Chapter 798 Argument and Confession

There was an immediate commotion in the kitchen.

"We're old too!" Fred and George shouted together.

"If Harry is allowed to know, why not me?" was Ron's cry.

"Mum, I want to hear it!" Ginny lamented.

"No!" growled Mrs. Weasley, standing up, her eyes wide. "I absolutely forbid—"

"Molly, you can't stop Fred and George." Mr. Weasley said tiredly, "They are old enough."

"They are still students."

"But legally they are adults now," Mr. Weasley continued in the same tired voice.

Mrs. Weasley's face turned red. "I - oh, okay then, Fred and George stay, but Ron -"

"Harry and Fanlin will tell me and Hermione everything you say!" Ron said eagerly.

"Yes - yes?" he added uncertainly, looking at Harry.

For a moment, Harry considered telling Ron that he wouldn't say a word, so that Ron could experience being in the dark and see if he liked it.

But this despicable thought disappeared the moment they looked at each other.

"Of course I will," said Harry. Ron cheered.

"Very good!" cried Mrs. Weasley.

"Good! Ginny - go to bed!"

Ginny refused to leave quietly. They could hear her yelling at her mother in various ways on the way upstairs, and the deafening screams of Mrs. Blacks (the old lady on the wall, Sirius's mother) when they reached the hall. Joined the farce.

Lupine hurried to the portrait to regain his composure. Then when he came back, closed the kitchen door, and sat back in the chair in front of the table, Sirius began to speak.

"Oh, Harry...what do you want to know?"

Harry took a deep breath and asked the question that had been bothering him for a month.

"Where is Voldemort?" he asked, deliberately ignoring the new shudder and flinch caused by the name. "What is he doing now? I tried my best to follow the Muggle news, but nothing seems to be happening, no strange deaths or anything else."

"It can only be said that there have been no mysterious deaths so far," Sirius said. "In any case, it is impossible for us to know everything... but we know a lot..."

"More than Fudge thought we had in every way," Lupine added.

"Then why did he stop killing?" Harry asked. He knew that Voldemort had murdered more than one person in the last year alone.

"That's because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself," said Sirius. "It's also very dangerous for him now. His recovery hasn't been as perfect as he thought it would be, you see. He messed up."

"Or rather, you messed up his affairs." Lupine showed a satisfied smile.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked confused.

"You surprisingly survived!" Sirius said. "No one but his Death Eater followers would have known of his recovery. But you survived and became a witness."

"The last person he wanted to alert at this moment was Dumbledore," Lupine said, "but you let Dumbledore know about it right away."

"How will this help?" Harry asked.

"Are you kidding?" Bill said flippantly, "Everyone knows that Dumbledore is the only wizard that person is afraid of!"

Fan Lin frowned. For the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore is the supreme, which is not a good thing.

"That's not the case." Fan Lin suddenly said, "Dumbledore's threat at Hogwarts is only at Hogwarts. This does not mean that Voldemort is afraid."

"What are you talking about?" Bill said in disbelief.

"I have felt his magic, I mean, Voldemort's magic. I don't think this is a reason to take it lightly. Harry should rely on himself rather than leave it all to Dumbledore."

"Have you ever felt his magic? Why didn't I know about this?" Sirius said in surprise.

"How else do you think I came back? Apparition? Voldemort is very good at sealing off space."

"So, you are under Voldemort's hands..."

"You should know Dumbledore's true strength, Sirius." Fan Lin said in a deep voice, "Through this, Voldemort's recovery period does not take that long, and he still has..."

"Vampires..." Sirius suddenly remembered the targets he was tracking, those vampires who were frantically collecting relics of black magic.

"What the hell is going on?" Harry asked angrily.

"What we are dealing with." Fan Lin said, "Voldemort's plan, all..."

"all?"

"Okay, first of all, he wants to rebuild his army," Fanlin said. "In the past days, he commanded a large number of members; the wizards and witches who he coerced or were confused by him to follow him, he of loyal Death Eaters, as well as tons of different dark creatures. You also hear him trying to re-recruit the giants, and yes, they were once a group of that man's men too. Voldemort wasn't sure just relying on his dozen or so Death Eaters It can replace the Ministry of Magic."

"So you're trying to stop him from gaining more followers?"

"As much as we can," Sirius said.

"how to do?"

"Very good, the main job is to determine how many people really want to return to Voldemort, and then monitor them," Fan Lin said. "However, this strategy proved to be very cunning, or rather, very suspicious."

"Why?" Harry asked confused.

"Because of the attitude of the Ministry of Magic," Tonks said, "Look at how panicked Cornelius Fudge was when he heard that 'that man' was back. Harry! Yes, he will not change his stance at all. He absolutely refused to believe what had happened."

"But why?" Harry said disappointedly, "Why is he so stupid? If Dumbledore -"

"Oh, good, you got to the point," Mr. Weasley said with a twisted smile, "Dumbledore..."

"Fudge is afraid of Dumbledore, you know," Tonks said sadly.

"Afraid of Dumbledore," Harry said hastily.

"Afraid that Dumbledore would replace him," Fanlin said bluntly. "Fudge believed that Dumbledore was plotting to overthrow him. He thought that Dumbledore wanted to get the position of Minister of Magic."

"But Dumbledore doesn't want to—"

"Of course he didn't want to," said Mr. Weasley. "He never wanted to be the Minister of Magic. Even when the old Minister Bagnold retired, many people recommended Dumbledore as his successor. Fudge later took over. gained power, but he could never forget how beloved Dumbledore was, even though he had never coveted the position."

"The deeper meaning is that Fudge knew that Dumbledore was a far smarter and more powerful wizard than he was, and that in the early years when he took over the Ministry he was constantly consulting Dumbledore," Lupin said. "But now it seems that he has become obsessed with power and is willful. He likes his current position as Minister of Magic, and increasingly believes that he is a smart person, and Dumbledore is just a lover of trouble."

"How could he think that?" cried Harry angrily. "How could he think that Dumbledore was causing trouble - or that I was causing trouble?"

"Because accepting the fact that Voldemort returns means that the Ministry of Magic will encounter a big trouble that it has never dealt with in the fourteen years since its establishment," Sirius said painfully, "Fudge just doesn't want to let himself face it. After all, for him It would be much more comfortable to say that he deceived himself into thinking that Dumbledore was lying to him."

"Besides, you should know this, Harry." Fan Lin was never serious, "A Ministry of Magic can never accommodate two people in power,"

"Now you see the problem," said Lupin, "when the Ministry of Magic insists that there is no threat from Voldemort, it is difficult to convince people that he has returned, especially when they really don't want to believe it in the first place. Next. To make matters worse, the Ministry of Magic strictly ordered the Daily Prophet not to report any news from Dumbledore, so most of the wizarding community was completely unaware of anything that was going on, which made it difficult for the Death Eaters to use the Impa flow. If you use this spell, they will become an easy target."

"But you are warning people, aren't you?" Harry asked, looking at Fanlin, Mr. Weasley, Sirius, Bill, Mundungus, Lupin and Tonks, "You are not letting people know about Voldemort. Return?"

"As you can see, this is a very difficult thing." Fan Lin said bluntly, "We have no credibility at all. To be precise, Voldemort's power is far more terrifying than you think."

"Yes," Sirius nodded, "Although I have been cleared of my grievances, I am just an Auror who has lost the right to speak in the Ministry of Magic, right?" Sirius said helplessly.

"As for me, I am an unwelcome guest in most societies," Lupine said. "Werewolf has always been a dangerous profession."

"Tonks and Arthur are worse than me. If they speak out, they will lose their jobs in the Ministry of Magic," said Sirius, "but it is very difficult for us to have agents in the Ministry." Importantly, I bet Voldemort will infiltrate them, but the worst part is, the mark on me is too obvious."

"Despite our best efforts to convince two people," said Mr. Weasley, "Tonks is here, she is a - but she was too young when the Order assembled last time, and there were Aurors with us. The side is a huge advantage - Kingsley Shacklebolt is also a real asset to us; he is the Auror responsible for Fudge's safety, so we can keep track of part of Fudge's movements."

"But if none of you get the word out that Voldemort has returned -" Harry said.

"Who said we didn't release the news?" Sirius said, "Why do you think Dumbledore got into this trouble and was helpless?"

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"They want to embarrass Dumbledore," said Lupin. "Didn't you read last week's Daily Prophet? They reported that Dumbledore had been voted out of the post of President of the International Magical Union because he Too old and out of control, but that's not true; he was removed from his position by Wizarding Administration after giving a speech announcing Voldemort's return. They downgraded him from Master - that's a wizard highest honor - and they are now discussing withdrawing his Order of Merlin, First Class."

"But Dumbledore said he didn't care what they did as long as they didn't remove him from the Chocolate Frog collection card," Fred said with a smile.

"This is not a funny thing," Mr. Weasley said sharply. "If he continues to openly defy the Ministry of Magic like this, he may end up spending the rest of his life in Azkaban, and the last thing we can do is The only thing is to lock Dumbledore somewhere. If that person knows that Dumbledore has returned to the battlefield, he will act cautiously. If Dumbledore leaves the battlefield, - oh, that person will be unscrupulous .”

"But if Voldemort wants to recruit more Death Eaters, then news of his return will inevitably leak out, right?" Harry asked disappointedly.

"Voldemort will not break in in broad daylight, Harry!" Fanlin shook his head and said, "He deceived, cursed, and blackmailed them. He is an expert in keeping secrets. In any case, recruiting followers is his most important thing. Things of interest. He is also formulating plans, these plans can make his actions, in fact, silent, and he is paying attention to this matter at the moment, just like those vampires, if it were not for some unexpected reasons, we would not even know Knowing that such ancient creatures were involved, and..."

Fan Lin did not continue, this was obviously beyond the scope.

"What will he do next besides those followers?" Harry asked quickly. He thought he saw Sirius exchange a quick glance with Lupine before answering.

"Replenishing supplies through secret means." Sirius said, "Like a weapon or something older. Some things he didn't have last time."

"Before he becomes stronger?"

"Yes."

"Like what kind of weapon?" Harry said. "Something worse than Avada's Kedavra -?"

"That's enough!" Mrs. Weasley said from the shadows by the door. After walking Ginny upstairs, Harry didn't notice that she had returned. She had her arms crossed and looked extremely annoyed.

"Now I want you to go to bed. All of you." She looked at Fred, George, Ron and He and added, "Including you, Fanlin!"

"You can't order us-" Fred began to protest.

"Look at me," growled Mrs. Weasley. She stared at Sirius with her whole body trembling. "You've told Harry enough. It would be more direct if you just bring Harry into the Phoenix Order."

"Why not?" Harry said quickly, "I want to join, I want to join, I want to fight!"

"No." This time it was not Mrs. Weasley who spoke, but Lupine. "The Phoenix Order is composed of official wizards who are over the legal age, and Fanlin is licensed by Dumbledore. In fact, his abilities are obvious to all. As an adult wizard, Fanlin is not inferior at all."

Lupine added as Fred and George tried to speak. "It is very dangerous to get involved without any idea, any of you... I think Molly is right, Sirius. We have said enough..." (To be continued)