Chapter 1442 ? Magic Is the Fountain of Truth

In cloud-shrouded London, the British Ministry of Magic, located in the basement of Whitehall in the center of the city, was burned by fire. Under Harris' intentional or unintentional arrangement, the speed of restoration was slowed down, and it has not been fully restored until now.

At this time, Hogwarts Floating City was suspended in the sky above Whitehall, and after being cast with a confusion spell, people without magic power could not see it.

Since Britain started war with Germany and Bulgaria, Hogwarts Floating City has returned to the British mainland to show that although they can float everywhere, they are still British in the end. The wizards of life took a reassurance.

The Ministry of Magic below was unavailable, but at this time many members and wizards gathered near the temporary Ministry of Magic headquarters on the floating city.

This nominally temporary headquarters is undergoing expansion, and it is making full use of the sufficient building land reserved for it in the plan. Its location is just north of the Commercial Plaza and the open space between the south of Harris Lake Island—— Just around the corner from where the Muggle Prime Minister had seen Pansy Parkinson fire his fire.

The temporary headquarters of the Ministry of Magic, which is being expanded, consists of a series of large buildings. It is owned by the British Minister of Magic, Owen Harris. Inigo Inmag, the prophecy prophet of "Guide to Dream Interpretation", is also a famous master architect, and then participated in the design together with the confidantes of the general staff.

Compared with the previous Ministry of Magic, this Hogwarts government area is almost completely redesigned. It consists of a series of large buildings no larger than the size of the temple. Now each of the important institutions of the Ministry of Magic has its own independent department. Separate buildings, rather than the former Ministry of Magic headquarters below Whitehall where divisions are divided by floor.

Located in the middle and the most majestic and eye-catching wizard auditorium with a huge dome, it is a brand new glass dome, which makes it look different from other buildings in this vertical position when viewed from a bird's-eye view from the floating city. Like those protruding knuckles on the Elder Wand of the Deathly Hallows.

The dome-shaped top of the parliament auditorium is inlaid with regular-shaped movable mirrors, which refract sunlight into the parliament hall. At the same time, in order to prevent the direct sunlight from dazzling, the inner wall of the glass dome is equipped with movable magic, which can let the The position of the sun visor is automatically adjusted to control the brightness of the sun.

And on the side of the dome, there is an observation platform that is so high that it seems to have pierced through the clouds and mist. Through it, you can overlook the scenery of the Black Lake in the north and the commercial square in the south.

This is the office space for the most important senior officials of the Ministry of Magic. In addition to those offices inside this building, the most important place is that under the sky, the members of the Ministry of Magic can hold meetings and the Minister of Magic can give speeches, excluding At the bottom of this ring-shaped conference hall, the venues where all the wizarding troops in the UK can line up are just the viewing seats for members and even ordinary people in the surrounding circle, which can accommodate a total of 130,000 people.

At this time in this building,

All members of the British Ministry of Magic were required to gather here. They had to wait for the Minister of Magic Owen who was in the room of the General Staff to come out before they could find out why the meeting was held.

Among the wizard crowd who were doing nothing inside the building and even took out the mini radio or even the handheld TV to watch the program, Arthur Weasley, who had actually been in the wizard factory more than the Ministry of Magic most of the time, rubbed his eyes—originally white The original fountain of the Magic Brothers in the headquarters under the hall was burned down in the previous arson case, and now the brand new fountain erected on the square of the temporary Ministry of Magic is very eye-catching, with the kind of look that is enough An attraction that makes it impossible to take your eyes off.

This fountain statue has an extremely ancient and mysterious style, which strongly suggests that this is an ancient realm unknown to ordinary wizards. This terrible object does not belong to any existing sculpture genre.

At the top of the fountain is the all-seeing eye, which is bigger than the head of the dragon, and the energy around it is composed of illusions, which perfectly restores the somewhat weird image of Ravenclaw when he appeared as a saint, those feathers like ravens The energy of the shape is scattered around it.

Surrounded by the goddess is a statue of a wizard who clearly shows the identity of Allen, holding his iconic staff, and the eyeballs on the robe are turning around, so that no matter which direction he looks at him, he has a strange look. A feeling of being watched.

On the floor below the Goddess and Hogwarts Master, it has some elements of the previous Fountain of Magical Brothers.

A group of statues composed of male and female wizards and other magical creatures in the magical world surrounded the lower floor as if they were listening to the orders of the goddess and the city lord, and looked at the one person and one god at the top with radio worship.

But unlike the fountain that was burned down, in addition to the original centaur, goblin, and house-elves, this larger fountain has enough space to accommodate people who obviously brought Veela, werewolves, and vampires and even death creatures. A magical creature with the physical characteristics of a spirit knight.

And the throne holding them under them is not the conventional style of the throne, but the pedestal that evolved from countless books at the bottom to become a group of ravens.

The base and the uppermost part of the periphery of the fountain are the three-eyed ravens that have been formed. They squat in the center of the stone, and the tip of their wings touches the back edge of the stone. The slender curved claws that came out grabbed the front edge of the stone and extended down to a quarter of the height of the base.

The birds of prey tilt their heads downward, as if reading the thick grimoire in front of them, the edges of the pages brushing the backs of their massive front paws.

The material of the entire statue group is not identified by wizards. Except for some mithril as decoration, the surface of this fountain statue is not known to be stone or metal. If you look closely, you can see that there are bronze runes on the blue surface. , seems to record some kind of magical knowledge.

And the only thing that people can clearly identify are a few large characters carved in ancient magic script on the outer wall of the fountain: magic is truth.

After finally turning his attention away from the statue with an obvious enchanting effect, Arthur realized that the internal scale of the main building in the Ministry of Magic complex has far exceeded that of British magic. The building with the usable area that the department members should have.

"See? This is a temporary building in name, but it is built on such a large scale and so ingeniously that it will definitely not be used just as a temporary Ministry of Magic..." Reggie Cattermole of the Magic Maintenance Department saw Arthur came over to talk with an expression, and he stretched comfortably, "After we assisted in the completion of the construction, it will be brand new here, and there will be nothing to maintain, and there will be no urgent construction period on the Whitehall underground... After that, we will The maintenance department can take it easy for years."

"At least I don't need to apparate or use a Muggle toilet to flush myself into the Ministry of Magic." Arthur nodded. He was in favor of Harris moving the Ministry of Magic to the floating city, but he was a little confused about his scale. , "Speaking of which, Reggie, you have been with the headquarters all year round, do you know why so many people are called to the meeting?"

"Arthur, what else is there, don't you watch TV or the news? It's nothing more than our march into Germany and Bulgaria." Mr. Clearwater, who was wearing the ironed uniform of the Department of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic Interrupted, he glanced at Catmull a little haughtily, seeing that the other party's sloppy appearance clearly showed his contempt for him.

Arthur nodded in embarrassment and uncomfortably as a response, feeling a little impatient in front of Mr. Clearwater, who had recently changed his expression into a Malfoy style because he had changed from a Muggle to a wizard.

Catmull also felt a little bored and wanted to back away with a smile. Although everyone knew that their wizards who turned from squibs to muggles were very weak in casting spells, but Mr. Clearwater was the famous Penelope Cree The identity of Miss Watt's father is well known, and he is well appreciated by Director Lunn and has been busy formulating new laws in the wizarding world.

In fact, Catmull understood the reason why the other party looked at him unhappy, because he had heard that the other party suggested to Len that they should optimize positions like theirs in the Ministry of Magic to clean up unnecessary parts-although this did not get Lun and Owen's approval, but the Muggle-turned-wizard couple was notoriously impersonal.

But the other party has a special status and no one dares to provoke him—except for Len, Harris, the staff have only seen Mr. Clearwater, and he often has a completely different style from the other high-ranking people in the Department of Legal Enforcement. Mr. Xenophilius Lovegood went to some bar after get off work for a drink.