novelraw Chapter 47 The Newspapers of Azkaban (Part 2)
Chapter 47 The Newspapers of Azkaban (Part 2)
"You are indeed a great hero, brave and wise, Mr. Wayne."
Dumbledore's expression did not change in the slightest because of Bruce's words, and remained calm.
"Useless praise doesn't answer my question." Bruce clenched his fists, trying to restrain his volume.
How can they assert her personality just because she has some kind of talent.
"Believe me, the three of us will never think that Harley is dark."
Dumbledore returned Bruce's stare with serious eyes.
The Dark Knight let go of his fist and forced himself to calm down for a reasonable analysis.
"But, you worry that others will."
"People are terrible," Dumbledore nodded. "Crowds are sometimes blind."
"Those dark forces lurking in the dark that are ready to move may not need any ability from Harley, they only need a banner with appeal."
"The snake language... is one of Voldemort's unique talents, and he is a descendant of a branch of the Gaunt family, which means he is a descendant of Slytherin."
"I don't think Harley is related to Gaunt or Slytherin in any way, if that's what you're asking."
"Then why does Halle know Parseltongue?" On the one hand, Bruce thought it wasn't a big deal at all, it was just a language, and Clark could speak Kryptonian; on the other hand, he was also infected by the other party's cautious tone.
"My preliminary guess is that when Voldemort gave Harry that scar 10 years ago, he also passed on part of his magic to her."
"Imagine, a girl who can easily defeat the Dark Lord when she is a baby can speak Voldemort's representative Parseltongue. How many people will guess and even hope that such Harley will appear in the British wizarding society? Will be the next Dark Lord?"
"You British wizards are really exaggerating..." After a few seconds of silence, Bruce reacted to Dumbledore's words.
So not only does Harley have to hide her name in Gotham, but she can't show her name in the wizarding world?
"I will let McGonagall and Professor Snape block this news, you can rest assured."
Bruce raised his eyebrows, "What about these portraits? Anything that can talk is not safe." He stared at some of the figures with an unfriendly expression and saw them trembling.
Of course he didn't know that these were former Hogwarts heads - and he didn't care.
"As soon as you came in, I cast a spell and they couldn't hear us."
"What about Professor Snape? Can he be trusted?" Even though the first sentence the other party stepped on the lasso of truth was to apologize to Harry, he still intuitively thought that there was something wrong with the other party.
"I can give him my life." Dumbledore's answer was quick and crisp.
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A few days after the Girl Who Lived left Hogwarts, Dumbledore received a letter of refusal from Alfred Pennyworth on Harry's behalf.
When the owl landed on Dumbledore's desk with the letter, the old headmaster was confiding with the Potions professor about the new recruitment of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Quirinus Quirrell.
Dumbledore scanned the letter quickly and calmly, and handed it to Professor Snape.
Snape flew into a rage at the first sentence and threw the letter on the headmaster's desk.Even the owl that was pecking at the cookie crumbs was scared away.
"Then who's going to watch her at school? How do you know Death Eaters won't go to America! And, who's going to keep her from getting Potter's stink?"
Dumbledore looked at Snape cautiously from above the half-moon glasses, "Who were you going to keep her from getting Potter's 'flaw'?"
"..." Snape didn't answer.
Dumbledore took off his glasses and wiped them, "Relax, Severus, you also saw the grand occasion of the day when the basilisk was eliminated. We couldn't have done a better job than Mr. Wayne."
"Then she will become a flower raised in a greenhouse, innocent and stupid, without the slightest ability to protect herself!"
"Oh, that's actually the last thing you need to worry about. In fact, you might lose to her if everyone throws away their wands."
"What does that mean?" The Potions Master frowned. "They trained her to be a vigilante?"
That's too bad!
"Not yet." Dumbledore had already started to turn around to the phoenix not far from Nirvana, leaving Snape a back view.This is the principal's signal to end the topic.
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"Wow, I only received an admission letter from Ilvermorny," Queenie, who was invited by Grandpa Alfred to be a guest at home, scooped milk ice cream with a spoon, while pointing at Harry's Hogwarts admission letter The book is amazing.
"I don't plan to go anyway, it's all the same, it's too far from home," Harry's ice cream is chocolate flavored, "and, you will go to Ilvermorny, and I can have a friend who understands the wizarding world take me."
"Actually, I don't really understand. My grandma who knows everything told me," Queenie said with a twisted mouth, "and I grew up in the No-Maj world. the word 'chicken'."
It's Halle's birthday today and they've just returned from England for a few days.Dick, Jason, and Tim were genuinely happy that she had chosen to go to school in America, and Jason's brother even wanted to stuff that pink pistol/gun into the luggage she was packing.
Damian?Damian was still the same, humming to show that he knew the news.
Then an owl flew into the mansion in the afternoon sun, and Harry saw that it had the Hogwarts crest hanging around its neck.
"Wow, they seem really persistent." Queenie stared at the landing owl, and the owl stared at her ice cream.
"This is...a package." Harry untied the rope from the owl's feet. Didn't it just fly across the Atlantic Ocean? She became more and more convinced of Brother Tim's "Owl Handover" delivery system.
She squeezed the thin package, asked Queenie to wait in the restaurant, and went to find Grandpa Afu by herself.
The Wayne family never opened packages of unknown origin, it was a family motto.
Alfred took it into the Batcave and inspected it with an instrument perspective, and found that there was only a piece of fabric and a piece of paper inside.It was initially determined that there was no danger, but Harry was still asked to put on a mask and gloves before opening it.
"This is..." Harry picked up the liquid-like silver-gray fabric.
"Here's another letter." Queenie picked up the fallen piece of paper and handed it to Harry.
"Your father left this thing to me before he died, and it should be returned to you now. Use it well. I sincerely wish you a happy birthday. Uh...no signature."
She tossed and turned the fabric and letter, "So what is this? How to use it?"
Queenie rubbed her chin, "I guess this might be an invisibility cloak. It was mentioned in the book written by Grandpa Newt that the fur of invisible beasts can be used to weave invisibility cloaks."
Harry put it on and tried it on, and sure enough it disappeared from the neck down!so amazing!
She and Queenie were getting excited when Grandpa Alfred showed up with a device and told Harley not to risk it with it because the thermal imaging could still sense her...
It was so disappointing that the shoulders of the two little girls drooped.
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On the first day of September, Harry packed two suitcases early and paced back and forth in her room.
Due to the still strict secrecy laws in the wizarding world of North America, freshmen cannot buy their own wands, and they have to go to Ilvermorny to pick them up after sorting, which was what Queenie told her.
And the managers of Ilvermorny probably thought that since the wands were distributed only after entering the school, it would be better to send the books and supplies in a package, so as to save the hidden danger of exposure to the wizarding world caused by the parents of the new students gathering to buy.
She looks like she is still a little nervous, although she has not shown much concern this month.
I have to leave home for at least half a year, and I can't come back until Christmas... How could brother Dick be so eager to leave home?Harley, who was only 11 years old, couldn't understand it at all.
She was thinking wildly, waiting for the portkey that was supposed to show up at the mansion at some point - Ilvermorny's journey to school was so simple and crude. *
Harley, who is about to embark on a novel journey, has no idea how much waves she will cause in the British wizarding world today.
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In Scotland, across the ocean, at the dinner on the first day of school at Hogwarts, the savior girl who was supposed to enter school at the age of 11 this year did not appear at the sorting ceremony, which sparked continuous discussions on the spot.If it weren't for Dumbledore's force to maintain order, the discussion would have grown louder and overturned the roof.
Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape, who were the only ones in the know, remained silent; Myrtle was even enchanted by Dumbledore, as long as she mentioned Harry's name, she would disappear into the toilet, It will come out after a day.
The next day, Rita Skeeter's exclusive search turned the British wizarding world upside down—the savior girl disappeared, and even her records in Muggle society evaporated.
This one is partly credited to Bruce when Halle was 8 years old.
Some people think that this is a harbinger of the Dark Lord's imminent re-emergence. He quietly killed the savior girl in the past few years, and Dumbledore, who placed Harry Potter in Muggle society, was condemned overwhelmingly; It is even more pessimistic, and has an open mind, thinking that the Dark Lord has kidnapped Harley and intends to train her to be his successor.
Discussions in the newspapers were in full swing. This was the biggest news in the wizarding world recently, and even the theft of Gringotts was squeezed out of the headlines.
Even the officials of the Ministry of Magic who went to Azkaban to interrogate prisoners carried newspapers on the road, for fear of missing the latest news.
The biggest use of a newspaper that has been read is to pad your butt, and it is even more necessary in the slippery and dirty Azkaban.
So an old newspaper with the headline "Harry Potter disappeared, has the savior girl been killed" was blown into Sirius Black's cell by the North Sea wind. *