Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

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Why is this so? I was standing on the awards podium an hour ago, preparing to give my acceptance speech...

Now, he was sitting by a bonfire in an unknown forest somewhere, smoking, in front of two naughty children who had not yet recovered.

At this moment, the sound of "Didi Didi~Didi Didi~Didi Didi~Didi Didi~" sounded at Zhang Xu's feet again.

Zhang Xu took a deep breath with the cigarette in his left hand, then picked up the Nokia phone at his feet with his right hand and pressed the answer button.

In the expectant eyes of the two naughty children across the bonfire, Zhang Xu answered the other person's words with "Hmm... hmm..." while listening to Dobby's voice on the phone.

After a long time, Zhang Xu put down his phone.

"Professor Scarlet has brought Ginny back to Hogwarts." Zhang Xu said to Harry Potter sitting across from the campfire.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Ginny was safe.

Zhang Xu dug out three balls of mud wrapped in beggar's chicken from the fire, kept one for himself, and gave the other two to Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy on the other side of the bonfire, and then Said: "Let's eat something first. When we are full, we will find a way to go back to Hogwarts."

Harry and Malfoy took the mud, smashed the mud shell outside, and started eating tonight's late dinner.

Zhang Xu took out three bottles of Feizhai Happy Water from the treasure bag, froze them with magic and gave them to Harry and the others to prevent them from choking to death in this unknown forest.

Two hours ago, in the principal's office, Dumbledore took Zhang Xu, Scarlet, Harry, Ginny and Malfoy to the Ministry of Magic through the fireplace in the office.

In the magnificently decorated auditorium of the Ministry of Magic, Scrimgeour first gave a leadership speech. Scrimgeour emphasized in his speech that although the current situation is not good, it is only temporary. The Ministry of Magic has the confidence and ability to unite all forces that can be united to declare war on the reactionary forces headed by the mysterious man and give everyone peace. Peaceful world!

Next was the awarding ceremony of the Third Class Order of Merlin.

Several Hogwarts graduates this year who performed outstandingly in the train robbery, such as the Weasley twins, walked onto the podium together with Draco Malfoy, who had somehow managed to make up the count. .

Judging from the Ministry of Magic's introduction, Xiao Ma held a Death Eater alone in the carriage from the beginning until the end, and it seemed that he was qualified to take advantage of the Ministry of Magic's opportunity to win the lowest medal.

As for the inside story, not many people knew about it, and Zhang Xu didn't bother to expose it.

Then it was Percy Weasley and Harry Potter who received the Order of Merlin, Second Class.

Percy was awarded the medal for organizing a student revolt on the train and for killing Antonin Dolokhov with his own hands in the subsequent battle.

Harry stood his ground in the past year and called on the society for the return of the mysterious man despite the suppression of the Ministry of Magic. In order to make up for the mistakes of the former minister and encourage his persistence during the year, the Ministry of Magic awarded him a second-class medal.

In Zhang Xu's opinion, this awarding of honors is very particular.

The third-class medal basically encourages those who have worked hard.

And if you put Malfoy in there, there will be more doorways behind it.

First of all, Pony is the only current student in the third-class Order, and Scrimgeour's differences with Dumbledore on certain issues at Hogwarts are well known. This fact is enough to write thousands of books. Word analysis report.

Secondly, it is impossible for Scrimgeour not to know Lao Ma’s position. It's just that if he makes such a fuss, he doesn't know if it will plant the root of distrust in Lao Ma in Voldemort's heart.

As for the other students whose families were Death Eaters, their performance in this incident was not outstanding, so they didn't have much to do tonight.

The purpose of the second-class medal is different.

Percy has obviously been cultivated by Scrimgeour, and Scrimgeour is probably happy to use him as the representative of the Ministry of Magic in this incident.

As for Harry, a medal was given to him as hush money. The previous suppression of him was over. These were all the fault of Fudge, who had already stepped down. There would be no need to talk about this matter in the future.

Zhang Xu himself was carried in a sedan chair.

In the past few years, there have been many people who have made a fortune by relying on Zhang Xu as a matchmaker, and everyone has seen the fate of those who offended Zhang Xu. The most important thing is that in two years, Zhang Xu will have nothing to do with the British magic world. , no matter how high the honor is given to him now, are you still afraid that he will run for Minister of Magic?

So Zhang Xu stood on the awards podium, and the Minister of Magic Scrimgeour placed the first-class Order of Merlin on his head.

Just when Zhang Xu, who was wearing the medal, walked to the podium and was about to deliver his acceptance speech, the podium exploded.

Until now, Zhang Xu still hadn't figured out that this was just a semi-enclosed structure, and he could clearly see how the podium with nothing inside exploded.

Fortunately, Zhang Xu felt something and stopped at the last moment. In addition, he did not turn off a lot of automatic defense props on his body. He was only hit by the shock wave towards the other winners who were serving as background boards.

Next, the whole auditorium was in chaos.

From the candles floating in the air to the flowers placed around them, they all turned into bombs, and the sound of explosions was as constant as China at 10 o'clock on the new year.

After reacting, Zhang Xu immediately rushed to Harry's side, patted his head twice to wake him up, and told him to return to Hogwarts through the portkey insole first.

As a result, there was another "bang", and Harry's feet exploded. His whole body was knocked up by the shock wave, and then hit Zhang Xu's arms beside him, and the two of them rolled into a ball.

At this time, Zhang Xu, who realized that something was wrong, immediately grabbed Harry who fell into his arms, activated the key on his body to return to the embassy safe house, and ran away.

What Zhang Xu didn't expect was that the magic that interfered with Harry's Portkey insole also interfered with the Portkey on his body. Although they left the Ministry of Magic, they didn't know where they fell.

What Zhang Xu didn't expect was that when he was rolled by Harry just now, he knocked down Malfoy, who was looking confused not far away, and was still on his feet. Just now, Zhang Xu was in a hurry to run away and didn't pay attention. As a result, he brought Malfoy with him, who subconsciously wanted to push him away.

Faced with such a huge change, Zhang Xu himself couldn't react for a while. After making sure that there was no danger around him, he asked Malfoy to collect some firewood from the surrounding area, then sat on the ground and took out a bag of Liu Sanjie, and smoked one to calm down the shock.