Chapter 524 We Are Different
The battle at the abandoned manor that night could not be concealed, and the Ministry of Magic, which had suffered heavy losses, could not hide it from those who were interested. What's more, there were people behind it who were fueling the flames, publicizing the Ministry of Magic's incompetence and weakness everywhere, and undermining the credibility of the Ministry of Magic.
It can be said that Ada's actions in recent days have greatly helped Voldemort.
Ada not only weakened the strength of the Ministry of Magic, allowing Voldemort to see how vulnerable the Ministry was; at the same time, Ada also reduced the influence of the Ministry of Magic, making them a joke in the wizarding world.
Voldemort should treat Ada to a feast just for the sake of weakening the Ministry of Magic.
It seems that Ada turned into a pig teammate and did not help, but in fact she once again highlighted Dumbledore's greatness.
Tom Riddle and Esmeralda Twister are both Dumbledore's students, and both of them can make waves in the wizarding world. The difference is that one is not favored by Dumbledore, and the other is equivalent to a direct descendant; the same thing is that neither of them is Dumbledore's opponent.
This has made people in the British wizarding world generally reach a consensus that as long as Albus Dumbledore is around, the sky will not fall!
Ada can be regarded as the new generation of Dark Lord. After all, ordinary dark wizards would not dare to challenge the Ministry of Magic alone, and beat the Ministry of Magic to the point where it cannot hold its head up.
Nowadays, when people refer to Ada as "Devil", they are less joking and more fearful.
However, Ada is very incompetent as the Dark Lord, because she only fights against the British Ministry of Magic. She neither spreads a reign of terror in the magical world nor causes more killings.
Compared with Grindelwald and Voldemort, Ada is more like a gangster.
As a result, the general public's perception of Ada only remains at the level of a thug, and has not yet reached the level of Voldemort.
Most of those who hated Ada and wished that Ada would be brought to justice were those whose family members worked in the Ministry of Magic. They had a very bad opinion of Ada, thinking that she was an executioner with bloody hands.
In addition to the families of Ministry of Magic employees who are looking forward to Ada's early demise, there are also a group of people who are also looking forward to it. They are looking forward to Ada recruiting troops and expanding aggressively.
But these idle dark wizards are looking forward to the stars and the moon, but they can't wait for the news of Ada's expansion.
Most of these idle dark wizards were left over by Voldemort. They were only suitable to be cannon fodder and not suitable to join Ada's circle. They have a hard hand and a dark heart, and they only have a dark heart, and Ada herself has a very bad opinion of dark wizards.
Even if Ada really wanted to recruit troops, she would choose to recruit people in Europe instead of England. If Ada can raise the banner of Grindelwald, she should be able to rally a team very quickly.
Of course, there is a price for doing this. Ada will get the hostility of all the Ministry of Magic. After all, Grindelwald even offended the Magical Congress of the Beautiful Country back then.
After leaving Hogsmeade, Ada has been hiding in London. The Ministry of Magic has not withdrawn the wanted order against her, and it is impossible to withdraw it.
The reason why he is still here is because Professor McGonagall has not recovered yet. Ada was worried every day since Minerva McGonagall was not discharged from the hospital.
Although she was hiding as a wanted criminal, Ada did not live as hard a life as Sirius, but it was just inconvenient to show up in public.
For example, Ada must be carefully disguised every time she goes to St. Mungo's, and she must also dress up in disguise every time she goes to Diagon Alley. All in all, it's troublesome, and although life is a lot less fun, it's not all bad news.
Professor McGonagall's health is getting better day by day, and I believe she will be discharged from the hospital soon.
On this day, Ada was a little unusual and did not report to St. Mungo's. Instead, she appeared in a small church. Wearing a navy blue dress and a sunhat in her hand, she sat down in the last row of the church pews.
In the church, the youth choir was rehearsing, uniformly dressed in white, and with the accompaniment of the piano, the song "Messiah" played.
When the last note dissipated in the air, someone sat next to Ada, only one person away from her.
"I didn't expect you to be interested in these things," Voldemort said, "Muggle stuff."
He was wearing a robe as black as ink, and no one except Ada noticed him. Just like no one can see Ada except Voldemort. The two of them were clearly sitting here, but in the eyes of these Muggles, it was as if they didn't exist.
Ada turned her head slightly and could see Voldemort's pale, flat, snake-like face and his scarlet eyes. Ada smiled and said: "Don't you think this is very interesting? Two Dark Lords, a Muggle church, this scene is so interesting!"
Voldemort said "huh", not sure whether he was refuting that meeting in a church was fun, or he was despising Ada for calling herself the Dark Lord. After all, according to the Dark Lord's standards, Ada really failed.
A year ago, Ada and Voldemort were fighting to death in Little Hangleton, and a fire almost destroyed the entire village. A year later, the two of them sat together peacefully in a Muggle church, no more than one person apart.
Today's meeting was proposed by Voldemort, and someone left a mark on Ada on her way to St. Mungo's. Ada agreed and chose this church as the meeting place.
The church choir sang again, and Ada continued: "From the first moment I saw the Dark Mark, I felt that your taste was terrible. I didn't expect you to understand such an artistic conception."
"Ha! Don't talk about artistic conception when you are hiding in China." Voldemort was not anxious or annoyed, with a hissing voice when he spoke.
"Both each other." Ada said, "You have been hiding longer than me. If you include those days in the Albanian jungle, it must have been fifteen or sixteen years, right?"
"Yes, it was a long and arduous time." Voldemort said, "I have been waiting for so many years, and it is not less than a day or two."
Ada looked at Voldemort and said playfully, "Then do I still want to thank you? Thank you for not taking advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and pour more dirty water on me?"
Those scarlet eyes could not read any emotion, nor could they feel any warmth.
If the eyes are the windows to mankind, then Voldemort's eyes are a sealed window.
"I'm a little curious about you." Voldemort said, "I'm curious about why you dare to be the enemy of King Voldemort, and I'm curious about how you escaped the killing curse. Now I'm more curious, and I'm starting to wonder about the path under your feet. Where to go.”
"The road is very long. I have just started on the road. I don't know where the end of the road is." Ada said, "Why, do you want to show me the way?"
The reason why Ada agreed to meet Voldemort was because she wanted to find out about him. Presumably Voldemort had the same idea. Ada's strong rise should have left many questions in the mind of the second-generation Dark Lord.
"I'm not Dumbledore, and I don't have the habit of being a mentor to young people." Voldemort said, "You and I have similarities, so I kindly decided to provide you with an option, a brand new option."
Ada knew exactly what option Voldemort was talking about, and that option was to join forces to kill Dumbledore.
At the same time, Ada also knew very well that Voldemort did not really want to join forces, but was just testing his own attitude and position. Even if Ada is obsessed and agrees to join forces with Voldemort, after defeating Dumbledore, can Voldemort let her go?
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Even if Voldemort has the so-called immortality, can he just sit back and watch people younger than him continue to grow bigger? Eternal life is not immortality!
As the relatively weakest of the three, Ada's cooperation with Voldemort was to seek skin from a tiger and seek death. Ada might as well go back and help Dumbledore, at least Dumbledore and Harry Potter wouldn't try to kill her.
"Unlike you," Ada said, "at least I can go home." She sounded sincere and sincere, as if she really meant to return to France.
"Home, where is your home? Hogwarts or Versailles?" Voldemort said disdainfully.
As if to emphasize his disdain for Ada's naivety, he added: "You have no choice."
Just after the night at the abandoned manor, the French Ministry of Magic had approached Rose Manor and asked Vida about her whereabouts. Ada is the granddaughter of Vida Rozier. Vida is a disciple of Grindelwald. Her behavior in England made the French Ministry of Magic sit on pins and needles, recalling the horrific memories many years ago.
And Hogwarts, can Ada really go back? This is difficult, no less difficult than asking Ada to strangle Voldemort next to her right now.
"I'm different from you," Ada repeated again, "It's precisely because you don't understand the differences between us that... you hide in the dark and work hard to get something. "
Originally, Ada was going to say, "That's why you are not as good as Dumbledore," but in the end she changed her words to a more euphemistic one.
Voldemort stood up and said as he walked: "It's another trick to fool people. I take back what I just said. You don't deserve to be appreciated by the great King Voldemort. The wand is not suitable for you. You should play with rag dolls."
Accompanied by the singing of the choir, Voldemort walked out of the church after getting the answer. Ada was still sitting on the bench, her thoughts drifting into the distance.
It was satisfying to kill Umbridge and fight the Ministry of Magic in a bloody battle, but now Ada is riding a tiger, and the warrior who slays the dragon will eventually become a dragon. Ada needed to take a different path from those who came before her.