Chapter 1793 A War Without a Winner (Two Hundred and Forty-Five)
Chapter 1795 A war without a winner (two hundred and forty-five)
"Harry, you came back really early today!"
Next to the henhouse next to the Burrow, Mrs. Weasley was feeding the chickens with wheat bran. After hearing a familiar "crackling" sound not far away, she looked up in the direction of the sound and saw a familiar sound. The figure is coming this way.
"Yeah, it's my turn to take a break today." Harry stopped by the chicken coop to talk to Mrs. Weasley.
"You should have told me earlier so that I could take the time to cook you something you like to eat. Since you became an Auror, you haven't had a good dinner at home." Mrs. Weasley felt sorry for Harry's busy schedule. Ever since Harry became an honorable Auror, working overtime every day has become the norm.
"No, Mom, Sirius invited us to have dinner at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. He said he planned to let us try his cooking. He also brought little James over to let him have a look."
Ginny came out of the side door of the Burrow with James still sleeping in her arms. She looked around and found that only Harry was back, so she asked directly, "Where's Ron?"
"Ron has to work overtime tonight and can't come with us." Harry took little James from Ginny's arms. Harry would hug his child whenever he could.
"Stop it, Sirius can't cook." Mrs. Weasley raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Do you expect him to make shredded potato and egg pancakes for you?"
Harry and Ginny looked at each other, not daring to answer Mrs. Weasley's words.
Of course they knew about it.
Ever since Albert gave Sirius a cookbook as a Christmas gift last year, Sirius has been eating shredded potato and egg pancakes every day.
The reason is also very simple. Shredded potato and egg pancakes are simple to make and taste quite good, and it is easy to develop potato pancakes that suit your own taste.
Sirius, who found it troublesome to cook alone, had to eat this thing every day.
"It should...not be the case!"
To be honest, Ginny and Harry are not opposed to eating this stuff.
After a while, Harry and Ginny ended their chat and said goodbye to Mrs. Weasley, and then used Apparition to go to 12 Grimmauld Place together.
There were almost no changes here. Harry and Ginny used the cover of magic to successfully enter the old villa protected by magic.
However, the changes in No. 12 Grimmauld Place were completely beyond Harry and Ginny's expectations.
The house elf heads that were originally on the wall have now completely disappeared. The old walls have been repainted, and this corridor is no longer as spooky as before. The most important thing is that it was originally stuck to the wall with a permanent sticking spell. The portrait of Black's mother actually disappeared. Harry was previously worried that Mrs. Black's scream would scare little James. It seemed that they no longer had to endure the deafening scream.
Probably hearing the sound of the door opening, the door leading to the living room was pushed open, and Lupine was seen coming out.
"Good evening, Harry, Ginny."
Lupine smiled and greeted the young couple in front of him, then looked at the child in Ginny's arms, "And you, little James!"
"Long time no see Remus." Ginny carefully placed her child in Lupin's arms.
"Is little Teddy here?"
Harry still pays more attention to his godson.
"No, you know that Dora has been very busy recently and has no time to take care of the children, so Mrs. Tonks helps take care of Teddy."
Lu Ping felt quite guilty when he talked about this incident. He always felt that he was not a qualified father.
After returning the child to Ginny, Lupine turned around and let the three of them go in. None of them saw Sirius inside, but there were half-placed dishes.
"Sirius, he said he wanted you to try his craftsmanship, and he is busy in the kitchen!" Lupine continued to place the plates, then walked to the cabinet next to him and asked the two of them: "What are you drinking, butterbeer, Wine or whiskey?”
"Just butterbeer. You know, the situation is very bad right now. The resting Aurors may be called back to work overtime at any time."
Harry took two large glasses and drank two large glasses of butterbeer under the oak barrel tap next to the cabinet. Just when she was about to hand one of the large glasses of butterbeer to Ginny, the wooden door of the kitchen was suddenly opened, and then Sirius walked in carrying a large pot of food, and behind him was also carrying a large plate of fried steak. Tonks.
"Harry, come and try the French stew I specially prepared for you!" After Sirius asked Harry and Ginny to sit down, he seemed to notice something and raised his eyebrows and asked, "By the way, where is Ron?"
"He needs to work overtime tonight and can't come!" Harry explained to Sirius.
"That's a shame."
Sirius scooped up a large spoonful of stew and placed it on the empty seat next to the steak. He said with a smile, "Come and try this. I learned the French stew from the recipe that Albert gave me. Lupine and Tonks both Said I did a good job.”
Harry and Ginny both cast inquiring glances at Lupin and Tonks. Seeing that there was no difference on their faces, they scooped up a spoonful and put it in their mouths. The taste was indeed good, but the potatoes and eggs made by Sirius were not there. The pancakes are delicious.
"It tastes really good." Harry took another bite. "It's a pity that Ron didn't come. He will probably have to fill his stomach with fried potatoes and hamburgers again tonight."
Kingsley is actually not bad to his own people. Aurors who need to work overtime and stay up late every night will receive a standard late-night snack subsidy. Hot fried potatoes and hamburgers packed from Muggle shops are a very common late-night snack for Aurors.
"I remember the Aurors weren't that busy, right?"
Sirius was a little confused. He knew about the Aurors' situation. Even if it was an extraordinary period, they shouldn't be so busy.
"Since Harry became an Auror, there has not been a day that he wasn't busy." Ginny's words were full of resentment.
Noticing Ginny's resentful look, Harry coughed and explained: "It's unavoidable to be busy recently. The Ministry of Magic is likely to have a conflict with goblins in the near future!"
"It should be back to normal after a while. Aurors usually don't need to work overtime as often as they do now!" Tonks, who also had dark circles under her eyes, comforted Ginny.
"Of course I know, but I don't know how long it will last." Ginny looked at Tonks' dark circles and murmured, "Harry is not only too busy to spend time with his family, but he also feels that he doesn't have enough sleep time."
"It won't be too long. It will be completely back to normal in one or two months at the latest." Tonks comforted softly.
"Have you heard any rumors recently?" Sirius and Lupin exchanged glances and subconsciously lowered their voices to ask, "Some bad rumors about this goblin rebellion."
Harry and Tonks were stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what Sirius wanted to say.
"What rumors?" Ginny asked curiously.
"Some people say that this goblin rebellion was premeditated by the Ministry of Magic." Sirius paused, and after attracting everyone's attention, he continued in a low voice, "The purpose is to attract everyone's attention. Kingsley plans to take action against the Death Eaters!"
The restaurant was dead silent!
Everyone looked at each other, not expecting Sirius to suddenly say such a thing.
Everyone had heard about Nelson's affairs more or less.
Harry was no exception.
When the Ministry of Magic could not uphold justice for the victims of the Death Eaters, Nelson wanted to seek revenge on the Death Eaters in private, and many people expressed sympathy and understanding for this.
In fact, even if they can't understand, they won't be stupid enough to talk too much, because such victims were everywhere during the Second Wizarding War. Maybe they didn't have much say, but they had unquenchable anger in their hearts.
This is a big hidden danger, so the Ministry of Magic also sent people to pay special attention to this matter, in order to prevent a group of people headed by Nelson from doing stupid things and destroying the peace that was rebuilt with great difficulty.
After all, in the eyes of officials of the British Ministry of Magic, it is more important to restore peace in the British magic world as soon as possible than to give justice to these victims. As for the victims, they also expressed sympathy for this, but in order to consider the overall situation, they can only sacrifice them.
What's more, the Death Eaters are almost dead, so there is really no need to pursue them.
But from the information revealed by Sirius, there are also many tricks in the so-called attention of the Ministry of Magic. If it is true that the new Minister Kingsley is also involved as Sirius said, then I can't imagine what they want to do?
Kingsley is now the Minister of Magic, and there is no need to take risks in many things.
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But he still did it.
Harry suddenly understood the real reason why Sirius invited him, Ron, Tonks and other Aurors to have dinner at 12 Grimmauld Place.
It was to tell them about this matter, fearing that they would be involved in it accidentally. God knows how deep the pit they dug is.
"So, Kingsley wants to kill all the remaining Death Eaters, but he doesn't want to take the blame, so he cooperates with Nelson?" Tonks really didn't expect Kingsley to be such a person.
When Kingsley became the new minister, many people were waiting for him to preside over the justice trial of those evil dark wizards, but in the end Kingsley "let them go" for the sake of the overall situation, which made many people dissatisfied.
Unexpectedly, that guy actually planned to do something ruthless behind the scenes, and planned to take all the Death Eaters away in one go, which really stunned everyone who got the news.
"He probably has some difficulties. Even the Minister of Magic can't do whatever he wants." Remus was still willing to say something good for Kingsley. From what he did during his tenure as Minister of Magic, it was not difficult to see that Kingsley was indeed working hard to restore the British wizarding world to normal.
"He has indeed changed a lot since he became the Minister of Magic. Maybe all politicians are like this." Sirius shrugged and continued the previous topic.
"This matter should start in the near future. After the war between wizards and goblins breaks out completely, Nelson's group will definitely take advantage of the chaos to attack the Death Eaters."
"It's not that I look down on Nelson's group, but I don't think they can successfully eliminate all the Death Eaters."
As an Auror who has been dealing with Death Eaters for a long time, Tonks knows how difficult those guys are.
"If Anderson was the one who did it, it would be possible to completely wipe out the remaining Death Eaters, but I heard that he is afraid of being involved in the next trouble, and has already left the UK to travel around the world."
To accomplish this feat in a short period of time is really not something that ordinary people can do. Only Albert, who is currently known as the ceiling of wizards, can do it.
Tonks even suspected that Albert's departure from the UK to travel around the world was just an illusion. Maybe he was just pretending to leave, but he was actually hiding somewhere in the UK preparing to do something secretly?
"No, it's unlikely. I know Albert well. Even if Kingsley is now the Minister of Magic, he can't command him, let alone let Albert do something he doesn't want to do."
Harry directly rejected this possibility raised by Tonks. The most important thing was that he had just received a package from Albert from the Ministry of Magic in the Far East not long ago, which contained several Far Eastern cookbooks and a bunch of vegetable seeds.
This is enough to prove that he himself is indeed in the Far East.
"That's not what I want to tell you!"
Sirius tapped his fingers on the table, attracting everyone else's attention, and then continued, "Although the probability is very low, if we encounter it now, don't try to block Nelson's way, especially Harry, I'm a little Worried about you..."
"I'm not a kid anymore," Harry protested.
"But you are particularly prone to passion." Sirius continued in a low tone, "A person who has been driven crazy by hatred and completely risked his life is very scary. He will not have any worries. Once you try to stop him, it will be very scary. You may lose your life because of this!”
"Do Nelson and his gang really have such a consciousness? I mean, they don't seem to have done anything extreme." Tonks could actually understand Sirius's good intentions. After all, wizards from Gryffindor are indeed quite reckless. But she was actually more curious about where Sirius got the news.
"Many wizards who were persecuted by Voldemort and Death Eaters have funded Nelson's group." Sirius lowered his voice, "Including us."
"We?" Harry asked.
"Fred, George and Lee Jordan all helped them!"
Ginny, who has been staying in Avalon, actually knows a lot of secrets, because some things are not secrets in Avalon at all.
"Can……"
"There is no doubt that this is what Albert meant." Sirius looked like you thought he did.
"Kingsley and Nelson were able to reach a cooperation, it seems, because of Albert. So the guy left the UK early because he didn't want to get involved in what happened next."
"But why doesn't Kingsley... I mean, if he really wants to do that, why not go through legal channels..."
The question was raised again.
"Because Nelson and his gang threatened him, and Kingsley couldn't let people arrest these heroes, he finally had to make a compromise. Rather than letting this powder keg go uncontrolled, it would be better to let him be under his own control. Detonate under control." It was Ginny who spoke this time, causing everyone present to look at her in surprise.
"I heard them talking about it by chance."
"Nilson actually believed it?"
"Kingsley asked Albert to help convince him."
Maybe Kingsley had let Nelson and his gang down, but there was never any question about Albert's credibility.
"He actually agreed to help."
"Some things are hard to say." Sirius shook his head, "But Kingsley must have paid the price for it."
Well, I suddenly found that a chapter was missing from the front, and I have added it here.