The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Hermione, don't be angry!"

"Hermione, I have my own reasons too. How can I shirk away from work matters?"

"Hermione, look, this is the Russian food I brought you. I promise you, it's very delicious-"

Hermione finally raised her head, looked at Tom who was chattering away, and said angrily: "Everyone has different tastes, how can you guarantee that I like to eat the dishes you bring?"

"Try it." Tom took out the packed stainless steel lunch box as if offering a treasure.

Hermione looked at the ordinary stainless steel lunch box in Tom's hand and shook her head. She didn't think there could be anything delicious in it. But after all, Tom had worked so hard to bring it back, and she really didn't eat much for lunch, so she decided to give Tom a little face and a little taste.

She opened the lunch box and found that the lunch box was divided into upper and lower layers by a baffle. The upper layer was divided into two small partitions. One partition contained bread, the other partition contained barbecue cut into small pieces, and the lower layer contained a portion. A soup that looks like leftover rice chowder.

The quality is average, but the aroma comes out after heating. Hermione tasted it and found that it tasted surprisingly good. The sour taste was so appetizing that she finished the entire box of food in one sitting.

"It tastes pretty good." Perhaps because of the delicious food, Hermione's mood improved a lot.

She put the lunch box away and took a tissue to wipe her mouth. After packing it up, she pushed a roll of parchment to Tom, "Take time to take a look at this part of the paper I wrote and see if there is anything that can be improved."

Tom smiled and took the paper Hermione had just written in his hands and started reading.

The parchment paper used to write the paper was slightly yellow, and it was covered with Hermione's beautiful handwriting, which seemed to have the warmth of a girl. The soft winter sunlight shines through the window and onto the table, casting a golden glow. Hermione sat opposite Tom. The afternoon time and sumptuous meal made the girl a little lazy. She lay half lazily on the seat, holding a book in her hand. But her mind was clearly not on the book. From time to time, she would look up and peek at the boy opposite, then her cheeks would turn red and she would quickly look away. But after the blush on her face subsided, she couldn't help but glance at the boy who was reading the paper carefully.

The good times passed like this bit by bit, and 1994 arrived.

As the new year approaches, several big events are happening in both the magical and non-magical worlds. Needless to say in the non-magical world, the election of the Prime Minister is the biggest news.

As for the magical world, the newly appointed Minister Bones issued the most severe arrest warrant for Peter Pettigrew. This wretched wizard was wanted by the Ministry of Magic with a reward of 30,000 gold galleons, whether he was alive or dead. And she also allowed the Aurors who were chasing Peter to use the Unforgivable Curse, and the dementors who saw Peter could also directly use the Dementor's Kiss.

In addition to the wanted order, the Ministry of Magic also announced two major events. The first is that preparations for the new Quidditch World Cup have officially begun, and the second is that Minister Bones will launch a mission codenamed "Tornado." "A large-scale search operation with the intention of completely eradicating the dark magic items in Knockturn Alley - the confidentiality of this operation was quite good. Bones summoned all Aurors and strikers without any warning and directly raided Knockturn Alley. Back in the alley, no news was leaked from the beginning to the end of the operation.

Tom also got involved in this action. But his involvement was purely coincidental.

That was the day before the "Tornado" started. That day, Bones personally went to Azkaban with her cronies, hoping to recruit some dementors to help her control the dark wizard in Knockturn Alley.

Bones was not the first Minister of Magic to take a crack at Knockturn Alley. Before her, the Ministry of Magic had inspected Knockturn Alley several times, and the most recent raid was planned by Cornelius Fudge. But these several inspections had little effect.

Bones knew the reason for the limited success: Knockturn Alley had deep collusion with some officials of the Ministry of Magic, especially those pure-blood families. Almost all the shops in Knockturn Alley are backed by a pure-blood family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. With the protection of such intricate relationships, it’s a wonder that the search can be effective.

Bones is ambitious. She wants to really clean up a few cancers, instead of just catching a few hawkers like her predecessors. In fact, every Minister of Magic has a unique ambition buried deep in his heart, even guys like Fudge are no exception. The person in charge of the search he conducted was Arthur Weasley.

This decision worked surprisingly well. Fudge successfully took advantage of the conflict between the Weasley family and the Malfoy family and gave Lucius eye drops. Under Arthur's aggressive offensive, Lucius had no choice but to run to Knockturn Alley in embarrassment to deal with the dark magic items in his home.

Minister Bones had his mind set on the Dementors this time.

Introducing external forces is often a shortcut to solving problems. Pure-blood families have no connection with dark creatures like dementors. What's even better is that the Dementors and the Ministry of Magic have similar positions - the captured prisoner will be thrown into Azkaban, which is good news for the Dementors.

Bones personally rushed to Azkaban to negotiate with the Dementors. Coincidentally, Tom was also in Azkaban at the time. He wants to send a group of dementors to his white dolphin prison.

This was something he had promised before.

When they heard that the king was taking them to the promised land, all the dementors were excited and they gathered around the king. I beg the king to take them to the promised land and not leave them in the bitter cold place of Azkaban.

Whether on patrol or not, the dementors ran to meet their king. So when Bones entered Azkaban, she was surprised to find that the dementors that had been wandering outside Azkaban Castle were gone. The entire Azkaban seemed empty, as if it had become an undefended zone.

She was secretly on guard, holding her wand tightly in her hand under her robe. She tensed her nerves, walked through the main entrance of Azkaban, and walked into the castle.

Dementors are not difficult to find, just follow the direction where the temperature decreases. Bones soon found the dementors in Azkaban. But when she got closer, she saw a scene she would never forget: a man wearing a crown of bones, surrounded by dementors.

The dementors surged like a tide, but the masked man stood there like a rock in the tide, unmoving. And those dementors had no intention of harming him. They were like humble ministers, surrendering before the king.

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Today, we are going to tell the story of Leonard Spencer-Moyne, the 25th Minister of Magic.

Leonard Spencer-Moon was a wizard who served as Minister for Magic from 1939 to 1948.

Spencer Moon began his career as a tea waiter in the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters at the Ministry of Magic, and gradually rose to the position of Minister. Spencer Moon took over as Minister for Magic after his predecessor Hector Foley failed to take seriously Gellert Grindelwald's revolution "for the greater good". He also maintained a good working relationship with the then Muggle Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

Coincidentally, "Leonard" is also Winston Churchill's middle name. In addition, because Churchill is a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family, Churchill's full surname is "Spencer-Churchill" (Spencer-Churchill).