Chapter 92: The Magical Congress of the United States (5th Watch)
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Witchcraft Congress, Woolworths Building.
Li Chuan, who had just walked out of the portkey office, looked at the hundred-story magic building, and secretly thought in his heart:
"It looks even more imposing than the British Ministry of Magic."
Before he came, he had already looked up information about the Magical Congress of the United States.
Unlike the British Ministry of Magic, which is built underground and is a separate building, the Magical Congress of the United States and ordinary people share the same building.
The entrance to the Woolworths Building is a revolving door, and when a normal person enters through the revolving door, it is the Woolworths Building, and when a wizard passes through the revolving door, he enters the Magical Congress of the United States.
"Where are you going?"
Walking into the magic elevator, an old goblin wearing a small felt hat and a suit asked Li Chuan.
Elves and house-elves look very similar, but their status is not at the same level as house-elves in the wizarding world.
The status of house-elves is that of slaves, and the status of goblins is actually not much worse than that of wizards, they are good at metalworking, especially silverware, and the currency of the wizarding world is made by them.
They even run the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, which largely controls the economy of the wizarding world.
"Lobby Registry!"
Li Chuan replied politely.
The old goblin nodded, raised the cane in his hand, and pressed the button that said 1.
A few seconds later, the magic elevator reopened, and Li Chuan had already arrived at the registration hall on the first floor.
The architecture of the Magical Congress of America is very similar to that of the church, with a large portrait of a witch hanging from the door, which is none other than Serafina Piquelli, the current president of the Magical Congress of the United States.
The walkway is wider and cleaner than the British Ministry of Magic, with brooms and mops enchanted to clean it all the time, and golden metal eagles flying with their wings.
The wizards seemed to be relatively relaxed, many of them sitting on benches, reading newspapers and gossiping.
Perhaps because the United States has not been peaceful recently, there are not many foreign wizards registered in the registration office, and Li Chuan used to register all the information without queuing.
"You are a wizard from England, it may not be clear, our wizards in the United States must have a wand permit to hold a wand, you go to the wand permit office, and you can get a wand permit before leaving."
The witch in charge of registration reminded Li Chuan after registering his information.
Li Chuan was not surprised when he heard this, he just nodded and walked towards the magic elevator again.
Applying for a wand license is a unique rule in the wizarding world in the United States, and every wizard needs to apply for it.
Because the Aurors here can track the wand of the wizard who caused the accident through the magic fluctuations on the wand license, so as to determine the identity.
On the twenty-fifth floor of the basement, Li Chuan followed the signboard into a room that had obviously been enlarged dozens of times by the Traceless Stretching Spell.
Tables are neatly arranged, each connected to a metal transparent pipe leading to the upper floor.
Every now and then, a file that has been folded into a rat will come out of the pipe, and then tear it on the table and turn it into pieces.
Apparently this is where congressional clerks shredded and disposed of useless documents.
However, Li Chuan was slightly interested in the magic that turned files into rats to process themselves.
Yesterday when he was in the British Ministry of Magic, he also saw the witch in the foyer, who used magic to turn paper into paper airplanes and automatically went to find Theseus Scamander.
At that time, he thought that if he replaced ordinary paper with detonation charms, and then let them fly into paper airplanes and then detonate them, it would also seem like a good method.
"It seems that the next time I go to the Hokage world, I will not only have to find a way to learn the ninjutsu of Orochimaru, which can swallow items into the stomach and save them, but also learn how to make detonation charms."
Walking along the tables to the end, a sign with a wand permit office appeared in front of him.
And under the sign, a short-haired witch in a trench coat was sitting at her desk in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Hello, I'm Tom Foley from London, and I'm here to get a wand permit."
"Hmm... Oh, I'm Tina Goldstein, welcome to New York, give me your wand and proof of registration. ”
The witch named Tina suddenly woke up, took out a special magic card from the side weakly, and said to Li Chuan very formulaically.
Tina Goldstein, Newt Scamander's future wife. Originally the best Auror of the Magical Congress of the United States, he violated the wizarding secrecy law by helping an abused Muggle and casting magic in front of many Muggles.
Now Serafina Piquelli, the president of the Magical Congress of the United States, has been demoted to the Wand Permit Office as a clerk.
Hearing the other party's name, Li Chuan immediately knew the identity of the other party.
However, he didn't bother to talk to him, just handed Tom's wand and the registration certificate he had just taken in the hall.
Once Tina had made his wand permit, he turned and walked away like a normal wizard.
He didn't want to cause a huge change in the plot later because of some of his own interventions, at least he couldn't let Newt and Tina's encounter not appear because of him.
That didn't do him any good for his next plans.
He came to New York to use the original plot to try to make his identity clear and make a name for himself in the wizarding world. The second is to secretly reach cooperation with Grindelwald and seek benefits.
So if he can not disrupt the development of the plot in the early stage, he will still try his best to ensure that everything is within his control.
After leaving the Magical Congress of the United States, Li Chuan directly followed the information he had searched before, came to Magic Street in New York, and temporarily found a bar to live in.
The Enchanted Street of America is located in Times Square in New York, and the entrance is a stone monument that enters the magic when you touch the stone monument.
I spent the day walking through the entire Enchanted Street, except for finding some magic books that I hadn't found at the Blott Bookstore before, and tasting the local magical food, but I didn't find anything extraordinary.
However, this is also normal, the United States has not been founded for more than 200 years, and how long can the history of American wizards be, most of which are immigrated by British wizards.
Even Aesop Sayle, the founder of the American school of magic and wizardry, Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
It was also because he often heard a lot of stories about Hogwarts from his aunt Gormlais64Gaunt that he founded Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Even the four major houses in the school were modeled after the four major houses of Hogwarts.
So don't look at the Ministry of Magic in the United States is much more magnificent than the British Ministry of Magic, and the magic street is much larger than Diagon Alley, but in fact, in terms of heritage, American wizards are still inferior to British wizards.
In the movie, if it weren't for Newt Scamander's help, Grindelwald alone could have wiped out all the Aurors of the entire Magical Congress of America.
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