Study Days at Hogwarts

Chapter 1766 A War Without Winners (Two Hundred and Sixteen)

Harry, who had just walked into the Auror's office and had not had time to catch his breath, was called by his colleagues to a meeting in Gadwin Robards' office. The reason was naturally because of the meeting with the goblins this morning.

In fact, even if Gadwin Robards did not specifically explain it, everyone knew what was going on.

The Ministry of Magic did not trust goblins from the beginning. It sent Royden Pork, a representative of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, to Chipping Cromwell (a small town in England) to hold this meeting and negotiation with the goblins. It was more to show the British wizarding world the Ministry's sincerity in maintaining peace and let everyone know that the Ministry of Magic loves peace and is eager to quell the chaotic disputes between goblins and wizards.

Yes, yes, that's right, it's so hypocritical.

Even if the Ministry of Magic never intended to end the dispute with the goblins easily, it still couldn't act too tough on the surface, as doing so would only push potential allies to the opposite side of itself.

Who made Kingsley want to do something "shocking" afterwards? So he couldn't be too tough from the beginning, and he couldn't let people think that the Ministry of Magic was too greedy.

Both Kingsley and the Ministry of Magic need to take care of their own face.

The best choice is to make people feel that the Ministry of Magic was forced to take action against the goblins. As for what Kingsley wants to achieve, he can reach an agreement privately after the goblins are completely subdued.

Even if many people think it's hypocritical to do so, at least on the surface everyone can get by.

This is very important, especially for a government agency like the Ministry of Magic!

"Harry, you are responsible for leading the team this time, is it okay?"

After Gadwin Robards briefly talked about this matter, he suddenly turned to look at Harry and said something that most Aurors were not surprised.

Although Harry is the youngest among many Aurors, no Auror dares to underestimate Harry's execution ability.

Tasks again and again have established Harry's current status.

In fact, many Aurors can see that Gadwin Robards is intentionally training Harry, and has even decided to let him take over the position of the head of his Auror Office.

No one is dissatisfied, because there is indeed no one more suitable for this position than Harry, and the young savior currently lacks qualifications and experience, but everyone believes that it will take Harry a few years to accumulate enough, and then the British Ministry of Magic will have the youngest head of the Auror Office in history.

At least Harry can actually guess some of Kingsley and Robards's little thoughts. After all, it is the "savior" who leads the team personally, which is undoubtedly to reveal to the outside world that the Ministry of Magic has received Potter's support, or that what they are doing is a "just act."

He did not deny the "good intentions" of the Ministry of Magic. It was not a "private promise" by Kingsley and Gadwin Robards, but he actually didn't think about it. He just rigidly followed the orders of the Ministry of Magic to do things and accumulated Auror experience by the way. That's all.

But it is undeniable that the heavy tasks did make Harry grow up quickly. Whether in terms of experience or other aspects, he is now a competent Auror who can lead a team to go out on missions.

So when the director of the Auror Office said that they were sent to avoid unnecessary accidents during the negotiations, Harry realized that there was a high probability of accidents in this negotiation.

When Gadwin Robards asked Harry, he casually mentioned the words he had thought of last night. Clear ideas and clear goals were also one of Harry's means to convince other Aurors around him.

After listening to Harry's ideas, Robards was completely relieved to leave the matter to Harry.

In addition to Dawlish, who needed to accompany Royden Poker as a bodyguard, the other two teams must rush to Chipping Cromwell in advance to check the situation, understand the environment around the village, and prepare a preparatory plan in advance for conflicts.

As for finding a way to completely curb possible conflicts?

Let alone that it is impossible, even if it is possible, Harry will not do such a thankless task, because the goblins have negotiated with wizards so many times, but none of them succeeded, so this time is no exception, and what Harry needs to do is to control the impact of the matter within a controllable range after the negotiation breaks down.

In order to make this meeting and negotiation go smoothly, Royden Poker naturally did not know the arrangement of the Auror. He only knew that the Ministry of Magic sent an Auror to protect his safety. Due to the unfriendly negotiations in the previous few times, Royden did not think there was any problem.

The situation of the goblins is similar.

So this negotiation between wizards and goblins did not unexpectedly encounter an accident. After half an hour of "friendly" exchanges, the goblins whose negotiations broke down did not take the initiative, or the goblins who came to negotiate did not take action.

Because just after the negotiation between wizards and goblins broke down, a group of goblins who came out of nowhere, holding wands, launched a sneak attack on Royden Poker and his group.

God knows where these goblins got the wands illegally from, and they used the malicious Transfiguration Spell to turn poor Royden Pork into a Flobberworm, and almost pulled him over and stepped on him. Fortunately, Dawlish was also a battle-hardened Auror. After being attacked by the goblins, he reacted immediately to protect Royden Pork, thus preventing him from dying tragically under the goblins' feet.

But Delis himself suffered a disaster. Several goblins holding wands attacked him. The maliciously transformed Mr. Auror was almost crushed to death by the goblins like a bug.

Fortunately, Delis's struggle had bought Harry enough time to react.

Harry and his group appeared in time to stop the goblins' brutal atrocities, and a melee broke out between the two sides.

Harry's side had the advantage in numbers and sneak attacks, and quickly suppressed this group of goblins from the Goblin Brotherhood. Moreover, the area they were negotiating in had been used by Aurors to expel Muggles, and There was no large-scale chaos caused by the melee.

The goblins obviously realized that the situation was not good for them, so they began to create chaos and seek an escape. The surrounding trash cans and mailboxes were turned into wildebeests, which ran rampant in the village. There were violent explosions in sheds and some bushes, completely triggering the censorship. The residents of Pink Crowley are concerned.

Amidst a series of curses, Harry had to detach a team to clean up the mess and have the goblins who were unable to escape in time be escorted back to the Ministry of Magic.

It's a pity that some goblins took advantage of the chaos and escaped. Apart from the few goblins who were knocked down, only the few goblins left to negotiate with them had expressions on their faces that said this matter had nothing to do with me. .

Of course, everyone knows very well whether this incident has anything to do with them. Anyway, because of this attack, the relationship between goblins and wizards has completely dropped to an all-time low.