Hogwarts: Oops, I'm Voldemort - Chapter 257

c257 Changes in the magic world

Ilvermorny.

As the principal of this school, Cyrus can be said to be a little bit unsatisfactory. He is not in school most of the time, and all kinds of trivial matters are handled by Bute.

Fortunately, Bute was originally the principal, and he is familiar with handling these things, which does not add burden to him.

However, it is worth mentioning that a group of students have graduated from the school. Cassandra is one of them. She now follows Bella to become Cyrus’s right-hand man.

She is even better than Bella.

In terms of combat effectiveness, Bella is naturally impeccable, and even the best Auror can hardly beat her in a duel. But in terms of combat, Bella is not so good.

She has an impatient personality. Except for being well-behaved in front of Cyrus, she is always a little moody when facing others. On the contrary, although Cassandra’s words are not so pleasant to hear, she can handle many things better.

A large part of the students who graduated from Ilvermorny last year are following in Cyrus’ footsteps.

They spontaneously formed an organization called the Wall Breakers, which aimed to “break the wall between wizards and Muggles”, and one of the leaders of this organization was Cassandra.

She was beautiful, excellent, and very popular because of her outstanding performance in the competition.

In addition to her, there was Fisher, who was also one of the warriors, and he also became a member of the Wall Breakers.

They gave speeches everywhere in the wizarding world, promoting Cyrus’s idea of ​​breaking the Statute of Secrecy, and emphasizing that it would not mean harm and war, and emphasizing that Cyrus did not intend to use force to force others to surrender like Grindelwald.

“Many people equate Mr. Cyrus with Grindelwald, and equate us Wall Breakers with the witch party of the year. Even more foolish people might think that Mr. Cyrus and Grindelwald murdered Dumbledore together.” Fisher stood in front of dozens of wizards and said loudly.

“This is nonsense!” he said, “In the British Ministry of Magic, Grindelwald was going to take action against Mr. Cyrus?”

“Of course, he lost.” At this point, Fisher smiled, and those who listened to his speech also smiled at each other. Then, he changed the subject and said, “Of course, my purpose is not to repeat Mr. Cyrus’s strength, I just want to say what he wants to do – a great thing that is beneficial to all of us.”

Sometimes, if you want to convince someone, you definitely don’t have to force your own views into his head, which will only have a counterproductive effect.

The right way is to guide their thinking.

Fisher did a good job. He said: “We are different from the Witch Party and Grindelwald. We don’t want war. The world is vast. Wizards and Muggles can live in the same world.”

“We don’t intend to declare who is inferior or superior, but to break prejudice.”

“How to deal with the relationship between wizards and Muggles?” He asked, “Whether to gradually abolish the Statute of Secrecy has never been decided by a certain person, but by the times.”

The relationship between Muggles and wizards is obviously different in different eras. A little further back, thousands of years ago, wizards were worshipped by Muggles at that time, and they revered wizards like gods.

In the era of the Big Four, most adult wizards would not become enemies of Muggles, but young children with magical powers might be persecuted. More importantly, the large number of Obscurus that appeared due to ignorance became a huge threat.

After that, it was the prey age of the Middle Ages.

It was only after that that wizards made up their minds to disappear, and the Statute of Secrecy came into being.

“But how do we know whether we can break the Statute of Secrecy and expose all wizards to the Muggle world in this era?” someone asked immediately.

And Fisher said: “I won’t tell you that now is the time to break the Statute of Secrecy.”

“In fact, whether the time is really right now needs you to judge for yourself. Before the Muggles know about our existence, what we have to do is to understand them and see what achievements the Muggles have made in the past few hundred years without wizards, and see what incredible things they have done without magic!”

“You mean Muggle Studies?”

“Muggle Studies?” Fisher said, he seemed to find it funny, but nodded, “Yes, that’s right. But you will find that this is far from enough.”

“God knows how many centuries those Muggle Studies textbooks are from?”

” Maybe you think that the wizarding world has not changed much in hundreds of years, just a group of people have changed, and it is even possible that people from hundreds of years ago are still alive. But for Muggles, everything is changing with each passing day. ”

“A few centuries ago, they could only use horses to travel, but now, they have airplanes and cars… Some people think that this is nothing great, their airplanes are not as fast as Quidditch brooms, but in fact, their airplanes have already flown to an altitude of 10,000 meters. In such a place, we can’t even breathe while riding a broom.

“Others say, it doesn’t matter, we have the Floo Network and the Portkey, we can Apparate… No matter how high their airplanes fly, they are not as fast as ours.”

Someone immediately responded: “That’s the fact, sir.”

The wizard who responded to Fisher had an arrogant look on his face, clearly proud of his wizarding status.

There is nothing to blame.

“I also know a little about what Muggles call technology, but with all due respect, those tricks are not comparable to magic.”

“Really?” Fisher didn’t feel angry because his speech was interrupted. He just asked calmly: “So, sir, can you fly into space using the Floo Network? You can use the Portkey to go to the moon. Bring me some soil?”

“You can’t,” said Fisher, “but Muggles can.”

There was an embarrassed expression on the man’s face. He became angry and shouted at Fisher: “So you want to say that Muggles are smarter than us wizards? They are superior to me?! You want to say that we are inferior, and you want us to bow to them?”

He blushed and shouted loudly, and his voice made every wizard present become angry.

No one wants to be belittled, especially when he represents not just an individual but a group.

At this moment, if Fischer said one wrong word, he might mess everything up.

Fortunately, Cassandra is here too.

This proud woman walked out like a queen. As soon as she appeared on the stage, she immediately took away all the spotlight, and everyone’s eyes were focused on her.

“I never think Muggles are smarter than wizards, and I don’t think wizards are inferior to Muggles, but you seem to be quite inferior.” Cassandra started sarcastically as soon as she opened her mouth.

The man immediately blushed.

“A few minutes ago, Fischer said that we do not claim that anyone is inferior or superior.” She said, “Just like goblins can refine mithril, centaurs can divine through the stars, and trolls can The magic resistance is comparable to that of fire dragons. These are things that our wizards do not have. Do any of you think they are nobler than wizards? ”

Everyone shook their heads.

“But that’s true for you,” Cassandra looked at the one who was making trouble and sneered, “I think the troll’s head is probably much better than yours.”

After saying this, she stopped paying attention to the clown.

There are people like this everywhere. No matter what you are doing, there will always be an unknown person who tries to find some sense of existence. Wasting time with them is a failure in itself.

Kassandra took over from Fisher and continued:

“For a long time, wizards have wanted to know how the goblins made mithril, and the goblins also coveted the method of making the wand, but both sides kept it secret.”

“Because we all know that once the goblins get the wand, they will immediately become restless. The same is true in reverse. The goblins know that once their technology is controlled by wizards, they will lose their foothold.”

Cassandra said: “But now, the Muggles are showing their wisdom. Half a century ago, they had weapons that could destroy an entire city. We can learn from them.”

Learning from Muggles?

All the wizards were stunned.

This was something they had never thought of before. Fifty years ago, although Grindelwald also planned to break the law of secrecy, what he preached was the superiority of wizards. He wanted to make wizards superior rulers. He would not talk about learning from Muggles, he would only say that Muggles are better than others. It has other uses.

For centuries, Muggles have been synonymous with ignorance!

But now, that Cyrus actually wants them to learn from Muggles!

How ridiculous!

In fact, Cyrus himself knew that this view would inevitably lead to many wizards being unwilling to support him.

People are always like this. It is easy to see the shortcomings of others, but it is a bit difficult to see the advantages of others. If you tell them that they are not as good as others, it will be even more uncomfortable like a thorn in the flesh.

From another perspective, Sellers’s proposition is of little benefit to wizards.

In other words, with the short-sightedness of most wizards, they cannot see the benefit of breaking the law of secrecy.

——Not even as good as Voldemort. At least if Voldemort really succeeds, wizards can blatantly rule Muggles and make Muggles their slaves.

“I’m trying to get some fresh blood into these rotting zombies,” Sellers said.

Sometimes he really thinks that the magic world is like the Qing Dynasty in the past. It is stuck in its own way and guarding its small world thinking that it is still a kingdom of heaven. But in fact, those Westerners who they used to look down upon have already Turn guns and guns into their minions, into jackals, tigers and leopards!

“The day that Muggles discover wizards themselves, and the day that Muggles study and understand magic, the end of wizards will probably come,” he said.

Furthermore, Cyrus believed that Muggles would one day figure out where magic came from.

Magic is indeed a power that only a few people master, but since it exists, it is a part of nature, and it must be explained by science.

Fortunately, this time will be long, and the wizards still have time to prepare.

In fact, Cyrus has no intention of letting those ignorant wizards understand this truth soon. It may be difficult for those adult wizards to change their views. They are as stubborn as dead wood.

Cyrus also intends to let them rot completely with their stupid stubbornness.

What can really be changed are the young wizards who are still in school. Now, at his request, Ilvermorny has added a new course called “Magic and Science”.

Through this course, the young wizards who are still in school will have a better understanding of everything in the Muggle world. Under the pressure of exams, they will go to school and learn about the inventions and creations of Muggles in the past hundred years. They will understand that the wisdom of Muggles is not worse than that of wizards.

In fact, since Muggles do not have the help of magic, they must use their intelligence more.

In fact, the research methods of Muggles on biology can also give wizards a lot of inspiration.

When wizards study magical animals or magical plants, although they will also conduct certain dissection experiments-such as taking fecal stones out of the stomach of goats-no wizards will look at the cells of magical animals or magical plants from the perspective of onlookers.

If the Muggle’s immediate method is used, I am afraid that the blood of the fire dragon will have far more than twelve uses.

In order to spread this atmosphere among a wider group of wizards, Cyrus also founded the magazine “Magic and Science”. And when the bonus was offered in the name of the Wizard Bank, many people were willing to learn about the so-called science and submit papers under the lure of gold galleons.

At the beginning, the papers submitted were full of loopholes and were simply unbearable to look at, but Cyrus didn’t care. What he wanted was not necessarily the right things, but an atmosphere.

The usefulness of letting Lucius establish the Wizard Bank has already shown a small part. Money made wizards put down their arrogance and take the initiative to learn about everything about Muggles. It also found employment prospects for those young wizards who were still in school to study “magic science”.

As they get to know Muggles more and more, I am afraid that many years later, even without Cyrus, they will understand that the Statute of Secrecy must be broken.

As for now –

Cyrus has returned to Hogwarts.

When he stood by the Black Lake, he could feel that the castle was in great sorrow.

Most students no longer talk about Dumbledore’s death, but the castle itself is still mourning for this great wizard.

Today, the headmaster of Hogwarts has been succeeded by McGonagall, and she will be a good headmaster like Boot.

But Cyrus didn’t come to see her today.

He found Harry, and Ginny and the others stayed with Harry.

“Come on, Harry, I’ll take you to a place.”