Chapter 166: Undercurrent

Regardless of whether Miss Hermione Granger's concerns were justified or not, they could not continue to pay attention to this issue.
　　 Because they have to go to class.
　　 The three people parted, the expression on Hermione's face was very solemn and sad.
　　 At noon, when Matthew reappeared in the auditorium, he suddenly found that there was a lot of delicious food on the table as usual...
　　 Everything is restored as before! It seems that the strike of the house elves has come to an end!
　　 Hermione didn't want to believe this "fact"... and, it seemed that she hadn't eaten anything at all at noon.
　　 After lunch, she just pulled Matthew and Neville, and went to the kitchen again
　　 She wants to see the poor house elves again, she wants to comfort them and ask if they need help...
　　 Only this time, they failed to open the door in the picture; it was locked from the inside, locked tightly.
　　 The three of them can only return without success.
　　 In the next few weeks, "strikes" seem to still happen from time to time; of course this is just their guess.
　　 Because every once in a while, there is always a meal that is far from being as rich as usual, very monotonous, and even a little insufficient...
　　Matthew thinks this is an "emergency" response by Hogwarts when the house elves take a strike action.
　　 However, things like making students hungry never happened again.
　　Hermione Granger never mentioned anything related to the house elves, either in normal or private time with Matthew and the others.
　　 But Matthew thinks that she must have not forgotten what she saw and heard in the kitchen.
　　……
　　 Time passed day by day.
　　 The last month of the year has finally arrived, and the cold air has completely enveloped Hogwarts this time.
　　 The day before the Christmas holiday, when the Hogwarts campus woke up from a dream, I suddenly found that it was covered with several feet of snow and hard ice formed on the lake.
　　 And another day passed, and the next morning, the heavy snow that was originally flying suddenly turned into a violent blizzard
The herbal medicine class was temporarily cancelled because Professor Sprout originally prepared this class and took the students to transplant Flor flowers outside the greenhouse... This was originally a very dangerous job, and such bad weather was even worse. Increase its risk.
　　 So when it was supposed to be the herbal medicine class, Matthew Wickfield sat by the campfire in the Slytherin common room, looking a little absent-minded.
This year’s Christmas holiday, it is said that there are many students staying at school, at least double that of last year...Last year was a special situation, because those sudden attacks were too terrifying for the students and caused excessive The panic caused almost all of the Hogwarts students outside of Muggle origin to frighten back!
　　 Although several Azkaban’s fugitives escaped this year, those notorious criminals are far away from the students, so they didn’t cause any panic
　　 So many people stayed.
　　 For example, Draco Malfoy, his parents reported that he was leaving England during the Christmas holidays, so he simply chose to stay in school.
　　Muggle-born students like Matthew and Hermione are naturally staying in the school.
　　 Even Neville won’t go home, because his father will stay at Hogwarts for the entire Christmas holiday.
　　 "Damn it, Gringotts seems to have something wrong again!" By the fire, a senior Slytherin student suddenly put down the "Daily Prophet" in his hand and complained loudly.
　　 "Gringa?" Matthew couldn't help frowning, and asked quickly, "What happened over there?"
"The fairies lodged a strong protest to the Ministry of Magic, hoping to amend the unequal "Witch and Fairy Non-aggression Act"..." The senior boy said, eloquently, "They asked the wizards to reduce their interference in Gringotts. And renegotiate whether the fairy can legally own the right to the wand..."
"It is said that the relationship between wizards and goblins has fallen to the worst moment since 1717; there are even rumors that a 20th century goblin rebellion is brewing... Damn, it will definitely be a disaster. !"
　　 "The new goblin rebellion..." Matthew frowned.
　　 In fact, in a sense, this is not alarmist.
　　 At the party of the Slug Club, he had also faintly heard about this when communicating with the official Dirk Creswell of the Fairy Liaison Office of the Ministry of Magic.
　　……
　　 Hogwarts house elves are uncharacteristically and frequently go on strikes.
　　The fairies of Gringotts may even be brewing a new "fairy rebellion".
　　 Plus the unaccounted members of the Order of the Phoenix who sneaked into Hogwarts...
　　 All of this is a little frightening.
　　 To be fair, Hogwarts hasn't had too many trivial incidents or accidents in the first six months after the start of this semester; at least it seemed much calmer than last year.
　　 But Matthew always felt that after the apparent calm, a dark tide was surging silently...
　　 The promoters of that dark tide are undoubtedly the members of the Order of the Phoenix!
　　 They seem to be guiding all this in the dark.
To be honest, this is very strange. Albus Dumbledore has been imprisoned in Newmontgard prison for nearly 50 years, and the remaining forces of the Order of the Phoenix have been suppressed for so many years. ...
　　 Then, why are they doing this now?
　　 What gives them the courage and confidence that makes them feel that they can shake or even overthrow the influence of Gellert Grindelwald?
In all fairness, if the fart stock decides, Matthew must be more inclined to the magic world dominated by Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix... After all, he is a Muggle-born wizard, and Grindelwald’s politics The attitude has always been wizard-oriented and opposed to Muggles.
　　 What's more, when I was in Hogsmeade, Aberforth Dumbledore of the Order of the Phoenix most likely saved his life.
　　 But if Matthew is allowed to choose, he will definitely choose to stand with the existing Hogwarts principal.
　　 Because the times are doomed...
　　Gellert Grindelwald's influence has long been integrated into all aspects of the wizarding world.
　　 And his forces are far stronger than the Order of the Phoenix, where the leader was arrested and can only operate in secret (Matthew doesn't believe that Grindelwald is just a "harmless" Hogwarts principal).
　　 Therefore, Matthew is very puzzled by this surging undercurrent!
　　 The only thing he can do now is to stay away from it.
　　 And I hope this dark tide will not affect myself.
　　:. :