A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

The departure time of the Hogwarts Express had to be delayed. Except for some parents who came to the funeral and were allowed to take their children out of the school directly, all the remaining students were driven back to the castle.

Because of the presence of the Weasleys, Sirius, Remus Lupin and others, Harry and the others were not asked to return to the Gryffindor common room, but were allowed to stay with their families and were temporarily placed at the school hall. Harry saw a lot of familiar faces, Ernie, Zacharias Smith, Seamus, Cormac McLaggen, Hannah, Susan Burns, Anthony Goldstein, Marcus Bell Bee, Draco, Pansy Parkinson, Bryce Shabini...

Many were regulars at Professor Slughorn's banquets.

These students have family members or relatives who stayed, including the Weasleys, who stayed in the auditorium talking quickly, pausing from time to time, glancing gloomily and impatiently in the direction of the staff lounge, expecting someone Come out——Akinbad temporarily borrowed the school grounds to discuss important matters with the Ministers of Magic of various countries.

"Ms. Burns sent a large number of Aurors before entering to prevent unrest..." Percy said solemnly, wearing a formal suit, and meeting Bill, Sirius, Lupin, Moody, the Longbottoms and other members of the Order of the Phoenix. Have a small meeting. When the incident happened, Percy originally planned to return to the Ministry of Magic immediately, but was asked by Mr. Weasley to stay, he argued, "The Ministry needs me now!" As a result, Penello said sarcastically: "What are you doing back here? ? Preparing for a celebration for the magic world to be exposed to the world?" So Percy stayed.

The elderly members of the Order of the Phoenix sat with the children, "Nothing to worry about!" Neville's somewhat terrifying grandmother said firmly, and Mrs. Weasley responded absentmindedly. Fleur had just sent Mrs. Maxime away, and when she returned Seeing Penello and Mrs Weasley sitting intimately together, pouting in dissatisfaction.

"Oops—I saw Madame Maxime kissing that big guy, it's unbelievable, isn't it?" Fleur shook her waterfall-like hair and forced her way between them, "Maybe it's the truth in adversity, or just pure It's a matter of etiquette..." Mrs Weasley snorted vaguely.

Ginny was pushed aside, looking very unhappy, she stood up, tossed her hair and walked over to her twin brothers, her beautiful head raised proudly, like another hibiscus.

"So you've been taught a year by a Dark Lord who has been hidden for half a century, and your school life is really colorful," Fred said.

"Don't be ignorant," George said solemnly. "Be aware that one of us killed another Dark Lord himself."

Harry said gloomily, "Thanks, George—I'll be happy to share that part of the experience, if you want to learn it." Then he gave Ron a look, who had just missed the point.

Ron looked around, seeming to be interested in what Professor Marchban on the other side of the auditorium was shouting, and the old woman shouted: "Stupid! Demented! I wonder when our government is so keen to do things with criminals. A deal? If I say, Dumbledore shouldn't have stepped down at all, and that Abbajid won't be another Fudge?"

The real Fudge stood in the corner, turning his top hat awkwardly. He also attended the funeral, but he was alone, alone, and even the Malfoys were more popular than him.

Ron looked back, pretended not to see the look Harry was looking at him, and shrugged, "She's right, there's never been a shortage of people like Fudge in the world."

"I don't think," Hermione said matter-of-factly, "that it's not fair to him to put Aginbad and Fudge together, at least with the best of intentions, to avoid war. But obviously he underestimated Grindelwald."

"That's his biggest problem, Hermione," Fred pointed out.

At this moment Harry saw a figure flash past the door of the auditorium, and he jumped up from his chair, his heart pounding, but immediately realized that he wanted to go wrong, and he fell back into his seat, seemingly losing all strength.

"What's the matter with you, Harry?" Ron asked in surprise.

"Nothing—" Harry opened his mouth. "Well, I thought I saw Dumbledore, but that was probably Aberforth."

"Oh, they do look alike," Ginny said, "but I don't think I saw him at the funeral?"

"He went to classroom number seven."

Nearly headless Nick floated around behind her, his head swaying, and Ginny and Neville, who were closest to him, froze for a moment, quietly giving him a place.

"Classroom Seven?" Ron asked with interest. "Why? Oh—" he understood. "His family is there."

"Yeah...but he was unlucky today, and was almost kicked out by the memory of several professors." Nick, who was almost headless, said.

"What's the matter?" Harry asked sensitively.

"It has something to do with a newcomer. He's about the size of Dumbledore, well, I mean Dumbledore in Room Seven," Nick said. Very diligent, I'm not the only ghost I've encountered while eating... But he usually just watched from a distance, but today when he saw the new memory, he suddenly jumped out and lost his temper..."

"So it has something to do with that new memory?" George asked thoughtfully. "Who is that person?"

"I don't know." Nick, who was almost headless, said cautiously. He shook his head, his head turned to one side, and his whole face was turned upside down. He screamed and hurriedly stretched out his hands to adjust the position. Harry looked away in a chill.

A new memory was added to classroom No. 7, and it made Aberforth so angry, who could it be?

Harry's eyes lit up, he thought, and he looked at Hermione, who seemed to guess from her shocked expression.

Most likely the memory of Grindelwald himself. Judging from the words of Nick who was almost headless, Grindelwald should have left behind memories of his youth, but when did he do it? Does Professor Haipu know? If you know why you didn't stop it, is it because of his special relationship with Dumbledore? Did they make an undisclosed deal in private? Harry thought hard.

"You can find time to ask Professor Hepp, classroom 7 is his territory, he must know the identity of the memory." Ron said to Nick, he glanced at an inconspicuous door of the auditorium, "but he should be next. Very busy, alas, I thought he could detect and stop Grindelwald in advance. But also, it is difficult for normal people to imagine Grindelwald's madness." There was a hint of fear in his eyes.

"Why do you say that?" Neville whispered. Does the professor know something?

Ron shrugged.

"He's absolutely omnipotent in my mind. You know, looking for clues through clues - like a Muggle detective, didn't expect to miss this time."

"It's completely different, Ron." Hermione shook her head and said solemnly with her fingers crossed: "Grindelwald seems to have done a lot of things - convened the core saints, negotiated with the president of the International Federation of Wizards, and made Dumbledore public. The news of the headmaster's death, the unbreakable vows, and attending today's funeral -- but those things are really optional and irrelevant."

Harry's somewhat numb mind started to work again, Hermione's words brought him a new direction of thinking, and he seemed to clear the fog in his heart at once.

"I see! Grindelwald's purpose from beginning to end is only one: to expose the entire magical world, to force the integration of the wizarding society and the Muggle society, and to fulfill his and Dumbledore's original dreams." Harry said excitedly.

"Then everything he did before was a deception? Everyone was tricked by him?" Ron looked at the two and asked hesitantly.

"It can only be guessed at the moment." Hermione said softly: "Judging from the strength that Grindelwald showed today, he can complete the plan alone - he may not be able to beat Professor Hepp, but at their level, he can be at any time. You can get out of the fight, which is why it's so difficult to capture Voldemort alive. Ordinary wizards can't get involved at all. I even think that once Grindelwald judges that the plan is not going well, he will immediately drop the minutiae and get to the point."

"Why did he make it so difficult?" said Ron irritably.

"Because Grindelwald is human too," Harry said slowly, and the memories he had seen in the Pensieve with Dumbledore backed up what he was saying now.

"He's arrogant, arrogant, wants to prove himself right, wants to announce the arrival of a new era with his own mouth, and perhaps add his desire to have Dumbledore buried in honor...from the moment he escaped from prison. He was already invincible, and all he did after that was to make the process as much as he wanted, while making sure the outcome was the same."

"Professor Happ-"

"He may have guessed part of it." Hermione thought of what Felix had said before, "but he should have guessed not much earlier than us, perhaps because of Grindelwald's speech at the funeral, or their brief time at the school gate. During the fight, what Grindelwald said was noticed by the professor, which tied it all up."

"... Come to think of it, the professor knows more about Grindelwald than we do. We can all immediately think that there is a conspiracy in the negotiation led by Grindelwald. How could the professor not think of it? The same is true, including the public disclosure of Dumbledore's death-Professor I don't believe that Grindelwald's purpose is so simple. He wants to find out Grindelwald's true intentions. The professor has always made plans and then moves. The truth is also true. Grindelwald lied to everyone. But it's too late."

"But he clearly made an unbreakable oath!" Ron shouted.

...

"But he clearly made an unbreakable oath!" Agimbad shouted in the temporary meeting in the staff lounge.

The lounge was full of people, each of whom was an undisputed big figure in the magical world, the Minister of Magic of each country, the chairman of the federation, and the principal and vice-principal of Hogwarts, who was the owner of the place.

Arginbad stared absently at his arm, the oath still in effect, showing no signs of being broken.

"Mr. Arginbad, I also heard about Grindelwald's oath, but I don't know what your oath is?" Professor McGonagall asked seriously.

Agimbad licked his dry lips.

"I can guarantee that the alliance process is completely public, and there are more than a dozen Ministers of Magic at the scene... The oath is two-way: Grindelwald promises not to kill people indiscriminately, unless someone attacks him first, of course, the discussion does not count; he will not Proactively provoking a wizarding war; not conspiring to subvert the existing wizarding regime; and what I want to do is, on the premise that he does not violate his oath, to give up the responsibility of holding the saint, allow him to act publicly, and at the same time not issue orders against him. "

The people in the lounge frowned. At this time, Felix said: "He really did not start the 'Wizard War'." He emphasized the last few words. No one present was an idiot. They figured out the key in an instant.

"You fool!" cried Professor McGonagall fiercely. "Did you not even study his political propositions carefully before negotiating?"

Arginbad's swarthy face turned purple, and he defended himself: "We didn't expect—he never did this before, he was always seeking his place in the wizarding world—"

"In fact, something similar happened." An elderly Minister of Magic said slowly: "Before being imprisoned in Nurmengard Castle, Grindelwald reached the peak of his power twice, and he had done it well. Preparations to declare war on Muggles were thwarted by Dumbledore."

Arginbad's face turned pale.

"Even if you include Muggles, he is not a broken oath. After all, he only disclosed the existence of magic to the world, and did not take the initiative to provoke war... He is really tight." Professor McGonagall said sharply, the people present Are a little uncomfortable.

"Mr. Hepp," Arginbad said hurriedly, with a hint of eagerness in his tone, "I admit that we have made a huge mistake in our work, and we can't go on wrong. Only you have the ability to catch Grindelwald, I beg you. Stand up and I will let the newly formed Auror team cooperate with you."

Felix glanced at him.

"Some things can only be said here, Mr. Arginbad--one of your oaths was not to issue orders against him. Unless you're going to break the oath first with Grindelwald."

Arginbad was speechless and seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to speak. After a long while, he opened his mouth again, and his face was completely bloodless at this time, "I, I will resign voluntarily, so it doesn't count—"

"You'd better not go anywhere," Felix said. "The oath is somewhat of a use - as we deal with the great crisis at hand, we can ignore the influence of Grindelwald, who is also affected by the 'Unbreakable' The oath' limit, as long as we don't go to his trouble, he can't meddle in the next thing."

"You, you mean—" Arginbad's eyes widened, "he made a huge wave, but stood by?"

"I think it's more accurate to say nothing," Ms Burns said. "He's not going to be our enemy, but he's the source of all the turmoil, don't forget, the problem now is that the wizarding world is exposed to In front of the world, we must come up with a solution as soon as possible!"

The old wizard who spoke before shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not one or two people, nor one or two cities involved. There is no way to hide it. Alas, the secrecy law... the secrecy law is completely over."

"What is Grindelwald waiting for?" Agimbad murmured, then his pupils dilated with fear, "Needless to say...it's natural to wait for the situation to fall into chaos, chaos is what Grindelwald wants to see. , maybe he doesn't have to do anything, and the angry wizarding populace caught up in the war will naturally gravitate towards his proposition. Then he will come forward - because I allow him to act publicly - and declare war on Muggles as savior. "

After a disturbing silence. "He even counted this?" someone shouted in disbelief.

"Think positive," Felix said meaningfully. "If you deal with it properly, Grindelwald can only stare, or even have a chance to show up for the whole process... Who knows!" He leaned back in his chair and stared at The ceiling fell into contemplation, could this be Grindelwald's real thoughts?

‘How can a good guy be more deterrent than a downright bad guy? ’

If the Muggle government and the people realize that once the two end up in war, they will personally help a Muggle-hostile dark wizard free from the constraints of his oath, a dark wizard who, decades ago, was not afraid to use powerful Will they be more cautious and more sincere if their magic destroys a city?

Felix's thoughts are flying, and he is not in a hurry to make a decision. It is best to talk to some of the core saints... Grindelwald gave him a way to summon the saints, but it may not be useful. Maybe there are people waiting in Hogsmeade now. follow him.

...

There was hardly any substantive progress at the meeting, and all they got were some very conservative opinions, such as careful collection of external information, all wizards hiding on the spot, but what to do next, these Ministers of Magic could not reach an agreement at all, their thinking was completely Trapped by the Statute of Secrecy.

Two hours later, the Ministers of Magic of various countries left in a hurry. Now I don't know what the chaos is like outside, there are too many things waiting for them to go back to deal with. After the men were gone, Ms. Burns stayed.

"We have to figure out our own way," she said solemnly, rubbing her forehead with one hand in pain. "Everyone has their own position, and now that Arginbad's reputation has plummeted, there is simply no way to convince everyone. Still bullshitting."

"We have to do something about this, and as soon as possible, without waiting for the outcome. Felix, I want to know what you think."

Felix spread his hands.

"Grindelwald caught everyone off guard. I don't have a complete plan yet, but there are a few things that need to be prioritized."

Ms. Burns and Professor McGonagall looked at him.

"First, the students in the school—"

"Cancel the Hogwarts Express this year," Professor McGonagall said decisively. "Wizard children will be picked up by their parents, or left through the school fireplace; little wizards from non-wizard families, I will let the professor take them directly. send home."

"The Ministry of Magic will cooperate fully," Ms. Burns said, nodding.

"Second, the security around the school has to be re-enforced; it's not certain if the next school year will start as scheduled, but try to be prepared. And -- there's a huge shelter here."

The two have no opinion on this.

"Third, Amelia, I suggest that you start negotiations with the Muggle government as soon as possible, starting with the Prime Minister. Haven't you been in one-line contact all the time? He must be made aware that this is not something we do unilaterally, and once a crisis occurs , no one can escape."

"I'll make arrangements as soon as possible," Ms. Burns said. "Actually, I met the Muggle Prime Minister twice, and he looked—" She shook her head.

"Fourth, stabilize the mood of all wizards, newspaper interviews, magic radio... let your voice get out as much as possible. The last booklet on guard against Voldemort can also be modified and used;"

"Fifth, public opinion and intelligence—"

"Public opinion?" Professor McGonagall and Ms. Burns asked in unison.

"The government of the non-magical world has a close relationship with their people, and they influence and restrict each other." Felix said: "The proper guidance of public opinion can make it easier for ordinary people to accept the existence of wizards. In turn, once they are instigated by people with intentions, their attitudes will change. It may go to the extreme. Of course, we are mainly collecting information now, but how to collect information is also the key. For example, the attitude of ordinary people to wizards, their reasons for accepting wizards, and their reasons for opposing wizards; and then there is an important influence on this matter. Powerful people, politicians, celebrities, opinion leaders, especially those who jumped out at the first time..."

"Sixth, the safety and confidentiality of young wizards from Muggle families after returning home..."

"Seventh, it is strictly forbidden for any group or individual to contact the Muggle government in private. In this regard, I am particularly worried about the attitude of the goblin... The plan of the Pan-Magic Alliance must begin;"

"Eighth, um, I have a suggestion. Send some trusted Aurors to secretly help Muggles affected by Saints. Don't show your face, don't make it too obvious, it may be used in the future..."

...

Just as they planned, the outside world was already in chaos.