Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 248 Doubt
"I just got the news today that the terrorist organization headed by Dumbledore and formed in conjunction with French rebels, the Wizarding Equality Front, broke into the correctional facility that the master had newly built in France to reform Muggles. The master was seriously injured in the battle with Dumbledore."
Gris took a deep breath.
"I just mobilized a large amount of supplies to be sent to France to stabilize the situation in France. Now the master has gone to treat his injuries privately. The French Ministry of Magic will be temporarily controlled by our people."
Slughorn's face showed a worried gloom, but in fact he was extremely confused.
He didn't think that Gris would lie about such a thing. For a major event like this, even if they tried their best to block the news, they would not block it from senior officials at the director level, unless Voldemort saw through Slughorn's undercover identity and wanted to use this matter to trap him. Although this possibility was not high, there was some chance.
Compared to this conjecture, Slughorn was actually more inclined to believe that Voldemort had really suffered a crushing defeat.
However, how he was defeated by Dumbledore is still a puzzling question.
On the British Ministry of Magic side, unless Slughorn asks Voldemort himself, he probably won't get a definite answer, but he can use his connection with Dumbledore to seek the answer to this question.
This did not help his undercover work at all, but Slughorn was very curious about how Dumbledore defeated this already invincible dark lord.
And for safety reasons, he had been the only one who communicated with Dumbledore, and he had not asked much about the situation in the Hogwarts carriage.
Almost two years had passed, and he also wanted to know how the student he accepted on the carriage had grown now.
I wonder if you have practiced that magical levitation spell even better?
Slughorn thought about these things in his mind, but looked at Gris seriously.
"You shouldn't talk to me about this in private, Gris."
"I understand, sir, but the master didn't intend to hide it from you." Gris waved his hand and said, his face full of melancholy, "We need to provide a lot of support to France. I have been approving the issuance of personnel and materials to various departments for the whole morning. Even so, I still don't know whether they can stabilize the situation when the master is away."
Having said that, his expression turned grim.
"If they still fail to live up to their master's expectations after giving them so much assistance, then I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to let the British serve as members of the French Ministry of Magic in the future!"
Of course, his remarks were a wild theory that was almost impossible to achieve. Even if the French Ministry of Magic was foolish enough to stab Voldemort in the back without fully understanding the situation, it was impossible for all of them to be controlled by the British.
Slughorn sighed softly.
"We just need to do our best to do our job well and not hold our masters back. That is the greatest contribution we can make."
Gris rubbed his swollen temples and nodded helplessly. He knew that Slughorn was right.
In fact, their current glory and status all rely on Voldemort himself. Faced with the current situation, no matter whether it is to protect their own interests or to be truly loyal to Voldemort, there is very little they can do.
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Unlike the British Ministry of Magic, the wizards on the Wizarding Horizon in France, with Lyon as the core, are spreading the results of their victory to the surrounding areas and are beginning to take action to regain the French magical world with great excitement.
Before the war plan against the correctional facility, Dumbledore and Iniesta discussed and prepared two plans together.
One is how they should maximize their retention of manpower and quickly retreat towards Northern Europe if they fail in the war.
The other is how to maximize the fruits of victory if victory is achieved.
Of course, these two plans also subdivide different situations and possible situations, and what Dumbledore and his team are facing now is one of the best situations they can expect.
So, on the second day after they successfully broke into the correctional facility and liberated all the hemp-type wizards inside, without any rest or pause, the wizards on the Wizard Horizon immediately continued with their subsequent operations.
Although most of the rescued Muggle-born wizards had suffered inhuman abuse and humiliation, their minds had not been brainwashed to the level of "human-shaped house-elves".
Among these people, a group of very good combat forces can definitely be extracted, but now they all need time to recuperate, so they are temporarily staying in the Lyon headquarters and being taken care of by logistics personnel.
And the wizards who had fought hard to break into the correctional facility the night before started a new war the next day.
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France.
This is a world-famous ski resort that attracts ice and snow sports enthusiasts from all over the world every winter. It is also the time of the year when the city has the highest population density.
But excluding tourists and travelers, the city's permanent population is only over a hundred thousand. Including the surrounding suburbs, the total population is less than 400,000, so the city is actually not very large.
In the wizarding world, Grenoble is the largest magical plant cultivation base of the French Ministry of Magic.
In the southwestern suburbs near the city, there is an area that was once planned to build a large ski resort, but for some unknown reason, the project was terminated halfway through.
Afterwards, no one else took over and the land was left abandoned and looked dilapidated.
Because this place is remote and located in the Alps, not many people noticed it even though it was abandoned.
Even if someone happened to pass by here and saw this unfinished ruin, they would soon suddenly remember that they had other urgent things to do and would leave in a hurry.
It was obvious that this area, which was cast with Muggle-repelling and concealing spells, was the branch of the French Ministry of Magic that was built to cultivate and study magical plants.
And at this moment, a fierce battle is taking place here!
"It's full of smoke ."
Lily chanted the smoke spell in that cold voice that seemed to never fluctuate.
The next second, thick white smoke enveloped the entire greenhouse, causing the long vines that were originally prepared to attack under the command of the employees of the French Ministry of Magic to lose their target.
The Ministry of Magic employees who had only been notified today to prepare for emergency evacuation but had not yet arrived were blocked in dozens of greenhouses by Lily and Kingsley.
