"He's my friend." Newt smiled.

As he spoke, Newt took a little water from his teacup and put it on the cup and saucer. The "red dragonfly" circled flexibly in the living room, and finally landed on the cup and saucer, taking small sips with his mouthpart.

Tea.

Yermak sighed and put his tea cup aside. He took out a bottle of wine from the cabinet and shook it at Newt. Newt waved his hand, so Yermak took out another cup and looked after himself.

I poured myself a glass.

Yermak took a sip, then stared at the clear and transparent liquid in the cup, and said slowly:

"That day, the news from the Ministry of Magic arrived first, and the Muggle government's broadcast was delayed by about half an hour. When the order from the Ministry of Magic came, my father immediately started to pack his luggage and prepare to evacuate, but... when the Muggle government's telegram

When the news came, he still left - went directly to Chernobyl through the Floo Network, and became one of the first people to rush to the nuclear contaminated area."

"Other people say that people who went to Chernobyl used shovels to fight atoms. There is also a joke that the machine came to the roof of Chernobyl to work for five minutes, and then it broke down. But the Soviets drank

I put some vodka on it and did it for two hours - I couldn't laugh, I really couldn't laugh."

Yermak drained the wine in his glass and poured himself another glass.

His voice was cold, but there was a hint of loneliness:

"My father's last days... were very painful. Acute radiation sickness, his whole body was necrotic. This kind of disease cannot be cured with spells, it will only make him more and more painful... Finally, people from the Ministry of Magic came

, announced at his bedside that he had violated the Statute of Secrecy, and took away his wand as he lay dying."

"The Muggle government awarded him a medal - the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident Participant Badge. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of the same medals came to the market, making this medal suddenly worthless."

Yermak laughed, shook the bottle, and his voice was full of sarcasm:

"This is what he paid for with his life. Is it really worth it?"

Newt didn't know what to say, so he could only say: "Your father is a great man."

"Yes, of course he is amazing. He is my father, and I was so proud of him. But in the end he abandoned the magic world, abandoned me, abandoned Irina...so I will never forgive him,

forever."

Yermak's voice no longer contained resentment, but was replaced by deep pain and helplessness.

"……I'm very sorry."

Newt suddenly felt a little confused and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

After another long silence, Newt Scamander looked around the messy living room and the living room door leading to the upstairs room. After thinking for a while, he took the initiative to break the silence and changed the topic.

"Speaking of which, your daughter's magic talent is quite good. She will definitely become the most popular student in the school!"

"School? Huh..."

Yermak Ivanovich grinned, with a hint of sarcasm on his face.

"Kodos Doriz Magic School will never forget her father's betrayal. Irina is now eleven years old, but now August is almost over, and she has not received the school's admission notice - you should know

What does this mean?"

"Mr. Scamander, please don't forget that 'Wizard's Sorrow' is contagious! Irina and the children of the 'traitors of the magic world' are a plague in the eyes of most people. You

Do you think that the noble and decent Kodosdorez Magic School would allow such a cursed child to enter their school?”

"How could this happen! Ridiculous! It's been six years!"

Newt frowned tightly and looked at the white marks burned by the high temperature on the edge of the fireplace.

"This child has such a good magical talent. If he can't go to school, it would be too..."

"Haha... There is no old guy like Albus Dumbledore here. Is it possible that I can still let Irina go to Hogwarts to study? Is there any other way? I can only teach one by myself.

Teach Irina, as for the future..."

Yermak Ivanovich smiled bitterly, put down the bottle in his hand, and sighed.

"Wait, what did you just say?"

At this moment, Newt Scamander was suddenly stunned.

"I can only teach Irina by myself..."

"No, no, it's the previous sentence - yes! Of course! Hogwarts, Hogwarts... if, well, let me think about it... if it's Hogwarts this year... maybe...

…”

Newt's mind flashed to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry re-employment contract lying on his desk.

If he agrees to the little witch's request, then as a formal professor and the former principal and current vice principal of Hogwarts, he will naturally have the right to add a few names to the list of students at Hogwarts this year.

only……

"Really? Is there anything you can do? Mr. Scamander!"

Yermak Ivanovich stood up abruptly, looked at Newt with an excited expression, and spoke incoherently.

"Irina is very obedient! She is really a good child! By the way, her English is also very good, and she is also very familiar with the awkward spells. When her father was still alive, she would often take test questions from the school.

Teasing Irina with the teaching materials.”

"I...I'm not sure either..."

Newt clenched his fists in confusion, and subconsciously avoided Ivanovich's expectant gaze. He also stood up and picked up the gray hat on the table. As if someone had cast a tongue-stopping spell, he hesitated.

said.

"I'll try my best...I'll give you a reply in a few days..."

If it was just Irina, maybe... maybe, relying on their friendship, Dumbledore could make an exception and do him a small favor, but - in this case -

Newt recalled the file shown to him by the Ministry of Magic official who helped him track down the Ivanovich family.

[1986, ‘Large-scale leak case in Pripyat’]

[Storage time: permanent]

[Crime: Violating the "International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy", ignoring the evacuation orders of the Wizengamot Court and the International Confederation of Wizards and Magic, seriously affecting the teaching recovery work of the Kodos Doriz Magic School, causing the death of many wizards...]

[Number of wizards involved: 231]

This is...

More than two hundred families...

After walking out of the door of the Ivanovich family, Newt raised his head and looked at the completely darkened sky. He stamped his feet distractedly on the sparsely populated bluestone streets of St. Petersburg, feeling confused and irritable in his heart.

The magical world, or this world...

And what happened to the laws they once believed in and protected...

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