But as soon as Draco made his move, Lightning, who had his head on Harry’s legs, growled a warning.

“Okay, Lightning, stop being so protective of your food.”

After Harry touched the heavy eagle’s head twice, Lightning made two “whooshes” in dissatisfaction and closed his eyes.

Draco threw a piece of veal into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, then took another sip of butterbeer and finally opened his mouth.

“What’s the matter with pulling me out?”

“It’s not me who has problems, it’s you who has problems.”

Harry looked at Draco.

“We are friends. I will help you if there is anything. You know.”

After hearing what Harry said, Draco raised his head and drank the butterbeer in his hand, then threw the bottle into the Black Lake.

When the wine bottle caused a splash on the lake, he turned his head and spoke to Harry.

“My mother is now living in St. Mungo’s… The bug caused some irreversible damage to her brain, in the frontal lobe… Now…”

Draco was a little at a loss for words at this point, so he reached out and took another bottle of butterbeer, unscrewed the lid and took a big gulp before continuing.

“And the Ministry also found a lot of things from my house… too much. Now even if my father comes back, he will spend the rest of his life in Azkaban…”

Draco shook his head and sighed.

“Malfoy Manor was temporarily sealed off, and there was also a huge fine…”

Draco turned his head and looked at Harry.

“Harry, why does life always have to be so fucked up?”

Harry looked at Draco, who looked like a stray dog ​​that had been adopted for a few days and was suddenly kicked out of the house.

He reached out and patted Draco on the shoulder without saying anything, but just raised the bottle of butterbeer in his hand and clinked it with Draco.

The two of them didn’t say anything. After they finished drinking the bottle of butterbeer, Harry finally spoke.

“In fact, if you look at it from another angle, there is actually an opportunity here, isn’t there?”

“Chance?”

Draco looked at Harry strangely.

Harry picked up two more bottles of butterbeer and handed one to Draco before speaking.

“You know, I haven’t seen my parents since I can remember… and then… ‘BOOM~'”

Harry waved the bottle in his hand and some butterbeer spilled from the bottle onto the back of Harry’s hand.

“Suddenly my parents climbed out of the coffin. Even though they are serving the Dark Lord now, at least I have seen them and was able to chat with them, right?”

“Harry… I’m so sorry…”

Draco’s expression turned awkward and Harry patted him on the shoulder.

“You have nothing to be sorry about. What I mean is… since it’s bad enough now, nothing that happens next can’t be worse…”

Harry looked Draco in the eye seriously and said, “Those dark magic items in your home and your past relationship with Voldemort are bound to cause trouble sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time… Now that it has happened, let’s find a way to solve it. At least your parents are still alive, right?”

Harry patted Draco on the shoulder.

“As long as we can deal with Voldemort, we can use this achievement to exchange for a light sentence for your father. If it’s not enough, there’s still mine.”

126 Have a nice holiday, friends!

Although after Harry talked to Draco, Draco felt a little better.

However, there was not much time left until the end of the semester, and by the time Draco fully recovered, the semester was almost over.

In the meantime, Harry even went to the Netherlands again and received his third-class Tulip Medal from the Dutch Ministry of Magic.

This time, we wanted to prevent the embarrassing third-rate reporting that happened after our last encounter with Rita.

When Harry went to the Netherlands to be awarded the honor, he did not bring anyone with him. He went only with Black and the Aurors.

As expected, Harry met Rita again at the awarding ceremony, and the fact that Harry received a new medal became the headline of the Daily Prophet the next day.

Even at the awards ceremony, Harry continued to avoid Rita’s interview by urinating.

But the author of the article “Shock! The Basilisk Killer is so strong!” that appeared on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next day was still Rita.

However, unlike the previous report “Harry Potter’s Secret Affair”, the focus is entirely on Harry, Qiu Zhang and Hermione.

This time the report was a little more serious, and the entire report was analyzing how strong Harry was.

After citing a lot of evidence and “informed sources”, Rita concluded that “since Harry can use a wand and a sword, he is a mini youth version of Gryffindor!”

The whole report was extremely embarrassing for Harry, but he was unable to protest.

Because Harry noticed that Rita also wrote in the article, “It is reported that Harry has a close relationship with Dumbledore and is likely to be the last student Dumbledore personally teaches. If this is the case, then our boy who survived – the basilisk killer – Harry Potter is likely to become the new wizard who can protect Britain after Dumbledore.”

After seeing this, Harry basically guessed that this report definitely came from the Ministry of Magic’s instruction.

The main purpose is to create a feeling in people that they are absolutely safe with the presence of Dumbledore and Harry.

Harry, who saw through this, could only shut up and endure the Weasley twins shouting “The great ~Heir of Gryffindor~ has arrived, everyone take off your hats~” when he appeared in the common room or the hall for a period of time.

Since it is the end of the semester, the most important thing naturally becomes the final exam.

With the final exams approaching, the Weasley twins had to stop their little hobby of announcing Harry’s arrival in the common room amid everyone’s angry glares.

Fortunately, the first-year courses were not too difficult, even though Harry and his group spent a lot of time on other things during this school year.

Still in the final exam, the whole class got full ‘O’s on the report card.

But what makes Harry happier than a report card full of ‘O’s is the continued hot sales of the first expansion pack of Gwent.

Not only is the product in short supply, there is even a group of wizards who simply mark up the price of the card packs they have purchased, or some rare cards such as ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Dumbledore’ are being sold at a high price of 100 Galleons in the market, and the prices are still rising.

Although Harry has no intention of expanding the sales of Gwent overseas for the time being, many wizards have sent him letters expressing their desire to become his overseas agent.

Among them was the director of the Dutch Department of Magical Cooperation, whom Harry had met once before, who also sent Harry a letter wanting to become the exclusive agent of Gwent in the Netherlands.

It was only then that Harry realized that although the Ministry of Magic sounded like a modern, serious government department.

But deep down, the old system is still used, and civil servants in the wizarding world are all allowed to do business.

After all, only when civil servants earn enough Galleons can they better serve the people, right?

As for corruption, we are all decent wizards, and we are all justified by faith. How could we engage in such things as embezzlement and bribery?

At that moment, Harry’s mind flashed through countless crooked ways he had seen that allowed him to “earn a little money” steadily.

If it weren’t for the fact that Harry was a paladin and a follower of Woking.

Harry felt that if he did just a little bit, he would be able to earn enough wealth to last him several lifetimes.

However, as a paladin who is a role model of morality, this idea had just popped up in his mind before Harry stuffed it into a gasoline barrel and filled it with cement, sinking it deep into his mind.

Although Harry had no plans to expand Gwent overseas in the short term, the meal is almost in his mouth now.

Leaving it outside without eating it was obviously not Harry’s style as a Woking believer.

Harry has already filled his schedule with various plans for the upcoming summer vacation.

Apparently there is no longer any room for negotiations on Gwent’s overseas expansion.

After careful consideration, Harry decided to leave the matter to Draco.

On the one hand, Draco is the major shareholder in Gwent, so if he comes forward, it will be justifiable no matter how you look at it.

On the other hand, Harry felt that he had to find something for his good friend to do to prevent him from doing something stupid.

Finally, as an experienced adventurer, Harry believed that even if Draco might suffer a small loss in the negotiations, it would not be too outrageous.

And now it is a pure seller’s market. Harry fully believes that Draco will not suffer any loss in the negotiations, especially now that Draco also needs money.

Of course, as a believer of Woking, in addition to asking Draco to negotiate with those interested agents, Harry also assigned Draco a lot of holiday homework.

Basically, it is the part of the Gwent Second Expansion Pack that needs to be arranged by Draco.

In fact, except for Draco, everyone in the previous Gwent editing team, except Hermione, was given a job by Harry to complete during this holiday.

Of course, as a paladin, Harry knew very well that if you want a horse to run, you must feed it.

So on the last day of the semester, Harry distributed generous rewards to the editorial staff in cash.

When a bag full of gold coins fell into their hands, the group of people had different reactions.

After Ron opened his pocket and saw the full bag of gold, he fell into a trance-like daydream state.

After getting their respective pockets, the Weasley twins saluted Harry in an extremely exaggerated posture, and said to Harry in an even more exaggerated tone, “Dear Master Potter, do you have any other instructions?”, “We are looking forward to your next job.” and so on.

Qiu Zhang weighed his pockets, then took out six silver Sickles and twelve bronze turners and gave them to Harry.

Under Harry’s puzzled gaze, Qiu Zhang said that he had already calculated how much bonus he should get, and this was the extra part.

Although everyone has a good relationship, money matters should be treated differently and what is due should be paid.

After hearing Qiu Zhang’s words, Harry silently took the change of six silver Sickles and twelve copper coins from Qiu Zhang.

Hermione’s behavior was completely different from everyone else. She poured out all the gold coins in the bag, counted out a part of them, and then put most of the gold coins back into the bag.

The remaining small part was pushed to Harry.

“I shouldn’t have miscalculated and given you so much more, right?”

Harry looked at Hermione in surprise.

“No, I didn’t take this part of the funds into account when I planned my trip. Now I can stay in the Middle East for a longer period of time, so this part is the money for recharging.”

Facing Hermione’s gaze, Harry swallowed silently and pushed the gold back.

“I can’t accept this money.”

As soon as Harry finished speaking, Hermione picked up her pocket again, looking as if she wanted to add more money.

“If the money is collected, the nature of the matter will change.”

After hearing what Harry said, Hermione smiled and put the pile of gold coins back into the bag.

However, Harry made a lot of money from Gwent.

However, Harry had not been able to make any progress in his search for Voldemort’s Horcruxes in the Room of Requirement.