Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 431 Where is your wand?
Fudge spent a long time and a lot of energy planning for tonight's hunt.

For this purpose, he also called a number of reporters to make a big fuss about this incident.

Now, the mark of the Dark Lord that has disappeared for more than ten years has reappeared. This is big news.

Rita Skeeter suddenly became excited and immediately rushed into the dark woods. When no one was paying attention, she turned into a beetle and flew towards the place where the Dark Lord's mark was cast.

Fudge said to Scrimgeour, "You are in charge here. I will go over and take a look."

Scrimgeour nodded and began to direct the closing of the net.

Fudge turned to look at Dumbledore, who said, "I will go with you."

Fudge called a few Aurors and went with Dumbledore to the place where the Dark Mark was cast.

Ron, Hermione, Neville and Fred hurriedly ran from the dark woods to the clearing, and were then surrounded by Fudge and others.

Fudge's face was distorted with anger. He thought that the young people had played a prank and caused the current incident. He asked angrily, "Did you conjure up the Dark Mark?"

Fred immediately waved his hand and shook his head to deny: "Mr. Minister, we didn't release this."

"We are looking for Charles. We just heard some movement in the dark woods over there. Someone said a spell like 'shit bones' or something, and the skull appeared."

Fudge obviously didn't believe him, and perhaps he was eager to find someone to blame, so he sneered and said, "So, you just came out from there and you still know the spell?"

At this point Dumbledore said, "I don't think they did it."

Fudge's face didn't look good. The conflict between him and Dumbledore was already known to everyone who understood. Today, he only restrained his actions through cooperation and division of labor in order to prevent him from participating too much in the closing of the net.

Now Dumbledore contradicted himself, making Fudge routinely unhappy.

Dumbledore ignored the Minister and asked Fred, "Are you sure it's in that direction?"

Fred immediately responded, "Yes, Professor!"

Dumbledore nodded, turned to Fudge and said, "I'll go take a look, maybe I can find some clues."

Fudge naturally would not refuse, and asked two Aurors to follow.

Dumbledore cast a spell, and many shiny footprints appeared on the ground, which were very conspicuous in the dark woods.

Not long after, he found the unconscious house-elf in the woods.

Next to the house-elf, the footprints of the house-elf and another person came all the way here, and the footprints of the other person disappeared not far away.

Dumbledore turned to an Auror and said, "Dawlish, please tell the Minister right away to bring some Aurors with you if Scrimgeour is available."

Dawlish left quickly, and Dumbledore asked another Auror to watch the house-elves while he walked around.

Soon Fudge and the Aurors came over with Fred and others. Along the way, Hermione kept explaining why she was looking for Charles.

"Sparkling?"

At this time, Dumbledore made the woods bright and bright, just like daytime.

Hermione recognized at a glance that the house-elf lying on the ground was Winky who had been sitting behind her while watching the game.

Fudge also recognized Winky and asked the Auror to bring her over.

Something surprising happened.

As the Auror picked up Winky, she clenched a wand tightly in her lowered hand.

According to the relevant laws and regulations of the Ministry of Magic, house-elves are prohibited from owning and using wands.

And according to the education of house-elves, they basically will not touch the wand on their own initiative unless their master asks them to do so.

Fudge's face turned even worse, and he wondered if this matter had anything to do with Barty Crouch?

However, accidents happened one after another.

Ron exclaimed, "That's Harry's wand!" Neville also said, "Why is Harry's wand here?"

They had lived in the same dormitory with Harry for three years, so naturally they would not make a mistake.

Dumbledore would not admit his mistake.

After the Dark Mark appeared, he didn't say much, but was thinking.

But he couldn't figure out how Harry's wand ended up in Winky's hand.

Fudge said in a deep voice: "Could it be that the Dark Mark is Potter... uh... this is impossible."

Not to mention that they had just seen Harry displaying his prowess among those wizards, every sensible British wizard knew that it was Harry who killed Voldemort.

It is better to believe that Harry is Merlin than to believe that he created the Dark Mark. You can get an Order of Merlin by giving him fifty Galleons.

Dumbledore said solemnly: "I will go get Potter."

He left after he finished speaking.

Now the encirclement began to shrink, and the Aurors and staff of the Ministry of Magic were knocking down the wizards running around one by one from the outside to the inside, like peeling an onion.

"The water is as clear as a spring!"

The tsunami waves more than ten meters high knocked down a large group of wizards to the ground and pushed them forward like a bulldozer, and everyone rolled into a ball.

Harry broke out in a cold sweat as the wave passed by him at a distance of only a palm.

Then he saw Seamus waving at him over there.

Harry ran over and was almost mistaken for an enemy by the staff of the Ministry of Magic on the way.

Seamus put his arm around Harry's shoulders and stepped back, saying excitedly, "Hey, you're in the spotlight!"

Harry asked him, "Why are you here?"

Seamus said: "I escorted my mother and others to the stadium, where I saw Ron looking for Charles. I heard you were here, so I came to help you."

"After I came here, I met an Auror I knew, so I acted with them."

He looked at the black-robed wizards who were beginning to show their investment, and said, "I really didn't expect that you would dare to rush in."

Harry said gloomily, "I just fell in the woods and my wand fell out. I didn't find it."

"Someone was about to cast a spell on Mr. Smith, and I rushed over without giving it much thought."

Seamus asked in surprise, "Charles didn't give you this?"

He said, showing Harry his wand, which had several circles of clear tape on the bottom.

"What is this?" Harry asked.

Seamus handed Harry his wand and told him to walk a dozen steps away.

Harry did so, and Seamus waved his hand and said "Wand here", and the wand flew back to Seamus' hand.

He walked back to Seamus and said, "That's a really nice thing. Charles gave it to you?"

Harry wanted this very much. Not to mention the wand, he had to stick a circle of it on his glasses so that he wouldn't lose it when he needed it.

Seamus said, "It's a gift from the Dancing Grass restaurant's points draw. My mother lent my VIP card to my friends in Diagon Alley, and it was drawn in the draw a few days ago."

The two chatted for a while, and then Dumbledore appeared with a serious expression.

Dumbledore asked Harry, "Where's your wand, Potter?"

Harry scratched his head and replied, "I just fell in the woods and fell out."

(End of this chapter)