[HP]Aluet

"I'm afraid the Ministry of Magic really doesn't intend to resist. Many people have made suggestions about lifting the restrictions on the Unforgivable Curse, but Jenkins, including those old employees, have not heard of such proposals." Moody said.

Two days passed and there was still no movement from the Ministry of Magic.

Me, Dumbledore, and Moody just left from the vicinity of the Ministry of Magic, the sky has completely darkened, and the downpour has obscured people's vision and hearing. We walked in the alley with umbrellas, and Dumbledore led us to the last In front, he even quickened his pace, and his leather shoes stepped on the ground rhythmically, splashing a lot of water.

"Yesterday, in order to deal with the dark wizard, an Auror had to use Avada Kedavra. He was dismissed from his position as an Auror and is now locked up in Azkaban... Many people in the Ministry of Magic are protesting this, but they are not There was no response, everyone was scared - tomorrow is the last day, and I think they are already planning to give up resistance for their own safety."

I bowed my head and listened silently to Moody's narration.

Dumbledore didn't say a word, he limped around until he came to a wall, tapped the brick surface with his wand, the brick surface moved, and he took the lead to walk in.

The tip of his wand emitted a red light, possibly a signal.After a few minutes, I heard footsteps in the heavy rain.

"Dumbledore."

I turned my head and was surprised to see it was Eugenina Jenkins.She moved the umbrella back, revealing a frighteningly pale face.

"I should have listened to you, earlier." Her voice was full of worry and fear, "but it's too late now, isn't it?"

"Yes, Eugenina." Dumbledore affirmed her words without showing any mercy.This made her look even worse.

"I'm afraid to take anyone now - I'm afraid he's going to plant some spies around me, you don't know, it's horrible, I guess he's trying to kill me. When this Ministry thing happened, he wanted to come Look for me, fortunately the problem was solved in time..." Her tone raised a bit, and she couldn't hear it clearly mixed with the noise of the rain, as if shivering from the cold, "What should we do now, Dumbledore , I dare not show my face..."

"What else can we do, lift the prohibition of the Unforgivable Curse, so that we can fight the dark wizard freely." Moody glared at her unhappily.It was only then that I realized that he had unknowingly added several scars on his face, and bright red ones, which probably fell recently, "Aurors suffered heavy casualties, we were obviously at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the dark wizard, and our hands were tied , sooner or later you will be defeated—"

"Absolutely not, it's not that you don't know that person's means, I can't challenge him—"

"Coward!" Moody yelled, and Dumbledore raised his hand and pushed his sleeve to stop him from speaking.

"Yes, I'm a coward. I'm not like you. I still want to live. Who doesn't want to live? If I could have predicted the current situation, I would have made a different choice instead of being here every day. Frightened for survival..." She glared at Moody.

"Delay with them first." Dumbledore's tone also lost its temperature under the heavy rain, and I found that he changed his address to Jenkins, "Who doesn't want to live, you are right, Jenkins Si, but in fact, idling is not living in my opinion.”

I bowed my head and stood behind listening to all this in secret.

"You should take the initiative to resign. The non-resistance policy may save your life, but it also humiliates all the desperate protesters. The fate of countless people is controlled by your words. You cannot bear this heavy responsibility. Mission, it may be a good thing for you to be an ordinary person who lives only for yourself." Dumbledore hid his hands in his pockets, and his brows did not relax from the beginning to the end.

"Yes, Dumbledore, I will do this, as soon as the new Minister of Magic is voted out by them, I will leave this place immediately, I swear—" Jenkins looked a little annoyed, she said sarcastically, "Only you are interested in the sages who save the world. I don't believe that you really care about those who have nothing to do with you. What's the difference between us? Aren't you afraid of death, Dumbledore? It's just that the arrow is on the line now With the sharp edge facing me, I can only be forced to make a decision, if one day you are the one who faces the crisis head-on, maybe you won't be so arrogant and sneering at me like today."

Dumbledore was still standing upright, watching her calmly, without saying a word.Jenkins snorted coldly, glanced at us hurriedly, turned around and hid in the night again.

After returning, I waited for the news from Alphard—I was not in a hurry, I began to recall and think about what I experienced in the Ministry of Magic two days ago, from the meaning of what Riddle said, "third-party forces", It doesn't seem to be under his control.

I frowned.Isn't it Rambusi?But there are many signs telling me that if it wasn't for him, it would be too much a coincidence.But if it is really him, does that mean that he is indeed disloyal to Riddle?

I can't help but recall that at the beginning, he deliberately let me hear the conversation between him and Riddle, to prove to me that Riddle only used me purely——

I remembered that when he took over the mission twice, he revealed the news of the Horcrux to me.He has indeed made a lot of contributions to Riddle's career, so I have always thought that it was the introduction that Riddle deliberately threw out, but now I changed my thinking, and I actually feel that it is more like borrowing my hand to Do a test.

What is his purpose? Could it be that he used to be a loyal believer of Grindelwald? After Grindelwald's defeat, he began to look for a new backer so that he could find an opportunity to complete his plan for Grindelwald, and Riddle, he thought The most worthy object?

If this is what I think, then Ranbusi is a ticking time bomb, buried for decades, during which he was loyal to Riddle and never made any mistakes—except for the Ravenclaw crown , but it didn't have any particularly big impact, after all ordinary spells couldn't destroy the Horcrux, and after that experience, Riddle hid it again, hiding it somewhere I don't know.

I felt a chill from the inside out.

Does that mean that those things that Riddle didn't do—or the things I thought he did, have actually been driven by a pair of hands behind the scenes, and the mastermind behind the scenes may be the one I just told him now. What about the suspicious Ranbusi?

Nothing is certain.

I was going to wait for Alphad to give me news first, and then slowly deliberate on this matter, so I waited for several months.

During this period of time, the Ministry of Magic chose to remain silent and do nothing. Black magic swept across the entire UK like a plague, and the war was not as tragic as before. Riddle did keep his promise and did not take the initiative to launch any attacks. Later, more and more people began to fall to the "Voldemort" camp, people's long-standing dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Magic broke out in this cowardly non-resistance, and even those who did not support "Voldemort" began to change their minds .They seemed to feel that having this suddenly rising dark wizard as their leader would be much stronger than the current Ministry of Magic.

It was already August when I heard from Alphard.According to what he meant, he hadn't been home for a long time, and during this period, Riddle used a third-party force as an excuse to "reconcile", but he was actually looking for someone.

I touched the hot stone, and the words on it shocked me.

[He is looking for the whereabouts of the Lin family. ]

Didn't Riddle promise Mr. Lin that he would not look for other members of the Lin family?Why did it suddenly start again...

Did he find out that the thing he got was fake?

I think it's [-]% true.

He should have realized that Mr. Lin lied to him, but he didn't know that the real "time artifact" was in my hands, and I still took the responsibility of returning it to the Lin family.Thinking of this, dense sweat broke out on my palms, I felt that I had to find out the whereabouts of the Lin family before Riddle, at least I had to guarantee that nothing would happen to them.

Fortunately, there is Alphard, otherwise I would not know about it.Once he seizes the opportunity, he doesn't know what to do in a fit of anger... If the blood of the Lin family disappears in the magic world, I won't even be able to fulfill Mr. Lin's last wish.

I absolutely cannot let this happen.

I learned from Minerva and Dumbledore that the werewolf student, Remus Lupine, used the potion, and the effect was remarkable.It made them all happy, and with the fact that the war had finally stopped for so long, we even had a 'party' at Hagrid's hut in the evening - after Hogwarts classes were all over.

"Damocles is going to give it a name. We've been discussing it for two days. It will probably be called Wolfsbane Potion. Remus' poor boy finally got his head out." Hagrid also looked very excited, He even touched the corners of his eyes, as if he was about to shed tears with excitement, but in fact we all know that he and Remus Lupine didn't have much intersection.

I guess his current emotions may be caused by our words, of course, maybe it is just because he has been suppressed for too long, and finally encountered a good thing to be happy about.

I leaned my back against the sofa, the sofa was not soft, it could even be said to be a little hard - but I still felt a moment of relief.

I don't want to say anything, and I don't want to eat anything—perhaps since decades ago, Hagrid's sausage and rock cakes have left an indelible "shadow" in my mind.

So I just smiled and watched them chatting, the warm orange light shone on the table, and also on their hair and cheeks. For the first time, I felt that being crowded in a small room in summer did not feel stuffy and uncomfortable, but very refreshing.

My eyes turned to the window, and there was still the pumpkin field outside the window. These pumpkins looked so fresh no matter what time they were, and they were so big that they blocked my view of Hogwarts Castle.

Through the windows of the castle, I saw sporadic lights that were still on. Except for a few birds singing on the branches, everything seemed so quiet that it even made people feel sleepy.

But I feel that even if I am lying in the comfortable bed at this time, I may not be willing to close my eyes.

It's so rare.

When this idea came up, I felt a moment of melancholy again.

Because in the past, every day was so peaceful.