Chapter 204 Creating Difficulties

After Nagini and Lu Yunkai agreed to contact each other through the communication mirror, she left that night.

Although Chris complained afterwards that Lu Yunkai shouldn't trust Nagini so much, after all, she had been Voldemort's pet for so long, if she just pretended to be very concerned about killing people with her own hands, she might have become Voldemort's double agent.

But Lu Yunkai insisted on his attitude of "trust people when you employ them, and don't employ people when you doubt them."

Of course, it was also because before Nagini left, she took the initiative to ask Lu Yunkai to issue a series of gag orders to her.

"I don't know if Tom has the ability to get your words out of me, so it's better to add a layer of insurance."

Lu Yunkai didn't tell anyone (or cats), including Chris, about Nagini's active request, just as he promised her.

As a "sponsor", Nagini, who was not very convenient to buy a wand, got a wand from Lu Yunkai that was quite easy to use.

And when she saw that Lu Yunkai could actually take out so many wands of different materials from the space bag, she became more and more curious about Lu Yunkai...

"After Tom's matter is settled, you must tell me all your secrets."

This was the last sentence Nagini said before she left.

Lu Yunkai felt it was unlucky, so he added.

"I will never tell you."

Well, it seems even more unlucky.

...

In this way, with Nagini's departure, Lu Yunkai's summer vacation officially entered the final stage.

After tossing for most of the summer vacation, he seemed to be able to calm down, make potions, accompany his girlfriend, and then prepare for the OWLS exam that would come a year later.

Well, the last thing started after Lu Yunkai received a friend request from an unknown person on his communication mirror one day.

Hermione successfully persuaded her parents to buy her a regular version of the communication mirror. Her first friend was Lu Yunkai, and the first sentence she said to Lu Yunkai through the communication mirror was...

"Take a look at the seventh question in the potion part of the OWLS exam reference material. Is the description of the answer wrong?"

This is very Hermione.

After learning that Hermione had started preparing for the OWLS exam, Daphne, who had always thought that Lu Yunkai would accompany her to play here and there every day, suddenly changed her attitude.

"You can't lose to Hermione in the OWLS exam!!"

"It's not shameful to lose to Hermione..."

"Shut up!!"

Daphne took out the style of "looking forward to her husband's success" and began to supervise Lu Yunkai's daily preparation for the OWLS exam.

However, even if Lu Yunkai wanted to devote himself to the exam preparation, it was not easy, because in the last few days before school started, another piece of news disrupted Lu Yunkai's life that had already begun to follow the routine.

"Yunkai, if it's convenient for you, go to the Ministry of Magic tomorrow. Harry will be interrogated there tomorrow."

This is the first time in half a month that Hermione has given Lu Yunkai something that has nothing to do with learning.

...

"Lu Yunkai? Why are you here?"

"I came to see Harry." Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded to Dumbledore, then glanced at Harry, who was trembling behind him.

"Thank you." Although Harry was obviously panicked, he still smiled at Lu Yunkai reluctantly.

"What's the situation? When I saw you in Diagon Alley two weeks ago, you were fine. How come something happened suddenly?" Lu Yunkai continued to ask Harry.

"You can chat later." Dumbledore interrupted Lu Yunkai's questioning, his expression looked very solemn, "We are in a hurry to be interrogated now."

"Oh! OK!"

Lu Yunkai nodded quickly, then followed Harry.

The three of them walked into the lobby of the Ministry of Magic, and then took the magic elevator all the way down to an interrogation room.

When the three arrived, the interrogation room was already full of people.

From the conversation between the old woman in charge of the interrogation, who was dressed in pink but had no more wrinkles than Dumbledore, and the headmaster, Lu Yunkai heard that not only the time of Harry's "trial" was suddenly changed (brought forward), but also the venue was changed.

Lu Yunkai was speechless.

Isn't this too bad?

The subsequent trial made Lu Yunkai even more speechless: the reason was that Harry used a spell in front of a Muggle (his cousin), violating the relevant protection law.

It's not like Harry hasn't done this before. Two years ago in the summer vacation, he turned his aunt or something into a balloon. Why didn't the Ministry of Magic try him at that time?

Moreover, this time, it was Harry who was attacked by the Dementors who suddenly appeared in Privet Drive, and he used the Patronus Charm to protect himself.

The officials of the Ministry of Magic refused to believe that Dementors would appear in Muggle settlements until an old witch who lived near Harry's aunt's house came out to testify that she had indeed seen the Dementors that day, and then they had to accept this fact.

Dumbledore's statement made the conspiracy behind the trial more obvious: since when did a minor wizard using a spell deserve to be brought to a criminal court for a formal trial?

This sentence embarrassed everyone in the courtroom, and the trial ended hastily and became a joke.

Lu Yunkai once again witnessed the absurdity of the Ministry of Magic in this trial. The old woman with a fake smile on her face on the stage, who seemed to do everything according to the rules, has become Lu Yunkai's latest iconic figure for the Ministry of Magic.

"With just a bunch of clowns occupying the Ministry of Magic, the magic world is probably doomed."

When he came out of the courtroom, Lu Yunkai said what Harry wanted to say but didn't say.

As soon as the trial was over, Dumbledore left immediately on the pretext that he had something else to do, and instead handed Harry to Lu Yunkai, asking him to take Harry to the Leaky Cauldron...

In fact, it was just a matter of a handful of Floo powder. Lu Yunkai really didn't understand what Dumbledore was so anxious about.

Have you found the clues to the Horcrux?

Lu Yunkai could only think so.

When Lu Yunkai and Harry returned to the Leaky Cauldron together, Ron and Hermione, who had been here for a long time and watched the trial scene through Lu Yunkai's communication mirror "live broadcast", came to greet them.

Unlike Lu Yunkai, they had a title in the Ministry of Magic as the previous champion of the Triwizard Cup, so it was easy for them to enter and exit the Ministry of Magic. They could only wait for news about Harry here.

Fortunately, everything seemed to be going well.

After sending Harry back to the Leaky Cauldron and handing him over to his other two best friends, Lu Yunkai left the bar on the pretext that he had something important to do.

When he returned home, he went straight to the living room, where a strange figure was already sitting waiting for him.

With a playful smile on his face, he looked at Lu Yunkai.

A person he had met at Harry's "trial" today.

"... Why did you become like this? Polyjuice Potion?" Lu Yunkai frowned.

"What else? I can't transform at any time now." The man's voice was also unfamiliar to Lu Yunkai, but he spoke like an old friend, "The potion hasn't arrived yet, so it's still like this."

"Did you arrange those two Dementors?" Lu Yunkai asked with a frown.

"No. If I had the ability to command the Dementors, I wouldn't have to wait for your cat to help me arrange for someone to escape from Azkaban." The man shook his head, then glanced at Chris who was already in the living room.

"Meow, I think it might be arranged by the Ministry of Magic." Chris continued, "Aren't they going to arrange for someone to enter Hogwarts this year? Maybe they want to increase the necessity."

"Yeah. If there are difficulties, we have to go. If there are no difficulties, we have to create difficulties." Lu Yunkai nodded. This approach is very Ministry of Magic.

"But your friend who survived the disaster seems to be really lucky. This time he found a witch to prove that there are indeed Dementors there." The man continued, "He escaped."

"Why, you still want to send him to Azkaban, and then let the Death Eaters inside take him directly to Riddle?" Lu Yunkai rolled his eyes at the man, "Dumbledore won't allow it."

"Speaking of Dumbledore, there is something he already knows, but you don't seem to know yet."

"What?"

"There are some strange connections between your friend who survived the disaster and Tom." The man continued, "Not long ago, Tom discovered that it seems that someone can spy on his thoughts, and even seems to see what he sees..."

"Harry? Does he have this ability?" Lu Yunkai frowned.

"Didn't you notice that Dumbledore didn't look Harry in the eye from beginning to end today?" The man laughed, "He should have known it, so he tried to avoid letting Tom feel this connection, but it's too late."

"..."

"Tom hasn't figured out how to use this to control your friend yet, but believe me, he should find a way soon." The man put away his smile and became serious, "You'd better be careful not to show too much negative emotions towards Tom in front of your friends, otherwise you will be exposed and I can't protect you."

"I understand." Lu Yunkai nodded seriously.

"Okay, I'll leave first. I still have to tell Tom about today's interrogation!" The man stood up.

"Okay." Lu Yunkai nodded, "But... how did you tell him about me? He hasn't contacted me recently?"

"He didn't say anything, just said that the blood curse on me suddenly became ineffective. After he confirmed my identity, he arranged for me to help him." The man smiled, "He trusts me very much."

"... What about me? He didn't mention it?"

"With me helping him, what does he want you to do?" The man shook his head, "You should stay away from him and get less dirty on your hands."

"..."

Lu Yunkai watched the man leave in silence.

The moment he walked out of the reception room, the man's figure seemed to turn into a woman's back.

"Meow, Nagini seems to be a little stubborn."

Chris jumped onto Lu Yunkai's shoulder skillfully and said with a little worry.

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai nodded.

He felt it too. Nagini now seems like a lunatic...

Or maybe she was a lunatic to begin with, but she didn't know it?

"Meow, how about this! I won't go to Hogwarts with you this year." Chris thought for a moment and said, "I'll stay here and help you keep an eye on Nagini and take care of her as well."

"That's fine." Lu Yunkai thought about it and agreed. "Hogwarts should be safe this year. After all, the Ministry of Magic is going to send people in. If the same nonsense happened in the past few years, they would be really embarrassed."

"And I have to discuss with Nagini when it is better to go to Azkaban, meow!" Chris nodded, "It's best when you are in school, so that no one can find out about you."

"Okay." Lu Yunkai nodded, "How about I prepare a batch of wands for you first?"

"Meow." Chris nodded, "But don't prepare too good quality."

"Ah? Why... Oh! You still expect those Death Eaters to die directly when they fail to use the spell!" Lu Yunkai laughed.

"Wouldn't this save a lot of trouble? Anyway, they escaped from prison, and the opponent is the Dementors. It's a good thing no matter which side dies."

"That's right." Lu Yunkai nodded, "Then I'll prepare a batch for you right away?"

"Meow, it's better if you write a letter to Voldemort to show that this plan was yours."

"Well, okay."

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