Chapter 109: Pig's Head Bar

The Hog's Head is a shabby pub located in Hogsmeade.

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, brokenness is his life.

What is more terrible than shabby is dirty. Not to mention the bloody pig's head that has been hanging on the door for who knows how many years, the whole bar exudes a very strong smell of sheep, and the windows are piled with thick dust, so that the sunlight outside can hardly penetrate. It looks like compacted mud under your feet, but it is actually centuries of mud and dirt laid on the stone floor.

It is also very remote, far away from the central avenue of Hogsmeade, at the intersection of a trail.

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

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

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

Who you traded with, what magical animals you smuggled, what evil plans you had...

No one cares.

At first, this place just became a place for dark wizards to relax and drink, and slowly, it evolved into 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 commotion you made at the entrance of the Ministry of Magic? It caused me and you to be assigned to other tasks together." Tonks lowered her voice and said unhappily.

Although Cyrus revealed that Rita Skeeter was an illegal Animagus at the entrance of the Ministry of Magic, solving the crisis of public opinion. And 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 the most unpleasant surveillance mission.

But Cyrus was very interested in this mission.

Because their surveillance targets were goblins!

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

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

But his purpose was not to drink.

"Fire whiskey." 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 are, they are much better than many dark wizards.

While waiting for her butter beer, Tonks looked at others furtively, which attracted a lot of attention.

Cyrus gently knocked on the table with his hand to attract Tonks's attention back: "Is it your first time to come to the Hog's Head? There is a rule here, don't pry into other people's affairs, just do your own thing."

"But--"

Tonks originally wanted to say that her own business was 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 had caused many dark wizards to begin to suspect that she was an Auror, or someone else with bad intentions.

"Sorry, it's indeed my first time here..."

Tonks made a hoarse voice under her black robe. But it was easy to hear that the voice was deliberately disguised like this, and the hoarse tone revealed a green taste.

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

Now, more dark wizards' eyes gathered here.

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

A dark wizard who had not experienced much in the world was like a piece of delicious cooked meat in front of their group of wolves who had been hungry for a long time. Although Cyrus and Tonks had only 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 did not look like a novice, and they were not willing to take risks.

Cyrus did not care about these looks at all. After all, they were just a mob, and most of the dark wizards were not as powerful as Aurors. If he wanted, he could kill all the dark wizards in the entire Hog's Head Bar with a random spell.

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

The super-sensory spell was 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. The scenes they see are actually similar to thermal imaging.

And the ancient magic mastered by Cyrus -

Yes, just like the ancient magic contained in the skin of the fire dragon, the thunderbird also mastered ancient magic. The two ancient magics that Cyrus now masters are "controlling lightning" and "enhanced vision".

The latter not only enhances his physical vision, but also gives him a magical vision. It enables him to clearly construct the original colors and details when casting some perception spells.

Just like now, he can clearly see every corner of the bar:

Aberforth impatiently picked up two glasses that seemed to have never been washed and poured them wine. About seven dark wizards kept their eyes on Tonks, and several people immediately lost interest in them after dispelling their doubts.

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

Cyrus didn't expect to meet a reader of the Quibbler in such a place. He took a look out of curiosity and found that the newspaper had published "Fudge's 'Rotten Tooth' 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.