A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 509 Two Meetings
The shop business in Diagon Alley was much quieter than usual.

"It's normal, if there are rows of pictures of Death Eaters pasted on the door of your store..." Mrs. Malkin said, measuring Felix's body.

Felix enjoys warm service in the robe shop.

He glanced at the wanted notice in the window and various large purple notices, and thought her words made sense.Passers-by on the street outside the window are in a hurry, and everyone is in groups of three or four, with a clear purpose, and they go straight to where they want to go.Never linger long after shopping, leave quickly through the communal fireplace.

After coming out of the shop, he took a vanilla ice cream from Florin Fusco's ice cream parlor into Sword Castle, where he stayed all day.

"The principle of the anti-thief waterfall is very complicated. The key point lies in the mixture of seventeen alchemy materials and various magic spells. Some obscure places may use the unique magic of goblins. I checked and found out when the anti-thief waterfall technology appeared It happens to be the honeymoon period of wizards and goblins?"

"You're absolutely right, Mr. Haip." A staff member of the Ministry of Magic who was sent over said, "The goblins are too vicious to have a hand in the communication!" The dumpy wizard said angrily.

"But you haven't noticed." Fred whispered to George in the crowd.

In the next time, everyone will work together and perform their duties.Cremi was right, the research wizards in the company were extremely efficient.Several staff members of the Ministry of Magic were amazed. They found that their knowledge of Anti-Thief Waterfall was quickly understood and digested, as if they were not individual individuals, but humanoid creatures with dozens of heads.

Before leaving get off work, the researchers of the Future World Company had caught up with the previous progress of the Ministry of Magic and successfully restored the ratio of the three alchemy materials.

"Today I will spend the night in the old house." Felix said to Fred and George. They are now in a room on the top floor of Sword Castle. The interior decoration is unremarkable, like a vacant office. , but the fireplace here is connected to Black's old house.

If Tonks and Sirius connected the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix, then Remus Lupine connected the "Future World" company headed by Felix and the Order of the Phoenix.In a way, Fred, George and Penello play a similar role.

It took a while to wait for Percy, who arrived half an hour later than expected.

"Ms. Burns used you too hard." Penello said dissatisfied.

"The Ministry is woefully understaffed," said Percy cheerfully, "and it's time for me to show my talents." He hastily rolled up several papers and stuffed them into the large pocket of his coat.Then through the fireplace, just in time for a hot pot of food.

Mrs. Weasley received Penello very warmly.

"We came back too late yesterday. Not only was Harry's birthday party canceled, but I haven't had many opportunities to talk to you yet."

"There's plenty of time later, Mother," grumbled Percy.

"But those first few times are the most important," said Mrs. Weasley sternly.

At the dinner table, Bill was chatting about his new job.

"In the beginning, I really didn't get used to it. I was working in an office, which is far worse than before. The good thing is that I have a lot of time to work for the Order of the Phoenix... I work with a group of old gentlemen whose life is frighteningly slow. .” He imitated his colleagues and handed the bottle of ketchup to Harry in the seat next to him, and his movements were more than ten times slower.

Everyone around the dining table burst into laughter.Harry inadvertently met Ginny's eyes, and Ginny's grinning mouth closed immediately, and the movement of holding the knife and fork became graceful. "That's right, Ginny imitated the best." Bill praised loudly.

Hermione snickered.

"What's wrong?" Ron looked at her puzzled.

"It's nothing," said Hermione immediately, and she turned to look at Harry, who suddenly burned his face so badly that he didn't know why.

Supper was stew, treacle tarts, and vegetable soup, and Felix quickly put down the cutlery before Mrs Weasley could serve himself soup, so Mrs Weasley turned his attention to Penello.

"Is the food not to your liking, dear?"

"Oh no," Penello said, only to find his soup bowl filled instantly.

Sirius came late, and when he came back, everyone had almost finished eating and was chatting with each other.He sat in the vacant seat and gorged on the leftovers.

"The interrogation is only a third of the way done—" He drank the soup in the bowl in one gulp, "Thanks, Molly, fill it up—everyone lied about being under the Imperius Curse, but Amelie Ya does not intend to release people easily, especially McNeil and Rook Wood, both of whom have previous convictions."

Felix knew that the former was regarded as the mastermind of the Quidditch World Cup disturbance, while the latter was a sure-fire Death Eater who had been squatting in Azkaban for more than ten years and had only escaped from prison for a few days.Damn Ms. Burns willing to let go.

Sirius swallowed a rolled pie in two bites, sighed comfortably, and slowed down.

Ron stared at him without blinking, like he was watching an interesting TV show.

"By the way, Sirius," Felix asked, "I heard that one of the Reticents was injured?"

"Is that the case?" Sirius looked up from the soup bowl.

"The one named Bode." Felix reminded.

"Bode," Sirius said slowly, thinking, "I have an impression... It seems that something happened to the research and he was sent to St. Mungo's for treatment. I was too busy yesterday to pay attention to these small things. What's wrong with him? he asked sensitively.

"We'll talk about it at the meeting," Felix replied briefly.

Thoughtful, Sirius spent a month with Amelia Bones, his sense of smell sharpened, and he immediately realized that this incident might not be a coincidence.Harry, Ron and Hermione on the side also showed expressions of interest.

"That name sounds familiar," Ron muttered.

"We met him at the Quidditch World Cup camp," Hermione whispered. "He works in the Department of Mysteries?"

Harry remembered too.

"Wait." He almost instantly connected this matter with Voldemort, and he looked at Mr. Weasley, "You told us that the work of the Department of Mysteries is top secret."

"this--"

Mr. Weasley looked stunned, but Harry was racking his brains.

"It means, it means that Voldemort wants something in it! Or information or something! And Bode is either undercover for the Death Eaters, or he is cursed!"

"Children—" said Mr. Weasley hesitantly.

"It's okay, Arthur." Sirius said, "see what they can analyze, I can show it to Amelia-I mean, even if they stop them, they will discuss it in private, why not Listen, maybe you can get some useful inspiration."

Harry glanced gratefully at the godfather. "Uh." He suddenly got stuck.

"What exactly is Bod's job?" Hermione asked.Sirius frowned. "I'm not too—"

"Which hall does he work in? The Hall of Time, the Hall of Prophecy, the Hall of the Brain, the Hall of Space, or the room with the stone arches?" Hermione asked again, and Sirius almost bit his tongue.

"How did you know!?"

It would be Hermione's turn to get stuck, and she stole a glance at Felix. "I—oh—I guess, in a book?"

"No information from the Department of Mysteries is leaked," said Mr. Weasley gravely.

"She should have seen it in the materials of Nick Flamel." Felix explained, "I gave it to her before the end of the last school year, because there are too many materials, and I haven't read every book, maybe Nick casually mentioned it in one of his notes."

The professor can really lie...

Hermione blinked, putting on a "that's it" look.

It dawned on Sirius and Mr. Weasley.

"Nick Flamel . . . no wonder, that makes sense," said Mr. Weasley.It's no secret that Felix will inherit the entire estate of Nick Flamel since Beauxbatons' students spent a full year at Hogwarts last year.

For a certain period of time, newspapers also reported at length.

"I heard Fleur mention it," Bill said suddenly, "you are also Beauxbaton's school trustee."

"Fleur?" Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the Weasley twins called at the same time.

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Weasley asked. "Did I remember incorrectly, wasn't she one of Beauxbaton's champions? A Frenchman?"

"She's my new colleague, she just joined the job two days ago. I promised to help her with English tutoring... You all know how boring office work is." Bill shrugged and said, "I really hope the war ends soon."

"That's up to us," Ron muttered, "The mysterious man won't obediently admit defeat... By the way, Harry, why did Principal Dumbledore ask you today?"

"Has Dumbledore been here during the day?" Felix asked with some surprise.

"Yeah, but he didn't say a few words, and disappeared all day with Harry. Harry didn't come back much earlier than you," said Ron.

Several adults looked at Harry.

"Can you tell?" Mr. Weasley asked politely, "If Headmaster Dumbledore tells you to keep it a secret, then don't tell anyone."

"Well, I'm not sure." Harry said blankly, "We didn't seem to do anything, Principal Dumbledore took me to an old friend's house for afternoon tea and a full stomach of pineapple preserves. Headmaster Dumbledore also persuaded his old friend to live in a safer place..."

"Whom did you visit, do you remember his name?" Felix asked.

"Horace Slughorn," said Harry thoughtfully.

"Professor Slughorn?" cried Mr. Weasley, and looking at the reactions of the others, he explained: "He taught us before, Molly and I. He was an excellent master of potions, and I Guess that's the reason, can't let him fall to the other side?"

After dinner, the adults went to the room for a meeting, and the children sat in the living room dissatisfied. "At least I'm with you," Penelope said, scratching Crookshanks' chin as the cat rested comfortably in her lap.

……

Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, in an old building.The large bushes of flowers were covered with thorns because they were left unattended, casting messy and distorted shadows in the darkness, and the surrounding area was deserted and desolate.

A foraging bug flew straight into the castle without learning from its companions.It climbed up to the beams of the house along the ancient and mottled walls, and under the dim light, it stared at the solemn and depressed crowd below with its compound eyes.

"laugh."

The bug was burnt to ashes by the sudden force.

Severus Snape was at a meeting of Death Eaters.

(End of this chapter)