Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 179 Crooked Mouth!Crooked mouth!Still crooked!

All the wizards watched Fauci and his chief secretary whispering in the corner of the room, discussing something.

Fauci's expression kept changing,
From worry, anger, to sighs, to fear... In the end, his pancake face was pale and trembling like it was covered with white flour.

And McGuffin watched the rest of the room exchange glances, looking at Cornelius Fauci... Their eyes were full of doubts about whether Fauci could secure the position of Minister of Magic.

Especially between the Auror Command... McGuffin now understood why Lucius Malfoy was dragging his feet here.

——He also saw that Fauci might fall this time!

A lot of trouble will be involved if this matter goes deeper. Although most people know about the greed and corruption of the Ministry of Magic, since the Minister of Magic is not involved, everyone is in peace. But now... I am afraid that there will be a major earthquake in the Ministry of Magic.

And McGuffin saw that even a wizard like Mr. Weasley was also involved, of course... after all, he also worked in this Ministry of Magic.

Among them, Umbridge and Lucius Malfoy are obviously furtive.

Umbridge moved closer to Malfoy, almost in a flattering tone.

Taking advantage of Fauci's inattention and discussing with Lucius in a low voice, I don't know what the hell is going on?

McGuffin observed everyone with interest, but accidentally met another eye who was also examining him with interest.

— Gan!The old bee!
On the other hand, Fauci was scared enough, so at the suggestion of David Goodman, he began to find a way to deal with the portrait.

He originally wanted to burn the damn painting with a spell, but Goodman disagreed.

"Minister, do you think...if there is a wizard interview from [Daily Prophet] tomorrow...if you can't show this painting, the whole thing will turn into a cover-up of your scandal, full of lies...you will even be suspected of wasting the public property of the government department...there will be a reputation for corruption..."

"The most important thing now is not to pursue accountability and catch the criminals, but to quickly deal with the damaged image of the Minister in this incident, and see if you can recover the remaining losses..."

"I, this, this..."

"……so be it!"

Cornelius Fauci finished his conversation with Goodman, turned to the other wizards who were watching them, and announced that as long as the painting was restored, he would not pursue what happened today.

But no one here automatically stood up and admitted that he had tampered with and taken away the magic runes from the original picture frame.

In fact, the two culprits were still sleeping soundly in McGuffin's pockets!
Among the wizards here, only Umbridge was eager to dispel the bad image he had just left in the Minister's heart.

She hurriedly took out her wand and rushed to the portrait, trying to do something.

It's a pity that most wizards here know that this old toad is flattering, and he has a way of flattering him.
As for attainments in magic?
Gee!

These two words are enough to express everyone's opinion.

as predicted……

She slid back and forth on the frame with her wand, and carefully cast a few small spells. Apart from causing ridicule, the only change was probably that after the spell collided with the spell attached to her own portrait, a few sparks appeared, almost burning a big hole in the entire portrait.

Under the attention of Fauci's increasingly suspicious eyes, Umbridge didn't know what kind of spell he started to cast.

The effective effect is quite full, which is very bluffing.

Countless black lightning flashed around the wand she swung.

"Fix it fast!" she read aloud.

This surprised McGuffin, just... a [Repair Curse]?
But other wizards didn't think so. .

Rufus opened his mouth wide, trying to grab his wand to stop it, and looked.

McGuffin heard Mr. Weasley muttering to himself before him, "Using a powerful spell at the Ministry of Magic... is this guy crazy?"

He heard someone next to him explain that powerful spellcasting is a method of casting spells similar to black witchcraft, which can strengthen the effect of casting spells by extracting one's own magic power, and even some dangerous methods are cast by extracting other people's magic power or soul.

This kind of magic is easy to get out of control and backfire on the caster, but because most pure-blood wizards regard it as a symbol of their own status, so although the law does not explicitly prohibit powerful spellcasting, it is still not advocated by the Ministry of Magic, or even secretly banned.

Casting spells like this in front of most of the Auror wizards in the Ministry of Magic is simply a slap in the face of these Aurors.

——No wonder their complexion is not very good!
But in the end... Umbridge's spell was cast.

A black lightning bolt hit the portrait.

at last……

The mouth of that portrait gradually began to flatten and gradually returned to its original shape.

But before Fauci could smile, it immediately returned to its original shape like a spring rebound, and the angle was more warped and fuller.

——√
And with this backlash.

——duang! (McGuffin automatically added a special effect in his mind.)
That Fauci's hair suddenly bounced, like a wig bouncing on his forehead, like a yo-yo with a string.

——duang——Duang——Duang!

After a few strokes, the hair falls to the ground and the portrait is bald!

- Naked, shiny, shiny!

This is not as good as before?
Describe it like this!That portrait has now changed from [minister with crooked mouth] to [monk with crooked mouth]!

Seeing the hair falling from the head, everyone in the room looked at the original owner, Fauci, the Minister of Magic of the United Kingdom.

his hair?

The suspicious eyes of everyone made Fauci so angry that his brains burst out of his ears.

He gritted his teeth and said nothing.

The petrified man didn't dare to move, but the trembling Umbridge pulled him away.

He really couldn't stand it anymore, and prepared to do it himself.

"Restore as ever!" "Restore as ever!"

The characters in the portraits can be regarded as suffering, the mouth is crooked, the smile is constantly moving back and forth, ... and the hair is not cut in the middle, even if the ends are short, it will either give you a braid, or it will not give you a complete hairstyle.

Lucius Malfoy stepped forward and said directly, "Why don't you let me try!"

"you?"

"We, the Malfoy family, still know a little about the application of magic patterns!"

Fauci walked away dubiously, mainly because he was a little exhausted and dizzy from this incident, and there was really no other way to help him.

Mr. Malfoy took out his cane, twisted the silver-encrusted dragon head handle, and separated from the cane.

He printed the tail of the handle of the faucet on the four frames of the portrait, and traces of burning flames appeared continuously on the metal frame, as if some kind of small snake was entwined, and the handwriting seemed to be alive.

The portrait itself was like waves on the surface of the water... After the waves calmed down, finally...

——duang!
Special effects were added, and Fauci's hair came back.

After waiting for a while, seeing no signs of recovery and making them happy for nothing, Fauci finally smiled with satisfaction, walked forward, shook hands with Lucius Malfoy cordially, and even turned his head to look at Dumbledore with a provocative look.

——like saying that I can do it without you!

However, when he came to the portrait and looked it over carefully, he felt that the constantly beating flame rune on the frame was really an eyesore,

——How can this be taken out to deal with tomorrow's reporter's interview?So he picked up his wand and touched it, ready to eliminate.

Before Lucius could stop this guy, the four flame runes that had been left behind suddenly sprayed like fireworks and disappeared...

And the portrait, as expected, returned to its original state, and it was even better.

Both sides of the face of the portrait are blooming at the same time!
The original crooked mouth √—(evolved into) Clown V.

How can this be done? It simply violates the muscles of the human face!

This... This, I said, why is it so familiar, isn't this a Gotham City clown?
Perhaps the only consolation is that only the hair is installed, no longer bald!

In the end, Lucius Malfoy voluntarily lost his way, leaving a mess, and Umbridge took this opportunity to leave behind him.

Fauci finally looked at Dumbledore and the Magic Maintenance Department, and finally chose to compromise with his subordinates.

After he promised to increase the salary of the wizards in the maintenance department of the Ministry of Magic, the group of wizards went to the office on the floor below to find a few old metal magic patterns and installed them.

This absurd farce is over.

Something is wrong with the portrait, though!

What the hell is going on with that moustache on the lips of the figure above the portrait 'Fauci'... right in the middle?

Fauci turned around and asked the wizard at the Magic Maintenance Department.

"This is an old model. If you want to cancel it, you still need to debug it... If the magic pattern is damaged during debugging, you can only import a new batch..."

"But our ministry doesn't have a budget right now, and we don't have the time. Isn't the minister going to use it tomorrow? Compared to modifying portraits, you might as well use potions or spells to give yourself some beards, which is easier and safer..."

When Fauci thought about it, it made some sense. Now the ministry doesn't have much money left on the books, and even just promised to give them a salary increase, so he agreed.

And thinking of the previous two Bai Huanxi events just now, he felt lingering fear, and really didn't want to do anything wrong.

only……

"Why do I feel a little familiar! This mustache!" Fauci still felt something was wrong intuitively.

"This is dressed up by a famous Muggle head of state. Maybe you saw it there...it doesn't matter. It's from the old days. I guess not many people know about it!" The wizard who repaired the portrait explained this, and Fauci also accepted this statement.

On the other side, David Goodman wanted to say something, but didn't open his mouth.

That's it... [Minister of the Head of State] This newly released portrait is covered by a black cloth, and it is waiting for interviews with reporters tomorrow.

Rufus originally wanted to say something about salary increase, but he just looked at Fauci's angry eyes, and didn't dare to say any more about salary increase.

——This time the Aurors simply didn't come in handy at all. Instead, it was the Magic Maintenance Department that took the limelight in the end.

Returning without success this time made the Aurors feel ashamed, and after greeting Fauci, they left in a hurry.

At this time, there were only a few people left in the office, and Mr. Weasley was just about to drag McGuffin out of here.

"Mr. Goodman, then there should be no need to do the recording!"

"It's getting late, I should send this little guy back."

McGuffin felt relieved and could finally leave this place.

But before Goodman could reply, Dumbledore stood up instead and left McGuffin in this office.

"Slow down, Arthur... I have something to talk to McGuffin about."

——M, what does this old fox want to do?
McGuffin cursed inwardly.

At this time, Fauci realized that there was a little wizard who saw all his scandals, and his face immediately fell.

"Arthur Weasley, how could you bring a little wizard here? Dumbledore, can you go talk outside?"

After such an incident, Fauci now just wants to discuss with Goodman how to face the report on the [Daily Prophet] that will be released tomorrow.

"Connelly, I think you should listen too..."

Fauci frowned as he glanced back and forth between McGuffin and Dumbledore.

"If you really insist on it..." he said.

"Wait! Arthur, wait outside first!" Goodman invited Mr. Weasley outside to wait.

Only Goodman, Dumbledore, Fauci, and McGuffin were left in this room, especially the other two from the Ministry of Magic stared straight at the little wizard in front of them, not knowing what happened.

Dumbledore summoned several newspapers published in the [Daily Prophet] before Hogwarts vacation.

He made Goodman and Fauci watch.

"I don't know what you want us to know?" Fauci said dissatisfied. "Albus? I'm busy! I'm going to be in big trouble tomorrow!"

"This is?" Goodman had just read these newspapers yesterday, but Dumbledore put them in front of them so deliberately, it reminded him of a rumor.

He stared at McGuffin, wondering if this little wizard was really what he saw.

"Could it be that the rumor is true... Are these reports written by the little wizard in front of me?"

——When Goodman wanted to learn more about what happened on the night of "Quirrell Stealing the Philosopher's Stone" from McGuffin, he made full preparations and specifically looked for the newspapers of the "Daily Prophet" to learn about the whole thing.

In the end, when he heard about this incident, he thought it was a rumor of Wuji.

(Generally speaking, almost all the documents marked as 'confidential' by the Ministry of Magic will be leaked, and then quickly published in the newspapers the next day. Sometimes these newspapers will know the news faster than the Minister of Magic. If you want to know something from the Ministry of Magic, you might as well look for the magic newspapers and publications of those days, and it will not alarm others.)
"I've heard about this... It is said that [Daily Prophet] originally wanted to publish a report on Rita Skeeter's report on Quilinus Quirrell's Stealing of the Sorcerer's Stone. There were several articles in the mail from Hogwarts students, which described in detail some of Quilinus Quirrell's stories at Hogwarts...very interesting!"

"To the extent that... the [Daily Prophet] has published these articles one after another in the last few days, and the effect is very good... Even the report on your article attacking Hogwarts Dumbledore through the Sorcerer's Stone incident article was directly withdrawn!"

"A few days later, when I had dinner with the editor of the [Daily Prophet], I learned from him that these reports were written by a young wizard in the first year of Hogwarts...Of course, he also thought it was a joke at that time, and thought that the Hogwarts professors used the names of these students to post the manuscripts, so as to resolve the embarrassing situation that Hogwarts was accused of being irresponsible at that time!"

"But Albus Dumbledore, you specifically pointed it out like this... It seems that the most absurd and impossible rumor is actually true!"

"A little wizard can actually do this..."

Goodman stared at McGuffin with burning eyes.

　Still have to make big changes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)