[Main HP Comprehensive British-American] Lolita - Chapter 43

The alliance with Dumbledore became a secret for both parties. Dolores could imagine what would happen if Voldemort found out: he would be furious, seeing it as a betrayal, and ironically, she had only just offered to be his partner.

“You look different, have you found what you really want to do?” Snape asked, approaching Dolores who was standing in the hallway bored.

Dolores, who was yawning, was frightened, turned his head and saw the familiar Slytherin junior, and yawned in a relaxed manner: “I didn’t ‘find’ my ideal, but someone has entrusted me with an important task. ”

“This important task made you sleep-deprived right from the start of school?” He laughed at the obvious dark circles under her eyes.

“You don’t understand, you’re just a little boy,” Dolores gave him a sullen look, his arm resting on the stone window in the corridor, “I see my fate is going to fork, and all this It just starts with a choice.”

“Trelawney would love this prophecy.”

“Edwin where did they go? I didn’t find them all day.”

“Going to deal with the student protests. After all, he and Lily are both members of the student union.”

“Protest?” She couldn’t keep up.

Snape sighed. “Remember the leaflet you took down without authorization last term? The one the Ministry of Magic was planning to visit at Hogwarts?”

“Ah,” she recalled, “but wasn’t that visit cancelled because of Dumbledore’s objections?”

“Apparently Dumbledore has also used up his excuses,” the boy shrugged. “The Ministry of Magic has every reason to participate in such a big event as the 1500th anniversary.”

“so?”

“That’s why there is a group of students sitting on the Quidditch pitch protesting the involvement of the Ministry of Magic, ‘Let politics be politics, education be education’, that’s their slogan.”

“Can these children be so smart? It’s just an interview, where did such a big reaction come from?” She was a little puzzled.

Snape leaned a little closer, looked around and asked in a low voice, “So is there the master’s handwriting here?”

It seemed that the lovely junior had imagined her relationship with Voldemort too strong. The man was never stingy to let anyone know his overall plan, not even the pieces. He just loves giving orders.

“Who knows,” she was still pretending to be mysterious, “you think you have it.”

Snape nodded solemnly as if he had learned something secret, “I’ll keep it a secret.”

Finally, at the end of dinner, Dolores saw Edwin and Lily wearily appear on the long table, gobbling down the food. Edwin didn’t even bother to go to Ravenclaw’s long table, and sat directly with Lily on the Gryffindor side closest to the gate.

“How?” Dolores asked.

Edwin, who has always been gentle and calm, took a sip of pumpkin juice with a bitter face, “All the students are advised to go back.”

Lily, who was immersed in hard work, raised her head: “They seem to have accepted the reality. In short, nothing can change this visit to the Ministry of Magic.”

Angela was angry because of her hard-working fiance, “Why don’t they know that Edwin is also very embarrassed!”

Dolores knew that Edwin’s mother, Lady Vanessa, and the current Minister of Magic were good friends, and I heard that their friendship has continued since their school days at Hogwarts.

Obviously, this also made Edwin and the Minister of Magic extraordinarily close since he was a child. Unfortunately, as the president of the student council, he had to come forward to stop this farce protest. Maybe now there are rumors that he stopped *** for private purposes. .

The Daily Prophet, which was delivered in the morning, was still on the dining table, and today’s headline was an exclusive interview with the Minister of Magic, with a brown-haired, slightly plump lady smiling and waving for the camera.

Unlike her good friend Lady Vanessa’s beauty, the current Minister of Magic Millison Barnold is somewhat unremarkable and small in stature, but her whole body seems to have a kind of magic, gentle but firm, in the first election campaign. won with a very high support rate.

“My relationship with Millison has been very close since I was a child,” Edwin said. “She used to come to look after me when my mother was busy, of course, before she was elected minister. Seeing so many people misunderstanding her I Feeling sad.”

“What kind of person do you think she is?” Dolores asked.

“Kind, determined, and an amazing person. She’s not just a politician, Dolores, Millison is trying to live up to her ideals.”

She was still a little disapproving. Edwin was only biased because of the warmth brought by personal relationships. Even Dumbledore, the saint in the magical world, could not escape the fate of political struggle. Millison Barnold, who was successfully elected as a minister, was of course Not the same person as Edwin’s description.

Edwin wasn’t annoyed to see her shrug noncommittally, but continued to add with a smile, “But you have to admit, the Ministry has only been detached from its non-existent position since Millison came to power a year ago. .”

Lily was puzzled: “It’s a fake?”

“It’s been like this since ancient times. A hero is perfect, as long as he’s not in power.” Edwin looked at the teacher’s chair meaningfully, and it happened that the two people in his words were—

Albus Dumbledore, the greatest white wizard of our time, and Lord Voldemort, who is still invincible today.

Dolores couldn’t help laughing, “Are you implying that Dumbledore’s personal aura threatens the regime of the Ministry of Magic? If the Ministry of Magic will fall because of just an old man, it will only prove its own uselessness.”

“Just one person? Did you forget we have another great lord, Dolores?” Edwin shot back, “Last year’s election to the Ministry of Magic, if it wasn’t for Professor Dumbledore’s operation, now The Minister will never be Millison, but our dear Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.”

Angela and Lily had already eaten up the food on the plate, and were listening intently to her conversation with Edwin. Dolores put down his knife and fork and sat up straight, “What do you want to say?”

“But now there is such a confusing situation, the two who were at odds suddenly unite, and Professor Dumbledore even allows Mr. Voldemort to teach at Hogwarts. Last year, he was alluding to the media in every possible way. Will be the next Dark Lord.”

“You think the union of the two of them threatens the Ministry of Magic?” Dolores narrowed his eyes. “I never knew you were so loyal to the regime, Edwin.”

“I never believe in those in power,” the boy denied decisively. “I just never believe in individualism. A well-functioning institution will go further than a powerful hero in running a country.”

Lily, on the other hand, said, “I agree with you, Edwin, institutions are not people and have no feelings, so it can always be neutral, while a strong centralized leader can easily be biased.”

“Is that why you want to be a lawyer?” Dolores asked.

“Yes, I believe in the law more than in the judgment of men, even if it is sometimes absent.”

She looked at the boy’s serious face and realized that this was his last year at Hogwarts, and there was still an idealistic light in his eyes, which she hoped would never go out.

“Boring idealists,” Voldemort snorted after listening to her remarks, “will never be the kind of people who will change the world. They are too easily destroyed, just keep attacking their ideals.”

“But the world needs people like that, you can’t deny it,” Dolores said.

The man was noncommittal and changed the subject: “Speaking of this, Millison Barnold has already set a date for her visit, and she will stay until the end of the school dance one week before Christmas.”

“When is the dance?”

“Christmas Eve,” he lay back lazily, “Dumbledore combined it with the Christmas party to save money, and none of us know exactly when the Big Four built the school anyway.”

She lay on her side beside Voldemort, resting her right arm on her right arm, watching the man, “It must be an interesting year.”

“Interesting? I wouldn’t say that.” After seeing her curious eyes, she continued, “Don’t expect, I won’t reveal any news, just be your student.”

Dolores pouted, and Dumbledore, like Voldemort, was reluctant to reveal more to her, even though he claimed they were already working as equals.

The two men were unexpectedly united on the same thing, although Dumbledore was out of love for his students and Voldemort was more of an impatience.

The author has something to say: Good May. Minister Millison and Mrs Vanessa were mentioned slightly in previous chapters.