Chapter 317 315. Scolding
"Nick? What are you doing in the boys bathroom? Do ghosts go to the bathroom too?"
"What? You also know the story of me being the 17th Killing Curse by myself! Alright! Although I don't think there is anything to show off about it, since so many people want to know, it doesn't matter if I tell it again! "
"No did you hear my question, I don't want to hear it! Nick, you've been talking to everyone for almost a week! Don't say it"
"It was Jon who discovered it by accident when he blocked the first Killing Curse! He carried me on his back, and the naughty Gabriel wanted to draw a **** on my face. In order to stop her, Jon replaced me I got to his front, and because of this, in return, I saved his life"
For Hogwarts students, what is the most painful thing during this time?
That is to listen to Nick take the trouble to show off his deeds of blocking 17 killing curses.
This glorious experience even surpassed the number of times he had shown off his jazz status before, as long as he saw someone, he would like to say it ten times.
At first, the students were willing to listen, because the shock that Jon gave them that night was too great.
In front of the Dark Lord, he personally killed two of his capable subordinates, leaving him helpless. Many people wanted to know about Jon's experience in the North Pole.
But no matter how much you want to know, you can’t stand Nick, who is like an external loudspeaker, showing off to everyone.
Of course, this has no effect on Jon.
The experience in the arctic maze is not a secret, and he has nothing to mind if Nick doesn't tell it.
These days, he has been paying attention to the piece of mandrake in his mouth. Compared with the last time he was inexperienced and accidentally drank milk into his stomach, this time it is undoubtedly much smoother.
There was no problem for more than 20 days, and just as Jon was waiting for the end of this month's reincarnation, he took the leaf out of his mouth on the night of the full moon night and started the next step.
A light rain in early summer enveloped the whole of Lyon.
The clear night sky was blocked, and the moonlight was blocked behind thick dark clouds, which represented another failure for Jon.
The night when the leaf was taken out of his mouth, there must be a clear night sky, and there must also be a full moon. Only when such conditions are met, can Jon put the leaf into the crystal bottle, and then fill it with saliva. Full.
And even if he thinks of leaving Lyon for the time being and going to other areas with moonlight, the night when he takes out the leaves must be consistent with the place where he put the leaves into his mouth. The deviation should not be too large, otherwise it will cause The resulting potion failed.
With such a harsh and luck-based condition, Jon had no choice but to hold the leaf for a month was useless, so he could only get a piece of Mandrake leaf from Lily again and put it in his mouth.
During this month, many things happened in the magic world.
First of all, the Starlight newspaper under Wu Pingxian reported the existence of the portrait of Slytherin.
Even though there is now a bet of the Triwizard Tournament as the orthodox affiliation of Hogwarts, now with the support of the portrait of Salazar Slytherin himself, it can effectively fight against Voldemort's pure blood as the basis of rule superiority theory.
After all, even the ancestors who once insisted on the theory of pure blood publicly stated that pure blood should never be superior to others. This is a fatal blow to the basis of pure blood's high status in public opinion.
As soon as this news from Starlight was published, most newspapers in Europe followed suit and quoted it.
Although on the day when the Triwizard Tournament warriors were selected, many magical governments were more inclined to Voldemort, but most of the wizarding people still overwhelmingly opposed the policy currently implemented in Britain.
Needless to say, the hempseeds, it is impossible to support them. As for the mixed bloods, they are not blind. It seems that a group has become slaves, and they have also become beneficiaries, but the pure bloods have also become superior, no matter how Whitewashing, mixed race is also the object of oppression.
Unless they encounter the same situation as the British and French half-breeds, they are succumbed by Voldemort's powerful personal power, and they can only pinch their noses to recognize the status of this second-class citizen, otherwise who would want to change from equality to inequality ?
Therefore, even if most of the top leaders of the magic government lean towards Voldemort, among the wizarding people, as long as the war has not spread to their country and there is no violent oppression, no one is willing to admit that pure blood is inherently noble.
Regarding Slytherin's remarks, more exciting news is yet to come.
As the ancestor of the Slytherin family, Salazar himself admitted that Voldemort is a descendant of his own blood, but the pure-blood leader named Tom Riddle is actually a mixed blood!
This does not require other proofs, as long as the source of Voldemort's life experience is found out, it can be considered ironclad evidence.
Because there are more than the twenty-eight recognized pure-blood wizard families in Europe, but they definitely do not have the surname Riddle!
The purebloods who followed Voldemort from their school days also always believed that Riddle was not Tom's real surname, and believed that he must have a more noble and prominent family background.
Even Voldemort himself believed this until he found his Muggle father's family.
This news caused even more uproar.
Carry forward the theory of pure blood superiority, and for this reason, they have won over a large group of pure blood families. The man they respect as their master is actually a mixed blood?
If this matter is to be confirmed, it is tantamount to making Voldemort's theory self-defeating.
If purebloods are truly superior, then what are you as their leader?
For a while, Slytherin was on Dumbledore's side, and the question of why Voldemort's blood was in the whole of Europe was aroused.
And Dumbledore deliberately chose this time to detonate such public opinion, and he also deliberately found the right opportunity.
As he and Jon analyzed, Voldemort's actions from this year seem to be trying his best to maintain the normal holding of the Triwizard Tournament.
In such a situation, directly using Slytherin's portrait to copy his old background is tantamount to forcing him to make a choice.
Do you want to tear your face again, or continue to hold back this breath and wait for the start of the Triwizard Tournament.
If he chooses to endure this tone, then this public opinion is like a sharp knife piercing his waist, and his bloodline is in question. How should he maintain his ruling foundation?
Actually, regarding the issue of Voldemort's bloodline, Dumbledore has always mastered a key method.
But this kind of information was basically useless when Hogwarts was still in exile in the UK before, because at that time Voldemort was equal to a comprehensive and overwhelming victory.
The Order of the Phoenix doesn’t have any channel to speak out. Even if this matter is told, there is no evidence. Even if some of Voldemort’s own people know that their master has a problem with blood, they will only hide this idea in their stomachs.
But now the situation is completely different.
This war between Dumbledore and Voldemort had already entered a turning point on the night Wu Pingxian attacked the correctional center.
Voldemort, who used absolute force to implement a high-pressure policy, experienced a defeat, and began to show various problems in his governance.
And that night, in front of so many people in Europe, after Jon stabbed Bella's chest with the basilisk fang, it was like slapping Voldemort's face hard. .
In this case, of course, it is necessary to beat the dog in the water, to expose all the problems that Voldemort had hidden before, and to further persecute his situation.
As for Voldemort, after the issue of Slytherin and his own blood was exposed, he quickly counterattacked.
As Dumbledore guessed at the beginning, Voldemort certainly didn't want to tear his face. He defended the holding of the Triwizard Tournament like that before. With his current disposition, he would not be so violent and abandon all the previous ones. layout.
But he didn't just sit silently and wait for the pressure of public opinion.
Dumbledore has a propaganda outlet, but Voldemort, who has been operating in the UK for more than ten years, can of course use public opinion to counter it.
He adopted the simplest and most effective method, directly denying the authenticity of the portrait of Slytherin that Jon brought back from the arctic maze in the Daily Prophet, saying that it was forged by Dumbledore himself, and it was a hoax .
Regarding this point, the authenticity of Slytherin's portrait is really not that easy to prove, after all, it is not Slytherin himself or the ghost he left behind.
Of course, there is also the possibility of forgery in magical portraits. As long as the portrait in Wu Pingxian's hands is forged by the Daily Prophet, no matter what Dumbledore's people say, they will not be able to come up with better evidence. .
As for Voldemort's bloodline, it is actually very easy to find a death certificate. The Gunter family has not all died. Before Voldemort ruled England, he had an uncle who was imprisoned in Azkaban.
But after he himself took over the British Ministry of Magic, the last direct male of the Gaunt family just disappeared.
Whether Voldemort killed him like he killed his own father's family, or hid it in private, no one knows, and the orphanage where he lived has long since closed.
The people who know Voldemort's true identity, apart from Dumbledore who brought Voldemort out of the orphanage, also have the portrait of Slytherin himself.
Now that the Daily Prophet has insisted that the portrait is fake, they of course emphasized that all the news about the Slytherin portrait are lies!
The Starlight and the Daily Prophet quarreled across the air. The editors of both newspapers scrapped an unknown number of quills, and began to scold each other for their shamelessness.
One party denounced Voldemort for forgetting his ancestors, and even lied to his own ancestors. The pure blood he led was a bunch of shameless villains from top to bottom.
One party scolded Dumbledore for daring to make up anything, even the portrait of Salazar Slytherin. If the real Salazar found out about this, he would crawl out of the coffin in anger and cast a death curse shoot him.
The report in the Daily Prophet will inevitably reach the ears of the portrait of Slytherin already hanging on the wall of Dumbledore's office.
He wasn't a very good-tempered old man, otherwise he wouldn't have quarreled with his best friend Gryffindor a thousand years ago because of his blood.
After hearing that his identity was judged to be a fake, he yelled at Voldemort directly, making Phoenix, who has always been not very clean, shrink his neck a little.
The public opinion in the magic world is also completely messed up.
Now it is not a question of who has scolded whom, the Daily Prophet or the Starlight, but which side other wizards in Europe are willing to believe.
However, even though the two parties scolded so fiercely in the newspaper, in reality, the preparatory work for the Triwizard Tournament has been going on all the time.
First of all, it is about the selection of referees for the game.
In the previous Triwizard Tournament, the referees were basically the principals of the three magic schools, as well as officials from the local Ministry of Magic in charge of the event.
With the current situation, even if the competition is held in the UK, people from the British Ministry of Magic will definitely not be allowed to join the referee team in the end, which is equivalent to directly handing over the championship to Voldemort.
After repeated quarrels and mutual concessions, the members of the referee group were determined to be one person each from the two Hogwarts schools, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, plus three wizards selected by the International Federation of Wizards. A seven-person referee team.
Letting the International Federation of Wizards send someone to be the referee is also a result acceptable to both parties.
Since Dumbledore was defeated by Voldemort ten years ago, the position of President of the International Federation of Wizards has been idle.
This organization usually doesn’t have much actual power, it just provides a communication platform for various magic governments around the world.
It is also because there are all kinds of wizards within the organization's structure, so it is easy to reach a consensus. Regarding the current disputes in Europe, most people still hold the mentality of watching the excitement.
This time they chose to send three people to serve as referees, and there were also restrictions on the status of the wizards they sent.
The rule recognized by both Voldemort and Dumbledore is that the International Federation of Wizards cannot send any European wizards to serve as referees, and can only be selected from wizards from other continents.
After the referees are determined, the problems about the competition items will naturally be resolved.
Normally, there would only be three items in the Triwizard Tournament. Now that the referees include the International Federation of Wizards, there are three parties.
The content of the competition will be selected by each side, and then the people of the International Federation of Wizards will partially modify and integrate it, and finally determine the entire competition.
(end of this chapter)