Chapter 157: Chapter 157 Chills

Jon looked at the newspaper that came from the French magical community, the puzzlement on his face was not half diminished.

"I don't understand, professor, are you saying that this crisis is coming from France? But we've been there once before, and according to Madame Maxime, the situation isn't that bad, and French wizards aren't likely to submit to the rule of the Dark Lord voluntarily."

"I thought the same as you before." Dumbledore said quietly, "that things are far from being that bad, that there are factions within the French Ministry of Magic, even if it is true that there are indeed many who support the pureblood supremacy theory, but very few truly want France to become like Britain, but things are developing more and more wrongly."

He looked into Jon's eyes.

"All of this that happened on the wagon after we returned from France was not aimed at us, but rather to cut off our attention from the French magical community."

"Do you remember after visiting Madame Maxime and returning to school with Gabrielle, I sent someone to France to gather information?"

Jon nodded, when preparing to return from France, Dumbledore mentioned this matter to him.

"The people who were sent over to France from the Order of the Phoenix at the time were Ron's parents and two brothers, the Weasleys." Dumbledore looked down deeply, "Arthur and Molly are both senior members of the Order of the Phoenix, and their two sons who have graduated from school, Bill, as well as Charlie are also exceptionally talented, so by sending their family to France to collect intelligence, I believed that they would soon investigate some hidden matters beneath the surface, but what happened in the school back then, you should not have forgotten. "

Jon's pupils shrink slightly, he is very smart himself, it's just the information he knows is not as comprehensive as Dumbledore, and now after he was reminded of this, he figured out the connection!

"Percy has betrayed!"

"That's right, Arthur and Molly's third child, defected to the Ministry of Magic and the Dark Lord, and escaped from the wagon." Dumbledore said calmly, "They are a pair of good wizards, and equally a pair of parents who love their children very much, Percy's incident hit them hard, and although no one else within the Order of the Phoenix would ever doubt them, they still asked me to find someone to hand over the task they held to prove themselves."

"The intelligence unit that had just been running in France for not long was forced to be switched at that time, and I had Sirius take over the couple's task after that."

Jon couldn't help but hold his breath, he didn't say anything, because he knew in his heart that by all rights he shouldn't have known about the feud in past years, and even less about the rat lurking on the wagon being Wormtail.

But even if he did not utter any words, Dumbledore already sorted out the relationship for him later on.

"You found the pinch of grey hair, which came from the Animagus form of a person, and the person who has that form was missing for a long time from the magical world, Sirius has a deep grudge against that Death Eater. Once Sirius knew the information related to him, he would not stay in France, he wanted to catch and kill him personally. And now he's disguised as a wizard named 'Nigellus Dippet', looking for his enemy at the school with Lily and Lupin."

Jon's face was filled with a look of shock, and without being told any further by Dumbledore, he knew exactly the reason why these strange events were occurring on the wagon during this period of time.

"The Dark Lord asked someone to lurk in the school, not to get back at us through this, but to stop your investigation in France! Percy's betrayal, and the pinch of grey hair that I found."

Dumbledore crossed his arms, the afterglow of the evening sunset shining in through the wagon window, reflected by his crescent-shaped glasses with subtle white light.

"Successive changes in the person in charge, resulted in the intelligence collection in France progressing very slowly, only now Bill was able to sort out the network and factions of the Ministry of Magic high-ranking figures, but there was no more deeper investigation. But in fact, there is no need to continue the investigation on the French side, I don't know whether the dark lord is intentionally demonstrating to me on the wagon front, or the rat inadvertently revealed a flaw, which made me roughly guess what kind of scheme he actually has."

"Remember the night Gabrielle met the Dementors?"

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He suddenly asked a question that seemed irrelevant to the whole thing, and Jon didn't react at first, and only after he had thought about it for a few seconds did he murmur.

"She said she saw a man who had visited their house previously in the wagon. A French male wizard?"

Dumbledore said in a deep voice.

"I don't have tangible evidence on this matter yet, but it's likely this is what the Dark Lord has been trying to keep me from investigating further in France."

"If the one lurking in the wagon was really the rat, and the one that Gabrielle saw was definitely him. But as far as we recall, he was a short, fat English wizard, so why did when Gabrielle meet him he turned out to be a middle-aged male wizard who had met with her father, who most likely was from the French Ministry of Magic?"

Dumbledore's words suddenly gave Jon chills!

He suddenly thought of something at this moment, something that he had ignored before.

Since Harry Potter was killed that night, which means James' secret keeper Wormtail has become a traitor, which means he has contributed so much to Voldemort, then why they never heard his name when they were in Diagon Alley as well as Hogwarts Castle?

Not only him but Voldemort's most hardcore beloved in the original, the crazy woman named Bellatrix Lestrange, why such a right-hand woman has never been mentioned either?

Wormtail may have been discarded, but Bella certainly could not have been abandoned by Voldemort, so where would they be if they were not present in the British magic community?

Before he could think about this question, Dumbledore had already said the answer to his own question.

"The rat disappeared from the British magical community for a long time, and along with him, the dark lord's many other trusted subordinates disappeared as well, before we have not been able to find where exactly he had sent his subordinates, but now since the rat can become the French Ministry of Magic employee, the other Death Eaters who disappeared with him, estimated to have gone to the same place."

Jon did not know at what point he unconsciously clenched his fists, he looked at Dumbledore's blue eyes, listening to him utter a frightening speculation.

"All of them are in the French Ministry of Magic, playing different roles, becoming French wizard who is in a high position in the French magical world!"

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