A Certain Hogwarts Magician Professor

Hogsmeade, Felix swirled in the public fireplace, patted the ashes on his body, the sky was gray, and a red sunset could be faintly seen from the clouds.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, which made a "crunch" sound when stepping on it. Felix walked all the way, and the wizard who returned in the evening kept greeting him. A thin old wizard dragged him and talked for a long time, discussing with him "is the current wizard lacking some blood?", and finally realized that he had found the wrong person, because his friend couldn't stand the nagging. Went home for dinner.

Mrs. Rosmerta of Three Broomsticks is putting up a discount poster, "Mr. Hepp, you're out so late, do you want to come in for a drink?"

"Oh, no, I have something to deal with..."

"Is it a visit to the branch? I bought a chair and lie down for a while every night before taking a break."

Felix turns into a side street, the light dims, the road is near the screaming shack, there is no one nearby, he stops in place, fingers fumble for a coin, after a while, the sound of bouncing footsteps from appeared behind.

"Mr. Hepp."

The house-elf Bundy jumped out and gave him a salute, rubbing his nose against the snow on the ground as he straightened up. Then he took out a crumpled letter from his body and handed it to Felix respectfully.

Felix took it and asked casually, "Bundy, who is your master?"

The house-elf froze for a moment, lowered his head and said, "Bundy was dedicated to Mr. Grindelwald by the master to take care of his daily life."

Is it a loyal believer?

"when did it happen?"

"Just two years ago."

Felix glanced at him. "Mr. Grindelwald is not in good health?"

Bundy took a deep breath and shrieked, "It's a cold winter at Fort Nurmengard."

"What about his magic?"

"Mr Grindelwald has not been allowed to cast spells since 1945."

Some magic, Felix thought. He saw Bundy on October 27, and there was clearly another person's will in him. There must have been certain restrictions on Grindelwald after the defeat - not a wand, which is not necessary for a wizard like Grindelwald - but more severe limitations.

Like an unbreakable oath.

This history is relatively vague and has no clear records. It seems that everyone has deliberately forgotten this hidden danger. When people like him interpret it from the perspective of a bystander, they will always find some obvious loopholes.

Why did Grindelwald give up everything because of a duel? Are his 100,000 followers fake? Even if only 1 in 10 are loyal, these people can smash any Ministry of Magic in the world.

Felix didn't continue the question, he asked Bundy: "You usually live in Nurmengard?"

"Yes, sir."

"Can you keep owls there?"

"What, what?" Bundy looked up in surprise.

"It's too troublesome to rely on you to pass the message alone. Hogwarts' protection magic excludes other house elves, but it does not restrict owls." Felix explained that if you send messages through owls, it will definitely It is a lot more convenient, saving him from running out every time.

The house elf Bundy bowed his head deeply, "Oh, no, Nurmengard Castle is sealed off by heavy spells, and no one can find it... Only the full-time staff of the International Federation of Wizards have permission to open it."

Felix was a little surprised, Grindelwald seemed to be more restricted than he had expected.

He opened the letter, and the content above was not long as usual. To sum it up, he agreed to "discuss certain issues" with him. Other than that, there are nothing more than sarcastic remarks, such as "I read these books long ago, and the knowledge in them is very shallow", "Too passive, not a little courageous, not comparable to Carlotta Pinkstone" , or advising Felix in an instructive tone to "read three hundred years of magical history from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries," etc.

Don't forget to ask for some parchment, ink, and quill at the end.

"I added a lot of snow to the ink bottle to write this letter. Also, those people check Bundy's brain every two or three months, and you're the one to deal with that."

Felix laughed dumbly at the faint ink mark, he read some inconsistencies in the letter, but he would not think that Grindelwald was old and confused.

Grindelwald said he had read the book he wrote, who gave it to him?

To put it bluntly, Felix never mentioned his plans and expectations for the wizarding world in the book, so in the eyes of some people, he was just pro-Muggle and sympathetic to Muggles; or, an opportunistic Merchant, who made his fortune by carrying the novel ideas of Muggle society. But a truly insightful person—such as Dumbledore, or Grindelwald—can see his unfinished meaning in these books. That is:

Felix Hepp believed that the fusion of wizards and Muggles was inevitable, but he was a moderate, or at least pretended to be a moderate, subtly leading wizards to accept this idea and prepare in advance.

If you show this theory to ordinary wizards, they will frown. They are used to the existence of secrecy laws, and telling these people that secrecy laws will be broken is like telling them that one day they will walk naked into the ice and snow.

And if it is given to the radicals, they also dislike this view, perhaps because it is too weak and not neat enough. For example, the witch Carlotta Pinkstone mentioned in the letter, a social activist born in 1922, is known for her advocacy for the repeal of the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act, and has been known for her public outcry Sent to jail many times for deliberate use of magic.

By the way, she will be released from prison next year, and it is estimated that there will be another storm at that time.

Grindelwald was also a radical, but he was different because he was a loser. To give him Felix's writings is to tell Grindelwald that there is a similar but gentler idea to yours, which has achieved something, and you can take a look...

Felix read a strong didactic flavor from this practice.

He guessed that the man was Dumbledore.

If it is really Dumbledore, then the restrictions of the International Wizarding Federation will not be a problem at all. There are many ways for him to bypass the restrictions of Nurmengard Castle. The easiest one is to pass a message through Phoenix Fox.

Felix gave Bundy some stationery. As for how to bypass the inspection... Felix didn't do it. Grindelwald could attach to Bundy to watch the battle, which at least showed that he could use some memory magic. test him.

Felix didn't take the bait.

...

Over the next few days, Felix spent some time combing through the history of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. The Hogwarts Library provides a lot of materials, including the Magic Codex, travel diaries from that period, and especially a few books he found in the forbidden area - without any demagogic curses, just simply recording history, in general He doesn't read such books.

Felix broke into a cold sweat reading.

That is the truer and bloodier truth.

During this time, he also began to receive more letters, and various letters inviting him to join the club rained down. Felix didn't know that there were so many magical organizations before, and the various alchemy groups and ancient writing associations alone surpassed them. Thirty.

There are also many letters from individuals, the most representative of which is Uriah Edmund of Ilvermorny. His description in the letter fully reflects the mentality of young people in the American wizarding world today:

"...

The Magic Congress' performance was disappointing. Those officials and gentlemen did not seem to realize the seriousness of the problem.

I talked to some old people at school and they told me that in the 60's there was a group of people who recruited members under the guise of 'pureblood' and 'glory', but these ideas didn't have a market in the US at the time - according to the UK According to the standards of the magic world, except for a few families who migrated, no one is qualified to advertise themselves as pure blood.

So the group of people failed to succeed. I believe that similar things may have happened in other countries, but because of the painful lessons brought by Grindelwald just now, people are strictly guarded against such ideas and instinctively reject them, and new cults have never been able to develop.

Almost 30 years have passed now. A new generation of wizards has grown up, and new dissatisfaction has begun to accumulate. Our biggest contradiction is caused by the forced separation of wizards and No-Maj society. Although there have been improvements in the past two years, it is still not enough. As expected. Sooner or later, the illusion of peace that we hold dear will detonate.

I was deeply touched by the death of Principal Fontana, who sheltered me, but now he is gone.

So, Mr. Hepp, I have left Ilvermorny.

I decided to go into politics, and the Magic Congress was planning to form an emergency squad, which in my opinion was just a show, but I still decided to sign up. Currently I am still active in China, but there may be a chance to meet in the UK in the future.

Wish us all the best. "

Felix closed the letter, thought for a long time, took out the parchment and wrote a reply.

"Dear Yuria,

I see in you the hope of a new generation in the American wizarding world. Some problems are difficult to deal with, but we will encounter them sooner or later, so we cannot ignore them.

I have also thought deeply about the issues you mentioned in your letter, and my thoughts are as follows:

You are faced with two problems, one because of the excitement, social unrest, and the potential threat of Voldemort's forces because of the death of Principal Fontana; Dissatisfaction with the negative attitude of the Magical Congress.

The former is an emergency and is the focus of everyone's attention at this stage, while the latter is more profound and seems less urgent, but it is more difficult to deal with.

I fully agree with your decision to join the Magic Congress. It will make you experience the difficulties and moral dilemmas faced by the rulers. If you cannot be confident that you can do better than them, the result will be negative and negative. The damage is no less than the chaos caused by the death of Principal Fontana.

I've also seen you propose some other solutions, such as working with Future World to replicate some of the initiatives we communicated last year, but I have to point out that you and I are not in exactly the same situation.

It has been nearly three hundred years since the birth of the secrecy law, in other words, no one living now has seen what a completely undisturbed scene looks like. The results of rash changes are bound to be good or bad. Although people cheer for opening the door to see the wonderful world, they are bound to be hurt by the thorns outside the door, which leads to hatred.

If you want to count the contradictions between wizards and ordinary people, it is by no means summed up in one sentence.

The Hogwarts collection contains a large number of relevant documents and materials, from the beginning of the witch hunts in the fourteenth century to a few years before the birth of the secrecy laws in the seventeenth century, the relationship between the two reached a freezing point.

During these three hundred years, wizards were almost semi-public in the early days, and the best of them (or ambitious wizards) often became the guests of kings and nobles.

But the bottom-level wizard families still lived a double life. At that time, public opinion was controlled by the secular and religious. Wizards and magic were still mysterious, cunning and evil. Witch hunting was considered a legitimate act. People's propaganda blossomed everywhere, which caused a very obvious division between the top and bottom. During this period, there were many cases worth pondering. There were kind and enthusiastic wizards who helped their neighbors to be betrayed, and naturally there were also many who were sincerely loved; not to mention, there were also bad people among the wizards. Those widely circulated horror legends and They can't get out of the relationship.

Various diametrically opposed viewpoints and trends of thought collide violently, and "Story Collection of the Poet Bedou" was created under this background.

If you asked me what my opinion was, I would say that any attempt to characterize a large group by a small group of people is unquestionably bad. Especially when you've already chosen your team in advance.

But it must be admitted that ordinary people far outnumber wizards by a ratio of nearly 3000:1. This makes - even if only a small percentage of ordinary people take a strong attitude towards wizards, the results are disastrous.

Wizarding families at the time were especially vulnerable to losing their children, who had no control over their magic, often attracted the attention of Muggles who were hunting wizards, and were powerless to resist. We're used to seeing pitchforks, hoes, and crosses as nothing to mature, self-preserving wizards, but the real history isn't pretty.

The newly formed British Ministry of Magic (formerly the Wizards' Council) had sent a special delegation to liaise with Muggle monarchs William III and Mary II in the hope that Muggle law would recognise and protect wizards. When this attempt to gain official recognition and protection failed, it forced wizards to voluntarily move in the opposite direction—going underground and keeping secrets.

Thus was born the secrecy law.

This law effectively divided wizarding and Muggle societies, and over a long period of time, some consensus was formed. For example, the fact that the parents of young wizards from Muggle families are not in the scope of secrecy will undoubtedly ease the contradiction, especially compared to the harsh punishment laws of the Magical Congress of the United States.

As far as I know, the magical world and the non-magical government in the United States have always been in a state of hostility, and there is no cooperative relationship between the two. There is a dark and bloody game hidden in it. At that time, some people in power authorized attempts to crack the secrets of wizards, resulting in The result was a fierce confrontation and multiple relocations of the Magic Congress headquarters.

These need to be considered in advance…”