Chapter 432

Mia continued to stay in the Department of Mysteries, while Harry and Snape got into the elevator. The atmosphere at this moment was very dull. Harry tried his best to keep a straight face, pretending not to notice anything unusual. And as for Snape, it was hard to say; even though almost all of his dark history had been learned by Harry, he himself didn't seem to be very clear about this matter.

"Ahem." Snape coughed with great solemnity and then asked, "What do you think of the musketeer squad plan?"

"Very useful, sir." Harry evaluated objectively, "It can buy us a lot of time."

"Yes, I think so too. However, do you think the Magical Congress over there will form their own musketeer squad?"

"Maybe they will; after all, the cost isn't high."

"Not at all." Snape sneered, "Because the cost is really too low. Even if Commissioner Smith eats all the military pay into his stomach, there isn't much money. But looking at the Law-Enforcer Plan, the room for manipulation is huge: if nothing goes wrong, Tang Tang Nade must have spent a large sum of money to get his students to become Law-Enforcers."

"Are you talking about the corruption problem in the Magical Congress?" Harry understood a little, "Then over here..."

"At least Lucius is sensible; he doesn't dare to reach out to the Ministry of Magic. Of course, it's also possible he doesn't look down on these small amounts." Snape showed an expression of having everything under control.

At this moment, the elevator happened to reach the top floor. Snape took Harry into a fireplace and then returned to the school. They exchanged a few more casual words, and Harry bid him farewell and began to walk toward his dormitory.

His pace grew faster and faster, and the smile at the corner of his mouth became harder and harder to suppress. Finally, the moment he stepped into the common room, he couldn't help but burst into loud laughter.

"What are you laughing at?" Ivy and Jin Ni had just come out of the dormitory and saw him at a glance.

"Although it's very tacky to say this, really, the old bat is actually tempted." Harry said in a low voice, "You guys better not tell anyone."

"What's the situation?" Jin Ni's eyes sparkled, "Who is it? Is it the person written about in that magazine?"

"It's... no, I didn't say anything." Harry suddenly became alert, "This involves some internal information and cannot be said."

"Fine, then we're going to class." Ivy pulled Jin Ni, who looked disappointed, away.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a bit overexcited because he rarely saw Snape's awkwardness. In fact, whether it was Mia's vampire identity or the Queen Plan in the Ministry of Magic, these were things that couldn't be talked about casually. And if these weren't revealed, there was actually nothing to talk about.

So he called Luo En out and then deliberately spoke loudly about the special instructor for the Apparition course to cover up his true experience on this trip.

"You mean, under your strong arguments," Luo En's face showed some joy, "Snape decided to refuse to let that white-haired guy teach us Apparition?"

"Yes, originally Tang Tang Nade was also prepared to sponge off us for a while." Harry said in a moderate voice that many people could hear, "But I raised questions to Snape. I said we can't always let foreign wizards point fingers here, so he agreed. Our Apparition teacher will be Wilkie Twycross, an experienced Apparition master; he taught the courses in previous years too."

"I mean, he has more teaching experience. I believe he can teach us that move in an easy-to-understand way." Harry added, "As for Tang Tang Nade and 'that white-haired guy', they don't seem to plan to be guests anymore and are going straight back."

"Fine, that's not bad either." Luo En breathed a sigh of relief.

Early Saturday morning, they met that traditional special instructor in the Great Hall. He was a calm-looking, short wizard with a slender build and hair tied into small bundles. That figure, which seemed as if it would dissipate with a gust of wind, revealed that he was certainly an expert in this field.

"Quiet, students." His voice was loud and his articulation clear, "I am Wilkie Twycross, and I will be your Apparition teacher for these few weeks. Now, limited to this class only, the Headmaster has briefly opened the permission for Apparition and Disapparition in the Great Hall for us, so absolutely do not try to go anywhere else; it is limited to the Great Hall! Now, everyone adjust your standing position and ensure there is five feet of open space in front of you..."

While the entire Great Hall was filled with failed and ridiculous splinching accidents, Harry mastered Apparition and Disapparition after only two or three attempts. Many students began to praise his talent one after another. But he knew clearly that this was largely due to Sirius taking him to Apparate back and forth every week last year.

On Saturday afternoon, Draco once again brought his Gel-Dragon to challenge Luo En. Luo En greatly appreciated his courage and then defeated him very seriously. By the next Saturday, everything seemed to happen again like a cycle: Apparition teaching, the repeatedly defeated Draco, a week of calm life, and then another almost identical Saturday.

This life, so calm that one almost forgot the disturbances of the outside world, lasted until the end of February. Luo En began to look forward to his birthday with great anticipation. Harry, of course, made some preparations for this. He went to Hogsmeade with Zhang Qiu to pick out a birthday gift for Luo En; incidentally, this was also a rare date.

They walked past many shops laughing together, and then, very naturally, when they walked past the Gladrags Wizardwear along the street, they mentioned taking a few more photos at the same time.

Sitting in the lobby of the photo studio, waiting for the previous guests to finish, chatting and casually looking at the layout around them, suddenly, Harry felt he had discovered something.

"Look at that." He pointed his finger at a display photo on the wall, "Is that Mr. Shouichi?"

"It really seems to be." Zhang Qiu pulled him over to observe carefully.

The photo was a group photo of three people, with the lobby of this photo studio as the background. The Mr. Shouichi they knew was sitting on the sofa behind the table, with a man and a woman sitting in front. The three of them were laughing at the same time, and the harmonious atmosphere made it easy to think that they would be very good friends.

"When was this photo taken?" Harry asked curiously, "Who are the people in the photo? Do you know them?"

"Kuuga." Zhang Qiu's tone was a bit trembling, "This man is Kuuga."

"What?"

"Kamen Rider Kuuga, the Rider who transformed by his own power during the last development of the Rider system; he can be said to be the predecessor of Agito in every sense." Zhang Qiu explained briefly, and then began to speak incoherently, "However, he has been missing for a long time, but his photo... this doesn't match... unless..."

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't know, I..." Zhang Qiu swallowed, "I have to go back and ask Master; he must be hiding other things from me."

"Does Mr. Shouichi have a more complex background? Or does he have other identities?" Harry speculated irresponsibly, but soon he reacted again, "No, when was this photo taken? Its authenticity is also very questionable!"

"Even if someone forged it, how could he possibly know—" Zhang Qiu's brows were tightly furrowed, and her train of thought seemed to be completely confused.

"I have to go back again." She only said this one sentence at the end.

"Then are you leaving now?" Harry asked with some displeasure, "Do you want me to ask for leave for you?"

"No, no rush." She smoothed her hair, "I'll ask for leave myself tomorrow; I might be able to return before Luo En's birthday."

They still took some photos according to the original plan. Although Zhang Qiu was forcing a smile during the first few, she soon entered the state and gradually became cheerful. Finally, they each picked out a pair of Quidditch gloves and an exquisite diary as gifts for Luo En and returned to school.

The next day, Zhang Qiu asked for leave and left the school, while Harry discussed some other random things with Luo En, such as the fact that the exchange student Lucini still hadn't given up on pursuing Luo En, another girl named Romilda Vane also began to exert effort, frequently casting flirtatious glances at Luo En, and Parvati asked Seamus and Dean about Luo En several times; she didn't dare to ask Harry or Neville.

Facing the advances of these girls, Jin Ni and Ivy played a very powerful role, firmly defending Luo En's single freedom like a city wall, allowing him to continue to struggle with the question of "whether he actually likes Hermione or not." And as for Hermione, she obviously preferred studying.

"In any case, you must be vigilant against birthday gifts of unknown origin; it's very likely that Love Potion is hidden inside." Harry solemnly set this conclusion.

In the evening, they received a letter while eating. Harry originally thought it would be a love letter written to Luo En by some girl, but when he saw the word "Padfoot" on the envelope, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Harry, I have to remind you that Evolt has appeared again. Just this afternoon, he brought a helper to attack my office in Ireland, but the good news is that he was beaten back by the ambushing musketeer squad. We all agree that the situation is a bit complicated; Snape might have received the news too. I hope you can come over early tomorrow morning so we can discuss the situation."

Harry took a deep breath and fell into deep thought while looking at the letter paper. At this moment, he naturally guessed that it was because of Zhang Qiu's departure that Bella could once again transform into Cronus without restraint, and their raid on the Ireland office was undoubtedly aimed at the "Godfather of the Dark Night." Obviously, the target was the locket.

He slowly folded the letter paper, and a sense of crisis began to spread in his heart again.