Chapter 376

Tonight's Hogwarts will certainly not be peaceful.

For the unsuspecting students, the hasty end of the final game is bound to be the focus of discussion and speculation. For those who know a little bit of news, worry and fear will also be the main theme of tonight, such as Sirna, who knows what her brother is going to do tonight, and except for Solim who came back and looked at the arena from afar, Sylna never got any news of it, only that her brother was in the school hospital with Harry. Now that the curfew time has passed, there is a high probability that Solim will not return to the Slytherin common room at night.

The busiest may be the professors who know the most, but it is Fudge who is overwhelmed. Today, Fudge only came to Hogwarts to replace the missing Crouch as a referee, and also to increase his exposure, but he couldn't imagine what was waiting for him here.

Crouch & Sons!

Fudge felt that even his most absurd dreams would not appear like this. At first, when Dumbledore came to him about it, Fudge thought Dumbledore was joking with him, but facts are facts, and when Fudge saw Crouch and his son, who had long been confirmed to be "dead", Fudge was even a little happy for a moment. He thought with his ass that little Barty was still alive, and even came out of Azkaban unknowingly, it must have nothing to do with him, so that he could further suppress Crouch's prestige within the Ministry of Magic, last time it was because of Little Barty's matter, Old Barty lost his hope of becoming a minister, otherwise he wouldn't have cheapened himself, and this time it was enough to send Crouch and his son to Azkaban! Dereliction of duty and prison robbery were enough for Crouch to drink a pot.

Fudge was still beautiful in his heart, and he felt that he had one less political enemy. But before the expression of joy could climb his face, Dumbledore's words directly made him stupid:

"Barty escaped from Voldemort. "

Well, Fudge heard the trembling name again. The last time I heard the name was in Dumbledore's office last year. Fudge admits that the feared Dark Lord may not really be dead, and Dumbledore has said that he will return sooner or later, but Fudge really didn't expect it to happen so soon, and Fudge didn't expect this kind of thing to break down all the Ministers of Magic during his tenure.

But what happens happens happens, and objective facts do not change in any way because of people's subjective thoughts.

Poor Harry was left alone in the school hospital, while Solim followed the army to the headmaster's office. The headmaster's room was still the same, the sorting hat was at the top of the bookcase, and the portraits of the headmasters on the walls were still pretending to be asleep.

Thanks to Solim's words to Fudge last semester, the relationship between Dumbledore and Fudge has eased considerably - although there are still people who are getting in the way, but as Solim said to Dumbledore before, some things are much better to say while Fudge is still listening, than when they are about to do it.

Even so, the relationship between Fudge and Dumbledore began to crack under the provocation of some well-intentioned people, and Solim understood that the Ministry of Magic was still the domain of pure-blood families, so he was not surprised that Fudge would say such a thing

"Dumbledore, maybe the Adversary isn't completely dead, but I still can't believe he's back. Fudge was extremely resistant to the news of Voldemort's resurrection, and he knew that he had a few pounds and a few taels, and he knew that he could tinker with it, but in the face of the great event of the witching social turmoil caused by Voldemort, he didn't have many means.

The Ministry of Magic is not monolithic, and he Fudge has never been the master of the Ministry of Magic. Bones of the Law Enforcement Division, Scrimgeour of the Auror Command, Crouch of the International Magical Cooperation Division - of course, after this incident, Crouch basically didn't pose any threat to Fudge. However, there are still many people in the Ministry of Magic who disobey Fudge's orders, or even directly confront them. And many of them are departments with great autonomy and influence, such as the Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of International Magical Cooperation just mentioned. In this case, even if Fudge wanted to fight against Voldemort and his men, the Ministry of Magic would not be able to twist a rope, so what could Fudge do to resist?

Hearing Fudge's evasive remarks, Moody said impatiently, "Would you like Karkaroff to show you another arm? "

Snape was still standing behind the door he was used to staying in, and he wasn't afraid that someone would suddenly push it in and break his nose.

"There have been some bad rumors lately...... It's about you, Dumbledore. Fudge hesitated but said it, "You...... Are you tired of being the Headmaster of Hogwarts and want a different place to work?"

"Poof!" Solim couldn't hold back, "Ahem...... Excuse me. But Mr. Minister, you can be blunt, you just say that our headmaster wants to be the minister of the Ministry of Magic, and there is no need to hide it. "

Actually, everyone thought about it that way at first, but Fudge's blushing face told everyone that Solim was right.

"Ridiculous!" Moody angrily used his crutch and staff, "Abu wants to be the minister, if he really wants to be the minister, can it be your turn?"

This is exactly what Fudge was worried about, he understood that if Dumbledore really wanted to be this minister, as long as the news was released, there would be a large number of people supporting him - such as the aforementioned Bones of the Law Enforcement Division, and many officials in the Ministry of Magic, large and small, and even Wizengamory would have more than half of the people supporting Dumbledore. You know, there are a lot of people here who are Fudge's political enemies. It's no wonder that Fudge would fall for someone else's sowing discord so easily.

"I never wanted to be a minister, and I never wanted to take your place, Connelly. Dumbledore sat down in his high-backed chair and said gently, "Hogwarts is a good fit for me, and I don't plan to leave here." "

But that obviously didn't dispel Fudge's concerns, and just as he was about to say something, Solim interrupted him, he wasn't here to listen to Fudge's.

"Your fears, Minister, are unfounded and unwarranted. Solim looked away from looking at the portraits of the headmasters, "Based on the prestige of the Wizengamot, the Ministry of Magic, the social fishing wheel, and the wizarding world as a whole, even if the headmaster really wanted to be this minister, you wouldn't have a problem, right? If he really wanted to be this minister, he would have taken measures a long time ago." "

"Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about Blake's prison break. With that, Solim glanced at Blake and Lupin in the corner, who had been staring at Snape and didn't know what they were planning.

"Prison breaks, and then Dementors storming the school and attacking students, if the Headmaster really wants to get you down, this is a great opportunity, how the Headmaster does it, you know what you know. Then there's the fact that Peter's rat was taken away from Azkaban, which is a scandal. Did the headmaster use this to undermine your already modest prestige? "

Solim spread his hands:

"So what else do you have to worry about?"