The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Hey, yes, I do have a lot of stories..." Huck began to tell the story of his battle of wits with the civil servants - in fact, he was beaten one-sidedly. But after listening patiently for a while, Tom began to guide the topic in the direction he needed.

"Well, my novel focuses more on urban ghost stories. Do you remember the train bombing a few days ago? There are some strange rumors in the market, and I am very interested in this."

"No impression at all." Huck was not very impressed by this matter. After all, every day his secretary would give him several huge document boxes, containing hundreds of documents waiting for Huck to sign and process, and let Huck write each of them out. It is obviously unrealistic to remember everything clearly.

"But if an explosion does occur, according to the process, the police should investigate, and then make the investigation report into a file and finally submit it to the General Administration Archives for archiving. In theory, this is still the responsibility of my department!" Huck suddenly felt proud. Get up, "I can ask someone to take out the files..."

"It's not necessary. It's too troublesome for you, and this kind of illegal operation will only leave a trail of evidence." Tom rejected Huck flatly. He just needs to know where the files on the case are. Every move of a person like Huck is watched by countless interested people, which can cause inconvenience.

Huck was a little touched when he heard this: He didn't expect that the person in front of him would be so considerate and considerate of himself. Touched, I must be friends with Mr....?

Huck suddenly realized an extremely embarrassing problem: he didn't even know the name of the person in front of him!

This person helped him find his car keys, took back the photos he had taken, and helped him solve problems in his department. But he didn’t even know his name!

Huck felt a pang of shame.

"Uh, um, it suddenly occurred to me that I don't seem to know your names yet. Maybe you introduced them, but I was very drunk before..."

Tom also looked like he suddenly realized, "My name is Lockhart, Gerald Lockhart, this is Ron, and that is Harry."

Huck laughed and said, "Tell me your real name. I think we can be friends. There is no need to be polite between friends."

Tom:?

The identity he is playing in front of him is really Lockhart!

Anne was also covering her mouth and snickering. Huck said to his wife: "Honey, bring that book." Anne walked out of the living room and walked in with a book after a while. This book looks extremely crude. The book cover does not even have a cover image, only a title. The pages and paper also give off a cheap feel, like a pirated book printed privately by a small workshop.

"I was the editor-in-chief of a newspaper before I entered politics, so I have some knowledge of popular novels." Huck clicked on the line on the cover, and Tom and the other two people stretched their heads over and saw that it read:

"The Adventures of Lockhart Volume 1"

Tom:? !

He picked up the book, flipped through it, and found that the content inside was "Breaking with the Ghost" written by Lockhart.

Huck's reaction is very normal, just like meeting a person and he tells you his name is "Jack Sparrow", you will also think that he is joking with you.

Tom: Ah this.

The three people present were stunned.

"Well, actually, my name is Tom Yoder." Tom thought for a moment and told Huck his name. But it’s hard to say whether Huck believed it or not.

"But when I was a newspaper editor, I did come across a few supernatural events." The few of them chatted for a long time, and the tea boiled for three pots before they were finished. Tom and the three reluctantly left Huck's house.

"Keep in touch!" Huck stood at the window and waved to them. After his friends left, Huck left the window and went to the bathroom to wash up. When he was lying on the bed, he let out a long sigh of relief: today was really torture for him. He recalled today's experience: working in the noise in the morning, having to deal with accountability from the union in the afternoon, and experiencing this kind of mess in the evening!

Fortunately, Tom helped me pick up the key. I don’t know how to fish out a key that fell into the sewer...

Yes, it is not an easy task to fish out the key to the sewer...

Wait, the key in the sewer?

Huck:!

How did Tom fish it out?

He suddenly woke up, and he began to try hard to recall the memory fragments in his mind: he came out of the embassy, ​​walked to the car, took out the key, and the key fell into the sewer, and he was photographed by reporters when he was fishing for the key. Later, Tom came over, He took out the key-?

Huck was very shocked: Tom did something that went against common sense!

Anne was also awakened by her husband's actions. She whispered: "My dear, let's try another day. You are too tired today..." However, Anne soon discovered something was wrong with her husband. After repeated questioning, Huck told Anne the details he remembered.

"There is a possibility that Tom himself has the key to the car - he may be a French spy, and he did this to get close to you and have a relationship with you." Anne analyzed quickly.

"Impossible, he speaks English so well!" Huck categorically rejected, "And it was an accident that I lost the key, but the French Embassy may have seen me losing the key, so I took the opportunity to do this."

"But this may not be enough time." Annie discovered the flaw in Huck's logic.

"Yeah, Tom didn't graduate from Cambridge. He can't be a spy." Huck, who was born in London Political and Economics, began to mock Cambridge graduates crazily. In the chain of contempt for academic qualifications, Oxbridge is at the top. In the eyes of the civil servants who have Oxbridge per capita, Huck, who graduated from London Political Science and Economics, is simply illiterate.

The best compliment in the London civil service system is "You are a reliable person", and the most serious local insult is "You are suitable to be a minister".

"This is a bit strange..." Huck lit a cigarette, but Annie took the cigarette away and put it out.

"Why don't you just go to the security department to arrange surveillance tomorrow? Don't tell me that MI6 doesn't have surveillance at the entrance of the French Embassy."

"Of course not!" Huck replied sternly, "That is an infringement of the privacy of friendly countries. The bank being monitored is the bank opposite the embassy. It has nothing to do with us!"

Huck decided to check the surveillance tomorrow to see the truth of the matter.

At this time, Tom had already got into the car heading to the London Police Headquarters. Along the way, they even shook their heads and sang songs because they were happy: their investigation had made a breakthrough.

The car drifted and hit the curb firmly, but it wasn't a big problem because Ron didn't stupidly stop at the door of the police station - if he really stopped at the door, today's mission is not to sneak in, but to be unparalleled. .

Even in the UK, even if it is Sunday night, there will still be people on duty at the London Police Headquarters. In theory, killing everyone on sight is also a form of infiltration. But sir, times have changed, and today’s guards have walkie-talkies...

If Tom chooses to infiltrate Wushuang, he will most likely have to face the MI6 agents who come after hearing the news. Then there is the iron fist of the British Empire: tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, there is always one suitable for Mr. Yoder, guaranteed to make him feel at home.

Ron parked the car on a street near the main office. It's not easy to find this place in the dark, using a paper map.

To sneak in, they should have used their cleverness to avoid the sight of the guards, but Tom and the others had a plug-in, so they put on their invisibility cloaks and walked in swaggeringly. There were two guards on duty sitting at the door of the police station. Tom and the other three passed by a few feet in front of them, but they turned a blind eye.

There were two cups of coffee and a few empty takeout boxes on the table in front of the guards. Today was Sunday night, and it was impossible for any leader to come to check on him due to a sudden illness, so the guards were very lazy.

Of course there is surveillance in the police station, but the guard in the surveillance room is also fast asleep at this time.

Tom and the others entered the police headquarters building easily. Although there were only a small number of personnel on duty in the entire building, the entire building was brightly lit. If Huck knew about this, he might have a very good entry point for the "thrift movement". If half of these lights are turned off, half of the electricity bill can be saved.

As for whether they will get lost due to the complicated terrain? That is of course impossible. Because there was a huge sign thoughtfully erected at the front desk with directions to various locations, Tom and the others found the archives room based on the guest signs.

The door to the archives was locked, but this did not trouble the three wizards.

"Open Alajo!" The door to the archives room slowly opened, and endless filing cabinets appeared in front of them.

"So where should I find it?" Harry looked at so many cabinets and was a little dumbfounded.

He originally thought that the filing cabinet was an office with several piles of documents piled inside, and the documents they needed were in the most conspicuous position, but he never imagined that the size of this archives room was almost as big as the Hogwarts library!

Tom pointed to the label on the filing cabinet closest to them: Hammersmith - Fulham Police Station - September 1992.

"Find the police station corresponding to the train station. The file should be stored in the cabinet in September."

Under the guidance of this idea, Tom and the others quickly found the files they needed.

"The Paddington train bombing, that's it." Harry saw a file bag and took it out excitedly.

The three people opened the file bag and read it on the desk. There are not a large number of detectives and death-god elementary school students in London, and the London police have not become like their Japanese counterparts who only know how to take photos and call high school student detectives when they encounter a case. They conducted an extremely detailed investigation of the case.

They carefully took the confessions of everyone present. Looking at the dozens of pages of confessions, the three of them unanimously decided to skip it. London police detectives analyzed the statements of witnesses at the scene and first ruled out the most outrageous "dead attack" theory. After all, they could not trust the statement of a drug addict, even if the person kept stressing that he did not take "high" at that time. "Yes.

Society is like this. Once you get involved in something, your credibility will be infinitely close to bankruptcy, even if you still seem to have some spare money.

Then, the police detectives characterized the incident as an attack, but this case was full of doubts. The detectives couldn't understand why a man who wanted to blow up a train would get into a fight.

In the end, it can only be explained that the attacker chose a double attack: explosion and self-immolation, but the key item to detonate the bomb was taken away by another man, so the two of them got into an argument. During the argument, the fuel on the attacker's body was ignited. , only then did the scene seen by the witnesses appear.

As for the details of being able to fight while his body was on fire, the detectives believed that he misread his struggling movements due to nervousness. The attack resulted in no casualties, with only the attacker and the man missing. It is not said that they were dead because the remains of the two people were not found at all, so they can only be considered missing.

Later, the police were surprised to find that no family members of the missing person showed up, so they closed the case happily: the truth "came to light" and no family members caused trouble. More importantly, which organizations were involved? Well! This has nothing to do with them. They closed the case at the speed of light, sealed the files, and sent copies to MI6. This matter has nothing to do with them anymore.

As for the diligent pursuit of the murderer for ten years, and finally the murderer was brought to justice and the truth was revealed to the world, that is the plot in the movie, please do not bring it into reality. They are the Queen's public servants, and they are very busy catching cats and dogs!

However, the "murderer" they investigated clearly: a businessman in the building materials business, his parents were both dead, he was unmarried, and he liked to collect antiques. On the day of the incident, according to his friends, he was purchasing antiques in London, but the police detectives determined that he was concealing the fact that he was having contacts with people in the name of purchasing antiques.

His address is also written clearly: 514 St. Michael's Road, Bristol

Tom and the others got the most critical information.

[Mission: Kill the Demons on Horseback (Prologue) The Second Act is Completed

Mission rewards have been distributed]

[The third act of Killing Demons on Horseback (Prologue) begins

Mission objective: Go to Burnham Manor, 514 Bristol St. Michael Road, and complete the incident investigation

Mission rewards: magic stones and mysterious rewards]

The second act of Tom's mission is also completed. Next, he needs to go to the unlucky man's hometown to conduct a final investigation. The mysterious reward in the mission reward made him a little excited.

"Professor Lockhart, what should we do next?" Ron and Harry looked eager to try after getting the key clues, but they were also a little worried deep down. They were afraid that Professor Lockhart would be here. So far, let them go back - after all, tomorrow is Monday, and if the professor forces them to go back to school on the grounds that they still have to go to school, they will have no way to refute.

As for Lockhart himself, he can take a leave of absence! He took two weeks off when school started, and it was okay to take a day off on Monday.

Tom scratched his chin. He must have to go to the scene, otherwise he would not be able to complete the task. As for Harry and Ron...

He looked at these two people and made arrangements for them.

Asking for a monthly ticket.

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