[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

"I've been really busy recently. The Ministry of Magic's approval process seems to have suddenly become much stricter. It seems that the internal affairs are not going well there, so we don't have time to get together recently." Remus Lupine expressed emotion , took a plate of golden and crispy cookies, "Thank you, Petunia - I really like coming to your house as a guest, and every time the dessert makes me linger."

"You can take some back with you, and plenty more," said Petunia, smiling, and sitting down next to Eli, "but if all goes well, we'd love to see you bring Tonks with you next time—Ara Stowe's trainee Auror last year, wasn't he? We heard from Sirius that she's after you."

Lupine's hand holding the cookie froze in mid-air, turned his face hard, and gave his friend a rare glare.

"Hey, don't look at me like that." Sirius said lazily, spreading his hands out in a leisurely manner, "Is Tonks okay? She's the daughter of my favorite cousin Andromeda—if it wasn't for you, I would It's not recommended that she date a man who is much older than her, the age difference between you is indeed a bit big, maybe there will be a generation gap."

"Then why don't you help me dispel her thoughts directly, instead of encouraging her to come to me all the time, and even revealing my itinerary to her?" Lupine asked angrily, "It's been four times, Sirius. When I visited you and Sean's house four times, I saw Tonks was there—how did I not realize that you were visiting so frequently before?"

"Calm down, Remus." Regulus smiled at the side, and took a sip from his teacup, "You can treat it as a proviso that our family finally had a delicious dinner after Kreacher moved in, I I also think Tonks is very good, why don't you really think about it? Your personalities are quite complementary, and she is a bit rash, which is just right for your caring personality."

"Be sober, I'm a werewolf." Lupine said with a headache, resting his hand on his forehead, he couldn't help rubbing it in annoyance, "And she is a normal witch, she has many better choices—"

"What does it matter?" Sirius said nonchalantly, stuffing the two cookies into his mouth together, "The production of Wolfsbane potion will not be discontinued—or is it that the salary paid by the Order of the Phoenix makes you not enough to pay for the potion? It's Eli's fault."

"I don't think that's the case." Eli said innocently, and couldn't help laughing in Lupine's eyes begging for help, and decided to help him, making this dispute even more even, "Speaking of which, you Two, I don't think about my own affairs at all, but I am very keen on connecting with Remus. Remus, if I were you, I would also find two girls to pursue them. After they are all busy, they may not have time to watch You're having fun."

Sirius jumped up with a look of shock: "Hey! Which side are you from!"

"I guess it's the side where it's not a big deal to watch the excitement." Petunia said, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

None of these people can be trusted.Lupine helplessly looked at the friends who were laughing together, and after a moment of stupefaction, he decided to change the subject and get rid of this gossip-filled atmosphere as soon as possible.

He cleared his throat, corrected his expression, and asked seriously: "I heard that unlike the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts has been calm for the past half month, and the turmoil that was just around the corner before has completely subsided. Sure enough, it will cause some trouble for them. Messing around where he shouldn't be. So Fudge will admit that Voldemort is really back, guess what?"

The subject was indeed worth discussing, so even though everyone knew he was just desperate to get out of his own predicament, they let him go after laughing and moved on to business.

"I think he will." Petunia said, crossing her legs in a leisurely posture, leaning on the back of her sofa with her arms crossed, looking up at the ceiling, and said thoughtfully, "The person who came into contact with Fudge For more than a year, his deepest impression on the cabinet government was mediocrity. He seldom put forward any insightful opinions on the cooperation between the two parties. He tended to be conservative in the promotion and implementation of all policies, and every communication was very slow. , can never get an effective reply from him at the first meeting, it seems that he always has to go back and discuss with someone before making a decision. The only thing he is always talking about, the only thing he is proud of is his Minister of Magic. He values ​​his position more than anyone else, and feels that he is not the kind of person who has the consciousness of sacrificing his own interests."

"Very accurate," Sirius said. "You've seen this man through, Petunia. I really want you to visit the Ministry of Magic incognito one day, and we'll have a sharp comment on the stupid ways these idiots have done. This allows me to put up with these idiots for at least half an hour longer at work."

Severus Snape rolled his lips, and let out a disdainful snort from his nostrils.

"No one has time to spend your precious time on your poor endurance." He said indifferently and disapprovingly, "It is an extremely stupid behavior to let others take the blame for their own mistakes. This is an extremely simple truth. Anyone who thinks they have been to the second year at Hogwarts should understand."

"Pull your meddling ears back, Snape." Sirius said calmly, "I solemnly forbid you to listen to me, shut your mouth and just go."

Snape sneered again, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Regulus say, "Wait a minute."

Both of them looked at him, saw him take a biscuit for himself, grabbed a few more popcorns, straightened his teacup, and said after all this: "I'm ready, let's start your show .”

Sirius and Snape: "..."

They all glared at Regulus at the same time, shut their mouths, and ended the performance.

"Fudge won't say it." Snape said in a low voice, making his own point, "Once he admits that the Dark Lord has returned, then his minister will have done his job, and he will be ousted as well. Since the two choices Behind the scenes is that he cannot be a minister, so the choice he may make is to choose the consequence that is more acceptable. Compared with announcing the resurrection of the Dark Lord, I guess he is still more willing to accept the accountability of the cabinet government. After all, the Muggle government cannot What to do with him in a practical way."

"What if you can't actually take him?" Petunia squinted her eyes slightly, and asked softly.She sat up straight, pursed her lips tightly, and showed a sneer of disdain.

"The Special Liaison Office will tell him that if the Ministry of Magic can't solve the continuous harm to Muggles, it will face another war from Muggles before facing the war started by Voldemort." She said coldly, "The accountability of the United Nations can be discussed later. As long as you are ruthless, there is nothing that cannot be solved by atomic bombs. Only power can forge rules."

"Calm down, dear," Eli said, rubbing her back reassuringly. "Things haven't reached that point yet. Everything we've done so far has been for justice and peace. Of course the Ministry of Magic will Give the Muggle government an explanation, of course they are aware of the seriousness of the problem, because for them, losing their lives is as unbearable as losing their rights, and it is impossible for them to let themselves fall to the point of being tried by the International Wizarding Court. It is much more difficult to accept than launching a scapegoat."

"Introduce a scapegoat?" Petunia repeated, stunned, and turned to look at him.

"Replacing the dead ghost?" Arthur asked, with the same astonishment and thoughtfulness on his face like everyone else, "You mean..."

"Yes, I don't think Fudge will admit that Voldemort is back, but I don't think he is willing to be ousted just like that." Eli said calmly, "I don't trust the morals and credibility of the Ministry of Magic at all, just like they have all these years Like all the whitewashing things they have done, fooling ordinary wizards, trying to keep all ordinary people in the dark, they are totally capable of doing this kind of thing. Maybe they will push a non-national black magic group to take the blame, who Saying that what happened in the UK has something to do with British wizards? Compared with covering up the whereabouts of black magic, they accept the evaluation of incompetence much more."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that the hypothesis he mentioned was entirely possible.

"How dare they do this?!" Sirius' handsome face twisted, revealing uncontrollable anger, "Is it the same as covering up the past? People are being killed constantly! The injuries they have suffered are real. , not because of some damn foreign power, but because of Voldemort! What's the use of pretending not to see?!"

"Of course it's to keep my official position, Sirius." Marlene McKinnon said with a sigh, with a little anger on her face.

"Calm down." In the midst of everyone's righteous indignation, Eli waved his hand with a calm expression.He glanced at his friends at home and lowered his voice.

"If they did, it might not be a bad thing for us."

"How?" Remus asked him, stunned for a moment.

"Black magic groups abroad." Eli repeated, smiling and looking at his wife beside him.

"How will the Cabinet government act in the face of foreign powers harming its own citizens?" he asked.

Penny paused for a moment, then her eyes lit up suddenly, and she smiled.

"Overseas pursuit, transnational law enforcement. No force can not accept legal sanctions after harming its own citizens, and the black magic forces abroad are the same." She said succinctly, then raised her eyebrows, and exchanged a tacit understanding with her husband.

"That fraction of Voldemort hiding behind the Foreign Ministry of Magic, the one who has been leading his forces to hunt down James - we have a reason to meet him for a while."

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