Ramses II
As dusk settled, the eyes of the statues in the manor fountain lit up with colorful lights, preventing everyone from wandering in the dark.
Most of the people had left, except for the Weasley family and Draco's family.
The adults and children sat at two separate tables and ate their dinner under the hazy lights of the fountain.
Harry and Ginny were among them.
However, Fred and George had disappeared without a trace.
After Mrs. Weasley discovered their selling, they took the food and a few bottles of Butterbeer and hid inside the house.
Percy said he was going to find them, but he disappeared too.
"Finally, I can finally eat something properly." Harry took a big gulp of Pumpkin Juice and let out a long sigh of relief. Ginny nodded beside him.
"This is the first time I've ever seen so Weasley," Draco remarked after having eaten a large meal in the afternoon and taking a sip of Pumpkin Juice with Harry.
He knew Weasley had many relatives, but he didn't realize there were so many.
"Of course, wherever there are wizards, there are Weasley."
"However, in Britain, we are the only ones with the surname Weasley."
"The lineage of my father's two brothers, and other branches, are all in other countries." Ron took a bite of his chicken leg.
He ate a lot in the afternoon.
But for some reason, he got hungry again at this time.
"By the way, Draco, what did you talk about with Hagrid, Charlie, and Bill this afternoon?"
"I noticed that in the tent, and after the wedding speeches, you guys seemed to be talking about something else entirely," Harry said after taking a few bites of pie, his attention no longer completely absorbed by the food.
"Yes, I can guess that you, Charlie, and Hagrid were discussing the Nether Dragon that Harry summoned yesterday."
"But what did you talk about with Bill?" Ron asked, also curious.
Ginny also turned her head and looked at Draco.
"Him?"
"He kept asking about Harry in a roundabout way."
He also interspersed his stories with some of his experiences in Egypt.
"It is said that they previously unearthed a still-living mummy inside the pyramid."
"Unfortunately, they didn't have time to ask any local shamans who understood ancient Egypt. Perhaps because the mummy dried up after leaving the pyramid," Draco shrugged dismissively.
He was unaware that Bill objected to Harry and Ginny's engagement and had even considered interfering with it on several occasions.
Finally, Bill backed down when faced with Mrs. Weasley's bloodline dominance.
"Dried up?" Harry asked curiously, not even bothering to worry about what kind of mischief Bill was up to.
"Literally—he was dried out. The mummy was said to have been quite plump, not untied, but with shiny reddish-brown hair visible."
"But after it dies, it just dries up completely," Draco explained.
"And then what?" Ron was very curious about the mummy's identity.
It is said that those who could become mummies were all sorcerer emperors known as Pharaoh.
In ancient Egypt, sorcerers claimed to be descendants of gods and ruled over the Muggle.
"Bill is Gringotts' Curse-Breaker."
"They have specialized agencies that investigate and sell them to museums in the Muggle community."
"According to research, he was Ramses II, the third Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, a sorcerer emperor at that time."
"His sudden death seems to be because the magic that kept him 'alive' was so ingenious that the pyramid he lived in could not afford to have the slightest flaw."
"If you check in the Muggle world now, you'll find that his excavation date has been changed to 1886, and that Ramses' mummy was untied at a public relations party held by some Muggle celebrities on June 1st," Draco sighed.
A great wizard-emperor who ruled a country, a great wizard who lived in his mummy even after death, his body was thus studied.
"But why change the time?"
"Why not just sell it to the Muggle world and say it was recently unearthed?" Ginny was baffled, thinking it was unnecessary.
"It seems to be to keep him in Egypt."
"Egypt's Muggle world government is too weak."
"They fabricated a story about an artifact that was unearthed in the 18th century, not properly preserved, and then returned to Egypt after maintenance."
"Gringotts seems to have made two fortunes at once, one from the Muggle Museum and the other from the Egyptian Ministry of Magic," Draco said, a glimmer of reminiscence in his eyes.
"Two strokes?"
"Isn't the history of Ramses II in the Muggle museum fiction?"
"Also, why did the Egyptian Ministry of Magic buy it?" Ron, who could barely be considered a businessman, discovered the blind spot.
"History is fictional, but Gringotts still took the money from selling the mummies."
"Moreover, Gringotts did not violate Protection Law. His excuse for taking money was to sell research data on the mummy— Ramses II's hair color, height, and condition before his death."
"As for the Egyptian Ministry of Magic, it was to study the magic that allowed Ramses II to remain and live in his pyramid after his death." Even though Draco brought it up again, he couldn't help but marvel at Gringotts' actions.
"So, those Muggle museums thought they bought mummies, but what they actually bought were the data they thought they had derived from studying mummies?" Ron's pupils dilated, and he was deeply disturbed.
"But why are you all so interested in what I talked about with Bill?" Draco asked Harry with equal curiosity.
He discovered that Harry was most interested in this, followed by Ginny.
So Harry and Ginny started talking about Bill's attitude and his actions, one after the other.
In particular, he repeatedly made excuses to postpone his wedding with Ginny.
"That explains why he's always trying to understand you in such a roundabout way."
"That's true. If he's a relative of the woman, there are some things he shouldn't be interested in." Draco nodded thoughtfully.
"What did he ask?" Harry's mouth was a little dry.
"It's nothing, besides the normal ones, you're also interested in those girls."
"Those data that I think are a bit excessive are actually just some physical data." Draco's eyes began to show hesitation.
"Body data?" Harry couldn't believe his ears.
"What physical data?" Ron, snapping out of his daze, craned his neck out.
"It's nothing, they just asked if we had been to the restroom together."
"Do you have any tattoos? And what about the size?" Draco asked awkwardly.
"Tattoo?"
"Why would he ask that?" Harry looked at Ginny seemed a little flustered when he mentioned the tattoo.
"I—I once boasted that you had a Norwegian Ridgeback tattooed on your chest." Ginny lowered her head and tapped her fingers.
However, she quickly realized her mistake. "Bill even asked about the size? He's going too far!"