Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

When Brian Braddock just came out of the fireplace of the Three Broomsticks, he thought he had gone to the wrong place. There was a huge difference between this place and when he came here not long ago.

The dim light and alcohol-smelling air were gone, replaced by bright sunlight and chilly fresh air.

But he was soon relieved, because he saw that the wall of the bar that used to face the street was gone, and there was a lot of debris where the walls, doors and windows used to be.

A man with thick bandages on his head and face was picking up a broom that had been broken in two from the rubble, and using a spell to restore it.

When Braddock walked over, he found that this person was the proprietress of the bar, Ms. Rosmerta. When Braddock greeted her, she didn't respond at all, but was just looking for another bar signboard among the ruins. a broom.

When Braddock walked to the street, he and many of his companions who came to support were stunned. The originally quiet and peaceful village had turned into ruins, and the smell of burnt wood could not go away for a long time.

He no longer remembers how he walked to the Hog's Head Bar with the Aurors from Essex to report, and then how he was assigned a job. When he came back to his senses, he had already stood with several colleagues. In front of a piece of ruins.

Besides them, there is also a witch wearing a black robe and a pointed hat with a black veil, looking for usable things from the ruins.

Braddock went up to the witch and said, "Ma'am, we are Aurors sent by the Ministry of Magic to help you."

Helen, dressed in mourning, said "thank you" in a low voice.

It is easy to repair a few small items with magic, but the difficulty increases exponentially when repairing a house that is completely damaged.As for the houses that have been burned by fire, there is no way to tie Dumbledore and Voldemort together.So what everyone has to do now is to clean up the ruins and build new houses.

Using magic to clean up the ruins is very fast. Braddock, the Aurors, and Helen used various spells to dump all kinds of useless construction waste to the side of the road. The items that can still be used in the ruins were also cleaned by Helen. The next set is together.

Then trucks came and took the construction waste to the dump outside.

When many Muggle-born wizards saw trucks loaded with garbage driving on the streets of Hogsmeade, they were almost shattered by the weird painting style.

In addition to the wizards who supported the reconstruction of Hogsmeade, Lafayette also contributed a lot.

It can be said that Lafayette, who drove an ambulance in World War II, knew better than the wizards of the Ministry of Magic that reconstruction work should be carried out.

At noon on the day after the "February [-]th Bombing", a group of engineers and related vehicles were transported to Hogsmeade's train station by train.

Bell, who was playing the driver of the van at the moment, was loading the rubbish from the side of the street into the van with his wizard assistant, Mr. Arthur Weasley.

If Mr. Weasley hadn't been talking about whether he could sell him a truck to take home and improve it, Bell thought the chubby wizard was pretty good.

After Bell drove away, Helen stood blankly in front of the open space that turned out to be her home, not knowing what to do next.

"Helen" a voice sounded beside her.

After Helen turned her head to see the person coming, she said in surprise, "Qiu, why are you here?"

Zhang Qiu and Helen had stayed together in Hogwarts, so they were considered to be acquaintances.

"Gringotts has now set up a special fund, which provides free house construction and repair services to residents of Hogsmeade whose houses have been damaged." Qiu explained to Helen, "The money for this fund comes from the Queen of England and Donations from some wizards. I am now communicating on behalf of the residents of Gringotts and Hogsmeade."

Having said that, Qiu, who noticed that Helen was wearing mourning clothes, paused for a moment, and then said cautiously: "Look, if you have time, you can choose a new house that you like."

Helen took the coloring book from Qiu and stood there without speaking for a long time.

Qiu has encountered this situation many times in Hogsmeade today, and she left after saying "sorry" softly to Helen.

At this time, in the Pig's Head Bar, Scrimgeour was receiving a guest from the Muggle world.

Old Rodney brought a fat middle-aged man who was negotiating with Scrimgeour.

"In addition to donating this material and money for the reconstruction of Hogsmeade, Her Majesty also hopes to build an orphanage in Hogsmeade for children who have lost their parents." Viscount Hood said to Scrimgeour, " Her Majesty is the official guardian of all children throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so it is her duty to provide these poor children with a warm and safe home."

Scrimgeour quickly agreed to the request made by the Lafayette's butler on behalf of the Lafayette. Although he knew that it was not as simple as building an orphanage, he couldn't refuse.

Rebuilding Hogsmeade requires a large amount of building materials and providing food for the homeless victims. At this time, only the Muggle government can provide Hogsmeade with these in a short period of time.

Now the train station is full of a batch of freshly delivered materials, but the people guarding the materials forbid the Ministry of Magic to get close to these "Queen's property" on the grounds that the work of cleaning up the ruins has not been completed.

After leaving the Pig's Head Bar, Old Rodney and Viscount Hood walked on the streets of Hogsmeade. Old Rodney asked, "Will you go to Hogwarts to see your sister later?"

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The viscount hadn't answered yet, only to hear a harsh "beep beep" horn not far away, scaring Viscount Hood and old Rodney to jump aside in a hurry.

After a fully loaded truck sped by, Viscount Hood said to the old Rodney with some embarrassment: "I want to see her by myself."

Old Rodney smiled helplessly, and then walked out of the village with Viscount Hood.

It was already lunch time, and the aroma of onion soup wafted from the refugee settlement outside Hogwarts.

The source of the aroma is a row of canopies next to the resettlement site, which is the kitchen of the resettlement site. Many victims spontaneously came here to help prepare three meals a day for the victims and the Aurors who came to support.In addition to the disaster victims, there are also volunteers from other parts of the UK in the kitchen, such as Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Lupine.

In order to avoid chaos caused by a large number of people eating together, the victims at the resettlement site started eating at eleven o'clock.At twelve o'clock, the rescuers came from the village for lunch.

At this time, Zhang Xu was eating with Rodney here.

This morning, some of the wounded whose injuries were stabilized were transported to a large hospital near Edinburgh in a carriage pulled by thestrals that transported students during Hogwarts school holidays. Zhang Xu and Rodney were in charge of coordinating this matter.In the afternoon, they had to send the family members of some of the injured there.

Zhang Xu took a plate from the table, and followed a group of children to line up to receive the meal.

Since many adults were involved in the reconstruction work, several witches set up a tent and opened a temporary kindergarten, and then gathered the children who were left alone for centralized management.

Now these children came to have lunch under the leadership of these witches.

There are not many things to choose for lunch here. The meat is bacon, chicken legs and fried fish. The potatoes are divided into mashed potatoes and French fries. Spicy onion soup.

The one who served Zhang Xu happened to be the lady he rescued from under the bed that was pressed by the collapsed roof that day. Her complexion is much better now than when she was terrified.

Zhang Xu handed over two dinner plates, recognized Zhang Xu's wife and asked, "Mr. Zhang, are you free these two days?"

Zhang Xu looked at her in surprise, he probably didn't know her, how did she know him

The other party saw Zhang Xu's question, and she said: "Mrs. Weasley told me. When we were chatting, I told her about you rescued my daughter and me."

"I want to take a photo with you with my daughter as a souvenir."

Zhang Xu nodded and said, "No problem, I will come to you after a while when I finish my work here."

Soon, Zhang Xu returned to the long table and chairs nearby with two lunches that were slightly more than others.These are said to be tables and chairs, but they were actually big trees of different diameters cut back from nearby forests and split in half and placed there.

"Maggie, this is your lunch." Zhang Xu put a plate in front of Maggie McGonagall.

"Thank you." Maggie was feeding a two-year-old child.

"How is your family?" Zhang Xu asked. Professor McGonagall's relatives all moved to Hogsmeade last year.

"Although the house was destroyed, my father, uncle and I ran out in time." Maggie replied.

"It's good that people are fine." Zhang Xu didn't bother Maggie, who was taking care of the children, and came to Rodney with his lunch.

"Why do you have more than mine?" Rodney said dissatisfiedly to Zhang Xu.

"If you eat it again, it will really turn into Rhodes oil." Zhang Xu said while putting his bowl of onion soup in front of Rodney, "Then I'll give this to you."

After so many years, Zhang Xu still keeps a respectful distance from onion soup. Basically, he will not touch it except for the one cooked with Furong.

"Yo, you two have such a good relationship."

Zhang Xu looked at the visitor with a dark face, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching.

"Hi Mr. Rodney, have you eaten yet?"

After a while of introductions and greetings, old Rodney and Viscount Hood sat beside Rodney.However, if Zhang Xu and Rodney hadn't had today's lunch in front of them, it would have been a bit like a trial of three.

After a few people chatted for a while, Zhang Xu remembered something. He asked the old Mr. Rodney: "Sir, I don't know about the zombie incident last time. Do you have any countermeasures?"

Old Rodney thought for a while, and then said: "This is not a secret, it's okay to tell you."

"According to the investigation, the zombie virus this time is different from the last one. This time the virus is transmitted through drinking water, and the disease will occur after a period of time after drinking."

"Well." Zhang Xu frowned, "So are there any preventive measures?"

"Just boil the water before you drink it," said old Rodney.

"It makes sense." Zhang Xu couldn't refute.

"Then how did you explain this matter to the public?" Zhang Xu continued to ask, "I think it is difficult to block the news about this matter."

During this period of time, Zhang Xu didn't pay much attention to the news of the ordinary people's world, so he didn't know how the British government explained this matter to the public.

"The place where the outbreak is small, just find an excuse to fool it." Old Rodney said, "The few places that can't be concealed, say that the chemical weapons dropped by the Germans during World War II were not discovered in time, and then leaked." gone."