After talking to Mrs. Greengrass, Ryan and Hermione returned to the main building of the manor. For them, after leaving the manor for half a month, they now have a lot of things to do, and there is not much time to waste on other things.

They have a lot of things to keep busy right now, including but not limited to the production of potions and props, the training of some followers, and the discussion with Hogsmeade and Headmaster Dumbledore about the current situation.

The best news recently is that under Ryan's persistent strategic sabotage in the previous months, Voldemort's side has been suppressed to a very low level. Especially after at least 80% of the manors and workshops belonging to the pure-blood families were completely destroyed, Gringotts in the United States could not afford such losses and chose to withdraw from the United Kingdom, which also caused serious problems in the economic chain on Voldemort's side.

Naturally, Voldemort, who has now been overwhelmed by various attacks, really doesn't have the energy or the strength to go to those Americans. In this case, they even need to take out a small amount of money from the already small budget to pay the Americans to make up for some of their losses, so that the Americans do not fall in the direction of Hogsmeade.

One of the main reasons for Voldemort's current predicament is that Gringotts in the United States is a private institution, and they can cooperate with the Magical Congress of the United States to carry out some tasks, but if it is unprofitable and even need to lose money, they will not be able to make sacrifices, let alone once they really provoke a wizard of the level of Ryan or Dumbledore, it is likely that the loss is not only money.

Therefore, now the wizards in the United States also adhere to the idea of being able to make a handful of money and at the same time disrupt the British wizarding world as much as possible, and began to threaten to go to the Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic to ask Voldemort's side for money to make up for their losses.

And the Death Eaters, of course, also saw what the Americans thought. However, in order to prevent the Americans from suddenly switching sides to Hogsmeade and causing a large-scale collapse of their own side, Voldemort's side could only choose to swallow this bitter fruit.

"The Mystic Man is now demanding that those who come to him hand over their wealth, and a medium-sized dark wizard organization from Albania has angered the Mystic Man by wanting to leave with the money earned, and as a result, everyone in the entire organization has been executed on the spot. Hermione's eyes widened as she looked at the letter from the Order of the Phoenix. "Didn't he know that in this way, everyone but someone like Bella, who was extremely loyal, would rebel against him. ”

"I think the mystery man should know that even if he doesn't have much soul left, he should know that what he does is very bad in the long run. Ryan spread his hands. "However, the biggest difference between wizards and ordinary people is that for wizards, strength is the most important thing, and the mysterious man is confident that he can turn his subordinates' wallets into his own through his strong strength even if he doesn't have a penny. ”

"It's not just wallets. Hermione flipped to the next page, then pointed to a passage that read: "According to observers in Diagon Alley, the mysterious man led people directly into Gringotts, killed a dozen goblins in their way, and then removed a large amount of currency and treasure. Gringotts in England has suffered a lot of losses. ”

"Those losses of wealth are just small things, you know, the core of the bank is reputation, and now Gringotts has lost their reputation. Even if the wealth could be recovered after the war was over, Gringotts would not regain its former status. Ryan was not too surprised by Voldemort's move, because his actions were completely expected by Ryan.

Gringotts was founded by the elves after their defeat, partly to appease the elves and avoid the periodic elven rebellions. On the other hand, it is to order the goblins to provide financial services to wizards for free and create wealth for wizards.

But the elves are naturally not at the mercy of wizards like house-elves, and over the years, they have amassed a large fortune through various financial means. At the same time, they naturally learn to collude with the pure-blood wizards who wield power in the Ministry of Magic, and exchange their wealth for the protection of the Ministry of Magic when they steal money.

This way of waving money everywhere has earned the elves countless riches, and at the same time has worn down their will. In particular, although the goblins are immortal, their lifespan is limited after all. Now the new generation of goblins has not experienced the war, so the courage to fight to the end before is also very little, so after Voldemort killed people, these goblins naturally chose to succumb.

And for Voldemort, a standard bloodline discriminator, along with the hemp wizards who are humans, are considered inferior creatures, not to mention these creatures that are not human, in his eyes, goblins are no different from house-elves, and they should be slaves of pure-blood wizards. Therefore, he naturally did not care about any influence, and directly took out the wealth that he felt should belong to him from Gringotts.

"That's some sort of good news. After the shock, Hermione said in a narrative tone, "The pure-blood family had a monopoly on the entire wizarding world before that, and now that the Mysterio's two blows to Gringotts have almost completely destroyed the trust of the elves, it is almost a foregone conclusion that Hogsmeade's United Wizarding Bank of Britain will replace Gringotts after the war." ”

"In other words, the Mystic has helped us remove one of the biggest obstacles to seizing financial control in the UK. With that, Hermione stood up and said excitedly. "Gringotts has always been a neutral institution, and the elves will hardly engage in the civil war of humanity. So I've always been worried that if those pure-blood families rise quickly after the war is over with the help of Gringotts, our war will be in vain. ”

"It's definitely not going to be in vain, you're too worried. Ryan reassured. "Because even if they have money, they don't have enough manpower to support them, and after we provide enough jobs, those hemp wizards don't need to support themselves through pure-blood families in clothes. And the pure-blood family itself has very few people, and this time we have cleared out some of them, and it will take a long time for the rest to recover to their current level. ”

"You're right, I'm thinking too much. Hermione paused and pulled out a letter from the bottom of the pile, "By the way, here's Headmaster Dumbledore's letter to us. He hoped that it would be better for us and him to inform each other of the course of action, so as to avoid accidental injuries on both sides in the confusion. ”

"It's a good idea. Ryan nodded. "We and the Order of the Phoenix often choose to attack at night, and in this kind of situation where the line of sight is unclear and everyone is very nervous, if we really choose the same target, it is indeed easy for our own people to fight first. ”

"But it's also easy to solve. At this time, Ryan thought of the little toy that the 101st Airborne Division brought with him when he landed in Normandy during World War II. "I'm going to make a batch of badges first, and whenever the badges are close to each other, they glow or vibrate. In this way, the expatriate only needs to bring two at a time, so they don't need to worry about accidental injury. ”

Life then went into that kind of routine, partly because after a long attack, Ryan and the others destroyed 80% of their targets and nearly 90% of the production capacity of the Southern pure-blood wizards. As more places were destroyed, fewer places for the Death Eaters to protect, and each of the remaining points was guarded by a number of dark wizards. In this case, it is practically difficult to continue the offensive and there is almost no loss as it is now.

On the other hand, it may be that Voldemort's persistent attack after the start of the war has dealt too much damage to Voldemort, so Voldemort and the Ministry of Magic in London have also moved a lot less in the recent period, and it seems that they are strategically shrinking due to lack of strength. So Ryan: They can't find much to target.

In short, this boring and monotonous life was broken by a letter from Hogwarts in mid-April. The letter was mailed by Dumbledore, who invited Ryan to Hogwarts to discuss something important.

"It looks like this boring life is finally over," Ryan said after receiving the letter, waving a letter to Hermione, who was sitting next to her tea, "and maybe this war is coming to an end." ”