Chapter 696: Bedtime Story
When Owen finally sent the Goodlov family away, the entire Harris house fell into silence in the middle of the night. Alan, who had been sleeping in bed for a while, rubbed his eyes and got up from his bed. He drank too much wine tonight at dinner and before going to bed.
Later, when she lost some weight and returned to the corridor of the bedroom, Alan saw her daughter Helena floating in the dark room. Alan's hands tightened. After all, the ghost was not a living creature and she could not really sleep. In such a late night, she should be very lonely wandering in the room like this.
Alan made up his pajamas and pants to make himself look less sloppy and lazy, and then whispered to his daughter: "Helena."
"Father?" Helena turned around and floated over.
The portrait that Allen retrieved at the entrance of the Hogwarts kitchen appeared in his hand. Allen looked at Helena and said softly: "This is a portrait of Helga Hufflepuff. Should you hang it in your room? In this way, you can chat and spend some time with Helga when you are bored at night."
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 hands over the scroll: "It's better to hang it in the kitchen. She likes to watch people and cook, and will make friends with grandma. Don't worry about her father, I'm just familiar with the house."
"Then I'll take you back to the room first. You can get familiar with it slowly during the day without deliberately hiding your state. If you want to walk through the wall, we don't have so many rules at home. Of course, you'd better confirm the state inside before entering the bathroom..." At this time, Allen, who obeyed his daughter's advice, stretched out his arm, Helena floated over, carried his father in vain, and then returned to his own room.
Helena was led by Allen to the door of her room. Her bedroom was next to Allen's bedroom. On the brown-red wooden door, there was a door sign with Helena's name written in English on the door sign, and there were some decorative pictures and texts of flowers, birds and birds. Helena stretched out her slender and transparent fingers and touched the name on her door sign like a living person. Her fingers followed the strokes of the letters and wrote the whole name again. You should know that even though she was a ghost of Ravenclaw College, she did not have her own room, and she could only live in the sculpture of her mother.
Alan did not turn around and leave immediately. He walked into his daughter's new room, dragged a chair and placed it at the head of the bed, and patted it on the bed: "Helena, try lying down? Let me tell you a story about "The Story of the Poetry and the Poems".
"Father, I was older than you in my lifetime... I was already past the age of listening to bedtime stories." Although Helena said this, she still let herself lie flat on the bed as she said.
"We won't mention age anymore... Your grandfather treated me like this when he was a child. Just satisfy his father's wish." Allen ignored his daughter's complaints and told the story directly: "A beloved wizard, who used his magic power to help his neighbors around him, made a prescription for curing diseases in this magic pot. It was a round pot..."
Alan's voice had a quiet gentle power in the late night. Helena lay on her bed, holding her head with her hands, and watching her father telling her fairy tales that only wizards and children would listen to. Helena had seen these stories read by lower grade students many times, but at this moment, they gave her a different meaning.
After saying goodbye to her father, Helena floated to her bed, just like 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 that it must be very soft and comfortable.
The ghost had no tears. She stared at the curtains that were gently floating with the cool summer breeze blowing from the window. She had never seen her father since she was born. Her mother was not as intimate as she was now. Many times she heard others say that she was an unanticipated child. How smart and full of wisdom and great her mother was. For this reason, when she was still alive, she once longed to be smarter and more famous than her mother Royna Ravenclaw, and stole the crown of Ravenclaw symbolizing wisdom and hid it in a hollow tree in the forest of Albanian - but she only learned from her mother that all this was planned by her mother a few years ago, and the purpose was to prevent her soul from being lost in the underworld...
But even though she knew that her mother and father’s plan was to protect herself, in addition to feeling that Helga Hufflepatch took good care of herself, she always felt lonely - other wizards who showed good deeds to her either forced her mother's prestige to please her, or they were peeking into her eyebrows and identity.
Today, the grand welcome scene, seeing the unconcealed expectation and joy on their faces, made her feel that she had not had for many years. She turned her head and tried to recall from her memory, but she could not find any words to describe this feeling. She could not determine her feelings at the moment. No matter what, from today on, she would have belonged, and this is her home.
At around nine o'clock the next day, the sky was still covered with black clouds. Compared with the dark sky outside, the living room of Harris's house was brightly lit. After washing up, Alan, who was refreshed, slowly walked downstairs.
Just now, Allen received a letter sent by the Ministry of Magic to send an owl. He and Luna's position as Silent Man had been approved, requiring him to go to the Ministry of Magic to perform his duties within the past few days. Therefore, in the early morning, Allen and Luna contacted each other and were dressed neatly 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 Hufflepuff portrait that Allen hung on the wall last night. Helga and Morgan LeFey, who finally came out of the tavern, are obviously very speculative. Morgan LeFey is very interested in making food, especially desserts.
Helga was obviously very satisfied with his family's attitude towards Helena and being placed in the kitchen. When her eyes met Alan, she nodded to Alan kindly. Alan would smile when he saw this situation, nodded, and turned around and moved away.
When Allen approached the main hall of the Ministry of Magic and got rid of the officials and visitors who he greeted him on his own initiative, he realized that Luna and Lun, who were dressed in a weird manner, had already arrived at a row of golden gates at the end of the hall and talked next to the elevators of more than twenty departments. This was the meeting place they had agreed to meet.
After meeting, they walked into the crowd surrounding a lift. The middle-aged female master with red and golden curly hair seemed to be flattering at Lun, but she didn't dare to say hello, but her eyes couldn't help but look at Luna from time to time.
Because it is not necessary to wear uniforms at school, Luna, who has a bold and fancy forehead and headband, is wearing a loose cotton blue-soled long skirt covered with irregular patterns, and a layered large homemade necklace and a chain connecting rings and bracelets. It is a sandal made of several hemp ropes of different colors and tied together with a full cowhide sole. It looks like she is not working in the Ministry of Magic, but is like going on an outing in the wild. The colorful she is in sharp contrast with the wizards who are dressed in formal clothes around her.
"How are you doing recently? Mrs. Ikemo? How is your daughter's face?" Lunn took the initiative to say hello to her.
"Director Harris has troubled you. My daughter's face is fine." The witch looked a little flattered: "Although I supervise Flu.com, please rest assured that I will urge my colleagues to speed up the procedures for the transformation of magic cars as soon as possible."
With a jingling sound, a lift landed in front of them. The golden fence gate gently cut open, and no one from the wizards entered first. It was not until Lun took Alan and Luna into the elevator that they then walked in. Not only Mrs. Ikemo, but the wizards in the elevator tacitly approached the elevator wall, leaving the central space to Lun and the others. The Ministry of Magic has seven major divisions in total, each of which is in charge of an aspect of the magic world. Among them, the Magic Law Enforcement Division under the jurisdiction of Lun is the largest of all major divisions. Except for the Mysterious Affairs Division, the other major divisions are more or less related to it, so Lun is actually their immediate superior.
Lun brought Alan and Luna to his own office, and in his drawer he took out two small notebooks with brown leather covers. The notebook could be folded into three layers, with the information of the licensee on the left, with photos of Alan and Luna; the middle was printed with the Ministry of Magic's logo seal; and on the right, the department and duties they were responsible for.
Alan's eyes were fixed on the seal representing the Ministry of Magic in the middle. This was a light golden seal, which seemed to emit light like the sun. It consisted of two circles. The middle of the large circle on the inside of the seal is the capital letter M in Magic. There is a magic wand in the V part in the middle of M. The top of the wand, the two sharp corners above M emitted starlight like angel wings, and the small circle outside surrounded the text "Mnistry of Magic".
"The Department of Mystery 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 the department that the Ministry of Magic conducts secret research on specific puzzles. Most of the business is completely confidential to ordinary wizards. Few wizards in the Ministry of Magic really know what this place looks like. People who work in the Department of Mystery are called silent people because their work has the highest level of confidentiality and concealment. They rarely talk about work, even former employees. After the Voldemort incident, we have removed all the monitoring equipment in the Department of Mystery. I think that although my father has the theoretical right to know, he will not necessarily understand what they are doing except knowing that there are records of storage and custody prophecies." Lun also brought his own document, "I will take you there, Allen, Luna, I am honored to be colleagues with you."
Allen put the document in place: "The main business of this department seems to be more like what Muggle scientists do, namely, revealing the sources and rules that dominate the operation of magic."
"But they can't learn it because they haven't seen the Neser scroll." Luna put the ID into her raven's bag.
When Lunn heard the two children telling something like a chat, he coughed a few times, trying 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 topic: "When Arthur Weasley was attacked, it was actually an illegal operation of the Order of the Phoenix. They took turns to break into the Mysterious Affairs Department to protect the prophecy ball. However, because we did not hinder them at the time, we did not hinder them, and it was not convenient to pursue the Order of the Phoenix afterwards. In the end, they only imposed some open punishments on the Mysterious Affairs Department for poor management to make them take the blame. The remaining silent man, Thor Crocker, was not an official material. He was a little sensitive to this. Although he was not emotional, he was too careful afterwards..."
Allen was helpless and showed a serious expression after his second brother coughing. "Lun, of course I know that you can hear the conversation between Luna here. When I fully understand it, I will tell you. For the sake of my apprentice Merlin, don't be so boring. You are my brother and I am my brother. What are you avoiding... Even Daisy and Emily have always been disliked because of this, let alone other girls..."
Chapter completed!