It's June now, the sun is shining brightly outside the castle, and the occasional cool breeze blows in, which makes people feel refreshed.
"Hi," Schelling, who was walking towards the woods at the edge of the field, greeted the Draco trio from a distance, "Draco, Goyle, Crabbe, I saw you all gathered here from a distance, God. Mysterious, what are you doing?"
"Ah, Xie Lin, it's you, come here quickly," Draco's eyes lit up when he saw it was Xie Lin, "I want to show you something, you take a look at this first," he stretched out his open palm, There was a fat, big beetle crawling around in a circle. The pattern around the beetle's tentacles looked like a pair of ugly glasses. Draco's tone was full of pride, "Can you guess? Can you guess what this is?"
An imperceptible glint flashed in Xie Lin's eyes. He pretended to take a serious look at the beetle, sneered and said, "What's so hard to guess about this, an Animagus?"
Draco's mouth opened wide enough for a goose egg to fit inside.
After a long while, he shook his head, came back to his senses, and said loudly: "Awesome, how did you see it?"
"Magic always leaves traces," Schelling said calmly: "No matter how clever the wizard is, or how hidden the magic is, it is impossible to leave no traces... Look carefully, the patterns near the beetle's tentacles, Does it look like a pair of glasses?”
"Listening to what you said, it seems that this is really the case..." Draco first carefully examined the patterns on the beetle, then nodded and said with a smile, "You are awesome! But you can never guess who this is. Bar?"
"Of course I can't guess, I'm not a god... There are only seven Animagus registered with the Ministry of Magic in Great Britain this century, and there are no beetles among them..." Schelling smiled and shook his head, "But I guess this is A lady wearing glasses, and she is not young, at least forty to sixty years old, do you think I am right?"
"Amazing!" Draco gave a thumbs up, "It's amazing that you can guess this. Let me tell you, she is Rita Skeeter, a reporter from the Daily Prophet. I just accepted an interview with her. Let her write a short article about Potter." At this point, Draco couldn't help but reveal a conspiratorial smile, "I promise to give him a 'big surprise'!"
"You," Xie Lin smiled helplessly, "didn't you promise me that you would not trouble Potter again and concentrate on improving your own strength? Don't forget, you are carrying Mal on your shoulders. It’s the responsibility of the next head of the Fu family!”
"Exactly, of course I haven't forgotten it," Draco snorted pretending to be dissatisfied, and then smiled: "Since I promised you, I will definitely work hard. Even if I can't beat you, at least I can't even connect you. I can't compare to those confidantes. It's just that, after working hard, I can use a few words to disgust Potter without paying a lot of money. I can't let go of this opportunity!"
"Okay, okay, I believe you, we are brothers, right?" Xie Lin hugged Draco's neck, "I can disbelieve anyone, and I won't disbelieve you, because you are my stupid brother! Hahaha……"
Draco's face turned red and he broke away from Sherrin's arm, "Damn it, when I am stronger than you, I will definitely call you 'stupid brother'! Just wait!"
The two brothers looked at each other and then laughed loudly at the same time.
Goyle and Crabbe didn't understand what happened to the two brothers and why they were laughing, but they also started laughing stupidly, and for a while, the area around the shade of the tree was full of laughter.
"Okay, brother, I have something to ask of you -" Xie Lin stopped laughing and said.
"You want Skeeter?" Draco quickly guessed what Sherrin meant.
"Well," Xie Lin did not deny it, "She is of great use to me. Can you give her to me?" At the same time, the beetle suddenly spread its wings and flew up. Xie Lin quickly raised his hand and pointed his index finger at it. The direction of the beetle was pointed in the void. The beetle seemed to have encountered an invisible solid wall obstacle, and it could not fly away from Draco's palm no matter how hard it flew.
Draco watched Xie Lin cast spells without a wand, and there was a flash of envy in his eyes. He had also tried to learn this spell-casting technique. For this purpose, he also asked the ancestors of the family for advice, but he could never master it accurately. , it can only be used randomly and successfully a few times when luck strikes the soul.
He carefully examined Xie Lin's face, and after a while he said: "You want to use her to gather information for you?"
Xie Lin's eyes suddenly became deep. He looked at Draco carefully for a while, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly and snapped his fingers. There was a faint buzzing sound in the air, and Draco recognized it as listening with earplugs. Damn it, not even Goyle and Crabbe, who were so close at hand, wanted to hear half of what Schelling said next.
"I'm really surprised that you can guess this so quickly," Xie Lin said lightly: "So, brother, have your family ancestors ever told you that what determines the outcome of wars and games? Is it the number of people? ?"
Draco thought for a while and said uncertainly: "Is it logistics and resources? There seems to be a saying that endless resources are the biggest cornerstone of victory. In ancient times, the saying was that when the three armies are not moved, food and grass go first. Bar?"
"No," Xie Lin shook his head, "In a real struggle for hegemony, intelligence always comes first than food and grass. If you want to be a qualified family leader, it is not enough to have strength and power alone. You must learn to use all kinds of intelligence. net."
Xie Lin's pupils were piercing, and he said in a deep voice: "I have established an intelligence network of my own, but Skeeter has her own unique way of collecting intelligence. If you look at her alone, she will destroy Hagrid's giant. Motherhood - if you can dig out old memories from decades ago, you can get a glimpse of her power..."
"What I want is the intelligence network she has already established. I believe it can be a good complement to my own intelligence network and save at least ten years of effort on the growth and development of my intelligence network. "
Draco nodded, indicating that he understood, and handed the beetle in his hand to Sherrin one by one.
Xie Lin took out a crystal bottle engraved with alchemical traces, put the beetle inside, and set off back to the castle with the Draco trio.
Sherrin raised his head and looked at the castle, his eyes suddenly becoming as sharp as the eyes of a falcon. He saw the faces of Ron and Hermione at the window of Gryffindor Tower.
He waved to Hermione generously, and his eyes could clearly see the shock and subsequent blush on Hermione's face, and he couldn't help but smile. After Hermione waved to him, he walked towards the castle gate again.
