Chapter 533? Sensation

Chapter 533 Sensation

Scrimgeour was right to worry, because early the next morning, two pieces of news were published in newspapers across the magical world.

One is that Voldemort was killed by Mike Townley.

And it was Mike Townley, the man behind the recent rebellion, who was arrested.

These two things are actually the same thing. This is what the new generation of media led by "The Quibbler" did. They told readers the truth of the matter, and there were also private goods included, such as "The Quibbler" implies that the Ministry of Magic missed the opportunity to arrest Mike Townley after he killed Voldemort and was seriously injured. This behavior needs to be condemned.

But like "The Quibbler," "The Daily Prophet" also has its own tendencies.

Therefore, in newspapers like their old-school media, Voldemort's death and Mike's capture became two different things. They tried to use this method to dilute people's gratitude to Mike Townley for killing Voldemort.

But this is of no use. After all, the pain Voldemort brought to the world is much more serious than the upsurge for equal rights. Therefore, the trend in society suddenly changed, and countless people began to sing his praises. Mike's merits and called him the savior of a new generation.

On the surface this is a good thing, but in reality it is not.

First of all, the news of Voldemort's death was really shocking. Its appearance took away a lot of heat that should have belonged to the affirmative action movement.

Coupled with Mike's arrest, the originally strong equal rights forces suddenly lost the most powerful force behind them and became weak in an instant.

The merchants in Diagon Alley should be deeply touched by this, because the incident has just happened, and the equal rights groups that used to stay in Diagon Alley every day holding up KY slogans disappeared, and were replaced by waves of The crowd came to celebrate Voldemort's death.

This makes these merchants extremely happy. You must know that when people are in a good mood, their concept of money will gradually become blurred, which has made their recent business much better.

And just as happy as the merchants were the officials from the Ministry of Magic.

At present, the social situation is beginning to improve rapidly. If this momentum continues, they will soon be able to return to their previous state.

But just when everyone in the Ministry of Magic was rejoicing, the Office of the Minister of Magic was filled with smoke. Scrimgeour was smoking the cigar in his hand, and the assistant to the Minister next to him was so smoked that he almost shed tears.

"call!"

Exhaling a long puff of smoke, Scrimgeour snuffed out the cigar in his hand.

The assistant's face was happy when he saw this, but he was not happy for a long time when he saw Scrimgeour lighting up a brand new cigar.

This made the assistant lower his head silently. There was nothing he could do about it. The minister was so angry at the moment that he really dared not speak out.

What makes Scrimgeour so irritable is a copy of "The Quibbler" on his desk.

It clearly states that although Mike Townley did some wrong things, he did not cause much loss to society. In addition, he made a great contribution and killed Voldemort. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic should balance the merits and demerits. He was acquitted.

Although this is just the opinion of the Quibbler, Scrimgeour knows from data surveys that this statement is very popular among ordinary people. Now almost half of the people in the market support the Ministry of Magic's light sentence or the release of Mike Townley.

"Huh!!~"

Breathing out a cloud of smoke again, Scrimgeour irritably crumpled the "Quiet" in front of him into a ball and threw it into the trash can nearby.

Strictly speaking, this is actually just a small matter. After all, the situation has stabilized now. Although Mike Townley is indeed at fault, he does not have to kill Mike Townley.

After all, the Ministry of Magic has released many criminals in the past, so one more criminal is not too much.

As long as he is willing to cut the flesh, hand over a large sum of property and promise to be honest and not make any more troubles after leaving.

But the key to the problem is that he had already promised Chris to help the Ministry of Magic restore social stability at the cost of his position as Minister of Magic.

But now the situation has suddenly changed. Doesn’t this mean that after Chris came over, he could get a minister’s position for free without having to do anything?

You must know that his current ministerial position was obtained by spending a lot of resources and taking advantage of the special opportunity of Voldemort's invasion and Fudge's mistakes.

Otherwise, it would be a pipe dream for a mixed-race wizard with a military background to serve as Minister of Magic!

Are you giving away such a hard-earned position for nothing?

When he thought of this, Scrimgeour couldn't help but feel a strong sense of unwillingness in his heart.

Then let Chris go like this?

This doesn’t work either!

Judging from the force that Chris showed in Mary Joa, there is a high probability that he has been promoted to a legend now.

The price to deceive a legendary wizard is definitely something he can't bear, not to mention that there are more than a dozen pure-blood families standing behind Chris. The combination of these families is definitely a huge and terrifying force!

For a moment, Scrimgeour was deeply entangled.

At the same time, the atmosphere in the Masonic secret meeting room was not good.

Penello, Arthur, Franklin and other Freemasons sat with their heads bowed, but no one spoke. From time to time, a few extremely suppressed cries could be heard from the corner - those were Shuke and Beta.

Ever since Mike was arrested, everyone has basically been in this state.

Especially Franklin, his eyes were swollen from crying. In addition, he had a big bump on his head from Arthur, and it was extremely miserable to be wrapped in gauze.

Everyone understands this. After all, Franklin has been following Mike for the longest time.

They had no doubt that if Arthur hadn't taken this guy away forcibly, Franklin would have chosen to live and die with Mike.

Franklin even had a fight with Arthur after waking up because of this matter. Although there was no fight, it was still a sign of friendship, and it was hard for others to say anything.

"Okay, Franklin, don't be too sad. Mike will be fine."

Penello couldn't stand it anymore and comforted Franklin in a low voice, but there was some displeasure in his tone.

After all, she is Mike's real girlfriend, and now Franklin is acting even sadder than her. What's going on?

If someone who didn't know saw it and thought she didn't care about Mike at all.

"Why do you guarantee that Mike will definitely come back? That's the Ministry of Magic! Maybe those Aurors are torturing Mike now! No! I have to save Mike!"

Franklin's mood suddenly became excited, and he stood up to leave after saying a few words.

But just when his butt left his seat, Arthur stood up and raised the sword in his hand towards Franklin.

Seeing this, Franklin gave in decisively and sat back in his seat.

There is no way, Arthur is too strong, he really can't beat him.

"Don't worry, aren't we using "The Quibbler" to manipulate public opinion and put pressure on the Ministry of Magic? With the pissing habits of those people at the Ministry of Magic, it's probably just a matter of paying a large fine."

Arthur curled his lips and said.

Speaking of which, he really didn't understand what Dumbledore was doing. When he parted with Mike, he thought Dumbledore would kill Mike directly, but now Dumbledore handed Mike over to the Ministry of Magic. Isn't this just letting the tiger return to the mountains?

Those people at the Ministry of Magic would never give Mike a good trial.

Or...is this Dumbledore's original intention?

Arthur couldn't understand.

"Are you serious?" Franklin gritted his teeth and said, "What if the Ministry of Magic is unwilling to release him?"

"Then let's fight in and rescue Mike!"

Arthur said viciously, and as he spoke, he pulled out some of the long sword in his hand. Suddenly, a sharp killing intent swept through the entire conference room. Everyone present felt a chill on their necks, especially Soraka and other women. I couldn't help but shiver.

"Anyway, Mike must be rescued at all costs!"

"That's right! At any cost!"

"That's it!"

…

Echoes echoed in the conference room one after another. Benjamin and others expressed their attitudes one after another. Their eyes were firm, and it could be seen that this was their cry from the heart.

But in fact, they can't help it.

You must know that Freemasonry links all of them. They are a whole. The oaths taken when joining the union are always binding their behavior. If they do anything to abandon their companions, the chains of the oath will kill them. , just like that unlucky guy in the United States.

Seeing that his companions were so determined, Franklin's expression finally looked much better.

In his opinion, as long as they work together, breaking into the Ministry of Magic to save someone is not a big deal at all.

But the next moment his expression became distorted again. He stood up, smashed the conference table hard, and roared:

"And Dumbledore! He must also pay the price. This old immortal is simply crazy! He would actually attack us!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone who was originally excited fell silent instantly, and an awkward atmosphere filled the entire conference room.

Except for Arthur, everyone here is Dumbledore's student. Each of them has special feelings for the old principal, so when they first saw Dumbledore actually attacking them, many of them were a little a little nervous. Unbelievable.

It was precisely for this reason that they all remained silent in the face of Franklin's proposal. The image of Dumbledore in their minds was too majestic, and they really did not want to be enemies with Dumbledore.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Franklin became furious again, pointed at everyone's noses and started scolding them. The faces of Benjamin and others turned dark as he scolded them.

"Okay, Franklin." Benjamin advised, "The top priority now is to rescue Mike. As for Dumbledore...even if we want to take revenge on him, we can't defeat him."

Franklin's face almost turned red, and he was trembling as he wanted to continue scolding.

But before he could speak, he heard Arthur next to him say:

"This is not necessarily true. I was closest to Mike and Dumbledore when it happened. According to the situation at the scene, Dumbledore should have been seriously injured. If nothing else, the last time was his last Now that Dumbledore has gained strength, hehe, he should be just a paper tiger."

"But what Benjamin said makes sense. Our focus now should be on rescuing Mike. As for other things, we can put them aside first."

Hearing this, Benjamin's frowned brows finally relaxed. He nodded towards Arthur, then looked at Franklin and said:

"Franklin, I know you are angry. Please believe me. Everyone here is as angry as you. Don't worry, although we can't concentrate on revenge yet, it's hard for us here, and neither is Dumbledore's side. I want to feel better!”

"Oh? What are you going to do?"

Franklin, who was still a little disappointed after hearing this, suddenly became energetic.

"It's very simple. Now Mike's influence in Hogwarts is actually not much less than that of Dumbledore. In addition, the previous equal rights trend also helped Mike attract a lot of fans in Hogwarts." Benjamin slyly Smiling, "Then if those students knew that Mike, their hero who ran for the common good, was caught by their dear principal Dumbledore, what do you think they would do?"

"Hiss!~"

Franklin gasped and looked at Benjamin in shock. Everyone else present basically had the same reaction.

They really didn't expect that Benjamin could come up with such a vicious strategy.

If things are really as Benjamin said, then Dumbledore and even the other professors at Hogwarts will not be able to get over it, because the chaos that just broke out at Hogwarts not long ago will reappear and change. more violently.

Those angry students will definitely bring chaos to Hogwarts!

"What a great idea! I'll let someone do it right now!"

Penelo stood up and walked quickly toward the door. As the actual manager of the daily affairs of the Los Santos Group, only she has the ability to make Benjamin's vision come true.

As the door was slammed shut, the corners of the mouths of everyone else in the conference room rose.

They can't wait to watch the show!

…

On the other side, while Benjamin and others were still making plans, a brown-haired boy wearing a pure black windbreaker was slowly walking out of the Leaky Cauldron and onto Diagon Alley.

The boy seemed to be a foreign tourist coming to Diagon Alley for the first time, and he was full of interest in everything that appeared in front of him.

When he passes by a store where he buys crucibles, he will stop and watch. When he encounters a clerk selling a new ice cream to him, he will stop to taste it carefully and then give his own opinion. He will even act like those children when passing by a Quidditch shop. They gathered around the display window and curiously looked at the Firebolts inside.

Diagon Alley at this moment is indeed worthy of his serious visit. Countless wizards in strange costumes are singing and dancing on the cobblestone road, celebrating that they have finally escaped from the fear called Voldemort. Naughty children will light fire from time to time. A magic firework, the strangely bright flame will stay in the sky for a long time.

Looking at the celebrating crowd, a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the young man's face, and he said in a voice that only he could hear clearly:

"Isn't it too early to celebrate now?"