The first impression of this place is that it is shabby. The wooden sign at the door is broken, the bracket is broken, the door is broken, and even the tables, chairs and tableware in the bar are not intact.

Perhaps for the bartender of the Hog's Head Bar, brokenness is his life.

Worse than being shabby was being dirty. Not to mention the bloody pig's head that had been hanging on the door for who knows how many years, the whole bar exuded a very strong smell of sheep, and the windows were covered with thick dust, so that the sunlight outside could hardly penetrate. The ground underfoot looked like compacted mud, but it was actually centuries of mud and dirt spread on the stone floor.

It was also located quite remotely, away from the central avenue of Hogsmeade, at the intersection of a small path.

It is hard to say whether such a pub can exist in the Muggle world, but in the British wizarding world, the Hog's Head is second only to the Three Broomsticks in terms of popularity.

Because this is the only bar that does not exclude dark wizards at all.

Every dark wizard knows that the bartender at the Hog's Head is not a nosy person. As long as you drink honestly, pay and don't make trouble, he won't care what you do here.

Who did the deal with, what magical creatures were smuggled, what evil plans were made...

No one cares.

At first, this place was just a place for dark wizards to relax and drink, but slowly, it became a gathering place for dark wizards. Many dark wizards like to meet here.

Tonks has flaxen hair today.

To be honest, Cyrus has never seen her hair color so low-key.

"Isn't it because of the noise you made at the entrance of the Ministry of Magic? As a result, you and I were assigned to other tasks together." Tonks lowered her voice and said unhappily.

Although Cyrus revealed that Rita Skeeter was an illegal Animagus at the Ministry of Magic, which resolved the crisis of public opinion, it also gave the Ministry of Magic the opportunity to use this incident to divert the public's attention from the attack.

But Umbridge still felt that Cyrus and Tonks had brought shame to the Ministry of Magic, so she secretly removed them from the mission of hunting down Sirius Black and Riddle and replaced them with a most unpleasant surveillance mission.

But Cyrus was very interested in this mission.

Because their surveillance targets are goblins! Tonks sat on the greasy chairs in the Hog's Head Pub and nervously ordered a glass of butterbeer. Not only her hair, but also her facial features were changed. She also tucked herself into her robes, looking like a dark wizard. "What do you want to drink?"

Cyrus sat down on the chair with disgust, looking at the greasy tabletop and feeling a little nauseous. He suspected that the table had never been cleaned, as the entire tabletop was sticky as if it had been filled with Coke.

But his purpose was not to drink.

"Firewhiskey." Cyrus ordered a glass casually.

Although he was very disgusted with this place, when he showed it outside, Cyrus was still like an ordinary dark wizard who didn't care about the dirtiness here. After all, no matter how bad the sanitary conditions here were, they were much better than those of many dark wizards.

Tonks was waiting for her Butterbeer and was looking at people furtively, which attracted a lot of attention to the two of them.

Cyrus tapped the table lightly with his hand to draw Tonks's attention back: "First time at the Hog's Head? There's a rule here, don't pry into other people's business, just mind your own business."

Tonks originally wanted to say that she was just here to observe these dark wizards to see if there were any suspicious people. But at least she was smart enough to understand that Cyrus' words were meant for others to hear.

Because her actions just now have caused many dark wizards to begin to suspect that she is an Auror, or some other person with ill intentions.

"I'm sorry, it's indeed my first time here..."

Tonks' voice was hoarse from beneath her black robes, but it was easy to tell that the voice was deliberately disguised, and the hoarse tone revealed a hint of immaturity.

Like an innocent sheep trying its best to disguise itself as a wolf.

This time, more dark wizards' attention was focused on him.

However, if their eyes were vigilant at the beginning, they were now completely greedy.

A dark wizard who was not very experienced in the world was like a piece of delicious cooked meat in front of this group of wolves who had been hungry for a long time. Although Cyrus and Tonks had just entered the bar not long ago, some of the dark wizards were already planning to attack Tonks on the road after they left.

As for Cyrus, he didn't look like a novice, and they were not willing to take any risks.

Cyrus didn't care about these looks at all. After all, they were just a bunch of rabble, and most of the dark wizards were not as strong as Aurors. If he wanted, he could just cast a spell and wipe out all the dark wizards in the Hog's Head.

He sat in the chair, his eyes only on Tonks, but in fact he had already activated the extrasensory spell, and every move in the bar was under his surveillance.

The spell of super calling is like opening a small-scale God's perspective, allowing him to clearly know everything around him even without looking.

Of course, generally speaking, the extrasensory spells cast by ordinary wizards do not have this effect. They cannot see clear images and colors, and the scenes they see are actually similar to thermal imaging.

And the ancient magic mastered by Cyrus——

Yes, just like the fire dragon's skin contains ancient magic, the thunderbird also masters ancient magic. The two ancient magics that Cyrus now masters are "controlling lightning" and "enhancing vision".

The latter not only enhanced his physical vision, but also gave him a magical vision, allowing him to clearly construct the original colors and details when casting some perception spells.

Just like now, he could clearly see every corner of the bar: Aberforth picked up two glasses that seemed to have never been washed and poured wine for them with an impatient look on his face, about seven dark wizards kept their eyes on Tonks, and a few of them lost interest in them immediately after dispelling their doubts.

There was also a hunchbacked old wizard with a beard who had been looking at "The Quibbler" in his hand as if nothing had happened since the beginning, and he kept laughing, revealing a mouth with only one tooth left.

Cyrus had not expected to meet readers who disagreed in such a place. He took a curious look and found that the newspaper had published "Fudge's 'Rotten Teeth' Plan" written by Lovegood in a serious manner.

He also said that the five defeated Aurors were proof that they were defeated by Tom Riddle alone because of toothache.

(End of this chapter)