Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 157 Creepy
Jon looked at the newspaper from the French wizarding world, and the confusion on his face did not diminish in the slightest.
"I don't understand, Professor. Are you saying that this crisis comes from France? But we have been there once before. According to Madame Maxime, the situation is not so bad. French wizards will not willingly submit to the rule of the Dark Lord."
"I had the same idea as you before." Dumbledore said softly, "I thought things were far from being so bad. There are many factions in the French Ministry of Magic. There are indeed many people who support the theory of pure-blood superiority, but there are very few who really want France to become like Britain. But things are getting more and more wrong."
He looked Jon in the eyes.
"Everything that happened in the carriage after we returned from France was not directed against us, but was intended to cut us off from the French wizarding world."
"Remember that after we returned to school with Gabrielle after visiting Madame Maxime, I sent someone to France to gather intelligence?"
Jon nodded. Dumbledore had mentioned this to him when he was about to return from France.
"The people in charge of the Order of the Phoenix sent to France at that time were Ron's parents and two brothers, that is, the Weasley family." Dumbledore's eyes were deep. "Arthur and Molly are both veterans of the Order of the Phoenix. Their two sons Bill and Charlie, who have graduated from school, are also very outstanding. With their family collecting intelligence in France, I believe that they will soon investigate some things hidden under the surface. But you should not have forgotten what happened in the school afterwards."
Jon's pupils shrank slightly. He was very smart, but the information he knew was not as comprehensive as Dumbledore's. Now after Dumbledore's reminder, he figured out the connection!
"Percy rebelled!"
"That's right. Arthur and Molly's third child defected to the Ministry of Magic and the Dark Lord and escaped from the carriage." Dumbledore said calmly, "They are an excellent pair of wizards and parents who love their children very much. Percy's incident was a big blow to them. Although no one else in the Order of the Phoenix would have any doubts, they still asked me to find someone to take over their work in order to prove themselves."
"The intelligence agency, which had only been operating in France for a short time, was forced to change personnel at this time. After that, I let Sirius take over the couple."
Jon couldn't help but hold his breath . He didn't say anything because he knew very well that he shouldn't know about the grudges of past years, and he shouldn't know that the mouse lurking in the carriage was Wormtail.
But even if he didn't say it, Dumbledore later helped him sort out the relationship.
"The tuft of gray hair you found came from the Animagus form of a person. The person in this form is a Death Eater who has been missing in the wizarding world for a long time and has a deep hatred for Sirius. Once Sirius gets the news about him, he will definitely not stay in France. He wants to catch and kill him with his own hands. And now he has transformed himself into the wizard named Nigellus Dippet, and is looking for their enemy in the school with Lily and Lupin."
Jon's face was full of shock. Without Dumbledore saying anything more, he knew the reason for the strange problems that had occurred in the carriage during this period.
"The Dark Lord sent someone to lurk in the school, not to take revenge on us, but to stop your investigation in France! Percy's rebellion, and the gray hair I found..."
Dumbledore crossed his arms, the afterglow of the evening sunset shone through the car window, reflecting a subtle white light from his crescent-shaped glasses.
"The continuous change of people in charge has led to slow progress in intelligence gathering in France. Bill has only just sorted out the network and factions of the Ministry's top brass, but he has not conducted any further investigation. But in fact, there is no need to continue investigating France. I don't know whether the Dark Lord is intentionally demonstrating to me in the carriage, or whether the flaws in the rat accidentally revealed have allowed me to roughly guess what his plan is."
"Remember what happened to Gabrielle the night she encountered the Dementors ?"
He suddenly asked a question that seemed to have nothing to do with the whole thing. Jon didn't react at first. After thinking for a few seconds, he murmured.
"She said she saw a French wizard in the carriage who had visited their home before?"
Dumbledore said in a deep voice.
"I don't have any concrete evidence for this matter yet, but the Dark Lord may not want me to continue investigating in France because of this."
"If the rat lurking in the carriage was indeed the one Gabrielle saw, it must have been him. But in our impression, he was a short and fat British wizard. Why did Gabrielle have seen him before, and why did he become a middle-aged wizard who had met her father and was most likely from the French Ministry of Magic?"
Dumbledore's words suddenly made Jon feel creepy!
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something, something he had always ignored before.
Since Harry Potter was killed that night, it meant that James's secret-keeper Wormtail had become a traitor. If he had made such a great contribution to Voldemort, why had he never heard of his name when he was in Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Castle?
Not only him, but also Voldemort's most loyal confidant in the original book, the crazy woman named Bellatrix Lestrange. Why has no one ever mentioned such a right-hand man?
Wormtail might be abandoned, but Bella would definitely not be abandoned by Voldemort. So where would they be if they didn't appear in the British wizarding world?
Before he could think about the question, Dumbledore had already given his answer.
"The mouse disappeared from the British wizarding world for a long time, and along with it disappeared many of the Dark Lord's trusted subordinates. We have never found out where these subordinates were sent to. Now that the mouse can become a member of the French Ministry of Magic, the other Death Eaters who disappeared with him are probably going to the same place..."
Jon didn't know when he unconsciously clenched his fists. He looked into Dumbledore's blue eyes and listened to him make a horrifying guess.
"They are all in the French Ministry of Magic, playing different roles and becoming French wizards who hold high positions in the French wizarding world!"
