The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 451 Changes
Three days after a huge disturbance at the Ministry of Magic, He Who Must Not Be Named has returned. Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed in a brief statement on Friday evening that He Who Must Not Be Named is back in the country and is active once again.

Although the Ministry of Magic had previously vehemently denied Dumbledore's increasingly stern warnings, the fact that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named led a group of followers (known as Death Eaters) into the Ministry of Magic on Tuesday night shattered the truth that Fudge had been trying to cover up.

The Ministry of Magic is urging the public to remain vigilant. The Ministry of Magic is publishing a preliminary home and personal defence guide, which will be distributed free of charge to all wizarding households over the next month.

Professor Dumbledore, who has resumed all his duties, has not accepted any interviews due to his busy schedule. But as we all know, the boy who survived was the first to expose the truth - Ginny said to Harry who was sitting at the head of her bed. "Look, the newspapers are praising you, thinking that you have a keen sense and noble qualities to expose the conspiracy of the mysterious man."

Most of the young wizards who followed Harry to the Ministry of Magic that day were here, and Madam Pomfrey healed Ginny's wounds with a wave of her wand. So she and Harry insisted on coming here every day to visit her brothers in the past two days.

Ron, George and Fred were all left with traces of the curse. Especially George, who fought side by side with Sirius against five vicious Death Eaters. Even though Sirius tried his best to protect George, George was still seriously injured. Now he needs to drink several kinds of potions every day. Fortunately, these injuries can be treated, and his injuries have improved visibly in the past two days.

But even so, George still couldn't stand up and move around the bed like others. He could only sit diagonally against the cushion at the head of the bed. If Sirius hadn't blocked most of the curses at that time, his condition might be worse than it is now. But even so, George's current situation is not easy. In the words of Madam Pomfrey, "It's enough for him."

"Acute touch and noble qualities? They were the ones who had previously turned a deaf ear and dumb and claimed that nothing had happened and everything was safe." Harry commented unhappily on the flattery of him in the Daily Prophet. After going through so many things in the past year, he had grown a lot.

"By the way, how are things going at school lately?" George asked while lying there. As a person who loves to play the most, it is a torture for him to have to lie here quietly. So every time you come here to visit them in the past two days, he would ask what happened outside?
"Umbridge has been kicked out of school, but now it seems that the Ministry of Magic still wants to take her in. I don't know how she can return to the Ministry of Magic after doing so many evil things." Ginny said angrily.

"The Ministry of Magic will always need some people to do the dirty work, that's what my father told me before." Fred said, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"How disgusting." Ginny frowned. She really didn't like these dark things.

"Let's not talk about that." Harry changed the subject. "Now that Dumbledore is back, most of the troubles in the school have been resolved. At least I think everything is back to normal."

"That's good." Fred smiled and opened a chocolate frog from the candy on the bedside table, broke off half and handed it to Harry. "Have some chocolate. We have plenty here."

Harry took the chocolate and chewed it slowly. At this time, Ron asked, "Who is the divination teacher now? Is it still Firenze?"

"Yes, after all, this is part of Professor Dumbledore's plan to contact other intelligent creatures, and Ferran can't leave for the time being." Ginny looked a little happy. The handsome centaur professor gave people a feeling that he was more reliable than Professor Trilawney. "But if one of them is upstairs and the other is downstairs, they won't interfere with each other. The two of them should be able to teach this course together."

"If you ask me, there's not much difference between the two of them." Ron took a bite of the licorice wand and said, "Prophecy is mostly unreliable. I can finally get rid of this course after the exam this year." Harry thought of his own prophecy at this time, and interrupted Ron's complaints about the prophecy class: "But sometimes prophecy is still very important. For example, this time Voldemort regarded the prophecy as an important weapon. Fortunately, we didn't let him take the prophecy ball."

"Yes, we have once again stopped the You-Know-Who's conspiracy, but I wonder what's happening to our friends at St. Mungo's now? - Where are you going?" Ron was agreeing when he saw Harry stand up.

"Well... it suddenly occurred to me that I might need to do something." Harry stood up in a panic. "I'll come see you this afternoon."

After saying that, Harry walked out of the school hospital. Ron frowned as he watched Harry hurried away. "Ginny, what's wrong with Harry? He leaves without finishing his words these past two days."

"I'm not sure." Ginny shook her head. "But I noticed that Harry always tried to avoid St. Mungo's every time, and I was worried that -"

Harry hurriedly walked in the corridor of the school alone. He felt that he was out of tune with the happy crowd on the playground. Dumbledore had already written to inform their families about Ryan and Hermione, but he didn't make it public. Harry didn't want to tell anyone else about it. He felt that if he told anyone about it, it would end the matter completely and it would be irreversible.

So these two days Harry has been pretending in front of his friends that Ryan and Hermione were just seriously injured and staying in St. Mungo's. Although he knows in his heart that this is just an illusion, he would rather postpone this matter until the last moment.

Naturally, he was in a bad mood under such circumstances. Looking at the sunshine outside, Harry decided to go to the lake alone to bask in the sun and kill time. When he just walked down the last marble step and entered the porch, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were walking out of the door on the right leading to the Slytherin common rest room.

Malfoy glanced at Harry, surprisingly without provoking him, and even without saying a word, he hurried out the door with his two followers. Harry knew that this was because Crabbe and Goyle's father had disappeared inexplicably in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, and Malfoy's father was imprisoned in Azkaban. Now the three of them simply didn't have the energy to do anything else.

The open front door let in the sounds of shouting, laughing, and splashing water. Harry stood in the front hall, looking at the joyous atmosphere outside, a little dazed. He thought it would be great if everyone could enjoy the leisure time after the exams safely. In his memory, the days of being busy for exams and looking forward to the holidays seemed to have happened a long time ago, so long that it seemed like something that happened in another world.

"If Ryan and Hermione were still here, they would definitely run to the lake and work hard on the test questions -" Just as Harry was thinking about this, he saw two familiar figures walking into the hall from outside, arm in arm.

"You, you guys--" Harry stuttered after rubbing his eyes to make sure that what was in front of him was not an illusion.

"Long time no see, Harry." A familiar voice sounded in Harry's ears.

(End of this chapter)