Chapter 145 [Order of the Phoenix and Lupin]

The news brought by Rock really shocked the surrounding little wizards.

In their hearts, the Ministry of Magic still has a certain authority, and they never thought that one day the Ministry of Magic would be attacked.

"The Ministry of Magic was attacked. How come I haven't heard my father mention such a serious matter?" Ron said in surprise.

Mr. Weasley worked in the Ministry of Magic and must have been the first to know about it. He probably had his own reasons for not mentioning this to his family.

"Oh my God, the Ministry of Magic is being attacked. This is a big deal. Look! Even Ron knows how bad this is." Fred, who was sitting next to him, said in mock surprise.

George also echoed: "Yes, even Ron knows."

"The Ministry of Magic's failure to report to Ron, a genius, may be a major mistake in their decision-making."

"Hey!" Ron suddenly became dissatisfied.

"Okay." Mrs. Weasley stood up, picked up the newspaper on the table, and patted Ron and Harry on the shoulders: "This is something we adults have to consider. You just need to go to Hogwarts and enjoy yourself. My student life will be great.”

"Especially you, Harry, good boy, don't think too much, just get to Hogwarts, Dumbledore is there."

"Tomorrow there will be two Ministry of Magic buses taking you to King's Cross Station. Then get on the bus obediently. In the end, you will sit on the train and you will arrive at Hogwarts as soon as you close and open your eyes..." Mrs. He said to Harry like he was teasing a child.

Yes, it will pass as soon as the eyes are closed and opened, because when the Dementors get on the train and get addicted, Harry will be sucked out directly... Rock leaned against the wall on the side, thinking boredly in his heart .

Rock, who learned that the time turner might be ruined, felt really ordinary.

He glanced at the bar casually. To be honest, he had felt it when he came here just now. The average strength of the wizards in the bar seemed to be a step lower than before.

It should be said that the Auror content was much less than the previous few days.

When Harry first came here, there were quite a few Aurors in the Leaky Cauldron. They were probably arranged here by Fudge in order to capture Sirius.

But the Ministry of Magic suffered such a big blow last night. Most of the Aurors should have returned to the Ministry of Magic. They can't all stay with Harry, otherwise their homes will be stolen.

Suddenly, Rock raised his eyebrows because he found that the eyes of the Aurors in the bar were all focused on the door.

Rock looked over and saw a stout little man wearing a pinstriped robe hurriedly walked in at the door of the Leaky Cauldron.

Even Mr. Weasley noticed: "Minister Fudge?"

Minister Fudge did not immediately pay attention to Weasley, a member of the Ministry of Magic. Instead, he hurriedly looked around, looking for a person.

He was going crazy with anxiety. Last night, the Ministry of Magic suffered a sudden disaster. Several halls in the Department of Mysteries were destroyed, but the so-called elite Aurors under him didn't even see each other's appearance.

Who else could have such strength? Fudge said Sirius's name to the outside world, but actually it was Voldemort that flashed in his mind.

Is Voldemort coming back? ! This conclusion really frightened him.

So Fudge went to seek Dumbledore's help without stopping. Although Fudge hated Dumbledore in his heart, he felt that the existence of this "greatest wizard" was really a violation of his authority.

But hate it, hate it, and when something really happened, Fudge still followed his heart and went to Dumbledore, praying that he could solve the problem.

The main trouble is on Harry's side. Regardless of whether it is Voldemort or Sirius, the target is definitely Harry Potter.

But the Ministry of Magic really doesn't have that many manpower. If they are all arranged on Harry Potter's side, if the other party tries to counterattack the Ministry of Magic again, then Fudge feels that his career will most likely be over.

So Fudge's original intention was to ask Dumbledore to come out, whether it was to wait beside Harry or sit in the Ministry of Magic, in order to help him relieve the pressure.

But Dumbledore said: "Harry already has a powerful and outstanding wizard here. The Ministry of Magic only needs to take care of itself..."

Excellent wizard?

Well... not Dumbledore himself, but a master from the Order of the Phoenix.

Fudge planned to meet this master and at least do some basic face-saving projects for politicians, which would also give him some peace of mind.

"Oh, great, Harry, I'm so happy to see our savior now." Fudge looked at Harry with a smile on his face, as if he was sizing up his beloved nephew.

Harry was a little overwhelmed by his enthusiasm.

"By the way, I wonder who is Mr. Roark?" Fudge changed his tone and suddenly asked everyone.

To be precise, he was asking the Aurors and Weasley.

Because school was about to start, most of the people sitting in the Leaky Cauldron Bar were students and their parents.

Fudge only saw a group of students waiting to go to school here, and did not see the "Masters of the Order of the Phoenix" he was looking forward to.

"Rock?" Mr. Weasley subconsciously glanced at the handsome boy next to Harry. He didn't know what Fudge wanted to do with this kid.

To be honest, Weasley still has a good impression of Roark. This is because of his own child Ginny.

Ginny, who had aspired to be the county magistrate's wife since childhood, swayed towards Harry and Rock every day at home.

"I'm Roark." Roark, who was leaning against the wall and chatting with Hermione and others, suddenly spoke out.

Fudge's attention was immediately attracted.

"Are you Rock?" He looked over following the voice, frowned at first, then relaxed.

"Haha, kid, you have a very interesting name, just the same as the person I'm looking for."

Fudge walked forward and wanted to pat Rock's shoulder to show his friendliness, but Rock was well-developed and Fudge was a sturdy little man, which made his action of patting his shoulder look very uncoordinated.

Fudge pretended to smile humorously: "And you look like me when I was young, and I was also very popular in Hogwarts before."

Then, he walked to Weasley anxiously and whispered: "Hey, Arthur, Arthur Weasley, come here! I want to discuss something with you."

"Well... I know you and Dumbledore have always been very close. Well, I mean that you and I are the same now..."

"The same?"

Weasley didn't know what Fudge was talking about.

"Don't play dumb! What else can it be?" Fudge clenched his fists and uttered the last three words in a low voice: "Order of the Phoenix!"

You? Order of the Phoenix?

Stop kidding, Dumbledore will let you join the Order of the Phoenix?

The Order of the Phoenix is ​​an organization founded by Dumbledore to fight against Voldemort. He can be any unknown person, but he can't be related to you Fudge.

Arthur Weasley laughed. This was the first outrageous thing he heard recently.

The second outrageous thing was that the Ministry of Magic had an accident, and the third outrageous thing was that Sirius escaped from prison.

Seeing Arthur Weasley laugh directly, Fudge became even more annoyed, but at this moment, he had to suppress his anger: "Okay, I really have nothing to do with the Order of the Phoenix, but at this critical moment, we are all family members..."

"Hurry up and let your friend show up and tell me the truth, otherwise I can't even sleep well now."

Arthur was also helpless: "I really don't know what you are talking about, and I don't know who the friend you are talking about is?"

"Rock!" Fudge gritted his teeth and said: "Don't tell me, you don't know Rock?"

"Of course I know." Arthur pointed to the boy not far behind him. His daughter seemed to be chatting with him: "He is Rock."

"sh*t!" Fudge clenched his fists: "I'm talking about Rock! Rock Anderson! An excellent wizard, a master of the Order of the Phoenix!"

Arthur was silent. How could he not know that Rock was from the Order of the Phoenix?

But Arthur still answered the Minister of Magic truthfully. After all, the other party was theoretically his boss: "If Anderson is included, then I am more certain that it is him."

Fudge: "..."

He finally felt that Arthur was not joking.

But if Arthur was not joking, then it must be Dumbledore who was joking!

Fudge's face suddenly darkened. He took a last look at Rock, then turned and left without hesitation.

The Aurors in the bar quickly followed.

"Contact the people in Azkaban." Fudge shouted to the Aurors behind him as he walked: "Release all the Dementors for me! Release as many as you can!"

This was his original plan, but now it has to be more extreme. He wants to release more!

In the absence of manpower, the Dementors can only be used as Aurors of the Ministry of Magic.

"Uh... release as many as you can?" The Aurors hesitated.

The number of Dementors has grown to an extremely high number over the years because they are unrestrained in sucking people's happiness.

The most important thing is that wizards have no means to harm Dementors. If they are all released, it may be difficult to control them.

The Auror even began to wonder if Fudge had eaten coprolites and made his brain stupid?

Hearing his subordinates' doubts, Fudge suddenly turned around: "I was fooled by the damn Dumbledore! If I don't save myself now, it's over!"

"Dumbledore... Damn it, he must want to take this opportunity to drive me out of office... I knew it a long time ago, I knew it a long time ago..." Fudge kept muttering to himself.

But his words made the Auror laugh so hard that he almost couldn't hold it back.

...

Soon, the day for Hogwarts to start school arrived.

There was chaos before the departure of the Leaky Cauldron, and several young wizards were busy moving their luggage down the narrow stairs of the Leaky Cauldron.

"Hey, what kind of magic is this?" The twins Fred looked at Rock's blue transparent hand with some curiosity.

"It's an upgraded version of the levitation spell."

While Rock explained, he condensed a wizard's hand to help the twins take the luggage.

"Hermione, take care of your cat!" Ron yelled from behind the team, "He's about to bite my Scabbers to death!"

"Oh! Sorry." Hermione said hurriedly, "I don't know why, he goes crazy when he sees your Scabbers."

"Okay, kids!" Weasley shouted to the team, "The car is coming."

Weasley led the team across the short sidewalk, where two old dark green cars were parked.

The driver looked familiar to Rock. He was the Auror from the Leaky Cauldron before, who had gone with Fudge that day.

"Get in the car." The Auror said to Rock, "Just put the suitcase in the trunk. There's a traceless extension spell cast there."

"No need, I'm just here to see my friend off." Rock said, lowering the brim of his hat, and then his body twisted and disappeared from the spot.

Apparition? !

Or without a spell?

The Auror's eyes widened. Are Hogwarts students so outrageous now? He turned his head and looked back at the other students, and found that they were already used to it.

Even Percy, who was in the senior year, thought this was normal.

Damn it, the Auror thought as he opened the door and sat in the driver's seat. Suddenly, he thought of Minister Fudge's complaint that day.

Hmm... maybe, Headmaster Dumbledore didn't play a trick on him.

The Auror shook his head, started the car, and drove to King's Cross Station.

...

Rock crossed the nine and three-quarter platform. The black and red Hogwarts train had stopped at the edge of the platform at this moment, and billowing white steam was pouring out of the chimney on the locomotive...

Because he came to King's Cross Station directly by Apparition, Rock was one of the first to arrive, and most of the compartments were empty.

But he still walked in habitually, trying to find a compartment closer to the inside.

"... Your wizard robe is really cool." A strange voice suddenly came from behind Rock.

Rock was wearing the prize for winning the first-year duel, which represented the uniform of Ravenclaw College. A golden eagle was embroidered on the dark blue robe with gold thread. The golden eagle would emit light as the wizard cast a spell.

He didn't have much extra money to buy clothes, so the wizard robe he usually wore at school was the suit of the four major colleges he won, which he wore in turn.

There were not many students from other colleges who said anything about him, after all, he won by strength, but on the first day of school, Rock still liked to wear the robe of his own college.

Rock turned around and saw a stranger wearing an extremely tattered wizard robe with patches in several places.

He looked sick and exhausted, and looked very young, but his light brown hair was already mixed with spontaneous hair.

The box at hand read: "Professor R.J. Lupin"

"Hello, Professor Lupin." Rock nodded politely to the other party.

Lupin was stunned for a moment, not expecting the other party to know him, but then he looked down at his box and knew the answer.

"Ah, hello."

Because he was a werewolf, Lupin rarely greeted people and was not very willing to interact with people. The act of praising Rock's clothes just now made Lupin himself feel strange, as if Rock had a kind of affinity that could make him let down his guard.

"Are you a student of the Eagle Academy?" Lupin pointed at Rock's clothes: "No matter how many times I see it, your clothes are very beautiful and suit you very well."

"It's the costumes in the school treasure chest that are circulated in the school! When I was in school, my friends and I also collected them, but we didn't collect them all until graduation..."

"It's really not easy to collect all of this..." Lupin was a little emotional. He remembered his past school days, but then he remembered his friends, and his face gradually dimmed.

Peter Pettigrew died, Sirius was imprisoned, and Potter was killed by Voldemort.

Now he was going back to Hogwarts, and the person who knew him best among his peers was Snape.

I really hope Snape doesn't tell anyone that he is a werewolf...

This matter must not be exposed, otherwise his career as a teacher would be over.

Just when Lupin was thinking this, the student in front of him suddenly said:

"Professor Lupin, you are a werewolf, right?"