Chapter 63: Once Upon a Time in America
The crisis was caused by the American Revolution.
The founding father of the United States, King Louis XVI of France, did not hesitate to spill his blood at the cost of Paris.
Succeeded in taking a big mouthful of milk, the nascent American government, and at the same time slammed a wave of Britain.
The ongoing war has forced wizards to face a choice, which side should they be on?
Is it the country? Or is it true to his identity as a wizard?
The controversy went on for a long time.
American wizards are divided into two camps, and neither can convince anyone.
It wasn't until this group of American wizards, with their brains wheathed, that they went to ask the British Ministry of Magic for their opinion on joining the war, that the curtain came to an end.
Seriously, Anthony felt that the British Ministry of Magic at that time must have been blinded!
A group of American wizards came running to ask them if the British Ministry of Magic was involved in a war against the British colonization of the United States!
???
What is this brain circuit?
It is true that the Magic Congress of the United States at that time was still very weak, far inferior to the British Ministry of Magic, but this idea is a work that carbon-based organisms can make whole?
If you think about it with your ass, the British must have chosen to watch from the sidelines. They are a bit of a gentleman if they don't fall into the ground.
Thus, this vigorous debate ended in such a tiger.
At the top, of course, it's really over.
However, in the deeply divided American wizarding society, many ordinary wizards have emerged, who have participated in the war in an unofficial way.
Assist the U.S. and French forces in defeating the British.
Anthony has no doubt that there is a French wizard in this, after all, Britain and France... Hehe, I can only say that I understand everything!
As a direct consequence of that war, there are still many American wizards who still have the original thirteen-star Stars and Stripes in their homes. They even secretly celebrate Independence Day.
It was the end of the 18th century that really brought American wizards and Muggles to a break.
A witch falls in love with a No-Maj.
But what she didn't know was that the Maji was a descendant of the Purge, and he was actually a Squib.
The so-called purges refer to: a group of wizarding mercenaries from different countries on the North American continent before the establishment of the Magical Congress of the United States. In the UK, such people are generally referred to as dark wizards.
After the establishment of the Magic Congress, the elimination of these people was naturally the most important thing, and the original American Aurors also had a distant cousin of Harry.
The descendants of such people, after learning that their wife turned out to be a wizard, immediately began to collect information about the wizarding world, and finally exposed this information completely.
This major violation of the Secrecy Act disgraced American wizards.
The story of Grace's revenge is popular everywhere.
The wizard of the world ate the melon once.
For this reason, the enraged Magical Congress of the United States enacted the Rappaport Law, which completely separated the No-Maj and wizarding societies.
This law prohibits witches and wizards from befriending or marrying No-Maj, and imposes heavy penalties on wizards who are too close to No-Maj.
It is undeniable that this seemingly inhuman law did relieve the nerves that were on the verge of erupting between wizards and No-Maj at that time.
But...
Such a one-size-fits-all policy finally began to bottom out over the next few hundred years.
It's still the same problem as before, the wizarding society in the United States is quite torn, although the group of wizards who support the country are suppressed, but they are suppressed, not dead.
In addition, one of the founders of the American magic school Ilvermorny has a No-Maji, and one of their four major academies was founded by No-Maji.
This is the reason why Grindelwald was able to stir up trouble in North America.
They have the soil to rebel against the Secrecy Law!
In short, living in a real magical world, everything is not so taken for granted.
It is inevitable that the interpretation of the Secrets Law will vary from country to country.
Whatever plans for Downing Street are, they have to be accelerated.
...
After making up his mind, Anthony slowly picked up the textbook beside him and walked towards the outside of the common room.
Now is not the time to talk about plans.
Breakfast is the most important thing now.
Leaving the warm lounge with his front foot, Anthony felt how cold it was in December with his back foot.
Tightly wrapped, he barely finished his breakfast, and hurried to the Potions classroom without staying long.
Taking Potions class in the winter is definitely torture.
The temperature of this classroom near the Black Lake is definitely in the single digits.
Harry barely spoke, for a white mist formed in front of him in a haze, and the white mist would blur his glasses.
The little wizards who came to class had to get as close as possible to the hot cauldron in front of them.
Neville was too close, and Snape's grim gaze meant that he only dared to look at the cauldron, not even noticing that his scarf was on fire.
Then, with a tone of gloom that could extinguish the flames, Gryffindor was deducted three more points.
After Snape walked away, Malfoy, who had been holding back for days, finally got his chance.
He taunted Neville frantically, and brought Harry with him.
"I really feel sorry for those people."
"They had to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas because the family didn't want them."
"Oh! Sorry, someone doesn't have a family. Ha ha!!! ”
The eerie voice rang in Harry's ears.
Ever since the Quidditch match and the Ice Lake Skiing incident, Malfoy has become aware that he may not be able to beat the Gryffindor Four, so since November, he has been trying to avoid direct contact with Anthony and them, and has been paying lip service to his skills.
The whole person's temperament has changed greatly, and he is weird all day long.
But this time he clearly stepped on the pit.
He took his parents with him while taunting Harry like crazy...
The main thing is that he brought Lily with him.
Can Snape get used to it?
directly sneered at the blonde little prick, so Slytherin was also deducted three points by Snape for the first time.
But... Just when the Gryffindors were in the dark.
Harry, who saw Malfoy deflated, wasn't much happier.
He's right, he really doesn't have a decent family.
He didn't want to go back to Privet for Christmas.
Yesterday, Professor McGonagall came over to register the list of students who were staying on campus for the holidays, and he immediately signed it.
To be honest, he wasn't sad at all, especially after learning that Ron and the Twins were also going to stay in school because the Weasleys were going to Romania to visit their brother Charlie.
Unfortunately, Anthony and Hermione are going home for Christmas.
Hermione was going home Harry knew that he had seen her parents.
But Anthony was going home, which made Harry a little disappointed.
But he won't say anything, he can't let the family not go back, and spend the holidays with himself at school!