New Minister, Percy's Promotion

Voldemort had not abandoned his original plan because of a single failure. Throughout the rest of May, Silvan kept seeing news related to Voldemort in the Daily Prophet every few days.

This time, it was no longer just the Death Eaters. Voldemort himself seemed to be searching for something, appearing frequently in various places.

The last time Silvan had seen Voldemort in the newspaper, he had appeared in Cornwall. Today, he had shown up in Devon again.

But whatever he was planning, Dumbledore always arrived in time and stopped his schemes from succeeding.

This greatly lifted the morale that had fallen after Rufus Scrimgeour's death.

Before June arrived, the Ministry of Magic selected a new Minister for Magic with remarkable speed.

Pius Thicknesse—that was the name in the papers, but Silvan did not know him and had no impression of him at all.

The papers said that after Amelia Bones's sacrifice, Pius Thicknesse had been appointed in a moment of crisis to take over as head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Then, after Rufus Scrimgeour's sacrifice, he won most people's support with an inspiring speech and swiftly took office as Minister for Magic.

Silvan had read his inaugural speech in the Daily Prophet. It was indeed rousing, but upon closer examination, one would find that it was all empty rhetoric.

He would do everything in his power to fight the Death Eaters and Voldemort—though he had not even dared say Voldemort's name during the speech; he would strive to maintain friendly relations with Hogwarts; he would protect the property and lives of ordinary wizards as much as possible.

Everything in his power—strive—as much as possible—such phrases appeared everywhere in the speech. This newly appointed Minister for Magic did not seem to have made a single promise he could