Vol 2 Chapter 696: Bedtime story (sincere thanks to the leader, gentleman for self-defense)

When Owen finally sent away the Gudlov family, the entire Harris house fell silent in the middle of the night. Alan, who had been lying in bed for a while, rubbed his eyes and got up from his bed. He was at the dinner tonight. And drank too much alcohol before going to bed.
Later, in the corridor where he lost some weight and returned to the bedroom, Allen saw his daughter Helena floating in the dark room. Allen's hands were tight. The ghost is not a living thing after all, is it? She can't really sleep if she needs it. In such a quiet night, she wanders in the room like this, it should be very lonely.
Ai Yiyi adjusted her pajamas and pants to make herself look less sloppy, and then whispered to her daughter, "Helena."
"Father?" Helena turned and floated over.
The portrait Allen retrieved from the entrance of the Hogwarts kitchen appeared in his hands. Allen looked at Helena and said softly: "This is a portrait of Helga Hufflepuff. Don’t hang up in your room? So when you’re bored at night you can talk to Helga to kill time."
Alan was about to unfold the scroll when he heard Helena say: "Father, it's too late, don't disturb her." Helena floated forward two steps, and brushed her hand over the scroll: "It's still hanging up. In the kitchen, she likes to watch people cook, and she will make friends with her grandma. Don't worry about father, I'm just getting familiar with the house."
"Then I will take you back to the room first. You can get familiar with it in the daytime. You don't need to hide your state deliberately. You don't have to wear it through the wall. There are not so many rules in our house. Of course, you have to confirm before entering the bathroom. The state inside..." At this time, Alan, who was obedient to her daughter, stretched out her arm, Helena floated over, slapped her father, and then returned to her own room.
Helena was led by Alan to the door of her house, and her bedroom was next to Alan's bedroom. Above the red-brown wood door. There is a house number plate nailed with the name of Helena written in swash English, and there are some decorative pictures of flowers, birds and birds on it. Helena stretched out her slender and transparent fingers and touched the name on her house plate like a living person. Her fingers followed the strokes of the letters and wrote the entire name again. You must know that even if she is the ghost of Ravenclaw College, she does not have her own room, she can only live in the sculpture of her mother.
Alan didn’t turn around and leave immediately. He walked into his daughter’s new room, dragged a chair and placed it by the head of the bed, and patted the bed: "Helena, lie down and try? I'll give it to you. Tell me about "The Collection of Stories of Poetry Weng and Pidou"."
"Father, I was older than you before I was alive...I'm past the age of listening to bedtime stories." Although Helena said so, she still let herself lie flat on the bed.
"We won't mention age anymore...your grandfather treated me like this when he was a child, so let's fulfill my father's wish." Allen ignored his daughter's complaints and started the story directly: "A beloved wizard, He used his magic power to help the neighbors around him, and made a cure for illness in this magic pot. It was a round pot..."
Alan’s voice had a calm and gentle power in the middle of the night. Helena was lying on her bed, holding her head in her hands, and watching her father tell her the wizard child without blinking. Fairy tales just to listen to. These stories Helena had seen the lower grades read many times, but at this moment, they gave her a different meaning.
After saying goodbye to her father, Helena floated on her bed, as if she was alive, letting herself float on the bed. She couldn't understand how the bed felt, but from the thickness and color, Helena guessed it must be very soft and comfortable.
The ghost has no tears. She stared at the curtains that gently drifted along with the cool summer breeze blowing in the window. She hadn’t seen her father since she was born, and her mother’s attitude towards herself was not as affectionate as she is now. Many times she heard people say that she was an unanticipated child, and how clever and full of wisdom and great her mother was. For this reason, when she was still alive, she had longed to be smarter than her mother, Rowena Ravenclaw. , More prestigious, stole the Ravenclaw symbol of wisdom and hid it in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest-but only a few years ago, I learned from my mother that all this was planned by the mother Yes, the purpose is to keep your soul from getting lost in the underworld...
But even if she knew that her mother and father’s plan was to protect herself, apart from feeling that Helga Hufflepuff took care of herself, all she had always felt was loneliness-other things showed her. Good wizards are either forced by their mother's prestige and hope to use her to please her, or they are spying on her beauty and identity.
And today’s grand welcome scene, seeing the undisguised expectations and joy on their faces, made her feel like she hadn’t been in many years. She tilted her head and tried to recall from her memory. But she couldn't find any words to describe this feeling, and she couldn't tell how she felt at the moment. Anyway, from today onwards, she will belong to her, and this is her home.
At around nine o’clock the next day, the sky was still black, and compared with the dark clouds outside and the dim sky, the living room of Harris’s house was brightly lit. After washing, Allen walked slowly. Go downstairs.
Just now, Alan received a letter from the Ministry of Magic dispatched by the Owl. He and Luna’s position of Silent Man has been approved, and he is required to perform duties at the Ministry of Magic within a few days. Therefore, early in the morning, Alan and Luna After contacting him, he was dressed neatly and prepared to leave, but the bursts of laughter from the kitchen attracted his attention.
In the kitchen, Helena is introducing the people at home to Helga in the portrait of Hufflepuff that Alan hung on the wall last night. Helga and Morgan Lefey, who finally came out of the tavern, are obviously very Speculation. Morgan Le Fay is very interested in making food, especially desserts.
Helga was obviously very satisfied with the attitude of her family to Helena and the position she was placed in the kitchen. When her eyes met with Allen, she nodded to Allen kindly. Alan smiled at this situation, nodded, turned and Apparated and left.
When Allen walked up to the main hall of the Ministry of Magic and got rid of the officials and visitors who greeted him actively, only to find that Luna and Lun, who were dressed a little strangely, had already reached the row of golden gates at the end of the hall. Talking next to the more than 20 elevators, this is the meeting place they arranged.
After meeting, they walked to the crowd around an elevator. A middle-aged witch with reddish golden curly hair smiled at Lun as if to please, but did not dare to say hello, but her eyes changed from time to time. Can't help but look at Luna.
Because it is not necessary to wear uniforms in school, Luna, with a bold and fancy forehead headband, is wearing a loose cotton blue dress with irregular patterns today, and she is wearing a large homemade necklace and a ring. The chain of the bracelet hangs obliquely. It is made up of several hemp ropes of different colors twisted together and tied together. Sandals composed of full leather soles make her look like she is not working at the Ministry of Magic but like going out for a picnic. , The colorful she was in sharp contrast with the wizards all around her in formal suits.
"How are you doing, Mrs. Ekmore? How is your daughter's face?" Lun took the initiative to greet her.
"Director Harris made you bother, my daughter's face is okay." The witch looked flattered: "Although I supervise the Floo Network, please rest assured, I will urge my colleagues to speed up the process of transforming the magic car. of."
With the jingle of bells and bells, a lift descended in front of them, the golden fence door was slightly opened, and no one from the wizards entered first, until Lun took Alan and Luna. They walked into the elevator together, and then they walked in. Not only Mrs. Ekmore, but the wizards in the elevator tacitly approached the elevator wall, leaving the central space for Lun and them-the Ministry of Magic has seven major divisions, each of which is in charge of one aspect of the wizarding world. The Magic Law Enforcement Department under Renn's jurisdiction is the largest of all the big divisions, except for the Department of Mystery Affairs, other big divisions are more or less related to it, so Renn is actually their immediate superior.
Len brought Alan and Luna to his own office, and in his drawer, he took out two small books with brown leather covers. This book can be folded into three layers. On the left is the information of the licensee, with photos of Ellen and Luna; in the middle is the logo and seal of the Ministry of Magic; and on the right is the department and responsibilities they are responsible for. .
Allen's gaze was fixed on the seal representing the Ministry of Magic in the middle. This is a light gold seal, which emits light like the sun. It consists of two circles. The middle of the large circle inside the seal is magic. (Magic) The initial letter M in capital M. There is a magic wand in the middle part of the letter V in the middle of M. The top of the wand and the two sharp corners above M are exuding stars like angel wings, and a small circle on the outside surrounds them. The text "Ministry of Magic (MnistryofMagic.
"The Department of Mystery Affairs is the most special existence in the Ministry of Magic. It is an independent department located on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic. It is a department of the Ministry of Magic that conducts secret research on specific puzzles. Most of its operations are completely kept secret from ordinary wizards. Few wizards in the Ministry of Magic really know what it is like. People who work in the Department of Mysteries are called silent people because their work has the highest level of confidentiality and concealment. They rarely talk about work, even if it is. The same is true for the former staff~EbookFREE.me~ After the Voldemort incident, we have removed all the monitoring equipment in the Department of Mystery. I think that although the father has the right to know in theory, in addition to knowing that there is a record of storing and keeping the prophecy Outsiders don’t necessarily understand what they’re doing.
Lun also brought his own credentials,
I’ll take you there, Alan, Luna, I’m honored to be colleagues with you.

Allen collected the credentials: "The main business of this department seems to be more like what Muggle scientists do, that is, revealing the sources and rules governing the operation of magic."
"But they can't learn it, because they haven't seen the Nether Scroll." Luna put the ID into her raven pocket.
Hearing the two children talk about what seemed to be a big secret, Renn coughed a few times. He wanted to remind his brother and Ravenclaw that they should pay attention to the privacy of their conversation, and then took the initiative to change the subject: "When Arthur Weasley was attacked, it was actually an illegal act of the Order of the Phoenix. They took turns to privately enter the Department of Mysteries to guard the prophecy ball. However, we did not hinder them due to the plan, and it was inconvenient to pursue the Order of the Phoenix afterwards. In the end, they were only punished by the Department of Mysteries for mismanagement. The remaining silent man, Sol? Kroc, was not an official material. He was somewhat sensitive to this, although he was not. Said he was emotional but he was too careful afterwards..."
Alan was a little helpless after his second brother coughed and showed a serious expression that he didn't hear: "Lun, of course I know you can hear me and Luna talking here, and I will tell when I fully understand it. Yours, for my apprentice Merlin’s sake, don’t be so boring. You are my brother and I am my younger brother. What are you hiding? Even Daisy and Emily have never liked you because of this, let alone other girls... "