However, at the moment when they decided, the warriors of Ilvermorny in the United States finally came back, and they saw the task board in front of Fudge's divination cabin at a glance.

"Wait a minute!" Boot shouted to the two of them, "Excuse me, will this task be done by us?"

Cedric turned his head back, a little hesitant on his face.

"Sorry, it's about the school's honor," he replied.

"Yes, but you are already number one, right?" The warriors of Ilvermorny tried to negotiate, "We do have a way to catch the invisible monster, but you don't seem to guarantee that you will be able to catch it."

"But that's better than giving it to you," Harry pointed out.

"No no no no..." Butter waved his hands again and again and said, "Don't forget, this divination needs to gather all the materials, only a few of us can get the \"complete\' prophecy, if we lose one material, we have to get \" "Incomplete prophecy. Under the circumstance that you have already guaranteed that you can get the first place, it is in our common interest to hand over this most insignificant task that you cannot guarantee to complete."

Cedric and Harry were both honest people, and after hearing him say this, they both felt that it was the same.

Can the emergency suit really isolate the prophecy of the invisible monster? ' Harry asked again

"Absolutely not." Cedric shrugged, the mang suit was made of the fur of the invisible monster. "

After he said that, Harry understood that it was impossible to stop him.

"Then let it go to you, you have two hours," he said.

The warriors of Ilvermorny were overjoyed, and hurriedly took the task away from Fudge.

And Fudge didn't care too much about it - because he knew what the third game was, he naturally knew that the number 0 really didn't make much sense for the third game. Maybe its only function was to make up the current number 0. At the end of the two games, the result of Mangjizo's divination

Of course, Harry and Cedric don't know yet. Although the normal invisibility cloak can't isolate the prophecy of the invisible beast, Harry's one can.

Because Harry's invisibility cloak is the "Deathly Hallows", although it is not necessarily made by the rumored death, its magical ability is indeed extremely powerful.

Although it can't isolate the sound, and it can't isolate Moody's blue magic eye that I don't know how to get, it is unique in blocking the prying eyes from fate such as prophecy.

In fact, when Harry just said he wanted to take the Invisibility Cloak, Dumbledore was actually ready to stand up to stop him, because he didn't want to expose the existence of the Deathly Hallows because of such a small game.

The warriors of Ilvermorny had their confidence in daring to accept this task. The ancestors of the Bute family were the founders of Ilvermorny's "Cat and Leopard Academy", and Butt also brought his own magic weapon- --Piece is added by Cat Leopard's dead eyeball

Artifacts from work.

With this thing, he was sure that he could find the hiding place of the invisible monster.

Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty First Negotiations Ended

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the warriors of Ilvermorny finally returned to Hogsmeade. Considering the length of the competition, the organizers had to give spectators and tourists a break, and this time was just in time for Hogsmeade to sell something, such as a drink lunch and the like.

But for Lockhart and the dignitaries he invited, the last few hours were time for bargaining.

Sometimes "confessing to the other party" is not a bad choice in negotiation. After both parties understand each other's needs, the speed of negotiation can be greatly accelerated.

But the premise is that both parties have a minimum trust.

Although Lockhart claimed that he graduated from Oxford University, it is not fake, but it should be said that he has never been to Oxford in this world. He mentioned this just to show that he can understand the way of thinking of the Prime Minister, and hope that they can use the attitude towards civil servants. treat yourself.

Of course, the Prime Minister could not understand the overtones. He finally corrected his mentality and began to negotiate with Lockhart with a more normal attitude.

First of all, the government must gain some control over wizards in order to be completely assured of the wizarding world, which is certain;

Generally speaking, the way the government controls its citizens is nothing more than violent intimidation, control of income channels, and instilling common ideas.

But all three are of little use to wizards.

Thanks to Lockhart's misdirection, both Major and Mrs. Rimington believed that wizards could conjure food out of thin air, and the pea-yellow dessert made from the fruit of "Jack's Peas" seems to support this.

Since the wizard cannot be controlled from food, and if the wizard wants to hide his

In other words, the government also needs to spend a lot of money to find wizards, and there is a high probability that they cannot be caught, so violence is difficult to work.

As for the common philosophy... not to mention the huge difference in life and common sense between the two sides, wasn't it just because of religion that Muggles persecuted wizards? As long as the state religion of England remains the Protestant Anglican Church, I am afraid that wizards will not regard Muggles as their own.

So for now, the Prime Minister feels the only thing he can control is the income of the wizards.

"Whether it is oil or drug trade, as long as it passes through our hands, it must be taxed. This is our bottom line." Major declared with a stern face.

Originally, he was still thinking about how to educate or deceive the wizards to make them understand the importance of paying taxes. But since Lockhart graduated from Oxford, it is impossible for him to understand the implications.

Lockhart knew that this step was inevitable, but he still had to bargain: "But Sniff Drilling is registered in the Cayman Islands, and Extraordinary Pharmacy is the Virgin Islands.

"In this case, it will be difficult for me to win parliamentary authority for you. In the British Empire, rights and obligations are always equal." Major insisted, "Don't you want to say that your oil company does not occupy the government in the process of making profits. Department resources?"

Lockhart still doesn't see rabbits and don't throw eagles: \"\"This is not so much \"resources\' as it is "passive acceptance\', and our activities will only bring benefits to the trading center of London. to benefit. "

Of course, this level of stubbornness was not enough for the Prime Minister to give up, and he immediately brought up the loophole in Lockhart's language and pointed out the biggest loophole in "wizard normalization".

"Then why do you insist on setting up a parliament? Don't forget, you don't even have your household registration," he said.

If paying taxes isn't unacceptable to wizards, then House of Commons elections

The household registration is a complete dead end

It is impossible for the Ministry of Magic to hand over the names and origins of wizards to the Muggle government, even if the Muggle government declares it secret.

But if they don't pay it, it is really difficult for the government to reassure the wizards, and there is no way for Major to explain to other citizens and opposition parties why a Hogsmeade village that they have never heard of has two large companies registered overseas, and There are still 10,000 votes, and they all support the Conservative Party.

"Forge a household registration file." Lockhart suggested without blushing: "We keep it ourselves anyway, the government only needs to claim that it has a backup.

Of course, it was impossible for Major to agree to this absurd request. After a long time of arguing, Lockhart finally decided to hand over about 20 "guarantors" and hand over their files to the Muggle government for sealing. problems, the government can hold them accountable.

These 20 people were planned by Lockhart for a long time. 15 of them are members of the Lion faction, and most of them are from the Order of the Phoenix. The other five belong to the "Golden Hand" family, especially Lucius. Malfoy, he said that he was very willing to find an opportunity to meet Her Majesty.

Lockhart had to make this a fait accompli before the Dark Mark on his arm became more visible.

As for taxes, Lockhart is really out of the question.

Because London's trading center and customs have their transaction records and delivery records, and chain pharmacies also have purchase records, so this part of the "British Value Added Tax (VAT they have no way to escape even if they want to.

The only thing Lockhart can win is Major's preferential policy to Hogsmeade. Although the Prime Minister has not made any guarantees about this, it is fortunate that there are interests involved, and Lockhart believes that he will do it with all his heart.

As for safety, Lockhart happily sold Sirius

Curse Qing helped us train an agent—yes, that idiot. "He kicked Sirius out as he spoke, \"Please assign him the most dangerous task. "

Although he hesitated for a while, after thinking about it carefully, Lockhart realized that there was not much information that Sirius could reveal to the Muggles.

Of course, "Mrs. M" will definitely get as much information from him as possible when training Sirius, and will use "repeated mentions" to judge whether Sirius is telling the truth, but Lockhart don't care.

For it was only a year since Sirius came from Azkaban, and half of that time spent as a dog here in Hogsmeade, and after being free it was only a few months abroad: that was not enough to make Sirius against England. The wizarding world now has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the economy and politics. Even if it can reveal information, it should be the kind of scales and claws.

The Aurors also have some shares in the oil company. If Sirius has a mission that he can't complete, he can use the money to find them to do some private work. It should be possible.

After reaching two key agreements of political and security cooperation, such as "trivial matters" such as acquiring CityLink express company, providing medical and nursing services for the royal family, helping to contact Irish wizards to influence local policies, etc. Just negotiate directly and let the commissioner do it.

The first more formal political talks between wizards and Muggles came to an end in such a rather harmonious atmosphere.

Because Fudge was still happily acting as his "diver", Lockhart didn't tell him about the deal with the Muggle Prime Minister, lest the busy Minister Fudge would have to worry about such trivial matters. .

The settlement of the second chapter of the three hundred and thirty second chapter

Under Fudge's \"One Power Presidency", the warriors made the final settlement.

Ilvermorny, who won the second place in the last round, has dropped from the second place in the first round to the fifth place due to the inadequacy of rune, and only got 2+0 points in total;

After taming the unicorn, Beauxbatons managed to get the red hair of the five-legged monster again, and scored 1+5 points, ranking fourth, the same as at the end of the previous round.

Although Vagadu did not perform well in the last round, with their excellent ability to deform the human body, they scored 3+4 points and jumped to the third position;

Durmstrang rose by one place from the third place in the previous round. In this round, he had an intellectual contest with Hydra and scored a full 9 points;

As the organizer, Hogwarts still won a big victory, they got 8+6 points, the first position is still unshakable.

After getting the materials submitted by the warriors, Fudge started his own "divination"

"Ah, warriors, your pleas have been rewarded by fate—the holiness of the unicorn fur tells me that your opponents are evil."

Several warriors were noncommittal about this - if according to the "plot", the existence of so many monsters and monsters for the small village is definitely not a good person, they can even guess this without divination.

It can be seen that in this trial, the hair of the unicorn is really not very important.

In divination, the number 1 also represents the meaning of "beginning", and the only function of this material is to lead the warriors to start their adventures.

The 2, represented by the horned camel beast, represents tranquility and intuition.

"The powder of the horned camel told me that the peace of these souls was disturbed, and

The things that disturb them come from there

With the deliberately unpredictable tone of voice, Fudge pointed into the distance.

The warriors looked in the direction he pointed, and found that the direction he pointed was actually the castle of Hogwarts.

Make up, looks like we're going to attack Hogwarts. "The warriors of Ilvermorny joked.

"So the third game is at Hogwarts?" Harry asked sensitively

It didn't feel good to him, because he always called Hogwarts home, and even if he knew it was acting, he didn't want it to be called a place of evil.

"No no no..." Fudge hurriedly corrected him: "The position of the third game should be in the middle... I mean, the third adventure of the warriors will start on the journey to the castle, and the fourth adventure will be in the middle. Outside the castle, the fifth adventure will enter the castle."

After hearing what he said, the Ministry of Magic's sports department covered their faces in pain.

Minister, you're a spoiler!

The reason why everyone uses this method to unfold the adventure "chapter" by "chapter" is not to learn the routine of serializing novels in newspapers - breaking chapters?

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String the five games into a story, and at the same time leave a suspense or a foreshadowing at the end of the previous story to arouse the audience's interest, so that they can continue to watch the next game, which has been discussed by everyone. In the end, Fudge, the big mouth, actually directly said the position of the next three games, which is purely to increase the difficulty of everyone's work.

No way, who made him the minister.

After Fudge finished speaking, he realized that he had lost his words, and quickly continued to divination in an attempt to change the subject.

"The next is the eggshell of the rune... it tells me that evil is the origin of the

He was originally a noble and charming person. The Feather Bird's feathers revealed a secret to me, and that is to be careful of betrayals from behind the warriors. "

Fudge paused when he said this, smiled contentedly at the puzzled expressions on the faces of the warriors, and then dropped a big bomb.

"—As for the hair of the five-legged monster, it told me that in the next adventure, a fierce conflict will break out between you warriors!"

As soon as these words came out, the warriors glanced around them almost instinctively, and alertly distanced themselves from the people from the other schools.

"Could it be a duel? Then we're not afraid," Harry whispered to Cedric.

Cedric nodded silently—as the duel champion of the upper and lower divisions of Hogwarts, even if the warriors of other schools were also proficient at this, they were not afraid.

Equally buzzing was the spectators who were watching the game—if they could see the Warriors duel in Game 3, it would be worth the price of admission.

Seeing that his words aroused a "warm response" from everyone, Fudge was very satisfied with the effect of his words. At this moment, he even forgot that the author of this "script kill" was not him, but Lockhart.

He no longer sold off, but told the rest of the "divination results".

"The blood of the salamander tells me that after you have rubbed against each other, you need to cooperate to fight against the powerful enemies in the adventure; the reaction of the eight-eyed giant spider venom shows that you are very likely to encounter in future adventures. Regarding the test of \"morality\'; as for the scales of the Hydra - you must have a very determined will in order to have the victory over the last strong enemy. "

He finished the results of these divinations in one breath, and then waited for the warriors to continue to ask

his question.

"Wait... so what?" the warrior of Ilvermorny asked suspiciously. "What does the hide of the Invisible Monster represent?"

If he didn't remind him, maybe Fudge would have forgotten about it, but he wouldn't show it.

"As for the secret represented by 9', it involves whether your adventure will defeat \"real evil\', or "the demon king on the surface\'" but since you brought it, you might as well tell you The fur of the invisible monster said that the person who caused the disaster in Hogsmeade is actually someone else, and you need to collect evidence very hard to find the real culprit behind the scenes."

"What, and a hidden ending?" Harry blurted out.

"Yes, it depends on whether you can catch the invisible monster and collect the evidence behind..."

As Fudge said, he redistributed the divination materials to the hands of the warriors: "Take them well, these things will be useful in the third game. As for what they are used for, you will know when the time comes."

The warriors looked at each other with the things in their hands, but in the end they shrugged in unison and walked towards the castle together.

In order to obtain these task materials, they have not eaten after breakfast, and the amount of activity at the end of the day is not small, they are already hungry.

After the negotiation, Lockhart also sent off two Muggle distinguished guests to meet the establishment of the Hogsmeade Wizarding Council at the beginning of next year.

During dinner, Cedric took a chance and told Harry, "We'll go to the dueling club to practice tomorrow."

Harry also knew the seriousness of the matter: "Okay."

Chapter 333 Sparring

For Harry, the greatest benefit of being a Hogwarts Warriors squire is not the limelight, but a reason enough to make all the students ecstatic.