Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 481 Join forces
The atmosphere in Farbatten Castle was a bit tense today. As soon as department heads arrived at work, they held a high-level confidentiality meeting, and then each department dispatched its best and brightest to the laboratory to conduct confidential research.

No one knew what was going on, only that the leaders were nervous.

Furong served as a clerk at the first meeting of the company's opening. She had a clerical position, so there was an office of her own here, but she did not receive a penny of salary due to attendance issues. However, she only found out about this today.

She was just an ordinary clerk and could not be involved in confidential research, so she could only write a note and give it to Penelope Clearwater in the administrative department, who then passed it on to other senior executives.

Erica said to Fleur as she waited for a response, "I thought Charles had given you a high position where you could get paid without having to work."

Furong was a little unhappy and pouted, "Am I just a vase in your eyes?"

Erica knew she had stepped on a landmine and immediately changed the subject: "You are going to graduate next year, what kind of job do you plan to do?"

Furong said, "I plan to work as a curse breaker at Gringotts. There is a training class there specifically for curse breaker training."

Erica looked at her with a smile, as if she said nothing, but also as if she said something.

She had read about Charles' recruitment information and found that they needed various talents, among which the average salary for curse-breaking and encryption talents was the highest.

Furong seemed to be seen through her thoughts, she glared back and asked her, "What about you?"

Erica said: "I won the Muggle lottery and I plan to buy a farm to grow garlic."

Furong had a few question marks on her head, and asked in confusion: "Maybe my English is not very good, what do you want to plant?"

Erica didn't waste any time explaining. She took out her wand and turned a quill on the desk into a garlic.

Furong's eyes widened and she asked incredulously, "Aren't you a vampire?"

Erica said proudly, "Who says vampires can't grow garlic?"

She made a lot of sense, and Fleur couldn't argue with that.

Erica said mysteriously again: "You'd better check if there are any girls in the company who only get high salaries but do no work, or do very little work, hehehe."

Furong rolled her eyes at her, but said with a guilty conscience: "You can't check everything. You don't know what you'll find out."

Erica smiled and said, "You have so little confidence in Charles?"

Furong's face looked a little strange as her thoughts were spoken of.

Erica asked her, "Are you not confident in your abilities other than your beauty?"

Although Furong didn't want to admit it, after getting to know a lot of friends through Charles, she looked at them from a new perspective and suddenly realized that many of them had careers that they were proud of, but she did not.

For example, Valentina of Kodostorize always wanted to fly higher, and after graduation she went to a secret agency to continue her career; Catherine of Vagado has been committed to breakthroughs in Transfiguration, and did not stop even when she was suppressed by the academic clique and moved away; Louis Mantz, who is also a student of Beauxbatons, his family arranged a road for him that leads directly to the Minister of Magic, but he resolutely gave up his superior life and came to Farbatten Castle for his ideals; the same is true for Erica in front of him. Although she doesn't understand why a vampire would grow garlic, she seems proud of it.

And his father, after coming to Hogwarts, he became many times more energetic than before.

Even his own sister began to secretly learn painting under Charles' persuasion.

Not to mention Charles, Furong didn't know how much he had done. It was rumored that the International Magical Federation mentioned his name from time to time.

Furong looked back at herself and realized that she hadn't achieved anything remarkable or particularly noteworthy so far.

Comparing yourself with others will only make you angry, and this made her feel frustrated.

Erica saw the opportunity and said seriously, "When you lift the Goblet of Fire at the end of the Triwizard Tournament, it will surely prove your ability."

Furong was about to say something when she suddenly felt something was wrong and her expression turned serious.

The two of them are not from the same school and usually avoid the issue of the competition. Now Erica not only brings it up on her own initiative, but it doesn't sound like a blessing. There is something wrong.

She said to Erica, "You might as well put it more clearly."

Friends are friends, but some things involve the bottom line and cannot be taken as a joke.

Erica said, "I don't know what method Hogwarts used this time. Two people participated in the competition. Don't you think they are our common enemies?" "Durmstrang believes that we should join forces with Beauxbatons to thwart Hogwarts' conspiracy."

Putting Charles's factor aside, Fleur also felt that it was extremely unfair for Hogwarts to have two warriors participating in the competition, not to mention the others from Beauxbatons.

She asked, "Did Karkaroff ask you to be his lobbyist?"

It is not a good idea for the two principals to talk directly about this matter. Having someone pass on the message can act as a mitigating factor, but it is also easy to pass on the blame.

Among the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, only Fleur and Erica were able to talk to each other after they met through Charles.

Now Furong first needs to confirm whether this is what Karkaroff meant, or whether the students have such an idea.

Erica said: "This matter has nothing to do with Professor Karkaroff. It was the idea of ​​Professor Agard and others. Krum has no objection to doing so."

A question mark popped up in Furong's head again. Who is Professor Agard?

Erica explained: "Professor Agard is the vice-president of Durmstrang and a famous herbalist."

"Krum's performance in the first two games was very bad. In the first game, he was second to last, only higher than fourth-year Finnigan. In the last game, he almost failed to rescue someone at the first level."

"Krum was the player who caught the Golden Snitch in the Quidditch World Cup. There's no reason why he should do so poorly."

"When the news got back to Durmstrang, everyone was very unhappy. Many people thought it was not Krum's fault, but Karkaroff's."

"Also, Marlene's band has been touring Eastern Europe recently, and the newspapers have been reporting on the competitions here. Many countries are also very dissatisfied with Krum's performance."

"Several newspapers said that if Krum doesn't perform well in the next competition, at least 70% of the new students will be taken away by Beauxbatons, Hogwarts, or even Kodostoriz. If this continues, Durmstrang will be in danger of being closed down."

Erica had said so much that her cheeks and tongue were getting tired.

Fleur looked her straight in the eyes and said, "'Vampire persuasion' doesn't work on me."

Erica generously admitted that she had used traditional vampire magic when she was speaking just now: "Haha, I heard that no vampire has successfully used this magic on a veela. I didn't expect that you can't do it either."

"Don't worry. Now we don't use this magic to trick people into sucking blood. We use it more for bargaining in the market."

"Hehehehe, Charles has also learned this magic, be careful about what he asks you to do."

Her tone turned into that of a weird uncle at the end and Furong rolled her eyes at her.

From Erica's words, it was discovered that the alliance between the two schools in the Triwizard Tournament bypassed Karkaroff and was arranged by the vice-headmaster of Durmstrang, which was very abnormal.

Furong asked, "Can the vice-president make the decision on this matter?"

Erica whispered, "There's been a rumor recently that Karkaroff betrayed his companions when he was in England, and someone got the relevant documents from the British Ministry of Magic. Such a shameless person shouldn't be in a high position."

Fleur understood that this matter involved an internal struggle within Durmstrang.

But she also didn't understand why this incident broke out at this time, and felt that there was a hand behind the scenes controlling everything.

Fleur promised to tell Madame Maxime about this matter and let her decide the details.

After a while, Louis Manz came to the office.

After closing the door, he said, "We already know that Charles' grandfather has been kidnapped. We are worried that there are accomplices of the kidnapper in Hogwarts and the British Ministry of Magic, so we didn't make it public."

"We are now preparing to use technical means to locate Mr. Smith, and we will have results in a while."

"Don't make it public yet, lest the kidnappers' accomplices notice."

Furong and Erica both breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

(End of this chapter)