The Weasley Twins looked at their mother with aggrieved expressions, but their eyes still gleamed mischievously, wondering what trouble they were plotting.
After Mrs. Weasley had sent the Weasley Twins off to put out the fire, she scanned the long table: "Where did Hermione go? Didn't she come here with Dumbledore and the others?"
Ron shook his head: "She's already gone to Italy with her parents."
Kayson looked up at the ceiling. How did he remember Ron saying Canada before?
And what country is Italy?
"You should have told us beforehand! You made us come all this way for nothing!" Mad-Eye Moody said gruffly.
"At the time, I didn't think you all wanted to gather everyone together. I thought you were just asking for an address," Ron explained helplessly.
"Never mind, what's done is done. Let's eat first. Anyway, the Granger family is in Italy… Hmm?" Dumbledore suddenly felt as if something was off, but he ultimately didn't voice it.
A lively dinner party was about to begin, and there was still an empty seat beside Kayson.
Harley looked at that seat and couldn't help but put on a pained expression. She could guess with her knees who that seat was reserved for.
And only Kayson and Dumbledore could tolerate sitting next to that person.
Soon, the door not far away was pushed open again. Snape walked in, wearing a raincoat and looking dusty. He casually took off his raincoat and hung it on the coat rack, finally sitting down in his seat.
"Now, let us all eat, though this sentence should originally have been said by Sirius." Dumbledore picked up his goblet and took the first sip.
As Snape ate, he watched Harley, who was sitting diagonally opposite him. He only finally withdrew his gaze when the dinner party ended, then pulled a Potion from his pocket and used magic to float it in front of Harley.
"This is your antidote," he said dryly.
"Um… thank you."
Most of the older generation at the long table were the only ones who knew about the grievances between Snape and Lily, so the Little Wizards naturally assumed Snape was still just the Potion-brewing tool.
However, the adults could see through the little tricks, and of course, this included Harley. She sighed slightly, feeling a bit melancholic.
On one hand, she would soon be able to turn back into a boy. On the other hand, she would probably have to endure Snape's venomous tongue again next semester.
This could be considered a different kind of bittersweet pain.
…Damn it!
The dinner party was quickly finished, a result of the adults deliberately speeding things up. As for whether the Little Wizards would be full?
If they weren't full, they would naturally go steal from the cafeteria, no need to worry.
After chasing all the Little Wizards upstairs, the adults began to open up their discussions, though this did not include Kayson.
In fact, he didn't know much more about the current situation than Harry and the others.
But even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had at least seen pigs run.
It was normal for bigwigs to secretly form private armed societies behind the government's back, wasn't it? Logically speaking, Dumbledore should soon pull out a huge battle map and start deploying troops.
However, he didn't do that. Instead, he happily looked at the Weasley family: "Where's Percy?"
Mr. Weasley sighed: "Don't even mention it. The Ministry of Magic's current situation is too chaotic. I can't even tell whose side he's on anymore. He just goes back and forth between one office after another every day, can't accomplish anything, doesn't tell me anything, and gives off a very busy, very busy feeling."
"Then I can only wish him good luck." Dumbledore easily extracted useful information from this: Percy was out of control and not necessarily on their side. He immediately skipped this topic.
"Do I need to explain the current situation to you again?"
There was three seconds of silence at the long table. Dumbledore nodded and spoke again: "Our new member, Hogwarts's Alchemy Professor, Kaisen Heath. Everyone can call him Professor Kayson. He likes people to call him that."
Kayson stood up, utterly bewildered, and awkwardly clapped for himself, while his bewildered eyes looked at Dumbledore.
When did he say he was joining? Why didn't he know?
But at least for now, it seemed… no one cared.
"Since we're all gathered here, we should have some kind of plan, right?" Kayson, seeing that things had suddenly gone quiet, casually brought up a topic.
"Oh, in fact, the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Scrimgeour, has made some deployments because Lord Voldemort's true loyal followers, the Death Eaters, are all in Azkaban. So he believes Lord Voldemort will definitely find an opportunity to attack Azkaban, which is why he has increased the number of guards at Azkaban. He instructed us to tell Dumbledore about this, Principal," Tonks suddenly raised her hand and said.
"No problem, a very good deployment. I already know," Dumbledore nodded and agreed.
At this moment, Kayson, the little idea king, quietly raised his hand: "Since Lord Voldemort's loyal Death Eaters are all in Azkaban, why don't we just rush into Azkaban and then…" Kayson said, extending one hand, fingers together, waving them in the air.
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of everyone at the dinner table stiffened.
It wasn't because of anything else.
It was purely because…
He was right! Why not?
"Dumbledore! That's a good idea," Moody said gruffly.
"I can lead the team. I'm quite familiar with that place," Sirius said.
"Uh, count me in? Because it seems like our Order of the Phoenix doesn't have much combat power," Kayson weakly raised his hand.
There was another strange silence at the long table.
The large group of various magical figures sitting around the table felt a slight offense.
But then they thought about how Kayson was able to forcibly rescue Cedric from a graveyard where Lord Voldemort and Death Eaters were gathered, and even kill a few Death Eaters along the way…
Never mind, offense be damned. However, Dumbledore clearly had other thoughts on the matter.
"Not only can we go to Azkaban and kill those Death Eaters in advance, but we can also hide there and ambush Tom when he brings his current Death Eaters there, giving them a taste of their own medicine," Dumbledore said faintly.
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