Chapter 291: Proposing a Platform

Before seeing Cleist, Harry still had quite a few things to do: in addition to the routine meeting of the Order of the Phoenix members once a week, what gave him a headache even more was the overwhelming, perhaps impossible-to-finish homework.

And, from the newspaper on Saturday morning, it can be seen that "Nix Tang," played by Tonks, has come out to clarify the background of Aurelius.

Harry scanned the content in the newspaper roughly. The "virtual husband" Zhang Qiu found for her was named Tang San, an insidious and ruthless dark wizard, which made a supplementary explanation for her loss of contact with Deng Buliduo. And, she thoughtfully fabricated a dark wizard family named "Tang Sect," which could dispel the extra curiosity of domestic wizards and was enough to deter those ill-intentioned peepers.

It is not yet clear what the public opinion reaction is in society, but as far as the Hogwarts student group is concerned, the remarks Harry heard were basically favorable to Aberforth. Most of the children in the Lion House angrily blamed Nix for preferring to marry a dark wizard later rather than coming back to find Aberforth; the children in the Eagle House felt that this was just a mistake, which was understandable; the children in the Badger House sighed sympathetically: the Deng Buliduo family are all people who love but cannot get, and have a bumpy life.

Only the children in the Snake House, when Harry leaned over, heard a girl speaking eloquently: "... This woman lost the bloodline of the Lestrange family, and even had the face to accept an interview, really ungrateful..."

Fortunately, the so-called Nix is a fictional character, otherwise she might have offended the Lestrange family! Harry shook his head helplessly and began to pack his things, preparing to finish some homework before the meeting, at least he could get the copying of History of Magic done first.

Before setting off for the Three Broomsticks pub to meet Sirius, Harry did hesitate whether to bring some homework with him, but he dismissed the idea. No matter how busy he was, he couldn't be distracted when doing one thing. Logically speaking, Snape had more things in school, and he hadn't seen him prepare lessons or look at teaching plans when holding meetings anywhere.

But when Harry sat down at the Order of the Phoenix meeting, he noticed that Snape was even busier than he thought: he was directly absent.

"Before the meeting starts today, I want to say a few words about Aberforth," seeing that everyone had basically arrived, Doge opened his mouth. "Everyone probably knows something when reading the newspaper. The matter is now considered to have a conclusion, and it's not any fresh news."

Hearing this, Harry nodded slightly. Compared to medieval history, even incest between siblings is not rare, let alone youthful first love.

"But we can easily find that this actually implies a rumor-smearing by the Death Eaters," Doge said seriously. "If it weren't for Aberforth writing to the child's mother later and asking her to come out to clarify, this matter would have been unclear!"

Some members of the Order of the Phoenix who didn't know the truth nodded one after another. To say that a person who has lived in China for a long time might not even read British newspapers, let alone "can't stand it"? There is a letter from Aberforth behind this, so it makes sense. This makes the story look like it has both appearance and interior, very convincing.

"I want to ask everyone to think carefully. This time the Death Eaters spread rumors about Aberforth, fortunately, he was still able to contact the child's mother. But if it were other people here in the future, being fabricated by the Death Eaters to have some scandal, do you have the confidence to prove your innocence?" Doge continued. Harry felt his speaking level was clearly much better than usual, probably specially prepared.

"The important thing is that everyone in our Order of the Phoenix is united and fighting for justice. In the future, if the Death Eaters attack others among us, we must trust each other," Doge nodded seriously. "As long as we don't doubt each other because of some rumors related to private life, what does it matter what people outside say?"

What people outside say, how could it really not matter? Harry looked at this old man who was wheezing when speaking helplessly. He thought of things too simply.

"That's right," Harry opened his mouth, with his current reputation, when he interjected in the Order of the Phoenix and said a few words, everyone was still willing to listen. "We might as well take this opportunity to standardize the Order of the Phoenix."

"Standardize?" The brows of several old people suddenly wrinkled.

"Well, simply put, the plans and guidelines for the Order of the Phoenix's actions are all problems. Before, we only needed to listen to Albus's arrangements, but unfortunately Albus is not here now," Harry said. "Although specific problems can still be solved by meetings, our platform, discipline, etc., might still be worth discussing."

"No need," Moody said in a rough voice. "The Order of the Phoenix disbanded after Voldemort fell, and the current Order of the Phoenix was reorganized a few years ago. After cleaning up the Death Eaters, this session of the Order of the Phoenix can also be disbanded."

Harry easily saw that the smiles of some young members, like Dedalus Diggle, Emmeline Vance, etc., froze instantly.

"Voldemort is just a representative. What if a more heinous dark wizard appears in the future?" Sirius supported Harry at the right time. "I think keeping the Order of the Phoenix existing is a good idea. Someone has to stand up and fight for justice."

"There is the Ministry of Magic and the Auror Office," Moody continued, but his confidence was not so strong.

"What is the situation of the Ministry of Magic now, I believe everyone has seen it," Sirius shrugged.

"So, if we really want to keep the Order of the Phoenix, then we must think from the beginning about how to avoid the Order of the Phoenix eventually becoming like the Ministry of Magic," Harry said seriously. "That is, from the beginning when formulating the platform and discipline, we must eliminate those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and greedy for fame and profit, to ensure that only upright people can join the Order of the Phoenix."

Sirius and Lupin seemed to be touched. Harry felt they might have thought of Peter Pettigrew. This pathetic man was actually coerced by the two of them to join the Order of the Phoenix, which just shows that there was some kind of loophole in the invitation system of the Order of the Phoenix in the past.

"Harry's words make sense," Doge agreed. "When we receive new members, we must pay attention to whether he is brave enough. This is a point. Does anyone have any additions?"

"Also smart, capable." "Cannot be selfish." "Must recognize our philosophy and rules."

Most of the meeting was used to discuss these, and finally they reached some preliminary conclusions. The first was the platform of the Order of the Phoenix, which stipulated that the long-term goal of the Order of the Phoenix is to eliminate all dark magic—given that many other countries are still openly teaching dark magic, this is a long and arduous task. As for the current stage, the short-term goal and minimum platform of the Order of the Phoenix is to eliminate or transform all Death Eaters and completely eliminate the hope of Voldemort's resurrection.

And for the joining of new members, first this person must recognize the platform of the Order of the Phoenix and voluntarily join the Order of the Phoenix, then through the introduction of one of the members of the Order of the Phoenix, they can start to be investigated for two months, and with the consent of the formal members' vote, can they be absorbed as a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

Under normal circumstances, the important propositions and member identities of the Order of the Phoenix need to be kept secret, which is to avoid individual members being attacked and retaliated against. However, there must be some head figures responsible for negotiating with other social groups or the Ministry of Magic, so Doge became the acting leader. If there is really no way to resurrect Albus Deng Buliduo, this acting position of his might be promoted.

Doge will draft the detailed Order of the Phoenix charter, discipline, regulations, organizational structure, etc., as soon as possible within the next week, and invite everyone to discuss it next week. And preliminarily, everyone agreed to set up multiple internal positions, responsible for organization, decision-making, publicity, financial management, etc.

Among these internal positions that are generally agreed to be set up, the most important is naturally to establish an army. Deng Buliduo's Army is set to be required to assist the Order of the Phoenix until dark magic is completely eliminated. However, because the source of soldiers for this army is still mainly students, this position that looks exceptionally important fell directly on Harry without any dispute.

Until the end of the meeting, they chatted a few words about Horcruxes, and the result was not unexpected: whether it was the one responsible for investigating Malfoy or the one responsible for investigating Lestrange, basically nothing was achieved.

And Mundungus Fletcher, who was responsible for investigating Hoffa, actually made some inexplicable progress. He said with certainty: "I guessed that Hoffa might be a pseudonym, so I soon followed the clues to China, and sure enough, 'Huo' is a Chinese surname, and there are stories of 'Huo Yuanjia defeating the British strongman' everywhere in China, so I suspect Hoffa has a profound relationship with Huo Yuanjia, and he might even be that 'strongman'."

"But according to my investigation, Hoffa should be a tall and thin wizard, clearly not any strongman," Kingsley calmly raised a question.

"Yes, that's right, so I immediately thought of it," Mundungus nodded quickly. "I guess it was the Chinese who got it wrong when telling the story. The 'strongman' they said should be a homophone. Hoffa's real name might be Dudley Dursley, who knows—I forgot where I heard this name, but in short, I think this is a clue very worth investigating."

"I have another suggestion," Sirius suggested as if he were fair. "He also has a surname Bach, do you want to go to West Germany to look for it?"

"Very reasonable," Lupin agreed as if it were true. "Mundungus, have you heard of Bakhmut? I suggest you go to Ukraine."

When Harry heard these, his toes almost dug through his shoes. He tried his best to hold back from laughing. ===== CHAPTER 292 =====