Chapter 29

"Minister Bagnold, I'm glad to see you are still radiant."

Ministry of Magic, Minister's office, this was Murphy's first time coming to this place.

"Mr. Murphy Durkheim?" Millicent Bagnold looked at the young man in front of her, "I don't remember we have met."

Such a handsome young man, if they had met, she should have had some impression.

"Ah, I once worked in the Pest Advisory Office for a short time, and saw you from afar a few times, but at that time I was just a small clerk, naturally you wouldn't notice."

Hearing that he was an employee who had worked in the Ministry of Magic, Millicent's attitude softened a lot; after all, he was one of her own, which was much better than a stranger who popped out of nowhere.

"I heard Umbridge say that you have an important matter that needs my approval? She came to beg me several times, tell me, what is it?"

It was not an easy thing to see the Minister of Magic directly, so Murphy found the pink toad Umbridge, and through enough money offensive—about six hundred gold Galleons, convinced her to introduce him to the Minister.

Murphy naturally wouldn't waste the meeting opportunity bought for six hundred Galleons, and immediately proposed a topic that could absolutely attract Millicent, "In fact, I learned that the Ministry's financial situation is relatively tight now, and it just so happens that I recently inherited an inheritance, thinking of the care and support you and all the directors gave me when I was in the Ministry, I felt I had an obligation to share some pressure for the Ministry."

Millicent was immediately attracted, "You mean..."

"Yes, I plan to provide a donation of fifty thousand Galleons to the Ministry. To solve the Ministry's recent financial difficulties."

"Fifty thousand Galleons!"

Millicent was so excited she almost stood up.

Great!

The Ministry's recent financial problems had really made her overwhelmed; on one hand, after many people from several major pure-blood families were thrown into Azkaban, the support of them and various families associated with them for the Ministry was getting smaller year by year, on the other hand, various magical disasters had broken out frequently in various places in the last two years, causing expenditure figures to continue to rise.

Nowadays, the Ministry was even so poor that it couldn't pay wages for two or three months.

Millicent's pressure had been very high recently.

Especially considering that next year was an election year, the pressure went without saying.

After all, who would elect someone who couldn't even pay wages as Minister?

Now, with these fifty thousand Galleons, it was enough for her to deal with the complaints that were about to boil over in the Ministry recently.

"Thank you very much! Mr. Murphy! You are truly a generous gentleman!"

"This is what I should do, Minister," Murphy said modestly, "In fact, I also plan to provide a sum of funds to the Ministry every year in the future to support the Ministry's cause; the Ministry of Magic has always been silently paying for all the wizards in the UK; if it weren't for the hard work of everyone, where would we get our happy and peaceful life?"

"This, this is really..."

Millicent was almost moved; what a good person!

She didn't know how much slander she had heard, saying that the Ministry of Magic abused its power, saying that the Minister was in a high position but didn't do anything, but look at this gentleman, how sensible! Not only recognized our value, but also gave substantial help!

If all the wizards in the UK were as grateful as this gentleman, what couldn't be done?

My great British wizarding world, why worry about not being able to lead the world again?

"You are truly, so insightful!" Millicent praised, "Your help to the Ministry of Magic, all of us will keep it in mind!"

"No need for that, this is just an obligation that an ordinary citizen should fulfill," Murphy replied modestly, looking like he didn't take any credit at all.

"However, wanting to donate this money, there might be a little bit of small trouble."

"How so, is there any problem?" Millicent asked.

Concerning fifty thousand Galleons, concerning long-term donations in the future, and more importantly, concerning her re-election next year, Millicent had to take it seriously.

"Just now I mentioned to you, I recently inherited an inheritance; in fact, not long ago I was just a poor kid, although I saw the Ministry's predicament in my eyes, I was powerless, really couldn't help."

Murphy began his story.

"But about a month ago, my mother's maternal grandfather—Sir Ang Sa, who settled in France, passed away and gifted all his property and a mine under his name to my mother and me."

"It was because of this money that I decided to implement my ideas all along and prepare to do something for the Ministry."

"But, because my great-grandfather didn't trust goblins very much during his lifetime, most of his property was stored in the form of gold, which made my inheritance very troublesome. I had to open another account and exchange the gold into Galleons at an extremely unfair ratio to legally possess those properties."

"However, even so, the greedy goblins were unwilling to let me get them smoothly; not long ago they sent a notice, arbitrarily freezing my account, and claimed that before I could prove the source of my funds, they would no longer provide services to me."

"In fact, they slandered that my money was stolen from their vault, or came from Muggles; Bogrod wants to swallow my money!"

"What? This..." Millicent looked at Murphy in surprise, evaluating the truth of the other party's words.

"Minister Bagnold, I implore you to help me; if you can let me get back my assets, besides the donation to the Ministry, I am willing to take out an extra ten thousand Galleons as a personal thank you to you."

"This... not very good."

Ten thousand Galleons was not particularly much, not even her annual salary. But it was not little, enough to make her feel happy.

"This is a small thank you to a friend; can't I express my gratitude if you helped me? What kind of logic is that in the world?!"

Murphy was righteous and sincere, as if he wasn't bribing, but martyring himself.

"This..." Millicent was still hesitant; the goblins of Gringotts were not easy to deal with.

"Of course, if it's really difficult, I don't want to make things difficult for you. It's just that if that's the case, I might only be able to move to France to settle down, and those donations might only be left to the French Ministry of Magic..."

What? Give the money to the French?!

No, absolutely not!

"No, how can I let a gentleman like you wander in a foreign land! Don't worry about this matter, I will issue a Minister's order to Gringotts to help you explain the source of funds; within two days, you will definitely get your property!"

To hell with Gringotts!

If I don't help this generous gentleman, should I help that group of greedy goblins?

Gringotts hasn't donated to the Ministry of Magic!

After they freeze Murphy's vault, they will put the gold coins into their own pockets without leaving a single one, and will never leave a penny for the Ministry of Magic!

"But Bogrod..."

"That greedy goblin actually dared to commit such a despicable act, I will have the Aurors arrest him!"

"Really? This is truly thank you so much!" Murphy said, took a bag from his pocket, and handed it to Millicent, "A small gift, not a tribute, hope you accept it."

After Murphy left the office, Millicent opened the Undetectable Extension Charm bag and took a look.

Good guy, there were a full thousand Galleons!

Millicent couldn't help but have a greatly increased favor for Murphy.

"Murphy Durkheim, truly a kind gentleman!"

After handling the Minister, in the next two days, Murphy visited several Ministry of Magic officials one after another, most of whom were resident judges of the Wizengamot, the kind who could influence the verdict.

After a round, Murphy found the head of the Auror Office, Scrimgeour.

"Director Scrimgeour, I want to report Lucius Malfoy."

The old lion frowned with a serious face, "Murphy? What do you want to report?"

"I want to report that Lucius Malfoy is a Death Eater! He is carrying out Voldemort's resurrection plan!"

(End of chapter)