Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 167 Undercurrent
Seeing McGuffin like this, Mr. Weasley said, "Have some tea, it will help you relax..."

He had thought that McGuffin was nervous about going to the Ministry of Magic.

McGuffin took a small sip.

Similarly, Mr. Weasley took off his glasses, rubbed his tired eyes, took a sip of his own cup of milk tea, then raised his head and looked at McGuffin with a smile, "Is it a lot easier now?"

"Indeed, thank you! Mr. Weasley."

Mr. Weasley continued to comfort, "You don't have to be so polite, McGuffin! ... Besides, the Ministry of Magic is not a big deal, no one will specifically embarrass an 11-year-old wizard like you! Take it easy, just..."

"Just describe what happened that night and record it... Don't be nervous, McGuffin! Maybe what I just said misunderstood you a bit."

——No, I did not misunderstand.

McGuffin thought to himself.

Harry and he were also witnesses if a record was to be made, but the Ministry of Magic did not notify it.

This is clearly a soft persimmon... Seeing that he is a little Muggle-born wizard, Dumbledore first tested him.

It's a pity that if this kind of temptation didn't happen to him, he would be happy to watch the show.

mpp! !
McGuffin doesn't want to be cannon fodder for a power struggle between Dumbledore and Fauci.

He could see clearly that now it was just Fauci's temptation to Dumbledore.

Even if Dumbledore had no interest in the throne of the British Minister of Magic, this did not prevent his conflict with Fauci.

——In other words, this dispute has already laid the fuse, and it depends on when and what is ignited and detonated.

As far as he knew, the two positions of the British Minister of Magic and the Headmaster of Hogwarts were lifelong, although this was based on the realistic considerations made by the authority of the wizarding world.

But it also contributed to the natural power struggle between the two positions of the Minister of Magic and the Headmaster of Hogwarts. This structural and deep-seated power struggle is determined by the positions of these two positions.

It will not be transferred by the will of the individual.

If you dig deeper, you can find that every student who graduates from Hogwarts can be said to be a unit with combat effectiveness. With a little training, these young wizards can become an army.

Didn't Voldemort just want to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts?

Influence students in schools to cultivate their own party members, organize an army to seize power?
And there are also the parents of those children, all of these... the inextricable connections form a natural network of relationships, and Hogwarts itself can be regarded as a natural power center.

Just use a little...

It can influence, even fight against the violent authority of the Ministry of Magic.

And not to mention that even in the perception of people in the Ministry of Magic... Dumbledore far exceeds Fauci, the current Minister of Magic, in terms of magical power and prestige.

It is conceivable that whenever a wizard utters the name of Dumbledore, how annoying and harsh it will sound to Fauci, not to mention that these wizards are largely his subordinates...

All of this keeps him in a state of fear, doubt and contradiction.

usually……

Fauci will think that Dumbledore is his biggest threat, and he will do everything possible to find every opportunity to attack Dumbledore's reputation, drive him down from the position of Hogwarts principal, and then let his so-called own people take control of this position, preferably an incompetent, annoying, clown-like wizard, who has no way to be the headmaster of Hogwarts is the best.

of course……

When his throne of power is in crisis, Fauci will also try to reconcile with Dumbledore,...will use Harry's potential reputation in the wizarding world...to do everything possible to protect his rights.

In short, in Fauci's view, no matter whether Dumbledore wants to fight for power or not in his heart, as long as he is still the principal of Hogwarts, and has the kind of fame that he can't wait for in the wizarding world...

Dumbledore will be Fauci's biggest and most obvious enemy on the way to defend his rights.

This has nothing to do with good or bad, morality and reason are just a politician's greedy instinct for power.

With Mr. Weasley's words, McGuffin's thoughts came back to reality.

"Okay, let's stop here...McGuffin, go outside and find Ron Harry and the others to play!"

Mr. Weasley couldn't know what was going on in the head of the little wizard in front of him. Looking at McGuffin's gloomy and ugly face, he thought it would be better for him to stop here tonight.

Anyway, the time is still very long, and it will not be too late to talk about it tomorrow or in two days.

Moreover, Mr. Weasley also has a feeling in his heart that since last year, there has been an undercurrent in the Ministry of Magic, and frequent personnel changes.

——Perhaps the matter of sending the little wizard McGuffin to the Ministry of Magic for interrogation is not as simple and simple as it seems on the surface.

Mr. Weasley smoothed out the thoughts in his heart, put away the worried look on his face, walked over and patted McGuffin on the shoulder and comforted him.

"It's nothing, Professor Dumbledore said that he will be there when the time comes to answer questions about this incident... I will also accompany you to the Ministry of Magic, you don't have to be nervous."

"Just stay here as our guest for a few days, if you feel nervous... I simulated the Ministry of Magic's inquiry to give you a training session."

Mr. Weasley said at last, looking extremely serious.

McGuffin nodded, looking at Mr. Weasley's expression, he was a little flustered, as if he had noticed something.

Finally, McGuffin went outside the Burrow through the front door to find Harry and Ron, leaving only the Weasleys in the room.

It was dark at this time.

The moon is bright and clear, covered by thin clouds from time to time, making the mountains and fields dark.

Standing at the door, McGuffin could see above the slope not far away, Harry was flying in the sky on a broomstick, cheering happily through the mist from time to time.

Just as McGuffin was about to go down to join them, he heard Mrs. Weasley's fiery voice.

"Arthur Weasley! Can you set an example for your two precious sons... look at what they are now! I am really a little worried about whether they will be able to pass the OWLs in two years... Will they be able to find a suitable job in the Ministry of Magic when they graduate?"

"Molly, . . . darling, don't worry, George and Fred are smart, they'll . . . "

Before Mr. Weasley finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mrs. Weasley's yelling, "It's very clever... It's just that it's never used in the right way. It can actually change the listening device on the broken magic radio into an eavesdropping device... You think I don't know... Arthur Weasley, you helped them with this, didn't you?"

"I... I, how is that possible!"

"Okay! You are still lying... Then you said that they can't cast magic through the wand, how did they modify this thing during the summer vacation..."

——Then the sound of the metal trumpet-shaped thing being thrown on the ground came out.

Mrs. Weasley's voice became more and more impatient. She stopped lowering her voice and began to shout angrily.

"...After all, there is a father who is more like a son...Let's not talk about them, and you"

"I……"

"How would you explain the car thing to you?"

"Car? Molly, dear?"

"Yes, Arthur, the car, that car you said you wanted to take a look at, and then used magic to turn it into a flying car without telling me! Just thinking about it... makes me go crazy... Are you going to search it yourself, and then arrest yourself?"

"Oh dear, I think you'll find that's not illegal...there's no theory about this kind of thing, there's a loophole in the law...the fact that the car flies doesn't—as long as the car isn't intended to fly—"

"Arthur Weasley, you better talk like those Slytherin wizards who want to kick you out of the Ministry of Magic!..."

Hearing this, McGuffin felt that he should leave as soon as possible, in case people find that he is here to eavesdrop on the quarrel between husband and wife, it would be very embarrassing.

Just as he was about to raise his footsteps, he suddenly heard Mr. Weasley suddenly change the subject and talk about himself, so he stopped again and hid in the shadows on the edge of the house.

"Molly, I'm not worried about myself. What's more disturbing in my heart now is what happened to the little wizard McGuffin Albert?"

Mrs. Weasley quieted down a bit, but still a little aggrieved.

Then Mr. Weasley continued,
"Don't you think it's a little strange? When the Ministry of Magic has time to collect the testimony of a young wizard, and specially invites him to the Ministry of Magic to take notes."

"Have you ever heard of such a thing?"

"Arthur, what do you think? What do you mean?" Mrs. Weasley's voice softened.

"I think this has something to do with the undercurrent in the Ministry of Magic this year, and it's related to the transfer of personnel above..."

"You mean Fauci? Why? McGuffin is just a child born in a Muggle family with wizard talent?"

"Maybe it's because he's an ordinary little Muggle wizard . . . that he's being treated like this."

"These people from the Ministry of Magic really... only do this kind of thing!" said Mrs. Weasley angrily. "Is the poor child going to be all right?"

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it... This time it's probably Fauci's temptation to Dumbledore..."

"But since Harry, Harry Potter went to Hogwarts to study, Fauci became more and more suspicious, for fear that Dumbledore would use Harry to cause danger to his throne of Minister of Magic... Even I can clearly see this kind of thinking!"

"Think about what those bragging flatterers will do?"

"The magic world... Hogwarts will not be peaceful! I'm afraid Fauci will use every opportunity to target Hogwarts and Dumbledore."

"It's ridiculous and stupid! By the way, Arthur, do you think that the house-elf that Harry met had anything to do with it?"

"No, although Fauci's brain has been corrupted by power and has become stupid, but at least there are means and judgments, so he won't directly do anything at Hogwarts to frame Dumbledore!"

"And this Ministry of Magic cleanup of dark witchcraft magic items... I suspect..."

"Arthur, then you have to be careful, don't let other people get hold of it..."

"It's okay, I won't pose any threat to Fauci, so..."

"..."

The voices of the two talking became smaller and smaller, intermittently, and gradually became inaudible.

McGuffin was afraid that the Weasleys would find out that they were eavesdropping, so they lowered their voices.He had no choice but to leave quickly and quietly, and went down to find Harry and Ron.

He thought about the words he had just heard.

——McGuffin himself knew the causal relationship behind the whole story by relying on the foresight of the plot and the whole story.

The Weasleys understood it from the usual clues.

——No one is a fool, if McGuffin really regards this as a story, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive a back and forth...

McGuffin knew that he had to be careful in order to safely graduate from the future of Hogwarts.

……

The next day, after getting up at the Burrow.

Looking at Mrs. Weasley's expression in the kitchen, McGuffin didn't seem to know that he had eavesdropped on their speech last night, so he relaxed in his heart.

After breakfast, Mr. Weasley left for work early.

The twins were then sent by Mrs. Weasley to rid the garden of gnomes as punishment for their eavesdropping the night before.

"You two go out to the garden to get rid of those goblins, they're making a fuss again... and they're starting to hurt the plants in the garden."

"Let's go help them, the McGuffin and I haven't seen what a goblin looks like yet," Harry said, and the McGuffin nodded in agreement.

Harry wanted to see what a goblin looked like, but McGuffin felt guilty.

— Mrs. Weasley's eavesdropping... He always felt that he was also forgiving of himself.

In the end, McGuffin took the book "Removing One Hundred Kinds of Household Pests" written by Gillot Lockhart, which Mrs. Weasley eagerly handed them, with great difficulty, and hurried outside with Ron and the others to help the twin brothers get rid of the goblins.

The Weasley family's garden is very large, overgrown with weeds and lush with various plants. The entire garden is surrounded by many intertwined trees, and there are clusters of flower beds inside, where flowers of various colors are competing to bloom.

Not far away is a green pond, from which fish or other things jump out from time to time. A few tortoises lie lazily basking in the morning light on the rocks on the shore, and a few large and amazing toads are bulging fish eyes. They are not flying and sticking out their tongues, hunting flies for food.

McGuffin saw many familiar magical herbs in the garden, and they were planted in the specially opened medicine garden.

He knew why those goblins had to be cleared every once in a while, not only because the garden was full of noisy, annoying little goblins, but also because these guys had already started to break into the medicine fields separated by stones.

Goblins are about the size of an ordinary egg, with rough, firm skin, a large round head, and a mouth full of fangs.

These small creatures gnaw easily on plants with their sharp teeth, and generally feed on garden roots, and some also eat some insects and small animals.

They will destroy the ecological balance of the garden, live in groups, and can dig complex caves that are even tens of meters deep underground. According to rumors, there are even simple dwellings built in imitation of humans.

Goblins have simple intelligence and can communicate with wizards in small amounts.

"Ron, do these goblins have magic too? Can't Muggles see them?" McGuffin caught a goblin to observe carefully, which made the weird and ugly little guy scream loudly and curse at him, telling him to let go of himself.

"Let me go, let me go, you idiot!" the goblin screamed.

Ron laughed, "Oh, Muggles can see it too, but they think it's a little Santa Claus, chubby, walking around the garden with a fishing rod..."

Ron always thought goblins were like Santa Claus.

McGuffin and Harry didn't understand why Christmas was celebrated at Hogwarts, and wizard families also celebrated Christmas. Wizards gave gifts to each other, but Ron didn't know what Santa Claus looked like.

(End of this chapter)