Study Days at Hogwarts

"Rufus, what's going on?"

Fudge put today's "Daily Prophet" in front of the director of the Auror Office with an expressionless face, feeling unspeakably depressed and aggrieved.

He felt very innocent, as if all the faults were placed on him, just because he was the Minister of Magic?

This is unfair.

Scrimgeour glanced at the headlines of the Daily Prophet, then looked up at Fudge, who was expressionless, and said, "Robards is still undergoing Auror training. He is young and energetic, and cannot handle things very well. It was so easy to adapt, which led to such misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding? It's useless for you to tell me about a misunderstanding." Fudge took a deep breath, "Everyone has a bad feeling about the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic. Do you know? This morning, I found that the mailbox at home was full of protest letters. There are at least fifty letters. Can you understand my mood at that time? Now, can you explain to me why Aurors who are still in training are sent out to perform tasks."

"Aurors are searching for Black's whereabouts all the time." Scrimgeour reminded, "We are seriously short of manpower. The Ministry of Magic has not had qualified Aurors for several years. The best way is to let those who are still there The trained Aurors participate in patrol work that is not very important, and let experienced members take them, which can give them a certain amount of exercise and make up for the shortage of manpower."

Fudge was silent.

There is indeed a similar tradition.

"Many people have asked us to remove the dementors from Hogwarts. Many villagers in Hogsmeade protested to me, thinking that the dementors were disturbing their normal lives. As for Dumbledore, he never liked it. Dementors. Honestly, I don't like them either."

"No one ever liked dealing with those guys," Scrimgeour said.

"Okay, now I would like to hear your advice on whether we need to return the Dementors to Azkaban Prison. They have been causing too much trouble recently."

"All kinds of evidence show that Black is hiding around Hogwarts and watching him, and Dementors are the best way to find him out." Scrimgeour obviously did not agree with letting the Dementors return to Azkaban Prison, "I think Black's threat is much greater than the trouble caused by Dementors, we'd better catch him as soon as possible, otherwise God knows what Black will do."

"If they continue to stay near Hogwarts, we'd better not let them cause trouble." Fudge actually didn't want to remove the dementors. Dementors were obviously more suitable than Aurors for hunting down the vicious Black.

However, Fudge really didn't want to take the blame anymore, lest it be his fault every time something happened, so this time he roped in someone to take the blame.

"The dementors are just hungry. The Ministry of Magic cannot provide them with too many human victims, and the hungry dementors cannot stand the temptation of food." Scrimgeour had nothing to do about this matter, because he could not Providing human sacrifices to Dementors without authorization requires the signature and approval of the Minister of Magic.

"Didn't we already recruit about two hundred people?"

Fudge was not satisfied with this answer. This number of human victims was enough.

"The dementors have completely sucked away the happiness of those people." Scrimgeour was also helpless about this: "I think it is best to provide another batch of human victims and then negotiate with the dementors."

This difficult job was handed over to the Minister of Magic, and Scrimgeour was only responsible for arresting Black.

While Fudge was working on solving the Dementor problem, Rita Skeeter, who was making waves at the Daily Prophet, was also working on her article.

The huge sales of the "Daily Prophet" gave Rita Skeeter a hint of the trend, and a letter from someone gave her some inspiration.

Rita Skeeter plans to write a story about Dementors.

She believes that those dark creatures that have "lost control" several times will definitely become a good gimmick to arouse the vigilance and attention of students and parents, and the next issue of the "Daily Prophet" will undoubtedly be a big seller.

Facts have proved that Rita Skeeter is indeed very talented in this area. She is very smart and knows what everyone wants to read. She also knows how to cater to everyone's tastes and sell newspapers.

So Rita Skeeter's report on the Dementors was a huge success.

Wizarding families with children studying at Hogwarts began to pay attention to the issue of dementors after reading Rita Skeeter's report.

Although most wizards have never been up close to those evil dark creatures and cannot understand the fear they bring to people, now their chance has come.

As long as you go to the Three Broomsticks Bar or the Hog's Head Bar in Hogsmeade for a drink, you will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with Dementors.

Anyone who has actually come into contact with a dementor will understand what Rita Skeeter wrote in the newspaper: When a dementor comes close, all the good feelings, all the happy memories will be sucked out of you. All you have left in your mind is the worst memory of your life.

For a time, more wizards went to Hogsmeade to drink. When people truly felt the horror of dementors, they became more determined to resist Fudge's ridiculous approach.

After Fudge saw the report there, he was very angry and angrily tore the newspaper into pieces.

The day after that report, many wizards who had personally experienced the evil of Dementors wrote to Fudge, asking him to remove the Dementors from around Hogwarts to prevent those monsters from getting out of control again and causing irreparable damage. Bad consequences.

Even though Fudge repeatedly claimed that Black was hiding around Hogwarts and that the Dementors were allowed to patrol there purely for the safety of the villagers of Hogsmeade and the students of Hogwarts, he also repeatedly emphasized that the Ministry of Magic had strengthened The management of Dementors will not allow previous cases to happen again, but many people still question Fudge's decision.

Originally, Fudge wanted to pass the blame to Scrimgeour. It was the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic who dealt with the dementors. Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office, should be responsible for this matter.

However, the attempt to shift the blame failed after all. It seemed that everyone was looking for Fudge, and if something went wrong, it would be Fudge's fault.

If Albert knew about this, he would definitely give Fudge the title of "King of the Pot".

There are not many wizards in the British wizarding community who know who the Director of the Auror Office is, but basically everyone knows that their Minister of Magic is named Cornelius Fudge. Now that there is a big problem in the Ministry of Magic, it must be the Minister of Magic's responsibility. .

In fact, they were not wrong. It was indeed Fudge's order to let the dementors stationed in Hogsmeade. He knew that Black's target was Potter, so he naturally needed to protect the safety of the savior, and by the way, he could catch Black. At the first moment, he asked the Dementor to give him a kiss to complete the agreement with Malfoy.

However, Fudge never thought that this matter would cause him so much trouble.