Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 425 The Pot Comes from the Sky
"Someone wants to kidnap Mr. Smith?"

The news soon reached the ears of the Minister of Magic.

Fudge said to Scrimgeour, "Quick, go and find out!"

Scrimgeour nodded and immediately turned and strode away. It was obvious that he was a little excited.

The Ministry of Magic had an office at the Quidditch pitch, and Scrimgeour quickly led the Aurors to find the Hogwarts students who were looking for Charles in the camp, and asked them where they got the news from.

"We are here to watch the game, what are you doing!"

Daphne was the first to be arrested, and then the entire Greengrass family was taken to the Ministry of Magic.

After receiving the news, Fudge pondered for a moment and said to Scrimgeour: "Rufus, they may just be an obvious bait. We can't take it lightly."

Scrimgeour nodded and said, "The Greengrass family had some relationship with the Death Eaters in the past. This time the Death Eaters want to attack Mr. Smith. They should be testing us."

Fudge thought for a moment and said, "This means that the Death Eaters will definitely take major action. I guess it will be after the game."

"At that time, no matter who wins, they will celebrate, and the lively scene provides them with cover."

"For now, forget about the Greengrass family and focus on here."

Scrimgeour nodded, hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Should we inform Dumbledore?"

Fudge was conflicted.

He wanted the Ministry of Magic to take charge of the matter, without Dumbledore having anything to do with it.

On the other hand, he was a little worried about what cards the Death Eaters who were able to escape from Azkaban collectively had. Without Dumbledore to keep the situation under control, it might not work.

In the end, Fudge shook his head and said, "No need to inform him. I'm worried that the Death Eaters will give up their actions after seeing him. It will be difficult to lure them out again if we miss this opportunity."

Scrimgeour understood the minister's little thoughts, but this reason was very sufficient. If Dumbledore scared away the Death Eaters, all the previous work would be in vain.

"Rufus," Fudge said, talking about something else, "Do you think Project Rotten Tooth should be... internal?"

Scrimgeour paused.

"Project Rotten Tooth" is an intelligence organization plan that the Ministry of Magic will soon implement, mainly used to collect foreign intelligence.

Because of what happened to the Greengrass family today, Fudge wondered whether he should deal with it internally.

Scrimgeour immediately shook his head and rejected the Minister's idea: "That's impossible, people will burn down the Ministry of Magic!"

Seeing that he firmly denied it, Fudge said, "Then just pretend I never said it."

There were too many messes in the Ministry of Magic, such as the profit transfers of the Centaur Liaison Office's trade network, meetings at the Dancing Grass Restaurant, etc., but everyone knew about it tacitly.

If these things were watched by others, no one would feel good.

Fudge stood up from the sofa and waved his hand, and a maid figure flew over.

He said to Scrimgeour, "I'm going to deal with the Bulgarian Minister of Magic. Please leave your safety to me."

"We have to thank Charles. If it weren't for his children translating, we would have a lot of trouble at work."

Scrimgeour agreed.

The biggest problem facing the Ministry of Magic since the Quidditch World Cup is wizards and witches around the world speaking all sorts of languages.

Charles asked the Dancing Grass Restaurant to provide a group of puppets to act as translators, which greatly reduced the workload.

At the camp, the Weasleys were preparing lunch.

Although they could go to the Dancing Grass Restaurant, Arthur was used to being frugal, and perhaps thought it was fun, so he made a bonfire and fried eggs and grilled sausages. He also wanted to put a few cans that he got from somewhere on the fire without opening them, but fortunately Harry discovered it in time and prevented the cans from exploding.

Everyone gathered together to eat and chat. Arthur said to the children: "Now that Scrimgeour already knows about this, you don't have to worry about Charles' safety."

"There's still quite a while before the game starts, go out and have fun."

Harry and the others nodded.

But they didn't know that the "Smith" Scrimgeour mentioned during the conversation just now was Jack Smith. Harry and others followed his words and did not say Charles, but directly said Smith.

So, Scrimgeour also felt that it was abnormal for the Greengrass family to suddenly care about Smith. Combined with Jack's previous speech at the Three Broomsticks and the Ministry of Magic's plan, as well as the fact that the Greengrass family was one of the pure-blood families, a big pot fell from the sky.

These are none of Harry and the others’ concern, just go and have fun now.

In addition to the place where they had set up stalls before, there were also many vendors from all over the world in the camp.

Just now an Indian vendor walked by and tried to sell Arthur yogurt crispy balls, potato cakes stewed with pea sauce, curry puffs and Indian milk tea in Indian-accented English.

Fortunately, Harry came back with water and discovered it in time, stopping Arthur's attempt.

In the afternoon, there were more and more vendors, and people selling souvenirs everywhere.

There were also some small items. Harry looked at them and said, "Charles isn't here. Do you want to buy him some presents?"

He was playing with a small model of a newly purchased Firebolt, which was about the size of a finger and could fly around him and in front of him.

Hermione pointed to a stall with a Bulgarian flag on the owner's head and said, "I think he would like the yogurt apple walnut fruit cake, yogurt cheese pie and walnut chocolate cake."

Ron complained, "Is it for you to keep?"

Hermione said immediately: "I definitely won't eat it secretly!"

Ron shrugged and said, "I don't know who just ate Irish potato pancakes, oatmeal cookies, soda muffins, apple pie, clover shakes..."

Hermione began to study the weather and Harry suppressed a laugh.

When Hermione came over, Mr. Granger told Arthur not to let her eat too many sweets. Molly strictly followed the doctor's orders, which made her feel suffocated recently.

Ron said, "It's strange that you have such a sweet tooth."

Hermione said seriously: "Thinking with your brain is also very energy-consuming. When you are tired, you will be hungry. When you are hungry, sweet things can easily restore your strength."

Harry said: "That's true. We all eat chocolate and other candies to replenish our energy before playing games."

Ron curled his lips and said, "I heard from Charles that overusing your brain will cause hair loss. All the hair on the top of your head will fall out, leaving only a circle around the sides."

Harry had heard of this, and glanced over Hermione's head with some concern.

Hermione glared at them and said, "Dumbledore didn't lose his hair."

Ron said immediately: "Because he is so smart, his brain is never overused."

Harry thought that made sense.

While the three were talking, Hermione not only bought Bulgarian desserts, but also bought Norwegian waffles and almond cake rings from the stall next to her.

"Ouch!"

With a familiar knife-like move, Hermione's dessert was confiscated.

(End of this chapter)