Chapter 359 Half a Year Later
Everything was going on. First, this year's Triwizard Tournament continued the reputation of this tournament being always associated with blood as an 'incredible tragedy'. Then an unprecedented shadow was cast on Harry's name as the savior. It was not enough for the Daily Prophet to say that he was a liar who was seeking attention. Later on, it even hinted that Harry was the culprit of the disappearance and death.
Let's put it this way, Sirius, who was far away in Country F but had always been following the Daily Prophet, saw the first sentence of this kind of article: "That group of worms specifically asked Azkaban Leskett to slander people."
The Insight, which attracted attention during the event, took a different approach and delved more into the overly conservative strategy of Country Y's Ministry of Magic. In fact, this was also a conspiracy theory that attracted attention. However, compared to the Daily Prophet, whose writing became increasingly emotional, this newspaper, which relied on the credibility of the Ministry of Magic, was more prestigious.
The most crucial, yet most difficult to detect, is the changes outside Country Y.
After finishing her elective course and returning to one of the houses Della had prepared for her outside the school, Cynthia put down the paper bag of food in her hand, picked up the vibrating silver letter and replied to Olga Jimenez's message. She was being instructed to write a short essay on "Muggle Elections". After replying the message, she clicked on the news and quickly frowned at the headline of the Lingxi Newspaper.
"What's wrong?" Noticing Cynthia's long silence, Sirius came back to his senses from making the photo album, revealing a handsome face that was weathered but also charming. Half a year had passed since he left Country Y. Although there was a wanted warrant for him in Continent O, as long as he traveled with Cynthia, there would be no trouble for him.
In the past six months, when Cynthia was not busy with her studies, he would ride his new motorcycle and take Cynthia to various places to leave their footprints and experience all kinds of different people. They always had a lot of fun and took a lot of photos to record the good memories. Sirius also recovered unknowingly in the process.
On his well-preserved face, the wrinkles left by his former thinness became a reward from time. After Cynthia took him to the hospital to fix his teeth, there was almost no sign of the desolation in Azkaban left on him.
"You still remember that we rely on Della to live a free life here, right?" Cynthia walked to the sofa where Sirius was sitting and nestled into his arms with ease. "At that time, I only thought that she had many connections, but now I realize that her influence on the places she stayed in is greater than I thought."
As she spoke, she showed him the news headline, "Beware of interference from criminal groups, strengthen the control and extradition mechanism for wizard behavior." Sirius read out the French headline, he frowned, took the silver letter from Cynthia's hand and began to read.
"I just flipped through newspapers from other places. The translated contents are different, but the overall content is pretty much the same." Cynthia said as she picked up two photos on the coffee table in front of her that had not been put into the album. These photos were taken when they went to Italy to attend the carnival in November. She was wearing a Rococo-style dress and Sirius was wearing a silver armor. Both of them were laughing happily in the photos. They had fun in the float parade and masquerade in those days. The warehouse still has small gifts given to them by other street performers at that time.
"Do you think that those who join resistance organizations in other countries are suspected of deliberately provoking international disputes? Those related to them may be imprisoned in Nurmengard?" Sirius finished reading and his expression suddenly became bad. "It would be better to just write that they are not allowed to resist Voldemort in Country Y!"
Ever since the Triwizard Tournament, the newspapers haven't mentioned much about the Dark Lord, but have been talking more about international relations. Before, I thought it seemed to have some meaning, but when I thought about it more, I couldn't grasp it. Only today, the purpose of turning the wizarding world of Country Y into an isolated island began to emerge.
"But if you don't go looking for trouble, trouble won't come to you." Cynthia was very happy in Country F. She didn't want to go back to Country Y to suffer. She emphasized to Sirius again, "I still say the same thing, Sirius. I won't care where you go. I just want you to think it over and leave here at any time. But I can't go back with you to face the mad dog."
"I know..." Sirius trailed off, disappointed with Cynthia's attitude and the invitations Dumbledore regularly sent him to return to 12 Grimmauld Place.
Sirius is not afraid of danger or death, and he even gets happiness from adventure, but he is also a free-spirited person. Here with Cynthia, he is free and can live as he pleases. But once he returns to Country Y, he has to be timid and spends most of his time hiding in that house full of darkness and screams.
Let a person who has lost twelve years of freedom abandon the freedom he has enjoyed and voluntarily fall into another cage...
This was a bit cruel to Sirius, and it was hard for him to accept, so Sirius gave Dumbledore the same excuse, 'I will go back when I have my mission, and I am willing to charge into battle for Harry, but if my wanted order is still at a stage where it prevents me from carrying out my mission, don't issue me a mission to stay on standby, it's unfair to me, and please forgive me for staying in O for a while longer.'
"Let's not talk about that," Sirius changed the subject. He looked at the photo in Cynthia's hand that recorded their happy journey, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously. "Christmas is coming soon, have you thought about how to celebrate it?"
"To be honest, I've been a bit busy lately. I think I need to do some research for a short article about Muggles. We can go together then, but I have to spend some time reviewing for my runes class." Cynthia's grades in this class were actually pretty good, but she had never experienced a credit system school like Beauxbatons, so she was still a little worried about failing the course and not getting credits and having to retake it. "Why don't you make the plans for Christmas this time, and I'll make plans for the next holiday to surprise you."
The previous few trips were basically planned by the two of them together. Of course, if they were interested, they would deviate from the plan and have fun for a few days, but they would never miss the experiences they had originally planned and wanted. There were a few thrilling experiences where they had to rush to catch the opening time, which they still talk about from time to time.
"Okay," Sirius agreed immediately without thinking too much. He returned the silver letter to Cynthia and raised his eyebrows at her. "I'll prepare it well."
Cynthia glanced at him and snorted softly, while moving her fingers a few times to draw the Lingxi News. At the top of the news section, there was always a striking missing person notice.
"Della Riddle, missing during the Triwizard Tournament, anyone who provides useful information will receive 10,000 Galleons, and anyone who provides her exact location will receive 1 million Galleons."
Today, someone found these one million Galleons.
When Zhou Yu came to Y Italy relying on the Broken Delusion borrowed from Tang Xueji, his eyebrows twitched twice when he saw that the pale and thin girl was really the one who opened the door after his girlfriend Bellinda Eleta knocked on it.
Shit, I actually found it.
He originally just wanted to comply with his girlfriend's request, but now he realized that he was bringing trouble upon himself.