Chapter 209 Undercurrent

The first D.A. gathering went smoothly.

A group of students from the older colleges and even from different grades gathered together to discuss the name, symbol, and even codewords of their study group for a long time. Until the end of the meeting, they did not seriously mention the practice of spells.

Although Lu Yunkai could understand this, he was also a little speechless.

Are you going to establish an organization against Umbridge, or do you want to learn something? It is really hard to tell which is more important...

So, before the meeting ended, Lu Yunkai clearly told Harry and Hermione again that he would not come again.

"Although it seems that everyone does not dislike me because I am the only Slytherin, I still feel weird."

The same words were said by Lu Yunkai to Harry and Hermione before. At that time, they both felt that perhaps no one would use the college as a criterion for judgment.

But after this gathering, even Harry had to admit that most of the people from the three colleges present were still sitting clearly separated.

Lu Yunkai stayed there alone all night, and Harry and Hermione were too embarrassed to lie and say that this study group did not exclude Slytherins.

…

After Lu Yunkai finally dealt with Harry's "kindness", he returned to the life of a good student at almost the speed of light.

Very good.

Even better than when he first arrived at Hogwarts and was unfamiliar with the place.

He listened carefully and took notes in class, did homework after class, and reviewed when necessary. He didn't even touch the potions in the potion fragment that Daphne gave him, let alone read any books in the restricted area or configure monsters to teach him potions.

Every day, he went from classroom to dormitory to restaurant, and never had any trouble.

So much so that Astoria, who had never seen Lu Yunkai so honest, began to suspect that Lu Yunkai was scared silly by Umbridge.

Of course, some people think that Lu Yunkai probably wanted to set an example because he was assigned a prefect...

Those who think so include Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and a series of Lu Yunkai's teachers.

Even Umbridge couldn't find any problems with Lu Yunkai recently. He read books in class and took notes carefully. There were no big problems with the papers she left...

She publicly praised Lu Yunkai twice in class.

And the former Slytherin Deputy Minister of Magic seemed to have finally realized her own background after gaining a foothold in Hogwarts. She began to be less indiscriminate in her criticism of everyone she met, and began to selectively use double standards.

For example, when Goyle slept in class, she didn't care, but when Ron dozed off in class, he was given detention and deducted points from Gryffindor after class.

So, in public, students from the other three colleges began to say that Hogwarts had another female Snape...

And this change of Umbridge seemed to have successfully changed some people's views of her.

For example, Malfoy, who had a lot of opinions about Lu Yunkai when she came, seemed to be less disgusted with her after receiving several compliments from her in court, and even joined a law enforcement team she had set up to maintain school rules.

He even tried to persuade Lu Yunkai to join...

Of course, Lu Yunkai refused.

He was not as straightforward as Malfoy. He knew very well why Umbridge changed so much.

She was forced.

This has to start with Umbridge's previous investigation of the forget-me-not.

That matter came to an end as early as late September.

It was left unresolved.

The brooch that Lucius gave to Lu Yunkai as a Christmas gift last year played a huge role in this matter.

According to Snape's words to Lu Yunkai (he said this with a tone full of gloating), the current president of the Magical Apothecary Association, a famous German pharmacist, wrote a letter to the Ministry of Magic, expressing his concern about the investigation of the association members planting and using forget-me-nots to make potions...

Originally, the Ministry of Magic's ban on forget-me-nots was only effective in Britain, and this matter was basically a joke in Europe across the Channel. For the Magical Apothecary Association, whose members include the entire European range, this behavior is simply "extremely stupid and irresponsible" (the original words in the letter).

The British Ministry of Magic has always laughed at such doubts from the European continent before, and then continued to do its own thing, but now it can't.

Fudge really doesn't have this confidence.

He knows very well that his current popularity in the Ministry of Magic is due to international cooperation. It is not worth offending the most influential non-official organization for a pot of grass.

Therefore, Umbridge received a personal notice from Fudge, asking her not to touch the forget-me-not matter again.

In order to deal with the "international pressure" brought by Lu Yunkai, Fudge, who was a little angry, put aside his previous concealment and went straight to the main culprit (at least Lu Yunkai thought so).

On the first Monday of October, the Ministry of Magic sent people to the Communication Mirror Shop to investigate whether it involved prohibited magic.

The shop was closed and business was suspended.

This set of things was not unfamiliar to Mrs. Zabini. She encountered it when she was selling magic potion lucky bags, so she sent a message on the Communication Mirror to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's investigation and suspend service without panic.

Then, she opened up to the investigation.

The Ministry of Magic couldn't do anything to Mrs. Zabini last time about the magic potion bag, so there's nothing to worry about this time.

She didn't even have to go out and actively look for someone.

Everyone who uses magic mirrors knows whether there is black magic in magic mirrors.

After all, there is no wizard who does not first study what is going on when he gets the mirror, and the magic that Lu Yunkai used on the communication mirror is not so profound that it cannot be broken.

It speaks volumes that wizards still dare to use it.

This investigation arranged by Fudge had no real intention of assigning a black magic hat to the communication mirror.

He just thought that by scaring him and suspending the service for a period of time, the wizards would feel that this thing was not as useful as they thought. As long as it lasted for a month or two, the wizards would go back to using owls to communicate. .

But he was wrong.

Oh, not entirely wrong. The very next day, the Owl mail line, which had obviously become deserted in the past six months, suddenly became busy. Most of these owls fly to the Ministry of Magic...

complaint.

"The thing I use myself, I don't know that it doesn't have dark magic? Can your Ministry of Magic still do something serious? Don't disturb our daily life!!"

Fudge's office was filling up with letters like this.

Then he realized that it seemed that it only took a month or two for the wizards to get used to using the mirror worth five hundred gold Galleons to communicate, and it had reached the point where they were not used to it anymore... …

It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury!

Moreover, the communication mirror has become the communication method of choice for many wizards in just six months, not only because of its convenience and speed, but also because it has better confidentiality, unlike owl communication and in-person Apparition, which are easily controlled by the Ministry of Magic.

As we all know, the average wizard doesn't actually have many secrets worth protecting. People who need this feature...are not easy to mess with.

Many of them are people who work in the Ministry of Magic and even hold high positions. There are even one or two among these people who are very interested in the position of Minister of Magic...

So Fudge soon realized that not only could the Ministry of Magic's investigation not progress at all, but even delaying it would cause trouble for himself.

As a result, within three days, the investigation team came to the conclusion that "there is no problem with the communication mirror." The conclusion report even stated that "the communication content is confidential and cannot be cracked, and there is no possibility of black magic intrusion."

According to what Mrs. Zabini told Lu Yunkai, she spent 20,000 gold galleons to have these words appear in the report.

After that, she spent an additional three thousand to buy an advertising space in the Daily Prophet and publish the full text of the investigative report.

This advertisement is very worthwhile.

On the first day that communication mirrors started to be sold again, Mrs. Zabini excitedly told Lu Yunkai that they had received the first promotion order for communication mirrors...

The famous Nimbus Company has released an advertisement for the latest model of the Nimbus series of brooms to be launched next year through the communication mirror.

In that commercial, Klum was riding the latest model of the Nimbus Broom chasing the Golden Snitch, as fast as a bolt of lightning.

The slogan "Fast and safe, just like a communication mirror" is the best explanation for the current image of communication mirrors in the minds of wizards.

Two consecutive major setbacks caused Fudge to put back his previous arrogance, not to mention Umbridge, who was arrogant and domineering in Hogwarts.

Or at least, she no longer felt like she could do whatever she wanted on her own.

That's why she changed her strategy, uniting some and controlling the majority.

In Lu Yunkai's eyes, this almost clearly told him that Umbridge and the Minister behind her had no intention of giving up control of Hogwarts.

And Lu Yunkai, who was not completely sure whether he had been removed from their "target list" or just wanted to "settle the scores", could not take the initiative to cooperate with Umbridge.

Moreover, in terms of personal likes and dislikes, he was really annoyed by that guy who was still covered in pink even though he was old, who tried to pretend to be a girl but had no tenderness and kindness of a girl at all.

Even after experiencing the forget grass and the communication mirror, Lu Yunkai felt that Lockhart, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor he hated most before, was really handsome now that he thought about it.

But seeing the people around them, from the Malfoy trio to Pansy Millison, they all began to feel that Umbridge might not be so annoying, and even began to think that she might not be so bad... Lu Yunkai really had a taste for it. The disgusting feeling of flies.

Fortunately, Blaise, who also heard about the incident at the Communication Mirror Store from his mother, was not there, otherwise Lu Yunkai would be even more sad.

And seeing Malfoy getting Umbridge's support and starting to show off his power in school every day, Lu Yunkai also understood that he had no way to tell Malfoy that this was just a temporary sign of weakness from Umbridge.

I can only endure it.

Then wait.

Waiting for Chris to make formal arrangements for Azkaban.

only……

That broken cat must have forgotten it, right?

Why is it that it’s been two months and there’s still no movement! ?