Chapter 514: Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is! (2-in-1)
Doggett nodded, raised his hand and waved his wand, unblocking the Silence Charm.
The young wizard looked at Ivan first, then turned to Althea and said sarcastically.
"It's ridiculous, I didn't expect you to let a hairy boy sit there, are you so humiliating? Althea? ”
"Or do you think those of your men will obey your orders like dogs?"
At this point, the young wizard glanced around at everyone present.
In his opinion, Aisya undoubtedly made an extremely demented decision!
Maybe this woman spoiled her children too much, or she intended to hone her heir, but in any case, it was a great humiliation to let a little imp who was no more than thirteen or fourteen sit on the throne!
However, what made him a little strange was that the wizards present did not seem to show strong displeasure about this...
Everyone's eyes flashed with some emotion that he couldn't understand...
Listening to the witch's presumptuous words, Ivan didn't feel angry, just slightly disappointed, he thought that the other party had something to talk about, but he didn't expect that he just wanted to be beaten badly...
"Rhys Knott?" Ivan stood up, looked at the other party, and spoke casually.
"Yes, it's me!" The young wizard looked up proudly, and the education he received since childhood made him not bow his head even if he became a prisoner.
Ivan sneered, ignored him, and walked down the steps step by step, looking at everyone present, and speaking out.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I've been wondering what kind of difference these so-called pure-blood wizards are from us that they can be called sacred!"
"At first, I thought it was the pure-blood wizards who had great talent and power beyond us..."
But it's clearly wrong! Voldemort, who started the wizarding war more than ten years ago, is a hybrid of wizards and Muggles, and Albus Dumbledore, known as the great white wizard, is not among the Holy Twenty-Eight families... It can be seen that those pure-blood wizards are not much stronger than us, and some of them are even weaker than us! ”
The wizards present did not expect Ivan to suddenly start talking about this, and they were a little confused for a while.
However, when Ivan mentions the Undulating Demons, many wizards shudder.
The rest of the people were also surprised to hear Ivan's words, and it was the first time they knew that the rumored Dark Lord was actually a half-blood wizard, and it was clear that Voldemort was a practitioner of the pure-blood concept...
Due to Ivan's might, no one dared to refute it, and the sane wizard began to think about what Ivan had just said.
Rhys Knott smiled disdainfully, wanting to prove that pure-blood wizards were inherently superior to half-blood wizards and Muggle seeds, but before he could say anything, he was dazzled by the first-class Merlin medal that Ivan wore on his neckline.
Ivan looked at Rhys Nott, who was standing in place, trying to refute but not knowing how to speak, and continued to himself.
"Since the advantages of pure-blood wizards have nothing to do with strength and talent, is it because of money and power?"
"Ahh We can certainly say that! After all, the pure-blood family is at the helm of the Hogwarts Board of Directors, and they are also present in various important departments of the Ministry of Magic! ”
"There's no denying that some purebloods do have something to be commended, and I've been in contact with some pure-blood kids who are brave, intelligent, and approachable..."
Ivan thought of Luna, George, Neville and others, they are also pure-bloods, but they are all very good, and these families have one characteristic, that is, they are generally not considered a powerful class!
Top pure-blood families like Malfoy and Black have a completely different atmosphere, and Goyle and Crabbe are even more fools, and I don't know if it's the result of years of inbreeding.
So Ivan's words didn't stop, he walked slowly and continued.
"But I also know some people, they are uneducated, domineering and arrogant, and they have no one in their eyes! Relying on the wealth and prestige accumulated by our ancestors, life is a smooth road without much effort! ”
"Even so, the pure-blood wizards who wield vast wealth still want to control us!
They look down on the wizards struggling to survive in Tumbledown Alley, look at us like a bunch of rats in the sewers, and brutally grab what little wealth we have left to provide them with luxury...
You might as well think about it, the six families have been based on Tumbledown Alley for hundreds of years, have they really done anything for us? Nothing! We are even poorer than ever!
And they live in a comfortable manor, and in order not to be ridiculed by other pure-blood wizards for their frequent contact with lowly wizards and so-called Muggle seeds, they remotely control their own spokesmen, and use a small amount of money to form a so-called law enforcement team, and use the so-called rules to exploit and squeeze our meagre salary..."
Ivan looked around at the crowd and talked in the spacious chamber.
Before that, he had never learned to speak specifically, but in his previous life, he was keen to read... Read all kinds of books! So it's very clear that uniting a group of people is complicated, but there is also a relatively easy way, and that is to provoke conflicts!
You only need to grasp a pain point that everyone recognizes, use words to bring the sense of identity closer, fan the contradictions crazily, and finally establish a common goal...
The reason why he deliberately chose the pure-blood family to open the knife is because Ivan has read the list given by Doggett and knows the names of everyone here, and no one standing here is a member of the pure-blood family, which means that belittling the pure-blood will not cause too much evil.
However, this is all theoretical knowledge, and Ivan is not sure how much it can be used, so he does not look for marginal examining the effect of the speech while giving a speech.
Among the more than thirty wizards present, the reactions were different.
Doggett and his friends were barely moved, except for three or four people who were seriously pondering his words.
Ivan is not surprised, for these wizards with a certain amount of wealth and knowledge, only real interests can impress each other, and they are a group of people who are difficult to deal with.
Furlen, Walker, and the other werewolves had anger on their faces, they were at the bottom of the wizarding chain of discrimination, and they could deeply understand Ivan's words.
With their abilities, if they hadn't been discriminated against in the wizarding world, they wouldn't have been accepted by the world, and they wouldn't have lived so poorly.
But the rest of the wizards also feel the same way.
They can be recruited by Althea, and their magic level is definitely not bad, but because of their concentration on black magic or other factors, they are rejected by the normal wizarding world, so that they end up in Tumbledown Alley.
If there is a chance, no one will be willing to live like this!
Ivan's words undoubtedly gave them a good outlet to blame the pure-blood wizards who had seized the many resources they had claimed to have suffered!
This is exactly what Ivan wants to achieve, which is to point the finger at the six pure-blood families who control the wizarding market!
Of course, he wasn't talking nonsense, the distribution of wealth and power in the wizarding world was indeed very unfair.
It's like Sirius's Black family, which has so much money that it can't be spent for generations, and a lot of property, even if you don't do anything, you can make money every day just by collecting rent.
The Malfoy family is more power-oriented, and has made friends with many officials of the Ministry of Magic.
Each generation of the two families automatically inherits the seat of one of the twelve Hogwarts Governors.
The entire wizarding world is so big, there are so many decent jobs, one turnip and one pit, unless it is a particularly good talent, it is not easy for ordinary wizards to find a good job.
On the other hand, some pure-blood wizards have the right to speak in the wizarding world, but they never do practical things, only seek their own personal interests.
It's been more than two hundred years since the Muggle Industrial Revolution!
The Muggle world has changed dramatically, but the wizarding world is a stagnant pool, still unchanged from the past...
The most direct proof of this is that children from wizarding families have very limited knowledge of the outside world, and in Hogwarts, they do not learn everything about Muggles except as an optional Muggle study class.
What he saw and heard in Tumbledown Alley made Ivan feel very ridiculous, a group of people with special powers, if they strictly abide by the rules of the wizarding world, they will be reduced to the point where they can't afford to eat.
He had always felt that there would be the poverty that wizards had lived by, and it was ultimately a problem with the entire Ministry of Magic system!
The number of wizards is extremely scarce, and in Ivan's opinion, each one is a very valuable talent, and the magical power they master can play a greater role, rather than being forced to gather together to compete for that limited resource!
Ivan was interested, and he spoke freely, from the unfair distribution of resources in the wizarding world to the various shortcomings of the wizarding system.
These thoughts are all the summaries of his past few years in the wizarding world, and he has no place to talk about them, and now he has finally found an opportunity!
He had been a Muggle in his previous life, and he was well aware of the development of Muggle technology in the coming decades, and with the rise of the Internet, it would become more and more difficult for wizards to hide their tracks, and the conflict between the two sides would intensify again.
And now that he has become a member of the wizards, he naturally can't help but worry...
"Hahaha..."
In the quiet chamber, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out, interrupting Ivan's words.
"Mr. Rhys Knott, what do you seem to disagree with?" Ivan turned his head to look at Rhys, who was laughing, and asked with interest.
"The nobility of pure-blood wizards is not something that you mudbloods and hemp hybrids can tarnish." Rhys Knott had a hideous smile on her face and looked at everyone present with contempt.
Fren and the others stared at him angrily, if it weren't for Ivan's presence, they would have already made Rhys Knott feel that life is worse than death.
Rhys Knott didn't care about their gaze at all, he looked straight at Ivan and continued to speak arrogantly.
"But one thing you are right, the regulations of the Ministry of Magic have a big problem, or the restrictions of the Muggle Protection Law, we would not have to stay in the small wizarding world, and it should be Muggles who want to hide!"
Ivan smiled and didn't reply, the so-called Muggle Protection Law protects not only Muggles, but also wizards!
"Mr. Rhys Noether, I think you need to understand that sometimes weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is!" Ivan said word by word.
"Yes, arrogance!" The corners of Rhys Knott's mouth curled, and he noticed that Ivan was close enough to him.
He didn't have the leisure to chat with the little wizard, and getting the other party as close as possible and letting his guard down was what he wanted to do.
Originally, Rhys even planned to take the initiative to confide some information to accomplish this after being tortured, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to approach.
While thinking about it, Reece Knott's body shook, and then swelled rapidly, directly breaking free of the rope and turning into a large brown bear, waving his claws, grabbing Ivan's head!
Illegal Animagus!
When Reece Knott's body began to change, the wizards present immediately realized this.
Due to the extremely small number of Animagus in the wizarding world, Rhys Knott had never used such an ability in front of them before, so they were defenseless at all!
Walker was also startled, and immediately drew his wand and wanted to rescue.
However, Rhys Knott was too close to Ivan, so close that he only needed to stretch his claws to reach Ivan's body, and the huge bear face was full of pride.
When he was captured in battle, he had always hidden this identity.
Even if his Animagus is a combat type, he has little chance of winning against multiple wizards, and even if he can beat the wizards of the guards, he will be defeated in the follow-up support.
So it's better to hide and wait for an opportunity to catch an important person!
At first, his target was Aisya, but this woman was not easy to deal with, even if she attacked secretly, there was a high probability of missing, who would have thought that a thirteen or fourteen-year-old little wizard would take the initiative to walk in front of him, this is simply an opportunity given to him by God!
Ivan faced the sudden outburst of Reis, his face remained unchanged, and he only gently stretched out his hand.
The white, slender arm poked out of its sleeve and met the brown bear in front of him, which was nearly three meters high.
Rhys Knott couldn't help but wonder if the little wizard had lost his mind enough to behave in such a ridiculous manner.
But the next moment the arm was deformed in front of his eyes at an astonishing speed, becoming waist-thick, and fingers opened violently, grabbed his neck, and lifted him up.
Also swollen was Ivan's body, which was half-bent and his head had already reached the ceiling, thanks to the high enough ceiling that he would have to crouch down!
And the huge brown bear that Rhes Knott turned into looked so pitiful and powerless in front of that figure, like an eight- or nine-year-old child standing in front of a strong man in an iron tower!