Twenty Years Later, II
Although the previous promotion was smooth sailing, when it came to the third sequence, Hermione chose to jump to the path of the Perfecter adjacent to the Voyeur path, and became a Mystic Scholar, also known as the Mysteries Demon.
Her choice was also influenced in part by her political ambitions.
From the first year, Hermione had tried to change the status quo in the wizarding world, to raise the status of Muggle-born wizards, so that "Respect for Muggle-born wizards" was not just an empty slogan, a political correctness with no real value, but a practical action.
After graduating from the seventh grade, Hermione entered the Ministry of Magic as a matter of course, becoming an employee of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Due to her unique background and her strong practical ability, Hermione's path to promotion can be described as a green light, and she soon became the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
And under the care of Amelia Bones, the current Minister of Magic, she also has frequent access to documents that the Minister of Magic has access to.
Almost all Ministry of Magic employees believed that it was a foregone conclusion that Hermione would become the next Minister of Magic.
The process seemed to be unusually smooth, but Hermione still faintly felt the rejection of some forces after all.
Hermione was still a Muggle-born wizard after all, and that couldn't be hidden, and neither did Hermione want to hide it.
As a result, many old antiques can't get used to her and can't kill her, so they can only implement a non-violent and non-cooperative plan, and do not explicitly protest, but also do not cooperate with the work.
Hallie had asked Hermione if she wanted to help solve the physical problems, but Hermione refused. She wants to solve these difficulties on her own and turn them into a ritual for her promotion.
It was also at this time that Hermione chose to jump route. After all, there are two other names for the Sequence One Enlightener of the Perfectionist Path, "Civilization Enlightener" and "Dark Light".
The rituals and ways of playing are slightly similar to those in the rule field, but they are absolutely different at the core.
The promotion ceremony of the enlightener of civilization is to bring a new civilization to a race, leading them into a new era; And the subsequent role of the civilization enlightener is also related to the promoted civilization, requiring the civilization enlightener to guide the development of this civilization.
The stronger the civilization, the more digestible the potion of the civilization enlightener, and the more stable the foundation will be when promoting to perfection.
The path chosen by Hermione is to find a way to break the restrictions of secrecy, so that the scientific civilization established by Muggles and the magical civilization established by wizards can be fused with each other, so as to complete the ritual and promote the enlightenment.
Hermione expected that, given the size of the magical civilization and the scientific civilization, when the two officially began to merge, the needs of her own ritual would have been met.
There was no doubt that Hermione succeeded in the end. Despite the difficulties in the middle, Hermione still completed the process of blending civilizations, successfully "enlightening" the scientific civilization of Muggles and the magical civilization of wizards, and promoted to the enlightener.
In order to promote the integration of wizards and Muggles, Hermione launched various reforms after becoming minister, suppressing the ancient wizarding families that had remained neutral in the wizarding wars and had not been liquidated, but still ate the ancients, and promoted a group of enterprising young wizards.
Later, with Hallie's assistance, Hermione spoke several times at the International Conference of Wizards.
At first, the speech was not very effective, most of the rotten old things still wanted to guard the magic world, and refused to obediently blow up gold coins, and only a few young officials supported the reform around the world.
During the discussion, several rounds of scuffle even broke out in the auditorium of the International Conference of Wizards, from the initial verbal abuse to throwing each other's shoes and cups and splashing boiling water, and finally it is unknown who threw a curse first, which once again triggered a small scuffle.
Most officials are accustomed to this, after all, they usually do it once or twice in every meeting. When the representatives who had never fought returned to the Ministry of Magic in their own countries, they were embarrassed to call themselves representatives.
Some of the retinues and bodyguards even found a corner to sit down, eating dessert and waiting for their boss to decide the winner.
But this time, the chaos of the meeting ended quickly.
Hallie herself came to the scene and easily suppressed the representatives and ministers of the ministries of magic present, so that they were willing to listen carefully to Hermione's analysis of the necessity of communication and integration between the wizarding world and the Muggle world from various aspects.
Professor Dumbledore was also pulled over from the journey by Harley, and with his credibility, he was responsible for supporting Hermione on the platform.
With the endorsement of the former first person in the wizarding world and the first person in the current wizarding world, coupled with his own strict logic, all the descriptions of the future are realistic, and the development blueprint depicted is very tempting.
Hermione finally relied on the charm of language and the power of her wand to get the Ministries of Magic to agree to carry out reforms in an orderly manner to promote the integration of the two civilizations of wizards and Muggles.
Once the wizard's side is done, the next step is to go. Even Hermione, who had always been kind, now had a deep understanding of the principles of "the law of the jungle" and "truth is only within the scope of artillery".
If verbal communication didn't work, Hermione didn't have any psychological burden on Hallie's proposed use of force.
Hermione first contacted the leaders of several important nations individually, and later demonstrated the power of wizarding at an important and open international conference.
At first, the Muggles were shocked, how could such a group of beings appear on their heads who could control their own life and death at will? It's just nonsense!
Muggles' anti-wizarding sentiment has become so high that prime ministers who already knew about wizarding had to carefully consider their approval ratings for next year and choose not to say a word.
A large country that already knows the details of many wizards, and is supported by an organization called the "Purge", has even taken the lead in proposing a plan to bring wizards to their knees through war, obediently accept human experiments, and hand over the mysteries of magic to "benefit" all mankind.
And then...... And then there was no then.
To help Hermione, Hallie traveled directly to that country and put on a grand show in front of countless satellite streams.
She first froze the bullets in the sky, and then pretended not to understand the power of the missile, and was torn to pieces by the missile.
While the Muggle military was celebrating the killing of the monster, Harley rose from the air in the most eerie way possible, not even her clothes were dirty.
In the end, she even crushed a nuclear bomb with her own hands, and also tasted the smell of radiation, saying that it was not delicious.
After demonstrating the power of wizards and a variety of strange resurrection abilities to the Muggle world, the Muggle elite consciously gave up on "plundering" magical resources through war, and chose to coexist peacefully.
After all, people who can do it at this level are more knowledgeable about current affairs, and not everyone is as naïve as Fudge is to think that power governs power, not power to support power.
Of course, after this farce called "war", which was actually more like an adult teasing a child, the Muggle world consciously put a very low status when communicating, and many Muggle people began to pursue wizards.
A wizard in the family has become a symbol of advancement, and that wizard child will be the pride of the whole family.
And the folk wind has changed again and again, and Muggle people are looking forward to entering the wizarding world and seeing wizards.
After less than three months of discussions and exchange of interests, and at the expense of several organizations such as the "Purge", the two sides reached a preliminary agreement, and Hogwarts became the vanguard of the fusion of wizards and Muggles, taking the lead in opening up the Muggle world.
The two sides will send students to each other to exchange and learn, all for the sake of a better world.
And in order to be more powerful, and to better enhance the image of wizards in the hearts of Muggles, Hermione made a major transformation of Hogwarts.
First and foremost is Hogwarts Castle itself.
Hermione used the many occult knowledge mastered by the voyeur path, combined with the alchemy mastered by the ancient alchemists of the fourth sequence of the Hibiscus Earth Pathway and Harley's magical support, and forcibly turned Hogwarts into a floating city!
Hogwarts Castle, in the Headmaster's office.
By this time, the Headmaster's office had changed dramatically, with the exception of the portraits of the old Headmasters and the books donated to Hogwarts by Professor Dumbledore.
The Headmaster's office had at least tripled in size under the Traceless Stretching Charm, and two additional doors had been added to the room in addition to the original door to the Headmaster's dormitory.
The wooden doors were all hidden, and through the cracks in the doors, you could faintly see the potion materials stored in the room, as well as the cauldron that was still steaming and burning with magical flames underneath.
On the walls on either side are several oil paintings with gold borders.
In front of the wall near the back of the room stood a life-size mirror, the back of which was covered with beautiful patterns.
But the old headmasters seemed to be extremely afraid of the splendid oil paintings and their own mirrors, and never had the idea of approaching that side.
Even the portrait that Headmaster Dumbledore left behind after his retirement to be able to connect with him was kept as far away from the painting as possible, apparently with some not-so-good memories between the two.
On the opposite side of the mirror is an exhibition case with a golden red exterior and a bird's nest on it.
The cabinet is filled with various medals, trophies, dresses, scepters, certificates of honor, and other items that symbolize honor.
Just standing in front of the cabinet, any learned visitor will immediately be in awe of the owner of the cabinet.
In the innermost part of the office, the familiar wooden bench was still in place, with the familiar log chaise longue.
But the one sitting in the chair was no longer the familiar old man. At this point, Professor Dumbledore and Grindelwald returned to their journey through the world after taking two extraordinary items from Harley that had less negative effects.
Now the owner of this headmaster's office is Harley.
She is the current Headmaster of Hogwarts and Professor Emeritus of Transfiguration and Potions. When necessary, Hallie can even make a cameo appearance as a professor in any class, and there is nothing difficult for her to make such a cameo.
Hallie was holding a cup of tea and looking at the letters in front of her.
Those letters were nothing more than invitations from ministries of magic and official organizations in various fields of magic inviting Harley to visit and give a lecture, or some old-timers asking for some scholarly opinions.
In the twenty years since Harley was successfully promoted to the rank of Primordial Witch, she has not been idle.
In addition to helping Hermione and Fleur find materials, Harley is looking for an opportunity to promote the Scourge of Destruction, the Root Scourge, while expanding her influence.
Clearly, Hallie was doing a great job.
She now holds numerous positions, including but not limited to being the Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot, the Honorary Senior Advisor of the Ministry of Magic, the Chief Wizard of the International Transfiguration Federation, and the Senior President of the Apothecary Association.
Even the International Wizarding and Quidditch Guild took advantage of Hallie's superb Quidditch skills and kept begging for a relationship, and finally managed to successfully stuff Hallie with an honorary senior advisor to the Quidditch Society.
But among all these identities and honors, Harley still values the position of Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry the most.
If she doesn't have anything to do, she'll always stay here, and the resurrection point for resurrection and reorganization is also set up in this office.
Even the entrance to the City of Calamity, the newly established Old Realm, which had just been housed a year earlier, was set up in Hogwarts Castle by Hallie.
After all, this is the core area of Hallie's cultivation anchor, and it is also the place that carries Hallie's most important memories.
The hundreds of years she had spent as a defector from the Witch Cult had little joy for Harry, just endless escapes and bloody pursuits.
Only time at Hogwarts was a joy for Harley, the Quidditch Cup she won with her seniors, the House Cup she won for the House, and the days she attended classes with so many friends......
Cognition from other people can be an anchor, and the support for Hallie's consciousness is solid enough not to be replaced in the first place.
But this ordinary anchor does not interfere with human nature in any way. If there were only this kind of anchor from the faith, Harley would soon become as cold and heartless as she was at the beginning.
And it is these bits and pieces of memories from Hogwarts that together form an important pillar that maintains Harry's humanity.
Because of this, Harley often stays in the office, and even if she has to go out, she has to leave a clone to stay here.
After reading the letters, Hallie snapped her fingers and picked up a cup of hot tea.
For certain academic discussion letters and letters from several other schools of magic about the next tournament, spider silk automatically hangs from the ceiling and rolls up quill pens in reply.
As for the invitations from various wizards and Muggle organizations, they were basically consumed by a black flame.
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