Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 134

c133 Damn the Ministry of Magic

This is Gretel’s second visit to the American Ministry of Magic.

The last time was when he was in the first grade and was hiding from Voldemort, he came to America through a portkey.

At that time, Mr. Newt Scamander brought him here.

But he came here as a guest, so he was accompanied by someone throughout the visit.

At that time, Gretel was surprised that the administrative processing of the American Ministry of Magic was very efficient, unlike the British Ministry of Magic, where some trivial matters would take a long time to be dealt with.

This time, no one accompanied him, and Gretel broke in by illegal means alone, only to find that there were many things hidden here at that time.

In many places, even if Gretel merged into the magic particles, he could not break in.

Gretel could feel that those warning spells were not easy to bypass. As long as they sensed someone breaking in or there was an inexplicable magic fluctuation, they would be triggered immediately.

This trip was only to find Fred’s trace, so Gretel didn’t do much and bypassed it from a distance.

The American Ministry of Magic is different from the British Ministry of Magic. Most of the administrative agencies here are located on the ground for office.

Only some departments with higher risk are placed underground.

The Muggle Affairs Office is located on the lower floor of the Minister of Magic’s office.

This shows the status of the Muggle Affairs Office in the American Ministry of Magic.

Grett observed for a long time, watching John Doug handle official business non-stop.

For the Ministry of Magic, which manages an entire country and is now the most powerful Muggle country in the world.

All official business that can be submitted to John Doug is a big deal.

Magic sightings like those handled by England on a daily basis are not qualified to be submitted to John Doug’s desk.

The highest level that such things can be submitted to is just a team in the Muggle Affairs Office.

The process of handling sightings is the same all over the world, and the memory processing department can easily solve this problem.

After the matter is handled, it will be recorded and filed by the handling specialist.

The biggest difference from England is that in addition to sending people to clear the memory of Muggle sightings.

Aurors will also be sent to arrest the leaker.

But after a whole day, Grete only saw the Aurors who were sent out to report back.

But he did not see the criminals who should have been arrested.

It is clearly stipulated in the International Wizarding Law that all trials of wizards must be judged by the local magic administrative agency before they can be sentenced.

Grete began to wonder whether the Ministry of Magic in America has also been corrupted by corrupt capital.

Just like those “old nobles” in Britain, as long as they don’t do too much, a small bag of gold galleons can make the leading Aurors let them go.

Even many officials in the Ministry of Magic have regarded this as a good way to extort money.

As long as they are short of money, they can lead a team of people and bring a search warrant. By searching for traces of dark magic items, they can go to the manors of those pure-blood nobles and get some considerable rewards.

But after observing for a long time, Grete found that this was not the case.

Because not everyone has money to pay tribute to these black robe pickets.

America is very large, and there are far more wizards than in Britain.

There are countless poor people among them.

Many of the witnesses Grete saw were caused by ordinary wizards who made mistakes or had a sudden inspiration from Muggles and ignored the Muggle-Repelling Spell, which led to the leakage of magic events.

For civilian wizards who can barely make a living, they can still rely on squeezing their pockets to ask for face from the Black Robe Patrol.

Where can those wild wizards who are struggling on the edge of the survival line get gold Galleons?

For example, a wizard who blew up a small hill because of a magic experiment and was busy running for his life, according to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, they must be imprisoned for at least more than three months.

However, Grete waited for a day and did not see the Aurors return with the criminals to report.

However, the report they submitted said that the matter had been handled.

There was no handling time, no handling method, and even no brief report on the person who handled it.

However, the archiver, as if it was commonplace, skillfully stamped the report passed and accepted for filing on this report without even the most basic information filled in.

Moreover, the department they submitted the report to was not the Auror Office to which they belonged.

All Aurors who handled Muggle incidents, without exception, all submitted their reports to the Muggle Affairs Office.

It was as if they were not Aurors of the Auror Office, but thugs raised by the Muggle Affairs Office.

In the British Ministry of Magic, the power held by the Auror Office was second only to the Department of Magical Enforcement.

This was still a small leak that John Doug did not need to deal with.

Those that needed his handling were even more shocking.

Many of the orders that flowed out of his office were cross-continental operations.

The authorization information of the door keys was distributed from him dozens or hundreds of times in one day.

The landing points of these door keys had one thing in common.

They all led to the current war zones.

Even if there was no war, they led to remote and small countries with inconvenient transportation and information.

They actually attacked the Muggles in these countries in private.

Taking advantage of the war, they wantonly plundered local civilians.

If the local environment is not suitable for their actions, John Doug also authorized them to disguise themselves as violent organizations and kidnap the people they need through attacks.

According to Gret’s calculations, if the American Ministry of Magic continues such actions every day, they will take away at least tens of thousands of people from the Muggle world in a year.

Gret is not sure about their purpose of doing this, but it can’t be to vent their anger.

Because their targets of kidnapping are quite clear.

Children, teenagers, middle-aged people, the elderly…

Men and women…

They even make Muggles disappear in proportion to their skin color.

It is difficult for Gret not to associate this behavior with human experiments.

But after thinking about it, Gret couldn’t figure out where they got the courage to attack Muggles so blatantly.

Apart from anything else, those satellites that are constantly orbiting the earth to take pictures can fully expose their behavior to the eyes of governments of various countries.

Today’s Muggles are no longer the same as before, and wizards no longer have the status of arbitrarily arresting Muggles and using them as experimental materials.

In fact, the fact that the magic world can still retain such a small group of people and let magic survive is already the kindness of the Muggles.

All the magic ministries around the world have signed non-aggression treaties with the local Muggle governments.

The magic ministries of some small countries even rely on the funding of the Muggle government and the assistance of the magic ministries of other big countries to retain their administrative capabilities.

In this reality, all wizards know that the bottom line of the Muggle government is that wizards cannot take action against Muggles, otherwise it is likely that the entire Muggle society will strangle the magic world.

Gret does not believe that the American Ministry of Magic has the ability to compete with the Muggle governments of the world.

But they just touched the red line of the temporary peaceful coexistence of wizards and Muggles.

If this is not America, but a backward and wild small African country, Gret can understand it.

In that land, whether it is wizards or Muggles, they like to stay outside the mainstream society.

In this era of great strides in civilization, people there are still immersed in the ancient times of relying on the sky for food.

Therefore, in many ancient tribes far away from society, wizards still hold supreme power.

Human lives, not to mention wizards don’t care, even their own Muggles don’t care, and they are even willing to sacrifice their enemies or their own bodies, lives and souls for wizards.

But this is America.

It is the center of the world.

Whether in the Muggle world or the magic world, they have stepped onto the stage at the center of the world.

So Grete only feels outrageous when such unwise behavior occurs.

If it weren’t for John Doug, the Minister of Magic, and the people in power in other departments, they are all white people like those in Europe.

Grete even suspects that the American Ministry of Magic is ruled by wizards from African tribes.

Another thing that Grete can’t understand is that the order given by John Doug is quite straightforward.

But everyone who can see it looks like they are used to it.

This kind of thing that may overturn the entire magic world in an instant can’t cause any waves here.

The longer he stayed here, the more terrified Gret felt. He felt that the American Ministry of Magic was like an abyss that was going to swallow up the magic world.

Everything that happened here seemed to challenge his nerves.

It was hard to imagine what kind of ending the wizards would face if the things here were publicized.

That would be a more tragic consequence than the most brutal witch hunt that had ever appeared in history.

If he hadn’t been sane, Gret would have wanted to eliminate all the people in the American Ministry of Magic to prevent their things from being leaked and the magic world from being completely destroyed.

Fortunately, Gret regained his sanity in time. After all, it seems that their confidentiality work was done well and was not exposed.

At least, even Newt Scamander, the great wizard who was famous throughout the magic world, did not find any clues when he visited the Ministry of Magic in person.

In fact, if it weren’t for Fred’s disappearance and Mrs. Vera’s research happened to teach him how to use magic particles to trace the source.

And since Ravencrest recognized John Doug’s identity, Gret would not focus on the American Ministry of Magic.

Who would have thought that an organization that essentially maintains the stable development of the magic world would secretly harm Muggles.

Obviously, one of the important responsibilities of their Ministry of Magic is to arrest those who endanger the development of the magic society.

So Gret calmed down. There is no possibility of exposure here for the time being.

But it would be different if he took action.

That would attract the attention of the whole world. At that time, everything would be exposed, and there would be no possibility of turning around.

A shocking secret was discovered here. Gret felt that Fred’s affairs were not important at all now.

His whereabouts, life or death, were insignificant in the face of the consequences of the complete overturn of the magic world.

John Doug, and the people who instructed him behind the scenes, will be the focus of Gret’s investigation of all things in the future.

Gret has been waiting patiently. The environment of the Ministry of Magic is not convenient for action. Now he just wants to wait for the Ministry of Magic to get off work quickly.

Only then would there be a chance that John Doug would be alone, and only then could Grete take action against him.

In order to avoid missing opportunities due to wandering around, Gret stayed in his office without leaving.

The eyes hidden in the magic particles were fixed on John Doug.

Seeing the time approaching six o’clock, Gret moved his body nervously.

He wanted to avoid being assimilated by the magic particles.

If such a thing happened, there would probably be no Gret in the world anymore.

Time passed by minute by minute, and it was almost time to get off work. John Doug stood up and tidied his face.

He walked out of the office with a big stride.

Outside the door, the clerks separated by workstations saw him coming out, left the team one by one, and stood honestly beside the workstation.

“Oblivion~”

Gret was stunned for a while.

No wonder, when he was wandering around this floor, everyone he met gave him a strange feeling.

Now, Gret understood.

Frequent use of Oblivion will cause sequelae.

Just like Neville Longbottom, his grandmother used the Forget Spell to erase his memories of his parents being tortured since he was a child, which led to his incurable amnesia.

Adults do not have serious consequences like Neville because their brains have been fully developed and they have magical protection far beyond that of young wizards.

But there are still sequelae.

The limbs that slow down from time to time, or the uncontrolled facial expression management, are explained at this time.

Every time John Doug passes by a person, he will wave his wand in front of that person, and then say to that person’s absent-minded expression, “You’ve worked hard and now you can go home.”

Whoever he walks in front of will tremble uncontrollably.

I don’t know what John Doug has on them, even if their bodies have already shown uncontrollable resistance.

They still firmly control themselves, trembling, becoming absent-minded under the effect of the spell, sitting back, and silently adjusting their state.

Just like walking around, time also went to six o’clock.

After a bell rang, John Doug finished his work for the day.

But he did not leave, but walked up the stairs silently.

Strangely, the higher he went, the more his body began to resist.

Gret couldn’t help but wonder, could it be that John Doug, the confidant of the Minister of Magic, also had to accept the forgetfulness spell?

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