Chapter 223 Professor Tang, You Want to Get Close to the Magician, Right?

"Professor Snape, I didn't expect you to be interested in this kind of thing."

Tang Sen leaned on the bar of the Leaky Cauldron, holding a glass of butterbeer in his hand, and joked: "Is it because I bought too many potion ingredients that I was short of money?"

"Or are you actually interested in what the magician says?"

Snape always had a cold face and a bad tone: "I was just appointed to investigate the situation on behalf of Hogwarts College, and by the way, I protected a fortune teller who obviously had no strength but insisted on joining in the fun."

"Really?" Townsend smiled: "But I heard that Mr. Potter has rarely been punished by you recently. Even when he promoted Muggle items in class, you acquiesced."

"I have to wonder, are you really planning to follow the magician?"

"A professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is following a criminal who is trying to subvert the wizarding world? This is big news." Townsend winked: "Minister Fudge will definitely applaud your idea. Maybe you can log in Headline in tomorrow’s Daily Prophet.”

"What about you?" Snape's lips moved slightly and he retorted mercilessly: "A soothsayer who can see the future insists on attending a magician's party. I am curious because in your opinion In the future, has he succeeded?"

He stared at Tang Sen and said gloomily: "I will never forget that you used the Resurrection Stone as an excuse to induce me to face the magician——"

"Now it seems that your purpose is to let me test him, right? You saw the magician from the future and decided to get close to him, but you were worried that your strength could not cope with the accidents that might happen when meeting the magician, so you did Find me."

"After I tested it, you divined where the magician would appear, and on that day, on the morning of the same day last month, you appeared at the Leaky Cauldron, personally participating in the magician's speech, and even defending the other party's remarks. Provided supporting evidence.”

"Everything you do indicates that you want to be in the magician's camp, so——"

Tang Sen showed a helpless look, spread his hands, interrupted Snape, and said: "Professor Snape, I always remind everyone repeatedly that the future is not static."

"So, are you going to decide your position based on speculation about a diviner? This is not a wise choice."

Snape did not answer, but frowned and said: "Hurry up and finish this damn butterbeer. Didn't you notice that the Leaky Cauldron is empty? We won't be able to catch up."

Indeed, the Leaky Cauldron is already empty at this time. If you walk out of the back door of the Leaky Cauldron and go into Diagon Alley, you will find that the flow of people on the street is no longer as lively as before.

Apparently, the Ministry of Magic's raffle was not enough to change people's minds, and wizards all made their way to the gathering at Stonehenge in various ways.

"Don't worry, isn't Mr. Tom still there?" Tang Sen waved to Old Tom at the bar.

"I do want to come." Old Tom responded: "But the Leaky Cauldron cannot be closed. Even during the last war in the Muggle world, the Leaky Cauldron did not close for even half a day."

"Don't be so sorry, Mr. Tom, the people who come back will tell you what happened." Townsend comforted.

"After all, it's not as good as seeing it with your own eyes." Old Tom shrugged his shoulders and wiped the bar carefully: "But, are you really not going yet?"

"Don't worry about the fortune teller being late." Tang Sen smiled and changed the subject: "Speaking of the Resurrection Stone——"

He looked at Professor Snape and said, "If I'm not wrong, you should have seen the Deathly Hallows, right? Professor Dumbledore is a man of action."

"I'm very curious. Is that stone, as I guessed, incapable of bringing people back to life?"

Snape's expression became even worse. He stared at Tang Sen and said, "You already knew that, didn't you?"

"I don't have time for divination." Tang Sen said nonchalantly: "I'm not interested in the Resurrection Stone itself. The only thing I'm interested in is how the Resurrection Stone got from Dumbledore's hands to the magician. The one in your hand——"

"You know, in the future I see, the magician is the owner of the Resurrection Stone."

Snape unconsciously buried his fingers in his sleeves, stroking a black gem the size of a fingernail.

He remembered Dumbledore's previous explanation and Dumbledore's blackened palm.

Snape wanted to question Townsend, asking him whether he had also divined the danger of the Horcrux since he had divined the location of the Horcrux.

In other words, did he deliberately tell Dumbledore the news to put Dumbledore in danger?

But he didn't speak. Dumbledore didn't want to explore the matter too much, which might make the situation worse.

Seeing that Snape didn't answer, Tang Sen showed a bored look and said, "Then let's go."

"The Floo network doesn't work, how do we get there?"

"Apparate." Snape pulled out his wand.

Tang Sen then raised his right hand.

Snape: "???"

Tang Sen: "."

Snape frowned.

"Don't tell me that you can't apparate?"

"No one stipulates that fortune tellers must learn to apparate, right?" Tang Sen said confidently: "Why should I learn such a dangerous spell?"

The side of Snape's face twitched. He took a deep breath and held back two words: "Very good."

"So, I still think highly of you. I thought that you said you didn't have the strength to at least be able to cast spells like an ordinary adult wizard. But it turns out that you are not even as good as a young wizard."

"You are definitely the weakest professor in the history of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

Tang Sen drank the butterbeer in the cup in one gulp, showing no shame on his face, and even retorted triumphantly:

"But I am definitely the best diviner in the history of Hogwarts."

Snape reflexively wanted to retort, but when he opened his mouth, he found that what the other party said seemed to be the truth.

So he could only snort coldly, raised his hand and put it on Tang Sen's arm, with malice in his tone: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, the longer the distance of Apparition, the worse the experience will be."

"You're lucky, I'm one of the few in the UK at Apparating."

Snapped!

There was an explosion in the air, and the figures of the two people twisted at that moment, and then disappeared into the air.

Almost at the same time, two figures appeared on Salisbury Plain.

Snape immediately looked at Townsend with a happy smile. He expected to see the pale face of this annoying fortune teller, to see him lying on the ground because of the too exciting experience, and even to drink the cup he just had. Damn butterbeer spit out again.

But he was disappointed.

Tang Sen's expression was as usual, and he looked even more used to it than he was.

With his current physical fitness and body control abilities, how could he lose his composure due to something like Apparition? To be honest, if the factor of magic is excluded, Tang Sen can easily defeat a person with Snape's physique.

"Your expression is very flat, Professor Snape." Townsend looked at Snape, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised: "What are you expecting? I'm not one of those little wizards. Just because I can't apparate doesn't mean I'm I've never been apparated by anyone before."

Snape's hand on Tang Sen's wrist couldn't help but tighten. He gritted his teeth and glared at Tang Sen. Then he pretended that nothing happened and began to look at the surrounding environment.

It's the morning of a new day, and the golden sunshine fills the plain. You can see the magnificent Stonehenge in the distance, and outside Stonehenge, there is a group of Aurors in robes. It is estimated that there are even dozens of them. , they dispersed into a circle, holding wands in their hands, surrounding Stonehenge.

It also excludes the crowded wizards from all directions.

In the other direction, several goblins used magic to create a counter. There was a long queue in front of the counter, and the quills in the hands of the goblins were recording quickly.

The sound amplified by the "loud voice" curse kept ringing. It was officials from the Ministry of Magic. They were repeating it again and again, trying to drive away the wizards and keep them away from here, but this had no effect. The naked eye It can be seen that more and more people are apparating, and various forms of flying brooms are flying from the sky in all directions.

Of course, there are even flying cars, flying motorcycles and other technological products that have been transformed by magic.

Tang Sen made a rough estimate and found that there could be at least a thousand people present!

Apart from the Quiz World Cup, this can probably be regarded as a rare grand gathering in the magic world. Of course, it can also be regarded as the most mixed gathering. Tang Sen is sure that there must be something hidden around or even among the crowd. Young dark wizards, including Voldemort's Death Eaters!

However, no matter what identity the wizard is, they have only one purpose in coming here.

The criminal who had begun to stir up the wizarding world, the idealist with lofty ambitions, the future Dark Lord.

magician.