Seeing that her daughter's mood had returned to normal, Allen and Luna looked at each other and burst into laughter. This made the ghost a little angry, so she continued to fiddle with the gift box and ignored her parents.
Luna was still laughing at her daughter. Her blonde curly hair scattered on both sides of her white and delicate cheeks. The recent period of rest made her cheeks rosy and charming. Pinching the digestive pills in her slender fingers, the sweet and sour smell mixed with her own faint body fragrance even made Allen want to taste her.
Under Luna's nightgown, her belly had bulged into a relatively full circle. Her body was simple and clean, and she didn't even wear the carrot earrings she used to like. Noticing Allen's gaze, Luna turned her head and focused her eyes on him.
Allen withdrew his somewhat invasive gaze. "Luna … cough …" Because his voice suddenly broke, Allen coughed dryly and swallowed. "Luna, the blood oath we made before was consumed during your resurrection ceremony. Do you want to make another one?"
"What?" Luna casually picked up the knot of the digestive pill bottle with her index finger and let it spin on her index finger. "It's not consumed. It's just that it's no longer an ornament."
"What?" Allen was also a little confused. For a moment, the ink on the tip of the pen fell on the parchment and turned into a small stain. Allen's finger gently brushed it, and the stain disappeared. "What do you mean?"
"It seems that you usually only use the mark to locate me?" Luna threw another digestive pill into her mouth and muttered, "Why don't you try to cast an attack spell on me?"
Hearing that, Helena, who heard her parents talking nonsense again, raised her head and wanted to remind her mother that she was pregnant. However, she saw her father standing there with his hand raised.
Unlike his daughter who was overly worried about her safety, Allen, as a parent, wanted to cast a spell that wouldn't cause any real problems at Luna. However, he found that the spell couldn't be cast on her, which made him realize that it was indeed the binding force of the blood oath that was in effect.
Allen closed his eyes. This time, he didn't use the mark or the blood oath. He found that he could indeed sense Luna's location. He realized that he had used the omniscient mark after Luna's resurrection, so he neglected this point.
Luna's forehead began to distort. She tore part of her head and let it split into two, revealing a drop of red liquid suspended inside. This was the drop of blood that she and Allen made when they made the blood oath. It looked smaller than before, and it was suspended between the two halves of her head.
"I'm the blood oath."
The eyes on the two halves weren't as indifferent as usual. She looked at Allen like how he looked at her just now. However, it only stayed on his face for a moment. Then, the two halves of her head merged together and returned to normal. She was in a trance again.
"Father! Mother! This way, you can never be enemies with each other! " Helena was very happy. She was as excited as when she was frightened. "This is much better than those damaged ornaments."
"Helena, without this, your mother and I won't be enemies." Allen knew that Helena had been a little unhappy after she found out what Hermione and Penello's new ornaments were.
"Speaking of which, this digestive potion can help us digest …" Luna threw another potion into her mouth. Her unfocused eyes looked at Allen. "But if I eat enough, will I be stuffed to death?"
Alan and Helena were stunned by Luna's question, which was a bit of a leap in thinking.
"… You'd better put it down. Your poor digestive system will probably make it vomit and have diarrhea before you die … I'll be happy to give it to you for Christmas …" Allen lowered his head. He dipped the eagle feather pen in ink and continued to write. "I'll continue to write …"
"Father, what are you writing?" Helena didn't want to talk to her mother who had turned back into a crazy girl. She floated behind her father, who was relatively normal, and talked to him.
"Oh, I'm writing a public apology letter to Mr. Rufus Scrimgeour. I plagiarized … uh, compared a little with the model." Allan unfolded the parchment again and waved the book that had bounced off the side to fly back to the bookshelf. "I have to show this paragraph to the two reporters that I know before posting it. I asked them if it's appropriate for me to do so … Oh, because I was in a hurry just now, I didn't notice that I had copied it together with the quotation marks …" Allan waved his hand again to erase a symbol on the parchment. "I've already corrected it.
A head with long black hair suddenly popped out from the table. Allen was shocked and leaned back.
Helena pulled the corner of her mouth at her father in a mischievous manner. She then completely crossed the table and looked at Allen's letter.
"Right now, it's the seventh day since Mr. Scrimgeour went missing. At this special time when I have a new understanding of life, I would like to apologize for being too late.
…
At the same time, I will calculate the total of my personal income this year and compensate Scrimgeour's family in proportion. If Scrimgeour's family doesn't want to accept it, I will put the money into the funds I donated to charity to compensate the victims of this incident and accept public scrutiny.
…
Once again, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry.
”
Allen's apology letter was published by the Daily Prophet.
Rita Skeeter analyzed and commented on this in depth. She summed it up as an assessment of Alan's courage to take responsibility, and that Alan's apology to Scrimgeour was mainly due to the fact that they did not communicate and resolve their differences earlier. Scrimgeour himself had lost his life because of the strike that he initiated and made Britain unsafe, and that he had blamed himself for these things that were not his responsibility.
The Ministry of Magic also seized this opportunity to control the media and television. Using the momentum of Rita's analysis of Allen's apology letter, they pushed all the blame for Scrimgeour's disappearance onto the Dark Sorcerers, Death Eaters, and even foreign forces. They said that Scrimgeour's disappearance and death were because the Dark Sorcerers didn't understand the secret peace talks between Allen and Scrimgeour and wanted to frame Harris. In the end, they were slapped in the face.
Not only that, but the Magical Law Enforcement Department also acted very quickly. Taking advantage of the fact that public opinion was at its weakest, they put the previously arrested purebloods on trial one by one. Depending on the severity of the case, the heaviest punishment would be life imprisonment in Azkaban, followed by 33 years, 13 years, or even 7 years. The lightest punishment would be three months in Azkaban.
At the same time, these convicted sorcerers also had to pay a corresponding fine to compensate the victims who were attacked by Lord Voldemort and Death Eaters. If they couldn't pay, the Ministry of Magic would auction off their properties and use the funds obtained from the auction to pay the compensation.
Daisy Harris of the Ministry of Magic's International Affairs Department also officially protested and questioned Bulgaria through the International Union of Wizards and Wizards: How did Bulgaria know that Scrimgeour was killed and not missing? Did Bulgaria really rely on divination or did they already know the answer? Did they start to slander Family Harris because they didn't know about the secret peace talks just like the Dark Sorcerers?
After Harris finally cleared his name, the cases were closed, and the compensation was sent to the victims as soon as possible, so that the ordinary sorcerers could reap the benefits. The ordinary sorcerers didn't dislike the review committee that the Ministry of Magic approved. In the current unsafe situation, having these stricter controls to ensure safety made the ordinary sorcerers feel more at ease.
After all, even the director of Aura's office was killed by the Dark Sorcerers after he messed up the law and order. Even he couldn't guarantee his own safety, let alone the ordinary sorcerers.
These Dark Sorcerers' viciousness and deceit made the ordinary people more aware. If it wasn't for the secret peace talks between Harris and Scrimgeour, Harris wouldn't have been able to clear his name. By then, no one would believe Harris, and it would definitely cause a violent conflict in the British magic world. This made the ordinary people who had misunderstood Harris feel a little guilty.
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