Regarding the panic and anxiety of the others at Hogwarts, Link's expression was relaxed and freehand.

To put it bluntly, Hogwarts is the place where he has stayed the longest.

This is almost his second home.

It is precisely because of this that as long as he is in this ancient castle, he can relax more easily than in other places.

After saying goodbye to McGonagall and other professors, he did not go straight to the principal's office as he said earlier.

Instead, he went to the Slytherin lounge first and reported peace with Emily.

After he chose to explain what happened last night and comforted Emily, he slowly walked up the magic stairs and came to the principal's office.

There is no one in the office at the moment.

Dumbledore obviously hadn't returned. In the huge office, only the portrait of Headmaster Blake hanging on the wall was shouting to welcome him.

As for the portraits of the other headmasters, they were all pretending to be asleep—they didn't like to see Link, the guy who introduced the Hogwarts system.

"Good morning, Headmaster Black, looking at your radiant face, it looks like you had a good rest last night."

Link greeted Blake's portrait with a smile and waved his wand as he spoke.

With the rotation of the magic power, the drawer of the eagle foot table opened automatically, and an iron can floated out, lifted its cover, and poured the tea inside into the tea cup on the coffee table.

Afterwards, the water level in the tea cup rose rapidly, and as the hot water vapor diffused, the fragrance of tea soon permeated the office.

"Oh! Don't mention it, Little Link, I slept very well every day. Oh no, to be precise, I slept too well!" The headmaster Black on the portrait said dancing, "You should be able to understand, right? We These old antiques are like prisoners, locked in such a small frame all day long and can't go anywhere. And you and Dumbledore are often not in the office, and even if they are, they don't talk to us very much. Now, all we can do is sleep. Keep sleeping! Damn, I hate sleeping! Why do I need to sleep when I'm a portrait? It's not magic at all..."

Principal Black kept complaining.

Link nodded perfunctoryly on his mouth, but his body was already sitting on the sofa, holding up a hot teacup on the tip of his nose and sniffing deeply.

"what-"

Taking a long breath, Link shook his head with emotion.

The aroma of black tea is not as strong as that of green tea, but it also has a bit of charm.

Just when Link was feeling the aroma of tea, Principal Black on the wall changed his words and said:

"By the way, little Link, I want to ask you one thing."

"What's the matter? You can talk about it first."

Link was still talking without hesitation. Combining with Principal Black's previous words, he felt that the other party might want to ask him to enlarge his picture frame, and then send someone to add some beautiful toys and other things to him. .

To be honest, this matter is not difficult for Link at all, it is a small effort.

Seeing that Principal Black was the only one who supported him in the portraits of the previous principals, he was very willing to help.

"Uh, it's like this, I'm really lonely here, so I thought, can you let my only remaining great-great-grandson come to visit me?" Principal Black rubbed his hands and said excitedly, "This shouldn't be too much, right? Even the criminals in Azkaban can be visited by their family members."

Hearing this, Link, who had just raised his glass to take a sip of tea, suddenly froze.

He looked at Principal Black in surprise and said:

"You mean, Sirius Black?"

"That's right, it's this kid. He is the only child of my Black family! I need to educate him well so that he can revive the Black family!"

Principal Black spoke aggressively, but the more he said it, the weirder the expression on Link's face.

Link pursed his lips, and finally said:

"I advise you to forget it, Principal Black, you will be **** off by him!"

There is no doubt about that.

Sirius Black is now preoccupied with Harry.

He didn't care about anything but Harry.

It was purely whimsical that the old Headmaster Black wanted him to revive the Black family.

It is estimated that the old Principal Black, who was looking forward to Sun Chenglong, heard that the only remaining bloodline planned not to marry a wife, not have children, and even the only remaining family property was planned to be given to outsiders.

By that time, it would be hard not to be crazy.

"Why do you say that?" Principal Black said in a puzzled manner before he gave up, "How can I hear Dumbledore say that that kid has made great progress recently."

"Yeah, that's right, a student at the bottom of the exam who has always only been able to take a score of 1 scored 10 points this time! This improvement is indeed quite big, and the score has increased tenfold all of a sudden!"

As soon as Link said these words, Principal Black finally understood the meaning of Link's words.

His whole body began to tremble, his white lips were constantly trembling, and it seemed that he was extremely angry.

At this moment, a flame appeared out of thin air in the office.

Principal Black's expression changed when he saw this, and he quickly got down and started pretending to be asleep.

Then Fox, the phoenix with gorgeous hair, sprang out of the flames first and landed on Link's shoulders, looking curiously at the teacup in Link's hands that was fragrant of tea.

Immediately afterwards, Dumbledore also came out.

He patted the dust that didn't exist on his body, and just wanted to say hello to Link, but his eyes couldn't help falling on the tea cup in Link's hand and the opened tea tin on the coffee table.

In an instant, the smile he had just gathered disappeared.

"This is my collection, and I'm not entertaining it!" Dumbledore stepped forward, closed the tea tin and put it back into the drawer, then looked at Link's tea cup and said with an ugly expression, "Also, you drink Tea without orange slices or milk or something? You don't know how to drink tea at all, do you?"

Link rolled his eyes at him and said:

"People who really know how to drink tea will never pour such messy things into the tea."

Dumbledore was obviously dissatisfied and wanted to say something.

But Link took the lead and said:

"Professor Dumbledore, let's get down to business. How is the situation on your side?"

Dumbledore didn't immediately answer Link's question.

Perhaps he was hooked by the scent of tea in the office.

He took out the tea jug again, carefully grabbed a small amount for himself, put it in the teapot, added water to boil, poured it into the teacup, and finally added some orange slices and other unknown things to Link, and finally After stirring a few times, I took a small sip.

"Huh! Duke black tea is the best tea in the world!"

Dumbledore spoke with emotion, and while speaking, he was still staring at Link with provocative eyes.

It's a pity that Link, who passively activated Occlumency, was unmoved by this at all, and just continued to look at Dumbledore expressionlessly.

Seeing this, Dumbledore shook his head and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, Link, things are going well. The captive named Karen you captured worked so hard, he almost revealed the details of the group. With his help, the International Confederation of Wizards recognized We protested and promised to help us put pressure on the French Ministry of Magic. Now the pressure is back on them."

Link frowned and said somewhat puzzled:

"What's the point of this? To be honest, I couldn't understand it when you proposed to go to the International Confederation of Wizards last night. In terms of putting pressure on France, we just need to cooperate with the media to control public opinion. Really Is it necessary to go through the International Confederation of Wizards?"

"Of course it makes sense!"

Dumbledore said decisively, "I have already talked to you about this. The International Confederation of Wizards and Wizards has more than surface symbolism and justice. They have real military power. Many things you I haven't experienced it, so I can't understand it, but what I can tell you is that even if we already have two legendary wizard-level combat power, the International Federation of Wizards will not be afraid of us. Speaking of which, you It should be clear, right? It is necessary to get their support, at least to prevent them from suddenly intervening when we attack France and the Sombra."

"Little Link, don't underestimate the International Confederation of Wizards." Principal Black, who was still pretending to be asleep on the wall, suddenly said, "I was the same as you when I was young, and I thought the International Confederation of Wizards was no big deal. I can only point fingers and gossip. So, I naturally didn't take them seriously. But what happened next completely changed my opinion.

Oh! I can't tell you exactly what happened, you have to save me some face. But I can tell you for sure that I regret, regret that I underestimated the International Confederation of Wizards.

So, Little Link, be careful! "

"Okay, thank you for your teaching, Headmaster Black."

Dumbledore took the conversation, looked at Link's unmoved face, paused, then smiled and said:

"The attitude of the International Federation of Wizards in this matter is still to mediate and avoid further expansion of the gaffe. Next, in order to solve this matter, there will probably be several joint meetings. If you are really curious about the International Federation of Wizards , then you can come and see with me."

Link refused to deny it, just picked up the teacup and took a light sip.

Dumbledore also stopped talking, smiled and continued to drink tea.

The atmosphere in the entire office also eased down immediately.

Both of them are very clear that the current situation is developing in a good direction.

If there is no accident in the middle, in this battle between them and the shadow people, they will be the victor.

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On the eagle-footed table, an old silver pendant suddenly moved by itself.

Link and Dumbledore stopped drinking tea, and they all looked over.

This silver pendant is actually an early warning device for the entire principal's office.

It is directly linked to the monster stone statue at the entrance of the office through a preset spell, which can clearly convey the information at the entrance to the headmaster of Hogwarts.

At this moment, through the authority of the principal, Link and Dumbledore could clearly sense that there was someone standing at the entrance of the office, requesting to enter.

That person was Snape.

What is he here to do?

Link and Dumbledore frowned almost at the same time.

The two looked at each other, and finally after Link nodded, Dumbledore raised his palm slightly and gestured to the silver pendant to open the door.

A few minutes later, the door to the office was pushed open.

Snape in a black robe looked like a big bat, strode high, and walked in with an expressionless face.

"Good morning, Dumbledore, and Link."

"How are you, Professor Snape."

Link gave up his seat with a smile, picked up Dumbledore's teapot, and poured a cup for Snape, "You should try this, this is Professor Dumbledore's treasured tea, You can't drink it anywhere else."

Snape didn't react to this statement.

Dumbledore's mouth twitched a few times, then coughed twice and said to Snape:

"Uh, Severus, what's the matter with you? Could it be because no one went to class this morning? I've already learned about this situation, but now, it seems to have been solved by Link? The punishment will also be issued one by one, you don't have to worry."

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Snape nodded and drank all the tea in the cup.

Link followed him and brought him another full glass. Dumbledore's eyelids jumped when he saw this scene.

He wanted to say something else, but Snape rolled his sleeves first.

What appeared in front of Link and Dumbledore was an arm that was so pale that it could almost be said to be sick, and the hideous mark of the Dark Demon on that arm.

"The dark mark on my arm has changed a lot."

Snape said faintly, "Since the last time you announced that Voldemort was severely injured, this Dark Mark has indeed been depressed for a while, no, it is not appropriate to describe it as depressed. Its state at that time was like it was dead.

But just a week ago, it came back to life.

Not only that, but it has also become softer and more rational, at least it won't sting me if I have nothing to do.

But these are all just performances.

I can feel the power hidden in this dark mark.

That terrifying, weird power, even more powerful than when Voldemort was in his prime!

It's like... as if Voldemort's control of the Dark Mark was taken away! "

Dumbledore and Link looked at each other.

Both were well aware of what the change in Snape meant.

Those shadowy people should have really come out from the shadow side and started to take over Voldemort's legacy on the bright side.

But what makes them tangled is whether these things should be told to Snape?

Just when the two hesitated, Snape continued:

"I feel it is necessary to tell you about this. Besides it, I have another thing to ask Link."

"Are you looking for me?"

Link said, and sat down on the sofa again.

Snape paused and looked at Dumbledore beside him.

He seemed to be hesitating to tell the matter in front of Dumbledore.

But in the end he gritted his teeth and said:

"Actually, this matter has something to do with Lucius Malfoy. If the information I got is not wrong, he shouldn't have been executed, right?"

"Lucius Malfoy?"

Link frowned and repeated the name.

To be honest, if Snape hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about this person.

According to what Link recalled, this guy has been imprisoned in the special cell of the Auror Command since he was captured alive in the last battle of the Department of Mysteries and was interrogated by the Auror troops.

What he is now playing is actually Karkaroff's role the last time the Death Eaters were defeated.

Up to now, through constant interrogation, he has explained a lot of information about the Death Eaters and Voldemort.

Through him, Link can easily clear out the Death Eaters hidden in the Ministry of Magic.

During that brutal sweep, only a small number of Death Eaters who had already fled abroad or were hiding in the wilderness escaped.

Even this time, the reason Link and the Ministry of Magic were able to predict the attack of the Death Eater remnants, aside from the fact that they had already caught a French spy who was trying to turn against Newland, was Lucius Malfoy. to a good effect.

And now Snape brought up the man.

Then the purpose of his visit this time is very clear.

The corners of Link's mouth rose slightly, and said lightly:

"Are you here to intercede for him?"

Snape's expression was not good-looking, but he still bite the bullet and said:

"Narcissa, Lucius' wife, and his son Draco came to see me the other day. I hope I can help Lucius come to you for the sake of how much he has taken care of me in the past. intercede."

Hearing this, the smile on Link's face became even brighter.

Snape's speaking skills are very high.

He himself was still on Link's side, and he didn't want to deceive Link.

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At the same time, he didn't directly say what he wanted to make Link let Lucius Malfoy go.

But at the same time, he also mentioned that Lucius took good care of him.

Through this, he expressed to Link that he still hoped that Lucius Malfoy would have a good end.

The most crucial point is that, to convey so much information to Link clearly, Snape only used two sentences.

This made Link have no choice but to sigh.

A person with a poisonous tongue has always been good at eloquence and emotional intelligence.

Otherwise, how could they accurately find the pain points of others and attack them?

"Hehehe..."

Link said with a smile, "Okay, I already know about this."

Snape nodded when he heard this.

Although Link did not give him any clear commitment, he knew that his task had been completed.

He pondered for a while and continued:

"Is there anything I need to do?"

This is an exchange of interests.

You let Lucius Malfoy go, and I'll do the work for you.

This seemed to Snape to be normal.

In the past, he was a Death Eater under Voldemort, and he was a double agent under Dumbledore.

Both Voldemort and Dumbledore were very satisfied with such a deal.

However, when Link heard the words, his expression changed.

The smile disappeared instantly from his face.

He stared at Snape and said in a somewhat deep voice:

"What do I want you to do, you should have the answer now."