Chapter 304: Black Person

Although he had long known that Dark was someone Tang Tang Nade found to wash himself clean, Harry was still taken aback when he saw him in person at the Order of the Phoenix.

"A black person?" Harry couldn't help but say. "Are you sure he is Dark Fontroy?"

"Why can't he be a black person?" Sirius asked with confusion. "There are many black people in America, this is not a strange thing, right?"

"And his skin color is relatively light, obviously, he is a black-white mixed race." Lu Ping added from the side.

Harry observed Dark, who was talking to Doge, with slight doubt. Indeed, looking closely, he had some similarities with Tang Tang Nade, but he had always clearly remembered that Dark and Tang Tang Nade should be twin brothers, and they should look exactly the same.

"But Cui Ge's skin color..." He still couldn't figure it out. "And Tang Tang Nade has already admitted that Cui Ge is his nephew."

"Is it possible that he was tanned in Africa?" Sirius said casually.

"Sigh, don't be so concerned about other people's family affairs." Lu Ping patted Harry on the shoulder. "What's important is that he is willing to help the Order of the Phoenix."

Putting oneself in another's shoes, for Lu Ping, who once needed to hide his werewolf identity with effort, he didn't like this kind of behavior of prying into other people's privacy.

After chatting with Doge, Dark walked up to them and greeted them: "Harry, good buddy, it's great to see you."

"Uh, I'm also very happy." Harry nodded and said politely.

"There is one thing I have to ask you, don't mention me to Cui Ge, okay?" Dark said in a low voice. "This matter is still quite complicated."

"Why?" Harry asked subconsciously.

"I suspect Cui Ge is not my child at all, you can tell by the skin color." Dark directly started the villain's complaint first. "In short, those things can be maintained as they are. I mainly came to help the Order of the Phoenix."

"But Tang Tang Nade took him to his side." Harry's tone was a bit stiff. "He admitted that Cui Ge is his nephew—"

"Of course, it's to avoid making things big, Tang Tang Nade is preparing to run for senator, you know." Dark laughed and tapped Harry on the shoulder lightly. "Daisy and I had a bit of a one-night stand, right?"

"She dropped out of school for this child and was expelled by the wizarding world." Harry said coldly. "This almost ruined her life."

"Of course, of course, but the child is indeed not mine." Dark sighed. "Tang Tang Nade is willing to give her some compensation, which is already exercising humanitarianism."

"You make me feel disgusted!" Harry had never been so angry before. He stood up immediately and said loudly, "I won't agree, I won't allow someone like you to join the Order of the Phoenix!"

"What's wrong?" Doge hurried over to ask. "Why are you two arguing?"

"It's okay, it's some misunderstanding." Dark looked a bit confused. "Harry might have been misled, leading to some misunderstanding about me."

"Harry, Harry, you must have heard about Cui Ge." Doge explained with a gasp. "You are still young, perhaps you don't quite understand those scandals of the Magical Congress. In order to obstruct political opponents, they can do anything..."

"And those poor loose women, they bite people indiscriminately as soon as they have a chance, there are many such examples..." Doge explained chatteringly.

Harry couldn't help wanting to shake out all the things he knew and completely expose this trick. But he thought that now Cassandra was living quite well with the help of the Heavenly Dynasty people. She had now become a bargaining chip for the Heavenly Dynasty people to pull Tang Tang Nade. If he said all the facts now, in front of the colleagues of the Order of the Phoenix—

This might not necessarily bring much help to Cassandra or Hermione, but instead would deeply hurt Zhang Qiu.

Harry sat down angrily and shook his head. Dark, that pair of chocolate-colored eyes revealed a kind of clear stupidity. He stood there at a loss for a while, then asked carefully: "Harry, are you still angry? Is it that I didn't explain something clearly?"

Harry could probably guess that the person found to play "Dark" might not know the whole story either, and Tang Tang Nade also deceived him.

"It's okay," Harry smiled reluctantly, "the fault is not yours."

"That's good, that's good." Doge breathed a sigh of relief. "We can prepare to start the meeting, we'll start when Moody arrives."

The Order of the Phoenix meeting started soon. According to the agenda, they first passed the proposal to accept Dark as a member of the Order of the Phoenix by a majority vote, and then everyone started to report progress in turn: Emmeline pointed out that there was a 70% chance that the Lestrange family's Horcrux was hidden in the Gringotts vault, Dedalus further investigated some information about the big snake Nagini, Mundungus heard that Hoffa might have lived in Annecy before...

While they kept repeating rumors and half-truths, Harry had been lost in thought. The Order of the Phoenix was genuinely searching for Horcruxes, which, of course, led the Death Eaters to be on high alert against them, making it difficult to achieve any decent results. In fact, the Horcruxes weren't important; what was important was making the Death Eaters focus their energy on guarding against the Order, which would leave room for Harry to maneuver.

After the meeting, Harry and Sirius returned to Hogsmeade. By some divine intervention, he proposed to go to the Lightweight Photo Studio to take a few photos.

"I really can't imagine that you would have such leisure." Sirius said so, but a smile had already occupied his face. Harry hadn't told him about Cassandra, so he still thought Harry was just having a sudden whim, wanting to leave some beautiful memories with his godfather.

The business of the Lightweight Photo Studio looked good, with two or three staff members busy. Cassandra guided them to a huge blank curtain, then started asking what background they wanted.

Looking at her enthusiastic face, Harry sighed secretly, didn't ask about Dark, just followed Sirius's opinion, took a few sets of photos with different backgrounds, and then the two of them took a few group photos.

When leaving the photo studio, Sirius was still happily playing with the cowhide paper envelope, which contained the photos just washed out. Harry also cooperated and smiled. Setting aside Tang Tang Nade's lies and schemes, if this was just a thing that could make his godfather happy, then he was very happy to do it.

After Sirius waved goodbye to him, Harry also returned to school alone from the secret passage. One thing was certain, Zhang Qiu had mentioned that Tang Tang Nade had sent eyes and ears to watch the photo studio. Then the fact that he and Sirius took photos together, falling into Tang Tang Nade's ears, could also be counted as a kind of warning: this was warning him not to use the Order of the Phoenix again.

The next day at noon, Harry and Zhang Qiu were writing homework in the library together. He felt the heavy burden of schoolwork deeply, so he didn't plan to spare time to play Hoffa. But soon, he realized that the next meeting might need Hoffa to join in the fun, because Pan Xi and Draco were standing in front of him with solemn faces, softly inviting him to find a place to talk alone.

They didn't go to the Room of Requirement, but came to the Torchwood headquarters—not the living room for chatting and gathering as usual, but the conference room inside.

"Harry, I don't know if you already know." Draco said in a deep voice. "The last Horcrux that the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters have been looking for is actually in this room."

In fact, there are two Horcruxes in this room now, Harry thought with some amusement.

"I guess you didn't just find out either, it's just that you just decided to bring it up." Harry glanced at the glass cabinet seriously. "Do you want to take it out?"

"Will you destroy it?" Draco asked. He had tried his best to make his tone calm, but he could still hear that he didn't want Harry to do so.

"If I intended to destroy it, I would have used other methods long ago." Harry learned Arnold's appearance, revealing a shallow smile like an old fox.

"I didn't expect that there would really be such a day, we children who are still in school actually have chips to talk to adults on an equal footing." Pan Xi said. "I want to use it to maintain the relationship between me and Draco. I only have this one request."

"But we can do more than just this, right?" Harry said with a hint.

"Indeed, I just decided to bring it up, because I just figured out what we are going to do." Draco said very seriously. "We want to use it to make our voices heard by the adults."

"Then what appeals do you plan to make to them?" Harry took the topic very naturally.

"Actually, it's also very simple. Adults always have conflicts of interest, but we don't hope that these conflicts affect us, that is to say," Draco said, "have to ask the adults to control the conflict and not cause large casualties."

"Let them not use the Killing Curse." Pan Xi glanced at him and added.

"Cruciatus Curse and Imperius Curse can't be used either." Harry said. "We oppose all-out war."

"Right, we would rather see some intellectual games between adults, use political means to achieve goals, and maintain decency even if they fail." Ma Erfu said. "This is our appeal."

"This basic stance, I think it's not very bad, and it makes some sense." Harry hesitated, because of Draco, he originally intended to give Lucius a decent ending. "But only Bellatrix, this crazy woman, after committing such heinous crimes, we shouldn't continue to give her the opportunity to make waves."

"Then drive her out." Ma Erfu said. "Rodolphus got the headmaster position of Durmstrang, let her live in the European continent."

"If she doesn't want to live a stable life, let the Aurors of the European continent put the Lestrange couple into Nurmengard—it happens to be empty." Pan Xi said gloatingly.

However, if she intends to do something bad again, there will be many new victims before she is arrested. Harry frowned, wanting to say something, but suddenly he thought again that those victims might be French, so it seemed it wasn't that bad. ===== CHAPTER 305 =====