A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 552: The beginning of the exchange
Hogsmeade, Felix appeared spinning in the public fireplace. He patted the ashes off his body. The sky was gray, and the red sunset glow could be vaguely seen from the clouds.
There was a thick layer of snow on the ground, and there was a "creaking" sound when stepping on it. Felix walked all the way, and the wizard who returned in the evening kept greeting him. A skinny old wizard pulled him to talk for a long time, discussing with him such issues as "whether the current wizards lack some blood", and finally realized that he had found the wrong person. Went home for dinner.
Ms. Rosmerta of the Three Broomsticks Bar is putting up a discount poster, "Mr. Hype, you are out so late, would you like to come in for a drink?"
"Oh, no, I have something to deal with..."
"Is it to inspect the branch? I bought a chair and lie down for a while every night before going to bed."
Felix turned into a side street, the light dimmed, the road was close to the Shrieking Shack, there was no one around, he stopped where he was, fumbling with his fingers for a coin, after a while, bouncing Footsteps came from behind.
"Mr. Haipe."
Bundy the house-elf jumped out and saluted him, brushing his nose against the snow as he straightened up. Then he took out a crumpled letter from his body and handed it to Felix respectfully.
Felix took it, and asked seemingly casually: "Bundy, who is your master?"
The house elf froze for a moment, lowered his head and said: "Bundy was dedicated to Mr. Grindelwald by the master, and took care of his daily life."
A faithful believer?
"When did this happen?"
"Just in these two years."
Felix glanced at him, "Mr. Grindelwald is in poor health?"
Bundy took a deep breath and said sharply, "Winters are cold at Fort Nurmengard."
"Where's his magic?"
"Mr. Grindelwald has not been allowed to cast spells since 1945."
Some kind of magic, Felix thought. He saw Bundy on October 27, and it was clear that another person's will was in him. There must have been certain constraints on the post-fail Grindelwald—not wands, which are not necessary for a wizard like Grindelwald—but harsher ones.
Like an unbreakable oath.
This period of history is relatively vague and there is no clear record. It seems that everyone has deliberately forgotten this hidden danger. As a result, people like him will always find some obvious loopholes when interpreting it from the perspective of a bystander.
Why did Grindelwald give up everything because of a duel? Are his 100,000 followers fake? Even if only a tenth of them are loyal, these people can smash any Ministry of Magic in the world.
Felix did not continue this question, he asked Bundy: "Do you usually live in Nurmengard?"
"Yes, sir."
"Can owls be kept there?"
"What, what?" Bundy raised his head in surprise.
"It would be too troublesome for you to send messages all by yourself. Hogwarts' protection magic repels other house elves, but it does not restrict owls." Felix explained, if you send messages through owls , it will definitely be a lot more convenient, saving him from having to run out every time.
The house-elf Bundy lowered his head deeply, "Oh, no, Nurmengard Castle has been sealed under heavy spells, and no one can find it...Only the professional staff of the International Federation of Wizards have the authority to open it. "
Felix was slightly surprised, Grindelwald seemed to be much more restricted than he had expected.
He opened the letter, and the content on it was not long as usual. In summary, he agreed to "discuss some issues" with him. Other than that, it was nothing more than some sarcastic remarks, such as "I have read these books a long time ago, and the knowledge in them is very shallow", "Too negative, without a little courage, not as good as Carlotta Pinkstone" , or suggest Felix in a guiding tone to "read the three hundred years of magic history from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century" and so on.
At the end, don't forget to ask for some parchment, ink and quill.
"In order to write this letter, I added a lot of snow water to the ink bottle. Also, those people will check Bundy's brain every two or three months, and you will take care of this trouble."
Felix looked at the faint ink mark and laughed dumbly. He read some contradictions from the letter, but he would not think that Grindelwald was old and confused.
Grindelwald said he read the book he wrote, who gave it to him?
To put it bluntly, Felix never mentioned his plans and expectations for the wizarding world in the book, so in the eyes of some people, he is just pro-Muggle and sympathetic to Muggle; or, An opportunistic businessman who made his fortune by porting the novel ideas of Muggle society. But truly insightful people - such as Dumbledore, or Grindelwald, can fully see his unfinished meaning from these books. That is:
Felix Hemp believes that the integration of wizards and Muggles is inevitable, but he is a moderate, or at least pretends to be a moderate, relying on subtle influences to guide wizards to accept this concept and make preparations in advance.
If you show this theory to ordinary wizards, they may frown. They are used to the existence of the secrecy law, and telling these people that the secrecy will be broken is like telling them that one day they will walk naked into the ice and snow.
When presented to the radicals, they also look down on this view, perhaps because they think it is too weak and not crisp enough. For example, the witch Carlotta Pinkstone mentioned in the letter, she is a social activist, born in 1922, famous for advocating the abolition of the "International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act", and has been publicly accused of He has been imprisoned several times for deliberately using magic.
By the way, she will be released from prison next year, and it is estimated that there will be another storm at that time.
Grindelwald was a radical too, but he was different because he was a loser. Giving him Felix's book is tantamount to telling Grindelwald that there is another idea similar to yours but gentler, which has achieved some achievements, you can take a look...
Felix read a strong sense of preaching from this practice.
He guessed that this person was Dumbledore.
If it is really Dumbledore, then the restrictions of the International Federation of Wizards will not be a problem at all. There are many ways for him to bypass the restrictions of Fort Nurmengard. The easiest one is to send a message through Phoenix Fox .
Felix gave Bundy some stationery, as for how to bypass the inspection... Felix didn't take advantage of this, Grindelwald can attach himself to Bundy to watch the battle, at least it shows that he can use some memory magic, probably This is testing him.
Felix is not taking the bait.
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In the next few days, Felix took some time to sort out the history from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century. The Hogwarts library provided a lot of materials, including the magic handbooks and travel diaries of that period, especially the few books he found in the restricted area—there was no demagogic curse, just simply recording history. He will not read such books.
Felix read in a cold sweat.
That is a truer and bloodier truth.
During this period of time, he also received more and more letters, and various invitations to join the association came like raindrops. Felix did not know that there were so many magical organizations before, just all kinds of alchemy groups and ancient writing associations. Just over thirty.
There are also many letters from individuals, the most representative of which is Uriah Edmund from Ilvermorny. His description in the letter fully reflects the mentality of young people in the American magic community:
“…
The performance of the Magic Council has been disappointing. Those officials do not seem to realize the seriousness of the problem.
I talked to some seniors at school and they told me that in the sixties there was a gang that recruited members under the guise of 'pure blood' and 'glory', but these ideas had no market in America at the time— —According to the standards of the British magic world, except for a few families who migrated, no one is qualified to call themselves pure blood.
So the purpose of that group of people failed. I believe that similar things may have happened in other countries, but because of the painful lessons brought by Grindelwald just now, people are strictly guarded against such ideas and instinctively reject them, and new cults have never been able to develop.
Thirty years have passed now, a new generation of wizards has grown up, and new dissatisfaction has begun to accumulate. Our biggest contradiction is caused by the forced separation of wizards and No-Maj society. Although it has improved in the past two years, But still unsatisfactory. Sooner or later, the flowery illusion of peace we hold dear will explode.
Principal Fontana's death touched me deeply. He protected me, but now he is gone.
So, Mr. Hype, I have left Ilvermorny.
I decided to go into politics. The Magic Congress planned to form an emergency team. It seemed to me that it was just a show, but I still decided to sign up. I am currently active in China, but I may have the opportunity to meet in the UK in the future.
Wish us all the best. "
Felix closed the letter, thought for a long time, took out the parchment and wrote a reply.
"Dear Uriah,
I see in you the hope of a new generation of American wizards. Some problems are difficult to deal with, but we will encounter them sooner or later, so we cannot ignore them.
I have also thought deeply about the issues you mentioned in your letter. My thoughts are as follows:
You are facing two problems, one is because of the excitement caused by the death of Principal Fontana, the social unrest, and the potential threat from Voldemort's forces; Visionary dissatisfaction with the negative attitude of the Magic Council.
The former is an emergency and is the focus of everyone's attention at this stage, while the latter is more far-reaching and seems less urgent, but it is more difficult to deal with.
I totally agree with your decision to join the Magic Congress. It will allow you to actually experience the difficulties and moral dilemmas faced by those in power. Negatively, its harm is no less than the chaos caused by the death of Principal Fontana.
I also saw that you proposed some other solutions, such as working with Future World to replicate some of the initiatives we proposed in our communication last year, but I must point out that the situation you and I are facing is not complete same.
Nearly 300 years have passed since the secrecy law was born. In other words, no one alive today has ever seen a completely undisturbed scene. The results brought about by rash changes are bound to be good or bad. Although people cheer for opening the door to see the wonderful world, they will inevitably be hurt by the thorns outside the door, which will lead to feelings of resentment.
If you want to count the contradictions between wizards and ordinary people, you can't sum it up in one word.
The Hogwarts collection contains a large number of relevant documents and materials. From the beginning of witch hunts in the fourteenth century to the few years before the birth of the law of secrecy in the seventeenth century, the relationship between the two reached a freezing point.
During the past three hundred years, the early wizards were almost semi-public activities, and the best of them (or ambitious wizards) could often become the guests of the king and nobles.
But the wizarding families at the bottom still lived a double life. At that time, public opinion was controlled by secularism and religion. Wizards and magic were still mysterious, cunning and evil. Ideas blossomed everywhere under the propaganda of some people, thus resulting in a very obvious division between top and bottom. During this period, many thought-provoking cases occurred. There were kind and enthusiastic wizards who helped their neighbors to fight against being betrayed. Naturally, many were sincerely loved; not to mention, there were also bad guys among wizards. They cannot be separated.
Various diametrically opposed viewpoints and trends of thought collide fiercely, and it is against this background that "Stories Collection of Beedle the Poet" was created.
If you ask me what my opinion is ~IndoMTL.com~ I would say that any attempt to characterize a large group of people through a small group of people is definitely bad. Especially when you have already chosen a team in advance.
But it must be admitted that the number of ordinary people far exceeds that of wizards, the ratio is close to 3000:1. This makes - even if only a small percentage of ordinary people have a more violent attitude towards wizards, the results are disastrous.
Wizard families at that time were especially prone to losing their children, because children could not control their own magic, and often attracted the attention of Muggles who hunted wizards, and they were powerless to resist. We're used to seeing mature, self-preserving wizards dismiss pitchforks, hoes, and crucifixes, but the real history isn't pretty.
The newly established British Ministry of Magic (formerly known as the Wizarding Council) sent a special delegation to contact the Muggle monarchs William III and Mary II, hoping that Muggle laws would recognize and protect wizards. When this attempt to gain official recognition and protection failed, wizards were forced to voluntarily move in the opposite direction—going underground and keeping secrets.
The law of secrecy was born.
This law effectively divided the wizarding society and the Muggle society, and formed some consensus in practice for a long time. For example, the parents of little wizards born in Muggle families are not in the category of secrecy. This approach undoubtedly eases the contradiction, especially compared with the harsh laws of the Magical Congress of America.
As far as I know, the magical world and the non-magic government in the United States have always been in a state of hostility, and there is no cooperative relationship between the two. There is a dark and **** game hidden in it. At that time, some people in power authorized an attempt to crack the secrets of wizards , The result was fierce confrontation and the headquarters of the Magic Congress moved many times.
These need to be considered in advance..."