Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

Chapter 666: Fragile Balance

Chapter 666: Fragile Balance

“I asked Percy, and he told me that Mr. Crouch worked too hard and was recovering at home. He would regularly send owls to give him instructions. Percy showed me the letters. They were indeed Crouch’s handwriting. But that doesn’t mean anything. He hasn’t seen Crouch himself! I’d say Percy loves Crouch … He’d love to get assigned more work from him.”

“Yeah, Percy is not the only one in the Department who is happy that crouch is suddenly ill and can’t come to work. As far as I know, Fudge may also think it’s a good thing, because in this way, he doesn’t have to ask Crouch for advice on everything.”

After the disappearance of Crouch, the long-standing fragile balance of power within the Ministry of Magic was finally broken.

Fudge took complete control of the Ministry of Magic. There was no need to worry about Mr. Crouch’s opinion, and no one would oppose him.

It was hard to say that this was a good thing. Evan guessed that Fudge should then try to weaken Dumbledore’s influence.

He hoped his power would expand infinitely, so that to resist all the people and facts against him.

At this juncture, Fudge’s stupid performance of competing for power was exactly what Voldemort wanted to see.

Before the enemy attacked, there would be internal chaos. What could be worse? 

They talked for a while, and Sirius told them that he was busy working on the deaths in the Albanian forests recently, and he would soon go to Albania, where the Ministries of Magic of European countries and the International Confederation of Wizards had sent People to investigate.

Needless to say, the end result had nothing to do with Voldemort and was attributed to vampires.

Then, Evan asked about the hunt for the vampires, but the Ministry of Magic still had no progress. Even the vampires who had appeared in ancient ruins some time ago were now nowhere to be found. Either they had found what they wanted, or they got into more hidden ruins, which was not a good thing anyway. 

Especially knowing from Caresius that not all the vampires followed his orders, Evan had been worried about these guys.

Vampires who served Voldemort completely were far more dangerous than Death Eaters in the general sense.

“Well, now it’s one o’clock in the middle of the night, you four should go back to bed,” the flames were licking his ears.”If you find anything odd, you can inform me at any time. By the way, I remember there is a two-way mirror in my house. I’ll go back and look for it. It’s more convenient to connect with it.”

Evan, Harry, Ron, and Hermione stepped forward to say goodbye to him. Harry seemed to still have a lot to say.

“Hold it, Harry! If your scar hurts again, or if you encounter any situation you four can’t handle, go to Dumbledore immediately. He is the only person in the castle you can fully trust. He’ll help you.”

It could be seen that Sirius had also doubts about Moody. After all, his performance that night was too abnormal.

“I know,” said Harry, looking at Sirius again for a while.

Then they went back to their bedrooms to sleep. But about ten minutes later, Evan came back.

He saw Sirius smiling and waiting for him in the fire…

The next conversation became much more meaningful, and Evan told Sirius a lot of valuable information.

Not surprisingly, Sirius almost came out of the fireplace after knowing these things.

In the end, Evan had to tell him about his and Dumbledore’s plan to make him calm down.

Sirius and Evan agreed that they would watch the scene in the second task and stop Voldemort’s conspiracy.

Although Sirius knew about the Horcrux, Evan did not say that Harry was also a Horcrux. If he knew this, Sirius would definitely not control himself…

At the moment, the situation was very good. Evan had found all the help, waiting for the start of the second task.

For some time to come, the school was quiet, without Rita Skeeter’s gossip reports, and fake Moody, Barty Crouch Jr., gradually getting calmer.

As time approached, everyone was looking forward to the second task just like Evan.

The only interesting thing was that Hagrid had replaced a new magical creature. He had told everyone last lesson that they had finished with unicorns.

Now, he was standing outside his cabin waiting for the students with, at his feet, a fresh supply of open crates they had never seen before.

“Please, don’t be skrewts!” said Colin, as his heart sank.

“I feel skrewts are pretty cute,” said Gabrielle, not agreeing with Colin.

She thought that Hagrid’s course was really interesting. This girl was probably the only one of all who had this kind of reaction. 

Unfortunately, Hagrid had not yet recovered from Madame Maxime injury.

He was now almost not close to the carriage of Beauxbatons, nor did he appear with Madame Maxime.

Harry even told Evan that he had recently seen Hagrid digging in front of his cabin. It was then that Madame Maxime emerged from the Beauxbatons carriage and walked over to Hagrid. She appeared to be trying to engage him in conversation. Hagrid leaned upon his spade, but did not seem keen to prolong their talk, because Madame Maxime returned to the carriage shortly afterward

This incident hurt Hagrid so deeply that he didn’t have any good attitude towards all students from Beauxbatons.

But in the face of a lovely little girl like Gabrielle, who was like an angel, no one would be really cold and angry.

Hagrid did not intend to take care of Gabrielle, but soon offered to introduce the new magical creatures in the crates.

They were fluffy black creatures with long snouts. Their front paws were curiously flat, like spades, and they were blinking up at the class, looking politely puzzled at all the attention.

“These are Nifflers,” said Hagrid. “You find them down mines mostly. They like sparkly stuff.”

Evan had seen this magical creature in the illustrations before, but he didn’t expect it to be so cute in real life.

The girls all gathered around with interest, just like when they saw the unicorn.

If it was not one of the Nifflers that suddenly leapt up and attempted to bite a girl’s watch off her wrist, the atmosphere would have been perfectly harmonious.

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