Chapter 679 Visit

Dumbledore looked helpless as he watched the cat, who had just promised him that he would not act on his own, running around in the main hall of the Ministry of Magic.

"We should go, Fish." He reminded, frowning even more deeply.

Because Dumbledore found that there seemed to be no one else around except him and Fish... This was obviously very abnormal.

Even at night, the Ministry of Magic should arrange a receptionist to check the wands of visitors, as well as some guards to prevent others from breaking into the Ministry of Magic's forbidden area... That's how Sturgis Podmore was caught.

Just when Dumbledore felt something was wrong, Fish stopped marking the territory and returned to his side.

Then the cat jumped lightly and jumped onto Dumbledore's body, hooked his robe with his claws, climbed onto his shoulders in a few seconds, and sat on it steadily.

Dumbledore, with a solemn expression, smiled slightly. He stretched out his finger and gently scratched Fish's chin, then took out his wand and cast an invisibility spell on himself and the cat, and added a silencing spell and a deodorizing spell.

If it was before, Dumbledore would definitely just hide his figure, but since he met the cat, he has become accustomed to hiding his voice and smell while being invisible.

After doing all this, Dumbledore held the wand and carried the cat, and walked towards the golden door in front. At the same time, he restrained the smile on his face, and his face became solemn again.

"There is really no one else..." He murmured in a low voice: "Could it be that Tom really came? But why did he ask Harry to remind me?"

Dumbledore, who couldn't figure it out for a while, simply quickened his pace, carried Fish through the golden door, and came to a smaller hall. There are at least twenty elevators here, blocked by the exquisite golden fence door.

Dumbledore hurried to an elevator.

As he pressed the button, he explained to Fish on his shoulder: "From here on, the Ministry of Magic will be like Hogwarts, unable to use Apparition. Although Fawkes' ability can still work, I'm not sure if it will set off the alarm here."

The elevator clanged down from above, and the sound it made when it moved was very harsh in the quiet night, but there was still no security personnel from the Ministry of Magic around.

With a series of ding-dong and clacking sounds, the golden fence door slid open gently, and Dumbledore walked in. He hit the ninth button, the fence door slammed shut, and the elevator began to descend, with the chain clacking.

Soon, the elevator stopped, and a cold woman's voice sounded: "Department of Mysteries."

The fence door slid open gently, and Dumbledore came to the corridor outside. There was no movement around, only the torch closest to them was swayed left and right by the airflow stirred up by the elevator.

"Meow!"

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However, as soon as Dumbledore stepped out of the elevator, the cat on his shoulder raised its paw and slapped him, and also cried anxiously.

Before he could understand what was going on, he heard a voice not far ahead——

"Show up!"

The invisibility spell on Dumbledore and Fish was immediately broken, and the figures of one man and one cat appeared from the air.

Immediately afterwards, in the corridor that was originally empty, the figures of wizards appeared in front of them, led by the current Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge.

"Finally I caught you! What else do you have to say, Dumbledore?!" He asked excitedly.

"I see..." Dumbledore's face showed a look of realization. He shook his wand lightly, canceled the soundproofing spell, and then said softly: "It's a simple trick, but it's very effective."

"What trick? Do you still want to say that I deliberately tricked you here?!" Fudge, who didn't know what Dumbledore was talking about, continued to shout with saliva flying.

At the same time, Fash also jumped down from Dumbledore's shoulder and returned to human form.

"Albus, didn't you say you came to fight Voldemort? Why did you change to Fudge?"

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Mao Mao tugged at Dumbledore's robe, asked in confusion, and expressed his dissatisfaction: "They are so weak, there is no point in fighting meow."

Many of the Aurors around Fudge were beaten by Fash with a group of cats and dogs before Christmas. At that time, they had no power to resist, and were not much better than the members of the Cat Club, so Mao Mao was not interested at all.

"We are not going to fight with them," Dumbledore first calmed Fash down, then turned to look at Fudge and explained softly: "I'm not talking about you, Cornelius. Just as Fash said just now, we are here for Voldemort."

"That's the same thing again!" Fudge smiled contemptuously, then blushed and roared: "I'll say it again! The man whose name cannot be mentioned is dead! Don't make alarmist remarks and disturb the peace we have finally gained!"

"Okay, let's not talk about the purpose of Fash and I coming here for now..." Dumbledore didn't want to argue with him about this issue anymore, and said: "We have just chosen an uncommon time to come to the Ministry of Magic to do business. Is there any law that prohibits wizards from visiting the Ministry of Magic at night?"

Cornelius Fudge's expression instantly became distorted. Feeling fooled, he yelled: "Do you think I'm a fool? Dumbledore! Do I need to be invisible to visit the Ministry of Magic normally?! You can't continue to quibble!"

"About this, Connelly," in sharp contrast to the furious Fudge, Dumbledore has always looked calm and calm. His voice was not loud but clear, "I am not up there. I didn't see any receptionists, so it was a very logical choice for me to hide myself, thinking that there might be something wrong with the Ministry of Magic."

His blue eyes looked at Fudge calmly through the half-moon lenses, "So, can you tell me why you didn't arrange a receptionist in the main hall tonight, but instead hid in this place with a group of Aurors?" "Waiting for 'certain people' to arrive, Connelly?"

Fudge's expression changed rapidly several times, and then he said viciously: "Because we received a tip that thieves will sneak into the Department of Mysteries tonight and want to seize the secrets inside!"

"However, this still doesn't explain why you didn't arrange a receptionist above." Dumbledore said with a smile: "If there was someone above, I would visit according to normal procedures instead of choosing to sneak in after thinking something happened here. "

Then……

Cornelius Fudge was embarrassed.

He was not a flexible person. Faced with Dumbledore's doubts and quibbles, Cornelius Fudge could not think of how to refute him for a while.

Just as he was speechless, Dumbledore took advantage of the victory and said, "I'm here to give you a little suggestion, Connelly. Even if you are the Minister of Magic, please don't change the original operating mode of the Ministry of Magic at will. This will It troubles visitors like me and prevents others from being mistaken for 'intruders' in the future."

"You don't need to teach me how to do things!" Fudge yelled in anger: "Don't think you can get away with it! I will inform the Wizengamot of what happened tonight! Just wait to be judged!"

"That's really a pity." Dumbledore's voice did not fluctuate at all. He nodded slightly at Fudge, "If there is nothing else, I will leave first."

After saying that, he ignored Fudge, whose face turned livid, and pulled Fish back to the elevator.

Fudge was trembling all over as he watched the grating door on the elevator close automatically, sending Dumbledore and Fish back to the main hall on the eighth floor. Finally, he roared unbearably, grabbed the dome hat on his head, and hit it hard. It fell to the ground.

"Damn Dumbledore! I will never let him go!"

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Although it is not explicitly stated in the original text, there are many descriptions that prove that Apparition is possible in the main hall of the Ministry of Magic. It is not clear whether it is possible in other places. I default here that it is not possible.

After all, if apparation is possible elsewhere, then the Ministry of Magic would be too easy to invade... although in the original work it itself is almost the same as a sieve.

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In addition, my original manuscript actually wrote that Voldemort sent people to pretend to attack the Black family, lured Dumbledore and others there, and then went to the Ministry of Magic to steal the prophecy ball.

But the more I thought about it after I finished writing, the more I felt something was wrong. The Black family's protective magic was very powerful in setting, and even after Sirius died, Voldemort was unable to successfully invade there.

And if Voldemort could overcome the Secret Keeper's magic, he would not need Wormtail's betrayal to find the Potters, so it was finally changed to this plot.