MTL - In This Hogwarts Without a Savior-Chapter 469 467. Department of Mysteries

   Chapter 469 467. Department of Mysteries

  Jon followed Slughorn through the black door he had opened.

  As soon as I entered, I could find a large and messy office inside, with more than a dozen wizards sorting out various parchments and files that were piled up everywhere.

  The robes they wear are different, but what is unified is that each has a badge embroidered on the chest of the robes.

   This means that all the people currently in the Department of Mysteries on this floor are all from pure-blooded families.

   And Jon also keenly noticed that only a small part of the family crests of these people belonged to the Holy Twenty-Eight House, that is, the ranks of the old-school pure-bloods, and almost all of them were new-school pure-bloods who were promoted after Voldemort II.

   Slughorn led Jon through the large office. During the period, the two of them didn't exchange a word. The fat walrus, who kept smiling, just said hello to the purebloods passing by him as he walked.

  Then, they came to a door next to the wall of the big office, with a metal nameplate on it—[Deputy Director's Office]

   "Before I came here, the Department of Mysteries never had the position of deputy director. That gentleman created it for me alone."

   This sentence finally seemed to be addressed to Jon.

  Jon shrugged secretly, and then said seriously.

   "This is enough to prove the master's great love for you, Mr. Slughorn."

   The fat walrus laughed. To outsiders, he seemed to be comfortable with Jon's flattery. Only Jon could see the joy in it.

They opened the door and walked into the office. After entering, Slughorn turned sideways and motioned for Jon to go in first. After Jon entered, he closed the door carefully, and finally did not know what he pressed Something, there was a sound of a lock spring springing on the door lock.

   After finishing all this, he turned his head and raised his eyebrows at Jon contentedly, then waved his hand, and the cabinet by the wall opened automatically, and a box of candied pineapple flew out of it, and finally landed on the desk.

  At the same time, the teapot jumped up by itself and poured two cups of black tea into the teacups that had just lined up like soldiers.

   "Relax, Jon. On my first day here, it's completely mine and no one will hear what we're all saying here."

  After Jon heard what he said, Ge You, who was completely motionless, lay down on the sofa chair, and then threw a candied pineapple into his mouth.

   He chewed twice and had to drink a whole cup of tea, this stuff was too sweet.

Slughorn sat across from Jon with a smile on his face. He looked at Jon who was staring at another person's face with emotion. This was the first time they met since they separated that night in the carriage. .

   "Now your name is circulating throughout Europe, Jon, you are bigger than my teacher."

  "If you let them know what kind of things you have been doing all these years, teacher, then they will definitely feel that Jon Green is nothing."

  Jon's words were serious, obviously not a compliment.

He has experienced many dangers in these years, but Slughorn has always been surrounded by wolves, and he is constantly looking for opportunities to pass important information to Dumbledore, many of which are related to the situation of the battle. , are passed through his hands.

  Slughorn's old face almost smiled when he heard Jon's words.

   "I don't want to say these unnutritious things. Did Dumbledore tell you what you are here for?"

  Jon nodded.

   Slughorn pressed his back against the back of the chair.

"Actually, at the beginning, I disagreed with him letting you sneak into the Ministry of Magic and carry out this secret mission with me. Because I think no matter how many things you have done before, you have not graduated from Hogwarts after all. , is a student. But after hearing Dumbledore say that you have learned the Animagus, and that the transformed form is a phoenix, I have no reason to refuse."

  He looked at Jon.

   "Did you master it with the ring?"

   Facing Slughorn, Jon certainly had nothing to hide. He took off the ring pendant that he had been wearing around his neck all the time, and the four blue diamond-shaped gemstones on it shone under the light.

   "That's right, teacher, I engraved the transformation magic of Animagus on the third stone, you know the first stone, it has a levitation spell on it, and the other two stones"

   Before Jon could finish speaking, Slughorn waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

"Don't tell me this kind of thing, just like when I taught you Occlumency, I told you that people should always keep some secrets that belong to them. I have them too, and Dumbledore has them too. You Of course it needs to be."

  Jon didn't refuse his offer.

   "Then teacher, have you gained anything these days?"

   After talking about the business, Slughorn's face calmed down.

   "I came to the Department of Mysteries half a month earlier than you, and in fact, before Dumbledore asked me to find a way to transfer to this department, Voldemort had already intentionally let me station here."

"Snape's matter will have a great impact on the follow-up. It is related to the current Voldemort. Whether he will choose to use the extremely flawed method of the Horcrux to maintain his own longevity. But it is also like Dumbledore guessing As I said, even if his mind is not as clear as that of the other one, he still took a lot of considerations into account. He didn't directly split his soul again, but asked me to try to crack the longevity potion that Snape made for another Voldemort. "

"However, the inside story of this potion is obviously an extremely closely guarded secret for the other Voldemort. I reproduced the catalytic potion that Snape made for him, but the potion itself has nothing to do with it. It has the effect of prolonging human life or immortality, it can only speed up the reaction of a kind of golden grit."

"That kind of gravel is what you brought back from Snape and gave it to Dumbledore. We don't know where the other Voldemort got it from. Whether it's the current Voldemort or Dumbledore, everyone knows Can't figure out what it does. The only clue is that Snape, along with the other Voldemort himself, spent a lot of time in the Department of Mysteries."

   Speaking of this, the expression on Slughorn's face became serious.

"Voldemort also asked Karkaroff to investigate this matter in the Department of Mysteries before, but he found nothing after that. So after I took the initiative to apply for a transfer and expressed that he wanted to share his worries, he sent me here. He also agreed with other people in the Ministry to submit a proposal to reorganize the entire Department of Mysteries. Because he felt that the silent people in the Department of Mysteries before were all old people who had been in contact with another Voldemort and were not worthy of his trust. , he wants to replace all the silent people here with his own people, that's why the current situation is here."

   "But I believe that when you came here, you should have discovered that all the new recruits here have certain problems."

  Jon nodded approvingly.

"I felt it when I came up in the elevator. The people who came to the Department of Mysteries to report seemed to have been premeditated, and they were all familiar with each other, and most of them were new purebloods. Only A very small percentage are old-fashioned purebloods."

   Slughorn said very seriously.

   "Because these people have actually betrayed the current Voldemort, but they are looking for another Voldemort who has disappeared before!"

  His words made Jon slightly taken aback, but he didn't feel how shocked.

  Because when Lily and Lily came to England to look for Snape, they had already confirmed that some of the Death Eaters had found their other master, otherwise Snape would not be able to get the bottle of golden grit.

   "So they are held together like this, can't Voldemort feel it now?"

"That's one of the problems." Slughorn said solemnly, "From the communication I have had with Voldemort, he really doesn't seem to feel the change in the heart of pure blood. But such a situation can be explained by There are also some explanations that don't make sense. It can be explained because, ever since he found out that he was getting old, he has been hiding behind the scenes. Few purebloods can see him. Naturally, he lacks channels to understand the outside world. "

"But as far as I know, the actions of these people who are already planning to betray their current master are very bold. They have won over many members of the Death Eaters, especially the new pureblood who has received the most favor from Voldemort. Press Logically speaking, with such a big move, even if Voldemort had no intention of dealing with the internal affairs of the pure blood, it is unlikely that he knew nothing about it. But the way he is acting now seems to be ignorant of everything. "

  Jon also fell into a period of thinking about this. He didn't know as much about the things around Voldemort as Slughorn. Of course, he couldn't think of where the problem was.

   Then Slughorn said seriously.

"There is no director in the Department of Mysteries at this level. My position is nominally assigned as deputy director, but in fact I exercise the power of the director. Except for me, everyone else is basically in the same group. The person you are pretending to be, this pureblood from the Ollivander family, is also the person they plan to win over. After all, there are different types of purebloods, like old-school purebloods A family like Levander, who has monopolized the entire British wand industry, is certainly worth wooing."

  Jon said in a deep voice.

"Doesn't this mean that our next actions in the Department of Mysteries will be more difficult? Now here are another Voldemort's people, and they must have come here with the instruction of their master, regardless of their Whatever their purpose, they will pay more attention to the actions of those who have not yet joined them."

   Slughorn nodded.

"That's why Dumbledore let you come. Next, I will give you the position of assistant to the director. I will be responsible for coordinating the affairs and information in the various halls of the Department of Mysteries to me, so that you will have the opportunity to enter and exit any department here. The room is less conspicuous than my identity as the deputy director. At the same time, I will have some trouble with the people they come to contact me. Since I accepted the appointment of the Department of Mysteries, they have been contacting me. Want me to choose between the two Voldemorts as an object of allegiance. Your task is to search among the halls and try to find something similar to the golden sand."

"During this period, if someone also expresses to you that you must choose one of the two Voldemorts, you can procrastinate as long as you can. If you can't procrastinate, you can also promise them first, so as to paralyze their vigilance against you. .”

  Jon had no objection to Slughorn's arrangement, he just asked with a frown.

   "What if I find the same thing? Professor Dumbledore told me to let me figure out what this thing is for."

   Slughorn put his hands on his belly, tapped his index fingers lightly and said.

   "This is not an easy task. If this thing is really important to the other Voldemort, then it must be much more convenient for him to let these Death Eaters who have completely sided with him come here."

   "I have an idea, sir."

  Jon blinked, and the corner of his mouth suddenly raised an arc and said.

   "Don't they really want to win you and me? Then why can't we agree to them first, and then as companions, it's normal for us to understand some of their missions in the Department of Mysteries, isn't it?"

   Slughorn mused.

"It's not that I haven't thought about it, Jon, but my concern is, if joining them requires something to pay? I don't think the other Voldemort is the crazy one he is now. He certainly won't easily trust the verbal promise."

  Jon waved his hand.

   "Leave this matter to me, teacher, I have only been here for the first day. Let me find out the situation here first, and then we will decide what to do next."

Afterwards, as Slughorn said, after all the purebloods who reported the new recruits had signed in today, Jon was assigned the job of assistant to the deputy director and stayed in the deputy director's office, while the others are assigned to each hall.

   Regarding Jon's good luck, obviously many people have different guesses.

  Because today's Department of Mysteries has not confirmed that there are only a handful of people who "worship the pier", Speke and Slughorn, who Jon pretended to be, are the two most important people.

  The reason why Slughorn chose him as the assistant to the deputy director's office now is that in the eyes of others, it is equivalent to a signal that he does not want to be involved with another Voldemort faction in the Affairs Department for the time being.

  This kind of brain supplement also provides a good reason for Jon and Slughorn, two people who were originally unrelated on the surface, to get in touch with each other now.

  (end of this chapter)