Chapter 969： Dumbledore's counterattack

Chapter 969 Dumbledore's Counterattack

Since Fudge became the Minister of Magic, he has never been so angry as he is now. It is not because the "Defense Guide" magazine predicts that he will be ousted by the masses next year, but because someone is trying to use the "Defense Guide". He was driven to a dead end.

Is Voldemort really back?

Fudge really doesn't want to discuss this issue with people, because the result must be that "Voldemort is back" is just a lie.

This is political correctness.

After throwing a tantrum at everyone outside, Fudge slammed the door of the minister's office.

He angrily threw the wrinkled "Defense Guide" on the ground. After stepping on it hard a few times, he couldn't get enough of it, so he picked up the magazine and tore it into pieces.

What does it mean that there will be a large-scale prison breakout in Azkaban, what does it mean that Cornelius Fudge will be ousted by the masses next year.

"Damn Dumbledore, damn, all damn!"

Fudge never imagined that Dumbledore would fight back like this.

He is very clear that if the news of "Voldemort is back" is true, then the magazine in front of him will completely corner him, especially as long as some of the so-called prophecies above come true, people will be very concerned about the news in the magazine. The content is convinced.

Will it come true?

Fudge didn't know, but he didn't want to gamble, because if he lost the bet, he would really be finished, and maybe he would be kicked out of power as predicted by the magazine.

And then, the notoriety fell.

All of this is Dumbledore's conspiracy!

A magazine run by Sirius Black?

Fudge wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense, if it wasn't for Dumbledore's remote control behind his back, Sirius Black would have the brains to do so?

Without Dumbledore's permission, how dare Sirius Black spread these things indiscriminately?

Definitely Dumbledore's conspiracy!

Just as Fudge was venting his anger, someone knocked on the office door. It was hard to believe that someone would be so ignorant to disturb the angry boss at this point in time.

"Minister, we have seized it..." Percy looked at Fudge, glanced at the fragments of the "Defense Guide" magazine on the ground, and continued to report to the other party: "...the magazine that published the "Defense Guide", but failed to find the small Sirius Black and Remus Lupine, according to the description of the surrounding shop, they have not appeared in the magazine for a long time, and the rent of that shop is about to expire, we think this is a premeditated action, I suggest that Sirius Black and Remus Lupine be fined, and even the Aurors can arrest them in Azkaban prison for a few months in the name of disturbing the public order, and punish them severely. A lot of Galleons."

"Only a few months?"

Fudge yelled at Percy, clearly dissatisfied with the outcome.

"Yes, at most a few months." Percy explained in a low voice: "Mr. Minister, they are first-time offenders, and they will not be sentenced to serious crimes by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic. The lightest possibility is to pay a fine. But , as long as they are fined and they commit another crime, they can be imprisoned in Azkaban in the name of repeated admonition, and then the entire wizarding world will be clean."

"Very well, you go to communicate with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic." Fudge finally agreed to Percy's proposal. Although he really wanted to throw Black and Lupine into Azkaban prison, Fudge was not overwhelmed by anger He knew very well that even going to court would only make him a laughing stock.

"I remember Remus Lupine was a werewolf!" Fudge said suddenly when Percy turned to leave.

"Yes, sir, Remus Lupine is indeed a werewolf, and he once served as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts." Percy replied respectfully.

"Send a message to the Daily Prophet and ask them to refer this to the werewolves, reminding them that Remus Lupine served at Hogwarts, and... Jean Dolores Umm Rich came to me."

"I'm going to do it."

Percy wrote down a few things that Fudge ordered, and left the minister's office in a hurry.

"Minister, are you looking for me?"

After a while, Umbridge's high-pitched voice sounded outside the office of the Minister of Magic.

"Have you read the magazine "Defense Guide"?" Fudge asked.

"I haven't seen it. However, I've heard some bad rumors." With a smirk on his face, Umbridge said following Fudge's train of thought, "I heard that this is Remus The magazine run by Lupin's werewolves, maybe we should arrest him, who knows if those werewolves are engaged in some illegal underground activities."

"Remus Lupine was a professor at Hogwarts." Fudge hinted.

"Oh, my God, that's not a good idea," said Umbridge, with exaggeration. "The parents would be very upset if they found out. No one wants their child to be with a werewolf. It's too dangerous. .”

"Dumbledore is completely irresponsible to the students. I also heard that he appointed someone with giant blood as the professor of protection of magical creatures. I really don't know what he is thinking." Fudge continued to hint.

Umbridge seemed to have guessed something, and said with a smile: "The current situation at Hogwarts is indeed disturbing."

"Dumbledore doesn't seem to have found a suitable candidate for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. I hope you go to Hogwarts to take up a post, and by the way, save Hogwarts' declining education level." Fudge said his purpose of finding Umbridge, He knew what kind of person Umbridge was, and he also knew that her reputation was not very good, but so what, as long as he could accomplish his tasks well, he was an excellent subordinate.

Recently, Fudge has found that there are not many people he can trust in the Ministry of Magic.

"Oh, of course no problem." Umbridge agreed with a smile, "However, Dumbledore may not agree."

"I'll tell him about it, and he'll agree." Fudge said confidently.

Actually, the Ministry of Magic wanted to install professors at Hogwarts a long time ago, but Dumbledore strongly rejected them all.

This time is a good opportunity, he has the confidence to make Dumbledore compromise.

"I won't let you down." Umbridge nodded and left. Of course she knew what Fudge wanted to do, and this was also a good opportunity for her.

Umbridge saw his opportunity to climb up.

She knew very well how to please Fudge, how she could climb up to the authority of the Ministry of Magic, and how to convince Fudge that she was one of the few people he could trust.

As long as she can gain Fudge's trust, she will not be far from ascending to a higher position in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Umbridge became the director of the Prohibition of Misuse of Magic Office before the age of 30, and having sat in this position for so many years, naturally he will not lack ability, means and vision.

She is also very clear that the Ministry of Magic has always wanted to have a foothold in Hogwarts.

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12 Grimmauld Place, Order of the Phoenix headquarters.

Sirius and Remus were sitting at the table discussing the news from the latest issue of the Daily Prophet.

Because of publishing the "Defense Guide", they are all in trouble and may face high fines.

"I knew it would be like this." Remus frowned and said, "Fudge must be mad, I don't know if this matter will cause Dumbledore trouble."

"What does this have to do with Professor Dumbledore?" Ginny asked puzzled.

"No matter what happens now, Fudge will think Dumbledore ordered it. Come on, Remus, do you think Fudge will stop smearing Dumbledore if we don't? No, he won't if If we don't do anything, that's a sign of cowardice and incompetence. We need to let everyone understand where they are, instead of burying their heads in the ground like Fudge, or they will die when the danger comes?" Sirius read The exaggerated report in the "Daily Prophet" didn't seem to be angry at all, but it looked like it was true.

"Maybe, we should change the method." Lupine frowned and suggested.

"Don't worry about Remus, this is just a trick of the Ministry of Magic, just a little intimidation." Sirius said lightly, not taking the contents of the "Daily Prophet" seriously at all.

"Thousands of Galleons, are you sure there is no mistake here, or is the Ministry of Magic completely crazy?"

Shocked by the news above about the suspension of the Defense Guide and the hefty fines that Sirius and Lupine would face, Ron said to Sirius in disbelief: "As far as I know, fifty Galleons Already a high fine.”

"This is just writing or will face, that is to say, this so-called fine of thousands of galleons is just the amount of fine guessed by the Daily Prophet." Hermione took the newspaper, read it carefully, and corrected Ron's wrong statement .

"Someone once told me that the Ministry of Magic is very lenient to first-time offenders who are not very serious, at least they will not give too severe punishment." Sirius smiled and explained to everyone, "That is to say, even if we are caught now, at least It's fined fifty Galleons at most, it doesn't matter, I don't need this amount of money for Remus, if you are really caught and fined one day, I can help you pay the fine first."

"Not the question."

"No, that's the problem, because we're not breaking the law at all, Fudge is out to get us in trouble, he's just trying to use his power to bring us down, because he's scared, and our magazines can send him to hell." After noticing everyone Looking over, Sirius shrugged and said, "At least he can be allowed to step down with a bad reputation, and then he will never even think about raising his head again in his life."

"Will it be too harsh." Hermione frowned.

"Come on, Hermione, do you have to be imprisoned in Azkaban to wake up?" Sirius sneered, "Be kind and don't mistake someone, otherwise you may kill others."

"Sirius." Remus glared at Sirius disapprovingly.

"I just want her to suffer less in the future. The adult world is cruel, especially if there is no one to protect her."

Hermione remembered that Albert had said something similar, and thought he was too naive.

Ignoring other people's stares, Sirius continued, "This is an unequal political struggle, and political struggles are always life-and-death, extremely bloody, and you can't have any illusions. If you pity the enemy, you are digging for yourself. grave."

"That's right, that's probably the case, so Hermione, you guys are so naive." Fred and George came out of nowhere, "And Sirius said it's not equal, it's because even if Fudge loses, it won't be too naive." Too bad, Dumbledore will let Fudge go, but Fudge will not, he will only become more and more ruthless, and then Dumbledore will be gradually stripped of most of his titles, even including the headmaster."

Whether it was Hermione, Ron or Ginny were stunned by these words.

"Albert's prophecy?" Lupine asked tentatively.

"Yes." George comforted, "Also, the Ministry of Magic is not charged with this crime. They probably made it up for you recently, otherwise Rita Skeeter would have been sent to Azkaban Prison long ago. .”

"How do you know?" Ron couldn't help asking.

"I have been with Albert for a long time, and I am easily influenced by him." Fred and George certainly would not say that they still keep in touch with Albert.

"By the way, when will the radio station be fixed."

"A radio station?"

Ron, Hermione, and Ginny looked at each other, not understanding what they were trying to do.

"I'm still working on it, I've never done that before." Sirius glanced at his old friend and said, "You also come to help, this is very important, and it's one of the channels for us to speak out."

"Is the time set?" Fred asked again.

"Are you going to speak out through the radio?" Arthur helped Mrs. Weasley bring over the soup, and heard them discussing the wizarding radio.

“Defense Guide is banned, we need new outlets.”

"You shouldn't have published that prophecy on it. Fudge was going crazy, and he even had your magazine shut down." Arthur felt that stimulating Fudge like this would do no good to everyone.

"It doesn't matter. The rent is due anyway, and there is nothing important inside. We have already moved the printing press away." Sirius seemed to know the result a long time ago, and he raised the corners of his mouth happily and said, "Fudge must He will not allow magazines to be published, but the more he prohibits them, the more curious they will be. If the contents of the "Defense Guide" are all false, why does Fudge ban it? You must know that people who have spoken badly about Fudge or the Ministry of Magic before There are quite a few articles, and I have never seen Fudge do this before."

Everyone fell silent again.

"The "Defense Guide" will be released privately in the future. With the radio broadcast, we will definitely be able to make our voice known to the outside world, instead of letting Fudge monopolize this aspect and continue to deceive everyone." Sirius introduced his next plan to them, " Believe me, no one wants to be a rat crossing the street. Even if you can't win more allies, you must let the majority remain neutral, or lean to our side, especially after certain things happen, they are definitely more willing to get something useful news, not the **** in the Daily Prophet."

"So what are we talking about on the radio?" Lupine asked, frowning, apparently temporarily convinced by Sirius. Now both Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix need more support, they cannot face the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters alone, otherwise it will be a disaster.

"You can talk about the Triwizard Tournament and the resurrection of Voldemort, and some of Fudge's policies, such as sending the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to Hogwarts, or the reason why Barty Crouch was silenced, or how Harry became of the fourth warrior."

"Need to change the voice," George reminded.

"Why?"

"Of course it is to avoid trouble. Although we are not afraid of trouble, we should at least avoid it as much as possible." Fred took out two candies from his pocket and said, "However, the development of voice-changing candies has not been smooth, do you want to try it? .”

"Voice-changing sugar?"

Ron looked suspiciously at the candy in Fred's hand.

"Eating it will make the voice hoarse, and the other one will make the voice very sharp." George introduced to the two, "The aftereffect is that it takes time to recover, maybe a day, or longer, we can't find it for the time being. The solution may be to ask Albert for help after returning to school."

"You are well prepared." Arthur looked at his son, then at Sirius and Lupine, thinking that there might be something he didn't know.

"By the way, what's the name of the platform, Wizard Lookout Station?"

"Ten minutes for a heartbeat?" Sirius said.

"Why is it called a heartbeat for ten minutes?" Ron asked puzzled, and even Lupine was a little confused, as Sirius hadn't told him about many things in advance.

"Because we only talk for ten minutes, how come it is so mysterious, and we need to set a password to prevent others from hearing the news on the radio."

"What if no one listens?" Arthur frowned and said, don't you want more people to hear this broadcast?

"There will always be people listening, you can take it as gossip news, everyone likes to listen to gossip, right? And mysterious gossip news can arouse everyone's interest even more." Sirius is not worried at all that he has no audience, "Jins Lai and you both work in the Ministry of Magic, and we can also provide some interesting news, such as Fudge getting angry again today, explain some actions of the Ministry of Magic, and give you an analysis of the current situation. Believe me, some things will happen soon It will come true. When these truths come true, people will believe more and more in the content of our broadcast. When the dementor escapes from prison, the whole wizarding world will be in chaos. I think all wizards in the British wizarding world will be willing to turn on the broadcast Listen to the news on our radio."

"And the Ministry of Magic can't come here and ask us to turn off the broadcast, because they can't find our specific location at all."

Fred and George looked at each other, and they heard the shadow of someone from Sirius' words.

"Have you got in touch with Albert?" Hermione couldn't help asking. Since the last time she heard that a Death Eater was looking for Albert, Hermione was a little worried about Albert's safety.

"No, he should be hiding." Sirius comforted: "That guy is better at protecting himself than anyone else. I think he is probably hiding in a house protected by the Fidelity Curse. It is safe, even Dumbledore I couldn't find where he was hiding."

"Isn't Dumbledore the Secret Keeper of the Fidelity Curse?" Everyone was a little surprised. The only weakness of the Fidelity Curse is the Secret Keeper, and Dumbledore is undoubtedly the best candidate for the Secret Keeper.

"No, no one knows who it is. According to Dumbledore, the specific location cannot be found, and it is safer than not knowing who the secret keeper is."

"Could he not go to Hogwarts?" Ron raised his eyebrows and said, "Although I don't think it doesn't matter whether he goes or not."

"He will go to school. Albert said that this year's Hogwarts will be very interesting." Fred blinked and said: "It may have something to do with the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor sent by the Ministry of Magic."

"Fudge plans to send someone to Hogwarts?" Arthur looked at his son in surprise. He hadn't heard the news in the Ministry of Magic yet, so why did they look like they knew about it a long time ago. "

"Of course, it's Albert after all, you know it's weird?" Fred tilted his head and said, "It is said that he will go to a nuisance."

"I think she is quite unlucky." George said meaningfully, "Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is not a good position, just look at the previous ones. Moody was imprisoned for a school year, and Remus almost entered Ards Caban, Lockhart became a fool, Quirrell died, Smith disappeared inexplicably, and only Professor Bard escaped by chance, and he resigned early and ran away. What do you think will happen to the unlucky Ministry of Magic? Woolen cloth?"

(end of this chapter)