[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

Regulus also showed a smile. Even though the person standing in front of him couldn't see his expression, he still couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips. Among the series of things he experienced after waking up, this was probably the last A moment of relief for him.

"Long time no see," he said. "You've changed a lot, Eli."

The last time he saw Eli this close was when he attended his wedding last year.The paths the two chose were different, and even though neither of them really said they had broken off their friendship, they went against each other and opened up a huge gap between them. This distance has far exceeded the limit that friendship can mend.They knew very well in their hearts that when they met again, they were doomed to stand on opposite ends of the spectrum, pointing their wands at each other.

He had heard of some of the things Eli had done during this time... He would appear in the mouths of the Death Eaters from time to time, from the sarcasm that he dismissed at the beginning, to the insults that turned into anger later, both he and the Order of the Phoenix had Gradually become a key person who can make an important impact.They cursed Dumbledore, cursed him, cursed everyone who made them feel stressed, and Regulus knew it was actually a fear that no one would ever say, something that the Death Eaters didn't want to acknowledge.

Eli didn't look the same as when he graduated from Hogwarts.Although the time has not been long and the change in appearance is minimal, when he stands there and smiles at you, you don't just feel that you have met a good-natured senior who has always been gentle and polite. The coldness of the moment is not the same.Now he is firm, confident, and calm, and his smile is bright and gentle, a sunny day from England-not scorching hot, but able to penetrate the haze clouds.

The war had changed them all, Eli, Sirius, and himself.If Regulus realized something, he silently examined himself in his heart, and found that after becoming a Death Eater, he got used to the identity under the hood. In fact, he looked in the mirror less and less, and never Seriously thought about how depressing the feeling of not being able to walk in the sun is.

Fortunately, this answer is not important now.

"Sounds like an old friend's usual opening line," Eli said narrowly, raising an eyebrow at him.He didn't hold on to this question, but instead asked him with concern, "How are you? I went to see you at Sirius' house a few days ago, and you weren't awake at the time. I just sat by your bed I watched it for a while. At that time, I felt..."

When he said this, he paused for a moment.Regulus looked at him suspiciously: "What do you think?"

"I feel that fate does have its fairness and cruelty. It will not let someone go just because they have just turned 17." Eli said lightly, bending the corners of his lips, "In the Muggle world, the age of adulthood Yes, students with good grades usually do not end their studies when they become adults, but continue their studies and go to college... I always think that everyone is too young and still children, but in fact we are all We have shouldered very heavy and hard things, each of us has."

Regulus fell silent when he heard that, Eli shrugged and shook his head at him.

"Fortunately, we are not fighting alone." He said, "We don't need, and it is impossible, to bear everything alone. We have companions who can turn our backs to each other, and have careers that can be entrusted to latecomers. For I am very honored by your decision to entrust your unfinished business to me. But..."

He smiled again, and held out his hand, palm up.

He said: "Remember to call us next time. The limit of the time-turner is only five hours, but we are not. As long as you need us, we will always be there for you."

Regulus looked at the open palm in front of him for a while, then smiled and sighed.

"Who can resist your speech, Eli?" he asked, covering his hands gently.

In the eyes of outsiders, Eli's gesture of stretching out his palm to the air might seem strange, so they separated after only a little contact.Eli turned his side slightly, pretending to be watching the TV screen like everyone else, and couldn't help smiling when he heard his emotion.

"You don't know, there are too many." He said lightly, "How stubborn a stubborn person can be, it will definitely exceed your imagination. This afternoon is the fifth multi-party meeting. If you can Looking at the minutes of the first four meetings, you will find that every word I said will be contradicted... Oh, so you mean it, Principal."

He suddenly said something without beginning or end, and Regulus went in without knowing it, and turned to look at him.Eli looked at the blurred shadow of the principal through the monocle, and Dumbledore nodded with a smile.

"Just need to make some minor adjustments to his facial features, and make some changes to the height of the heel." He said happily, "It doesn't belong to the compound decoction, and it won't be exposed by the sober potion. Although it is not a long-term solution, it is not enough once in a while. It should be fine."

"That makes sense." Eli thought for a while, and then nodded in agreement, "It just so happens that Sirius doesn't need to speak today... He didn't feel well after he came back, so I decided to let him not go to the meeting in the afternoon. That's fine too."

"You mean, pretend to be him?" Regulus couldn't help but asked in astonishment, "Is that okay?"

"It's okay once in a while." Eli said, "It's definitely not okay to do this all the time. The sobriety potion will also be upgraded. These words remind me. I will study how to remove the weak magic power fluctuations when I upgrade next time, and combine it with the wizard itself. The overflowing magic power fluctuations of the belt, and maybe include the makeup removal function for Muggle cosmetics? I'm not sure... What you have to do today is the work of meeting minutes. To be honest, you may be able to do a better job in this regard. Reese is better, he doesn't take notes at all of what he considers nonsense and stupidity, and while it does make for a neat note, the parchments are always worryingly short when it's his turn to take minutes."

Regulus smiled silently, and Eli took him back to the Order of the Phoenix—it took a little effort to bring him back. First, Dumbledore walked in and lifted the illusion spell in the sober potion, attracting everyone on the first floor After drawing his attention, Eli led him into a flash, and quickly put the invisibility cloak on him when the Disillusionment Curse was lifted to reveal his outline, as quickly as a shadow flashed by.

This actually attracted Henry McKinnon's keen glance, but after seeing Eli, he thought it was not a big problem, and turned his head back.They walked into the Order of the Phoenix without any risk, and when they came out again, a few people who had just returned from the mission passed by them and patted Sirius on the shoulder.

"You look better than you did, mate," they said, walking lightly past the two of them.

Eli stared at their backs for a while, frowning slightly.

"I don't know whether to be happy for the success of the disguise, or worry about deceiving them." He muttered, "Well, the improvement agenda must be put on the agenda as soon as possible... Let's go."

Dumbledore has already taken a step ahead - he represents the Wizengamot, of course it is impossible to appear at the same time as the Order of the Phoenix, although many people suspect that he is behind the Order of the Phoenix, but because an Eli has already made people feel very tricky , there are not many people who are still struggling with this.They went to the meeting place prepared by the Ministry of Magic. On the way, Eli asked Regulus about what happened to the Black family, and Regulus told him the truth.

"Understandable." Eli nodded after listening, and said calmly, "Both sides have their own positions. When they contradict each other, quarrels and conflicts become inevitable. A person's appearance is determined by his parents, but Birth, personality, and the path he chooses together constitute his final appearance, which may not be consistent with his parents' expectations, because he is an independent individual. Usually, I suggest that everyone respect this difference. People who understand understand each other, and the reasons for their inability to understand each other may be very complicated, not all conflicts can be resolved by family affection and love."

"What about unusual circumstances?" Regulus grasped his range of words and asked him curiously.

The corners of Eli's lips twitched slightly, and he smiled lightly.

"You'll probably see it next," he said.

Regulus had heard about the multi-party talks of the Anti-Dark Arts League before.The Death Eaters knew about the alliance and the meeting it held—this was normal, after all, the composition of the meeting was so diverse that it would have been impossible without the infiltration of the Death Eaters.The Imperius Curse couldn't pass through the defense line of the sober potion, but some people stood there not because they were manipulated and controlled. No matter how powerful the defensive potion was, it couldn't do anything to these people.

Voldemort had paid some attention to this meeting, including the initial series of deterrent responses to the lucid potion.But when he learned that this multi-party meeting even invited Muggles to participate, he quickly became scornful - obviously, he didn't think Muggles were any threat, if a meeting even Muggles could participate, then it would be There is no threat to him at all.

Regulus met the special liaison officer of the Muggle government at the meeting, and he was shocked to find that it turned out to be Eli's Muggle wife. He had seen her at the wedding... She was very different, he The only impression of her was "Eli's wife", but today he was sitting next to Eli with a pen in his hand, and was surprised to see her standing in front of a room of wizards as a Muggle, calmly introducing her from We talked about the current Muggle casualties last time, adding a few words to Death Eater crimes.

"After the fourth meeting, we got a list of Muggle murders from a secret channel. It is certain that they all died at the hands of mysterious people and Death Eaters. This is only the part that can be counted. There are more people whose identities cannot be confirmed. Many." Petunia said seriously, and distributed the paper of the list of Muggles killed to every wizard, "From the 60s to the present, the unknown, long-lasting persecution has always threatened the lives of Muggles. , and before this list came out, no one even knew the reason for their sudden disappearance, let alone avenged their justice-as Muggles, life safety is always threatened in this way, with all due respect, we Can not accept."

The wizards present silently checked the list she handed over. Although they were not familiar with any of the names in it, everyone knew that behind each name was an innocent life, even death was unknown.

"It's sympathetic." An official of the Ministry of Magic said, frowning, and said helplessly, "Wizards are also facing the risk of being killed all the time, and it is difficult for us to accept...but what can we do? We have no One can break into You-Know-Who's lair, arrest him for trial, and throw him into Azkaban."

Petunia stared fixedly at the speaking official for a few seconds, her lips tightly drawn into a line.

"If the wizards can't solve the problem from within, I'm afraid we have to take action on our own." She said slowly, "Maybe the wizards haven't paid attention to it. In fact, the British Muggle community has experienced two world wars in this century. , we have aircraft cannons, tank weapons, and the ability to cause massive damage. Maybe none of us can fight wizards alone, but there are many of us, and we have technology that does not use magic. We are not without the power to fight back and counterattack. "

"No." An old wizard of the Wizengamot objected without thinking, "This is our own business, you have violated the International Wizarding Secrecy—"

"Your law." Petunia repeated, with a deadpan expression, "If this law can really restrain all wizards, then I don't think we need to sit here."

There was a moment of silence in the conference room, and many wizards frowned.They couldn't accept Muggle intervention, but they held the list of Muggle murders in their hands, and they were embarrassed to say that such sacrifices didn't matter.

Petunia Evans wasn't the kind of Muggle they could throw off at will - they'd realized that in previous sessions.

"Not necessarily impossible." In the silence, someone broke the silence first.Everyone looked over, Eli Smith put down the list of murdered Muggles in his hand, and spoke calmly.

Beside him, Sirius Black was more silent than usual, his quill was rustling on the parchment, recording everything that happened at the venue truthfully into the parchment.

"What do you mean?" Barnabas Guffey, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, asked sharply, his eyes fixed on Eli.Not only him, but everyone else looked over, and they had a vague premonition that the official spokesperson of the Order of the Phoenix would say something astonishing again.

Sure enough, Eli looked at them, and said clearly: "The mysterious man's reckless behavior has violated the boundaries of the rules of the magic world, and he cannot be allowed to continue to act recklessly like this. He is fierce and greedy, and he claims to lead wizards to surpass Above the Muggles, before the political opinions are implemented, he has already started a bloody action to eliminate dissidents. This is unacceptable to everyone. He must choose what he wants to do—be a politician, use civilization To promote one's ideas through legal means, or to become a terrorist completely and accept the joint sanctions of all those who have suffered from it."

"What do you mean?" said the Minister of Magic, Harold Minchum, suddenly, his gaze fixed on Eli, sharper than ever. "Accept him as a politician? How do you accept it—he is in the Ministry of Magic? Or is it like the British?" Like a Muggle government - bipartisan?"

Eli stared at him for a few seconds, then said calmly, "If he follows the rules, then both options are fine."

Harold Minchum stood up immediately. He was emotional, slapped the table hard, and stared at Eli.

"The mysterious man obeys the rules?" He asked coldly, "How does he obey the rules? Are your words influenced?"

"That's unrealistic." Facing the emotional Minister of Magic, Eli didn't change his face. He replied calmly, and under the gaze of everyone, he narrowed his eyes a little.

"In the face of an antisocial person like the mysterious man, he will not listen to peaceful negotiations. The only way to counter violence is with violence." He will start to restrain himself when he is in trouble - for example, die once. If magic can't be done, then the Muggle way is worth considering."

The conference room was completely silent, and everyone stared at him dumbfounded, as if he was talking crazy, but Regulus's heart moved, and he remembered the locket that was a Horcrux, and he seemed to realize something.

"That's impossible!" Harold Minchum retorted sharply, "I don't accept it! The Ministry of Magic cannot accept it!"

Eli looked at him indifferently, and the corners of his lips curled slightly, revealing a polite, polite and indifferent smile.

He said: "The situation is already here. After comprehensive consideration, I will not accept your rejection, Mr. Minister."

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