New Professor at Hogwarts

"No, no," Mr. Weasley said breathlessly, "I'm not going in. There's no reason to be in the courtroom."

Seeing Harry's worried expression, Mr. Weasley comforted him: "Don't worry, Harry, as long as Xia Ran is here, Dumbledore will be there too."

Harry nodded and took a deep breath, his heart still beating wildly.

He walked to a gloomy black door with a large iron lock, and his outstretched right hand trembled slightly.

Xia Ran smiled and said: "Harry, you go in first, you are the protagonist."

Harry wanted to laugh, but he didn't know if he laughed in the end because his muscles were already very stiff.

"Harry, good luck to you." Mr. Weasley took a few breaths and slowly walked back the way he came.

Harry's heart beat harder and harder. He swallowed hard, twisted the heavy iron handle on the door, and walked into the courtroom.

He took a breath of air. He couldn't control himself. This was a deep dark room. He had seen this dark room in Dumbledore's pensieve, and witnessed the Lestranges being sentenced to the Albanian prison. Zikaban was sentenced to life in prison.

Of course, now the Lestranges have all escaped from Azkaban Prison.

The surrounding walls were made of black stones, and the light from the torches was dim and eerie. On both sides of him were rows of empty benches that were gradually rising. In front of him, on the highest benches, many figures suddenly appeared. A dark figure.

They had been whispering just now. When the heavy door closed behind Harry, an ominous silence enveloped him. He immediately turned his head and looked around. When he saw Professor Frémont, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

A cold man's voice echoed in the courtroom.

"you are late!"

"I'm sorry." Harry said nervously, "I...I didn't know the time had changed."

"That's not the fault of the Wizengamot." The voice said, "I sent an owl to inform you this morning. You need to pay for this. This kind of failure to respect time..."

"Ahem..." Xia Ran coughed and said softly, "Yaxley, the minister hasn't spoken yet, why are you in a hurry?"

"You..." The indifferent man's voice seemed to be angry, and he reprimanded, "Xia Ran, who allowed you to enter the Ministry of Magic? Since you are no longer an employee of the Ministry of Magic, you should stay away from the Ministry of Magic and don't leak the confidential information of the Ministry of Magic. !”

"I allow it."

In the middle of the row of seats in front, a serious witch wearing a monocle said in a loud and deep voice: "Yaxley, do you have any opinions?"

A wizard with a sinister face and a fierce look looked ugly and said bluntly: "No, since it is the minister's order."

Xia Ran chuckled and said: "It seems that Yaxley is a little dissatisfied with the minister's decision. Amelia, how about I teach him a lesson for you? You know, I always have the ability to teach people."

"You..." Yaxley's expression became increasingly livid.

Xia Ran smiled.

The atmosphere in the trial room seemed to have changed subtly. Many wizards were whispering without concealing anything, and shifted their gaze from Harry to Xia Ran.

Harry gave the professor a grateful look.

He was under so much pressure just now that he almost felt like he couldn't breathe. Only then did he have time to look at the wizard in this room.

What he could see was about fifty people, wearing purple-red robes with a delicate silver "w" embroidered on the left chest. They all lowered their eyes and looked down. Their eyes were on him just now, but now they were focused on Xia Ran's. Some had dissatisfied expressions on their bodies, some had very serious expressions, and some did not conceal their inner curiosity.

In the middle of the row of benches in front sat the new Minister of Magic, Amelia Bones.

Ms. Bones is a very majestic wizard, with a wide chin, a square figure, short gray hair, and a pair of monocles. She is a bit short, but this does not affect her majesty at all, at least Harry I just thought the look on Ms. Bones's face was intimidating.

He also saw the wizard Yaxley, who had initially scolded him, sitting on the right side of Ms. Bones, with a witch in between.

"Okay, Xia Ran, this is the Ministry of Magic. Don't talk nonsense. You used to be an employee of the Ministry of Magic. You must abide by some rules." Ms. Bones said without any scolding words.

Yaxley's face was particularly ugly.

Xia Ran smiled and motioned for Harry to sit on the chair in the middle.

Harry lowered his gaze and looked at the chair in the center of the room. On the armrests of the chair were chains on the left and right.

He had also seen these chains suddenly jump up in Dumbledore's pensieve, tying up the person sitting on them tightly.

His feet echoed loudly across the stone floor.

Harry sat gingerly on the edge of the chair, the chains clanking menacingly but not binding him. He suddenly felt dizzy and nauseated, and quickly looked up at the people sitting on the bench above.

"Very good," Yaxley said loudly, "the defendant has finally arrived..."

"Yaxley, let the minister speak. You have no place to speak here." Xia Ran interrupted him without giving him any face.

Because he knew that Yaxley was one of the Death Eaters planted by Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic. Yaxley was also a major suspect in the death of Amelia Bones in the original time and space.

Xia Ran was wondering if she should take some time to ambush Yaxley and intercept him halfway.

"I am an employee of the Ministry of Magic, and I must be more qualified than you!" Yaxley said gloomily.

Xia Ran smiled nonchalantly and said, "I'm not a minister anyway, why don't you and I give it a try? Whoever wins will be qualified to speak?"

He looked at Yaxley and said interestingly: "Do you dare?"

Yaxley's face became more and more gloomy. He asked himself that his fighting ability was not weak, but Xia Ran showed such confidence that he did not dare to agree easily. After all, the Dark Lord still wanted him to stay in the Ministry of Magic.

Ms. Bones glanced coldly at Yaxley and said, "Okay, let's get started. Are you ready?" she asked loudly across the bench.

"Yes, ma'am," a voice familiar to Harry said urgently.

Ron's third brother, Percy Weasley, sat at the edge of the front bench.

Harry knew that Percy had severed contact with the Weasley family. For his dream of power, he used to follow Cornelius Fudge and now follows Amelia Bones. Will he follow Voldemort in the future?

Harry thought angrily.

Xia Ran nodded slightly. Only three people knew about Percy's undercover identity. He, Dumbledore and Snape. Originally, after Fudge fell, they planned to let Percy reveal his identity and intentions, and lift the relationship with his family. misunderstanding between.

However, Percy believes that Voldemort has not died for a day. As a wizard who "betrayed" the Order of the Phoenix, he will always have a certain use. It may not be certain what role he will play in the future. For the opportunity that may arise, he is willing to continue to accept all The strange look in his eyes was like that of Professor Snape.

It can only be said that he is worthy of being the last undercover agent trained by Snape.