[Zhongyingmei] My dad is Voldy

A few minutes later, the Minister of Magic opened the door and came out. He was a tall, thin, middle-aged man, slightly bald, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and looked very elegant, but judging from the sharp eyes behind his glasses Well, the Minister for Magic is not one to be easily fooled.The minister's face was puzzled, but he still smiled kindly, "Miss Riddle, Mr. Malfoy, and this...?"

"This is Hermione Granger." Anita introduced.

"Ms. Granger, hello. Nice to meet you, come in." The minister let a few people into the door, "Please sit down."

"Nice to meet you, Secretary Prewett." Anita and the others sat on the sofa.

"The last time I met Headmaster Dumbledore, Hogwarts was still a boarding school." Minister Puvit said, looking at the three of them with raised eyebrows.

"Well, it still is," said Anita brazenly, "so it would be best if you could not tell Professor Dumbledore or any of the professors at Hogwarts about our coming to the Ministry of Magic." Yes, Uncle Prewett."

Minister Prewett shook his head with a smile, "Okay, for the sake of calling me uncle. Anyway, I never liked Dumbledore very much. But it's just this time, not as an example. Tell me, what do you want from me?" Matter? Solve it early and go back earlier."

"We're here to ask you a favor," said Anita.

Minister Prewett looked at Anita meaningfully, "Can you help me?"

"It's my personal request." Anita was a little embarrassed, "May I check the population records."

"Population records?" Secretary Puvit frowned in confusion.

"Yes." Anita said, "Population records. Well, our History of Magic dissertation needs to analyze the population development of the British wizarding community, and the Hogwarts library does not have this information."

Minister Puvit did not believe Anita's reason, but the population records are not confidential information, and there is nothing wrong with showing them to Anita, so Minister Puvit readily agreed, "No problem, what period do you need?" of?"

"Last ten years. Thanks, Uncle Prewett."

"You're welcome." Minister Puvit wrote a note, stamped it with the official seal of the Minister of Magic, folded it into a paper airplane, and sent it out. After a while, Percy knocked on the door with a small roll of parchment.

"Thank you." Minister Puvit took the parchment and handed it to Anita, "This is the population of births and deaths in the wizarding world in the past ten years. Among them, the number of newborns is only from pure-blood or mixed-blood families. They are only registered when they enter Hogwarts."

Anita opened the scroll, and the three gathered together to read it.

To be honest, the population of the British wizarding community is really pitifully small, with only about thirty newborns each year, but this number has changed since two years ago.Two years ago, 43; a year ago, 51; this year, 53, but it is only October, which means that the total number of newborns this year is likely to exceed 60.

The three exchanged a look. It seemed that they had read it correctly. Slytherin's curse had indeed restricted the population of the wizarding world.

Sensitively aware of something, Secretary Prewett asked, "Is there a question?"

"No." Anita shook her head, hesitated, and said tentatively, "There have been a lot of newborns in recent years."

"Yeah." Minister Puvitt said happily, "It's a good thing, isn't it? Because of the civil war triggered by Voldemort, there have been a lot of deaths in recent years, and the increase in newborns has just made up for this gap. I think it may be Without the threat of Voldemort, everyone is in the mood... Ahem, everyone is in the mood to pay attention to the reproduction of wizards."

"Yeah, that's a good thing." Anita murmured, but her tone was not as sure as her words.

"Thank you very much for your help, Uncle Prewett, excuse me." Anita said goodbye to Minister Prewett.

"You're welcome. If you need my help in the future, just come to me at any time, but don't play truant again." Minister Puvit said, "Okay, go back early and pay attention to safety."

The three said goodbye to Percy again, and told him not to tell others about their whereabouts, and then returned to Hogsmeade Village, and returned to Hogwarts with other students, and no one else noticed anything unusual.

"It's a good thing that I broke the curse, right?" On the way back, Anita couldn't help confirming to Draco.

"Of course," Draco said, "if the curse was still there, Leon would probably never have been born. Of course it's a good thing, you like Leon a lot, don't you?"

"But, Salazar Slytherin must have his reasons for doing this, right?" Anita still had doubts. The Slytherin she knew was definitely not a crazy person. More importantly, although Slytherin Ambitious and eager for power, but he will never do anything to harm the interests of the wizarding world.

"Maybe it has something to do with the peace agreement between wizards and Muggles at that time?" Hermione guessed, "Didn't you say that because of that agreement, the Muggle government's efforts to control the wizarding world have been unsuccessful? Maybe such an agreement Wizards also have to pay a certain price."

"Whatever the reason, 1000 years have passed, and it is difficult for us to verify it." Draco said, "It is very likely that the reason why Slytherin put this curse at that time does not exist now. We just need to be sure now , the increase in the population of the wizarding world is a good thing, do you all agree with this?"

Both Anita and Hermione nodded, "You are right."

That being said, Anita was still uneasy. She decided to talk to the Sorting Hat. As Godric Gryffindor's hat, the Sorting Hat might know something inside.

Anita borrowed the sorting hat from Dumbledore. The sorting hat is still tattered and crumpled. Fortunately, it is not dirty. Since Anita unexpectedly cleaned up the sorting house when she was in the sorting house After the Sorting Hat expressed its liking, Dumbledore would bathe the Sorting Hat regularly, which also made Anita the Sorting Hat's favorite student.

Anita put the hat on her head, and a hoarse voice cheerfully rang in Anita's ear, "Long time no see, Anita."

"Long time no see, how are you?" Anita was a little guilty. She promised to chat with the lonely and dusty Sorting Hat in the principal's office when she was free, but it was only when she was in the first and second grades that she would often Going to listen to the Sorting Hat nagging about the past. Later, she made various things and was involved in various things, so she rarely had time to chat with the Sorting Hat.

"I'm fine. How about you?" The Sorting Hat didn't mind. "You seem to have something on your mind. Is there something bothering you, Anita?"

"Well... can you tell me what Salazar Slytherin was like?"

"If you ask me about Godric, I can talk about it for a few years, but about Salazar, to be honest, I don't know much." The Sorting Hat said, "Salazar is a very silent person , he always likes to keep things in his heart and rarely shares what is on his mind with others."

"He always shared his thoughts with Gryffindor, didn't he?" Anita asked. "You know, given the relationship between the two of them."

"Hey, how do you know?" the Sorting Hat asked in surprise.

Anita blinked innocently, "Know what? Do you know that the two of them are good friends?"

"Yes, that's right, the two of them are very good friends." The Sorting Hat changed the subject in a panic, "So what do you want to know?"

"Do you know about Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets?"

"Where Salazar kept his pets? Oh, I know that place. Godric had always objected to Salazar keeping the basilisk at Hogwarts, and Salazar assured Godric that the basilisk was loyal." Creatures, but Godric is not at ease, because the basilisk is a creature created by Salazar, only under the control of the Parseltongue, and Godric is worried that once they are no longer in Hogwarts, no one will be able to control the basilisk And Godric also disapproved of Salazar’s act of creating life. Godric said that creation is the domain of God. But Salazar insisted very much, but he refused to say what he had with the basilisk Yes, the two of them had argued many times over the basilisk.

This wasn't the only reason Godric and Salazar were at odds, either, as the two had fought frequently in the years leading up to Salazar's departure.Salazar became very strange, he was always unhappy, always sullen and irritable, and he didn't want to communicate with Godric.In the past, although Godric and Salazar had very different personalities, they always understood each other's ideas and were willing to respect each other's ideas.But later, Godric told me wearily, he didn't think he knew Salazar at all.

Then one day, after Salazar and Godric had a big fight, Salazar left quietly without leaving Godric a word.Godric waited for a long time and he didn't come back. Later, Godric told Rowena and Helga that he was going to find Salazar and left too.Neither of them came back, not even when Rowena and Helga died.But I think Godric must have found Salazar, after all, there is a soul contract between the two of them, as long as..."

"Soul contract?" Anita caught the word on the tip of her ear. Is it the kind of marriage contract that Tom and Irene signed?

"Ah... that... the soul contract is, it is the contract signed by wizards thousands of years ago for the convenience of contacting at any time. Only those who trust the other party will sign this kind of contract." The sorting hat said nonsense, Anita curled her lips secretly, The Sorting Hat tried to divert Anita's attention, "Let's talk about why Salazar ran away."

"you know?"

"I don't know, Salazar never said it, maybe even Godric didn't know about it." The Sorting Hat said, "But I have a guess, do you want to listen?"

"Okay." Anita said, but she had reservations about the accuracy of the Sorting Hat's conjecture. After all, the Sorting Hat didn't seem to know the real Chamber of Secrets, and the existence of the bodies of Lytherin and Gryffindor in the Chamber of Secrets.