The same is true for the elderly who participate in "health training courses". They will say that your physical function, body and weight are very standard, but there is something wrong with the XX index, and then recommend a lot of "high-tech drugs" to you.

For example, if you go to the XX bathing center", even if you finish the consumption in three minutes, the conscientious waiter will say "Husband, you are awesome" when you are done...ahem, this doesn't count.

In short, when someone says good things about you, you must think about what his next intention is. This is true in politics and in life.

Sure enough, Lockhart said the second half of the sentence: "If this matter can be solved, the British people will thank you for your great contribution."

"Wizards in Britain... can they understand what we're doing? I doubt it," Fudge said.

"Did the price of drugs in Diagon Alley come down, they don't understand 0" Lockhart

rhetorical question.

Fudge thought so too, but he still had a problem to solve: "But, Malfoy...I mean, what if there are some parents of students who are concerned about education and about the safety of their children who disagree with this. ?"

Flitwick and McGonagall immediately turned their attention to Lockhart.

"Hey, Minister, raising dragons is a very expensive business, from venues to personnel to importing dragon eggs... God, I don't think we can do it with the Ministry of Magic alone, we have to Absorb private talents and private capital." Lockhart pretended to be very distressed.

"You mean..." Fudge seemed to understand.

"Do you think there is any family in Britain willing to take on this responsibility?" Lockhart showed his cards.

Speaking of which, if Fudge doesn't understand, then he's been a minister for 12 years in vain.

"Ha! I think someone would be happy to take on this responsibility." Fudge rubbed his ear.

Lockhart, Flitwick, and Professor McGonagall all looked at each other and smiled.

"Then I'll leave it to you. No one at the Ministry of Magic can take on the responsibility of contacting this matter but you," Lockhart said flatteringly.

Well, I think I need to talk to some people. "Fudge finally let out a sigh of relief. Thinking about it, the students now are getting more and more squeamish. I remember when I was in school, we risked dealing with 4X magical creatures for a play, and Professor Kettleburn lost a hand for it. "

Speaking of which, there is no need to continue talking. Although things haven't been done yet, the big picture has actually been decided.

So several people changed the subject tacitly and began to talk about the changes in Hogsmeade, the movie at night, and the dementors who became honest.

Hermione's eyes lit up behind her ears: "So that's what it is... As expected of Professor Lockhart, to solve a problem, you can't just start with what you see on the surface, and you have to analyze the logic behind it. Buckbeak is saved!"

Ron still looked a little confused: "What? What logic? Aren't they talking about the farm?"

"You're more stupid than Hagrid!" Hermione rolled his eyes at him: "To build a farm, they need more talents in this area, and if they want talents, the protection of magical creatures class needs to be strengthened, Buckby What happened to Ke this time is nothing."

\"But Malfoy won't let it go, that guy..." Ron pouted.

"That's why Professor Lockhart suggested that the matter of the dragon farm be exchanged for the Malfoys to shut up!" Hermione had an expression of hatred.

Ron didn't get it yet, but Harry got something.

"Is this politics? Hermione?" Harry whispered.

\"This is politics." Hermione said firmly, "It is not a simple power struggle, it is \"administration\' and "governance\', and those who can do this well can bring benefits to the entire wizarding world. "

Neither Harry nor Ron said a word, and it seemed they must have listened a little bit.

"Thinking about it now, I've thought too much about the promotion of the rights of house-elves from the very beginning." Hermione thought thoughtfully, and there was only one person who benefited from it, so naturally no one was willing to advance this matter. …”

"Stop talking about your \"vomit (S.P.E.W) 5. Ron groaned. "Everyone else is getting bored by you. Harry and I went to the kitchen with you, but they... tell you privately, they don't think 'vomit' is cool at all."

He had expected Hermione to argue with him, but she didn't.

\"So...what makes them feel that paying attention to the rights of house-elves is not

It's cool, and it's good for them. Or, what do they care about. ' Hermione turned to Harry, as if to ask him for an answer.

"I don't know," Harry answered honestly, "but the whole house is concerned about what new broom I'm buying. We've already lost a Quidditch game, and we can't lose another one."

\"Sweeping the stars, I didn't say anything.\"

Reddenwood says Nimbus 2001 is good, Bell recommends Comet 260, Lee Jordan strongly recommends Cornflower, but Cedric says he's been following Thunderbolt 5 for a long time,... oh, sorry, Hermione, we're digressing. "Harry quickly apologized.

"No." Hermione was surprisingly not angry. "Quidditch...I think I understand what you all care about. So, what is the fastest broom?"

"Firebolt." Harry and Ron said in unison.

When it came to the Firebolt? Harry's voice was a little louder, causing the people in the seat next to look over in confusion, as if trying to understand why the two people here made three voices.

Harry quickly closed his mouth and continued to pretend to be transparent.

Fortunately, the other party just looked at it and didn't pay attention, and only regarded it as a hallucination after drinking too much alcohol.

"Then why not buy Firebolts?" Hermione asked.

Ron answered the question for Harry: "It's too expensive, I've heard that iron parts are made by goblins, but they can't keep up with the production... You know, as long as anything is made by goblins, Then death is expensive.”

"That's it." Hermione took it to heart, what would happen if Zhuangkouguo house-elves learned to make broom parts? "

"They'll be locked up by all the pureblood families and enslaved to make broom parts." Ron replied without hesitation.

Hermione choked: "Well, it looks like we have to think of something else.

Chapter 209 Sirius who realizes his role

While the three children were talking, the **** dog who was ignored by the side had been lying lazily on the seat, reminiscing about his past, and it was not until they talked about brooms that their attention returned to reality.

Firebolt is it... what are you afraid of if it is more expensive? Blake made plans to himself.

Since Regulus o Black died because of "weakness of breath", Sirius o Black has become the only heir to the Black family, regardless of whether the people of the Black family are willing or not.

Although Bellatrix, Narcissa and Andromeda are also members of the Black family, they all have to change their surnames in the end, and Andromeda even married the Muggle Tonks, so they are all being abused. The right of inheritance is automatically cancelled after a small amount of property is distributed.

In other words, the Black family, as one of the "eternally pure" members of the "Sacred Twenty-Eight Pure Blood", the wealth they have accumulated over thousands of years now belongs to Sirius o Black.

Although Sirius has no idea of ​​his family's financial resources, he has never lacked money since he was a child, even if he ran away from home, so the words "no money" and "can't afford it" are in his dictionary. nonexistent.

As long as you can buy what you want, what is money?

He had already made up his mind to give Harry a Firebolt.

But there are two problems - first, whether Gringotts will allow him to withdraw money; second, whether to indicate that he sent it with his real name.

But he didn't have to think about this problem anymore, because it was solved by the group of people next to him——

"What a filthy traitor!" Hagrid shouted.

The whole three brooms were silenced by Hagrid's loud voice, as if they didn't understand what the madness was going on.

Makeup let me see that **** Blake before Peter, and I must tear him to pieces! ' Hagrid growled.

Sirius:? !

He found that just as he was thinking, he seemed to have accidentally missed something. He didn't hear it, but that didn't mean Harry, Hermione and Ron didn't either.

After Fudge and the others finished talking about business, the topic naturally turned to tonight's movie, the changes in Hogsmeade, and Black's attack.

Rosmerta complained about the actions of the Ministry of Magic one by one, because the dementors would come to search every other day, so that the residents of Hogsmeade did not want to drink, and the foreign tourists disappeared, and her business was greatly affected.

She hoped that the Ministry of Magic would remove the dementors, but Fudge dared not make that decision, because if something went wrong, his decision to remove the dementors would surely be criticized.

On the contrary, if he did not remove him, even if Black did attack Harry, he would not have to take responsibility, because he "did his duty and sent the guard"

Compared with his political future, the "slight inconvenience" in people's lives is not a big problem in his view.

But he couldn't say it clearly, so he had to take his left and right into consideration, and began to exaggerate Sirius Black's cruelty, tyranny, and "terrorist plan"

In his account, Black betrayed the Potters and then appeared in Godric's Hollow, waiting for "his master" to kill the Potters, only to hear the "bad news" that his master was dead, and immediately began escape.

As for the reason why he was caught, it was because Peter Pettigrew found him, and then he blew Peter to death, and was then used by the Ministry of Magic with "twenty Aurors".

Surrounded, seized and imprisoned.

\"...We have reason to believe that Black is working on a big plan. He may be planning to kill Potter, then reconvene the Death Eaters and resurrect his master... Besides, isn't Gilderoy here too? He Can scare those dementors."

In order to frighten Rosmerta, Fudge deliberately exaggerated Blake's ferocity and terror, as alarmist as he could, and finally made her stop talking about removing the Dementors.

Lockhart saw it clearly, but he wasn't going to stop it.

They just asked the Minister to let him spare Hagrid and Buckbeak, so they can't just jump out and slap the Minister in the face, right? In addition, everyone came out to drink, there is no need to be serious about such trivial matters.

They can be indifferent, but the **** dog lying on the side is stunned for a moment - why is this me? I've done this before? I'm going to summon the Death Eaters and resurrect the Dark Lord? Are you sick?

Although he had long guessed that after his voluntary arrest, the world would have some misunderstandings about him, but he did not expect that such misunderstandings would be so big.

If he is still in prison, that's all, it's nothing to do with himself, but if his godson is like them, he thinks that he betrayed his parents.

■■

But these three children are all so smart, they must have found the contradiction in Fudge's remarks, right?

He glanced hopefully to his left, but saw nothing. Instead, half a glass of butterbeer was suddenly splashed on the ground, and an empty glass appeared on the table out of thin air.

"Let's go." Harry said in a suppressed voice.

He could tell that he was trying his best to contain his anger.

Finished a little Sirius heart said.

Ron and Hermione hurriedly followed, and took cover, opened the door of the bar for Harry, and then four lines of footprints rushed in the direction of Honey Duke.

\"Send Harry into the secret passage, and then we'll go right back." Hermione said to Ron. Ron wanted to say that he hadn't seen the movie called "The Terminator", and he had bought both tickets, so he couldn't waste those 6 silver ticks.

But looking at Hermione's expression, it was obvious that she was not discussing it with herself, so Ron had to comply after mumbling twice.

Fudge, Crouch and other people obviously did not care about the departure of the children beside them. They were still chatting happily under the influence of alcohol.

Although Fudge still did not promise to spare Buckbeak, looking at the situation today, Fudge's attitude is obviously inclined to let it go.

Seeing hope, Hagrid felt very happy, so after filling the barrel of mead, he stood up comfortably and said goodbye to everyone, and McGonagall and Professor Flitwick also wanted to make corrections. I said my farewell because of the student's homework.

After the Hogwarts professors left, only a few colleagues from the Ministry of Magic remained at the scene.

In front of his subordinates, Fudge no longer had to maintain his demeanor, so he completely let himself go and began to laugh out loud.

Seeing the yellow joke in Fudge's mouth, the speed of the car gradually soared to 80 mph, and the mood became hilarious. Gemma Farley, who accompanied him, couldn't help frowning.

Middle-aged men can be showy, but not greasy; you can be violent and melancholy, but you can't lose control.

Still someone is better - he always maintains good self-control and demeanor, and even remembers to replace his wine with lemonade while others are not looking.

Chapter 210 Unexpected arrival

Seeing that the atmosphere was already super hot, Lockhart took no time to urge several of the people present to quickly buy two houses in Hogsmeade.

"I'm sure you've seen it as well. After the Triwizard Tournament is over and the resort facilities and the intermediate market are built, the price of the land will definitely soar." Lockhart pushed hard to everyone, "Just buy two in advance. Build a house on a piece of land, sit and do nothing, and in two years, your assets will double out of thin air.”

If he had said this three months ago, I'm afraid Fudge and Crouch would have just laughed.

But just before they came to the Screaming Shack for an unannounced visit, they had already visited those built facilities. And the speed of this construction can be said to be far beyond their imagination. If Lockhart said such a thing at this time, they could no longer take it lightly.

"Will more tourists come here after the Triwizard Tournament?" Fudge couldn't help asking.

"Then it depends on whether you want to or not." Lockhart laughed hard.

"In fact, in addition to the resort, I also want to build an \"Intermediate Trade Market\' in Hogsmeade, which is positioned to replace the Knockturn Alley's mouth trade market, and regularly allows some Muggle high-level Come in and trade, and use the profits to smooth out the gold we spend on importing industrial products to Muggles, and the Ministry of Magic can also collect taxes from it to replenish the finances... Of course, this is just an idea now, and it has not been discussed yet. "

Fudge worked his head hard, as if trying to figure out the pros and cons of Lockhart's idea. But under the influence of alcohol, he shook his dizzy head, and finally gave up.

"Forget it, we won't talk about official business today, and we will consider this matter slowly. But about buying a house, I want to discuss it with my wife and family to see how much living money I can get... To be honest, Jide Luo, you are moving too fast."

"I didn't expect it to be so fast, so I asked you to come and inspect quickly." Lockhart said half apologetically, half proudly, \"You'd better act fast, after so much construction at one time, it is estimated that many The family must find out that the price of the land here is going to rise.

"Who said it wasn't? Otherwise, why did we keep it a secret in the first place." Fudge inadvertently missed the point.

^^ Just know. Lockhart pouted in his heart.

It is obvious that the Triwizard Tournament should be promoted earlier, so that the Ministry of Magic can maximize the commercial benefits from it, but the high-level officials of the Ministry of Magic chose to secretly organize it. It is estimated that some people in the Ministry of Magic want to rely on poor information. For example, buying some land or shares in related industries in advance.

In terms of eating, the Ministry of Magic and their colleagues in previous lives are simply a template. Lockhart said heartily.

So Lockhart turned to Mr. Crouch again: \"So what do you mean?"

While everyone was talking, Barty Crouch on the side seemed very quiet, hardly speaking, until Lockhart asked him, he seemed to be awakened by something and moved.

Some people talk a lot after drinking, such as Fudge

And there is another kind of person who becomes unusually quiet after drinking, just like someone with autism in a mental hospital, such as the current Barty Crouch.

\"The Crouch family has an open space and a country house here, I just need to find someone to expand it." He didn't seem very enthusiastic.

"Aren't you buying new land anymore?" Lockhart asked. "If you put it on for a few more decades...

\"For a few more decades, who can these things be left to?"

I don't know if it was related to telling the truth after drinking, but Crouch inadvertently said the truth.

Fudge and Lockhart fell silent for a moment

Although Crouch and Fudge are political enemies, as a pure-blood wizard, Fudge feels that he can understand Crouch's feelings very well." Even if the Fudge family is not holy28