Chapter 277

Clister's emotional intelligence was not as low as Harry had hoped. After a suffocating silence, he spoke again: "Speaking of which, the Tornadoes played really well last season."

"Won the championship, right?" Aberforth picked up the topic, but the tone was very stiff.

When they started talking about Quidditch, Harry poked Luo En, signaling that he could prepare to go out.

After walking forward for a while, they found that the exit of the secret passage was blocked by a thin wooden board. Harry tried to poke it, and his intuition told him that this seemed to be a painting.

So he used a Levitation Charm to slowly move it away, and then drilled out of the secret passage. This seemed to be the back room of the Hog's Head Inn, and the secret passage was only separated from the kitchen by a wall, no wonder they could hear it so clearly just now.

"What sound?" Aberforth walked over, then widened his eyes in surprise. "Harry?"

"What?" Clister also bypassed the corner. "How did you come over?"

"We found a room at Hogwarts suitable as a gathering place for Deng Buliduo's Army," Harry said, "and there happened to be a secret passage in it."

"This sounds a bit too coincidental." Clister said suspiciously.

"I don't have a secret passage here," Aberforth said, "unless you discovered Hogwarts' secret."

"What secret?" Luo En was a bit surprised.

"It sometimes generates secret passages by itself, if you enter that room." Aberforth said meaningfully. It seemed that he had a considerable understanding of the Room of Requirement.

"Yes, we indeed plan to use that place as a gathering place for Deng Buliduo's Army." Harry nodded. "Looking at it this way, Mr. Lindonwan can also be more convenient to participate in us."

"Great, I have no opinion." Clister said. "Also, call me Clister."

These two people who had just talked the topic to death, now facing Harry and Luo En, didn't know what to say for a while. After a slight silence, Aberforth offered to invite them to have dinner here.

Harry really didn't have confidence in the food here. He and Clister agreed to start the first activity next Saturday, and then returned to school through the secret passage.

After coming out of the Room of Requirement, Luo En asked: "Then, who do you plan to call to participate in Deng Buliduo's Army? I remember some people in Hufflepuff always hang this on their lips."

"The dueling club in Hufflepuff is called the Defense Association, they just use Deng Buliduo's Army as a nickname, it's not formal—although I feel that when *The Daily Prophet* makes up stories, it draws inspiration from this." Harry explained. "And what we are going to do next is to form a real Deng Buliduo's Army, so the people who participate must be excellent enough, credible enough, or at least they need to look excellent and credible enough."

"Coincidentally, the dueling club provides a quite good foundation, I think we can connect the two." Harry continued. "Select some people from each house's club who perform well and are willing to fight for justice to participate in Deng Buliduo's Army. For example, Ravenclaw has seven guardians, why don't we invite seven people from each house first as the members of the first gathering."

"I can imagine it." Luo En said sarcastically. "Gryffindor will break their heads for competing for the quota, but Ma Erfu will be worried to death: where can he find seven righteous people?"

"Fine, then he can find as many as he can, and the extra quotas will all be given to Gryffindor." Harry shrugged. "In fact, we don't need to be in a hurry, we can absorb newcomers later, this is to let everyone feel that the club is flourishing."

After returning to the dormitory, Harry very smoothly agreed with Neville on this matter, and Neville also very quickly drafted a list: taking Harry as the leader, then after removing himself and Luo En, the remaining five people were set as Hermione, Colin, as well as Lee Jordan and the Weasley twins. Perhaps by comparison, Colin was not that excellent, but he would definitely support Harry, which was very important.

Neville promised to find each of them to talk about this matter individually during his free time next week, which made Harry feel very comfortable. Now Neville had become a steady and reliable ally.

After dinner, Harry met Cho Chang beside him in the library without any surprise. Everything seemed to be back on track, and Cho Chang also promised to pass on the matter of Deng Buliduo's Army to others in the house. Although the Teris Arcane Society existed in name only, the good students who were once selected as guardians would not refuse to learn a little more.

As for Slytherin, except for Cui Ge, Harry himself couldn't think of how to find even one person in Slytherin who was suitable to participate in Deng Buliduo's Army. Of course, unless he changed his thinking and pulled in those young masters and ladies like Pansy and Ma Erfu who were not sincere, but this had no benefit except to mock their Death Eater parents.

A peaceful night quickly slipped away in the vast homework. The next day, Eve ran over to tell Harry that Ma Erfu hoped to maintain the Torchwood gathering at seven o'clock every Sunday night. Harry didn't oppose this, but before seeing that little Ma Erfu, he needed to see his Death Eater father at one o'clock in the afternoon.

At eleven o'clock, Sirius Black picked up Harry at the Leaky Cauldron, and then took him to Gilneas.

"Oh, Tonks, have you been here recently? Didn't you attend the Order of the Phoenix gathering?" When they walked into the back room, Harry saw a witch with pink hair, and then he remembered that although Tonks belonged to the Order of the Phoenix, she hadn't come to a meeting even once.

"I am studying those space-time theories, they are very complex." Tonks's spirit didn't look very good. "However, anyway, the Order of the Phoenix has nothing to do now, just saying some empty words and set phrases over and over again."

"Let's eat first, let's think together later, what has 'Hoffa' been doing during this time." Sirius Black said. "Do you think he should propose some new things? Or just go and listen to the fun?"

"I think the opportunity is rare, so we can use this to test." Lupin suggested. "If Lu Xiusi has been hiding the matter of the diary, you can pretend that the investigation has made some progress, and then, see if he will try to win you over."

"I think more importantly, we need to quietly test out where they hide the Horcruxes." Sirius Black said. "Although the Order of the Phoenix has had no progress, their line of thought is correct."

"How should I say it better?" Harry pondered. At this time, Lupin served a plate of fragrant fried meatballs, which immediately attracted his attention.

"Like this, you pretend that you are investigating the 'last Horcrux' mentioned by Ma Erfu," Sirius Black suggested, "and then you say you found that cave."

"Finding that cave is useless." Harry said suspiciously. "Isn't the locket already in your hands?"

"Yes, but Lu Xiusi doesn't know." Sirius Black said. "At the same time, we will go to the Order of the Phoenix and propose to use the cave as bait to lure Hoffa. In this way, when Lu Xiusi goes to the cave, the people who come to capture Hoffa can immediately catch him."

"I actually think that the one who is more likely to go there will be Lestrange." Lupin said while serving another pot of cheese-baked vegetables. "But the problem is, once we use this move, we must lock up Lestrange and cannot let her go back."

"And if so, Lu Xiusi will be vigilant, and Lestrange cannot leave no backup plan." Tonks interrupted.

"So it is still mainly verbal testing, but the more we say, the more we expose." Sirius Black concluded. "First of all, talk less and wait for Lu Xiusi to reveal his flaws."

As the last spinach pie was served, they stopped talking about those headache-inducing topics and started talking about some interesting things in Albania.

"The Minister of Magic here is very friendly to Gilneas, and passed a new round of agricultural aid bills a few days ago, and he seems to intend to include our cannery in the government procurement list." Lupin said with joy. "But we need to have our own brand."

"So, didn't you have one before?"

"No, we have been doing OEM for Prince before." Sirius Black said. "If we can hit our own brand, we can indeed earn more, but high returns are often accompanied by high risks."

"The risk is that our products may not be sold, but it doesn't matter, if there is an order from the Albanian government, things will be much easier to handle." Lupin said with a smile.

"However," Harry blinked, "this also means you will be pinched."

"What are you afraid of, at worst continue to do OEM for Prince." Sirius Black shrugged. "Quick, Harry, help think of a good name, do you think 'Galloping Wolf' sounds better, or 'Moon Shadow' sounds better?"

"I vote for Galloping Wolf." Harry said.

"I also think this is better," Lupin agreed, "the only problem is, we need to recruit more manpower, even if all the werewolves are filled in now, perhaps it may not be able to meet so many needs."

"Is the demand for canned food very large?" Harry said in surprise. In his impression, this is a food that is eaten occasionally.

"Very large, because our orders don't just come from the Ministry of Magic." Lupin said. "Their Muggle government also intends to buy canned food from us."

"What is going on? Could it be that the connection between the high levels of the two worlds here is closer than we imagined?" Harry was stunned.

"To be precise, or to make a long story short, Ramiz Aliya, he is now both the Minister of Magic and the leader of the Muggle government." Tonks added. "Since Yanayev opened this mode, many countries have started to adopt the strategy of one person governing two worlds."