why?

"Because doing that would put the Order of the Phoenix against the Ministry of Magic," Lockhart explained.

Dumbledore disapproved: "Isn't it? I thought the Ministry of Magic already knew this."

"Ah..." Lockhart didn't know how to persuade him - Dumbledore clearly looked down on the political arena, let alone politicians.

Although Lockhart himself despised Fudge, he was not opposed to a system of administration, and if he were opposed to this constitution, then all the things he had pursued so far would be futile.

"I'm going to figure out a way to deal with this," Lockhartno said.

Dumbledore didn't ask how Lockhart planned to solve the problem, he just

Lan Erkouhe:

"How long will it be for you?" he asked.

Lockhart thought for a moment: "How about the beginning of the next school year?"

Dumbledore frowned: "In other words, it will take more than half a year... This is too long, during which Voldemort can do a lot."

"So when would you like it to be?"

"I would like to be able to let students know about this before the exam, so at least international friends can be informed as well."

Lockhart finds out that Dumbledore only gave himself three months

"It's quite challenging." Lockhart didn't agree immediately, "and I shouldn't be doing this kind of thing alone."

"Challenging, of course, but if a person wants to lead the entire wizarding world forward, he has no next family who can continue to shirk responsibility." Dumbledore hinted

In this way, Lockhart felt that he could not refuse.

"I'll give it a try," he agreed.

Chapter 287 Dumbledore who quietly attacked

When Lockhart was gone, Dumbledore asked him to call Sirius over, because he also had something to say to Sirius.

Lockhart suppressed his curiosity and did not ask what Dumbledore wanted to say.

Regardless of whether Dumbledore planned to go as he had done, and organized the Order of the Phoenix to trouble the Death Eaters while looking for Horcruxes, or had some new plan, the task that Dumbledore gave himself was obvious, and that was to deal with politics Publicity, and getting wizard families to be on the lookout for Death Eater raids in advance, and it's not a daunting task.

Don't forget, this is a task that the Order of the Phoenix has never been able to accomplish in the original book. And the Order of the Phoenix also paid a high price for the Ministry of Magic's non-cooperation - Bode was imprisoned and died in the devil's net in a bed at St Mungo's Hospital; Arthur Weasley was attacked by Nagini, and at one point Life is on the line; and Harry's urge to be seduced to get the prophecy ball: Sirius saves him with his life...

But even so, if everyone had not seen Voldemort with their own eyes in the end, and if Fudge wanted to continue to pretend to be confused, it is estimated that even the Death Eaters lined up one by one to tell him that the master had been resurrected, and Fudge would not be able to. Can continue to pretend to be confused.

And it's not just Fudge who pretends to be confused. Think about it. If the Ministry of Magic has reached a consensus early on, what can a mere Minister of Magic do? And the reason why Fudge can continue to pretend to be confused and use various means such as issuing education orders to suppress Hogwarts is not because a considerable number of political forces in the Ministry of Magic support his behavior of pretending to be confused?

And these supporters included some lazy officials, some shrewd guards who were afraid of Voldemort's revenge, and a large number of Fudge's promoted cronies.

Of course, these are not the main ones, the most important ones are the pure blood family members who have joined the ranks of the Death Eaters.

They have property, vassal families at their disposal, and they can use their financial resources to lobby the officials of the Ministry of Magic very effectively. For example, Harry accidentally bumped into Lucius Malfoy before his trial, which was suspected of offering bribes.

Under such circumstances, it is even more difficult to forcibly construct a "consensus" within the Ministry of Magic.

But Lockhart is not completely wrong - after all, the logic of Ministry of Magic officials' pretending to be confused is to "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages", so it is not impossible for him to turn the situation around as long as he makes arrangements for this. And in the process of reversing, Lockhart can also bring a team of his own.

—Order is a barrier against cold and death.

As he thought so, he found Harry.

During the time he was reporting to Dumbledore, Moody also followed his instructions and called all the members of the Order of the Phoenix at Hogwarts to come to a meeting.

Moody was speaking to Professor McGonagall and Cedric and Harry himself when Lockhart arrived.

For some reason, Ron and Hermione were there too.

Although Dumbledore claims to treat everyone equally, at this critical moment, you can still see the distance and distance in his heart. In addition to Snape, the person he chose to disclose at the first time was Professor McGonagall of the Lion House, while the other two colleges were expected to give it later.

This is not good, to be honest, this is really bad, because it will affect the attitude of the other two college deans towards the Order of the Phoenix in the future.

Although in the end they all undoubtedly joined the army against Voldemort: but that doesn't mean they see the Order of the Phoenix as "their own" - if nothing else, if the "Battle of the Seven Potters" If Professor Flitwick could join the war, perhaps the people who transferred the team would not be so embarrassed at all.

Thinking of this, Lockhart immediately spoke up and asked Moody to wait to inform the matter.

In place, at least at the level of all deans.

Moody's puzzled: "But they're not members of the Order of the Phoenix

"But they have a right to know," Lockhart stressed.

Moody wasn't going to tell the truth to those he didn't trust, but Professor McGonagall took it upon herself, she thought Lockhart was right - the head of Hogwarts should have known what was going on. what.

Harry and Cedric both looked very bad at this time - they realized that they had almost encountered something just now.

"You-Know-Who is back? And you already guessed it?" Ron was very surprised

\"Not 'guess\' arrived, but Dumbledore's 'predicted\' to arrive." Moody corrected him, "In fact, thirteen years ago we knew he would be resurrected, but we didn't I thought it would take so long."

Not good news, especially since Harry thought he was busy enough, even if he had a hunch about it.

"My scar has been hurting lately," Harry said suddenly, "and it got really sore right as we got to the end of the game."

Seeing that everyone looked at Harry, Professor McGonagall took the initiative to explain it for him: "It is true, Rita Skeeter also published an article on this, saying that our warriors are \"insanity\', and they are good at using Scars pretend to be pitiful as an excuse. "

Mentioning Rita Skeeter, the Iron Triangle snorted coldly.

Recently, this reporter can be said to be famous - not only broke the big news that Hagrid is a half-blood giant, but also vaguely hinted at Mrs. Maxim's bloodline, which caused an outcry from Beauxbatons.

In addition, she is also very talented in mining gossip and gossip. The warriors' private life, especially the emotional life, is what she cares most about. In addition to the love triangle between Krum, Harry and Hermione, from Booth Barton's malicious girls

The "Secret History of Delacour's Debauchery" collected there also angered Fleur, and even Vaggardu was outraged by what she described in her report as "a way of life and thinking stuck in the 15th century." solemn protest.

But these are useless, because whether they are readers of the Daily Prophet or foreign readers, they like to read them, and these protests from home and abroad have increased the dissemination and controversy of the topic.

"The Daily Prophet" suddenly found that its sales have increased significantly, and many readers have sent letters expressing concern about the warriors' emotional lives, and even foreign media have asked for reprints. In this case, they naturally refused to kick Rita Skeeter out.

They just found a piece of tofu in the newspaper, added a few words such as "Everyone's opinions do not represent the position of this newspaper", and continued to indulge Skeeter's nonsense in disguise.

Everyone felt disgusted when they thought about it, so they quickly brought this part of the topic to the past.

After explaining the cause and effect of this incident and the recovery of the Order of the Phoenix, Lockhart told Harry that Dumbledore was looking for Sirius, because he knew that only Harry had a two-way communication channel with Sirius.

Harry was curious about Dumbledore looking for his godfather.

"What did he do with Sirius?" he asked.

Lockhart only shrugged: "I don't know, Dumbledore didn't say it, I didn't ask, he never liked to let one person hold all the secrets."

Harry didn't think much of it, and took out the two-way mirror his godfather had given him.

Unlike the fireplace of the "landline", this two-way mirror is equivalent to a "mobile phone" in the magical world, and it is born with a video call, which hangs Muggles for hundreds of years.

In the book "Order of the Phoenix", it is clear that Sirius gave the two-way mirror very early

Harry, but Harry never used it. He'd rather risk the fireplace in Umbridge's office than think of using this two-way mirror, not even before the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, which is certainly a tragedy - although it's very likely Harry or Rowling forgot about it.

The tragedy that could have been avoided happened because of a very nonsensical reason, which gave people a bad feeling.

It didn't take long for Sirius to receive Harry's "call" and put down the wine glass in his hand.

Because of the emergency notification from MI5, after swearing for a long time, he still did not go to the scene to continue watching his godson's game, but went to perform an emergency mission - the hijacking case

Because this guy has passed the age of study, no matter how MI5 trains him in information science, Sirius's progress can only be described as "moving", so in the end Mrs. Rimington also gave up brainwashing him into a well-trained Su's agent's thoughts, and let him go to the action team to perform tasks, and then subtly infiltrate his thoughts at ordinary times.

Looking at it now, this infiltration is very successful, because if it was the former Sirius, it is absolutely impossible for him to succumb to any "national interest" and give up watching his own godson game.

It was just hijacked by terrorists. Why do you Muggles have to deal with it yourself?

But now he came back with the terrorists **** in a circle, threw them to the interrogation room, and then lay on a bench, drinking and bragging with his colleagues.

If Harry hadn't triggered the two-way mirror, he would have almost forgotten that his godson also participated in the Big Five Tournament.

"What, old...the boss called me.! I'm coming! I'm coming right away!" He was drunk

say.

Abandoning the two-way mirror, he went back to the bar counter, told his colleagues that he had something to do temporarily, and then took out a large stack of pounds to settle the bill for himself and his colleagues. This kind of arrogance also made him among his colleagues. very popular.

In this hijacking case, these agents first tried to delay and negotiate, and successfully dragged the plane until it landed due to lack of fuel. Then Sirius Apparated onto the plane according to the instructions of the technical department, and took advantage of the robbers when they were unprepared. Throwing a bottle of Dreamless Sleeper into the air conditioning system of the plane instantly subdued all the robbers on the plane... and passengers.

According to the regulations, Sirius can get a bonus of 50,000 pounds this time, no wonder he is so generous.

He came to Dumbledore's headmaster's room drunk like this, but Dumbledore's words made him sober up.

Dumbledore took out a strange pendant and placed it in front of Sirius.

"Do you know someone whose initials are R.A.B?"

Chapter 388 The younger brother is not the younger brother

This strangely shaped locket did not surprise Sirius much, because its workmanship was too rough to catch the eyes of his son-in-law.

But what Dumbledore said \"R.A.B\" made Black a little surprised - if I remember correctly, isn't that his brother Regulus Alphard Black?

Although Dumbledore was asking him "who is that", I believe that Dumbledore actually already had the answer in his heart, otherwise he would not have dragged himself from London.

Thinking of this, Sirius opened his mouth.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should mean my brother...but he should be dead."

Dumbledore picked up the rough pendant on the table and played with it for a while, looking thoughtful.

"Dead? Are you sure? I investigated several Death Eaters, and they all said that your brother was \"suddenly disappeared\', and no one suspected him of mutiny before he disappeared.

In this regard, Sirius gave him a 7100% package.

"Definitely dead." He said affirmatively: "My family also has some methods to confirm the status of the clan, I am sure he must be afraid, and when he wants to quit, he will be...

Dumbledore interrupted him: "But you were expelled from the Blacks, and as far as I know, you should not know about your mother's death (1985), while you were still in Azkaban."

Sirius sternly said: \"Sorry, I know."

"How do you know 0"

"Because 12 Grimmauld Place came to my name, and so did the house-elves, if the family, especially the old mum and the weak cat were still there, the goblins at Gringotts wouldn't give it to me , especially when I was expelled from my clan by my mother."

Dumbledore breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing "House Elf".

"If that's the case, that's all right... Could you allow me to visit your house? And I'd like to talk to your house-elf, too," he said.

Sirius suddenly showed a disgusted expression: "I don't want to go back there, and it's not my home."

Dumbledore felt that he really didn't like Sirius.

As an old man who only realized how precious they were after losing his family, Dumbledore couldn't understand Sirius's rebellion against his family, let alone the hostility he showed to his mother and brother.

Dumbledore's tone became a little stiffer: "Then, can you please take me back to the ancestral home of the Black family? I feel that there may be something very important there."

Sirius agreed without hesitation: "I can give you the key,

Just don't let me go back there, I've had enough. "

"Really? Maybe looking at this, you'll change your attitude."

As Dumbledore spoke, he pulled the locket open, revealing a note inside.

"This is?" Sirius stared curiously.

"You'll see when you see it." Dumbledore ignored him. Sirius quickly took the note and glanced at the contents.

"To the Dark Lord:

I know that when you read this letter, I am dead, but I want you to know that I have discovered this secret of yours, that I have taken the real Horcrux and destroyed it as soon as possible.

I'm willing to die for you, a mortal of flesh and blood when you meet your opponent

R.A.B.\"

After reading the note, Sirius showed a very surprised expression for the first time.

"Uh...this is...he? Weak...I mean, my brother Regulus?" Sirius didn't realize that his name for his brother had quietly changed.

"I'm afraid yes." Dumbledore nodded slowly, "I checked all the Death Eater lists, and only one of his initials is R.A.B."

Sirius was so surprised that he was speechless, then lowered his head to look at the note, and after a long while, he stuttered again.

"Uh... The little lion seems to be saying that he has discovered Voldemort's secret... um, what is the f Horcrux?"