Chapter Ninety-Three: Back to School and Confusion
The Christmas break has passed, and the students have returned to school. Gathered together and chattered and discussed.
The dinner went on as usual, and Li Lin sat at the long table, next to Luna and Hermione.
"Luna, maybe you should take your eyes off the book and take a closer look at the food on the table, maybe there's something to your liking."
Looking at Luna, whose head had been buried in the book and had not been raised, Li Lin had to complain.
Hearing Li Lin's words, Luna symbolically picked up the spoon, dug a few bites of food into the plate, and continued to look at the book.
Li Lin shrugged helplessly. This sister is so uneasy.
Hermione loved to study, but she didn't indulge in it to that extent, and the books Luna read were extracurricular readings to be exact.
"Forest." Just as she was thinking, Hermione suddenly spoke.
She held the cake in one hand, and gently pinched the brooch on Li Lin's wizard robe with the other. "What is this?"
Li Lin reached out and took the brooch off the wizard's robe.
"It's a magic wand." Li Lin held the brooch in his hand, and then recited the incantation, and the brooch immediately turned into a long staff of equal height.
"Wow!" There was an exclamation at the table.
Hermione reached out and took the staff, her lovely brown eyes rounded, and she exclaimed. "It's really not light."
The staff caught the attention of Ravenclaw, some of whom liked the elaborate shapes, while others looked at the two lines of inscribed incantations in amazement. For a time, the Ravenclaw long table was somewhat comparable to the trend of Gryffindor.
Dumbledore would not have missed such an opportunity, dressed in white wizarding robes and wearing a long beard on his chest. Smiled and came to the long table in Ravenclaw.
"Our eaglets, maybe there's something you'd like to share with me."
"Of course, Mr. Headmaster." Immediately, some students scrambled to speak.
Dumbledore held his staff with a smile in his crescent-like eyes.
"Wow, Mr. Lovegood, your magic wand is quite heavy."
As he spoke, Dumbledore tried to throw out a spell, of course he was not used to such a heavy wand, and as for the wand missing its head, it was originally a flower charm into the air, but it appeared on the floor.
Then one after another flowers appeared on the floor, expanding in waves in all directions, and in an instant red flowers formed a carpet that covered the floor of the entire hall.
This also makes the atmosphere of everyone's dining high. The Weasley brothers of Gryffindor even picked up a few flowers and bundled them together and gave them around.
"Perfect." Dumbledore admired and returned his wand to Li Lin.
When the dinner was over, Li Lin returned to the Ravenclaw lounge. He began to talk to Hermione about his holiday.
"Hermione, do you know where I went for the Christmas holidays?"
Hermione shook her head cooperatively. At the same time, he rolled his eyes dissatisfied. "You didn't even write me a letter during the holidays, how do I know where you went?"
Li Lin smiled embarrassedly. Then explained.
"I went to the Soviet Union on vacation, there was a war there, and the Soviet Union was so far away from Britain that it was an exaggeration to use owls to deliver letters."
"Soviet Union?!" Hermione exclaimed. Several Ravenclaw students also quietly gathered around. Apparently, not all of the wizards of the island nation of Britain are ignorant of what is happening on the continent.
"Yes, the Soviet Union, there was a war there, and after the collapse and overthrow of the Soviet Union a year ago, a group of troops loyal to the Soviet Union rose up to recover the Soviet Union, and now they have occupied the capital."
"Oh my gosh." Hermione cried out in surprise, covering her mouth with her hands, apparently still caring about her teeth. She asked with concern. "Are you in danger? This kind of war is really terrible. ”
Li Lin waved his hand and comforted. "I've been in the city and I've been in no danger, but I've seen an exaggerated scene."
Looking at the inquisitive eyes of the classmates and Hermione in front of him, Li Lin said with a smile.
"There are many werewolves and wizards in the army of the restored country."
Li Lin said this and took out the newspaper at the same time. Of course, it was the New York Times, the same issue that Li Lin showed to Snape. The reporter and the magic wand floating on the cover scared the little wizards a little.
"Oh my God! They violated the law of secrecy! ”
"No, no, I remember reading in a travelogue that after Grindelwald, the Soviet Union withdrew from the World Magical Organization."
"But, but the wizard was exposed, and appeared in the Muggle newspapers. Won't our magic act? I mean, like I used to do, to make those Muggles forget with the Oblivion Charm. ”
"Do you think it's possible? There is the Soviet Union, how can we, the British Ministry of Magic, run to the USSR to cast the Oblivion Curse? ”
"But this, this is crazy!"
The Ravenclaw students were in a mess, they had wisdom, they had a lot of knowledge. It also makes it easy for them to spot the essence of the problem. That is, wizards have appeared in the Muggles' field of vision, and there is something wrong with wizards' secrecy.
Even through a Forgetting Potion, using rain can make a city lose its memory of magic. But for those who read the newspaper now, it's not as simple as a city. That's on a national scale!
The British Ministry of Magic is relatively sluggish, and Li Lin certainly lit a fire. Even "Singing and Singing" has been drafted, and it will be reported in the next issue.
In this way, Li Lin shared what he had seen and heard during the trip with his classmates in Ravenclaw. The Ravenclaw classmates were so immersed in the fact that wizards in the Soviet Union had violated secrecy laws and didn't even notice that werewolves had become legions.
The students were so enthusiastic that they returned to their dormitories late to rest. Li Lin finally lay down on the bed and slept well, hoping to wash away the smell of gunpowder on his body.
On the other side of the ocean, the Magic Congress of the United States is already in chaos.
A righteous qi master was complaining to a colleague next to him.
"Processing? How to deal with it?! All of our wizards are sent out to cast the Oblivion Charm, and none of them are able to. ”
In the end, he said categorically.
"Unless we catch 100 ptarmigans, prepare 100 bottles of Oblivion, and have them rain across the country, it's impossible to deal with this."
"So what now?" The sorceress on the side asked.
"Either hide deeper, or choose to come out and tell Muggles that we exist."
"It's impossible." A wizard in a suit and leather shoes said with coffee on the side.
"Muggles are foolish. They are terrified of magic, and if we tell Muggles about our existence, then soon, a new witch hunt will begin. ”
He took a sip of his coffee and lit it with his hand.
"You, you, and you, the next time we meet, we're going to be burned at the stake."
Judging by his attire, wizards in suits and leather shoes obviously had more contact with Muggles. Perhaps it was precisely because of this wizard's deep contact with humans that this wizard understood the psychology of Muggles better.
Discussions on the sidelines continued, while meetings within the Wizarding Congress continued.
Of course, the wizards have perfected the capitalist meeting format very well, and the main content of the three-hour meeting is to quarrel. The only effective option that could be passed was to contact the official magical organizations of other countries to report the situation.
The three-hour closed-door meeting did not give any effective plan, and confusion still shrouded the wizards of the United States.
Wizards in the United States are more avant-garde and more modern. They've even eliminated magic broomsticks and are now playing skateboarding. Because of this, they recognize the excellence of modern civilization, and when they find that they may no longer be hidden in the crowd, wizards begin to be confused and begin to think about their place, or position, in human society.