Chapter 298 Playful Parade

"Are you really going to do this?"

On the way to Hogsmeade, Penelope looked at Mike with a worried look and asked.

"Of course, they want to shit on my head, so of course I have to resist."

Mike answered disapprovingly, holding Penelope's hand and continuing to walk forward.

"But... will this work?"

Penelope asked with some worry, and then turned back and looked at the large group of Hogwarts students behind them with worry.

Although today is the weekend, it is the time for Hogwarts students to go out once a week, but there are not so many people going to Hogsmeade in the past.

These people were naturally called by Mike.

"Don't worry, Penelope, it will be fine." Franklin licked his lips and said, "I can't wait to do it!"

The worry in Penelope's eyes became more intense.

"Don't talk like we are going to a group fight. We are just going to Hogsmeade to hold an open-air barbecue party!"

George complained.

As soon as they finished complaining, the Weasley brothers burst into laughter.

Grilling all kinds of magical animal meat in front of those extreme magical animal protectors!

The idea that Mike came up with was so funny!

Of course, it would be even better if those people couldn't help but take action.

In this way, they could reasonably defend themselves. After all, they were just holding an open-air barbecue party.

They couldn't wait to see the expressions of those extremists at that time.

Laughter is always contagious, and Mike also laughed when he saw it.

He copied this method from the way that farmers and breeders in the Muggle society deal with animal protectors.

I think it should be effective.

The crowd continued to move forward and soon arrived at Hogsmeade Village.

It was less than a month away from Christmas, and Hogsmeade Village had already changed into silver clothes at this time.

However, in this snowy environment, there was a group of people, naked, flushed with excitement, shouting slogans, holding signs and donation boxes, and marching back and forth on the main road of Hogsmeade Village.

There were not many of them, probably only a few dozen, but they were the most eye-catching group in the entire Hogsmeade village today.

Everyone who came and went would set their eyes on them, and then they could not move away.

After all, it was rare to see idiots wearing nothing in this weather, especially since there were several pretty women among them.

When Mike and his group arrived at Hogsmeade village, the group of idiots rushed forward like sharks smelling blood, shuttling back and forth among the students in school uniforms.

They did not seem to know Mike, the person they were condemning, and completely ignored Mike and others who were at the head of the line, only calling on other students to condemn the dragon slayer Mike and calling on them to donate money to those poor magical creatures.

Seeing this, Mike also understood.

These extreme magical animal protectors in front of him and those animal protectors in the Muggle world are actually birds of a feather.

In fact, Mike is actually more in favor of protecting magical animals.

On the one hand, those more precious magical creatures do have considerable value, and it is a pity that they are extinct.

On the other hand, watching those lovely magical creatures being killed, Mike really felt bad.

This is the empathy mechanism of human beings, which is inevitable.

But even if it is a good thing, it will deteriorate once it becomes extreme.

And these extreme magical animal protectors often do such deteriorated good things.

Such things are actually more common in the Muggle society.

In order to attract more people's attention, their methods can be said to be extreme.

They claim to the outside world that this is to call on more people to protect animals and punish those who abuse animals.

But Mike thinks that they are just simply trying to make money.

Mike is not aimless, but has actual examples.

Pittie, a global animal protection organization, is also a weird organization that uses indecent photos to attract attention.

At first, their targets were animal laboratories and farms. They often used sit-in protests or even more extreme means (whether it was warnings) to obstruct or even destroy these companies.

Later, their scope of attack became more extensive.

The most outrageous thing is that they actually started to attack games such as "Pokemon", "Farming Simulator", "Final Fantasy", and "Super Mario", claiming that the settings of these games involve animal abuse.

There are many other strange operations and remarks of Pi Yiti, but the incident that really made everyone realize its true face was another scandal.

Animal euthanasia incident!

According to data, from 1998 to 2008, Pi Yiti took in a total of 25,112 pets, and 21,339 pets were killed by them.

In 2008, they took in 2,216 pets, of which 96% were killed and only seven were adopted!

After these data were summarized, they immediately caused an uproar, and everyone was frightened by these terrifying data.

Afterwards, Pi Yiti quickly came forward to start cleaning up. The explanation they gave was that due to the limited financial capacity of the organization, they could not afford the food and housing of these pets, so they had no choice but to euthanize these pets.

At the same time, they also said that keeping pets is actually enslaving animals, which is inhumane, and euthanizing them directly is the only way to put them out of their misery.

At first glance, the argument of lack of money makes sense, doesn't it?

But the problem is that data shows that the amount of donations received by Petie from caring people every year is as high as tens of millions of dollars. With such a large amount of money coming in every year, it would be unreasonable to say that there is no money, right?

In fact, Mike also understands them. After all, everyone needs to eat!

No matter what you do, you can't keep doing it for long. How can you make a big business without making money?

After investigation, Mike already knew.

Those who want to hold a parade in Hogsmeade belong to an organization called the "Fantastic Animal Liberation Front", and their leader is called Carlo Parker.

This Carlo is a half-blood who grew up in the Muggle society. Even after graduating from Hogwarts, he did not stay in the wizarding society, but chose to return to the Muggle society.

Three years ago, this guy suddenly returned to the wizarding world.

As soon as he came back this time, he started to organize various charity activities and established this magical animal protection organization.

A guy who has been living in the Muggle society suddenly said that he fell in love with magical creatures and would devote his whole life to the cause of protecting magical creatures.

What he wants, smart people should have been able to see.

On the other hand, Fudge also gave an explanation for the Daily Prophet.

The staff of the last manuscript review of the Daily Prophet accepted bribes and privately changed a simple rainbow fart article into a black manuscript.

The staff member who accepted the bribe has been detained, and after being interrogated, he also confessed the person who bribed him.

Carlo Parker.

The matter is very clear at this point. Carlo is the mastermind behind this incident, and his purpose is very simple, that is, to step on Mike, the current topic figure, to get more traffic.

As for the magical creature protection organization that is now causing trouble for him, Mike thinks they should just want to make money.

It can even be said that these extreme animal protectors in the wizarding world are even more greedy than their counterparts in the Muggle world!

Now that things have not yet heated up, they have begun to look for people everywhere to donate.

It's a pity that most of the people who came to Hogsmeade today were invited by Mike to attend the barbecue party. These people will naturally ignore these people. Compared with paying money to donate, they prefer free barbecue.

And the rest of the adult wizards in Hogsmeade Village are even less likely to donate money, because in the eyes of traditional wizards, magical animals and the like are completely allowed to be taken away by them.

But there are exceptions. Our young master Malfoy was moved by the behavior of these people and generously donated 5 gold galleons.

After discovering his generosity, the naked marchers immediately surrounded Malfoy. The naked women took the lead and surrounded Malfoy, chirping and thanking him for his generosity.

Young Malfoy had never seen such a scene before, and his face turned red in an instant. He had no choice but to take out all the gold galleons in his pocket and give them to them. Those people gave up.

His affairs naturally attracted the attention of Mike. George and Fred made a bet with a smile, saying that Malfoy must have given the money because those women couldn't even afford clothes.

The dirty meaning in the words was about to overflow.

But only Mike knew that Malfoy really loved magical animals, but the only magical animals he liked were dragons.

Malfoy also found that Mike was looking at him. His pale face suddenly turned even paler, and then he ran away as if a mouse saw a cat.

Malfoy was really afraid of Mike now.

His name Draco sounded very similar to dragon, and his nickname was Xiaolong.

This made him like dragons very much since he was a child, and sometimes he even imagined that he was a dragon, powerful, free, and could do whatever he wanted!

But that day, Mike killed an adult dragon alone in front of him!

This made him have nightmares for a whole week, and the content of the nightmare was always Mike cutting off his head with a knife!

Malfoy's matter was just a small episode. After arriving at the destination, Mike and others quickly took out various equipment and a large amount of meat and food from the traceless stretching spell bag according to the original plan, and started their barbecue party.

The meat was dragon meat and the meat of some other magical animals. Although there were no particularly precious protective creatures in it, in order to get enough meat to sustain this extra-large barbecue party, Mike still spent a lot of gold galleons.

The aroma of barbecue soon spread, and the students who were originally entangled by the marchers quickly gathered around. Even those who were originally watching the excitement around were attracted by the aroma.

Mike generously invited them to join the party, which made them very happy.

The naked animal protectors almost went crazy on the spot, because the meat Mike brought was not cut at all, and the exaggerated shape was clearly not something that ordinary animals could have.

The scene suddenly became very funny.

On one side were Mike and others who were jubilant and eating hot barbecue.

On the other side were naked demonstrators holding signs with their eyes wide open.

"You bunch of devils!" A skinny middle-aged man didn't know whether he was angry or cold, but he was trembling all over and pointed at Mike and said, "You butchers!"

As he said that, he raised the sign in his hand, on which was engraved a dynamic picture of a venomous leopard being skinned with pattern magic, which looked very bloody and disgusting.

Following his move, the protesters also gathered and raised their signs. Without exception, all of them were engraved with various disgusting pictures.

Some people who were still feasting frowned. This way would only make them lose their appetite.

Seeing this, the protesters all smiled, as if they had won a great victory.

"Put down the meat in your hands! Those are all sins. If you continue like this, the magical creatures in this world will soon become extinct!" The skinny man said with a sad face, "For the sustainable development of the wizarding world, throw away the sins in your hands. Only by joining us can you do the right thing!"

"You are Carlo Parker, right?"

Mike stood out from the crowd and asked with a smile.

"Yes! I am Carlo from the Magical Animal Liberation Front, a person who has dedicated the rest of his life to the cause of protecting magical animals!" Carlo said righteously, and even posed, "You are Mike Townley, right? The butcher! I know you! What you have done will send you to hell!"

Looking at the man in front of him who seemed to be emitting holy light, Mike chuckled and did not respond to him. Instead, he turned his head and said to several adult wizards beside him:

"That's him."

Nodding, the few people took out their wands without saying a word, and each of them cast a petrification spell to freeze Carlo, who was still posing.

The people around were all stunned. They never expected that someone would use a spell to attack others in public. For a moment, the crowd around them immediately became chaotic.

Seeing this, one of the two took out an Auror badge, showed it to the people around him and said:

"Don't panic! We are Aurors! This guy is a fraudster. He specializes in taking advantage of other people's kindness to siphon charity money for his own use. We have been watching him for a long time!"

There was an uproar in the crowd. Those who were originally infected and moved by Carlo's speech were stunned.

And a few men among the demonstrators saw that the situation was not good and ran away directly.

Unfortunately, they could not escape the clutches of these professional Aurors. They had just run a short distance when they followed Carlo's footsteps.

Seeing this, the women squatted down skillfully, holding their heads with their hands and shouting at the two Aurors:

"None of our business! I was just hired by Carlo to act!"

The two Aurors shook their heads, first controlling the women, and then began to escort them back to the Ministry of Magic.

Something happened, and I am very upset now, which also caused this chapter to be written like a shit. Wait for me to calm down, and I will come to revise it later.