"That's it."

While talking, Major made up his mind that tomorrow he would ask the secretary to move all the paintings around his office far away to show his frugal work style rather than luxury.

"So, how are we going to get there?" he asked in a long tone.

"right here."

Lockhart looked left and right and flicked his wand after confirming that no one was around:

"I'll try to be as light as possible, I hope you don't get seasick... The follower shows up!"

Chapter 287 Let the Prime Minister understand wizarding politics

When Lockhart uttered the spell, the Prime Minister felt as if his body was suddenly grabbed by a giant and stuffed into the drain of the washing machine, squeezing all over his body.

When he saw the starry sky again and was able to breathe freely, he found himself on his knees.

Harry felt right. Anyone who experienced Apparition for the first time would have exactly the same feeling as him, that is, being dragged through a thin tube.

As a Muggle, Prime Minister Major felt even worse, especially since he had just been drinking a lot.

So he vomited, of course, and it took a while before he took the demulcent from Lockhart.

He swallowed the thing in one gulp, feeling better.

"God, can't you guys just improve this thing and make it a little better?" Major complained.

"You'll feel better when you get back," Lockhart told him with a smile.

Major firmly refused: "Go back? Stop kidding, I'd rather take a rental car.

"Taxi?" Lockhart pretended to be surprised, "Did you have £1,000 on you?

When Major heard him say this, he seemed to understand something: "Where are we now?

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He had the answer right away: "In the Scottish Highlands, it's about...well, less than 30 miles in a straight line, only six

The appearance of seven hills.

Major glared at him. "So we're in Scotland now, 400 miles from London, do you mean that?"

"One of the things I admire most about you is that you always figure out your situation very quickly." Lockhart's "compliment" said.

Major got up slowly from the ground and took a deep breath.

"Well, this is not London, the air in London is much worse than here, and the wizards are amazing!" He was acknowledging Lockhart's words.

But when he carefully observed the surrounding situation, Major frowned again.

"So...are you going to welcome foreign dignitaries in this wild place 9"

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"Of course not," Lockhart denied immediately, "it's just that there's magic around Hogwarts that prohibits Apparition, so we have to turn around here... You see, there's Hogsmeade Resort over there, we can Sit down there for a while and wait for the principal to pick you up."

- Listening to Hogsmeade, the Prime Minister has no opinion.

"I've heard from those people about this place a long time ago, but I want to see if it's really that good here."

With that, he followed Lockhart's footsteps and walked towards the brightly lit Hogsmeade.

Major saw the towering "Jack Pea" from a distance, and knew in his heart that what those who had visited were true.

"Did those people really not find out that you are wizards?" He couldn't help asking, obviously under their noses. "

"It seems so, otherwise we wouldn't have been hiding among Muggles for three hundred years," Lockhart replied.

Lockhart took the Prime Minister to the second floor of the newly built cinema, and watched the following old movies from the box: The two chatted for a while with lemonade brought from Three Brooms, and sobered up by the way.

At this time, the movie theater was playing an American movie "The White-Headed Detective" in the 1980s, and its plot happened to be the content of the protagonist protecting the Queen of England from terrorists.

Major, as an old politician, he felt that Lockhart did it by no coincidence.

"I get the feeling that you are trying to fit into the society of ordinary people, if I guess right?" he asked bluntly.

Lockhart did not deny it: "It is true, and some of us believe that wizards cannot forever be isolated from the Muggle world, nor can they keep their secrets forever."

If it was another wizard, he might have a little difficulty understanding what Lockhart said, but Major was different. He was immersed in political struggle for the New Year, and he immediately understood the subtext of Lockhart's words.

"That is to say, there is a group of people who are against it? Is that what you mean?" Lockhart smiled. "I am amazed by your agility, Your Excellency, Prime Minister. Indeed, there are also a group of extremists among us wizards who call themselves Very high, think that wizards and non-magic people belong to two species, and \'pure-blood\' wizards are born noble beings, mixed blood comes second, from Muggles, that is, from your ordinary family. Wizards are the worst, as for people who don't know magic at all... well, you can imagine."

Major nodded knowingly: "No surprise, I should have thought of it long ago... bloodline theory has always been very marketable in human history. Especially your wizards are such a special... species, so put this extraordinary ability It's easy to think of associations with ancestry.

If I'm not mistaken, those who advocate \"pure blood nobility\', the same

There will also be political and economic demands for power and status corresponding to this lineage. "

"It couldn't be more right." Lockhart raised the iced lemon juice in his hand instead of the wine and toasted Major, ""The person I'm going to show you later is the most anti-bloodline flag and the most anti-blood of all wizards. Pioneer... oh, here he is. "

As he was talking, Dumbledore went to the second floor of this cinema according to the prior agreement.

Seeing Dumbledore's arrival, there was a commotion among the surrounding wizards, a commotion that they had not seen when they had just seen Lockhart and Major.

Major instinctively felt that this old man with gray hair and beard must be a big man in the wizarding world.

Lockhart stood up quickly and introduced Dumbledore to Major.

"This is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Mr. Albus Dumbledore, who is over 120 years old this year. It's the equivalent of Montgomery's armies plus Faraday plus Churchill... Do you understand what I'm saying?"

\"Very concise and easy to understand."

Saying that, Major stood up and went to shake hands with Dumbledore.

Dumbledore didn't care about the attitude of the Muggle Prime Minister. In fact, if Lockhart hadn't said it was crucial, he even planned to ignore Prime Minister Major.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Your Excellency...if all is ready, let's go!" he said flatly.

Seeing that the time was indeed almost up, Lockhart nodded.

In Major's astonished eyes, a flash of fire flashed, and the Phoenix Fox emerged from the void, and then landed on Dumbledore's shoulder.

"Grab one of his feet, or his tail feathers," Lockhart reminded the Prime Minister.

"This, this is..."

"It's a phoenix, Your Excellency, a very rare magical creature, but it's now a waste bird that only naps by the fireplace in the principal's office." Lockhart made a joke.

In retaliation, Fox slapped Lockhart hard with his paw as he teleported the trio to the pier at Hogwarts Lake.

Chapter 288 Introduction

In order to welcome foreign guests, the students of Hogwarts, led by the deans, came to the pier by the lake.

The house-elves set up a temporary stage to welcome guests in front of the pier, and placed the dean's table on it, and also lit up an indicator light similar to that commonly used by airport ground commanders in the open space.

The students who lined up were talking a lot, because watching this battle, people from other schools didn't seem to plan to use the door key honestly.

Fudge felt a little uncomfortable, because his original plan was indeed to send the prepared door keys and let the other students come over in batches.

But all the schools of magic responded that they had decided to take care of the traffic themselves and that the UK Ministry of Magic just needed to open the entry clearance.

Especially Durmstrang, Karkaroff wrote back directly and said "I don't want to follow the footsteps of the Bulgarians", which gave Fudge no face at all.

This can't help but make Fudge secretly hated - everyone has some words to understand, why do they have to say it?

It is precisely because of these unpleasantness that Fudge did not come to receive these principals today, but when the media of the opening game officially starts to report, he should come, because he will not miss any opportunity to show his face.

Since Fudge didn't come to participate, Lockhart would not have any psychological barriers to invite the Muggle Prime Minister, otherwise Fudge as a "minister" would become a joke after he delivered his speech as the "Prime Minister".

As the time gradually approached the appointed time, a phoenix sing suddenly came from the main seat in the middle of the dean's table.

Everyone looked at the place where Feng Ming was issued, and found that it was their principal's seat.

straight.

I saw a fire flashing at the place where the phoenix chirping was emitted, and after the fire, Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, appeared there, along with Gilderoy Lockhart. , and a middle-aged man they didn't know.

I saw that the middle-aged man stretched his body comfortably, and then began to glance around.

"Ah, I like this way of traveling. It's very warm, and it feels very light and comfortable. It's much better than the experience of being stuffed into the sewer just now."

Fox fluttered his wings, even in the face of compliments from the Muggle Prime Minister, he was still able to be flattered - he had grown accustomed to such compliments over the past few years.

"I think so too." Dumbledore replied, "so that after getting used to his service, I suspect that my level of appearance is probably not as good as that of ordinary wizards."

As he spoke, he waved his hand gently, and a high chair covered with blue velvet appeared before the large table of the deans.

\"Please take a seat." Dumbledore gestured.

"Thank you, but I want to say hello to these guys first."

While speaking, Major extended his hand to Professor McGonagall, the oldest of the four.

After listening to Lockhart's brief introduction to wizarding politics, Major was determined to present himself as Prime Minister in front of wizards.

Lockhart followed decisively and began to introduce these deans to Major:

"This is Professor Minerva McGonagall, head of Gryffindor House of courage and perseverance, raised in the Muggle countryside of Cairnness, and adept at Transfiguration if she wanted to. Turn all the iron gates in Downing Street into shower curtains... just kidding, she wouldn't do that..."

"Thank you for your honest assessment, Gilderoy." Professor McGonagall interrupted Lockhart's rambling introduction in time.

Professor McGonagall's first love when she was young, Dougal McGregor is also a Muggle, and she grew up in a rural mixed with Muggles, so she is not as curious as others about Muggle Prime Ministers .

But she didn't know that the most crucial part of Lockhart's words just now was "growing up in a Muggle countryside", so that the Prime Minister could understand her position.

Sure enough, Major understood Lockhart's suggestion.

"Hello, Ms. McGonagall. Although I don't know magic, we all want to make the world a better place." He immediately followed.

The swiftness of Major's reaction made Lockhart look sideways - being able to say the most appropriate words with such limited information, it seems that he always has his merits in being prime minister.

Next was Professor Flitwick of Ravenclaw, whom Lockhart deliberately bent down slightly as he introduced him.

"This is the dean of Ravenclaw House, known for his wisdom and curiosity, Professor Flitwick, who is half goblin blood. This college is also the college I graduated from. Professor Flitwick not only taught me how to seek knowledge , and also taught me a lot of ways to behave in the world..."

Without Lockhart finishing speaking, Major heard the sound of the strings and knew the elegant meaning-it turned out that the old dean's political stance was in the same line as Lockhart's.

"Fortunate to meet. In the face of appetite and sensual pleasure, humans and beasts are no different. The only thing that distinguishes us is that we will think and pursue the truth when we are full and satisfied. Salute to you who pursue the truth, Eph. Mr Levy."

Major bent down as he spoke to shake hands with Flitwick.

Professor Flitwick is curious about the Muggle Prime Minister - because of his appearance

Previously, Flitwick rarely had direct contact with Muggles, let alone high-level Muggle political circles.

But when he actually met the Muggle Prime Minister, he realized that he was no different from a wizard, at least in appearance. And when Major showed his modesty, he naturally wouldn't begrudge his welcome.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Mr. Major, I believe that a wise elder like you will also bring a lot of useful advice to the world."

Professor Sprout was also curious, but her curiosity was not directly on the surface, but rather restrained.

After all, he is playing with flowers and plants in the greenhouse, and his interpersonal skills are somewhat lacking.

But Major had seen many people like this, and when he saw Professor Sprout's reaction, he thought she was the old ladies who grew cabbage in the countryside when he went to the countryside to campaign.

So he immediately showed his enthusiasm and easy-going, and immediately opened Professor Sprout's heart. When they ended their exchange, Lockhart felt that Sprout had even regarded Major as his neighbor. .

The last one was Snape, and Lockhart had to remind him twice.

"This is the dean of Slytherin, the academy is responsible for cultivating students' lofty aspirations, and is also the most "aristocratic" academy. ' said Lockhart in Snape's face.

- Listening to the phrase "aristocratic atmosphere", how could Major fail to understand the academy's position. So after knowingly "touching" his hands, he sat down on his seat.

Snape was still trying to figure out how to speak so that the Muggle could retreat, but the Muggle was obviously a lot smarter than he thought, and he was also very knowledgeable, which saved him a lot of speech.

Snape's childhood was spent in a Muggle slum, Spider's End.

Having such an experience did not improve his Muggle senses

On the contrary, as a "freak", he is often bullied by the children around him. And he and his mother were often domestically abused by Muggle fathers, so Snape's impression of Muggles was made worse by his childhood.

Seeing the Muggle Prime Minister, Snape didn't show him a face on the spot, which was already a display of self-restraint. After all, in a sense, people in the slums have been reduced to that point largely because of the inaction of government officials.

It wasn't that Snape didn't know that the Prime Minister could bring him huge benefits, but he couldn't do it in front of his students, so greeting him coldly and politely was the limit of what he could do.

In order not to embarrass the Prime Minister, Lockhart changed the subject in time to do his duty as a "tour guide".

\"Principal, when will the people from the other schools be admitted?"

Dumbledore knew he was talking nonsense, because the way to enter those schools had already been sent to the Ministry of Magic.

\"Right now, the first should be... Beauxbatons."