Chapter 1311 Promotion and New Department

Although it was getting late, Mrs. Weasley was not alone. Reading at midnight

Behind her, a young witch was sitting at a table, holding a large teacup in both hands.

Her heart-shaped face is somewhat pale, and her hair is ash-brown.

"Hello, Professor." Tonks said hastily, "and you three little ones."

"Hello, Tonks." The three greeted her.

Truth be told, Tonks looked pretty bad.

She looked haggard, even a little sick, and there was some reluctance in her smile.

Also, her hair is no longer its usual bubblegum pink, which definitely takes a toll on her look.

Anyone can see that Tonks must have encountered something unsatisfactory recently.

"How about it, did you have a good summer vacation? Aiwen, I saw it in the newspaper. The noise you made in Egypt didn't mean you defeated an ancient demon..."

"It's not defeating, it's just using some small tricks. I'll tell you later, what happened to you recently?"

"I'm fine, but I'm tired, so what, I have to go." She said hastily, as if unwilling to expand on this topic, she got up and wrapped her shoulders with the cloak, "Thank you for the tea, thank you for your comfort , Molly."

"Are you really okay?" Hermione asked worriedly, "You're in a bad state right now."

"No, you guys are busy..."

"Please don't leave because of me." Dumbledore said humbly and politely, "I can't stay long, I have important things to attend to."

"No, no, I do have to go." Tonks said, avoiding everyone's eyes. "Good night, everyone."

"Honey, come to dinner on the weekend, Remus and Mad-Eye are coming..."

"No, Molly, really not, thank you very much, and good night to you all."

Tonks hurried past several people into the courtyard, descended a few steps, turned around on the spot, and disappeared in a flash.

"Okay, I have to go too. I'll see you at Hogwarts on September 1." Dumbledore said, "You three, take good care of yourselves. Molly, just ask if you have anything to do."

He bowed to Mrs. Weasley, followed behind Tonks, and disappeared in the same place.

There was no one in the yard, and Mrs. Weasley sighed and closed the door. He led Ivan, Harry, and Hermione to the light of the lamp on the table, hugged the three of them one by one, and carefully looked at everyone's appearance .

"I sent Ron and Ginny up to bed, they've been waiting here," she said, looking them up and down, "Hermione, you don't look much different, but you're a big girl now, and you're much older than you were before." Much prettier. On the contrary, Ivan and Harry, like Ron, you two seem to have been under a stretching spell. I dare say that since I bought Ron a school robe last time, he has grown four full years. inches. By the way, are you hungry?"

"Yeah, hungry," said Harry, who hadn't had anything for dinner

Ivan and Hermione also nodded. After tossing for so long, they were also a little hungry.

"Sit down, dear, and I'll get you something to eat," said Mrs. Weasley.

As soon as they sat down, Crookshanks jumped into Hermione's lap and purred on top of his lap.

"Here you are, Crookshanks." Hermione scratched the base of Crookshanks' ear.

"A few hours ago, it appeared with your salute, and Hedwig, Ron has brought it back to the house and put it with the pig." Mrs. Weasley tapped a large iron with her wand as she spoke. pot.

The iron pot jumped onto the stove with a bang, and immediately began to roll and bubble.

"Ron originally wanted to wait a while, but it was too late, I thought you wouldn't come, so I drove him to bed." She said, "By the way, Ivan, what Nymphadora just said is true Wrong, the newspapers are full of news about you recently, they said that you did those dangerous things in Egypt, all kinds of news are outrageous, you didn’t fight a demon, did you?”

"No." Ivan said immediately, not wanting Mrs. Weasley to worry, "I didn't fight it, but found a mechanism to control it."

"I guess that's it, the newspaper is depraved and full of lies now, but they used to be like that." Mrs. Weasley said, "They don't think about it, how can you fight a demon, it's too dangerous Of course, you shouldn't go to Egypt, the current world..."

She went on to talk about the chaos caused by Voldemort's return and the frequent attacks around the world.

A few minutes later, she tapped the iron pan again.

The iron pot rose into the air, flew toward them, then lurched sideways.

Mrs. Weasley hastily tucked a bowl underneath just enough to catch the thick, steaming onion soup it poured out.

Then, the iron pan moved to the left and repeated the pouring action, and Mrs. Weasley placed two bowls there one by one.

"Would you like some bread, dear?" asked Mrs. Weasley.

"Thank you, Mrs Weasley."

She flicked her wand over the back of her shoulder, and a piece of bread and a knife flew gracefully onto the table.

The bread sliced ​​itself, the soup pot flew back and landed on the stove, and Mrs. Weasley took a seat opposite Harry.

"So you persuaded Horace Slughorn to take the job?"

"Well, we convinced him, mainly Ivan and Harry." Hermione said.

Ivan and Harry also nodded, their mouths were full of hot soup and they were speechless.

"He used to teach Arthur and me," said Mrs. Weasley. "He was at Hogwarts many years ago, and I think he came in about the same time as Dumbledore. Well, you like him. ?"

"I don't really like it, but I don't hate it either," said Hermione hesitantly.

"He looks like a very interesting person." Ivan said, swallowing what was in his mouth.

With his mouth full of bread again, Harry shrugged his shoulders and shook his head noncommittally.

"Yeah, I see what you mean." Mrs. Weasley nodded understandingly. "Yes, he could make himself attractive if he wanted to, but Arthur never liked him very much. He had many of his past favorites, and he was always willing to teach them a lesson, but never spent much time with Arthur, whom he seemed to think had little ambition. Hey, it goes to show that even Slugher En will also be mistaken. Has Ron already written to tell you, this is a recent thing, Arthur has been promoted!"

Apparently, Mrs. Weasley had been impatient to speak about it, and was looking forward to everyone's reaction.

Ivan and Hermione looked at each other awkwardly. They hadn't received a letter from Ron at all this summer.

So, knowing nothing, Ron didn't even tell them this kind of thing.

Harry, on the other hand, quickly swallowed a mouthful of scalding hot soup, feeling his throat was blistered.

"Excellent!" he gasped. "He put it simply in his letter to me last time."

"You're so cute." Mrs. Weasley said with a smile, she probably thought that Harry's tears were because he was excited after hearing the good news, and didn't notice the embarrassment of Ivan and Hermione, "Yeah, in order to understand the current situation In response, Rufus Scrimgeour set up several new departments, and Arthur is now in charge of the 'Office of Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Equipment'. This job is very important, and now there are ten people under him!" rw