[Comprehensive] The Wizard and the Fugitive

Denis' speech had two themes. One was that the Merlin Group would donate 10 Galleons to Hogwarts, and the other was that the Ministry of Magic would also stand up and do something for the children.

While cheering for his kindness, the wizards in the audience discussed why the Ministry of Magic didn't think of a way to complete Hogwarts for more than a year before Denis directly raised the question of Hogwarts. What about the reconstruction of Watts so that children can learn in a good environment?

"The Ministry of Magic is busy chasing Death Eaters all day long. They probably think that safety is the most important thing." A wizard said.

The people around him nodded. Security issues are indeed important, but the Ministry of Magic's approach is not worthy of approval: "They have spent so much effort, and the result is to hunt down some innocent people?"

"Yeah. I wonder why I thought Slytherin was a Death Eater in the first place."

Zabini, Parkinson, Flint, and even Draco Malfoy, who always thought he must be a bad guy, under the influence of Veritaserum, none of them admitted that they had joined the Death Eaters.This kind of result is the most ruthless slap in the face for the Ministry of Magic. They once spent a lot of manpower and material resources to hunt down innocent people.For the supposed crimes of the Ministry of Magic, many reconstructions that should have been completed long ago had to be delayed, such as Hogwarts, which should have been the most important.

Denis didn't say a word about the previous actions of the Ministry of Magic. He only talked about the future and what he hoped the Ministry of Magic could do for the children.Every word he said was sincere and practical, and most wizards kept nodding their heads in approval of his suggestion.At the same time, he unconsciously compared him with the Ministry of Magic, and then became dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic.

A foreign wizard paid so much attention to the children of the British wizarding community, why did their own Ministry of Magic only care about how to fight Slytherin?

Although the timing of the first show of the president of the Merlin Group in the magic world was quite hasty, the location was set at Diagon Alley, and a podium was simply set up.

The major newspapers heard the news and sent reporters, but the Ministry of Magic did not have such a keen response speed, and did not send an official representative in time, so they missed the opportunity to explain and let the people follow their own ideas. Labels regardless of the overall situation.

Draco stood in the abandoned shop, quietly looking at the wizard outside.His eyes swept over the frowns of those people, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

William hadn't paid attention to the situation outside.It is not difficult to guess the following plot, Denis will certainly be able to incite wizards' dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Magic.These poor people who live under the control of public opinion and have given up independent thinking a long time ago, it may be difficult for them to think about problems with their brains.

The victory came so easily, so naturally, that Willem felt nothing but boredom.He scanned the old things in the shop, put his hands in his pockets, walked slowly into the counter, and looked up at a damaged oil painting.

The magic of this painting has long since failed, and the lady inside is motionless, staring blankly ahead.The pale face was stiff, and only two or three points of the original beauty were barely supported.

"What are you looking at?" Draco walked up to him and looked up at the oil painting together.

"It's over outside?" William asked.

Draco shrugged indifferently: "Not yet. But Deni will take care of it, don't look at it."

William smiled lightly, and stretched out a hand to brush in front of the oil painting. The dust on the painting disappeared with his movements, and the clean one was like a new one.But because the magic has not recovered, the lady is still sluggish and stiff, staring straight ahead.

"That's why I appreciate Muggle art more." William looked at the person in the painting and said, "They don't need magic to draw people's souls. Ingres's "The Grand Lady" only has a back view and a profile face , has already shown a noble and uncommon temperament." He took a step back and carefully looked at the dark eyes of the lady in the painting, but he could not find a little life in them.

"Wizards are born with magical powers. Isn't this an advantage over Muggles? Why can't we rely on the gift from Merlin?" Draco said as he pulled out his wand and tapped on the oil painting.The magic was reinjected, and the lady in the painting came back to life bit by bit, raised her chin proudly, and looked at them reservedly.

William didn't move, Draco bowed to her, and the lady returned the salute, then gave William a dissatisfied look, walked out of the picture frame with her chin raised, and left the dilapidated old shop.

William shook his head, took off the faded picture frame, and threw it among the old wooden boards beside him.

"If magic is Merlin's gift to wizards, then God has given much more to Muggles." He returned to the window and looked at the crowd on the street outside: "I think Moriarty has something to say. Yes, magic does interfere with the ability of wizards to think. We have apparation, we don't need airplanes, we have fluorescent lights, we don't need electric lights, we have Veritaserum, we don't need psychology. If we lose magic, what else do we have? "

Draco raised his eyebrows: "Why lose the magic?"

William froze for a moment, then laughed and shook his head: "You're right, I was thinking too much."

"I understand what you mean." Draco looked out the window.Those wizards looked at Denis with reverence, just as they had looked at Harry Potter more than a year ago.Coincidentally, Potter is the savior shaped by Gryffindor, and Denis is a card of Slytherin.

"The general public tends to follow public opinion. They want to influence history, and their desire to become chess players is too strong. In the end, they tend to become pawns in the hands of the superiors, and they don't know it."

"Don't be too confident." William said: "Sometimes the backlash from these manipulated people can be fatal."

Draco smiled: "I know, but we will definitely not be the ones who suffer the backlash this time."

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On the streets of Diagon Alley, outside the crowd, Harry Potter wrapped his cloak and looked at Denis on the stage from a distance.

He found that he seemed to have missed a lot of things recently.When the four of Draco retrialed, he was just sent on a business trip. After returning from the European continent, it seemed that the entire British wizarding world had changed.

Draco was acquitted, which was beyond his expectations. He clearly remembered that Draco had shown his Dark Mark, and that Draco had accepted the task of the Dark Lord. How could he pass the Veritaserum test?

The newspapers were full of news about the Ministry of Magic attacking Malfoy, a legal citizen. Although Harry had doubts about the outcome of the trial, he couldn't understand why Kingsley was so obsessed with Malfoy, as if he had to be killed.

And where did the Merlin Group come from?

Everything this Deni Bartolomé said sounded okay, but there was a strange power that made those who listened to him involuntarily have doubts about the Ministry of Magic.

Harry intuitively thought that this person was not simple, and his sudden appearance in the wizarding world must have some hidden purpose.This intuition comes from life and death battles with the Dark Lord time and time again, and there is no mistake.

Harry frowned, watching Denis from a distance lost in thought.On the other side of the street, inside the gray window, William, who had always been uninterested, suddenly raised his eyelids and looked in Harry's direction.