Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 522 Mike's Statement

"Ugh!"

In front of the office of the Minister of Magic, Kingsley, who was holding a document, let out a long sigh.

There have been too many troubles recently, and he really wants to resign now if he can.

It's a pity that, as the current head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he has no right to choose to resign.

Especially in the situation where the current situation was completely due to his ineffective handling of affairs.

Sighing again, he finally gave up those meaningless fantasies and knocked on the door of the minister's office.

With a hoarse and dull 'Come in', Kingsley carefully opened the door and walked in.

The office was filled with smoke, and Scrimgeour was frowning and smoking a cigar. Judging from the long ashes on the cigar, he seemed to have been in this state of trance for a long time.

There are still many acquaintances of Kingsley sitting in the corner of the office. They are all bigwigs in various departments. The reason why they appear here now is probably to discuss countermeasures.

It's just that it seems that the result of the discussion should not be very good, because their expressions at the moment are very ugly.

After nodding to everyone, Kingsley solemnly placed the document in his hand in front of Scrimgeour and said:
"Mr. Minister, please take a look at these. This is a summary of the newspapers of various newspaper offices this morning and the situation across the country."

Hearing this, Scrimgeour's body trembled slightly, and the long piece of smoke finally fell down, smashing into a ball on the desk.

Scrimgeour didn't care about this, he slowly picked up the document and read it carefully, and the more he looked, the angrier his expression became, until finally he threw the document out viciously.

"It's so deceiving!"

Scrimgeour growled, but Kingsley in front of him had a strange expression. He suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity just now, as if he had said the same thing in the same position not long ago.

Shaking his head again and throwing out the messy thoughts in his mind, Kingsley said slowly:
"Mr. Minister, the current situation is very bad. I think we should hand over the three Aurors, so that they have no reason to continue to exercise."

As soon as this remark came out, all the bosses in the office who had been silent before nodded their heads in agreement.

In their eyes, this is indeed a good way. Selling the three Aurors in exchange for calming down the situation is really a good deal.

As for the revenge of the families behind those three people, they didn't care at all.

After all, Kingsley was the one who made this suggestion, and Scrimgeour was the one who adopted it. Those families would not be able to retaliate against them.

What's more, Scrimgeour has an entire Auror army in his hands. Whether those families with this level of force dare to retaliate against him is another matter.

In the eyes of these people, Scrimgeour would definitely agree to this proposal, because if things were allowed to go on, it would really be out of control.

This is the standard thinking of politicians. As long as they have interests in their thinking, such things as face and bottom line can be discarded.

But what they didn't expect was that Scrimgeour was not a politician in the true sense, but an iron-blooded soldier from the military.

"You mean...you want me to show weakness to those guys?"

Scrimgeour looked at Kingsley expressionlessly and said.

But although Scrimgeour was extremely calm, everyone at the scene could feel the surging anger that was about to erupt from her.

Sure enough, in the next second, before Kingsley could reply, Scrimgeour punched the desk directly and roared:
"I really doubt what is growing in your head. You want me to submit to the mob? Satisfy their conditions? Do you know what this means? It means that we have made a bad start! In the future They will understand that as long as they start to fight the Ministry of Magic will meet their conditions, this time they want the lives of the three Aurors, what about next time? If they want your life and mine, you will be satisfied Are they?"

Scrimgeour's fierce roar echoed in the office, and everyone present was silent, not even daring to breathe out.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, what Scrimgeour said has some truth, but if there is no compromise, how will this incident end?
"How about... Let's ask the International Federation of Magic for help? France and the United States should be happy to send their hands."

An official with a white beard tentatively asked.

"Ah, yes, of course they are willing to make a move. After all, once they make a move, they can cut off a large piece of our flesh and ask us to sign some treasonous agreements." Scrimgeour sneered, "And once their Aurors You won’t obey our orders even if you enter the Kingdom of Ying, and you might do something outrageous, do you think it doesn’t matter even if it’s like that?”

As soon as these words came out, the office fell into silence again, and the wizard who asked for help from the International Federation of Wizards lowered his head in shame.

If possible, he really wanted to yell at Scrimgeour: "Then you should pay attention!"

It's a pity that he can't do that, after all, Scrimgeour is angry now, and if he says some more nonsense, the other party might attack him.

At this moment, there was another knock on the door, and following Scrimgeour's answer, the pockmarked young assistant minister ran in, panting and threw a copy of "The Quibbler" in front of Scrimgeour .

The eyelids of everyone in the room twitched, and they suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"Mr. Minister, Luo... The boss of the Lololo Saint Capital Group just issued a statement, publicly expressing support for the movement of Muggle wizards!"

It was said that everyone present did not have much reaction. Although this was the first commercial organization to openly support Muggle wizards, they had expected this situation a long time ago.

After all, businessmen are always profit-seeking. Publicly announcing the matter of Muggle wizards is bound to win the favor of those mud legs, which will greatly increase the company's profits.

They really don't believe that the Los Santos group will stand on the side of Muggle wizards. Although the main body of the other group is completely composed of Muggle wizards, they are now in the same class as all pure blood!

Seeing the disapproving reactions of the bosses, the pockmarked assistant thought that they hadn't heard what he said, and anxiously repeated what he had just said, and opened "The Quibbler" to the side of the statement. Page.

Scrimgeour shook his head helplessly, just as he wanted the assistant to go out, he suddenly caught sight of the statement on "The Quibbler".

Scrimgeour's whole body froze, and the next moment, he snatched the copy of "The Quibbler" with lightning speed.

As he continued to read, Scrimgeour's bloodshot scarlet eyes narrowed into a slit, and the word Sichuan was squeezed out between his brows.

At this moment, other people in the office also noticed that something was wrong, and Scrimgeour's appearance at this time was really scary.

But when everyone was hesitating whether to ask Scrimgeour, they saw Scrimgeour put together the copy of "The Quibbler", and then said solemnly:

"The situation is beyond control. Contact the International Federation of Wizards immediately. We need external support! Also! Send a letter to Dumbledore! Let him teach that student named McTownley a lesson!"

At this moment, the expressions of the people in the entire office became extremely bright, especially the official who suggested that Scrimgeour should seek foreign aid. At this moment, his expression was as if he had been constipated for ten days and a half months.

At the same time, a grand speech was being held at the gate of the Los Santos Group headquarters on the banks of the River Thames in South London, and the speaker was none other than Emily.

It can be seen that Emily is really popular, and this is just the first speech that has been announced, and it has already attracted hundreds of Muggle wizards.

Seeing the beautiful girl choked up on the stage while talking about her experience during this time and her gratitude to the people who helped her mother and daughter get married, many people in the audience were moved to tears.

In the background, Mike and Franklin watched all this with cold eyes.

In fact, in today's speech, Mike should have gone down and said a few words, but for safety reasons, Mike finally chose to let Emily be his megaphone.

Unlike Benjamin, Soraka and others, Mike and Franklin have never been touched by Emily. To put it bluntly, in their eyes, both Emily and Loya are just tool people .

If possible, Mike even wanted to arrange for Emily to die on the podium in full view at a suitable time, and then blame the Ministry of Magic.

In this way, tens of thousands of Muggle wizards in the whole country will lose their minds.

This is undoubtedly an extremely cold-blooded plan, but it can bring extraordinary benefits.

But helplessly, Benjamin and others seem to have some unnecessary feelings for Emily because of guilt, which forces Mike to stop the related arrangements only in consideration of their feelings.

But it doesn't matter, Mike's real killer move is the statement released earlier this morning through "The Quibbler" and the preview of Emily's speech.

He not only made it clear that he would try his best to support fellow Muggle wizards, but also expressed his determination to fight for power for other disadvantaged groups.

Among them, there are 15 kinds of disadvantaged groups mentioned by him alone, such as witches discriminated against by wizards, centaurs who were killed wantonly and raised in captivity, goblins who were almost wiped out, and people who have been enslaved for thousands of years. house elf...

All of these are within the scope of Mike's support. In the following period of time, as long as all the above-mentioned intelligent beings participating in this operation can receive free emergency treatment, food and temporary shelter from the Los Santos Group.

Mike can imagine that this life will spread quickly in a very short period of time. Most people who read this statement will think that Mike is a lunatic, because even this level of assistance requires a huge amount of money. of Galleons.

But only a very few people including Mike will understand that once Mike's move is implemented, he will gain the favor of all the vulnerable groups in the country, and even under his instigation, these vulnerable groups are very likely to merge together, Form an unprecedented huge force.

The Ministry of Magic is actually not afraid of a single Muggle wizard movement. After all, although there are a large number of Muggle wizards, their personal strength is generally weak, and the number is not so large that the Ministry of Magic is desperate. It is really going to be a protracted war. Sooner or later, this group of poor land turtles will collapse.

But it would be different if the Muggle wizards found more allies. The power of the integration of multiple groups is simply unmatched by the Ministry of Magic of the United States.

It was Scrimgeour who understood this point that made such a huge change in his attitude.

However, asking for help from the International Federation of Magic is far from being settled in a day or two.

And just when the officials of the Ministry of Magic of China were still arguing with envoys from other countries at the temporary office of the International Federation of Magic in Paris, France, the situation Scrimgeour was most worried about had already happened.

First up are the fairies.

As the most nourishing non-human intelligent life in the wizarding world, after Mike talked with them for two full days and promised a bunch of empty checks, they have now completely deviated from the Ministry of Magic of the country and turned to Mike. side.

As a way of expressing their attitude, they also posted magic posters about Emily's speeches and affirmative-rights events in every corner of Gringotts.

This undoubtedly made many pure-blood wizards very dissatisfied, and many wizards from big pure-blood families even threatened to take away all the gold coins stored in Gringotts.

It has to be said that this is indeed a huge threat to the goblins who regard money as their life, but the goblins were obviously dazed by the bright future Mike painted, and in the end they resisted the pressure and saved their lives. those posters.

This move improved the bad image of goblins in the eyes of wizards, especially Muggle wizards, and at the same time let others see the determination of goblins.

With the goblin as an early bird, other groups quickly expressed their views.

Many non-human intelligent races such as centaurs and mermaids have sent friendly signals to Mike and joined the camp of the Los Santos Group.

But these are nothing.

What really changed the fighting power of the Los Santos Group camp was the addition of the group of witches!
We must know that no matter how firm the beliefs of other groups are, they cannot change the fact that they are at the bottom of society, and being at the bottom of society means that they not only have limited strength, but also have very little voice.

The witch group is different. The overall quality of this group of people is much stronger than other groups, not to mention that there are some well-educated and highly educated social elites in the witch group, as well as dignitaries who are at the top of the class pyramid. , it can be said that their joining has directly increased the speed of Mike's plan by several gears!

But in contrast, the group of witches wanted much more.

(End of this chapter)