[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

Chapter 71 Information Exchange

That night, all applicants who entered the second round of interviews were tested by the capture of relatives or loved ones.This test, on the one hand, is to test the applicants' resilience in the face of crisis, and on the other hand, to see how they will behave in the face of threats and temptations.Auror is different from other professions, it has access to the most confidential information, and the danger is so high that others can't even imagine.And it is dangerous, not only your own life will be lost all the time, but even your relatives, friends, and lovers are likely to be targeted by black wizards because of your relationship.So, the Aurors' pre-hiring investigations and kinship checks were almost outrageously exhaustive.This profession not only requires you to be absolutely loyal to your personal character, but even if your most important person is unbearable, you may be eliminated.

In this test, on James' side, the Auror was dressed as Lily, and on Lily's side, he was dressed as James.Although James and Lily did not make an agreement like Sirius and Lynn did, the connection between them made them quickly discover that the "other party" was pretending.

Not everyone is as lucky as James, Lily and Sirius.The other two fresh graduate applicants failed to guess that the other party was a fake. One of them would rather die than surrender, while the other gave in.So the former was shortlisted together with Sirius and others, and the latter was eliminated.Of the other three non-graduate applicants, two were shortlisted and one was eliminated.

Six people, compared to the peaceful era, is already considered too many.Who made the situation so grim now that the Auror Department was severely short of personnel.In this way, Sirius and others plunged into the dire straits of Auror training.

Two months later, Godric's Hollow.

"Hey, it looks like you've done a good job, it should be almost finished, right?" Lily approached a newly built two-story house, and happily greeted James and Sirius. She came to deliver meals to everyone. .

"Yeah, I think it should be completely finished in a day or two. Although it may not look so majestic from the outside, Sirius and I have put in a lot of work inside." James put a force on himself. After cleaning it up, he smiled and went forward to hug his fiancée, and said, "But you can't go in for a visit today, until all the work is finished."

"Come on, James," Sirius also stepped forward, "Actually, it should have been finished a long time ago, but James had to remodel your new house, so he dragged it until now, and all the other parts are decorated. alright."

Hearing the word new house, Lily blushed a little, but said nothing.Since the summer vacation after the sixth grade, James has been planning to build this "love nest" designed and built by himself, and asked Sirius to help.The house was built not far from James' parents' house.

James also responded to Sirius with a little embarrassment: "You, a guy who values ​​sex over friends, thinks all day long that the house here is renovated, and if I can move out of the apartment, you can live a two-person world with Lynn, right?"

"Do you dare to say that you don't want to marry Lily as soon as possible when the new house is decorated?" Sirius was not to be outdone.

The two fought like this for a while.Facts have proved that in terms of eloquence, James is generally no match for Sirius, especially in front of Lily.

"By the way, where is Lynn? I thought you would come here together." Sirius asked Lily after winning the victory.

"Oh, I just went to see her, and she was stumped by the task that Ms. Bagshot gave her. She said that there was at least half an hour before she could finish reading the historical file. I already took her meal I left it to her, and she said she would eat while watching."

"How can I do that?" Sirius hopped his feet, "It's Saturday, why Bagshot still asked Lynn to work."

"Ms. Bagshot is not young. You know, young people who like to study history are even rarer than Golden Snidgets these days. Now she can't wait to train Lynn as a successor. Besides, Lynn is working overtime voluntarily. of."

"That's not okay, reading while eating is not good for your health, I have to go see her." Then Sirius disapparated in a flash.

James and Lily looked at each other, smiling without saying a word.

Today is No.70 two days after graduating from Hogwarts.A few days ago, they just finished the two-month closed Auror training, and after two days of rest, they came to continue cleaning the house.In addition, they have one very important thing to do at [-] o'clock this afternoon-attend their first Phoenix meeting as members.

After a while, Sirius dragged the reluctant Lynn over. Obviously, Lynn didn't want to put down the historical files at hand, but couldn't hold back her boyfriend.The four of them had lunch at the dining table in the small courtyard and chatted for a while.Together, at 01:30, they apparated onto a quiet, empty street in London, where Peter and Remus were already waiting.

"Hi, guys." James greeted the two buddies happily. "Mr. Moody hasn't come yet?"

Alastor Moody was the instructor of this batch of Auror trainees, and Sirius and the others only found out three days ago that their instructor was also a key member of the Order of the Phoenix.

They still don't know the exact address of the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, and Moody has to take them there.

Five minutes later, Moody appeared.He led six people to turn left and right in the alley, and finally stopped in front of a very inconspicuous door. He knocked on the door three times, and a woman's voice came from inside the door: "Code signal."

"Before dawn," said Moody.Then the door opened immediately, Sirius and six people followed Moody into the house.

"Welcome, new members of the Order of the Phoenix. My name is Dorcas Meadows. I am a Gryffindor student four years older than you. I am an amateur writer. I am mainly responsible for intelligence summary and analysis in the Order of the Phoenix. You Just call me Dorcas." The woman who opened the door led them to the meeting room, and introduced herself to them with a smile, "Principal Dumbledore has already told me about the situation of each of you. , I am very glad that you are willing to contribute to the fight against Voldemort. If you have anything to do in the future, you can come to me, and I will live here at the headquarters."

As she spoke, she blinked at Lily.Among these people, she was most familiar with Lily.Because when she was at Hogwarts, Lily would occasionally come to ask her some homework questions as a prefect.

At this time, there was another knock on the door, and Dorcas said, "Sit yourselves," and went back to answer the door.

There was only a long oval table and more than twenty chairs in the meeting room. Except for Moody who was sitting and reading the newspaper, the other seats were all empty, so six people sat together, and it was 10 minutes to two o'clock.

Soon, members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived one after another. When they saw the six people in the room, they all smiled and nodded as greetings.Several of them were familiar faces, such as the Longbottoms, Hagrid, James and Sirius' former Quidditch captain, Sturgis Podmore, and Professor McGonagall.

When it was one minute to two, the seats were almost full.After that, Headmaster Dumbledore also entered the conference hall and sat down at two o'clock sharp.

Dumbledore cleared his throat and said, "I think everyone has seen that six new members have joined us. They are all students who have just graduated from Hogwarts this year. I think that before we get down to business , it is necessary for us to get to know each other. Dorcas, please give them a brief introduction of our old members.

Dorcas stood up at the words. "Okay, Headmaster," she said, "I've already introduced myself to them when they first came in, so let's introduce myself clockwise from me. Professor McGonagall, I don't think I need to introduce myself, after all, everyone They are students from Hogwarts. The two on the left of Professor McGonagall are the Longbottom couple Frank and Alice. They are both Gryffindor students a year older than you, and they are currently training in Auror. Battalion training, just passed a year-long initial exam; then Marlene McKinnon, a physician at St. Mungo's, who just returned from residency this year; then Gideon Prewett and Fabian Prewett , the two brothers are dragon trainers, and their dueling skills are superb; next is Emmeline Vance, a member of the Reversal of Incidents Team of the Ministry of Magic's Accident and Disaster Division; Alastor Moody, the instructor of the Auror training camp, I think you already know it; needless to say, the headmaster; Elphias Dorge, special advisor to the Wizengamot; Rubeus Hagrid, Assistant Gamekeeper at Hogwarts; Caradoc Dearborn, clerk at the Floo Network Authority; Benji Fenwick, Potions Shopkeeper; Sturgis Podmore, broomstick researcher. In addition, There are two other people who are not here today, Edgar Burns, Deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and the headmaster's brother, Aberforth Dumbledore, owner of the Pig's Head pub. So far, plus you six Personally, there are 24 members of the Order of the Phoenix."

"Thank you, Dorcas." Dumbledore said with a smile, "You six, you don't need to introduce yourself. I have already told everyone here about your general situation. You can talk to everyone in the future. Slowly get used to it. Now, it's time to get down to business. Dorcas, have you got any useful information lately?"

"It's nothing else, but there are two things that I'm more concerned about." Dorcas picked up a newspaper in front of him and said, "One is that a newspaper in the Muggle world published the death of a Muggle two days ago. The identity of this person is a bit special. His name is Markov, and he is a Bulgarian. He later ran to work in the UK because he betrayed his motherland. You know, in the Muggle world, the Warsaw Pact camp where Bulgaria is in is fighting with NATO, where the UK is. In the Cold War, Markov was considered treason by the Bulgarian Muggle government because he defected to the NATO camp."

"Wait a minute," Moody interrupted Dorcas, "that Cold War, and what about NATO and Warsaw Pact, what are they?"

"It's the two opposing military groups. They are equal in strength, so they dare not use force easily, but use arms races to deter each other." Dorcas explained succinctly.

"Why is the Muggle world so unbalanced..." Moody muttered.

"That... I went on." Dorcas said, "I care about this Markov mainly because he is actually a bitch wizard who lost his magic power during Grindelwald's time. And the Muggle police suspect that he It was poisoned."

"Poison?" asked Benji Fenwick. "What kind of poison? You don't suspect it's potion, do you?"

"I'm not sure about this. However, the second thing is related to the information you reported to me two days ago." Dorcas replied.

"The information I reported to you? You mean that someone recently ordered a large number of castor seeds from my potion shop?"

"Yes. Didn't you say that the person who ordered it from you doesn't look very decent? I've been wondering if it's possible to use castor seeds to make sex. Lily, you're good at potions, tell me."

After being named, Lily thought for a while and said, "Castor oil is an ingredient in many potions, but none of them seem to be poison/medicine."

"Perhaps I am overthinking," said Dorcas hesitantly.

At this time, Lynn suddenly thought of something and said, "It's not the poison/drug in the potion, is it possible that it is the poison/drug in the Muggles?"

"Why do you say that?" asked Dorcas.

"Uh... my father was a healer in the Muggle world before he passed away. I seem to have vaguely heard my father mention it when I was young. Many plants can be used for both healing and poisoning for Muggles. Castor bean Seeds seem to be such a plant."

"Really?" Dorcas was a little excited.

"I'm not sure, after all, it happened when I was very young. However, Lily has a roommate who is studying medicine at a Muggle university. I think we can write to her and ask her."

"In that case, I will leave this matter to you, Lily," said Dumbledore.

"Okay." Lily agreed quickly.

In the following time, all the members talked about some things in their daily work and life, and Dorcas recorded them one by one, so as to analyze afterwards whether there might be a conspiracy hidden by the Death Eaters.

The meeting lasted until after five o'clock in the evening.

After the meeting, the group of six took the initiative to stay and help Dorcas pack up, and then chatted with Dorcas about other situations in the club.

"By the way, I want to ask you, do you know patron saint magic?" Dorcas suddenly thought of this question.

"The seventh grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class teaches this magic, so James, Sirius and Remus and I can do it, but Lynn and Peter probably can't."

"I really won't." Lynn admitted, and Peter nodded.

"Then you two should learn it as soon as possible. Because this magic is very effective for members of the Order of the Phoenix, you see—"

Dorcas walked a little farther away, and shouted "Call God to protect you", a silver-white seagull spewed out from the head of the wand, flew around Dorcas a few times, landed on her shoulder, and bowed down. I heard Dorcas murmur something.Then the seagull flew towards the group of six and shouted to them, "Hi, I'm Dorcas."

"Hey, the Patronus can talk?" James said in surprise.

"Yeah, as long as you can successfully summon the patron saint, it's not difficult to get the patron saint to speak. You just need to release TA more and communicate with him more. Useful for sending messages when you can't Apparate, and don't have a Portkey or Floo Powder with you. Like an owl, but faster and safer than an owl. Because it doesn't involve letters being hijacked along the way Therefore, Lynn, Peter, you must learn to release the Patronus as soon as possible. The Order of the Phoenix often uses this method to deliver messages, and this is also our original creation."

"Who first thought of this method?" Lynn asked curiously.

Dorcas smiled lightly: "It's me."

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