Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

In Hogwarts Castle, the sweltering heat of summer continued to weigh on everyone's hearts. All the professors of this most famous wizarding school in Europe sat scattered in the headmaster's office with the most serious expressions on their faces. The portraits of previous headmasters on the wall Whispering to themselves, a few of them were scurrying around in the picture frame, all kinds of exquisite and strange silverware on the outer table sprayed a thin mist, Phoenix Fox was combing the feathers on the shelf, while looking at the picture with clear eyes. Its owner uttered a comforting chime.

The weirdness of the atmosphere all came from the private exchange of opinions between several professors who went to watch the World Cup last night. Even if the Potions professor has no interest in "stupid sports riding on long sticks", at least there are friends together Letters had come to him early in the morning describing the frightening accident of the night of the great ceremony.

Of course, the reason why everyone turned pale in the end was because everyone had a copy of the latest Daily Prophet.

The front page is the scary skeleton skull and the bright magic sign of the circle triangle in the night sky, and below that is the headline written in large pink letters by the Daily Prophet: "Quidditch World Cup Night's Big Joke"

The following opening paragraph is an entire narrative known to all wizards, and could even be suspected of being copied from "Major Magical Events of the 20th Century".The Mysterious Man is the most terrifying Dark Lord in Europe in modern times. As early as more than ten years ago, he murdered the Potter family with the Unforgivable Curse and died in Godric's Hollow. The Death Eaters were wiped out by the Ministry of Magic afterwards. Ji's pure-blood crazy wizard was sent to Azkaban. For this reason, at least a dozen aristocratic families in the UK were destroyed and no heirs survived. Taken into the Wizengamot for trial with Veritaserum.The harshness of it can be inferred from the injustice of Sirius Black at the end of last year. The only Death Eater who is at large today may be the timid Peter Pettigrew who pretended to be a domestic mouse for 13 years.Officials from the British Ministry of Magic also stated that they had met with high-level German government officials that night and learned that although the Saints were not completely wiped out like our country, Gellert Green, who has been imprisoned in Nurmengard for more than 50 years Devore, the most terrifying Dark Lord in the history of magic before You-Know-Who, set off a war between magic and the Muggle world, causing tens of thousands of Muggle deaths. More Dark Lords who used white terror to rule Germany are actually dying. Nurmengard doesn't have any spells to keep warm or even inhabitable except for solid magic imprisonment. Finally, he lightly clicked on that The former Dark Lord was only one year younger than the famous British White Wizard—he was almost 150 years old, and he was imprisoned in a prison with extremely harsh conditions for 50 years and could he still escape?Almost all the not-so-smart wizards who were not there believed it was a joke.

If the saint's mark is a joke, then the authenticity of the mystery man's mark is certainly worth considering.

The Daily Prophet went on to report below that during yesterday's chaotic night, only four Muggles were harmed by the so-called Death Eaters, and it wasn't fatal or even an Unforgivable Curse, just suspended in mid-air and spent a few hours The curse is similar to "Fuchsia" and so on. Several tents were set on fire. All the unfortunate casualties were just unidentified wizards trampling on or hurting each other in panic. St. Mungo's Magic Hospital can issue relevant reports. prove.

Ms. Dolores Umbridge, Deputy Minister of Magic, stated that the Ministry of Magic severely condemned the main cause of the chaos caused by pretending to be Death Eaters because of the carnival night, and stated that magic marks are something that anyone can do. It can be placed in the sky to be scary. For example, several students of Hogwarts were found at the scene where the magic mark was released. It is very surprising that the savior Harry Potter is not only inside, but also flashes back the previous curse according to the wand After checking, it was Harry Potter's own wand that released the magic mark of "Bone Reappearance". Of course, he himself refused to admit it and justified that the wand was lost in the chaos.Although neither the suspect nor the wand that released the mark of the saint was found, we can also conclude that the one after the dark mark is also a bad joke.Minister Fudge said humorously, we must know that hundreds of thousands of wizards came to the World Cup, it is impossible for us to prevent our friends from Germany from watching, maybe some of them drank more beer than chaos potion.

The Ministry of Magic apologized to the public for not responding to this incident in a timely manner. At the same time, it stated that the prank itself is not terrible, but that the public's fear of the mysterious man has not dissipated, and the mysterious man who has been dead for more than ten years should not become a nightmare for the public. The occurrence of this incident, the Ministry of Magic can do nothing about it.

"Bullshit!"

Professor McGonagall threw the newspaper in his hand into the fireplace, and Fudge, who was still chattering in the photo, let out a scream.

Dumbledore, who was wearing a rose-red robe with a pattern of big flowers and bows, folded his hands and remained silent. In fact, all the professors squinted their eyes and curled their lips habitually when they saw the office frightened by the dress. good.

Because Dumbledore never forgets to accessorize his long beard when he wears such a spooky outfit.

But today, no.

"Harry won't issue the Dark Mark!!"

Hagrid roared, shaking the phoenix so much that it couldn't help flapping its wings: "It's impossible for little Harry to know that spell that even I can't remember."

Several professors couldn't help but sneered, but even the sarcastic Snape agreed: "The Ministry of Magic obviously thought that even the drunken trolls would know about this spell because it was included in the textbooks, and they must be surprised Why didn't all the wizards who committed the Unforgivable Curse all these years throw a marker to get rid of the crime before fleeing the scene!"

"Severus, it's not that the Ministry of Magic didn't see the truth, it's that they don't want to believe it."

Dumbledore returned to his usual smile, but he still didn't enthusiastically recommend sweets to make everyone believe that he is really abnormal today. No matter what time it is, the white wizard looks the same, and he knows more about his lion and snake. The two directors of the house have already frowned. Dumbledore is a person who is good at covering up everything. It is obviously very difficult to make him go wrong.

"I saw Grindelwald, in the woods."

Dumbledore's words immediately caught everyone's attention, and they couldn't help but put on suspicious expressions at the same time.

The white wizard knew what they were going to ask, and then he took out the chocolate snow treasure and said, "As for Voldemort, he didn't show up last night. And the behavior of those Death Eaters who just set fire to the tent and played with Muggles also shows that he There is no real resurrection, and the Ministry is right about that."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

No way, in the eyes of the British, the horror of Grindelwald will always be stories and rumors.

"The Ministry of Magic just wants to fool all this!" Professor Filius Flitwick stood on the chair excitedly and waved his short arms.

"The first to be confused will be Germany." Madam Pomfrey said seriously, "It is absolutely impossible for the German Ministry of Magic to tell such a big lie, they will just keep silent and make detours..."

The implication is that the naturally rigorous Germans, who are also politicians, are definitely not as shameless as Fudge and the others.

"Not necessarily, Grindelwald is not a mysterious man." McGonagall added a sentence, and then began to open the freshman reply record in his hand: "Albus, as of today, all freshmen from Muggles have been rejected. Guided correctly, I will get on the train the day after tomorrow, all the advances are already here, and I have to remind you, Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts!"

Mag threw down the form, and faced the principal with the most serious expression:

"You haven't posted any recruitment announcements in the Daily Prophet this year. The editor of the Daily Prophet even wrote me to protest that Hogwarts is going to save a small amount of advertising. Anyway, the whole of Europe knows that you are recruiting black magic. Professor of Defense!"

Everyone was staring at Dumbledore. In view of the fact that Remus Lupine, who did very well in the previous school year and was also popular with students, was replaced by Snape once a month until this spring. A Ravenclaw After being deducted points by Lupin, the students called out the long-standing suspicion of Ravenclaw House - werewolves!There are various indications that this conclusion is correct. In the end, the Ministry of Magic held accountable and showed the record that Remus Lupine was bitten by a werewolf when he was a child. Therefore, the curse in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class had to continue. Packed up and left Hogwarts in a bunch of howling letters from parents, and possibly England, it is said.

When he left, he was very calm and greeted Harry. There was nothing he could do. When he came to take the job, he knew that this position would either die or enter St. Mungo's. It was very lucky to leave without any problems...

Almost all professors don't like their colleagues being werewolves, but Lupine's departure still makes everyone uneasy-can the headmaster recruit another person?

"Moody wrote to tell me that if you can't find someone suitable, he can come."

Professor McGonagall repeated sternly, "He said that he is idle at home, and he is not afraid of the so-called curse. Being able to help you deal with it for a year is also considered taking care of our old friends."

"Mad-Eye Moody?" Professor Sprout exclaimed and shook his head in disapproval.

"Actually don't worry!"

Dumbledore started digging the lemon cake with a small fork with his habitual smiley face: "I already have a very suitable candidate, and the other party has already signed the letter of appointment and sent it back."

All the professors looked over curiously. The Potions professor originally planned to snort coldly, but suddenly froze. He had an extremely bad premonition.

The white wizard took out a piece of parchment from under the drawer and put it on the table: "Because we may have to work together for a year or more..."

Everyone is curling their lips, including Professor Phantom—is Dumbledore still not giving up?

"However, the new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts can only arrive at the castle tonight. I decided to introduce it to you at dinner, but since everyone is in such a hurry..."

The essence is still that Professor McGonagall of Gryffindor has already taken the parchment to see the signature at the bottom.

The font of the quick book is slightly slanted, and it is so gorgeous that it spreads out like intertwined branches-this is a font that noble wizards like, and Professor McGonagall is already frowning: "Dionysus.Nyx?"

I have never heard of it. Almost all the professors are thinking hard about this strange and familiar surname, but suddenly they see that they have been calm and expressionless and never care about the affairs of living people. Even standing there is just making up. Professor of History of Magic. Ghost Binns suddenly floated directly like a balloon, well, out of the ceiling.

Just when all the professors looked back at the principal in surprise.

Dumbledore continued to eat the cake, and the professors continued to stare.

After a long time, the white wizard finally conceded, or he thought that making preparations in advance could reduce Madam Pomfrey's workload, so he stretched out his wand and tapped on the parchment—two words one after the other on the original name Pop up: "Salazar.Dionysus.Nyx.Slytherin"

"Boom!"

Professor Flitwick fell down with his chair.

All the professors were stunned, and then collectively shouted:

"No, Headmaster, you can't hire a portrait to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts!"

"Huh?" Mrs. Pince reacted first, "The portrait cannot be signed, this one..."

Where did it come from, Merlin! !