Chapter 967: Dumbledore's counterattack

Never since Fudge became Minister of Magic has he been so angry, not because the Defence Guide magazine predicted that he would be ousted by the masses next year, but because someone tried to use the Defence Guide to put him out of office. He was driven to a dead end.

Is Voldemort really back?

Fudge really didn't want to discuss this with people because it all had to turn out that "Voldemort is back" is just a lie.

This is political correctness.

Fudge slammed the door of the minister's office shut after a tantrum at everyone outside.

He angrily threw the wrinkled "Defense Guide" in his hand to the ground. After stepping on it a few times, he couldn't relieve himself enough. He picked up the magazine and tore it to shreds.

What is Azkaban will have a large-scale escape, what is Cornelius Fudge will be ousted by the masses next year.

"Damn Dumbledore, **** it, **** it!"

Fudge could never have imagined that Dumbledore would fight back like this.

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

Will it come true?

Fudge didn't know, but he didn't want to gamble either, because if he lost the gamble, he was really screwed, and maybe he'd be kicked out as the magazine predicted.

Then, notoriety.

All this is Dumbledore's conspiracy!

Magazines run by Sirius Black?

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

How dare Sirius Black spread these things indiscriminately without Dumbledore's permission?

Definitely Dumbledore's conspiracy!

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

"Minister, we have already closed..." 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 Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. According to the description of the surrounding store, the two have not appeared in the magazine for a long time, and the rent of the store is about to expire. We think this is a premeditated Action, I suggest fines Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, and even get the Aurors to Azkaban prison for months on charges of disturbing the peace and punish them severely Last big galleon."

"Just a few months?"

Fudge yelled at Percy, clearly displeased with the result.

"Yes, at most a few months." Percy explained in a low voice: "Mr. Minister, they are first offenders. The Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement will not be sentenced to serious crimes. The lightest may be to pay a fine. However, , as long as they are fined, and when they commit the crime again, they can be imprisoned in Azkaban in the name of perseverance, and the entire magic world will be clean."

"Very good, you go and communicate with the Ministry of Magic Law Enforcement Division." Fudge finally agreed with Percy's proposal. Although he wanted to throw Black and Lupin into Azkaban prison, Fudge was not overwhelmed by anger. Head, he knew that even going to court would only make him a joke.

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

"Yes sir, Remus Lupin 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 werewolf, and remind them by the way that Remus Lupin was at Hogwarts, and... let Dolores Wu Mrich came to me."

"I'll do it."

Percy took down a few things Fudge ordered and hurried out of the minister's office.

"Minister, are you looking for me?"

A moment later, Umbridge's high-pitched voice echoed outside the Minister of Magic's office.

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

"I haven't seen it. I've heard some bad rumours, though." Umbridge said with a smirk on Fudge's face, "I heard it's named Remus. Lupin's werewolf-run magazine, maybe, we should want him, who knows if those werewolves are doing some illegal underground activities."

"Remus Lupin was a professor at Hogwarts," Fudge hinted.

"Oh my god, that's not a good idea," Umbridge said in an exaggerated tone. "Parents would be very upset if they knew that no one wants their kids to be with a werewolf, it's too dangerous. ."

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

Umbridge, seemingly guessing something, smiled and said, "The state of Hogwarts is really disturbing."

"Dumbledore doesn't seem to have found a suitable candidate for the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. I hope that you will serve at Hogwarts and save the declining educational level of Hogwarts by the way." Fudge stated his purpose of looking for Umbridge, He knew what kind of person Umbridge was, and he knew she had a bad reputation, but so what, as long as he could do his job well, he was a good subordinate.

Recently, Fudge found himself running out of people he could trust at the Ministry of Magic.

"Oh, of course no problem," Umbridge agreed with a smile, "but Dumbledore's side may not agree."

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

In fact, the Ministry of Magic had wanted to install a professor at Hogwarts a long time ago, but all of them were strongly rejected by Dumbledore.

This time was a good opportunity, and he had the confidence to let Dumbledore compromise.

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

Umbridge saw an opportunity to climb up.

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

With Fudge's trust, she's not far from a higher position in the Division of Magical Law Enforcement.

Umbridge became the director of the Office of Prohibition of Misuse of Magic before he was 30 years old, and after sitting in this position for so many years, he naturally did not lack ability, means and eyesight.

She was also well aware that the Ministry of Magic had always wanted a place at Hogwarts.

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12 Grimmauld Place, headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.

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

They are all in trouble because of the publication of the "Defense Guide" and may face heavy fines.

"I knew it was going to happen," said Remus, frowning. "Fudge must be mad. I wonder if this will cause Dumbledore trouble."

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

"No matter what happens now, Fudge will think Dumbledore ordered it. Come on Remus, do you think Fudge will stop smearing Dumbledore even if we don't? No, he won't, if We do nothing, that's cowardly and incompetent. We need to let everyone know where we are now, rather than burying our heads in the ground like Fudge, or they're dead when danger comes?" Sirius read The exaggerated reports in the Daily Prophet did not seem to be angry at all, but instead had such an expression as expected.

"Maybe, we should try another way," Lupin suggested, frowning.

Gu"Don't worry about Remus, it's just a Ministry trick, a little intimidation." Sirius said lightly, completely ignoring the contents of the Daily Prophet.

"Thousands of Galleons, are you sure it's not wrong here, or is the Ministry of Magic completely insane?"

Shocked by the news above about the Defence Guide being blocked and the hefty fines that Sirius and Lupin would face, Ron said to Sirius in disbelief: "As far as I know, fifty Galleons It's already a hefty fine."

"This is just written or will face, which means that the so-called fine of thousands of Galleons is just the amount of the fine that the Daily Prophet has made a random guess." Hermione took the newspaper and read it carefully to correct Ron's wrong statement. .

"I was once told that the Ministry of Magic is very tolerant of first-time offenders that are not very serious, at least they will not give too severe punishment." Sirius explained to everyone with a smile, "That is to say, even if we are caught now, we will It's more than fifty Galleons, it doesn't matter, I don't lack Remus, if you are caught and fined one day, I can help you pay the fine first."

"That's not the problem."

"No, that's the problem, because we're not breaking the law at all, Fudge is trying to get us into trouble, he's just trying to use his power to bring us to our knees because he's scared and our magazine could send him to hell." Looking at it, Sirius shrugged and said, "At least let him step down with notoriety, and then he will never raise his head again in his life."

"Would it be too cruel?" Hermione said, frowning.

"Come on Hermione, do you have to have Harry locked up in Azkaban to wake up?" Sirius sneered, "Don't be merciful to the wrong person, or you're likely to kill other people."

"Sirius." Remus stared at Sirius dissatisfied.

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

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

Not caring about other people's eyes, Sirius continued, "This is an unequal political struggle, and political struggles have always been life-and-death, extremely bloody, and you can't have any illusions, you pity the enemy, you just dig for yourself. grave."

"Yeah, that's about it, so Hermione, you guys are so naive." Fred and George came out of nowhere, "and Sirius said it's not equal, that's because even if Fudge loses, it doesn't Too bad, Dumbledore will let Fudge go, but Fudge will not, he will only get more and more ruthless, and then Dumbledore will gradually be stripped of most of his titles, even the headmaster."

Whether it was Hermione, Ron or Ginny, they were all stunned by this.

"Albert's prophecy?" Lupin asked tentatively.

"Yes." George comforted, "Also, the Ministry of Magic doesn't actually have this crime, it's probably something they made up for you recently, otherwise Rita Skeeter would have been sent to Azkaban prison long ago. ."

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

"I've been with Albert for a long time, and I'm easily influenced by him." Of course, Fred and George would not say that they still keep in touch with Albert.

"By the way, when will the radio station be ready?"

"Broadcast station?"

Ron, Hermione and Ginny looked at each other, wondering what they were trying to do.

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

"Is the time set?" Fred asked again.

"Are you going to speak on the radio?" Arthur brought Mrs. Weasley's soup over, and heard them discussing the wizarding radio.

"The Defense Guide has been banned, and we need new channels of voice."

"You shouldn't have published that prophecy on it. Fudge was going crazy, and he even had your magazine shut down." Arthur felt that provoking Fudge in this way was not good for everyone.

"It doesn't matter, the rent is about to expire anyway, and there is nothing important in it. We have moved the printing press ahead of time." Sirius seemed to have known the result for a long time, and he raised the corner of his mouth happily and said, "Fudge is sure The magazine will not be allowed to be published, but the more he bans it, the more it will arouse everyone's curiosity. If the content in the "Defense Guide" is false, why did Fudge ban it? You must know that Fudge or the Ministry of Magic was slandered before. There are a lot of articles, and I haven't seen Fudge ever do this."

The crowd fell silent again.

"Next, the "Defense Guide" will be released privately. With the radio broadcast, we will definitely be able to express our voice to the outside world, instead of letting Fudge monopolize this aspect and continue to deceive everyone." Sirius explained his next plan to them, " Believe me, no one wants to be a rat crossing the street. Even if they can't win more allies, they must keep most people neutral or lean towards us, especially after something happens, they are definitely more willing to get some useful instead of the **** in the Daily Prophet."

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

"You can talk about the Triwizard Tournament and Voldemort's resurrection, and some of Fudge's policies, like sending a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor to Hogwarts, or why Barty Crouch was silenced, or how Harry became Fourth Warrior's."

"You have to change your voice," George reminded.

"Why?"

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

"Voice-changing candy?"

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

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

"You are well prepared." Arthur looked at his son, then looked at Sirius and Lupin, 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 of heartbeat?" said Sirius.

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

"Because we only talk for ten minutes, how to come here mysteriously, and we have to set a password to prevent others from hearing the news on the radio."

"What if no one listens?" Arthur frowned, didn't he want more people to hear this broadcast?

"There will always be people listening. You can treat it as gossip news. Everyone likes to hear gossip, right? And mysterious gossip news can arouse everyone's interest." Sirius is not worried that he has no audience at all, "Kins Lay and you both work at the Ministry of Magic, and can also provide some interesting news, such as Fudge is in a rage today, analyze some of the actions of the Ministry of Magic, give you an analysis of the current situation, believe me, some things are very fast It will come true, when these truths come true, people will believe our broadcast more and more, and when the dementors escape, the whole magic world will be in chaos, I think all the wizards in the British magic world will be willing to turn on the broadcast Listen to what's on our radio."

"And there's no way the Ministry of Magic would come here and ask us to turn off the broadcast, because they couldn't find our exact location."

Fred and George looked at each other, and they heard someone's shadow in Sirius' words.

"You got in touch with Albert?" Hermione couldn't help asking. Ever since the last time she heard that there were Death Eaters looking for Albert~www.NovelMTL.com~ 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 Brave Loyalty Charm. It is very safe, even if it is Dumbledore. I can't find where he is hiding."

"Isn't Dumbledore the secrecy keeper of the Crimson Loyalty Curse?" Everyone was a little surprised. The only weakness of the Crimson Loyalty Curse was the secrecy keeper, and Dumbledore was undoubtedly the best candidate for secrecy.

"No, no one knows who it is. According to Dumbledore, it is safer to not find the specific location and not know who the secrecy is."

"He probably won't go to Hogwarts!" Ron raised his eyebrows and said, "Although I don't think it doesn't matter if he goes or not."

"He will go to school, and Albert said this year's Hogwarts will be very interesting." Fred blinked and said, "Maybe it has something to do with the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor sent by the Ministry of Magic."

"Fudge is going to send someone to Hogwarts?" Arthur looked at his son in surprise. He hadn't heard the wind at the Ministry of Magic yet. How could they look like they knew it for a long time. "

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

"I think she's unlucky," George said meaningfully. "Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts isn't a good job, just look at the previous ones. Moody was locked up for a year, and Remus nearly got into Az Caban, Lockhart has become a fool, Quirrell is dead, Smith is missing for no reason, the only Professor Budd escaped, and he resigned early and ran away, what do you think will happen to the unlucky minions of the Ministry of Magic Woolen cloth?"

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