Chapter 129: The Awarding Scene

The Merlin Order is a special honor bestowed by the Merlin Order on the Order of the Third Class and above.

At this time, the members of the Merlin Order gather to celebrate the new members.

Of course, as the second-to-last third-class medal in the Order of Merlin, the scale of awards it can receive is actually very small.

Generally speaking, this kind of small scene can have several seniors who belong to the same third level come to cheer, plus a second-level medal recipient to award you the medal in person, it is already very decent.

The most unfortunate thing should be the existence of Lockhart.

Lockhart's third-class medal of the Merlin Order was actually obtained through the research and development of advanced forgetting spells, and he himself relied on advanced forgetting spells to steal other people's stories so brazenly.

He's also technically a real Sir Merlin member.

However, due to his poor reputation among the upper echelons of the wizarding world, he was awarded without a single member of the Merlin Order at all.

So he could only entertain himself with the Merlin 3rd Class Medal sent by the owl and give himself a medal.

In the end, he even posted a photo of himself with a medal on his chest and a grinning face to the Daily Prophet, which made the front page the next day.

Link really had nothing to say about this. He could only say that when it comes to shamelessness, Lockhart is definitely one of the best in the entire magic world.

However, Lockhart's situation is only a special case. Link's awarding ceremony will not be so shabby, especially when Link is the only son of the Foley family, and Dumbledore is the recommender.

So, when Link arrived at the auditorium at the Ministry of Magic according to the time on the invitation letter, he saw a lively scene like a Hogwarts Christmas dinner.

Nearly a hundred 'Sir Merlin' in various dresses are gathered in the auditorium, talking freely in different small circles.

It has to be said that quality is different.

Although so many people were huddled in the auditorium, everyone present kept their voices as low as possible.

This makes the whole auditorium not at all noisy.

"Link, don't be nervous, just do as we said before!"

Looking at the crowd in front of her, Mrs. Foley whispered to Link.

This made Link a little speechless, because now Mrs. Foley's fingers were shaking slightly, and she looked more nervous than him.

Of course, Link also knew that Mrs. Foley was not nervous, but excited.

Excited that his son has achieved such an achievement and that his years of training have finally paid off.

"Mother, we should go in, or we'll be late."

Looking at Mrs. Foley's excited appearance, Link finally reminded him, which made Mrs. Foley wake up, hurriedly sorted out her expression, and led Link into the venue.

The atmosphere in the auditorium was still harmonious, and when Link and Mrs. Foley appeared in it, the atmosphere became even more enthusiastic.

Almost all the people present gathered and surrounded Link and Mrs. Foley in a circle. You praised Link's intelligence and talent with every word.

Faced with such a scene, Link just kept nodding his head, not even a smile on his face.

This is what Mrs. Foley said "as promised before", and Link, who doesn't like to entertain others with fake feelings, agrees very much.

Mrs. Foley was quite adaptable.

She copes with everyone's flattery with ease, her attitude is neither cold nor hot, compared with the enthusiasm of others, she can even be said to be a little arrogant.

But everyone who received Mrs. Foley's response in this way was not angry, because they knew very well that Mrs. Foley was such a person, and she had the qualifications to show such an attitude.

On the contrary, perhaps because Mrs. Foley was in a good mood today and would occasionally smile, those guys were a little flattered.

And after these little scoundrels greeted, a fat man with a stout figure who looked harmless to humans and animals was surrounded by him and came to Link.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Foley." The fat man first saluted Mrs. Foley, and then said to Link with a pretentious expression of surprise, "Oh! Are you Link? What a hero! "

After saying that, the fat man deliberately puffed out his chest, which made Link notice a medal hanging on his chest.

It was a shield medal with a wand pattern in the middle. Judging from the pattern of the wand on it, it should be a First Class Medal of the Order of Merlin.

Upon seeing this, Link immediately understood the identity of the fat man in front of him.

Among the surviving recipients of the Order of Merlin, First Class Medal, only the current Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, is so fat.

"Thanks for the compliment, Mr. Minister."

Link said humbly.

This made Mrs. Foley glance at him in surprise.

She didn't remember ever introducing Fudge to Link.

But Fudge felt that it was normal for Link to know himself.

He laughed and praised Link again, looking at him like this, there was a kind of situation that could say that the world is old.

Fortunately, most people, including Fudge, are actually here today for Mrs. Foley, the current head of the Foley family.

So after a few polite words, Fudge focused the conversation on Mrs. Foley, and Link took the opportunity to escape from the crowd.

"call!"

Link let out a long breath.

When Fudge spoke just now, his official tone was strong, and the people around him licked dogs in agreement. Link couldn't help but recall the appearance of the old leaders during certain talks in his previous life.

As for what those old leaders' conversations looked like, Link could only say that it was an absolute nightmare.

"Congratulations! Link!"

Just when Link was secretly glad that he didn't have to experience that terrifying scene again, a familiar voice came into his ears.

He heard the sound and looked, and sure enough, Dumbledore was looking at him with a smile not far away.

And beside him, there was an old man who looked about the same age as him.

In the face of Dumbledore and this old man who looked as virtuous as Dumbledore, Link did not dare to neglect, and directly bowed and saluted:

"You have won the prize, Headmaster Dumbledore, and I would also like to thank you for being my recommender."

"But don't say that," Dumbledore smiled and waved his hand, "As I said before, although I am your recommender, I will not help you to do anything against the principles of the Merlin Order. .You can get the Merlin Medal, which is entirely because you are good enough!"

Hearing this, Link nodded with a smile.

But just as he was about to continue his polite words, the old man beside Dumbledore pointed to the Hogwarts school uniform on Link's body and said:

"Are you Hufflepuff?"

"That's right."

Link looked down at the bright yellow tie on his chest and said with some doubts.

Hearing that, the old man laughed and pointed to himself and said:

"Me too!"