"About the magic power thing, I'll let Hermione tell you about that later," Victor said. "Right now, there's something more important to do. I want to ask, what are your favorite colors?"
"Colors?" Question marks appeared above Hermione and Cedric's heads. What kind of important question is this? Although neither of them understood what Victor was trying to do, they answered quickly.
"I like blue," Hermione said.
"I prefer green!" Cedric said.
"Alright then!" Victor took out his wand. "Where do you want to get the guild emblem?"
"Cedric, you first."
The confusion on Cedric's face deepened, but he instinctively pointed to his upper left arm. Victor walked forward. With a light stroke of his wand on Cedric's arm, his sleeve was instantly torn open. Then, he tapped his wand on the exposed skin, and a green fairy wing emblem appeared on his arm.
"This emblem has the ability to protect you at a critical moment. No matter where you go, Fairy Tail will shelter you," Victor said, repairing the damaged sleeve. "And Hermione, where do you want yours?" He then turned to look at the young witch.
But Hermione saw what happened and immediately covered her arms, backing away behind the sofa and shouting with a look of rejection, "I don't want one! If my dad finds out I have a tattoo, he'll kill me!" She then tried to run out the door, but Victor immediately picked her up like a kitten.
While Victor used the Levitation Charm to restrain the "kitten" trying to escape, he said to Cedric, "Cedric, you're free to do what you want for now. I need to have a little talk with this girl!" The latter nodded and immediately walked out of the Fairy's Abode to the so-called training area.
"AHHH!!!"
"Victor, you jerk! Put me down!"
"I don't want a tattoo!!!" Hermione yelled, struggling in mid-air.
Victor stared at her with dead fish eyes and tried to calm her down. "I told you, it's not a tattoo. It's just a symbolic mark for a Fairy Tail member."
But upon hearing this explanation, Hermione immediately glared at Victor angrily. "Then I ask you, is it printed on the skin?"
Victor naturally nodded. "Yes!"
"Then do you have to draw on the skin?"
"Well… I guess so!"
"And is it very difficult to remove once it's on?"
"Well, no one can remove it except me…"
"Then how can you say it's not a tattoo!!!" Hermione began to act "unreasonably" with her hands and feet in the air.
Victor sighed helplessly, rolled up his sleeves, and walked forward. "Forget it! It's faster to just be forceful!"
If he couldn't explain it, he wouldn't. There was no room for discussion on the matter of getting the emblem! Because this was the greatest link to strengthen a member's sense of belonging to the guild!
"Are you going to get one or not?" Victor asked, pinching Hermione's little face.
"No!" Hermione replied firmly, refusing to yield.
"If you don't get one, I'll tell Mr. Granger what you did at the end of last term!"
"…I'll get one." Hermione ultimately compromised, feeling wronged. She was genuinely afraid that Victor would tell her family about how she had naively gone to her death at the end of last term. If that happened, her parents would definitely withdraw her from Hogwarts for her safety.
"So, where do you want it?" Victor said, picking up his wand again.
"Put me down first!" Hermione said, kicking her legs in the air. Victor then put her down. But as soon as Hermione stood firmly on the ground, she suddenly grabbed Victor's hand and tried to bite it, but her hand was immediately restrained.
"Trying that trick again!" Victor said, holding down the young witch's head with one hand and a playful look on his face. "Tell me, where do you want it? If you don't say anything, I'll choose for you! Don't you dare call me a pervert afterward!"
Hermione's face flushed upon hearing that. She hesitated for a moment before reluctantly pointing to her upper left arm.
"You should have just done that in the first place." Victor said. He then walked over and pulled up Hermione's sleeve, revealing her fair skin. Hermione's face turned even redder.
"There!" After imprinting the blue guild emblem and repairing her sleeve, Victor put away his wand. But Hermione was still angry. She looked at Victor's face and took an opportunity to kick his shin hard before running out of the Fairy's Abode herself.
"This girl, it's just an emblem. Why is she acting like she's going to die?" Victor said, shaking his head as he watched Hermione's retreating figure.
At the same time, Victor's recruitment notice had quickly spread throughout Hogwarts. Many people were discussing what the selection criteria would be, and some had even thought about what magic they would learn after joining the guild.
In the evening, this matter also reached the Ministry of Magic and many of the pure-blood wizarding families.
Cornelius Fudge at the Ministry of Magic was very uneasy when he received this news. Because of the precedent set by Voldemort's Knights of Walpurgis, the Ministry of Magic was very wary of student organizations, especially those formed by students who were very talented and influential. They were afraid that another Voldemort would emerge one day.
As for the pure-blood wizarding families, it went without saying. They had already fallen out with Victor last term, and they gritted their teeth when they heard the news. They had thought of many ways to deal with Victor, but they had never been able to find his weakness.
Their young family members at Hogwarts were not capable enough and had limited power. In addition, Hogwarts was not under the control of the pure-blood families, so they couldn't carry out any form of assassination against Victor.
Outside the school, they also couldn't find Victor's family and friends, and some of them didn't dare to act rashly because the consequences would be too great.
A while ago, The Quibbler published a new ten-page comic strip, and they thought they had found an opportunity. They immediately sent people to the Lovegood household, but all of them disappeared without a trace.
All of these things revealed a shocking strangeness.
So, in the end, after much thought, these pure-blood families could only find Hogwarts as the only way to deal with Victor. But then another problem arose: if their own family members weren't capable, they couldn't just storm the school themselves to deal with Victor, could they? Dumbledore would just wipe them out!
And so, on the third day after the recruitment notice was posted, many of the young Slytherins in the Slytherin common room, located in the Hogwarts dungeons, had received letters from their families, ordering them to infiltrate the Fairy Tail Guild at all costs to gather information on Victor Dreyar.
Naturally, Draco Malfoy also received a letter from his father. But at this moment, as he looked at the contents of the letter, there was no excitement on his face. Instead, his emotions were unusually complicated.
To be honest, he had reservations about the mission his family had given him. He was a brat, but he wasn't an idiot. Although he didn't know Victor's exact strength, based on the events of last Halloween, where Victor slaughtered a troll, used a single spell to put an end to the chaotic snake and eagle fight, and then later received the Ravenclaw inheritance…
Judging by these three events alone, not only he, but everyone at Hogwarts knew that Victor Dreyar was the strongest person in the school besides the professors. Even if all of Slytherin were to team up, they probably wouldn't be a match for Victor. Because of this, the Slytherins had also become a lot more reserved when dealing with the Ravenclaws and no longer had the attitude of looking down their noses at people.
And at the same time, Draco also felt that this so-called spy mission was a bit too much to ask of a second-year Slytherin. However, he ultimately didn't dare to defy his father's order. He could only secretly tell his father in his heart that he would try his best to complete the mission, but if he couldn't, it wouldn't be his fault.
He couldn't just force his way into the guild because his name was Malfoy if they wouldn't accept him. If that were the case, he felt that Dreyar would definitely nail him to a wall!
Compared to the Slytherins, the Ministry of Magic was also in a difficult position. Cornelius Fudge personally came to Hogwarts to see Dumbledore, with the purpose of getting a clear explanation about the Fairy Tail Guild.
"Albus, what is this Fairy Tail for?"
"Cornelius, Fairy Tail is just a student organization. You don't need to be so nervous!" Dumbledore said calmly. "You know, Hogwarts has undergone some major reforms this year, but this has also given rise to some conflicts. There are many things among the students that we professors can't interfere with, so it's only natural that a student organization is needed to balance these conflicts in the reform."
"But is it really that simple?" Fudge asked with a suspicious look. "The others are one thing, but Victor Dreyar has the title of Ravenclaw's heir. You know how much weight that carries. And no offense, but many people say that Slytherin produces nothing but dark wizards, but in reality, the largest number of people in Azkaban are from Ravenclaw! Can you guarantee that he doesn't have the same ambitions as the Dark Lord did?"
"In that case, Cornelius, what do you think we should do about this?" Dumbledore deflected the question back to him. "You should know that nothing Mr. Dreyar has done is against the rules. He even officially submitted an application to me."
"Can't you just find some reason to prohibit this so-called guild from being established?!" Cornelius said, spreading his hands with a sense of self-importance.
"And what if Mr. Dreyar forms Fairy Tail in secret, just like the Dark Lord did? He is perfectly capable of that," Dumbledore said calmly. "Do you think a person who stands in the light is more dangerous, or one who hides in the shadows?"
"I…" Fudge was speechless. He pouted and thought for a while before saying helplessly, "Fine, but I have one condition! This so-called Fairy Tail must be registered in detail with the Ministry of Magic, clarifying the nature and function of the guild, and its members must also be filed with the Ministry."
"I will pass this request on to Mr. Dreyar…"
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