Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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Ivan picked it up and handed it to Harry, leaving his and Hermione's badges behind. He saw that his own badge was a square silver badge that read: Ivan Mason, on trial, Hermione's badge The wording is to visit.

They pinned the badge to the front of their T-shirts and looked around expectantly when the woman's voice sounded again.

"Visitor of the Ministry of Magic, you need to be checked and register your wand at the security checkpoint, which is located at the end of the main hall."

As soon as she finished speaking, the ground of the phone booth trembled suddenly.

With cries of surprise, they sank slowly into the ground.

Hermione hugged Aiwen subconsciously. She was already hugged by Aiwen, and the two were stuck together, and now they are more tightly combined.

Alvin has never felt that he and Hermione are close together, it feels as if both of them have entered a tights.

He could feel her heartbeat as clearly as he had gotten into Hermione's pajamas the night before.

He watched the sidewalk rise higher and higher outside the glass window of the phone booth until it was dark above them.

In an instant, nothing could be seen, except for the monotonous, screeching sound of the phone box as it sank into the ground.

No one spoke, everyone held their breath, even Mr. Weasley was a little nervous.

After about 1 minute, but it actually felt much longer, a thin golden light hit their feet.

Then the golden light gradually widened and expanded to the body, and finally hit their faces directly.

"The Ministry of Magic wishes you a pleasant day," said the woman's voice.

The door of the phone booth slammed open, and several people stumbled out of it.

"Wow!" Several people looked around, their mouths couldn't close their mouths in surprise!

Compared with the bustling scene in the center of Muggle London just now, the scene in front of me is even more shocking.

Even though Ivan came here more than a year ago, he still couldn't help but look around curiously.

The same is true for Fred and George. They only came to the Ministry of Magic with Mr. Weasley when they were young, and they have not been here for many years. It is the first time for Harry, Ron and Hermione to come, although they have heard many descriptions , but there is no intuition to see it with one's own eyes.

At this moment, a group of people stood at the end of a long and resplendent hall.

The ground is a polished dark wooden floor, and the peacock-blue ceiling is inlaid with gleaming golden symbols, which are constantly moving and changing, like a huge high-altitude bulletin board.

Aiwen was just watching the fun before, but now he recognizes that this ceiling uses a lot of knowledge in alchemy and magic circles.

Those seemingly messy golden symbols converged into spell runes, many of them in Nico?Neither was recorded in the research notes Flamel gave him.

In the hall, the walls on all sides are inlaid with black and glossy dark wood panels, and many gilded fireplaces are embedded in the wood panels.

Every few seconds, with a soft pop, a wizard popped out of one of the fireplaces to the left.

And on the right, there are several people waiting in line at each fireplace to leave.

In the middle of the foyer is a fountain, and a group of pure gold statues are erected in a circular pool, which are larger than real people.

The tallest of them all was a dignified wizard, with his wand raised high, pointing directly at the sky.

Surrounding him are a beautiful witch, a centaur, a goblin and a house-elf.

The centaur, the goblin, and the house-elf all looked up at the two wizards with infinite admiration, and glistening streams of water shot from the tip of the wizard's wand, from the centaur's arrowhead, from the tip of the goblin's hat, from the tip of the house-elf's Squirting from both ears.

There was the sound of ding dong ding dong, splashing water, and the popping and popping sounds of apparition figures.

And the chaotic footsteps of hundreds of wizards and wizards striding toward the row of golden doors at the far end of the foyer.

Chapter 883 Retesting the Wand

When Ivan accompanied Sirius to the Ministry of Magic before, it caused a commotion.

At that time, it happened to be the end of the Sirius incident, and many wizards wanted to find Sirius' signature, or ask him about the specific events.

He was surrounded by people as soon as he appeared, and Ivan had to walk into the hall alone.

The scene was as if a certain big star came to the Ministry of Magic, and even Ivan also attracted attention.

Now, no one looked at Aiwen and the others again, thinking they were ordinary little wizards.

They may have heard of the reputations of Ivan and Harry, but they don't know what they look like, so naturally they won't come together.

In addition, another change is that when Ivan came last time, many wizards held his "Hogwarts Wizardry" in their hands, but now they are gone. They only have the "Daily Prophet" in their hands now. .

Obviously, this is because of Fudge's influence, no one dared to buy "Hogwarts Wizardry" on the face of it.

"Come on, boys, let's go this way," said Mr. Weasley.

They joined the crowd, pushing their way through the Ministry staff.

No one looked at them, and the faces of the wizards all wore the dead expression that is typical of the morning.

Some were carrying piles of crumbling parchment in their arms, some were carrying battered briefcases, some were stuffing bread or something into their mouths, and some were reading " Daily Prophet.

Immediately, Ivan still saw many people secretly reading Rita's article published in the "Hogwarts Wizarding News".

Although Rita has a bad reputation, she still has influence.

Regardless of the authenticity of what she writes, it must be able to capture the hearts and preferences of the public and attract people to read it.

From this point of view, Fudge's ban on the "Hogwarts Newspaper" was not uniformly implemented in the Ministry of Magic. Ivan and Hermione hired Rita as a special reporter, which still had an effect, and caused a lot of damage to the Ministry of Magic invisibly. big pressure.

"Is this the Magic Brothers fountain?" Hermione looked at the fountain in the hall curiously.

On the way here, she heard Ivan talk about the scene inside the Ministry of Magic, which is a very famous sight.

They stopped in front of the fountain, a pool of glistening silver Sickles and copper Knuts, next to a small, smudged sign that read: All proceeds from Magic Brothers Fountain donated to St. Mungo's Magic Injuries Hospital.

Everyone looked at the statue on the fountain, and I have to say that it is easy to find some differences when you get closer.

The face of the wizard who looks handsome from a distance, but when he gets close, he looks very weak and stupid. The witch also has an empty smile on his face, as if he is participating in a beauty contest .

As for the goblins and centaurs, any wizard with a little common sense would know that they would never be able to look up to any human being so affectionately.

Only the timid, slavish air of the house-elf was convincing, and it felt bad.

Sure enough, Hermione's eyes finally fell on the house-elf's face, and her brows were furrowed tightly.

"I don't like the statue, it doesn't correspond to the truth at all."

"Those in power only want to see what they are willing to see, and make decisions that best serve their own interests." Ivan said softly.

This aspect of the Ministry of Magic is vividly reflected in this statue, in such an unnoticed way.

They don't care about the truth and objective attempts, they only care about power and interests.

"Slaves of wizards..." Hermione murmured softly. Compared to the servility of house-elves, wizards ignore the facts. Taking elves enslaved for granted is the most difficult thing for her to accept. This kind of thing must be changed. .

Ivan did not expect that this trip to the Ministry of Magic directly made Hermione decide to work in the Ministry of Magic after graduation.

Her focus has also shifted from protecting the legal rights of house elves to changing the corrupt political ecology.

And many years later, she defeated the opponent in the election and became the first female minister of the Ministry of Magic, which also changed the development trajectory of the magic world to a large extent.

While Hermione was staring at the statue, Harry was making a wish.

If he wasn't expelled from Hogwarts, he'd put ten Galleons in, he thought desperately.

"Good morning, Arthur!" A listless voice sounded from behind, and a wizard in a peacock blue robe with a dirty shaven came over, "I saw you leading this group of children from afar. , Are they going to go through a security check?"

"If you're sorry, Eric, they're all guests," said Mr. Weasley.

Eric nodded, and then his eyes fell on Ivan.

"Ah, I remember you, kid, you came here two years ago..." Eric's eyes lit up.

The main reason why he still remembered Ivan was because when his wand was tested at that time, it was detected that his wand core was an unknown substance.

He has been in charge of security work for many years, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation, so he is naturally impressed.

Not to mention that the Ministry of Magic hadn't had any incidents in a long time, and the job of being in charge of security checks was boring.

His only pleasure was watching his guests' wands and seeing what the cores were made of.

In England, wizards used to use parts of dragons, phoenixes and unicorns to make magic.

But this is not the case for wizards in other countries, they have different customs.

He even saw a mysterious oriental wizard who used magical creatures he didn't know, and even the material of the wand was weird.

But anyway, it was the first time Eric encountered the situation where the core of the stick could not be detected.

He later asked the experts who came to overhaul the machine. There were only two situations where this happened. The first was that the machine was broken, and the second was that the substance used in the core of Aiwen's wand had not been recorded in the testing machine.

But this is simply impossible, this detection machine covers almost all known substances.

"We have replaced a new detection machine this time, and it has not been used for a long time." Eric muttered softly, and the breath in his nostrils was sprayed out several times, "Boy, let me see what is in your wand. what?"

As was customary, he held up a long golden rod, thin and resilient like a car antenna, and used it on Alvin, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George. The chest and back were swept from top to bottom.

"Wand!" he said eagerly, putting down the golden bauble and holding out his hand.

Starting from Harry, several people handed over their wands in turn.

Eric tossed Harry's wand onto what appeared to be a grotesque brass machine with a single balance.

The machine started to vibrate slightly, and a narrow strip of parchment was quickly spit out from a hole at the bottom.

He tore off the paper and read the words on it.

"Eleven inches. The core is phoenix feather. It has been used for four years, right?"

"Yeah," Harry said nervously.

"Okay, I'll keep this, you take this back." The wizard said, poking the parchment on a small brass nail, and stuffing the wand into Harry's hand, "Okay ,Next!"

Chapter 884 Still Unknown Substance

Behind Harry was Ron, who had changed his wand during the summer of Irwin's first year.During that summer vacation, their family won the "Daily Prophet" annual Golden Galleon Award. After visiting Bill in Egypt, they still had a lot of money left, so they bought a new wand for Ron.

He'd used Charlie's worn-out old wand, which had unicorn hair sticking out of the end.

According to the theory of wand science, when a wizard does not use his own wand, he cannot exert his own strength.

The wizard chooses the wand, and the wand chooses the wizard.

Ron's poor performance in casting spells before may have something to do with this.

Well, after getting a new wand, his grades are still terrible.

Snape's description of "Weasley with an empty head" was not groundless. If it weren't for Hermione's help, he might not even be able to pass the school year exam.

This worried Mrs. Weasley, not Charlie, Bill, or Percy.

However, compared with the troublesome Fred and George, Ron is quite worry-free, as long as he is controlled by the dark wizard from time to time.

After Percy ran away from home, Mrs. Weasley seemed to be less concerned about grades than before.

Of course, this does not mean that she agrees with Fred and George to open some prank joke shop...

The cores of the Weasleys' wands are all unicorns, which is unexpectedly consistent.

As pure blood wizarding families, this seems to have something to do with their blood, which has been going on for centuries.

If he wanted, Mr. Weasley could also tell a few paragraphs about what had to be said about his ancestors and the unicorns.

It's good to just listen to this kind of family history, nine out of ten are fictional, and all pure blood wizard families can tell it.

They all have systems of various magical creatures, but they don't have bloodline talent magic like Parseltongue. This shows that the Weasley family, like other pureblood wizard families, has impure bloodlines. The only difference is that they Probably never cared about this.

Hermione was the penultimate one before Aiwen to conduct the test. Her wand was made of vine wood, fourteen inches in length, and the core of the wand was the heart cord of a dragon.

This is a highly magical substance, and it was very rare before fire dragons were bred artificially.

After all, a unicorn or a phoenix can have countless hairs, which can be regrowth after being pulled out.

But there is only one fire dragon in the heart, and its value can be imagined.

The vine wood itself is also a very rare material. In the Bible, the vine is the first plant planted by Noah after the flood, so the vine wood has been endowed with many symbols since ancient times, such as representing wisdom and life. and love and such...

Another point is that Ivan's wand is also made of vine wood.

Of all the wizards he knew, only his own and Hermione's wands were vine wood.

His wand was half an inch longer than Hermione's, and the pattern on it was simpler.

After understanding and researching the wand making method, Aiwen knew that aside from other special meanings, generally only after a wand craftsman obtained a relatively precious or particularly good-looking wand core material would he consider using grape vine wood. .

"Okay, boy, it's your wand's turn, let me have a look!" Eric said impatiently.