Hermione, Be the Minister of Magic with Me! - Chapter 152

“Wait!” He hurriedly stopped: “I haven’t agreed yet.”

“Don’t worry, even if you are willing, people may not want to want you.” Lockhart sarcastically said, “Azkaban ten years later, I am afraid that your skills will already be useless.”

Sirius refused to accept: “Nonsense, my skills are very good, I just won a motorcycle hill climb championship.”

“Forget it, who knows what you’ve added to your motorcycle… If you want me to say, even if Muggles are willing to train you, I’m afraid that your thirty-year-old body can’t run two steps, if you really don’t take it The one who can do it, I won’t let you go.”

Sirius didn’t eat his way at all: “So, you can absolutely not come to me.”

“Harry, look at your godfather. I’m afraid he’s going to eat like this and wait to die for the rest of his life. You must never mention him when you go out to meet people in the future, or you will be looked down upon even with you…”

“Shut up,” said Sirius.

Although he was forced to play with the treasure for a long time, Sirius was a person who could still distinguish the importance of things. He bargained to the end, and finally agreed to Lockhart to give it a try.

The communication between wizards and Muggles has to be two-way, not like it is now, unless Fudge and Lockhart are willing to go to them, the Muggle high-level can’t even contact wizards.

The so-called strategic misjudgment often occurs when the two sides lack communication channels.

will be born. Just like the Soviet Union and the United States before “Star Wars”, both sides thought that the other side had a set of black technology that could destroy their own country a hundred times. It was not until the winner was determined that they knew that the intelligence departments of both sides were tacitly defrauding funds together.

But if the powerful ministers on both sides had the opportunity to sit down and talk openly and frankly: a lot of things could be solved. Although the final result is still high probability that the two sides will continue to act, but at least they will not be misunderstood.

For this purpose, Lockhart confessed to Sirius quite carelessly: “When you come to the Muggles in the future, your main task is to check in to work every day, work for them seriously for a period of time, and learn from them by the way. Working thinking and methods, trying to learn Muggles to deal with terrorists”

“But Muggles can’t teach us everything,” said Sirius.

“It doesn’t matter, the main purpose of your going there is to tell the top of the Muggle Intelligence Service that “We wizards are also human’, as long as you play this role. As for your ability to work, in fact, I don’t have any expectations at all. ‘ Lockhart told him

Sirius’s violent temper suddenly came up. Since you said so, then Lao Tzu will show his face to you, and by the way, let his godson know how good Lao Tzu was.

“When will I go?” He asked with a dark face.

“When the second project is held on Thanksgiving Day at the end of October, Muggles should send an expert over by I”, and I will take you to see him. You are the “sincerity” we want to show to Muggles.

“It looks like I can play for another half a month.” Sirius shrugged, looking indifferent.

Chapter 321 Training juniors is a fulfilling thing

Lockhart had the idea of ​​security cooperation with Muggles for a long time, or when he helped the Prime Minister catch the IRA prisoner, but he never took the initiative to mention it.

Because Lockhart was worried that when Voldemort returned, no matter how guarded the Lions were, they would still be at a disadvantage in terms of absolute power.

That being the case, it would be good to borrow a little Muggle power.

The problem was that Lockhart couldn’t bring it up to Muggles.

Because as long as he took the initiative to tell the Prime Minister, it would be tantamount to acknowledging that wizards need Muggle help so they can deal with their “civil strife”.

Losing face or something can only be regarded as a small problem. If Muggles really kill a few wizards, let alone whether Muggles will lose their respect for wizards, Lockhart is only on the wizard side. Completely turned into a “traitor”, even if those wizards were Death Eaters.

But if it’s Muggles who take the initiative to fight Voldemort for “self-preservation”, it’s not about Lockhart, right?

It would be best if Dumbledore and Harry could get rid of Voldemort smoothly, but if they couldn’t get rid of him, then Lockhart would have to try his own way to get rid of him.

Two days later, the Big Five Knockout Tournament took place at the Quidditch pitch at Hogwarts for the good of Quidditch.

As Lockhart expected, none of the warriors refused, not even Vaggardu and Ilvermorny. Because the principals of several schools would not allow their students to show no sympathy on such public welfare issues, Lockhart’s moral ties

The rack was a big success.

The most famous player in the game is undoubtedly Viktor Krum. After all, he is the main force of the Bulgarian national team, so in addition to the attendants of the school, his team also brought Beauxbatton’s little girl in to make it happen. To maintain the two teams evenly matched, a “Forest Team” was formed.

However, the lineup here at Hogwarts is not bad. Although the warriors of the same team of Ilvermorny are not very good at Quidditch, Cedric and Harry are the main Seekers of the school team, let alone Harry also has a Firebolt. Although Furong can only ride a broom in a side-sitting style, she was surprisingly good at flying, so the “Ocean Team” here also played decently.

Because it was only a public service game, everyone didn’t make some rough fouls during the game, and Krum obviously showed mercy. After the two-hour game, the two sides battled 120 to 100. The Forest team won a small victory with a 20-point lead. The game ended in harmony, and the more than 600 Galleons raised in this game were also handed over by Dumbledore. The Estonian Ministry of Magic, everyone is very pleased with this.

Especially Dumbledore, he believes that such a game promotes the friendship of the warriors and stimulates their sense of responsibility to society. It is a rare good game.

The only one who was slightly critical was the representative of the company. He thought that since he was the sponsor, his company’s sponsorship advertisement should appear in such a competition.

Seeing that he was about to make trouble, the people from the sports department had to drag him aside: tell him that if such a public welfare game shows commercial behavior, it will cause damage to their company’s image. Besides, the Warriors in the second project They’ll be using products that sweep the company the whole time, and they don’t need to be so impatient.

After listening to the last half of the sentence, the representative immediately stated that for the noble common philosophy of all wizards, the company will fully support the Ministry of Magic to hold a five-power competition full of love and peace.

Of course, Lockhart just listened to it as fart.

In the last few days before the game, Hermione Granger suddenly became very diligent, sometimes writing two or three letters to Lockhart a day.

The main question she wrote to consult was, of course, the “Wizard Express” thing, and she wondered if the status of house-elves could improve if they showed the ability to quickly mail items.

Lockhart was amazed at Hermione’s sharpness – because in his conception, the courier company did need to employ a large number of house-elves.

He thought about it and decided to tell Hermione some of his plans.

“If you’ve followed the news on the Muggle side, you’ll know that (C)tyLink”, an established British courier company, is now at risk of bankruptcy.

The Muggle government does not want it to fail, because if it fails, not only will its 3,000 employees lose their jobs, but even their executives, civil servants who have retired from the government, will lose an extra income.

You can use your brain to think about it, what will I do, what will you do? “

Hermione sent another letter shortly after the reply was sent.

“If I were you, I would take a loan from a Muggle bank to buy the company and divide the business into three parts – one for VIP clients

The second part is set up for enterprise users and promises to transport large quantities of goods quickly and without damage. This part is responsible for the house-elves; the third part is set up for enterprise users. It is the general express business, which is handled by Muggle employees.”

Seeing Hermione’s countermeasures, Lockhart felt extremely relieved, and it felt like a father watching his daughter finally grow up as he wanted.

Especially the “financing Muggle bank loan acquisition” in the reply letter, Lockhart was absolutely stunned that they did not have no money, but it was the uncle who owed debts these days.

If they don’t borrow money from banks, it is impossible for the British banking industry, which is the UK’s No. 1, to exert influence and let a group of people of unknown origin buy an old business.

Lockhart’s reply was not short of compliments:

“Perfect move, Hermione! I’d give Gryffindor 30 points if I were still teaching at school.

I have a piece of advice for you – if you want to actually improve the status of house-elves and convince them to accept their freedom, first you have to convince the wizarding families who have house-elves to give them their servitude Going to a unified company is counted as a “technical shareholding”. After they hand over control of the house-elves, you can use the company’s name to improve the treatment of house-elves. The knowledge learned in “Influence” helps these house-elves to change their minds subtly.

This is my homework for you – how are you going to convince those pure-blood wizard families to hand over the house-elves? Friendly reminder, they are not short of money now.

Hermione looked delighted when she received the reply.

“Isn’t that simple?” she said to herself, “”Mastering Muggle logistics is mastering their lifeblood, and this power must be in the hands of purebloods’.. Ha, I like it more and more Brain out. “

Chapter three hundred and twenty-two leads the wolf into the room.

On the day of the second event of the Big Five Tournament, Mrs. Rimington got up early and rushed to Whitehall after a hurried wash.

In London in October, you can’t see the sunrise until 7 am, so it is extremely difficult for cancer patients to wake up early.

But that wasn’t true for Mrs. Rimington, because as people get older, they sleep less and less, and even if they’re going to be sleepy, it’s only in the afternoon.

According to the agreement, the wizard will send someone to take her and the Prime Minister to the venue of the hegemony competition today, which makes her extremely excited, and even loses sleep rarely.

Although she did not speak to the Prime Minister, Mrs Rimington had to admit that her visit to the wizard’s side was not entirely due to “national security”

After all, their youth newspaper department did not know about the existence of wizards in the past few hundred years, but there is no problem with the national security of the United Kingdom. Even if she does not worry about it, the problem should not be a big problem.

The reason why she must come to see it is very simple, just like the Prime Minister, just curious.

When she had to be transferred from India to the UK with the rest of the civil servants, she accepted the intelligence job because she was curious about the “secret” thing.

But when she really started working as a secret agent, she realized that she had been fooled.

Whether it is MI5 or other departments, in fact, they are far less magical than the outside world legends. Not only do they have no access to so-called alien intelligence, but even the espionage work is not as magnificent as she imagined.

A lot of times a spy’s job is to go to a foreign market and buy something to see

For the price, buy a few newspapers by the way, get in touch with a few NGs, and participate in activities, and it’s all over. There is no need for them to shoot, climb trains, drill caves, or sneak into the enemy headquarters to take so-called confidential documents.

Although very disappointed, Mrs. Rimington also knew that this was the so-called job, and that once she accepted it, she could not easily quit.

Life has been so dull for decades, and she has also changed from a small staff member to the current MI5 chief.

She thought that the curiosity about unknown things in her heart had long since been forgotten, but when she learned anew that there really was an anomaly called sorcerer in this world, this half-hundred-year-old old woman suddenly discovered that she and her youth were unexpectedly It also makes no difference.

She came to Whitehall at the time when Downing Street opened, and ate breakfast there leisurely, pretending to be unhurried.

And she really deceived the Prime Minister. At least when Major saw her drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, she felt that the mentality of the intelligence person was strong, and that night she learned about the existence of wizards. But he lost sleep, and didn’t sleep well the night before going to Hogsmeade.

Of course, if he knew that Mrs. Rimington had read the front-page news for half an hour, he would have known that Mrs. Rimington was not in a very normal state.

“Good morning, Stella, they say they’ll be here at eight, but they want us to prepare a room with a fireplace, so let’s go upstairs,” the Prime Minister greeted her.

“Fireplace?” repeated Ms. Rimington.

“Yeah, so I picked that parlour…the one dedicated to ‘fireside chats’. “

Mrs. Rimington put down the newspaper in her hand. “I doubt the wizard will understand what you mean.”

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, let’s go!

After all, the two of them came to a special reception room after rejecting all the internal affairs personnel in the name of “confidentiality”.

At exactly eight o’clock, Lockhart, dressed in a suit and shoes, knocked on the door of the reception room, and then walked in politely with the Prime Minister’s “Please come in” sound.

“Good morning, the two of you have been waiting for a long time!” Lockhart turned and closed the door. “Long time no see, Your Excellency, do you know who this lady is?”

Without Major’s introduction, Mrs. Rimington took the initiative to greet her: “Stella Rimington, it’s an honor to meet you, Director Lockhart.”

“Ms. Rimington, hello.” Lockhart gave the lady’s fingers a light touch.

Just as Lockhart was wondering who this lady was, Mrs. Rimington began to ask him:

“I remember the Prime Minister saying that last time you took him straight into the air? Why didn’t you do the same this time? Are you only allowed to take one person at a time?”

Lockhart suddenly felt a familiar atmosphere of negotiation blowing towards his face – without letting the other party think, he threw out a question that needed to be answered instinctively. routine.

“No, it doesn’t matter to me how many people I take,” Lockhart boasted. “We took you in this way with you in mind.”

“Does it make any difference?” continued Mrs. Rimington.

“For the elderly, we generally don’t recommend the use of avatars, entourage avatars, or door keys for people over 60, mainly because they are worried that their bones will not be able to withstand the pressure of avatars.

For example, Nicolas Flamel from France (Nicole Lemay), although he lived nearly seven hundred years old, because of osteoporosis, he has long been unable to show his face, and he can’t even shake hands. If you don’t believe me, ask the Prime Minister, he should have a sense of the pressures of being visible. “

Seeing Mrs. Rimington looking at him, Major shrugged, confirming Lockhart’s words.

“It did, it felt like someone was roughly shoved into a tube—like I was about to break my bones.”

Although Mrs. Rimington is only 8 years older than herself, she is still regarded as a “young man”. This fact undoubtedly makes the Prime Minister feel happy from body to heart

On the other hand, Mrs. Rimington was not in a good mood.

“I’m only 59 years old this year,” she said with a gloomy face. “Since it’s more convenient that way, let’s follow the old rules and show up.”

“Why? The Floo Network Management Center has clearly opened a passage for this fireplace.” Lockhart was playing hard to get it. “We just need to get into the fireplace and turn warmly for a few seconds…”

“I said one by one, I’ll use the one you took with the Prime Minister to show it. You don’t need to bother you to open any network. “

Mrs. Rimington repeated the request of her entourage to show up again, and the tone was too strong to be heard, and Lockhart even smelled a dangerous breath from it,

So he decisively stopped discussing this topic, and then took out a blank sheet of paper.

“Temporarily canceled, we will show up in the past.”

He wrote a line on it and folded it into a plane.

Lockhart came to the fireplace under the watchful eyes of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Rimington.

“The flames are blazing… ahem… God, how long has this fireplace of yours been out of use? The wood is so wet it looks like it was just cut from the tree.”

After choking on the smoke, Lockhart couldn’t help but complain.

“It was just chopped down, indeed,” said the Prime Minister amusingly. “We haven’t had a fireplace for a long time, and we have electric heaters in the office.”

Lockhart shook his head, took out a bit of Floo powder and sprinkled it in the fireplace, all the while Mrs. Rimington had been staring at him, trying to see what he was up to.

“Ministry of Magic Floo Network Management Office!”

He shouted, then threw the plane into the fireplace, and the green flames engulfed the paper plane instantly.

Although he did deliberately use this method to divert the old lady’s attention, in order to avoid the other party’s continued aggressive questioning.

Seeing that Mrs. Rimington was no longer speaking, Lockhart drew out his wand.

“Okay, since you insist, please come within two meters of me, and be careful not to wrap your clothes around…”

After another whirlwind “drilling” trip, Lockhart brought two distinguished guests to “Jack Pea’ in Hogsmeade Village.

Unlike the Prime Minister who hid in the bushes and vomited, Mrs. Rimington continued to stand at attention, as if to demonstrate to Lockhart.

But Lockhart knew that it was almost impossible for people who experienced Apparition for the first time to adapt right away.

“Although drinking early in the morning is not good, the wizard’s wine is different, it can make the two more sober. The second game may take more than ten hours, so let’s find a quiet place for this game and watch it from a high place! ‘ he suggested.

Mrs. Rimington resisted the discomfort in her stomach and nodded reservedly in agreement.