A day at Hogwarts

Fudge had been planning for tonight's hunt for a long time and spent a lot of energy.

To this end, he also called many reporters to write a big book about the incident.

Well, now, the mark of the Dark Lord, which has been missing for more than ten years, has reappeared. This news is big enough.

Rita Skeeter suddenly became excited and rushed into the dark woods. When no one was paying attention, she turned into a beetle and flew towards the place where the Dark Lord's mark was cast.

Fudge said to Scrimgeour: "You're in charge here. I'll go over and take a look."

Scrimgeour nodded and began to direct the closing of the net.

Fudge turned to look at Dumbledore, who said, "I'll go with you."

Fudge called several Aurors and went with Dumbledore to the place where the Dark Mark was cast.

Ron, Hermione, Neville and Fred hurriedly ran from the dark woods to the clearing, and were then surrounded by Fudge and others.

Fudge's face became distorted with anger. He thought it was the young people who were playing pranks that caused what was happening. He asked angrily: "Did you conjure the Dark Mark?"

Fred immediately waved his hands and shook his head in denial: "Mr. Minister, we did not release this."

"We are looking for Charles. We just heard something moving in the dark woods over there. Someone chanted the spell 'Shitbone' or something, and the skull appeared."

Fudge obviously didn't believe what he said. Perhaps he was eager to find someone to take the blame, so he sneered and said, "In other words, you just came out of there and you still know the spell?"

Then Dumbledore said: "I don't think it was them."

Fudge's face didn't look good. Everyone knew about the conflict between him and Dumbledore. Today, it was just to prevent him from participating too much when closing the network, so he restricted his actions through cooperation and division of labor.

Now Dumbledore contradicted himself, making Fudge routinely very unhappy.

Dumbledore ignored the minister and asked Fred: "Are you sure which direction it is?"

Fred immediately replied, "Yes, Professor!"

Dumbledore nodded, turned to Fudge and said, "I'll go take a look, maybe I can find clues."

Fudge naturally wouldn't refuse and asked the two Aurors to follow him.

Dumbledore cast a spell, and many bright footprints appeared on the ground, which were very conspicuous in the dark woods.

Not long after, he found the unconscious house elf in the woods.

Beside the house elf, the house elf and another person's footprints came all the way here, and the other person's footprints disappeared not far away.

Dumbledore turned to one of the Aurors and said: "Duluth, please go and tell the minister immediately. If Scrimgeour is free, he will bring some Aurors."

Delis quickly left, and Dumbledore asked the other Auror to watch the house elves while he walked around.

After a while, Fudge and Auror escorted Fred and others over. Hermione kept explaining why she wanted to find Charles along the way.

"Twinkle?"

At this time, the woods were brightened by Dumbledore, like daytime.

Hermione recognized at a glance that the house elf lying on the ground was Winky who was sitting behind her while watching the game.

Fudge also recognized Winky and asked the Auror to carry her over.

Something surprising happened.

Just as the Auror picked up Winky, she held a wand tightly in her lowered hand.

According to relevant laws and regulations of the Ministry of Magic, house elves are prohibited from owning and using wands.

And based on the education of house elves, they will basically not take the initiative to touch the wand unless the owner asks.

Fudge's expression became even worse, and he was thinking, could this matter have something to do with Barty Crouch?

However, surprises happened one after another.

Ron exclaimed: "That's Harry's wand!"

Neville also said: "Why is Harry's wand here?"

They had been living in the same dormitory with Harry for three years, so naturally they would not admit their mistake.

Dumbledore wouldn't admit his mistake either.

After the Dark Mark appeared, he didn't say much, but was thinking.

But he couldn't figure out how Harry's wand could appear in Winky's hand.

Fudge said in a deep voice: "Could it be that the Dark Mark is Potter... uh... that's impossible."

Not to mention the fact that they just saw Harry showing off his power among those wizards, who among the sensible British wizards didn't know that it was Harry who killed Voldemort back then.

If you believe that Harry conjured the Dark Mark, you might as well believe that he is Merlin, and you can get a Merlin Medal for fifty galleons.

Dumbledore said in a deep voice: "I'll go find Potter."

After he finished speaking, he left.

Now the encirclement began to shrink, and the Aurors and staff of the Ministry of Magic were like peeling onions, knocking down the wizards running around one by one from the outside to the inside.

"The water is as clear as a spring!"

The tsunami wave more than ten meters high was like a bulldozer, knocking a large group of wizards to the ground and pushing them forward, and everyone rolled into a ball.

A cold sweat broke out on Harry's back, as the wave passed him only a palm's length away.

Then he saw Seamus waving to him over there.

Harry ran over and was almost treated as an enemy by the Ministry of Magic staff on the way.

Seamus hugged Harry's shoulders and stepped back, saying excitedly: "Hey, you've made a big splash!"

Harry asked him: "Why are you here?"

Seamus said: "I escorted my mother and others to the stadium, where I saw Ron looking for Charles. I heard you were here, so I came to help you."

"After I came here, I met Aurors I knew, so I acted with them."

He looked at the black-robed wizards who began to invest and said, "I really didn't expect you to dare to rush in."

Harry said depressedly, "I just fell in the woods and my wand fell out, and I didn't find it."

"At that time, someone wanted to cast a spell on Mr. Smith. I didn't have time to think about it, so I rushed over."

Seamus asked in surprise, "Didn't Charles give you this?"

He showed Harry his wand, with a few circles of transparent tape on the bottom.

Harry asked, "What is this?"

Seamus handed his wand to Harry and asked him to walk a dozen steps away.

Harry did so. At this time, Seamus waved his hand and said, "Wand come here", and the wand in his hand flew back to Seamus's hand.

He walked back to Seamus and said, "This is really a good thing. Charles gave it to you?"

Harry wanted this very much. Not to mention the wand, he had to stick a circle on his glasses so that he wouldn't be unable to find it when he needed it.

Seamus said, "It's a gift from the Dancing Grass restaurant's points draw. My mother lent my VIP card to friends in Diagon Alley, and I won it in the draw a few days ago."

The two chatted for a while, and then Dumbledore appeared with a serious expression.

Dumbledore asked Harry, "Potter, where's your wand?"

Harry scratched his head and replied, "I fell in the woods just now and it fell out."