Moody clicked his lips loudly: "This is completely overkill, even if it is loose

Internal tension, and there is no reason to put the most powerful group of people next to politicians, then

If you help people die, you will die..."

"Cough cough..." Lockhart had to interrupt him, "Thank you for your compliment, but I think I may not be as strong as you say."

"It's enough to be vigilant, the younger generation is really getting worse and worse, and there are not many decent magic fighting skills. I heard that a guy who was arrested for selling prohibited items was injured a while ago. …”

Moody babbled while he picked up the pen and arbitrarily revised the security plan, adding one for every sentence he chanted.

How can the Aurors be placed in the auditorium to maintain order, is it because the attackers will not know their position... The proportion of plain clothes... Which genius came up with the idea of ​​placing the on-the-spot command in the box? He should be sent to St. Mungo's to have a good brain check... The security check is also useless. After passing the security check, it will be closed in all directions. Don't you understand... Merlin's beard, the games you held in the past really didn't have anything to do with it. Good luck, you should go and burn 30 large candles for Merlin and Maeve to thank you for your blessings!

Dulix and the others were given a lot of training, but they knew that Moody was right, so they didn't dare to lose their temper.

After more than ten years of Chengping, the Aurors in the wizarding world are indeed not as good as their predecessors in terms of literacy. The generation of them who passed the exams is not so much the "police" of the front-line work, but it is better to say Bureaucrats in the name of "police".

Seeing that Moody's performance was so professional, Lockhart also put down most of his heart. It seemed that someone could finally be responsible for his own work.

In addition, this Alastor Moody is guaranteed to be the real thing and has not been exchanged for compound decoction. Lockhart can be sure that he intends to send the old professor to Hogwarts.

Because Moody's had been sitting in the office for more than two hours and didn't

Having drank anything, Moody accepted the news of his "temporary re-employment" and Lockhart did not disclose it to the outside world. I believe that Barty Crouch Jr. would not know about it.

On the last day before the Quidditch World Cup, Lockhart set off from Farley Village and arrived at the venue ahead of schedule.

During this period, he completed a number of tasks assigned to him by the Ministry of Magic step by step and methodically, and made it impossible for Fudge to single out Ren Yu.

Fudge finally reacted after Lockhart had completed a number of layouts, realized how imprudent it was to give Lockhart access to the Prime Minister's Office, and has been trying to get it back ever since.

But Lockhart has fully demonstrated the qualities a civil servant should have. He has been patiently fighting with Fudge in the ring, using all kinds of soft nails to push back Fudge's temptation to reclaim his power.

Then he was invited by Mr. Farley to be a guest in the village where the Farley family was located, where he attended a salon dance led by the Farley family. Except that the beautiful and stunning "Black Widow" Mrs. Zabini frequently sent Lockhart a little overwhelmed, the rest was fine.

This is also the pure blood family's recognition of Lockhart's hard work for more than a year. At least from now on, when Lockhart wants to attend any of their parties, he will no longer be closed.

In this case, Fudge should not shoot himself again in a short period of time, because the supporters behind him will not allow it for the time being unless there are good reasons. More than a year has been a net investment for the pure-blood family. Before they see the benefits, they will not be thinking about changing or changing people.

And with Fudge like that, Lockhart guessed that he couldn't come up with any good ideas, and at most he would make a fuss about the Secrecy Act.

In addition, at the party, Mr. Farley introduced Lockhart to a person-one promise

A distant relative of the Te family.

"Mr. Nott is good at historiography, especially good at researching blood and family origin." Mr. Farley said calmly, "I heard that you are also very interested in ancient history. I think if you have time in the future, you can get together more. Gather."

Lockhart understood that Farley was hinting to himself that he had to find a way to change his bloodline to pure blood.

He had no doubt that if Nott wanted to, he could prove a wizarding family from nine generations ago to his Muggle father, who was only temporarily separated because of the Squib.

If it was two years ago, maybe Lockhart might have agreed, but since he personally destroyed one of Voldemort's Horcruxes and indirectly destroyed two, he knew that he would never join the Snake faction again, and cooperate at most .

Lockhart is not yet reassured enough to believe that if he does not join the "pure blood", the pure blood family will never do anything to him, but at least that will have to wait until they master the channels themselves.

But Lockhart believes that, under his own watch, that is unlikely to happen.

Chapter 256 The Beatles. hippie 0

"Hello, Mr. Lockhart... this is your camp location, this is the camp tool, this is the map..."

The guards at the camp saw Lockhart approaching, and—giving him his order—quietly surveyed Lockhart's clothes.

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Lockhart knew that there must be another wizard who didn't follow the secrecy law dress code, bow I

The watchman's attention was raised.

But he didn't have to worry about this, because he came here in a rented motorhome, and of course his clothes were completely dressed according to the "Muggle Dress Code", which couldn't be more authentic.

Lockhart took his camping gear, paid the price, and spoke and behaved normally.

It is precisely because of this normality that the camp guard Roberts let go of his guard, and then began to complain to Lockhart about the abnormality of the past two days.

What suddenly came a large number of people in fancy clothes, they didn't even understand the denomination of the banknotes when paying, and the tents they brought were fancy...

"Isn't this normal? You should know what's going on here?" Lockhart asked pretendingly.

"Yes, the police department said, there is going to be a hippie carnival here...

Lockhart froze for a moment: Crappie. Are you sure 0"

Roberts took out a notice from his pocket and handed it to Lockhart: "It seems that you don't know, the police station notified it a few days ago, you see... If you really don't know, then hurry up Let's go!"

Lockhart took the Muggle notice and looked at it, and found that it really said

with the words "hippie".

He suddenly felt as if a mouthful of phlegm was welling up in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out.

If Meijie were in front of him, he would definitely spit the phlegm into his face, then wipe him clean with the sole of his shoe, and finally cast an oblivion spell to make him think he slipped when he went downstairs .

"Oh... that sounds interesting." Lockhart forced himself to laugh twice, then handed the money over.

The guard shook his head again and again: "Interesting? I don't think so, anyway, it's nothing more than drinking, singing, promiscuity, and taking narcotics, a bunch of social scum, I think they have problems with their brains... Listen to me, Young man, you look normal, get out as soon as possible."

Lockhart accepted the other party's kindness, but he couldn't leave.

"Thanks for the reminder, but it's a rare vacation and I'll just stay away from them," Lockhart said.

"Really. Good luck to you then."

The expression of regret on Roberts' face was beyond words. He obviously didn't believe that Lockhart would really "stay away from those people". His expression was as if an elder saw a good young man at the door of the clubhouse when he was about to fall.

Although the look was unpleasant, Lockhart decided to forgive him, as he felt it was not Roberts' fault, but the Prime Minister's fault.

The one whom I discussed with Prime Minister Major was obviously the Beatles. How did he pass on to be a hippie?

Although Lockhart thinks this may just be an unintentional mistake by the Prime Minister, but if you think about it, if the Quidditch World Cup was described as a "hippie rave", it would have avoided a lot of trouble.

As Roberts said, the guys are messing around in the name of freedom, and

And the bigger and bigger it is, the Western society that has succeeded in making "freedom" absolutely politically correct begins to reflect on whether it has any side effects.

As long as it's the hippies doing shit, the Quidditch World Cup can tell the Muggle people no matter what goes wrong, and even take it for granted. still quite appropriate

Therefore, he had no choice but to pinch his nose and recognize the name of "The Crazy Pisces Carnival", and drove the rented RV into the camp.

In the camp, where the staff of the Ministry of Magic had already gathered, Lockhart was not one of the first people to come here.

These people work in the "outfield", responsible for planning the camp area, arranging emergency firefighters, and casting Muggle Repelling Charms on the field and around the camp.

Seeing Lockhart coming, although these people greeted Lockhart, Lockhart found that these people seemed to be a little alienated from him because of his rapid rise in position.

The female clerks were okay, they weren't ambitious, and it was widely believed that Lockhart should be head of the Law Enforcement Division.

But male colleagues don't seem to think so." Even if they can barely agree with Loha ^^ Temple's ability.

This is not a good thing, the only place in the world that does not need genius is within the system. Wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Although Lockhart has worked hard to make himself gregarious, as long as he does not give up his ambition and the rhythm of progress, it will inevitably cause the jealousy of others.

Ordinary people might want to keep a low profile temporarily to make themselves gregarious, but Lockhart intends to use a more assertive but impeccable stance to make these people psychologically accept their own status.

Because he's the man who's going to be Minister of Magic!

Lockhart's job is the "infield", he is responsible for taking people to check the security and receiving foreign guests from afar.

On the issue of security in the infield, Lockhart had to raise objections despite Moody's display of what a seasoned Auror should be.

"In order to show the importance we attach to foreign guests, we spent two full days reinforcing the international line and made five door keys," Moody told Lockhart. "This minimizes the time foreign guests are exposed to unprotected areas."

"But anyway, we can't put them in the stadium's office to sleep!" Lockhart said.

\"Why not?" Moody asked, "It's the safest place, and it's also convenient for us to arrange."

"But the purpose of our Quidditch match is not to be safe!" Lockhart was powerless to complain, "If we want to be safe, why don't we just cancel the game? That's the safest way."

Moody was stunned for a moment, then slapped his forehead hard, as if he had a good idea.

"What a great idea...we could pretend to cancel the game and then announce the game as usual 10 minutes before the game..."

"No, no, that's absolutely impossible." Lockhart rejected him, "It's going to be a joke to all foreigners, and there's absolutely no way Fudge would agree to that idea.

"But the terrorists are likely to take this opportunity to make a noise outside the venue, and then wait for the opportunity to sneak into the VIP room after the security force is transferred out..."

Now Lockhart can be sure that Moody's is definitely a little jittery.

"Don't worry, Alastor, there won't be... well... there's nothing going to happen." He

Say.

Chapter two hundred and fifty-seven the win over the French

That night, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement held a security rehearsal. Although in old Moody's view this security was only slightly stronger than none at all, Fudge was satisfied because the Aurors did appear to be training

However, he also made a request, that is, that these Aurors can be uniformed, because this can "make the British look more spirited".

This time, without Moody's help, Scrimgeour couldn't hold back his temper.

"Aurors must hide themselves! You should leave the uniform to the other staff!" he yelled.

Because Scrimgeour's qualifications were older than Fudge's, Fudge had to turn his attention to others.

He required all Ministry of Magic staff on loan from other departments to wear uniforms, only Aurors were free, and allowed Aurors to take the potion or use the Disillusionment Charm during the game.

Scrimgeour wasn't exactly a slob either. Under his orders, the Aurors placed most of their staff inside the arena in accordance with the principle of "loose on the outside and tight on the inside", leaving only a few people outside to help maintain order.

But in the old Moody's view, this is far from enough.

After the rehearsal, when the staff of the Ministry of Magic gathered for supper, Moody's mouth never stopped, and his main complaint was Scrimgeour's negligence.

avoid,

"...Only a fool would use up everyone at once, and he didn't even have a Ranger," he said.

Lockhart shrugged at him: "You see, the whole Ministry of Magic has

After all of them are used, we have only a few hundred people in total. If we eliminate half of the women, old people, and administrative and secretarial workers, we will be able to fight less than a hundred people. It is really impossible to form a special team. of people. "

Immediately, a dissatisfied voice came from the side: "Hey, I can't pretend that I didn't hear this. Why do you exclude women?"

Lockhart took a closer look and found that it was Nymphadora Tonks from the Auror Office.

Not only Tonks, but even the newly appointed Acting Director of Sports, Hai Sijia O Jones put down the sandwich in his hand and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Lockhart's "sexism".

Oops! Lockhart said heartily.

Now in his income composition, the oil project has not seen any profit for the time being: Although the salary of Hogwarts that year was not cheap, Lockhart spent a lot of money, just "long-term rent" a fairy. The silver shield cost him several thousand Galleons, so he didn't actually save much money.

As for the salary of the Ministry of Magic... I can only say that I am very sorry, no matter how famous he is, the Ministry of Magic will not give him an extra nat salary, and the first year of staff at the Ministry of Magic will not get much salary. , so this part can basically be ignored.

What really achieved sustained income for Lockhart, in addition to the continuous royalty income from selling books, was the regular interviews and lace news hype of "Witch Weekly" that could allow him to get some money, and his book sales were largely It also relies on the propaganda of "Witches Weekly".

If Lockhart's "misogynistic" rhetoric gets around...

"How could that be?" He hurriedly tried to save himself, "I just think...women often have greater responsibilities in the family and society, and bear far more pressure than men, so on these little things that require a lot of work and energy, It's better to leave it to us stinky men to do it."

Having said that, he remembered something, and added: "And staying up late on duty is not good for the skin."

Several female staff members present laughed.

"Very good, you'll pass the test." He Sijiao Jones gave him a push. "The mouth is so sweet, no wonder my sister was so fascinated by you that she went to participate in the protest against the Daily Prophet."

The male colleagues showed their regretful expressions one after another, and they didn't hide it much.

These dishonest guys! Lockhart cursed inwardly.

Obviously, the money for this supper was paid by myself!

Lockhart thought that his job at this Quidditch competition was to accompany foreign guests, help Fudge to save face, and make a cameo appearance as a doorman.

But he was wrong.

Just the next morning, together with Fudge, Lockhart received dignitaries from various countries who were sent with a special door key.

Of course, Fudge rushed forward for the first time, "representing" the entire British magic world, and greeted these guests who came from afar.

His enthusiasm was echoed by the international and sporting divisions, and when Fudge invited them to lunch, they didn't say no.