Suddenly there was a rapid knock on the door, awakening the Weasley brothers who were still sleeping soundly. They all jumped up from the bed, clutched the wands placed on the pillows in their hands, looked at the wooden door warily, and lowered their heads.
The voice asked, "What's the matter?"
"It's time to get up. Albert just asked the patron saint to send a message, saying that he would come over for a meeting later."
Shanna's voice came from outside the door. Fred and George both breathed a sigh of relief and lay back on the bed. They originally thought something had happened.
"What time is it?" Fred asked with his eyes closed.
"It's almost ten o'clock!"
George covered a yawn, opened his eyes and glanced at his pocket watch and said.
"How long do you two plan to sleep?"
The door was pushed open, and Li Jordan stood outside looking at the two people who were still hiding under the quilt and said.
"Let's sleep a little longer," Fred muttered.
"It's really unbearable." After Li Jordan wiped out the pumpkin pie in his hand, he strode into the bedroom, reached out to grab the sheets on the bed, and lifted the sheets with force.
"cold."
The twins were forced to get up from the bed. After sneezing, they quickly wrapped the sheets around themselves and glared at Lee Jordan.
"Okay, let's get up, go out, we have to change clothes!" Fred said angrily.
Immediately afterwards, Li Jordan was pushed out of the dormitory, and the door was closed with a bang.
"They're too shy."
Lee Jordan shrugged towards Shanna in the corridor.
After a while, Fred and George walked into the living room after changing their clothes and yawning. The twins looked very tired. It was obvious that they had stayed up very late to rest last night.
"When is the meeting!"
Fred threw himself on the soft sofa and asked with his eyes closed.
"Ten o'clock." Shanna reminded, "the time is almost up."
"Why didn't he put the time in the afternoon or evening? I have to talk to him about it later." Fred couldn't help complaining.
It is really difficult to ask others to get up for a meeting so early in the winter.
"Okay, let's eat something to cheer up."
Cedric pushed a plate of still steaming pumpkin pie in front of the twins, and asked the house elf to make them a cup of strong tea.
"You should go to bed early at night. Those who don't know better would think..." Before Lee Jordan could finish his words, he was interrupted by George.
"Then come and help us. I'd rather go to bed early." George took a piece of pumpkin pie and handed it to Fred. He also took a piece for himself, put it in his mouth and took a bite. It tasted like a freshly baked pie.
great.
"Look at today's newspaper headlines."
Lee Jordan stiffly changed the subject. He didn't know how to make magic props, and he couldn't help Fred and George.
George covered his yawn again and asked: "What news?"
"The Ministry of Magic's Shelter No. 1 has been completed, and many senior officials from the Ministry of Magic have moved into the shelter." After Digory briefly talked about the content of the headlines, he handed the "Daily Prophet" on the table.
To George.
"Is the Ministry of Magic crazy, or is the Daily Prophet crazy? They actually reported this matter. Don't they know the consequences of doing so?" George picked up the newspaper and read the latest front-page news.
He couldn't help but frown.
"Is there any problem?" Shanna asked confused.
"You mean the shelter is not spacious enough?" Cedric guessed the reason.
"Yeah, what do you want the other employees of the Ministry of Magic to think?" George reminded.
"Didn't the newspaper say that the Ministry of Magic is still building Shelters 2 and 3?" Lee Jordan gestured to the two of them to read the contents of the newspaper.
"It's definitely too late." Fred took a bite of the steaming pumpkin pie in his hand. "However, I still feel that the shelter the Ministry of Magic has built is quite good. I think I can suggest to Al
Bert does the same thing."
"Don't be stupid, we don't have enough time to do that." George shook his head and said, "It's unrealistic to bring people from the Defense Association together."
"At least it's safe." Fred said without thinking.
"We certainly can't convince them to give up their jobs and hide in a damn shelter, unless it's my situation." Cedric thinks this kind of thing is unrealistic. No one would want to hide if they could.
.
"We can't provide everyone with free food. Daily food alone requires a lot of money. And do you want to exhaust Dobby to death?" Li Jordan also felt that this idea was unrealistic.
"I'll just say it casually!"
Fred took a sip of the strong tea brought by the house elf, and his cheeks almost wrinkled.
"However, I think Albert may have had a similar plan originally, but later gave up, or he felt it was inappropriate." Cedric took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, then turned his attention to the entrance to the hall.
After a while, the sound of the door opening came from the entrance.
"You are really on time as always!"
"Get ready for the meeting!"
Albert ignored Lee Jordan's teasing and clapped his hands to signal everyone to start the meeting.
After several people came to sit down at the round dining table, Cedric frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"I recently received news that a mysterious person is targeting us." Albert said straight to the point.
"Isn't the mysterious man targeting us a long time ago?" No one was surprised by this. They all knew that the mysterious man hated Albert and had tried to kill him more than once, but his plan failed.
"They already know about my formation of the Defense Association." Albert tapped his finger on the table and motioned for everyone to look over. "The mysterious person will probably focus on our members and try to use them to deal with me. After all, they have done it before.
There was a Peter Pettigrew success story."
"What did you predict again?" George asked curiously.
"We need to give up on Joko's line for the time being." Albert looked at Fred and George and continued: "I suspect that he has been targeted for a long time. There is no need to continue taking risks now, so just take
Let him be used as bait to attract attention for us."
"What about Zuko?" Cedric asked with a frown.
"He's safe. I'll go over to the Ministry of Magic and say hello."
"What about our owl mail-order business?" Fred and George said in unison, "Should we give up the joke shop business temporarily?"
"Most of the orders at the joke shop come from Hogwarts. We can ask Ron to help us and temporarily hire him to help us distribute the goods. I think Ron will be willing to help us deliver the goods for Galleon's sake."
"
"Well, it should be no problem. We will write to Ron." Fred nodded and agreed. As long as they can continue to do mail orders, they can continue to make money. Moreover, the most profitable thing currently is the Defense Against the Dark Arts supplied to the Ministry of Magic.
Props.
"Next, there is the issue of the safety of the members of the Defense Association." Albert directly stated the purpose of coming here today.
"Do you think the Death Eaters will do anything to them?"
"As long as their minds are sound, they will definitely look for my friends first. After all, you are all my friends, and others will probably become the targets of the mysterious man." Albert said without thinking.
"But..." Shanna hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't you think it's weird?"
"What's weird?" Albert asked.
"Why did they attack your friends?" Shanna reminded, "They don't have any evidence. They just speculate that they are related to you and may be suspected of joining the Defense Association."
"Sometimes there is no need for evidence, especially for mysterious people." Albert said calmly, "As long as he has doubts, he will do this, let people catch them, and use Legilimency to spy and search.
Their memory, never underestimate the bottom line of a dark wizard."
"How about we build a similar shelter." Fred pointed to the headlines in the newspaper, "Let them all move here. That will be safer and give us more time to train."
"It's unrealistic." Albert shook his head and said, "We have indeed prepared a lot of shelters, but we cannot provide everyone with normal life support. I mean complete supporting facilities like the Ministry of Magic. Over there
It was basically an empty shell with only a few days' worth of water and food reserves inside."
"Then what are you going to do?" Lee Jordan asked.
"Find them a temporary place to stay to get rid of the enemy." Albert said without thinking, "I have already chosen the location."
"You mean the place used to pretend to be the headquarters?" Diggory asked suddenly.
"Yes, actually, there is the prototype of the Ministry of Magic's shelter, but I don't have that much manpower and material resources to complete it, so I can only leave it abandoned." Albert briefly explained his plan. He planned to let others
When a person encounters danger, he or she will directly apparate and hide in the area protected by the Loyalty Curse.
Of course, many people have never thought about this kind of thing, simply because it is very reckless to use Apparition to appear in other people's homes, but the possibility of executing it is very high, and even Voldemort has no good solution.
"Are you actually planning to use that place as a bait to attract the attention of Death Eaters and use it to conceal the existence of this place?"
Cedric understood.
If the Death Eaters knew the location of the Defense Association's headquarters, they would definitely monitor it and ignore it.
Cedric still remembered how he told those dark wizards the location of the headquarters of the Defense Association.
As long as Albert admits that it is the headquarters of the Defense Association, it is not actually a lie.
"I will take the time to take them there when the time comes. And here's the thing. I will distribute the communication bookmarks to them at the next gathering."
"There is a communication bookmark inside, you can receive my messages."
With that said, Albert took out a wooden box and handed it to Fred, then turned to Lee Jordan and said, "I think wizards in the entire magical world need a channel to obtain information."
"This has been done before," said Lee Jordan.
"I mean the channel dedicated to the Head Defense Association, which delivers some messages every day. As for passwords, I use communication bookmarks to deliver them."
"It feels like it's getting more and more troublesome. Why don't you get a version of the communication pen that Sirius uses? That way everyone can communicate with each other easily."
"No, that way once someone is caught, they will be easily blamed." Albert shook his head.