Chapter 155 Worst Case Scenario (2 in 1)

"From the current situation, it seems that the overall situation of the French magical community is still smooth, and the benefit-acquiring faction led by Minister Amalric actually has a very clear idea of what they want, ruling the entire French magical community on a hierarchical basis according to bloodlines like in Britain will not bring them more benefits, they just want to use the current situation to pull in the support of those long-standing pureblood families, that is, they are using political tilt to cheat them out of money."

"And even those ancient pureblood families who truly support the pureblood supremacy theory know very well that without sufficient strength to back them up, there is no way they can implement the same political policies in France as in Britain. Nor had they ever considered the idea of finding themselves a lord and choosing to obey Voldemort by surrendering the supreme authorities of the French Ministry of Magic to them."

"They are very greedy for the benefits that British pureblood wizards are now enjoying, but they can only be greedy. Amalric, the benefit-acquiring faction, is actually an attempt on their part to use them as a way to judge how much resistance there will be when promoting pureblood supremacy within the magical community."

"And the real threat to the current situation is actually the bulk of half-blood wizards, that is, the people who will be classified as part of purebloods and enjoy the benefits of purebloods according to the new pureblood policy of the British Ministry of Magic."

"They are not as good as the traditional pureblood families who hold more power, so they are hoping that the French magical world can become like Britain, where the social class is reorganized, and the cake of authority is redivided so that they can get a bigger piece than the original one, and it is not impossible for them to even submit to the dark lord for this purpose."

"This kind of half-blood wizards amount to the most part of the employees in the French Ministry of Magic, but they generally don't have access to the real core authority, so they can't make much impact on the current situation for the time being."

Bill took the information in his hand and very seriously analysed the situation to Sirius, but Sirius ate his steak without any flavour and did not seem to be in the mood to listen.

"How is it going with our contact with that woman named Roland?"

"That wizard chancellor doesn't seem to want to have much cooperation with us, she doesn't seem to want to be noticed by the Dark Lord for having too much contact with us. She is preparing to organize a temporary council meeting, and is going to use this meeting to oust that minister who only wants to make money, and then continues to do confrontation with the pureblood faction within the Ministry."

Sirius snorted coldly.

"Does she believe that as long as she doesn't get too involved with us, the dark lord won't pay attention to their side? Stupid woman."

In the face of his superior, Bill expressed some helplessness.

In fact, the investigation work in France was mainly carried out by Arthur, Molly, Charlie and him, which is equal to the entire Weasley family taking charge of this matter.

But because of the betrayal of Percy on the wagon, even if no one in the Order of the Phoenix would suspect the Weasley couple's loyalty, they took the initiative to avoid suspicion, and temporarily put down the responsibility at hand.

So the task in France was handed over to Sirius, who came over from Britain, and Bill and Charlie remained under him to continue to investigate and summarize the intelligence.

Sirius is definitely well-qualified when it comes to being a fighter, but when it comes to being a leader, he is not that competent.

But the Order of the Phoenix's intelligence-gathering work in France can't be left behind, and what Bill reported just now is the result of their work in the past few months.

"So what are we going to do here next." Sirius finished the last piece of steak, then looked at Bill dry-eyed, "Just wait and spend time with that woman like this?"

Bill explained to him.

"In accordance with the task given to us by Dumbledore, we need to stay here at the very least until the end of the council meeting after Halloween to see if Roland wins or Minister Amalric remains in position at the end, which concerns the political direction of the French Ministry of Magic afterwards."

"That means we'll be here for close to a month!"

Sirius grumbled grumpily, but after that, he didn't say anything more, when dealing with such serious matters, even if he had inner resistance, at least he wouldn't give others trouble.

Dinner time briefing was over, then Sirius and Bill said good night, and were ready to go back to the room to rest when Bill suddenly took out another letter from his coat pocket and handed it to him.

"When I arrived, an owl delivered a letter from Hogwarts, and the envelope indicated that it was addressed to you."

Sirius took the letter from his hand in confusion and then opened the envelope in front of Bill.

The letter was short, so short that he just swept a glance to read the entire content of it.

And the next second after reading the letter, his whole person froze in place like a clay sculpture.

After the letter was delivered, Bill, who was also ready to go back to his room to rest, looked at Sirius' reaction and stopped in his tracks, and asked in confusion.

"Did something happen?"

Sirius didn't reply, but his hand gripping the parchment was getting harder and harder, even his knuckles became white, and his fingers couldn't stop trembling.

He clenched his teeth tightly, and his gaze was filled with uncontrollable hatred and fury.

"-He's at Hogwarts."

Bill thought something big had happened on the wagon, and he somewhat nervously went back to Sirius' side.

"Who's at Hogwarts?"

"A lowly! Disgraceful! Filthy rat!!!"

He snarled, pocketing the letter in his hand, and proceeded to stare hard at Bill out of the corner of his bloodshot eyes.

"Help me prepare the floo network back to Britain! Now!"

Bill furrowed his brow.

"What about the work on our end? Who am I going to give all that information Charlie and I put together? It's already pretty tight with three people."

Sirius said aloud as he walked anxiously around the drawing room.

"I'll ask Dumbledore to send someone over here when I get back, but I have to go!"

Bill stared at Sirius in silence for a few seconds, finally averted his gaze, and sighed in compromise.

"Okay, I'll go get it ready."

The fact that Sirius had returned to Britain was not known to Dumbledore until eleven o'clock at night.

Although Bill informed him first when preparing to build a floo network back to Britain, by the time Dumbledore received this message, Sirius had already appeared in Britain and applied to board the wagon.

For this matter, Dumbledore was not much surprised.

He knew very well that perhaps Lily might not tell the matter, but with the deep relationship between Lupin and Sirius, he probably will write to tell him, and once Sirius knew the matter, it would be impossible for him to stay in France.

Near midnight, when the students were asleep, the wagon stopped in a city alley, and then Hagrid, who is sitting in the driver's seat, waved to a black dog on the side of the road, which jumped on the wagon and came to Hagrid's side.

Then the wagon resumed its journey again, and Sirius changed back to his own human form.

"Hey, we haven't seen each other in years, Sirius." Hagrid greeted him happily.

But Sirius's expression was not really good, and he responded with a somewhat hoarse voice.

"Good evening, Hagrid, I remember the last time we met was five years ago before I went to Azkaban."

"So what's the reason for your visit to Hogwarts this time? Visiting an old friend?" Hagrid was obviously unaware of what was currently going on with Sirius.

Sirius took the cup of tea he handed over, gloom lingered on his face as he finished his tea in one gulp and proceeded to walk towards the wagon.

"That's right, visiting a friend indeed. An old friend!"

Looking at the back of Sirius pushing open the door into the wagon, Hagrid felt a little puzzled, but he did not probe deeper, his main responsibility is only driving the wagon, as for other things there are naturally other people will worry about them.

Sirius entered the wagon and did not go anywhere else, and directly knocked on the door of the Headmaster's room.

Dumbledore was obviously waiting for him here.

"I'm going to stay and catch him myself!" Sirius did not bother to say unnecessary nonsense, as soon as he entered the door, he stated his demand.

It was just that he did not see what he expected, such as Dumbledore discouraging him or saying something he expected, but just calmly nodded his head.

"I have arranged a room for you, you can stay here tonight, and tomorrow at breakfast time I will announce to the students that there will be a new guard on the wagon."

This made Sirius freeze, and he looked at Dumbledore and asked tentatively.

"You're not angry that I took it upon me to come back from France?"

"You're already here, it's pointless for me to have any other emotions even if I felt otherwise, and in that case, it's better to capture the one lurking in the wagon as soon as possible." Dumbledore said in a mild tone.

He really did not appear to be that much angry, instead, he arranged everything before Sirius arrived.

This instantly let Sirius breathe a sigh of relief, he respected Dumbledore, treating this old man as the closest elder, so even if he insisted on coming back, he cared a lot about Dumbledore's attitude.

"Bill said that there are only two people in France, he and Charlie are too busy, you need to send another person over."

Dumbledore shook his head.

"No need for that, I already asked them both to come back as well when you returned to Britain, there is no need for someone to stay on in France."

Sirius' expression relaxed even more.

"Indeed there is no need to waste manpower there, Bill just finished reporting the situation to me five hours ago, the situation in France is stable, and there is no need to leave people there specifically."

Dumbledore looked puzzled and nodded calmly.

"Go back and get some rest, you have to meet with the students tomorrow to let them know who you are."

"Won't that rat freak out when I just show up at the school undisguised?"

"I'll help you make up an identity and change your appearance."

Sirius felt that Dumbledore was very well-prepared, and soon he left the Headmaster's office to find the room prepared for him in advance.

And just after he left, Dumbledore silently looked at an old blank parchment on his desk.

A few moments later, he took out his wand, lightly pointing at the parchment, erasing the magic that existed on it.

Then, he called out the name of a portrait on the wall behind him.

"Dilys, please make a visit to Durmstrang."

Among a crowd of portraits, a kind-faced elderly witch opened her eyes.

"What message do you need me to bring over?"

"Tell Gellert that the plan is ahead of schedule and that he needs to be ready as soon as possible."

Dilys then disappeared in the frame, and at this time the other portraits of the Headmasters on the wall have stopped their original light snores and dozing, they all turned their attention to Dumbledore.

"Things have reached the worst point then?" An old wizard with a goatee asked with a worried look.

Dumbledore leaned back in his chair, looked at the burning candle on the desk, and crossed his arms in front of himself, with a deeper look in his eyes than ever before.

"Much worse than we thought, he gave me the strong blow in return, Phineas. And I actually didn't even notice anything until now, until he started displaying his mocking smile to me, and I realized what he was preparing to do all along, but now it's too late."

The old wizard named Phineas exclaimed bitterly.

"It's all because of my punk grandson! He is simply a disgrace to the Black family!"

"It's not his fault, even if he didn't come back, things have reached a point where there is no way to undo it." Dumbledore looked a little tired as he narrowed his eyes, "However, in the face of such a worst possible outcome, we are not without backup preparations"

On the second Wednesday of October, early in the morning students on the wagon came to the great hall to eat breakfast and found an unfamiliar face inside the school.

And during breakfast time, Dumbledore introduced the tall, handsome young male wizard to everyone.

"Nigellus Dippet, a brilliant wizard, will be in charge of security on the wagon for the rest of the term."

To put it bluntly, Dumbledore gave him the security job, in fact, it would not be impossible for him to take up the position of Professor for a class, after all, the four professors in the school are basically holding several jobs.

But Sirius is obviously not in the mood to teach here, not to mention that the semester has begun, and each professor has already started the process of assigning a clear workload, so it is not suitable to transfer part of the work to him now.

Although the students were a little curious about the new "security guard", they didn't ask any more questions.

No one has forgotten that this academic year was not peaceful at all, first Percy's betrayal, then the Dementor attack, and the man who is hiding in the wagon has yet to be caught, so there is nothing wrong with an extra protection force.

Jon was not much surprised by the appearance of the unknown male wizard, with the information about the rat, one more person on the wagon is not strange, concealing his identity is just to prevent the rat from finding out that its identity has been exposed.

Now that this big black dog is here, all the 'Avengers' are 'assembled' together in this wagon.

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