Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

In the early morning of the next day, when Zhang Xu and Fu Rong were eating hot dry noodles in front of the breakfast booth, an owl flew towards their position.

As soon as the owl flew outside the stall, it was hit by a spell, and then tied up with a rope and hung on the edge of the awning of the stall.

"Who's owl, hurry up and take it." The owner of the breakfast stall said to the guests, "These owls are real, why don't you find a place to wait outside, they have to jump on the dining table, it's not hygienic at all. "

Zhang Xu found the owl hanging a bit familiar, and remembered that it was the owl of Hogwarts.

Zhang Xu went over to untie the owl, took a letter from its feet, and found that it was written to him by Dumbledore.

Zhang Xu let the owl go and sat back at the table with the letter.

In the letter, Dumbledore expressed concern about the Dark Mark that appeared last night, so he hoped that Zhang Xu could help protect Harry Potter if it was convenient during the rest of the holiday.

There was still about a week left in the holiday, so Zhang Xu discussed with Fu Rong. Fu Rong was going back to France to prepare for the start of the next semester, so Zhang Xu went to the Burrow by himself.

When Zhang Xu saw the Burrow, Harry and the Weasleys were playing Quidditch, Mr. Weasley and Percy had gone to work at the Ministry of Magic, and Mrs. Weasley was preparing lunch.

Mrs. Weasley was very happy that Dumbledore sent Zhang Xu to protect Harry, and then handed Zhang Xu a basket of potatoes.

While helping in the kitchen, Zhang Xu listened to Mrs. Weasley's nagging about the subsequent development of last night's incident.

Because Mr. Weasley and Percy work in the Ministry of Magic, they dealt with this matter overnight last night, and they took Harry and the others back this morning, and returned to the Ministry of Magic after a simple breakfast, so Wei Mrs. Sly knew a lot of inside information.

Last night, the three signs that Zhang Xu quietly created one after another scared the Ministry of Magic to the point of having a heart attack.

It would be fine if Zhang Xu made the heads of Pleasant Goat, Twilight Sparkle, and Doraemon last night, but the logos he made are all with skulls as the main body.

With the Dark Mark in front, no one would think that the organizations or individuals represented by these three marks would be harmless to humans and animals.

The marks of three obviously not benign organizations or individuals and the mark of the Dark Lord appear at the same time. What is the relationship between them? Are they allies, affiliates, or a new generation of evil forces preparing to take the position of the third-generation Dark Lord?

All these made the officials of the Ministry of Magic very troubled.

There are also those wizards who have been caught making trouble. The Ministry of Magic is working overtime to interrogate which faction they are from.

Among the captured wizards, apart from some former members of the Death Eaters, there are also many wizards who usually live in gray areas.

What these wizards did in the past was not good enough to make it into Azkaban. What they committed were all the trivial things that got the most fines after being caught.

Now these wizards are considered by the Ministry of Magic to belong to the other three forces, so they are listed as the focus of interrogation.

But the Ministry of Magic couldn't even get any information they wanted from them. Veritaserum, Inspiriting and other methods were used, but there was no information about the organization represented by the three skull marks. Neither got it.

If it was in the past, they might be considered to have nothing to do with these organizations. But the thinking of the Ministry of Magic is that the Dark Mark appeared last night, and ex-Death Eaters appeared among the wizards who participated in the disturbance, so there must be people from the other three organizations among the rioters.

As the instigator, Zhang Xu expressed his satisfaction with the current situation.

In the attack last night, those wizards were obviously targeting the Huaxia camp, and the Aurors didn't show up until the last moment, which made Zhang Xu very upset.

Zhang himself is upset, and he wants to make the person he is upset also unhappy.

Although the follow-up matter will be resolved by the government to communicate with the Ministry of Magic, Zhang Xu himself has a way to add obstacles to the Ministry of Magic and those wizards.

So after the appearance of the Dark Mark, he decided to muddy the waters, make the Ministry of Magic exhausted and finally work for nothing, and make the wizards who participated in the attack suffer more.

As for how this matter will end up, whether the Ministry of Magic will arrest Eiichiro Oda in a few years' time is not his concern.

After finishing his work in the kitchen, Zhang Xu picked up today's "Daily Prophet" in the dining room and read it.

His focus was on reporting written by Rita Skeeter.

Rita Skeeter can be said to be a "well-known" in the British magic circle, and her articles are almost exclusively against the Ministry of Magic.

Among the "plots" Zhang Xu knows, she often uses nonsense in her articles (such as claiming that Harry and Hermione had an affair), inducing hints (such as suggesting that Dumbledore and Harry had an affair), seeking to refute rumors (For example, after the "Dark Mark incident", seeking to refute the rumors and move the corpse out of the woods) and using information asymmetry to selectively release information (for example, Dumbledore wrote the book Black Dumbledore after his death) and other methods to achieve the purpose of attracting attention.

Zhang Xu read her report on last night's incident, which mainly focused on the Ministry of Magic's slow response to the failure, key criminals not being caught, black wizards getting away with it for many years, causing injuries to people in friendly countries, and the incident bringing shame to the country, etc.

From the point of view of Zhang Xu who has personally experienced the incident, some of the accusations in Rita Skeeter’s article are quite pertinent.

Last night, the Ministry of Magic did not make any effective response to the riot in a short period of time, allowing it to expand in scale, which shows how slow the Ministry of Magic's response is.

Except for the last three skull marks, the caster of the Dark Mark, which had the greatest influence on the British magic world, failed to catch it, and in the eyes of the masses it was incompetent.

Among the wizards who were arrested later were members of the former Death Eaters. This matter touched the pain points of the masses, and no one wanted the Death Eaters to make a comeback. The Ministry of Magic cast many "innocent" Death Eaters back then, which made them taste the bitter fruit now.

During the riots last night, many foreign wizards in the camp were injured, and several wizards from China and Russia, two countries that directly participated in the war, were also injured. The news also featured a row of Huaxia wizards lying unconscious on the ground, but Zhang Xu was sure that when work was over last night, Ye, who was lying on the second from the right in the photo, was still alive and kicking.

The emergence of such a serious incident in front of tens of thousands of foreign friends is enough to be regarded as a shame to the whole world.

If there is no last superfluous rumour-seeking rumor, this article by Rita Skeeter can be regarded as a masterpiece of pinpointing current abuses.

"It seems that I have the opportunity to teach her more in the future." Zhang Xu thought after reading the article.