The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Torquill Travers remained where he was, but the others, including Lucius Malfoy, followed.

The dim light in the basement shone on the faces of the evil wizards, making their expressions unpredictable. Everyone is making small calculations in their minds, and many people are muttering in their hearts: What if those treasures are really still in Bock's hands? It’s so embarrassing to say that I don’t want to redeem myself!

Bock led them to the right corner of the basement, where a portrait hung. If you do some research on oil paintings in the non-magical world, you can see that this portrait is imitating the oil painting "The Death of Marat" created in 1793 by Jacques-Louis David, the founder of the French neoclassical school of painting, except that The background wall was changed to a brick wall.

Burke took out his wand, counted the number of bricks on the brick wall, and tapped on the thirteenth brick in the seventh column. The portrait quietly turned away, revealing the dark secret room behind it.

"This is the secret room where I store your treasures," Bock bowed slightly to the wizards behind him, made an invitation gesture, and then took the initiative to walk in.

Several creditors looked at each other, speechless, and followed into the secret room behind the portrait.

The secret room was not large, only about a dozen square meters, and was densely packed with shelves. Once inside, it was so cramped that it was almost impossible to turn around.

There was no light source in the secret room, and since it was still in the basement, it was so dark that you couldn't see. However, Mr. Bock very considerately cast a lighting spell to provide vision for all customers. Not only did Mr. Bock use the lighting spell, but others also subconsciously took out their wands to provide light sources.

"Mr. Malfoy, this is your thing..." Burke's voice came from deep in the secret room. He took a box from the top of the shelf with some difficulty and handed it to Lucius.

"Ah, this, okay...that's great..." Lucius said "happy" on his face, and subconsciously reached out to take it. He didn't expect that Bock actually didn't lose his things.

This is a huge loss. Lucius felt a little regretful. He failed to notice that Mr. Burke had seemed somewhat absent-minded since entering the secret room. In fact, Bock had been counting the numbers in his head ever since the lighting operation.

After Lucius took the box, Bock suddenly yelled: "Don't touch that armrest!" Lucius' hands trembled in fright and he dropped the box to the ground. The box fell to the ground, the lid popped open and a pile of sand spilled out.

A wizard at the end of the team looked at Bock in confusion. His hand was resting on the armrest of a shelf.

Other wizards also subconsciously cast their gaze over.

At this moment, something happened that made them sweat: the door of the secret room slammed shut.

"!" A bad premonition flashed through everyone's mind, and the next moment the entire secret room was enveloped in fire. The interior of the secret room will turn into a sea of ​​fire, engulfing everything.

If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely die if you are trapped in such a secret room, but these wizards are different. They all know magic and are proficient in apparation. So before the sea of ​​fire swallowed them up, these pure-blood wizards burst out with colorful brilliance, followed by a series of explosions. They used apparation to escape from this desperate place.

In this secret room, Bock planted a very powerful triggering magic: as long as a person attempts to release lighting magic or light a candle in the secret room, the door to the secret room will close in one minute, and then a sea of ​​​​fire will cover the entire secret room. Burn everything to the ground.

If you want to enter the secret room safely, there are only two ways, either to enter in the dark, or to use one of Borgin-Bokri's treasures: the Eye of the Night Owl. This is a contact lens-like thing that can greatly enhance night vision after wearing it. Wearing this treasure, the light outside the secret room is enough to see everything clearly.

After Mr. Bock came in, he had been counting secretly. When he felt that the time was almost up, he yelled to distract Lucius and others, and at the same time made them mistakenly think that someone had triggered the mechanism of the secret room. When the fire broke out, he used phantom to escape from the secret room. As for the remaining people in the secret room, Bock didn't care whether they lived or died - it was best if they were all dead.

The purpose of Bock's yelling was to give others the illusion that they were not led to this desperate situation by Bock, and Bock had no intention of harming them. Bock arranged such a complicated operation just to make Lucius and the others think that Bock had been buried in the fire and stop looking for him.

After the storm has passed, he will come back and take out the hidden things. That’s right, Bock’s collection was not wiped out with the fire. This secret room covered with defensive magic is not Mr. Bock's treasure room, but a trap he deliberately left. The treasure room is beneath this chamber, a chamber within a chamber.

Who would have thought that there is a secret room within the secret room?

At this time, Bock was standing in a dusty room. He stood firm and calmly created a stream of water at the tip of his staff to extinguish the flames on the wizard's robe.

After dealing with these matters, Bock shaved off his beard, changed his clothes, and put on a pair of sunglasses. At this time, Bock was a completely different person. He fumbled a box out from under the bed, and then disapparated and disappeared to nowhere.

At the same time, Lucius Malfoy fell solidly to the floor of his house. The fire on his body spread quickly, turning him into a burning man.

"Dobby! Water!" Lucius roared in pain. The next moment, a house elf appeared beside him and doused the flames on his body.

Lucius stood up with anger on his face and kicked the house elf away, "Asshole, why are you lingering? Do you want to watch me burn to death!"

Dobby stood aside tremblingly and whispered: "Dobby doesn't dare, Dobby -"

"Shut up!" Lucius yelled. Dobby did not delay for even a second - because his contract did not allow it, but this did not prevent Lucius from venting his anger on Dobby.

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In the White Dolphin Prison, Borgin was gloating and imagining what happened to his old buddy. He seemed to be able to hear Bork's angry roars and groveling pleas. He had no sympathy for his partner's plight, because there was no doubt that Bork was a bad person, and Borgin had disliked him for a long time.

What Bo Jin dislikes about Bo Ke is not that he is a bad person - Bo Jin asks himself, he is not a good person either. What makes him unhappy is that Bo Ke's professional ability is really average in his eyes!

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Today we are going to tell the story of Eugenia Jenkins, the 29th Minister of Magic.

Eugenia Jenkins was a witch who served as Minister of Magic from 1968 to 1975.

She successfully dealt with the pureblood riots that occurred during the Squib rights marches in the late 1960s. However, when faced with Voldemort's first rise, she was unable to adequately meet the challenge and stepped down.