HP meets at Hogwarts

Chapter 190 Discussion

"Half? What does that mean?" asked Ron. "I've never heard of it."

"Because he didn't go to school." Ann said, "Yes, Hogwarts will issue admission letters to all school-age young wizards, and they can't pay tuition fees and there is an educational foundation, but the Ministry of Magic educated Something big happened in the world.”

"The Nobby Richie incident?" said Hermione quickly.

"Yes, this is it." Ann said.

Ron and Harry were still confused.

"Oh, you guys always slept when you were in Modern History of Magic, and you don't even know that." Hermione showed her usual expression at Hogwarts again, "Nobby Rich, 1962-1968, the first The Muggle-born Minister for Magic whose tenure caused horror among the pure-bloods. Many of them resigned in protest. He left office one afternoon in 1968 after contracting a mysterious illness. At the time, the Almost all the positions related to education in the Ministry of Magic were promoted by him, and his departure caused great turmoil. Three months after that day, five large-scale strikes and riots broke out in the Ministry of Magic. This turmoil was called ' The Nobby Rich incident'! It is said that many young Muggle wizards did not receive their admission letters back then, and some of them made up for it later, but I don't know about the others."

"Hmm! Hermione is right." Ann nodded with a smile, and kissed Hermione on the cheek.

"Tata Misien didn't go to school, but he can use magic, which was given to him by the wandering wizard. After the wandering wizard died, Tata naturally had a magic wand. But his magic way Most of them are half-way monks, and the wizards who have attended school all walk along the unified and correct road. So he can be regarded as a half-squib, because he has no idea that he can use magic in many things."

"Tata Misian didn't go to school, so naturally the regular shops like Diagon Alley wouldn't hire him, and he couldn't do it. He grew up in a place like Upside Down Alley, and he has a good quality. , he has a good memory. That's why someone recommended him to me."

"Then why didn't you let him in?" Harry asked.

"This brings me back to the question I asked just now." An said with a strange expression, "You know that there are a large number of search teams in the magic world right now?"

The three nodded.

"In addition to the official Ministry of Magic, there are many spontaneous organizations. In fact, they are not only looking for Harry, they also have a responsibility to find escaped Muggle wizards. Catch a escaped Muggle wizard and send it to the Ministry of Magic. The Ministry of Magic awarded 50 Galleons, which is quite a lot. And Tata joined a hunting party from the beginning."

"But isn't he a Muggle wizard?" said Ron.

"Think about it, in the black market like the Hunting Squad, something that is formed spontaneously in the gray area. No one will really check your background. Some poor wizards, wizards with no way out will join, and they have only one purpose." Ann said, "Money. They don't care as long as they can make money."

"Ah?" Hermione responded, "Ann, you asked earlier, was he actively arrested, or was he passively arrested? Not him?"

"Yes, the information I found out is that he joined two search teams and sold almost half of the Muggle wizards in the teams."

Hermione exclaimed, and the expressions of Harry and Ron changed, as if they had just eaten a fly.

"I..." Harry opened his mouth.

"I didn't expect such people to exist, right?" An said, "In fact, every society is a pyramid society, and the people living at the bottom are the most. In this world, some people live brightly, while others live darkly." .However, Tata Misien also broke the rules of the black market by doing so. I guess he was caught by someone as a trick this time."

"There are still rules in the black market?" Ron shouted.

"Of course, there are everywhere. Where there are conflicts of interests and resources, there are places." An said, "There are also some unwritten rules in the black market, otherwise how do you do business? How do you sell information?"

"Tata shouldn't be stupid, he did it twice, logically he should have taken the money and hid it." Yin Xike twirled between Ann's fingers, "He must have been caught on the way to escape. Someone wants to send him directly to Azkaban this time, tsk tsk, the Ministry of Magic has arrested about 20 people like Tata? No, no, or there are other things. There is a problem here, interesting... "

"Interesting? How interesting is this?" Ron said with a look of horror.

"From a certain point of view, assuming that we are all rational economic people, then we will follow a principle." Ann seemed interested, "that is, maximizing one's own interests, which means selfishness. Maximizing interests puts Looking at it in a free market environment, for example, the black market is a typical free market. We use this as a premise to study the economic laws and market behavior, and you will find—"

"Uh——" Ann stopped her mouth in time, and she cleared her throat in embarrassment, "This is all theoretical knowledge of economics. Let's not talk about it. In a word, Harry, you are saving people, that's right. Tata Misien is a person who can risk his life for money, this time you showed up and was discovered by him, and his behavior has nothing to do with your behavior."

Harry sat dumbfounded, blinking, and nodded blankly.

"Cough——" Ann led Hermione to stand up, "I haven't eaten dinner yet. Go to the kitchen first, I understand the situation, and you can continue talking."

After speaking, Ann pulled Hermione out of the kitchen.

Ron hung his arms, swallowed, and turned to Harry mechanically, "Ann, what did she just say? Why didn't I understand a word?"

"I didn't understand either, but she finally said it wasn't my fault."

"Well, I understand that." Ron said, and after a pause, he added, "I suddenly understand why Dumbledore chose Ann as the President of the Order of the Phoenix."

When she came to the kitchen, Ann was really hungry. Seeing the box of instant noodles in the cupboard, she took two packs at once.

"Hermione, can you half boil the pot you have at hand?" Ann said as she tore off the package.

Hermione did as she was told.An carried a large bowl with two pancakes and walked to the side of the pot, waiting for the water to boil.

"Ann, did you just say that to comfort Harry? Is it really not a big trouble?" Hermione asked as the fire was lit, retracting her wand.

Put the lid on the pot, put the instant noodle oil bag on the lid, and let the solidified oil melt.

"There is trouble." Ann said honestly, "I didn't expect Harry to save so many people at once, and these people had to be saved by the Order of the Phoenix, because they were saved by Harry Potter. The exposed inner layer of the Order of the Phoenix If the members know about this, they will definitely yell again, obviously telling them to pay attention to their own safety and not jumping up and down all the time. But there are always people who don’t listen to the persuasion and secretly do some tricks.”

"Like?" Hermione asked.

"Hagrid, Mr Weasley..." Ann blurted out, and then, "Hermione?"

"Just curious," said Hermione, "don't tell Ron and Harry."

"Okay." Ann lifted the lid, put the bread in, raised the watch, and set a 3-minute countdown.

"For Hagrid, I think you can inform Professor McGonagall, except for Dumbledore, Hagrid listens to Professor McGonagall. As for Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley is a good supervisor."

"Well, I did send a message to McGonagall and Mrs. Weasley after knowing that the two were making small moves. But I was afraid that they would be stubborn."

"That's a problem..." Hermione muttered.

Ann poured all the seasoning packets into a large bowl and mixed them with a fork.He took another bowl of cold water with a large bowl and placed it beside the pot.Opening the cupboard, Ann took out two cans of vacuum-packed hot dogs and shrimp.

After cutting the hot dog into three pieces, Ann opened the canned shrimp meat again.

"Almost forgot!" Ann said, took off the watch, and handed it to Hermione, "Hermione, when the countdown is up, you can turn off the fire, take out the noodles and put them in this bowl of cold water, okay?"

"Well, good." Hermione nodded and took the watch.

Ann walked quickly to the living room and took the backpack from the coat rack.

Open it, "The shopping bag is coming!"

Two shopping paper bags flew out of the backpack, and Ann carried the shopping bags to the kitchen.

Hermione had already fished out the noodles.Ann put down the shopping bag, stepped forward and took the fork from Hermione's hand.

"Hermione, can you get me a pair of chopsticks from that smaller shopping bag? I bought them when I came here." Ann fished out the noodles from the cold water bowl and put them into the seasoning bowl.

"Chopsticks? Good." Hermione opened a slightly smaller shopping bag, and quickly found a pair of delicately packaged wooden chopsticks from a pile of green vegetables.

"Unpack it for me and give it to me."

Hermione handed the chopsticks to Ann, and Ann rinsed the chopsticks under water, changed the fork and stirred the noodles and seasoning with the chopsticks.After stirring evenly, An poured the boiling water from the pot into the bowl. As soon as the hot water was flushed, the whole kitchen was instantly filled with the aroma of instant noodles.

Put the sliced ​​hot dogs into a bowl, serve with shrimp meat, and a bowl of steaming instant noodles is freshly baked.Cover the bowl with the lid.An explained, "Braise it, the taste of the noodles will be even better."

After about 30 seconds, An lifted the lid of the pot, picked up the noodles and nodded with satisfaction.

"It's not bad." Ann said, after sniffing, picked up a few noodles with chopsticks, and handed them to Hermione like a treasure, "Try it? I haven't cooked noodles like this for a long time, I don't know if it tastes good."

Hermione froze for a few seconds.

"Oh, wait a minute." Ann said, took the noodles back again, and blew on them, "It must be very hot." After rolling up the noodles and hanging them in the air for a while, Ann brought the noodles back to Hermione , with bright eyes, said, "Try it?"

Looking into Ann's amber eyes, Hermione opened her mouth slightly and bit her face.

After successfully feeding Hermione noodles, An Xiao narrowed her eyes.

"Is it tasty?"

Hermione nodded, swallowed the noodles in her mouth, "It's delicious."

An took the noodles, picked them up with chopsticks, and ate a big mouthful.Nodding, she walked to the inner side of the rectangular kitchen with her face turned. The wooden cabinet below had a bright red square that looked like a button.

"Stay away a little bit. Take a step back." An Duan said with a serious face.

Hermione took a step back, and Ann kicked the red button, and the flat wooden cabinet door began to rise slowly, and finally stopped, forming a table-like thing.

Putting the bowl on the table, Ann pulled out the stacked high stools from the open cabinet.There were only two high stools. Ann arranged the stools, walked to the shopping bag, took out a small watermelon that could be held by one hand from the big shopping bag, and cut it horizontally two centimeters below the melon pedicle with a knife. , the bright red melon flesh was exposed.

A silver spoon was inserted into the pulp, and Ann happily carried the watermelon towards Hermione.

"In summer, how can there be no watermelon? I bought it in Chinatown." Ann said, handed the watermelon in her hand to Hermione, sat on the high stool, and sighed again.

Hermione sat down facing Ann, looked at the table and then at the watermelon.

"Bar table?" Hermione asked. "I've seen it on TV."

An puffed his cheeks and nodded, "It's most suitable for the kitchen, just right for two people."

Hermione smiled, scooping out a spoonful of watermelon flesh with her spoon.

Ann quickly swallowed the noodles in her mouth, and looked at Hermione eagerly.

Hermione handed over the spoon with an expression of guessing your idea, and Ann swallowed the watermelon Hermione handed over in one gulp.Sweet, the watermelon is small, but it tastes good.An swallowed the watermelon, smirked, and quickly said, "I know my girlfriend is the best."

Hermione smiled and handed over the second spoonful of watermelon pulp.

Finally, Ann left the kitchen with a full stomach.Harry was no longer in the tent, but was standing guard outside with a small bench.