Chapter 522: Admission Notice

The end-of-term banquet proceeded as usual. Thanks to the Quidditch dynasty, Gryffindor once again achieved the honor of the House Cup. The children cheered and jumped, but Harry felt a bit noisy.

He felt that he had become a passerby who was out of the matter. Everything in the school was moving away from him. When the sun rose the next day, he would no longer be a student of Hogwarts—although he could still return to the familiar campus, those familiar days would never return.

On the last night at Hogwarts, Harry reviewed the experiences of these seven years lying on the bed. He didn't deny that he participated in or created many legends, but at this moment under the dark red bed curtains of this big bed, he recalled all the happy times on campus—sometimes he really felt regret, clearly he wanted to experience campus life well this year, but was occupied by this and that outside the school, sigh, how can school life never be enough!

The next day, Harry walked onto the platform with all kinds of reluctance, dragging his suitcase, and Zhang Qiu, wearing a beautiful light-colored dress, was waiting for him here early. At this moment, Harry suddenly threw his nostalgia for the campus behind him and began to look forward to his future life.

"I say, Harry, we are planning to return to Downton first, right." When getting into the car, Zhang Qiu said. "My father is here."

"Oh?"

"Master is still not out of seclusion, I really don't know what he is busy with, but..." she said with some loss. "In short, he should not attend our wedding. I can only try to get familiar with my biological father whom I haven't seen for a long time during this period."

"Then do you want to," Harry wanted to say postpone or something, but the words just reached his throat and were swallowed by him. "Oh, perhaps this is also a matter of no way."

"After all, Master Xuanjun's situation is also relatively special. For those who regard him as a hypothetical enemy, let's say Yanayev," Harry talked about a conclusion he had worried about, "Yanayev knows that he cannot enter China to defeat Master Xuanjun, he will definitely try every means to seize the opportunity of Master Xuanjun leaving China—although I feel he might not be so crazy, but I don't dare to say 100% that absolutely no one will take this opportunity to make a big scene at the wedding."

"That's it, that annoying guy." Zhang Qiu nodded. "But I feel, it may not be for this reason. I met my father before I set off, and I felt that his mental state was different from last time. Perhaps there is really something big to do in the country."

Soon, Harry saw the significant change of this Mr. Zhang Wei with his own eyes: the last time he came, his face was full of worries, worrying about this and that, like a little citizen image who didn't understand anything. And this time, his whole person was overflowing with unparalleled confidence from the inside out.

"Hello, long time no see." Harry walked up with a smile to shake hands with him. "Mr. Smith, very welcome you..."

"Eh!" Zhang Wei interrupted him. "I think Smith as an English name is still too ordinary. Now please call me Snake, hiss~~!"

Harry suddenly felt that this change... was a bit unlike a benign change.

"Harry, young man, a talent." Mr. Snake said with high spirits. "It's amazing, everyone calls you General Potter, General! You didn't tell me before!"

"Students, friends, we are in a very special era, a time when the Statute of Secrecy is crumbling. The Wizarding World can completely afford to stand out generously, to change and lead those Muggle officials who have lost their ideals, and to recreate the glory of the Empire on which the sun never sets. This is a unique opportunity in the last hundred years, but what is our Ministry of Magic doing? Acting like an ostrich, pretending not to know. It is afraid of making mistakes, so it does nothing at all."

"This is indeed happy." Harry echoed. He saw Zhang Qiu maintaining a smile, completely having no intention to speak, so he continued to ask. "Then, are you here for a short stay or—"

"Well, I will live in London from now on." Mr. Snake said. "This dowry team is particularly huge, and there are many things to connect. Although I might not be able to help much, but for some ceremonial occasions, I think we can't let those civil officials act as the bride's elders. So, I will always be here."

When talking about business, Harry felt his tone was much more normal.

"I think our date is basically to be finalized," Zhang Qiu intervened. "Currently it is July 26th."

Harry scratched his head. He felt that in this way, the preparation time was a bit too short.

"Of course, this is an auspicious day carefully selected." Mr. Snake said like showing off. "For this, the itinerary of the dowry convoy is also calculated. We must ensure that the first batch of personnel arrives as early as possible to help you start arranging the wedding, and also ensure that the last batch of personnel arrives just before the wedding day, so as not to delay the wedding date—ah, I dare say this is the biggest thing the Ministry of Rites has done in recent years. Who could have thought that more than half of the Ministry of Rites moved, just to hold my daughter's wedding!"

Harry asked nervously: "Then, what do I need to do?"

"Do nothing." Zhang Qiu shrugged. "We don't have to do anything, Lin Shuanghe will handle everything, at most it is to familiarize with the process on the 25th."

"Yes, I am very glad Harry is a foreigner." Mr. Snake shook his head and wagged his brain. "You don't have to learn those cumbersome etiquette, haha, whoever says anything about the collapse of rites and music, let him be angry by himself."

Really throwing everything to the dowry team seems to be a very irresponsible thing, but it is really easy. Harry and Sirius soon accepted this fact in mutual comfort. After all, the old knight also threw everything directly to them.

In the days approaching the 26th, Harry and Zhang Qiu lived together in Downton, while Mr. Snake lived in the guest room. He spent most of his time every day reading popular novels or watching TV programs, looking like he was on vacation. However, Harry still learned some situations in China through some chats from his mouth.

In fact, in the eyes of the public, Xuanjun has always been in a state of seclusion, and the radical faction holding power is a continuous thing. The last time Zhang Qiu returned home to participate in the political tug-of-war between Xuanjun and high-level officials, it was essentially a short meeting known only to a small range.

Of course, for the Muggle World or the overall national policy, that meeting was not very important, it was just that Xuanjun and the radical faction secretly reached some consensus. However, for Xuanjun himself, or Harry and Zhang Qiu who cared about Xuanjun's movements, that matter was very intriguing: since Xuanjun had completed the refining of the power of fate, then why did he continue to seclude himself, what was he doing in seclusion?

If you want to reverse this question, you must deeply understand their various actions in the Muggle World, analyze which have clear other reasons, and which might be related to Ge Xuan's new big plan. And when it comes to this point, the first problem is their unusual retreat: after repelling and pushing back the attacks of South Asian countries, the choice of the Chinese was to shrink all their troops and return to the national border before the war.

"Our division of the national border is extremely strict, and there must be at least one boundary marker every kilometer," Mr. Snake said so. "And everyone deeply recognizes the saying of the Chinese Begonia Leaf. If you destroy the beauty of the overall map shape for a little useless land, it is not worth the loss."

This point is very strange, but if you look into it, it may not be so strange. After all, Ge Xuan's idea has always been to practice the system in a closed system, so he laid out very early, and there is a reason for planting this concept in the hearts of the people. The Chinese have a deep-rooted obsession with the certainty of the map, and it won't work if it is a little more or a little less, which led to them preferring not to have those territories that were beaten down.

However, in this case, what is the radical faction fighting this expansion war for? When Harry contacted Lin Shuanghe before the war, he clearly felt that the radical faction in China must have territorial expansion as its main goal. If the national border really has such a saying that it cannot be changed at all, then they don't have to provoke trouble at all.

Regarding this point, Zhang Qiu also gave the explanation of 【officers eager to kill the enemy and make contributions】, but Harry's intuition told him that Xuanjun's real purpose might be hidden behind this. He speculated that Xuanjun's mid-way exit from seclusion was actually to stop the expansion of the radical faction. He had to do something related to the national border, and for this, he had already spent a lot of effort to establish a consensus on the national map among the people. He didn't want the radical faction to inadvertently destroy this layout.