Chapter 62.3- Doom Days

“Of course you think can spurn their gold. I know your name, and that of your godfather might carry clout in England. You most definitely have more wealth than you will ever need if you wanted to live your life in peace. But you don’t just want to live your life in peace do you/ One does not train as hard as you must have, acquire as much power as you have, just to live a life of peace. And so when your war comes, would you rather have the powers that be in Europe against you or on your side. Because no matter how much you might disdain them, these are the men and women who rule the world. Gold makes the world turn around, and these people have more of it than anyone else” He said.

“What war are you talking about? I didn’t get any notice that I was at war or planning one”

“Indeed? Then your words about your Dark Lord having returned? You do not believe them? I would assume the threat of his return is what turned you from an average student by all metrics that matter into a finalist in the largest Under Seventeen dueling championship in under a year. That has to be it, no?”

“Voldemort is back, yes” I said, not even touching the rest of what he said with a 10-foot pole. Sirius said he had been snooping around me, accusations of cheating and whatnot. I hadn’t cheated, but there was no use giving him anything to work with. The only worst thing than talking too much when you were guilty was saying too much when you just so happen to be innocent.

“So would you not need them to fight this dark lord of yours. Gold to hire mercenaries, to pay for wands, healing potions, other equipment. Fighting war is expensive, you know?”

“Good thing the ministry will be the one fighting that war not me then. Mr. Russo, can we get straight to the point of what brings you here?”

“I just want together to know you better, Mr. Potter. Is that too much to ask?”

“Yes. I can’t see you putting in that much effort to getting to know Okonkwo, so I must protest at being singled out.”

“Ifeoma Okonkwo is not alien to me. Top of her class in Uagadou every year since her enrollment. She’s only two years old than you and is poised to graduate from Uagadou’s eight year course by next year. Exceptionally skilled in herbology, transfiguration, and highly skilled in all the others. She was impressing her teachers with animate conjurations while most of her classmates were struggling to turn beetles into buttons. She is a prodigy without equal. If you’d asked me before this began, I would have had my money on her winning the whole thing”

“And let me guess, you didn’t have it one me making it this far”