Chapter 717 Begins with a snake and ends with a snake
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 717 Begins with a snake and ends with a snake
Time flies, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.
Before you know it, the new year has entered.
February [-] was extremely cold, and the sound of the wind swept back and forth between the empty London streets, blowing up the dust and fine rubbish on the ruins and construction sites.
Some plastic fragments and garbage bags that have not been cleaned up are rolled up into the sky, and the snowflakes that are falling down are flying all over the sky together.
After more than half a year of reconstruction and renovation, London, which nominally experienced the most severe earthquake in the history of the world, has begun to gradually restore some normal urban functions.
(This is what it says on the surface:
A brave white young Ph.D. from the London Research Institute and his colored female assistant broke through the obstacles of the British government bureaucrats, and handed an earthquake prediction report to the British Prime Minister attending a certain party.
And the wise and decisive Prime Minister immediately evacuated the entire city of London. Half an hour after the evacuation, an unprecedented earthquake disaster occurred in London...)
This disaster known as the 'Night of Miracles' in the Muggle world, because of the proper handling measures, only caused about ten deaths, five to sixty serious injuries of varying degrees, and hundreds of minor injuries.
After nearly destroying the buildings of the entire city, only a few casualties could be called a miracle of miracles.
This also caused the support rate of the Muggle Prime Minister of England, who was about to step down, to soar in a short period of time, and within two or three days, he was able to secure his position as Prime Minister again.
Of course, the Muggle politicians from all over the world have already understood the cause and effect of this incident.
Only a few people, such as the core decision-makers of various countries, were not affected by the magic ceremony. They clearly remembered the strange events in London that lasted for half a month, and the last night... the entire city was 'completely lost'.
This kind of magic, which is enough to modify the public perception of the entire world, is also one of the important reasons for them to calm down and start negotiating with the wizards from the Ministry of Magic of their own country.
However, these things actually have little to do with the vast majority of Muggle civilians, or even ordinary wizards.
Such political meetings are very cumbersome and secretive.
After more than half a year of overt and covert contests between the Muggle governments of various countries and their own Ministry of Magic... the distribution of interests between the two worlds, each country, and each wizarding group finally reached a certain balance.
(It cannot be unbalanced. The key is that some small and strange phenomena have begun to occur frequently in various parts of the world at this time, and there must continue to be a unified organization to suppress the spread of such things.)
Thus, just as discussed in that train, the International Association of Magic (IMA) was established.
This is basically under the full control of Muggles to study magic, magic.
Among them, Emily Albert was selected to become the chief researcher of this institute because she used [Curse of Echo Blue] to extract the 'X mysterious special factor'...
To be honest, when the magic governments of various countries summoned their own scientists to say that they wanted to study magic, and indeed showed the world to everyone, almost all scientific researchers suffered a heavy blow to their sanity.
That's why Emily Albert was elected as the chief researcher of this institute at this time.
Of course, her election to this important position has something to do with her being the sister of MacGuffin Albert.
Since that night, the name of MacGuffin Albert... has been almost completely displayed in the documents of various top power organizations in the world. Whether it is the Muggle government or the leaders of the Ministry of Magic of various countries, everyone knows the meaning of this name.
'The resurrection of thousands of people', 'modification of the world's public perception', 'establishment of a new generation order'... these incredible things, he actually did all of them.
From the perspective of those who know the truth, this underage wizard is far more terrifying than Voldemort and Grindelwald back then.
Some wizards even directly called him the god of the new generation.
Of course, not everyone knows what McGuffin has done... No, even to a certain extent, the traces of McGuffin Albert's existence in the world have been erased.
Even the Albert family forgot that they had such a young son, and only Emily Albert in their family remembered that she had such a younger brother.
This is what McGuffin does himself.
Only by completely forgetting can it be guaranteed that the operation of this [Universal Train] will not be disturbed to some extent.
And to a certain extent, it can better guarantee the safety of the family members of this family.
Today, apart from the thousands of wizards and Muggles who survived that night in London, as well as those in power in various countries, few people in this world know that there was such a person as McGuffin.
(These wizards and Muggles have not been erased because they performed the magic ritual that modified the world's cognition.)
(This magical ritual needs many [witnesses] to maintain its efficacy. As long as most people who know the 'truth' remain silent, just like the secret of DeLS Malfoy, the truth of the night of the cataclysm in London... will also be covered up.)
(Of course, if someone intentionally wants to leak this information in front of the public and reveal the so-called truth. In the case that most people did not tell what happened that night, the revealed information will be automatically erased by the magic ritual that has been activated, and the information about the truth of that night in this person's head will also be forgotten.)
(However, for most people who know the truth, the current name of MacGuffin, and what happened that night, has almost become a taboo... After more than half a year of fermentation, some people put the title of "God on Earth" on MacGuffin, but more wizards just refer to McGuffin with "that person" and "that event" and the truth about the disasters that happened in London that day...)
But now, in the newly built semi-finished King's Cross Station, there are some people who are not shy about discussing the MacGuffin in whispers.
…………
Ginny Weasley, whose red hair was like a lush flame, looked worried. She stared at Harry and asked, "How is Ron? Are the bones growing? Has he regained his sanity?"
Ginny, who was one year younger than Harry, asked about her brother's condition.
(Because the entire [St. Mungo's Magical Hospital] was completely destroyed, and Ron's state of losing all his bones was too difficult, after Pomfrey and several therapists finally made a diagnosis, they decided to transfer him and Sirius to Brazil and Egypt respectively... using local unique magic for healing and recovery)
"It's okay! That guy is probably insanely happy in Castello Busche, Brazil, and has forgotten your existence! He is now bewitched by those fiery banshees... If one day he is directly transformed into a vampire succubus? I wouldn't be surprised!" Hermione gritted her teeth, angrily cursing Ron who was not there.
Harry answered Ginny's question with a wry smile, "It's okay, Ron will be taken to Hogwarts in a few days. He is currently observing the toughness of the newly grown bones and the degree of fusion with the magic power in his body..."
"It won't be long before he comes back."
"It would be even better if Sirius could also recover..." Speaking of Ron, Harry sighed heavily again, and he thought of his godfather's recent gloomy situation again.
Compared to Ron, although Sirius has been lifted from the restrictions of the spell, for some reason, he still hasn't woken up until now.
At this time, some kind of rattling sound came from behind a few people.
It was two large cages colliding with each other on the luggage cart, and the owl inside was dissatisfied with this and let out a piercing screech.
The screams of those two guys obviously aroused some emotion in Hedwig in the cage at Harry's feet. She lightly pecked at the railing of the bird cage with her beak...to attract everyone's attention.
Then, it stood on the spot with one foot, neatly arranging the feathers on its wings with its mouth and claws... It seemed like this, compared with those young and inexperienced companions... it seemed to be different.
Hedwig's performance made Hermione giggle, and it seemed that most of her nameless anger had subsided.
"Harry!" "Hermione!!"
"And Ginny... our youngest sister!"
Behind the luggage cart, the voices of George and Fred sounded, and the twins came out from behind the luggage cart with a smile on their faces.
They looked at Ginny and asked, "Where's Mom? Isn't she looking for us all the time? Why is she missing now?"
"She went to find Dad, and Percy... It is said that the two of them, as well as many staff from the Ministry of Magic, were sent to this station to help maintain order and keep wizards from conflicting with Muggles..." Ginny said, "It should be over there..."
She raised her arm and pointed to the other side of the station.
It was a barren place over there, still in a semi-outdoor state, with many scaffolding erected, a little farther away... Cubic piles of soil and gravel, steel and wood stacked on top of each other...Many personnel from various countries in military uniforms, driving Muggle construction machinery, making noisy noises, quickly built the new railway station.
These Muggles are not strange at all... In the not fully built train station, many adults and children in robes suddenly appeared.
Amidst the noise, several people looked at the construction site in silence. No one spoke. Even Hermione was a little uncomfortable with the unfamiliar Muggles and soldiers, coming and going back and forth around her, let alone other people...
The snow started to fall bigger and bigger, cucu- gotta fall from the sky.
Covering the hair of many people, a thin layer of ice balls formed in a short period of time.
Many wizards were concerned about Muggles appearing next to them, so they didn't take out their wands to thaw out for warmth. Instead, they patted the icicle on their heads, put the hood on their robes on their heads, and stared curiously at the hot construction site.
Of course, not everyone is so tolerant of Muggles being in an open space with them.
"Look who that is!" George whispered suddenly.
Several people followed his gaze and turned their heads to a certain crowd 50 meters away.
Three distinctive figures were standing in the crowd, staring at the Muggles on the nearby construction site with some malicious eyes.
Lucius Malfoy stands with his wife and daughter LS Malfoy.
All three were wearing a gorgeous black gold-edged gown with a neckline tightly around their necks... It looked like they were strangling people.
Although the dress is still the same as before, it is very delicate and noble...
But even Harry could see the unconcealed anxiety and exhaustion of the Malfoy family's pale faces.
The Malfoy family found that Harry, Hermione, Ginny and the twins were looking at them, and they didn't come over to mock and provoke them like before. They just stared at them indifferently, nodded coldly, and led a lot of pure-blood wizards towards another group of people.
"The lives of these pure-blood wizards...the past six months have been difficult, and the Malfoy family no longer has the same influence as before..." George said that he knew the news in a serious manner.
"Although in the end Lucius Malfoy betrayed Voldemort, switched sides, and had a certain degree of credit for 'that incident'... But many people still don't want to let their family go...After all, Voldemort has really been killed, and people are no longer afraid of Death Eaters."
Fred added, "How did I hear that Lucius seems to be contacting pure-blood wizarding families in Germany and France, trying to establish a pure-blood wizarding organization..."
"Hydra!?" Hermione tried.
"Yes, that's the name!" Fred said with a slap in the face.
Hearing the name, Harry somehow felt that the name was inexplicably absurd.
Then, he and the twins eagerly discussed the rumors about this organization.
Compared to Harry and the twins' playfulness, Hermione and Ginny seemed worried about it.
"Harry, please! This isn't a joke..." said Hermione worriedly and sternly,
"The current situation is simply a powder keg. If this continues, conflicts will soon erupt between Muggles and wizards, and even direct war..."
"Don't worry! Hermione... With MacGuffin around, you can't fight anyway... Have you forgotten what happened that night?" Harry blurted out the name without thinking.
But as soon as he said it, everyone fell silent, and Harry realized that he had said the wrong thing again.
It is really inappropriate to mention McGuffin's name in public places now, and the few of them were relieved after seeing that no one noticed these words.
(End of this chapter)
Time flies, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.
Before you know it, the new year has entered.
February [-] was extremely cold, and the sound of the wind swept back and forth between the empty London streets, blowing up the dust and fine rubbish on the ruins and construction sites.
Some plastic fragments and garbage bags that have not been cleaned up are rolled up into the sky, and the snowflakes that are falling down are flying all over the sky together.
After more than half a year of reconstruction and renovation, London, which nominally experienced the most severe earthquake in the history of the world, has begun to gradually restore some normal urban functions.
(This is what it says on the surface:
A brave white young Ph.D. from the London Research Institute and his colored female assistant broke through the obstacles of the British government bureaucrats, and handed an earthquake prediction report to the British Prime Minister attending a certain party.
And the wise and decisive Prime Minister immediately evacuated the entire city of London. Half an hour after the evacuation, an unprecedented earthquake disaster occurred in London...)
This disaster known as the 'Night of Miracles' in the Muggle world, because of the proper handling measures, only caused about ten deaths, five to sixty serious injuries of varying degrees, and hundreds of minor injuries.
After nearly destroying the buildings of the entire city, only a few casualties could be called a miracle of miracles.
This also caused the support rate of the Muggle Prime Minister of England, who was about to step down, to soar in a short period of time, and within two or three days, he was able to secure his position as Prime Minister again.
Of course, the Muggle politicians from all over the world have already understood the cause and effect of this incident.
Only a few people, such as the core decision-makers of various countries, were not affected by the magic ceremony. They clearly remembered the strange events in London that lasted for half a month, and the last night... the entire city was 'completely lost'.
This kind of magic, which is enough to modify the public perception of the entire world, is also one of the important reasons for them to calm down and start negotiating with the wizards from the Ministry of Magic of their own country.
However, these things actually have little to do with the vast majority of Muggle civilians, or even ordinary wizards.
Such political meetings are very cumbersome and secretive.
After more than half a year of overt and covert contests between the Muggle governments of various countries and their own Ministry of Magic... the distribution of interests between the two worlds, each country, and each wizarding group finally reached a certain balance.
(It cannot be unbalanced. The key is that some small and strange phenomena have begun to occur frequently in various parts of the world at this time, and there must continue to be a unified organization to suppress the spread of such things.)
Thus, just as discussed in that train, the International Association of Magic (IMA) was established.
This is basically under the full control of Muggles to study magic, magic.
Among them, Emily Albert was selected to become the chief researcher of this institute because she used [Curse of Echo Blue] to extract the 'X mysterious special factor'...
To be honest, when the magic governments of various countries summoned their own scientists to say that they wanted to study magic, and indeed showed the world to everyone, almost all scientific researchers suffered a heavy blow to their sanity.
That's why Emily Albert was elected as the chief researcher of this institute at this time.
Of course, her election to this important position has something to do with her being the sister of MacGuffin Albert.
Since that night, the name of MacGuffin Albert... has been almost completely displayed in the documents of various top power organizations in the world. Whether it is the Muggle government or the leaders of the Ministry of Magic of various countries, everyone knows the meaning of this name.
'The resurrection of thousands of people', 'modification of the world's public perception', 'establishment of a new generation order'... these incredible things, he actually did all of them.
From the perspective of those who know the truth, this underage wizard is far more terrifying than Voldemort and Grindelwald back then.
Some wizards even directly called him the god of the new generation.
Of course, not everyone knows what McGuffin has done... No, even to a certain extent, the traces of McGuffin Albert's existence in the world have been erased.
Even the Albert family forgot that they had such a young son, and only Emily Albert in their family remembered that she had such a younger brother.
This is what McGuffin does himself.
Only by completely forgetting can it be guaranteed that the operation of this [Universal Train] will not be disturbed to some extent.
And to a certain extent, it can better guarantee the safety of the family members of this family.
Today, apart from the thousands of wizards and Muggles who survived that night in London, as well as those in power in various countries, few people in this world know that there was such a person as McGuffin.
(These wizards and Muggles have not been erased because they performed the magic ritual that modified the world's cognition.)
(This magical ritual needs many [witnesses] to maintain its efficacy. As long as most people who know the 'truth' remain silent, just like the secret of DeLS Malfoy, the truth of the night of the cataclysm in London... will also be covered up.)
(Of course, if someone intentionally wants to leak this information in front of the public and reveal the so-called truth. In the case that most people did not tell what happened that night, the revealed information will be automatically erased by the magic ritual that has been activated, and the information about the truth of that night in this person's head will also be forgotten.)
(However, for most people who know the truth, the current name of MacGuffin, and what happened that night, has almost become a taboo... After more than half a year of fermentation, some people put the title of "God on Earth" on MacGuffin, but more wizards just refer to McGuffin with "that person" and "that event" and the truth about the disasters that happened in London that day...)
But now, in the newly built semi-finished King's Cross Station, there are some people who are not shy about discussing the MacGuffin in whispers.
…………
Ginny Weasley, whose red hair was like a lush flame, looked worried. She stared at Harry and asked, "How is Ron? Are the bones growing? Has he regained his sanity?"
Ginny, who was one year younger than Harry, asked about her brother's condition.
(Because the entire [St. Mungo's Magical Hospital] was completely destroyed, and Ron's state of losing all his bones was too difficult, after Pomfrey and several therapists finally made a diagnosis, they decided to transfer him and Sirius to Brazil and Egypt respectively... using local unique magic for healing and recovery)
"It's okay! That guy is probably insanely happy in Castello Busche, Brazil, and has forgotten your existence! He is now bewitched by those fiery banshees... If one day he is directly transformed into a vampire succubus? I wouldn't be surprised!" Hermione gritted her teeth, angrily cursing Ron who was not there.
Harry answered Ginny's question with a wry smile, "It's okay, Ron will be taken to Hogwarts in a few days. He is currently observing the toughness of the newly grown bones and the degree of fusion with the magic power in his body..."
"It won't be long before he comes back."
"It would be even better if Sirius could also recover..." Speaking of Ron, Harry sighed heavily again, and he thought of his godfather's recent gloomy situation again.
Compared to Ron, although Sirius has been lifted from the restrictions of the spell, for some reason, he still hasn't woken up until now.
At this time, some kind of rattling sound came from behind a few people.
It was two large cages colliding with each other on the luggage cart, and the owl inside was dissatisfied with this and let out a piercing screech.
The screams of those two guys obviously aroused some emotion in Hedwig in the cage at Harry's feet. She lightly pecked at the railing of the bird cage with her beak...to attract everyone's attention.
Then, it stood on the spot with one foot, neatly arranging the feathers on its wings with its mouth and claws... It seemed like this, compared with those young and inexperienced companions... it seemed to be different.
Hedwig's performance made Hermione giggle, and it seemed that most of her nameless anger had subsided.
"Harry!" "Hermione!!"
"And Ginny... our youngest sister!"
Behind the luggage cart, the voices of George and Fred sounded, and the twins came out from behind the luggage cart with a smile on their faces.
They looked at Ginny and asked, "Where's Mom? Isn't she looking for us all the time? Why is she missing now?"
"She went to find Dad, and Percy... It is said that the two of them, as well as many staff from the Ministry of Magic, were sent to this station to help maintain order and keep wizards from conflicting with Muggles..." Ginny said, "It should be over there..."
She raised her arm and pointed to the other side of the station.
It was a barren place over there, still in a semi-outdoor state, with many scaffolding erected, a little farther away... Cubic piles of soil and gravel, steel and wood stacked on top of each other...Many personnel from various countries in military uniforms, driving Muggle construction machinery, making noisy noises, quickly built the new railway station.
These Muggles are not strange at all... In the not fully built train station, many adults and children in robes suddenly appeared.
Amidst the noise, several people looked at the construction site in silence. No one spoke. Even Hermione was a little uncomfortable with the unfamiliar Muggles and soldiers, coming and going back and forth around her, let alone other people...
The snow started to fall bigger and bigger, cucu- gotta fall from the sky.
Covering the hair of many people, a thin layer of ice balls formed in a short period of time.
Many wizards were concerned about Muggles appearing next to them, so they didn't take out their wands to thaw out for warmth. Instead, they patted the icicle on their heads, put the hood on their robes on their heads, and stared curiously at the hot construction site.
Of course, not everyone is so tolerant of Muggles being in an open space with them.
"Look who that is!" George whispered suddenly.
Several people followed his gaze and turned their heads to a certain crowd 50 meters away.
Three distinctive figures were standing in the crowd, staring at the Muggles on the nearby construction site with some malicious eyes.
Lucius Malfoy stands with his wife and daughter LS Malfoy.
All three were wearing a gorgeous black gold-edged gown with a neckline tightly around their necks... It looked like they were strangling people.
Although the dress is still the same as before, it is very delicate and noble...
But even Harry could see the unconcealed anxiety and exhaustion of the Malfoy family's pale faces.
The Malfoy family found that Harry, Hermione, Ginny and the twins were looking at them, and they didn't come over to mock and provoke them like before. They just stared at them indifferently, nodded coldly, and led a lot of pure-blood wizards towards another group of people.
"The lives of these pure-blood wizards...the past six months have been difficult, and the Malfoy family no longer has the same influence as before..." George said that he knew the news in a serious manner.
"Although in the end Lucius Malfoy betrayed Voldemort, switched sides, and had a certain degree of credit for 'that incident'... But many people still don't want to let their family go...After all, Voldemort has really been killed, and people are no longer afraid of Death Eaters."
Fred added, "How did I hear that Lucius seems to be contacting pure-blood wizarding families in Germany and France, trying to establish a pure-blood wizarding organization..."
"Hydra!?" Hermione tried.
"Yes, that's the name!" Fred said with a slap in the face.
Hearing the name, Harry somehow felt that the name was inexplicably absurd.
Then, he and the twins eagerly discussed the rumors about this organization.
Compared to Harry and the twins' playfulness, Hermione and Ginny seemed worried about it.
"Harry, please! This isn't a joke..." said Hermione worriedly and sternly,
"The current situation is simply a powder keg. If this continues, conflicts will soon erupt between Muggles and wizards, and even direct war..."
"Don't worry! Hermione... With MacGuffin around, you can't fight anyway... Have you forgotten what happened that night?" Harry blurted out the name without thinking.
But as soon as he said it, everyone fell silent, and Harry realized that he had said the wrong thing again.
It is really inappropriate to mention McGuffin's name in public places now, and the few of them were relieved after seeing that no one noticed these words.
(End of this chapter)
