[Comprehensive] The Wizard and the Fugitive

The news that Granger, Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, and the savior Potter went to meet the president of the Merlin Group together, was published on the Daily Prophet the next day. Although it was not the front page, it attracted the attention of wizards more than the front page.

In the report, Rita's style is very obvious between the lines. Most wizards don't know how she reports the news. They only know that she is an experienced and famous reporter. The reports she writes are often published in the Daily Prophet, so the level must be Very strong.

In this report by Rita, everything after Hermione and Harry arrived at the Merlin Group was revealed, and what is interesting is that this time Rita didn't make up any bloody plots, only talking about the relationship between a few parties. The dialogue was slightly processed, and then the public's attention was drawn to the direction she wanted, and the question she buried was doubted.

Why would the Ministry of Magic rather spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to hunt down Slytherin who is not guilty at all, rather than focus on the real business?

After more than a year of rest, is the Ministry still clinking poor?Instead of thinking about how to find a source of income, they hoped to ask the Merlin Group to reduce their donations?

The second problem is more important, because without money, the Ministry of Magic can't do anything it wants to do.

The topic of gossip in the wizarding world finally had new content. Slytherin got rid of the attention from the entire British wizarding world, and the financial problems of the Ministry of Magic shared some people's attention.

After the war, the Ministry of Magic, which has not been questioned for too long, is not like Slytherin, who can calmly face suspicions from all directions.Spoiled by their own people, they have always stood in the position of heroes, and suddenly faced with the distrust of British wizards, they were a little at a loss.

The impulsive Oro immediately had unpleasant frictions with ordinary people, causing the reputation of the Ministry of Magic to decline again. Although the decline was slow, who knows if the crack will widen in the future.

Suspicion from the public made Kingsley extremely anxious. He couldn't think of a solution to the problem, so he called Hermione and Harry, who had caused all this trouble, into the minister's office alone, intending to vent his anger first.

However, Hermione and Harry are not ordinary subordinates who let him teach him casually. These two heroes who rushed to the forefront during the war never regarded him as a real superior officer, and more or less habitually regarded him as a former friend. , Comrades.When the opinions are unified, they will follow his arrangement very unitedly, but when the opinions disagree, they often choose to be stubborn and are not willing to make concessions at all.

They probably haven't completely got rid of the way of thinking left over from Dumbledore's era, and they always habitually ignore authority.

The two Gryffindors pushed open the door of the minister's office and entered one after the other. Before Kingsley could speak, Hermione spoke first: "I know what you're going to say, and I went to see Barto without any discussion." Mr Lohme is our fault."

Kingsley held his breath in his chest, frowned and stared at Hermione who had a good attitude, and after a while he spoke as calmly as possible: "That's it? Do you have anything else to say?"

Hermione immediately said: "Of course not. I must remind you that the recent remarks will definitely be detrimental to the Ministry of Magic. Please calm down and don't be led by the nose."

"Oh? Who do you think is behind the scenes?" Kingsley folded his arms around his chest and asked indifferently. It was obvious that he didn't really care about the answer to this question.

"Malfoy." Hermione replied firmly.She looked at Kingsley's face, trying to seek approval, but found that Mr. Minister was expressionless, and he didn't agree or bother to object.Only then did she finally realize that she and Harry were called to the office probably not for something that could be dismissed in a few words.

"You don't have to worry about the things in the newspapers." Hermione said tentatively: "People's suspicion of the government is a problem in any era, and it won't have any real impact on us."

Kingsley raised his eyebrows and said sarcastically, "If that's the case, then I'm making a fuss out of a molehill?"

"That's not what she meant." Harry, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but take a step forward: "Now is not the time for us to fight among ourselves."

"Haha?" Kingsley stood up abruptly, walked around the desk in two or three steps, and walked in front of the two of them.

He looked at Harry first, and said coldly: "If I remember correctly, you have been making trouble with the entire Ministry of Magic, speaking for Malfoy, and insisting on 'justice' for him, right? Now you see Malfoy After getting the chance, what was the result?" Kingsley spread his hands and looked at him with gloating eyes: "Great savior Potter! I really don't understand why you have to treat the poisonous snake as a poor little bullied .”

He waved his hand to stop Harry's rebuttal, and turned his eyes to Hermione: "You have always opposed me using force against Slytherin, saying 'violating the law'! Haha!" He grabbed the newspaper on the table, forcefully Patted in Hermione's arms, raised his chin and said loudly: "Look, Ms. Justice. When you prevented me from cooperating with a Muggle, Malfoy had obviously reached an agreement with that annoying woman Skeeter." Deal!"

"Moriarty is a Muggle criminal!" Hermione emphasized again, and her voice amplified involuntarily.

Kingsley mocked disdainfully: "Don't say that you have never stepped on the bottom line of the law."

Hermione closed her eyes, took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down, not to fight the angry Kingsley.However, Kingsley didn't understand her painstaking efforts at all, and before waiting for her rebuttal, he said even louder: "When Malfoy's trial just ended last year, it was you..."

"I repeat, there is no law in the wizarding world that stipulates that my actions at that time are guilty!" Kingsley was quickly interrupted by Hermione before he could finish his sentence.

During the stalemate between the two, Harry raised his hand and interjected weakly, "...Uh, what are you talking about?"

Hermione and Kingsley restrained themselves at the same time, turned their heads to avoid looking at each other, and silently ignored Harry's question.

"No one's going to explain?" Harry looked blankly at Hermione, then at Kingsley.

Mr. Minister frowned: "I remember you still have patrol missions?"

"Er...yes. But Hermione made me..."

"Go do your job." Kingsley waved his hand: "The Ministry of Magic is not Hogwarts, so you can't be absent from work."

"You asked us to come here." Harry said innocently.

"Then I want you to go on patrol now!" Kingsley said, glaring at Harry.He glanced at Hermione again, the two rivals reached an agreement on Harry's matter, and Hermione immediately pulled Harry, who didn't know why, out of the minister's office.

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