Chapter 500 Huck, Prime Minister? (Ask for a monthly ticket at the beginning of the month)
Chapter 500 Huck, Prime Minister? (Asking for monthly votes at the beginning of the month)
Looking at the rags on the table, Scrimgeour wondered if his men were under a confusion spell? They might have thought they had confiscated or acquired some treasure, but in the end they came back with a bunch of rags?
"Director, look," Delis picked up the magic wand and waved it. The wand squeaked and turned into a rubber calf.
Now Scrimgeour was sure that his subordinates were under a confusion spell. Next to her, Naya also touched her forehead and sighed: How did someone like Delis become an Auror?
"Director, we found a very interesting shop in Knockturn Alley..." Naya recounted her recent experience to her boss.
Scrimgeour was thoughtful after hearing this. Delis was relieved when he saw this. He also realized that his behavior was inappropriate - especially after the cow in his hand twisted.
"Collapse!"
Scrimgeour suddenly pulled out his wand and cast a stun spell. Naya rolled to the ground in a very embarrassed state, narrowly escaping the sneak attack of her boss.
Naya:?
"Just trying your alchemical creation." Scrimgeour lowered his wand with a calm expression.
Naya sighed: "Director, I haven't had time to refill the Iron Armor Curse yet."
Scrimgeour's face twitched.
"Then why don't you fill it up quickly?" He coughed dryly, "Let's see the effect?"
After seeing the pained look on his subordinate's face, he added, "——If the effect is good, we can consider buying it in bulk and formulating it for the frontline Aurors, so that we can also take the one you have in the office.
The account is reimbursed."
Hearing what the director said, Naya perked up. Originally, she was a little worried that her anti-curse gloves had been repeatedly overcharged, but after hearing that there was a chance of reimbursement, she no longer had such worries.
Delis on the other side felt a little sour. However, considering that the performance of his anti-curse ring was far superior to that of his colleagues, he tolerated it.
Scrimgeour and Naya experimented with several spells nearby. Mr. Scrimgeour started with the most common spells and could successfully defend against explosion spells. Of course, don’t think about rebound, there are spells that can rebound.
In Scrimgeour's eyes, it's almost like a prank.
"It's interesting... I'll write you a note." Scrimgeour walked to the table, took out a piece of parchment and a quill, and quickly wrote a note. With this note, Naya
Then you can reimburse her for the anti-curse gloves on her hands.
As a veteran who had experienced the Wizarding War and spent most of his life fighting dark wizards, Scrimgeour knew the significance of the defensive magic items in Naya's hands. After the test he had just done, he thought that
The strength of the Iron Armor Spell is enough to block an attack from most dark wizards. The only drawback is that this spell must be actively triggered and cannot be passively defended, which means it cannot prevent sneak attacks and can only be used in head-on confrontations.
But this will also greatly improve the safety of Aurors' missions.
More importantly, this kind of magic prop is very rare. Even in the days when the mysterious man was raging, no merchant developed this kind of product. Only a few alchemists could refine it, and only a few pure-blood wizard families
It’s a collection that has never happened before, and buying a monkey version for 20 galleons has never happened. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic has never equipped Aurors with this kind of equipment.
But things are different now. There is an alchemist who is willing to do charity!
Yes, in Scrimgeour's eyes, the mysterious Mr. Seven is doing charity. This kind of good thing is really something you can't encounter even with a lantern.
Now that he was lucky enough to catch up, Scrimgeour felt that he must raise a large sum of money to buy as much of this protective equipment as possible. This was like an annual sale, and even Merlin couldn't guarantee to pay it back if he missed it once.
Is there a next time?
Twenty galleons a piece? Can I stock up on two hundred galleons at once? Anyway, it only costs two thousand galleons, so the department should be able to squeeze out this budget... right?
Scrimgeour's face darkened when he thought of the approval from the Department. The Auror Office is a subordinate department of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic. After the previous director, Amelia Bones, became the Minister of Magic, she took over the responsibility of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
It's a mediocre wizard named Piers Thicknesse.
His resume has no bright spots, his qualifications are fair, and he lacks practical experience. He is incomparable to a guy like Scrimgeour who has been fighting for half his life. He is a qualified bureaucrat. The reason why he became the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is that he is mediocre and not
Will become the second Bones.
Due to preparations for two major events, the Ministry of Magic's funds have been very tight recently. At this juncture, Scrimgeour felt that his road to applying for funds must be very tortuous. How could a bureaucrat sitting in an office understand the difficulties of front-line staff?
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The shortcomings of this glove are also obvious: it can only be used once in combat, it will wear out after being refilled with many magic spells, etc. Scrimgeour himself can find a lot of faults, and Thicknesse will only be able to make better excuses than him.
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Maybe in the end, the Ministry will only buy a dozen or so sets to cope with it, right? And this is the limit he can strive for - now that the dark wizards have almost disappeared, the Ministry of Magic does not need to allocate too many resources to the Auror Office.
The struggle between Aurors and dark wizards is never fair: Aurors are in the light, and dark wizards are in the dark; Aurors cannot use the Unforgivable Curse arbitrarily, and dark wizards have no such restriction; Aurors rarely have protective equipment, and dark wizards are in the dark.
The wizards have more or less strange dark magic items in their hands... These factors put the Aurors at a natural disadvantage when fighting against the dark wizards. As the leader of the Aurors, Scrimgeour wants to provide some basic protection to his subordinates.
Difficulty. He sighed and waved Delis and the others to go out. As for the rags Delis bought, he was not very concerned about them.
Scrimgeour is a very good fighter, but he is not a good bureaucrat. If he was smart enough, even if he could not purchase curse-proof gloves in large quantities, the budget would not be so tight.
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Pony still had no intention of coming out of the studio. Tom also consciously packed up his things and left the alchemy workshop.
The way they go home is to take a few bus stops and then take a taxi home - if Mr. Granger doesn't have time to pick them up.
In the taxi, Tom heard the radio saying: [... Prime Minister Mr. Harker——]
Tom raised his head.
The taxi driver noticed Tom's strange movement and quickly changed the channel.
"Sorry, I didn't expect it to suddenly start playing these boring things." The driver apologized amidst the melodious music.
"Huck, Prime Minister? So Mr. Huck really became Prime Minister?" Tom asked.
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