Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

Then, Pansy's expression became even more confused: "...Probably not."

She said speechlessly: "No one will attack you. What you did this semester has spread widely... Everyone knows that although you are just a little wizard, your magic power is very powerful."

"Ok."

Ryan shrugged disappointedly. "So, it looks like some boring political maneuvering?"

His words were calm.

Pansy finally nodded. "That's right—someone has already started working on it, and has successfully helped the Ministry of Magic come up with a preliminary plan. They plan to send a special envoy to teach at Hogwarts next semester... The board of directors has agreed to this."

"And next semester, if anyone finds Sirius in school, or if any other accidents occur, you and Dumbledore will likely be regarded as suspects by the Ministry of Magic..."

"In fact, there have been some undercurrents in the academy recently."

She said so.

But after hearing this, Ryan interrupted her with a smile: "I know."

"Thanks for the reminder, Pansy."

He could understand what Pansy Parkinson meant and was surprised by the message.

Sirius's escape from prison obviously stimulated the pure-blood families and Fudge to take action.

This was not beyond Ryan's expectations, and Ryan believed that Dumbledore must have been prepared for it.

But what surprised Ryan was their actions - according to Pansy, the Ministry of Magic would directly send people to teach at Hogwarts... This was something Ryan had not expected.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

Ryan was certain that the course that the Ministry of Magic would teach was definitely Defense Against the Dark Arts - this was the only course not being taught next semester.

As far as Ryan knew, Dumbledore seemed to have contacted the candidates in advance.

Now that the Ministry of Magic is trying to intervene with the support of the Board of Directors, Ryan is not sure how Dumbledore will react.

He was also very curious about who the Ministry of Magic would send if Dumbledore had not refused.

"Umbridge... No, she should have been banished because of what happened before."

Ryan muttered in his heart.

As for what Pansy said, the methods used by pure-blood families.

Ryan, on the other hand, didn't care.

He also knew that the actions of the pure-blood families and Fudge were definitely an opportunity to throw dirty water on him and Dumbledore - even if nothing happened next semester, the pure-blood families would probably take the initiative to cause trouble.

But... Ryan really didn't care at all.

Because in the previous conversation, he had already sensed that Dumbledore no longer intended to tolerate Fudge.

Even Ryan suspected that the matter of Sirius might be a bait given by Dumbledore to Fudge.

The old wizard was waiting for Fudge to jump in, waiting for Fudge to make a move on him.

Then he could get the Minister of Magic to step down without disrupting the stability and rules of the wizarding world.

Coincidentally, Ryan's patience with the pure-blood families almost disappeared after the St. Mungo's incident.

He originally planned to slowly expel those so-called school directors from the school over the next few years.

But now, he thought it would be okay if the pureblood families took action against him next school year.

because...

"The sooner they start, the sooner I can solve it—that's fine."

Chapter 137: Be with the noble and be with the great!

That's right.

The sooner it shows up, the sooner it can be resolved - this is Ryan's mentality at the moment.

After all, he never considered the pure-blood families as his true rivals.

So, what really concerned him were two things.

First...

"You said that some of the pure-blood families have been very radical recently?"

Ryan asked with a smile, "Is it the Dokhorov family?"

He thought of the news Harry and Ron had told him not long ago - that MacColl Dohoroff seemed to be acting suspiciously recently and seemed to know about the existence of the Room of Requirement.

"...Um."

Pansy hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Anymore?"

"And the Lestranges, the Goyles, and the Averys..."

She named several more families.

Ryan, who now knew Voldemort very well, immediately recalled that these families were the most loyal to Voldemort in the past.

Even among the pure-blood families where everyone is crazy, they are the most abnormal ones.

"Sure enough... Just as Dumbledore said, Tom has contacted his former servant?"

Ryan knew this in his heart.

Dumbledore had previously confirmed at the inquiry that Voldemort had established contact with his former servants - if nothing unexpected happened, the diary should have been delivered to the school through Lucius Malfoy.

But what surprised Ryan was that Pansy did not mention the Malfoy family in this incident.

"Is it because Draco Malfoy is too young to be handled in school?"

Ryan guessed in his heart.

But obviously.

Compared to the 'obvious' thing about the connection between pure-blood families and Voldemort.

Ryan was more curious about...

"Why are you telling me this?"

He looked at Pansy Parkinson in front of him.

This is what he is most curious about.

What Pansy told him at this moment obviously betrayed the pure-blood family camp.

And judging from the meaning of her words, this matter even had the tacit approval of her father.

But as far as he knew, the Parkinson family was not a decent pure-blood family like the Longbottom or the Weasley.

Quite the contrary - the Parkinsons had been on the Death Eater side during the war over a decade earlier.

Pansy's father, Hector Parkinson, was also a Death Eater at the time, but he escaped punishment in the end.

Of course, the only special thing is that after escaping the trial, Mr. Parkinson did not make a comeback after a period of time like other Death Eater families, but instead chose to live a low-key life.

As far as Ryan knew, the head of the Parkinson family seemed to have never appeared in public since the end of the war. Instead, it was his wife, Mrs. Rosa Parkinson, who represented the Parkinson family.

But anyway, Ryan couldn't understand it.

"Is it because I saved you when we first entered school?"

Ryan said softly.

As he spoke, he also looked at the Black Lake not far away - a string of bubbles would emerge from the center of the lake from time to time, which was a symbol that the giant squid was sleeping soundly.

This was the only explanation Ryan could think of.

After hearing his words, Pansy Parkinson's expression became strange.

She seemed to still be a little scared of the previous giant squid attack.

but...

“That’s part of the story, but it’s not the key one.”

She still tried to speak calmly, "Elias, do you know the motto of our Parkinson family?"

After hearing this, Ryan also frowned.

He obviously didn't know about this.

But Pansy didn't seem to intend to wait for his answer.

She simply whispered, "Be with the noble, be with the great—this is the family motto left by our ancestor Perseus Parkinson."

But Ryan knew the ancestor she was talking about.

Perseus Parkinson, Minister for Magic from 1726 to 1733, is the best-known ancestor of the Parkinson family.

But Pansy was looking at Ryan at this moment.

"Elias, do you know what this family motto means?"

She asked.

At this moment, Ryan already had a vague idea of ​​the reason why she - or the Parkinson family - behaved today.

"My father told me since I was a child that the Parkinson family is a noble family."

Pansy looked at Ryan, her eyes reflecting the moonlight and the waves of the Black Lake.

"He said our nobility does not lie in the Pure-Blood Register."

The Pure-Blood Register, a book written by Cantankerus Knott.

It is this book that records the twenty-eight pure-blood families with the purest bloodlines in the British wizarding world in the 20th century, which is why the term "Twenty-eight Pure-Blood Holy Clans" came into being!

Of course, Ryan had heard more than once that the contents of this book were unreliable.

The simplest example is Garrick Ollivander, the wand maker who coveted Ryan's wand, whose mother was a Muggle.

But even so, the Ollivander family is still one of the twenty-eight pure-blood holy families.

And it is obvious that the pure-blood families themselves know that this book is unreliable.