HBWnovel Chapter 160 The New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Chapter 160 The New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Tom hurriedly flipped through the pages, but there were only a few pages in the Daily Prophet. It seems that they have been selected, and there are several pictures with different dates, but they are all reporting and tracking the reappearance of the Dark Mark - but this is not very surprising, this kind of major event that caused a sensation in the wizarding world has always been Enough to keep the Daily Prophet serialized for a month...
Tom turned the newspaper loudly, which made Wormtail very nervous. He kept stretching his head to look out of the kitchen, worried that this unnecessary movement would disturb his master.
But soon, Tom's movements slowed down, and he finally turned to a newspaper with new content.
"'New Trouble in the Ministry of Magic'..." Tom read, "'It seems that the Ministry of Magic's troubles are not over yet,' Rita Skeeter, our special correspondent, wrote. Recently, the Ministry of Magic was involved in a scandal in Quebec. The Ditch World Cup has been criticized for its failure to effectively maintain order and its failure to explain the disappearance of one of its female wizard officials. Yesterday, Arnold Weasley of the Department for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Weird behavior has put the Ministry of Magic into a new embarrassing situation' - wait, Weasley?"
Tom raised his head and glanced at Wormtail: "Is this the Weasley I thought of?"
Wormtail, who had been nervous all this time, suddenly became deaf and buried his head in washing the dishes repeatedly.
So abnormal, it seems so. This Arnold Weasley should refer to Ron's father. What did Ron's father do? Tom lowered his head again and continued reading:
"'Arnold Weasley was involved in a dispute with several Muggle law enforcement officers (police) yesterday over a batch of extremely offensive garbage cans' - garbage cans? The one that spits out garbage like crazy Kind of?" Tom couldn't help but laugh twice, "The Weasley family's magic is really passed down from one generation to the next. They either spit out slugs or spray garbage like crazy. It's very genre-specific!"
"'Mr. Weasley appears to have come to the aid of Mad-Eye Moody, a former Auror who, when Mad-Eye Moody could no longer tell the difference between a simple handshake and deliberate murder, The department was honorably retired. Sure enough, when Mr. Weasley rushed to Mr. Moody's heavily guarded residence, he found that Mr. Moody had made another false alarm and mistakenly sent a false alarm' - oh, this creative magic of spraying garbage It doesn't look like it was done by Mr. Weasley."
"'Mr. Weasley had to alter the memories of several police officers present before he could escape. But when a reporter from the Daily Prophet asked him why he wanted to involve the Ministry of Magic in this pointless and potentially very troublesome When asked about the incident, Mr. Weasley refused to answer. What worries our reporter and several parents who wish to remain anonymous is that Mr. Mad-Eye Moody, who had resigned because he could no longer shoulder his normal job, has accepted Huo Appointment letter from Gwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and will soon go to Hogwarts to serve as Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.'"
"Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts??!" Tom was shocked. He really couldn't be considered paranoid. Since he enrolled, there have been some problems with the professor of this course. In addition, he knew that the Dark Lord wanted this position. Cursed, it is really hard not to suspect that there is something wrong with Professor Moody.
What's more... Tom flipped through the stack of old newspapers with different dates in his hands again. These newspapers were obviously selected and marked - the reports he saw about the Quidditch Dark Mark incident and Wes Next to the title of Mr. Lai's report, there are strange symbols drawn in red ink - the outermost circle is an equilateral triangle with a circle inside the triangle, and a vertical line segment is drawn from the vertex of the triangle to the opposite side - overall view It looks like the eyes of a triangular alien beast, with a vertical line in the pupil.
That's the symbol of the Deathly Hallows. The line refers to the Elder Wand, the circle refers to the Resurrection Stone, and the triangle refers to the Cloak of Invisibility. After Malfoy briefly introduced him to the legend of the three Peverell brothers, he urgently added some relevant knowledge.
Such symbols with special meaning are definitely not drawn casually while reading. Someone must have specially collected relevant newspapers and marked the key contents so that they can be presented to someone for reading - someone here , it can only be the Dark Lord.
If the Dark Lord would definitely be interested in the reappearance of the Dark Mark, why would the matter between Mr. Weasley and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor arouse the Dark Lord's interest?
"Has anyone been here today?" Tom glanced at the trash can to make sure he didn't miss any old newspapers.
"No." Wormtail glanced at him with a sly smile like a mouse, "What are you trying to find out?"
"Just take care of my teacher." Tom sneered, and a few black air slowly swirled around Wormtail intentionally or unintentionally. "Who do you want to report to, my dear Scabbers?" Tom said with a smile. Smiling maliciously, she asked him in a mocking tone, "Who can you go to?"
Peter's smile faltered.
In terms of whether distance and distance were useful, he really wasn't sure how the Dark Lord would weigh the only servant and only student in front of him. He had always been a bully and well-aware of current affairs. He immediately put on a warm smile and bowed to Tom obediently: "No, there are no guests."
"Then these-" Tom raised the old newspaper in his hand.
"Master Anima brought it back." Wormtail said with a low eyebrow.
So Tom smiled politely at him again: "Thank you for informing me, Mr. Peter." He nodded to Wormtail and left the kitchen with the old newspaper.
Tom had always felt that Anima was slightly different from the baby-like Dark Lord - not in terms of gender or size, but in terms of stance. I don't know whether it was due to the influence of the Ravenclaw diadem or the possession of a crow with a simple temperament and weak desires. Compared to the Dark Lord's blazing enthusiasm for his career, Anima seemed to be much more perfunctory. She is not against the Dark Lord, and she can also complete the Dark Lord's instructions, but it feels like: she got 80 points out of a perfect score of , either she can't get a perfect score, or she thinks it's enough to reach the excellent line. Enough to cope with.
Tom's mutant magic also has a different attitude towards the two: under the Dark Lord's pressure, they have always huddled together around Tom as much as possible, with a little timid vigilance; but when they are alone with Arnie When Ma was in the same room, they were obviously much more relaxed and could stretch out freely.
Under such circumstances, Tom decided to ask her directly with the newspaper - anyway, in this house, we can't really expect to hide any news from the Dark Lords, so he might as well be more honest. After all, the Dark Lords He was often called "too Gryffindor".