The man behind Hogwarts

As soon as William's words came out, they were like a sharp sword pointed at Umbridge.

As an official of the Ministry of Magic, you must not discriminate against young wizards in this way, and in front of the headmaster...

Umbridge looked stiff.

What a little wizard, I'm obviously the one judging you, but now you're asking me...

She subconsciously prepared to reprimand, but when she saw the principal and vice-principal looking at her "covetously", she immediately bit her tongue and even forced out a bitter smile.

"Just asking, this is because we care about you."

William said leisurely: "Thank you for your concern, there is no need for it."

His words were sharp and merciless. Facing Umbridge, who was dubbed evil and terrifying, William showed no pretense of hypocrisy and coercion, and went straight as if he were dancing with a sword.

Vice Principal Mag's mouth twitched slightly, suppressing a smile.

Umbridge couldn't find any useful information, so she had to put away her little thoughts and said with a fake smile:

"In addition to asking about the recruitment of teachers, the other thing I came here to ask about today is about Mr. Sides. His sun bracelet has been reviewed by the Ministry of Magic and has been determined to have a profound impact on the magical world, so he will be awarded a Knight of Merlin. Medal, and it’s a second-level medal.”

"Second Order of Merlin?" Mag looked at William in surprise, "This is really good news."

Umbridge continued: "The award ceremony will be held at the Ministry of Magic next week. I hope Mr. Seders can attend. In the meantime, Headmaster Dumbledore, do you have time to attend?"

"Yes." Dumbledore smiled. "It is an honor for the entire Hogwarts that a student can achieve this. I will participate."

"Great!"

After talking about the medal, Umbridge had no intention of staying and left in a hurry, and her plan to visit Snape was not carried out.

After she left,

The atmosphere in the office became cheerful,

Dumbledore waved his finger, and tea and snacks were piled on the table.

"William, congratulations!"

"Everything is thanks to you, Headmaster, and Professor McGonagall for your help, and also because Hogwarts gave me the platform."

Everyone carried the sedan chair and said a few words of encouragement and humility. Dumbledore asked William to go back and prepare for the award ceremony, and also gave him some precautions.

"The awards are on Friday, remember to ask for leave from the teachers."

……

Back in the classroom, everyone asked curiously.

William did not tell anyone about the Order of Merlin, but said that Umbridge wanted to see him. There will be interviews at the awards ceremony, so everyone will know about it then.

……

In the principal's office, Professor McGonagall had not yet left. At this time, the office door was closed, and McGonagall showed an angry expression.

"Fudge's idea is obvious. He has never given up the idea of ​​sending people to settle in Hogwarts. I previously suggested letting people from the Law Enforcement Department settle in Hogwarts, but I rejected it. Now he wants to come in the name of a teacher. What does he want to do?! "

"Quite simply, he wants to do something that previous ministers have failed to do."

"Just for this, he is going to let the school become a victim of his ambition. It is too much. The same goes for Umbridge. Can she be a teacher at her level? There are no Aurors here to wipe her ass."

"Ugh."

"Dumbledore, it seems we can't add new teachers for the time being. What are your plans?"

"I have received many letters recently, but there is no suitable candidate yet..." Dumbledore thought for a while and said:

"Quirrell wants to teach defense against dark arts. I plan to try again to see if the curse exists... If something happens to Quirrell, it will prove that Voldemort may be stronger than we thought..."

Mag frowned, "Is it true that we can't eliminate him in advance?"

Dumbledore sighed, "There are a few Horcruxes that I haven't found yet. We can't alert him, let alone let him leave the UK. We must eliminate him here, otherwise he will bring the war to other places."

Neither of them was shy about calling "Voldemort" by his first name.

"If...I mean if..." Mag said softly, "If the curse is true, your previous preparations may not be enough."

"...We are not gods, we always have to leave a little surprise in life..."

"You're always so optimistic."

"Thank you, would you like some sizzling honey candy?"

After the two of them finished talking about Voldemort, Dumbledore waved his hand and lifted the soundproofing spell. No third person heard their conversation just now, including the portrait of the headmaster and Fawkes.

McGonagall said casually: "About the Medal of Merlin, why did it come so soon this year? I already knew that William would definitely get the medal, but I thought I would have to wait until at least next year to know for sure."

"Because Fugit approved it."

"He has such good intentions, does he want to take the opportunity to show his kindness to you?"

"No...it's embarrassing to say it." Dumbledore said with a bitter smile, "I'm afraid you don't know that there are two recipients of the Merlin Medal this year, one is William and the other is Cornelius Fudge."

"what?!"

Mag was stunned, and his calm voice was so surprised that he raised his voice, "Why is he on the list?"

"The reason for the knighthood is to commend the Ministry of Magic for its contribution to the world. Because he is the minister, the medal is awarded to him, and it is a first-class medal."

"..."

Dumbledore said: "After next week's awards ceremony, there will probably be a lot of discussion in the wizarding world, especially about "The Quibbler" and "Wizard Weekly". I will order a few more copies and send them to my friends in the mountains so that they can Take a look too."

"I still can't take it."

……

Things were calm at Hogwarts, but there was an undercurrent in Steyning.

Located in a desolate mountainous area in Stening, a dozen wizards formed a circle, and their boss was interrogating the prisoners in the circle.

"What did you do at the last Steyning rally?"

The leader of the wizards was a gloomy-looking man with silver hair. He pointed his wand at the prisoner's chin and asked questions in a fierce voice.

"I, I didn't do anything, what do you want from me?"

"You didn't do anything?!" The silver-haired wizard waved his hand, and a burst of magic cut off the captive's leg. "Tell me everything you did at the rally."

"Ah - I said, I said -"

The prisoner's face was pale, and he didn't know what the other party wanted to ask, so he could only talk from beginning to end.

When he finished speaking, the silver-haired wizard looked a little disappointed.

"Brother, it seems that I ran away in vain again." A younger brother whispered.

The silver-haired man said harshly: "Sedino, if you come to search his memory, I won't believe it!" A wizard with shiny hair walked out of the crowd, first used a magic spell to defeat the prisoner's will, and then read the other party's memory.

After a moment, Cedino shook his head.

"Fuck!" the silver-haired wizard yelled angrily, and suddenly pressed the wand on the prisoner's head, moved his lips, and immediately recited the spell.

"Shattered to pieces!"

"Oh!"

A living person just turned into flying ashes and was blown away by the wind.

"Boti, come here!"

"Boss." The younger brother named Poti came forward and looked at his boss with lingering fear.

The silver-haired wizard asked: "How many people are there on the list?"

"Thirteen more, the next target is London."

"London... let's put this down first, who is next?"

"The following people should be in a group. The leader is nicknamed Oleander, and there are three in his group. The other two are called Macaque Tiao and Black Walnut."

"A bit familiar..."

Boti reminded: "It was this Oleander that killed Huangpao. By the way, there were two other people walking with them, the Lord of the Void and the Void Walker."

"It's them!" Silver Hair suddenly remembered that this person called the Lord of the Void was not the masked wizard, and it was he who used unknown magic to kill his own yellow-robed businessman.

Could it be that the thing is in his hand?

hateful!

Shouldn't have let him go in the first place!

"Look! Find him and dare to steal my things!" Silver Hair roared angrily.

"Boss, we only found the residence of Oleander, but no information about the two Lords of the Void..."

"Then check Oleander, they must be connected."

"Yes."

More than a dozen wizards immediately took action, splitting into small teams in twos and threes and starting to investigate along their own routes.

After everyone left, a black-robed wizard suddenly emerged from under a hill. He dug out a crystal ball, put it in his arms and used Apparition to leave.

……

"William, let's go."

Dumbledore waved, and William followed with a smile. Then Dumbledore sprinkled floo powder on the fireplace and disappeared, followed closely by William.

The scene turned and the two of them had arrived at the Ministry of Magic.

The Ministry of Magic is a building that exists underground. The lowest floor is the hall and the highest floor is where the minister is.

When Dumbledore walked out of the fireplace, many Ministry of Magic officials came to greet them and took the two people to the depths of the hall with a respectful attitude. At this time, an award podium had been set up here, and there were many tables and chairs opposite the award podium.

Within a few minutes, Minister Fudge came downstairs with a group of his men. Umbridge was on his left, and it seemed that they were indeed close friends. William did not recognize the other people behind him.

Fudge was here to entertain Dumbledore.

Dumbledore was also a member of the Ministry of Magic at this time. He was the chief magician of the Wizengamot. Although his position was under Fudge, the Wizengamot department was special and had a transcendent status. In addition, Dumbledore had many other reputations. , Fudge was more respectful in front of him.

A few polite words from a few people,

Fudge waved his hand to his opponent.

Many people came out of the room next to the hall,

Journalists, members of the International Confederation of Wizards, representatives of magical departments in other countries...

"Today is the awarding ceremony of the Order of Merlin. The people present are..."

A Ministry of Magic official acted as the host, and the program process was similar to that of a ceremony in the ordinary world. The introduction of leaders is always indispensable.

The host spent three minutes introducing the leaders, of which Fudge's introduction accounted for one and a half minutes...

It took nearly half an hour for Fudge to speak on stage. William noticed that many of the guests present had impatient expressions. Dumbledore even secretly stuffed a candy into his mouth. Fortunately, he had a thick and thick beard, so he could do it very well. Covering action.

After Fudge finished speaking, the host invited Dumbledore to give a speech, but he politely declined.

Then the next item on the agenda was to introduce the great origins of the Order of Merlin and its previous recipients. This was also an old routine of the Merlin Award Ceremony, and many old wizards had already begun to yawn.

"...This event is honored to invite Mr. Dumbledore, winner of the Order of Merlin First Class, Chief Magician of the Wizengamot, President of the International Federation of Wizards, and British Minister of the International Alchemy Association, to participate. He is also our award winner this time. One of the then principals, Mr. William Sides...

Mr. William Sides, please! "

The long list of titles made everyone present feel numb.

Looking at the white-haired old man in the chief position, everyone seemed to see a high mountain, towering and unreachable.

William stood up,

Pretend to straighten your collar,

on stage.

The moment he stood still, many flashes of light lit up in the audience. Reporters from various newspapers took photos and recorded his appearance. When he picked up the medal and put it on his chest, the flashes of light rang out again.

The host took out a piece of paper and introduced the reasons why William won the award.

Although everyone knew it was because of the sun bracelet, everyone still listened with interest, and the Ministry of Magic had to give an irrefutable reason.

"He is a student of Hogwarts and Ravenclaw House. Although he is still young, he has already made shocking achievements.

He is the creative inventor of the sun bracelet;

He is the first student approved to skip classes since the founding of Hogwarts;

He founded a student organization called the Gem Club when he was in first grade;

He is a frequent contributor to Wizarding Weekly, and members of the Gem Club have also appeared in newspapers and periodicals many times. Many of their research reports have brought innovative results to the wizarding world;

He is known as the Eagle of Ravenclaw;

He is known as the most outstanding student in the past thirty years...

And his name is - William Sides! ! ! "

A long list of introductions,

William himself felt a little unbelievable when he heard this.

This host is really a talent.

Among all the achievements, except for the first one, the rest are not shocking. The reason why I mentioned them on this occasion is just to increase the weight of his award.

Second Class Order of Merlin!

Get it!

After completing his own process, William returned to his seat under the stage without any hesitation. He knew that the highlight of the day was coming.

Fudge - awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class,

Although there were a lot of discussions in the audience, it did not affect Minister Fudge in accepting the medal with the green ribbon...

On the second day,

All newspapers in the wizarding world have printed twice as much as before. The contents of the newspapers are different, but they all stick to one theme: the Order of Merlin.

Inside Hogwarts, Snape was silent as he read the newspaper...

Students fight over a newspaper...

All the students were excited. Whether they were juniors or seniors, everyone was surprised and happy. Their school had such a century-level talent, and it was worth celebrating no matter what. But this person happened to be in the same era as me...

Since you gave birth to me, how can you give birth to you?

Although the little wizards don't understand this sentence, they all have this idea in their hearts.

Because William won the Order of Merlin, the Gem Club also became popular. Even sixth- and seventh-grade wizards paid attention to it and learned about a series of achievements of the Gem Club from the newspaper.

The Gem Club quickly surpassed the Transfiguration Club, Charms Club, and Gobstone Club to become the club that students most wanted to join.

Crohn saw it...

Fandel saw...

The three Fuluns also saw it...

"Is this the person in the newspaper him?" Morris pointed at William's picture and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"Yes, it's him, William!"

Fulan sighed: "We have always guessed that he is from a big family. It turns out that he is still a student... But what I am curious about is, why is a first-year student so strong?"

"That's not the point. The point is that he won the Order of Merlin!!"

"...Terrible William!"

Just as the three of them were sighing, an owl suddenly flew to the window.

"dong dong dong"

"Who sent you the letter?"

Andhay was also confused. He let the owl in and took out the envelope. As soon as he opened it, the envelope turned into a paper mouth with sharp teeth and roared loudly.

"Run! There are a dozen wizards looking for you, run!"

"They are already setting up an anti-Apparition spell. Run, they will kill people!"

The three of them looked at the roaring letter and didn't react for a moment.

The roaring letter is familiar to many people. It is a magical gadget that uses transfiguration, alchemy and other related knowledge, but the content of this roaring letter is extremely strange.

"This is..." Morris was puzzled.

Fulun said in a deep voice: "Andhei, quickly sense the warning spell. Is there anyone approaching?"

The owner of this manor is Ande Hai, and only he can control all defense methods. Upon hearing this, Ande Hai immediately escaped from the wand perception...

After a few breaths, Andehai suddenly opened his eyes.

"No! My warning spell has been destroyed. I can't sense anything!"

Fulun was shocked, "Run! Phantom transfer~"

The wand drew a semicircle, and just halfway through the incantation of the Apparition Curse, the magic power suddenly vibrated violently... The same happened to the other two people.

The three of them looked at each other, feeling uneasy.

"Fireplace!" Enderhay roared, "Use the fireplace to go to Diagon Alley before the enemy attacks. Let's find William!"

Yes indeed,

Apparition doesn't work anymore, but floo powder works.

Floo powder is very stable. Unless the opponent's counter-spell is very powerful, it will be difficult to isolate the Floo powder network.

"go!"

Anderhai took the lead, and the three of them immediately ran to the fireplace... without any courtesy. If it was true as the roaring letter said, there were more than a dozen wizards outside, and no one had any intention of resisting.

Only one person can pass through the fireplace at a time.

Anderhay stood in the fireplace first, sprinkled a handful of floo powder, and the green flame ignited with a "bang". After a few breaths, Anderhay disappeared.

"Maurice, you go!" Folan shouted.

"No, your broken arm injury has not completely healed yet, you go first!"

"But……"

Morris shouted: "Stop being so nagging, hurry up!"

Fulan didn't speak any more. He sprinkled floo powder and green flames ignited... The moment Fulun disappeared, he saw several strange wizards break in. Morris turned his back to them and was at a loss.

"Mo..."

"what--"

There was a scream in the manor, and the next moment, the fireplace was reduced to rubble by several attacks.

Fulan walked out of the fireplace in Diagon Alley and looked at the fireplace with red eyes. Underhay was asking questions beside him, and he was completely unaware of it.

One breath, half a minute, three minutes...

Ten minutes passed, and Fulun was still staring at the fireplace motionless, with tears filling his eyes and letting out low sobs. The same was true for Andehai. Although Fulun didn't speak, he understood...

"Wait!" Fulan suddenly exclaimed. He wiped away his tears and said in a voiceless voice: "Maurice may not have been killed. Maybe he was just imprisoned. We can still save him!"

"There are more than a dozen people on the other side..."

"Look for William. He is a student at Hogwarts and Dumbledore is their principal. He may have a way!"

Like a drowning man grasping at the last straw,

Even though Fullan knew the chances of success were slim, he still didn't give up.

They saw the name of William's store in the newspaper - Full Moon Store, in Knockturn Alley, and the two immediately ran towards Knockturn Alley.

While running,

The two regained some sense.

Start to think about what happened,

Fulun said: "We don't know who the enemy is. Although we have provoked some enemies, we can dispatch more than a dozen wizards at once. I really can't figure out who the enemy is."

"Why did they attack us? We didn't make any big moves...and there was even an anti-disapparation spell to deal with the three of us. Why is it like this?"

"Anti-Apparition Spell?"

Fulun stopped, his red eyes wide open, and murmured to himself: "Anti-Apparition... Anti-Apparition..."

"Could it be Stening's gang?"

"You mean... who sent us the roaring letter."

"I don't know, maybe it's Hei Pao." Fulun frowned and said, "Those people destroyed the entire Stening Market. As the promoter of the market, Hei Pao will definitely take action. Only he has such strength in ten years." Surrounded by several people, he delivered a letter to us."

The two ran for a few minutes before arriving at Knockturn Alley.

The wizards on both sides of Knockturn Alley cast dark glances.

"Two more people came, could they be werewolves again..."

In recent times, Knockturn Alley has been much busier than before, and the people who come here are all powerful and well-qualified wizards. Of course, many of them must be werewolves, and their target is the Full Moon Store.

Fortunately, the Full Moon Store is in Knockturn Alley,

If it were in Diagon Alley, the Ministry of Magic would probably send the entire Auror office over. The appearance of three werewolves at once was a big deal, not to mention that in today's Knockturn Alley, no one knows whether the wizard passing by is a human or a werewolf.

Knockturn Alley doesn't matter.

Anyway, dog eats dog.

Fulan asked someone for directions, and the passerby pointed to Knockturn Alley: "The store in the deepest part with the most people."

I ran forward and found my target in the deepest part. It was a large shop with a plaque on the door saying "Full Moon Shop". Five or six wizards were lingering at the door of the shop, and there were also a few people in the shop.

As expected, it is the store with the most people.

During this time, which is not a special holiday, a few customers are considered a prosperous business.

Andehai hurriedly ran into the store when a tall man suddenly blocked his way, "What are you going to do?"

heard movement,

The clerks all looked over.

In front of the cashier is Werewolf White;

In addition, there are three werewolf clerks.

"I'm looking for your boss." Anderhai said anxiously.

White stood up and asked, "Who are you?" While asking, his eyes signaled the store clerks to be alert.

Fulan walked in, held Anderhay's shoulders to stop him from talking, and said to White: "My name is Fulun, his name is Anderhay, and we are friends of William. Is he in the store?"

White looked at the two of them and invited them into the backyard.

backyard,

A two-meter-three tall man is exercising...