Chapter 519 The Second Merlin Medal
Standing on the high platform, looking at hundreds of wizards, Dumbledore calmly said:
“I once heard a saying—a race without heroes is unfortunate, but a race with heroes but no respect and love is hopeless—I deeply believe it.”
"Over the years, countless wizards have made outstanding contributions to the wizarding world.
Their courage and wisdom, loyalty and fearlessness have brought about major changes in our world and have guided and inspired generations to come.
They are the heroes of the clan of wizards! "
"In order to express our respect and love for these heroes, we hope to award them medals, which is also the original intention of the Merlin Sir Order."
"Great wizards wrote epic stories, but these stories, like the film in a camera, may become out of focus, blurred, crumbled, cracked, and forgotten by people after a few years.
We also hope that these medals can become luminous coordinates, fix the distant stories in the galaxy, and pass them on to future generations forever..."
Dumbledore's words were so contagious that the audience under the stands applauded several times, interrupting his speech.
After the speech was over, Dumbledore began to loudly announce the names and deeds of this year's winners. Every time a name was read, the wizards present cheered enthusiastically.
Mace Gaubert was the first to go up to receive the award for his heroism in rescuing a Muggle child from a vampire.
Bethe Dwyeff followed, for improving the treatment of dragon pox.
They are all three-level medals, which are also the easiest medals to obtain.
Lockhart was awarded this medal in recognition of his introduction to the method of defense in his autobiographical work.
Lockhart wrote that those deeds were all plagiarized from others, and the method is naturally correct, which is why others will believe it.
Soon, it was the turn of the promulgation of the Second Class Medal. The first wizard to go up was Miranda Gosack. Hearing her name caused quite a stir.
After all, Miranda Goshawk is the author of the Hogwarts textbook "Standard Spells"... Many people thought she was dead long ago, but they didn't expect that she was still alive!
Next, four or five wizards went up. It was not Rove's turn yet, so he sat calmly on the chair and waited quietly.
Shirley clenched her hands into fists, with a dignified expression, she seemed even more nervous than Rove, who was about to go up to receive the award.
Rove wanted to laugh a little, but he held it back, deliberately put on a straight face, and whispered: "Xue Li, I'm so nervous."
The ponytailed girl became even more nervous when she heard this, but she still encouraged Rove, "You can take a deep breath, and then exhale slowly."
Rove did it again, and said with a 'crying' face: "No, I'm even more nervous... I don't want to go up, autism is about to break out."
Xue Li took her hand off the table, quietly held the boy's hand, and comforted softly: "Don't be nervous... just get a medal, don't look at those wizards under the stage."
Rove slid his fingertips over the back of the ponytailed girl's white and greasy hands, and said in a playful but gentle tone, "Don't be nervous."
Xue Li looked at the young man's sly eyes, and then felt his restless little hand. She didn't know that she was cheated, so she wanted to pull her hand back.
But Rove had already clenched her hand tightly, clasped his fingers together, and said with a smile, "Are you still nervous?"
The girl with the ponytail was stunned for a moment, then gradually raised the corners of her mouth, shook her head and said, "Don't be nervous anymore."
"Mr. Rolf Scamander...he exposed the conspiracy of the Death Eater Pettigrew Peter, and helped Sirius Black, who has been wronged for twelve years, clear his grievances."
Dumbledore's voice suddenly sounded.
"After Pettigrew Peter escaped from prison, Scamander captured and killed him himself, maintaining the safety of the wizarding world..."
After Rove heard his name, he gently released Shirley's hand, looked at Newt and Tina, and said with a smile, "I'm going up."
After finishing speaking, the boy walked straight towards the podium.
All eyes were on Rove, and people were whispering.
There was no suspense about the fact that Rove won the Order of Merlin...at least the British wizards thought so.
Of course, after the trial of Peter Pettigrew last year, there were many calls to give Rove an Order of Merlin.
However, at that time, many conservative wizards felt that he was only twelve years old, too young...he should not have been awarded so early.
But after Peter escaped from prison, people were panicked for several months. Even the Aurors couldn't catch him. Such a dangerous person finally died in the hands of Rove.
No matter how picky a wizard is, he can't find any reason to object.
Everyone's idea is to give him the damn Merlin Medal... and it has to be a first-class Merlin Medal!
However, many foreign wizards didn't know about this, and they were a little surprised to see that the winner was so young.
The Merlin Medal is composed of a magnificent gold medal and ribbons, the green ribbon is the first class, the purple ribbon is the second class, and the white ribbon is the third class.
It is said that the green ribbon on the first-class medal is a tribute to Hogwarts Slytherin College where Merlin is.
At least the little snakes’ annual welcome words are publicized like this, and I don’t know if it’s false propaganda.
Fudge walked up to Rove with the medal of the green ribbon, and said with a smile:
"On behalf of the British Ministry of Magic, Sir Rolf Scamander 1st Class of the Order of Merlin."
"Thank you, Mr. Minister." Rove tilted his head and asked Fudge to hang the medal on himself.
Everyone applauded, and some whistled.
After hanging up the medal, Fudge whispered: "There are surprises for you."
Rove raised his eyebrows, wanting to ask, but Fudge had already walked to a table to take down a medal.
He had no choice but to walk quickly towards the stage. Dumbledore not far away raised his mouth and continued to read aloud:
"The next winner is... Mr. Rolf Scamander."
He had only heard this name a minute ago, and when he heard it again, many wizards thought they heard it wrong.
Even Rove thought that Dumbledore had read it wrong, so he didn't stop, but continued to walk down.
Dumbledore looked at the guests and announced loudly:
"Mr. Scamander successfully prevented a terrorist attack in July this year, saving the lives of nearly a hundred wizards on a floating dragon boat from a group of dark wizards.
For this reason, the Order of Merlin has decided to award Mr. Scamander the Order of Merlin, First Class. "
Rove stopped suddenly and looked at Dumbledore in astonishment.
The wizards in the entire stadium seemed to have heard the unbelievable words, and they all froze in their positions.
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