Harry Potter: Reunion with the Enemy

The red letter paper exclusive to the Ministry of Magic mission was folded into a paper airplane and came to me.

Almost at the same time that Harry got Wendelin's approval, the mission paper plane came flying in. He was impatiently pulling at his wig, trying to get his appearance back to normal as soon as possible. Harry hurried away with the robe he had brought in advance to wrap up the skirt suit Draco bought, and did not reach out to catch the paper plane immediately, so it kept poking around Harry and urging him to open it quickly.

"Snap!" The sound of the Apparition echoed in Godric's Hollow.

Harry walked into the house in two steps and found Draco half lying on a European-style toffee chair that came from somewhere, reading a book. His suit pants perfectly outlined his long legs. The sunlight shining in from the window lengthened the shadow of his eyelashes a little.

"Hey, the savior of the cross-dressing superstar is back? Why did you change clothes so quickly? I want to take a few more looks at you." Draco put the book on the chair and propped himself up, teasing Harry.

"Haven't you seen enough before you set off? You had to drag me over to put on some powder, and kept saying that the skirt was too long." Harry walked straight to Draco and handed him the opened task paper, indicating that the task had been issued.

"Who can say no to the savior's legs?" Draco seemed to be about to sneer, but was stopped in time by a sharp look from Harry.

Draco covered his mouth, changed into a proper sitting posture, unfolded the paper and read aloud the clear instructions of the task in a low voice.

[Mission Background: It is suspected that high-level figures in the Muggle society have been colluding with goblins for a long time to abuse magic items for illegal transactions. It is suspected that weapons made with the participation of goblins have been illegally used in Muggle wars. The Ministry of Magic and Gringotts Commissioner are now specially dispatched to investigate.

Group C: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy

Mission Objective No. 1: Approach target Matthew Forsyth, gain his trust, recover his collection of fairy artifacts, and find out the source of his artifacts. Wait for further notice. 】

"Members of Group C..." Draco's eyes lingered on this statement.

"So there should be more than just two of us investigating this incident." Harry nodded.

The envelope also contained an introduction to the target, Matthew Forsyth. The photo showed a middle-aged man with light grey hair and blue eyes. The photos in the envelope included Matthew playing golf, working in a suit, working at the gym, and driving a car with his family of three.

Seeing Draco's slightly confused expression when facing golf and the gym, Harry reminded him: "Matthew's occupation shows that he is a hedge fund manager in the Muggle financial industry - a high-paying industry. Activities such as golf, fitness and vacation are more popular among the Muggle elite."

"I would suggest Mr. Malfoy to take Muggle Studies before setting off again." Harry seemed to have finally found Draco's weakness.

After hearing this, Draco turned around and shook the book he had just placed on the toffee chair: "What do you think I'm reading?"

Harry turned his head and glanced at the book. The title was "Electricity and Technology for Muggles". Harry flipped through it and suddenly recalled the history textbook he used before he came to Hogwarts.

"Perhaps you should read Muggle Economics first," Harry suggested, "because the Muggle economic system is much more complicated than the financial system that was previously controlled by goblins in the wizarding world."

Draco blinked and did not refute. "The mission plan gives us about a month to get close to Matthew. Maybe there is still time to catch up. I thought that after finishing the Arithmancy Divination, I would be able to cope with the job in Gringotts."

"Arithmancy is now also Hermione's main research direction." The last time Harry met Ron and Hermione, he also witnessed the difficulty and complexity of the arithmetic divination book.

"However, during my remedial classes, I discovered that this subject is not as stupid as I imagined. What I have learned so far is enough for me to predict some subtle events. Granger has indeed chosen a good research direction." Draco seemed unable to help but snort when he mentioned Hermione.

"Her grades were more than a little better than yours back then," Harry snorted back.

After a few seconds of silence, the two of them began to prepare for departure tacitly.

Harry was surprised to find that Draco had brewed a lot of potions at some point and placed them neatly in the medicine box.

In terms of appearance and color, Harry found many familiar potions: Bafe's Brain Refresher, White Fresh Essence, Relaxant, Truth Serum, Beauty Potion, Murtra Rat Tentacle Juice...

In some particularly exquisite compartments, Harry even found Felicia Ricci, Love Potion, and Polyjuice Potion.

"Inventory." Draco closed the lid lazily.

Harry squinted his eyes and looked at some particularly difficult potions with a look of awe.

"The Half-Blood Prince is the Dean I respect the most." Draco's face became more serious when he mentioned Snape. "I heard about the textbook later. People who can improve textbooks and create their own magic can be called geniuses, right?"

"Yes, but he was never good at expressing himself." Many memories of Snape came to Harry's mind. He tried hard to control the fluctuations of his emotions and turned the topic back to the potion: "Is it legal for us to use Veritaserum on Muggles? In the Auror training, it was mentioned that the Ministry of Magic has very strict restrictions on the use of Veritaserum, although only three drops can make people reveal their inner secrets."

Draco shrugged. "It may be illegal for an Auror to use it, but I'm not an Auror. In fact, the current employee regulations at Gringotts are as loose as the wizarding financial system controlled by goblins. As long as the goblins and the dear Ministry of Magic don't specify otherwise, there is no explicit rule that Gringotts employees cannot use it, so..."

"Then...what about this?" Harry looked at the love potion, and some bad memories came to his mind again. The psychological shadow left by Romilda's chocolate had not completely dissipated.

"These are my personal items. Not all the medicines in this medicine box are for missions." Draco raised his head proudly.

Seeing Harry's increasingly confused look, Draco's expression became more smug.

"For the love potion, I found a way to greatly extend the potion's effectiveness based on the original formula, and also effectively reduced the potion's side effects by processing the fire ash snake eggs and pearl powder in advance."

"So how long has its effectiveness been improved to now?"

Harry vaguely remembered that the love potion was effective for 24 hours.

Draco lowered his eyes slightly, carefully put the potion box away, and then looked directly at Harry with a flickering gaze:

"I can make it as long as I want it to be, Potter. You'll understand someday."