Chapter 351: Reunion After a Long Separation

The first thing Harry did after returning to school was to run to the Headmaster's office, wanting to discuss countermeasures with Sineipu. After Saruman's plan started, the time and frequency of Harry finding Sineipu increased greatly, so Sineipu didn't skimp on telling him the password rule for the Headmaster's office—it was a list of medicinal herbs arranged in alphabetical order.

When Harry rushed into the office, Sineipu was dazed at a bubbling cauldron. He waved his wand somewhat dissatisfiedly, and the office door closed with a bang.

"Professor, I discovered a terrible thing today, Nagini changed her mind," Harry said panting. "I don't know how to persuade her, she insisted..."

"Calm down, Potter," Sineipu said faintly. "Someone got the news earlier than you, and, he plans to meet me at nine tomorrow morning, perhaps, it can also be changed to 'us'."

"Who is it?"

"Who do you think persuaded Nagini?" Sineipu didn't say the answer directly.

"Perhaps it's neither Lu Xiusi nor Bella, but someone else. He first chose to cooperate with Bella, saw the situation was not good, then changed his mind, and turned to cooperate with Lu Xiusi," Harry said the conclusion he thought about all afternoon in the Minister's office. "It's William, the White House is the only one who could possibly do this, and Lu Xiusi or Bella alone probably wouldn't speak snake language either."

"Very right, it is indeed him, but you used the word 'only' wrongly," Sineipu took out a letter from the desk drawer, with a red stamp on the edge of the letter.

Early the next morning, Harry arrived at the Headmaster's office on time, and then he saw a back with neat iron-gray hair, broad shoulders, and thick arms.

It's just that, when the back turned around, he noticed that it was an old acquaintance: it was Major Bondarev, who had appeared in Voldemort's meetings many times but suddenly disappeared after the fourth year was just over half.

"Hello, Harry," Bondarev's English was still standard, without a trace of terrifying Russian accent.

"Long time no see, Major," Harry said excitedly. This was perhaps the first time he had met a Soviet person face-to-face, or a strong middle-aged military officer who met his stereotype: tall, muscular, tough face, meticulous, never dragging his feet, rather than a beautiful and mean little girl or something.

"We are meeting for the first time, right? Why do you look like you know me?" Bondarev withdrew his hand alertly.

"Uh, spiritual connection for a long time?" Harry explained reluctantly. "Just as the Chinese people often say, all encounters in this world are reunions after a long separation."

"Alright, let's talk about business," Bondarev looked at Harry meaningfully, then pulled out a chair and sat down. "Originally we didn't plan to interfere in your internal affairs, it's just that since the White House has already intervened, I think we can't continue to stand by and watch."

"How do you plan to help Harry?" Sineipu asked politely.

"From a personal point of view, I would be very happy to mobilize an army to help you kill the Death Eaters cleanly," Bondarev said very seriously. "It's just that the military might not necessarily approve of my proposal, and you might not necessarily be happy."

"Indeed, we are trying to solve the problem in a more humane way," Sineipu's tone was still polite, but vaguely carried some sharpness. "From yesterday's letter, you seem to know everything about our plan. I want to know... does this mean someone among us has defected to your side?"

"No mole, you can rest assured," Bondarev said slowly. "Actually, if you look at it from a more overall level, your plan is not hard to guess."

"It's hard for us not to notice the existence of Gilneas, and the registered legal person of Benlang Food Company in the Muggle world happens to be Harry's grandfather. So regardless of whether Greymane is Lupin himself, and what the relationship between Regulus and Sirius actually is, at least it can be confirmed that they are all on Harry's side," Bondarev said in a relaxed tone. "Plus you providing remedial lessons for Harry, even if it's really remedial lessons, it can be confirmed that you are together. Now you and Regulus together proposed Saruman's story, I think compared to believing Saruman indeed exists, we are more willing to believe that this is a big game of chess laid out by Harry Potter to integrate domestic forces."

Harry took a deep breath. He originally thought the whole plan was seamless.

"Lu Xiusi should also have this suspicion, but he is powerless to resist, so he went to the White House," Bondarev crossed his hands, his tone carrying a trace of confidence. "Actually, we think Lu Xiusi didn't just reach cooperation with the White House, he also reached cooperation with Bella at the same time, otherwise it wouldn't be enough to support him to cover Severus and fight against Regulus. I guess he will pass the throne to Dai Erfei after being elected."

"The role the White House plays in this is also thought-provoking. Perhaps they are just consistently stingy, or perhaps William's resources are limited. In short, they seem to only provide a snake language expert and a secretly supporting attitude," Bondarev sneered. "Then, out of consideration for avoiding escalation, perhaps we can only give a little advice, and then provide some intelligence and an agent."

"Please speak," Sineipu revealed a fake smile.

"My suggestion is, you should change your thinking. Instead of racking your brains to integrate forces, it's better to simply eliminate dissidents," Bondarev said. "Nagini is in the Ministry of Magic, and you have cooperation with the Ministry of Magic, you can set a way to kill it; and the Golden Cup is in the Lestrange family vault, we can arrange a goblin to assist you in stealing it."

"You want to take action on Horcruxes?" Harry suddenly realized that the Soviet people's suggestion was also not well-intentioned. If Nagini and the Golden Cup were indeed dealt with, all Horcruxes would fall into the control of Harry and Sineipu. Why didn't they resurrect Deng Buliduo right then? Is it because they like the feeling of no adults at home? Then can the Soviet people come to knock on the door?

"Losing Horcruxes also means losing the right to speak in the Death Eater group," Bondarev's tone carried a trace of temptation. "You can easily deal with them using a series of political means."

"Very good proposal, I admit I am tempted," Sineipu said slowly. "Horcrux, it has indeed been a thorn in my heart, without pulling it out, the dark cloud named Voldemort will not truly disperse."

"It seems our analysis is correct, you are indeed Deng Buliduo's person," Bondarev looked at the Deng Buliduo portrait slightly shaking on the wall, revealing a smile just like him.

"Always have been," Sineipu said softly.

"Only when no one here is loyal to him, can he truly leave this school," Bondarev nodded slightly. "Good means, Albus, good means."

Harry vaguely felt that Bondarev might have really believed the lie that Deng Buliduo also left Horcruxes. He subconsciously went to think about what Deng Buliduo's Horcrux would be, what could it be? In fact, the answer to this question is not hard to get, because Deng Buliduo didn't have other lives in his hands, so it can only be said that he listened to Grindelwald's temptation in that summer when he was seventeen, murdered his own Obscurial sister, and then made a Horcrux by the way.

And this Horcrux is the Deluminator. If every relic Deng Buliduo left has deep meaning, the Deluminator is undoubtedly the Horcrux that came into Harry's hands low-key through Eve's hand without anyone noticing, under the cover of darkness.

After Harry made up the story in his heart, he adjusted his Occlumency posture slightly. He also wanted to test the Soviet people to see if they were really, or how afraid they were of Deng Buliduo.

"At Hogwarts, whoever has a need will get help," Harry said with slight sadness. "Once he said that."

"Speaking of which, if we kill Nagini, what should happen to the election? Let it be?" Sineipu pulled the topic back. "Or do we have to forcefully show our cards and openly support Harry?"

"I have a suggestion, do you remember the magic Grindelwald used?" Bondarev looked at Harry. "Since the inspiration for your entire election is that general election, why not borrow from the means? After all, Grindelwald's notebook seems to have been left to you."

"Uh. Yes, but I'm not sure if he wrote this spell on it," Harry said. "But actually he was exposed at that time, right? I feel doing this is no different from showing cards."

"It's very different for Death Eaters," Sineipu shook his head. "When choosing a Dark Lord, using Dark Magic to cheat, and then forcing others to admit the result of cheating, for Death Eaters or people who long to join Death Eaters, this is very normal, completely acceptable, and even should be so. But conversely, if we turn things into a form like a coup, those people might not be convinced."

"Then I will confirm first later, whether he recorded this spell in the notebook," Harry scratched the goosebumps on his arm. He really couldn't imagine that the brain circuits of the Death Eater group were so different from ordinary people.

"Yes, you can set the big plan first," Bondarev looked like he was about to leave. "The intelligence and help I promised are valid at any time, just contact me."

"Yes, thank you very much," Sineipu stood up and shook hands with him. "Without your intelligence and help, we indeed wouldn't be able to deal with the Golden Cup."

"Then next, you have to discuss a plan well," Bondarev picked up his coat and cloak from a shelf on the side, and opened the Headmaster's office door.

Sineipu gave Harry a look of "do as you please," then immediately walked to Bondarev's side and said: "I'll see you off." ===== CHAPTER 352 =====