Chapter 48 Dumbledore must have done it! Quirrell, go and get some brain work done
Office of the Minister for Magic.
Fudge and his staff were gathered together, each with a solemn look on their face.
On the table were several newspaper reports on the theft at Gringotts.
An aide spoke with a heavy expression.
"This theft at Gringotts has had a huge impact on us."
"Although this is Gringotts' problem, Gringotts is still part of the wizarding world after all."
"Gringotts, which has always been known to be indestructible, had dozens of goblins killed and the underground vaults were broken into and robbed completely. The vault was actually the vault of Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts."
"This has caused panic in most wizards in the magic world. Some even speculated that this year is the year Harry Potter will enter school. Maybe the You-Know-Who will make a comeback at this time..."
"They said that the looting of Dumbledore's vault was a demonstration by the You-Know-Who against the wizarding world and Dumbledore!"
Another aide also took up the topic.
"There are also some people who scoff at the return of the mysterious man, but they think of the vicious black wizard Dark Seid."
"To be honest, this is too disadvantageous for us."
"The Minister and we have only been in office for a short time, and we have seen such a cruel dark wizard and the theft at Gringotts. The wizarding world is in a state of panic, and many people are beginning to doubt that the current Ministry of Magic has lost control over the wizarding world."
"Those dark wizards are no longer afraid of the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic. The legal authority of the Ministry of Magic is gradually collapsing, and along with it, our support rate is also collapsing..."
He considered it for a moment, then spoke carefully.
"If our approval rating continues to decline at this rate, we may be driven out of office soon."
This heavy topic made everyone present feel like a huge rock was pressing on their hearts.
Everyone was talking about what was going on.
"In order to show that we have the ability to punish evil, we must quickly catch the murderer who invaded Gringotts."
"Where are the Aurors? Any clues?"
"The sooner we catch the thief, the sooner we can win back public opinion..."
But in response to their conversation, Fudge looked at them as if they were idiots.
He finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly.
"Are your heads filled with gold galleons and little witches?"
"Murderer? Thief? There is no murderer or thief. Can't you see that?!"
The staff were all stunned and looked at Fudge, not understanding what he meant.
Fudge sneered, with a look of understanding in his eyes.
"Invading Gringotts, killing dozens of goblins and severely damaging the dragon during the siege by goblins and dragons, is this something an ordinary wizard can do?"
"And then, after going through so much trouble to break in, they didn't rob the vaults of the nobles that were filled with gold coins, but went straight to Dumbledore's underground vault. Not a single hair was left."
"Don't you think this is unreasonable?"
"Everyone knows Dumbledore's name. How brave must a thief be to rob Dumbledore's vault? If it were you, would you dare to rob the vault even if the door was open?"
Everyone present was shocked and looked at Fudge with surprise in their eyes.
"That seems to be the case."
"What thief would dare to rob Dumbledore's vault?"
"Even the vicious dark wizard Dark, who was looking for smart people everywhere, didn't dare to target Dumbledore."
A look of horror appeared on the face of an aide.
"Minister, could it really be the Dark Lord..."
Before he could finish his words, Fudge could no longer tolerate his stupidity, so he took out his water cup and threw it at the office door.
"Black your mother's head!"
"I've said this much, don't you understand yet?"
"There was no thief at all. The one who broke into Gringotts and robbed Dumbledore's vault was clearly Dumbledore himself!"
When these words came out, it was like thunder, and everyone gasped.
Strong and unafraid of Dumbledore's pursuit and revenge...
It seems that Dumbledore himself best meets this condition!
No way?
"So, what's the motive?"
"Why would Dumbledore do such a thing?"
Some staff still find it hard to believe.
In response, Fudge sneered again.
"you still need to ask?"
"I think Dumbledore is still obsessed with the position of Minister of Magic."
"The crisis of the dark wizard Dark was resolved by my genius operation, which also successfully won us praise from the wizarding world. Dumbledore had no choice but to give up."
"And soon, Hogwarts will start its new term, and it will be time for the school board to reconcile the accounts."
"Dumbledore, the sinister old bee, did this to settle the account and create panic again."
"Humph, he can hide it from everyone, but he can never hide it from me, Fudge!"
The staff looked at each other, watching Fudge's expression change again.
isn't it...
Has Fudge taken any brain-boosting medicine recently?
He seems to have really become a genius?!
"But, but Minister, how can we prove this?"
"We can't prove what Dumbledore did."
An aide said.
"Why don't we have the Aurors question Dumbledore and check Dumbledore's office to see if they can find any clues?"
Before he could finish his words, the Auror present had already flushed and was cursing.
"Nima, why don't you go?!"
Check if Dumbledore rehearsed this scene?
If the problem is not detected, Dumbledore will hate him and he might die suddenly in secret one day.
If the disease is found out during the examination, it will be even more tragic. I'm afraid I will die on the spot.
Whoever wants to do this kind of work can do it!
Just when several people were about to quarrel, Fudge showed an expression of disappointment.
"You guys, ah, are stupid, really stupid."
"Why did I invite you to be my staff?"
"Isn't this a simple matter?"
Fudge told his plan.
"The things in Dumbledore's vault should have some kind of locating spell or something."
"At worst, with Dumbledore's magical attainments, he can easily find the traces."
"We will have Dumbledore cooperate with the Ministry of Magic Aurors in the investigation and cast a spell to locate the items he lost."
"If Dumbledore refuses to cooperate, or makes excuses by saying that the locating spell is ineffective and that he cannot find any clues, then everything will be clear."
Upon hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but applaud and admire.
"High, it is high!"
"We will go and ask Dumbledore to cast a spell on the spot to locate the missing items!"
……
At the same time, in the room of the Leaky Cauldron, Charles, who had already placed an order for dragon food from the Romanian dragon farm, breathed a sigh of relief.
When the ingredients for the fire dragon are delivered, he will have another large source of deduction points.
Add to that the various treasures looted from Dumbledore's vault, and the deduction points will become abundant again.
As to whether to deduce the dragon language magic - Roar of Power, or to deduce other magical knowledge, he is still undecided.
"Forget it, let's eat first..."
"There are only 80,000 deduction points left, not even 100,000. I feel very insecure."
"There are also things taken out of Dumbledore's vault. Maybe there is a locating spell, or Dumbledore may find a way to track us down. It is better to deal with it."
"It just so happens that the magic Animagus has given me another use..."
There was a strange look in Ciel's eyes as he activated the Animagus magic in the room.
In an instant, a fire dragon nearly five meters long filled the room.
Ciel changed into this form not for fighting, but for eating.
His eating efficiency in human form was too low. Even if he was fed food on an assembly line, he could only eat a few bites at a time.
But it was different when he turned into a fire dragon. In this form, when Ciel opened his mouth, he could eat a lamb in one bite! If it was the dragon heart he had obtained earlier, he wouldn't even need to use the laser spell to split it, he could just eat it in one bite!
The same can be said of the gains from Dumbledore's vault.
What would take half a day to eat in human form only takes one bite for Ciel in fire dragon form.
The next moment, his claws hooked up the package containing the collection of Dumbledore's vault.
To be on the safe side and ensure that all traces were removed, Charles swallowed it whole with the package.
After the package was put into the stomach, the deep blue mechanical prompt sound began to flash across the screen like an explosion.
The total number of deduction points of Ciel began to rise wildly from 80,000, and even the numbers became blurred. When the numbers finally became clear, the total number of deduction points remained at one number.
"Six hundred and seventy thousand?!"
Charles couldn't help but let out a scream.
A wave of nearly 600,000 deduction points?
This is even without the Philosopher's Stone!
If the Philosopher's Stone is also in the vault, I'm afraid at least one zero will have to be added after the six hundred thousand!
By that time, would Charles still be worried that he would not have enough deduction points?
Charles' eyes almost turned green.
"The Philosopher's Stone, I really want to take a bite and taste it."
In his mind, he had already started thinking about how to get the Philosopher's Stone in his first year.
"Besides the Philosopher's Stone, there are many other good things in Hogwarts."
"The Mirror of Erised, if you smash it and chew it, it should be similar to shaved ice, crunchy and icy."
"And there's the three-headed dog. It's also very powerful. Even Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort, couldn't do anything about it. He could only go to Hagrid to find out the three-headed dog's weakness."
"If I were to nibble on a three-headed dog once a day, I should be able to eat for a long time."
"And there's the Devil's Snare. Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could find a place to breed them on a large scale?"
"Of course, there's also the Tiara in the Room of Requirement. Eating it might not be worse than the Philosopher's Stone."
Thinking of this, Charles was full of anticipation for life at Hogwarts and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
……
At this moment, in a room on the first floor of the Leaky Cauldron, it was shrouded in various confusion spells and defensive spells, so strong that even Old Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, forgot that he had such a room.
Quirrell looked suspicious, as if there was some noise coming from upstairs.
It was like a low dragon roar.
"Master, did you hear any sound?"
"Do you feel that the people living upstairs are not human?"
The next moment, Voldemort shouted angrily.
"You idiot, you woke me up just to tell me some horror story, you think you're funny?"
"Not a human? Then what's living upstairs?"
Quirrell let out a scream.
"Fire dragon, I think there's a fire dragon living upstairs!"
"Master, I'm serious!"
After a moment, the pain in Quirrell's body dissipated like a tide.
He was a little bit unbelievable. Why was Voldemort's punishment so short this time?
Then, he rarely heard Voldemort's voice become a little gentler.
"Qiluo..."
"Go to St. Mungo's Hospital and buy some potions to replenish your brain and get a good night's sleep."
"After all, I, Voldemort, am not some devil. If your brain was broken, where would I live now?"
Quirrell was stunned for a moment.
"Am I losing my mind?"
"Since the master said so, it must be true. No wonder I suddenly felt like there was a fire dragon living upstairs. It turns out that my brain is going crazy!"
"No, I have to go to St. Mungo's Hospital to buy some potions..."
"Oh, if only Hogwarts were open now, I could go to Professor Snape and ask him to prescribe some medicine for my brain."
……
At this time, in the Hogwarts headmaster's office, several Aurors from the Ministry of Magic were politely asking Dumbledore to locate the missing items so that they could go and investigate.
Dumbledore readily agreed to this.
But when he waved the Elder Wand, his expression changed subtly.
Because in his perception, his positioning spell seemed to be gone?
Have all traces of the magic power of those things disappeared from this world?
How is this possible? The positioning spells on those things were all added by me personally.
As long as they still exist in this world, I can locate them even if they are placed in a box cast with the Traceless Extension Charm.
How come it’s gone now?
Dumbledore still didn't believe it and waved his wand again.
But this time the spell was still ineffective, just like the last time.
Noticing Dumbledore's expression and movements, the expressions of several Aurors changed, and they all revealed a tacit look to each other.
In their hearts, they have great respect for Fudge.
I never thought that Minister Fudge, who usually seems to be incompetent, is actually very wise.
He is actually a genius?!
At this moment, Dumbledore looked embarrassed.
"To be honest, I don't know what happened. The positioning magic seems to have failed."
Several Aurors also smiled.
"It's okay, it's okay, then we can use other methods to find it."
As they left, an Auror couldn't help but turn around and look at Dumbledore deeply.
"Principal, I think from today on, I really know you."
"Thank you for teaching me this valuable lesson."
Dumbledore looked at the Auror who was leaving, his head full of confusion.
"???"
"No, what did I do?"
After returning to the Minister of Magic's office, the Aurors could not wait to report the matter to Fudge.
For a moment, everyone in the office looked at Fudge with admiration.
"minister!"
"Great, brilliant!"
"Dumbledore's acting skills have long been exposed by the Minister."
"Haha, the positioning magic is ineffective? The positioning magic cast by Dumbledore, even for the You-Know-Who, it would not be so easy to make it ineffective, right?"
"Could it be possible that this was eaten by some monster and digested and decomposed without leaving any residue? Who are you kidding!"
The staff looked at Fudge with some fanaticism.
"Then Minister, what should we do next?"
After Fudge pondered for a moment, he remembered what happened to Charles. His eyes flashed and he revealed an expression of confidence in victory.
"Now that we know that it is Dumbledore who is dealing with us, and we also know that this old bee looks kind but is actually capable of robbing the treasury to balance the accounts and pocketing the money, it will be easy to deal with."
"If he were a saint, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it, but since he is selfish and materialistic, we might as well take advantage of his selfishness and dig a hole for him."
"Everyone knows about Charles Evans. The amount of money he claimed was really weird. I was wondering how he took advantage of the loophole in the magic agreement. Now I suddenly figured it out..."
"Dumbledore, it must be him again! With him helping, wouldn't it be easy to crack the Ministry of Magic's magical protocol?"
"Ciel is just a kid, how much can he eat? How could he spend so much money? It must be Dumbledore, the greedy old bee, who is behind this!"
Just then, an owl flew in from the window and brought a bill from Romania.
The amount of the bill was so outrageous that the staff who received it were shocked and couldn't help but exclaim.
"grass!"
"Ten fire dragons?"
"Every month?!"
"Dumbledore is crazy!"
"Minister, we cannot allow such blatant robbery!"
Fudge laughed out loud, with a look of disdain on his face.
"No, we must allow it."
“If God wants to destroy someone, he must first make him crazy.”
"Dumbledore now dares to use a magical agreement to reimburse ten dragons per month. What will he do in the future?"
"Ciel hasn't even entered Hogwarts yet, but Dumbledore dares to do this. Once Ciel enters Hogwarts and reaches his territory, Dumbledore will definitely become even crazier."
"That's when we reveal Dumbledore's true face."
"As for now... Aren't they just ten fire dragons?"
"As long as we can eliminate the threat of Dumbledore in one fell swoop, the price is worth it!"
"From now on, all reimbursement documents from Charles Evans will be allowed!"
(End of this chapter)
