of this department take care of it personally. ”
Madame Maxim's face turned a little ruddy, and she cleared her throat with a dry cough: "Alan, let's talk a little formal, do you know that our neighbors have recently passed the new traffic laws and forbidden forests?"
"About my hometown uniting with the Ministry of Magic in Switzerland to define the Floating City as a flying instrument like a flying carpet... What about announcing a ban on entering its airspace?" Alan asked rhetorically with ease.
"Alan, I understand that these countries that are against you now, no matter how much they protest, the president of the International Federation of Wizards, Babajid Agumba, has no intention of showing up this time, Albus even wrote to me a few days ago, let me leave you alone..." But in doing so you would give a real pretext to the threats of other countries who have attacked you, and I guess they have also seized on the fact that Britain does not seem to have really violated any legal doctrine to enact such a law, and that Minister Hess and the Swiss presumably want to protect their neutral buffer zone in the southern Black Forest by this means or your entry..."
Alan sarcastically said, "The wizards of the fairy tale country may believe that this kind of fairy tale will happen...", and then resumed his relaxed demeanor, "Maybe the minister at least knows that my floating ships can be apparitioned, I think he wants to use this to make a name for himself..."
"You can also drift in the direction of Marseille in the south of France, I think the float can teleport the point accurately when it is closer to the target, and it is not easy for such a big guy to be too far away...", Madame Maxime suggested, she did not want any more violent conflict between the two French neighbours.
"Anyway, it's okay to float in the air with some errors, except to be careful not to hit the Muggle plane...", Allen pointed to the tall nose on his face, "Heinrich may think I'm not Tom, so he can lead me by the nose?"
After Hogwarts' friendly visit to France, British Ministry of Magic officials returned to Britain, and the dark clouds of Paris, which had puzzled Muggles, finally began to move again, slowly drifting towards the northern foothills of the Alps, the largest river in Western Europe, through Liechtenstein, Austria, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
This huge shadow shrouded the ground, and at this time it was also shrouded in the hearts of the top brass of the German Ministry of Magic, the floating city was like a giant North Sea monster floating in the sky - since the announcement of the start of cooperation with Muggles in the United Kingdom, the depression of the atmosphere in the German Ministry of Magic has been relaxed, and at this time, with the movement of the floating city, this sense of tension is coming, so that the wizards who come and go hurry and return to their offices with the materials to concentrate on their work.
In the personal office of the German Minister of Magic, Heinrich Thälmann, the German delegate to the International Council of Wizards in the United Kingdom and the director of the German Aurors, was speaking to his minister.
“...... This is a provocation against us, and they are still flying into our territory, and they must show an attitude. The bow tie was neatly tied in the middle of Heinrich's neck, and he raised his voice, his tone tinged with restrained anger, "He looks down on us." ”
"First of all, transfer the Aurors from other places back as much as possible..."The lean wizard in the same meticulous dress as Heinrich and dressed in an earthy yellow uniform said embarrassedly, "Our temporary law has been notified to other countries, and the British side knows the news, but still continues to fly over strongly, which is fearless... If we don't react quickly, it will be another blow to our prestige at home!"
"Paul, don't say that the other side has Alan Harris, and our Aurors are no match for those below them. A handsome wizard reminded, "The Mystic Man and his Death Eaters have been eyeing us lately, and we're already panicking... If you still transfer your men to fight Harris... Otherwise, if they fly over our heads, maybe the mysterious ones will appear in your house and mine..."He paused, "If those evil elves are left unattended, they may come out again and lure Muggle children with high-pitched gurgling noises... If there were wizard children who were also tempted by this false sense of security, I wouldn't have to deal with the parents who came to the door to make trouble..."
"Joachim, you need to figure out the severity of the matter... We're also solving problems for your International Magical Cooperation Division. Paul, who was wearing an khaki uniform, was a little impatient, "We joined forces with Switzerland to pass this bill a little proudly, and if we let Britain force its way through our airspace now, and we don't organize any armed forces to stop it, let him advance... Babakinder was too scared to provoke Harris, and let them do business with Muggles made our sanctions a joke! If this law becomes a joke too... If Harris ends up with his sights on you... Think for yourself what we've done to these former bosses in the past, and they'll let us go?"
"What else can we do after Harris announced our cooperation with the Muggle government? It would be fine for the other countries to unite once, but now we are at odds with each other, not to mention the other countries, what is the attitude of the Dumbledore you contacted? I heard that he is reluctant to come forward, right? I think it's because he knows that he is no match for that Allen...", Joachim asked rhetorically, "And if we are willing to look at it differently, I mean, we can even support them in turn, so why do we have to fight them?" What if they were allowed to fly over? Give them the barren land, and let the Bulgarian minister's wife and the Yankees continue to mess with them... Of course, we can't accept their military support like our romantic neighbors, and we can't allow Harris's men to take the opportunity to return to Germany. ”
"You filthy little champagne dealer!, just look at your head to see how small your brain is!" roared a wizard taller than the sturdy Heinrich, and even a little fat, "I have over everything that flies in the sky above our country!
"Herman, you pig, can you take care of it, what are you going to do?" Joachim quipped, "let your men ride broomsticks and pull a city away? Of course, maybe your size can play a role... But only if you're a Quidditch ace and you can still ride it..."
"I'm better than you if I can't go up!" the fat man who was teased for his body blushed, "Paul is right, your name was bought with gold, money was obtained through marriage, and official positions were obtained by fraud... I don't think you think you're standing up again now, Harris, thinking that you haven't offended their family much before, thinking that the other party will take you?!!"
The wizard named Paul was a little annoyed by the fat man because of his private jokes: "Shut up! Now is not the time for us to quarrel! What have you become in front of Minister Hess?"
At this time, the expression of the German Minister of Magic, who was sitting behind the desk, was still because of his thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked a little honest and loyal, but in fact, he was not in the mood to listen to the-for-tat quarrels of his subordinates, and he only felt anxious, and he thought of the strong young wizard with white hair on the International Confederation of Wizards that he saw on TV, and sighed to himself. The damage caused by Grindelwald to Germany and the resulting reparations from Germany to other wizarding circles has greatly damaged the vitality of the German wizarding community, although it has recovered in recent years, but if you want to fight hard, even if you don't count Allen, not counting those armed forces, it can't be compared with Britain before the reform.
And now the conference room had suddenly become silent, and the minister came to his senses: "Cancel all vacations, let the general officers of the local area temporarily serve as patrol guards, gather the Aurors and the strikers, and if the floating city enters the Rhine region and wants to cross the line of Germany, go up and warn the British to hinder it." ”
"Minister, if Britain wants to break through forcefully, be prepared to use force... What should my people do?" Heinrich as the head of the Auror of Germany
"If those Britons really intend to use force in such a situation, without respecting the laws of our country ... Then—" Hess rubbed his forehead, "then hurry up and get your men to retreat, we can't let those young men die in vain in an unwon battle, if they want to carry out this kind of atrocity... When the time comes, we are thinking of other ways to solve it, and other countries will see the threat of Harris. ”
Even if they are stupid in the eyes of each other, they have complete political experience to understand that this is a gamble by their minister, and he is betting that Britain will continue to obey the law and leave no excuse to other countries, and that they will not start a war lightly.