In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 127: Bloodline Contradictions

"I know you, a Muggle student who just graduated from Beauxbatons and was directly recruited by the Ministry of Magic because of your excellent grades, and they even exempted you from the assessment, you've been in the limelight recently."

At the table next to Dumbledore and Jon, the two guests who had been eating together in peace did not know what had started the conflict, their voices gradually became louder, and at this moment, they had already attracted the attention of most people in the tavern.

The one who said this is a well-dressed male wizard wearing a dark purple robe, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, as if the seemingly complimentary words are in fact ridicule.

The target of his ridicule is a young male wizard on the opposite side of the table, whose face turned red and he also gave a cold snort.

"Isn't that how the Ministry of Magic's recruitment policy has always been? Since they have decided that I have shown sufficient ability, of course, they will hire me on a priority basis, why are you being so difficult? Because I took up your spot?"

It was as if his words had poked the purple-robed male wizard in the sore spot, and his face visibly became unbearably ugly.

"You're just a young man who recently graduated from school, what do you think you can possibly achieve with your background even if you enter the Ministry of Magic now? It's nothing more than a lifetime of menial duties!"

"Even if it's a menial role, it's still better than some people who even though come from a distinguished background, don't even have the qualifications to enter, right?"

The young male wizard obviously caught his sore point, and simply exposed his scars; the purple-robed male wizard's mental state was not very good, and he immediately pulled out his wand in a rage.

"Lowly bastard! You can talk to me only because it's France! Because most people are confused right now! If only our Ministry of Magic adopted the British system, you wouldn't even have the right to hold a wand, nor would you be worthy of polishing my shoes!"

His words trampled the young wizard's pride, and he also pulled out his wand in anger and confronted the purple-robed wizard!

Their companions also raised their wands together and stood up with fierce expressions, and the atmosphere became tense.

The tavern became completely quiet, as if these two people engaging in some kind of sensitive topic, everyone shut their mouths, and no one made a sound.

Only the tavern's waiter and barman trotted over nervously, half forcing and half pacifying tried to persuade the two groups to leave the tavern, even the meal cost was waived.

After they left, the tavern gradually regained its hustle and bustle, but the atmosphere seemed to be a little different from what it was before, and quite a number of wizards were whispering and vaguely discussing topics related to the bloodline.

Dumbledore's face became somewhat heavy, he did not talk much with Jon because of the crowd here, but after finishing the meal, he asked for a double room on the second floor of the tavern.

Of course, the night is not a suitable time to travel around, so they need to stay here overnight.

When they arrived at the guest room, Dumbledore shook his head and said.

"This is not a good sign."

"The confrontation between the two men while we were eating earlier?" Jon asked.

Dumbledore nodded: "Britain is very close to France, the two countries also have the most frequent exchange between wizards, and after the Dark Lord completely ruled the British magical community, a lot of muggle-born wizards fled here at the beginning in advance sensing something bad going to happen."

Jon mused.

"They talked about the dark lord's governing policies here after arriving in France, so that the French purebloods, as well as the half-bloods wizards, saw the benefits? Thus intensifying the bloodline conflict here as well?"

"Not only that." Dumbledore added, "The British Muggle wizards who fled here must have also squeezed some of the resources and interests of the original French wizards, which further intensified the bloodline conflict. In addition, the French magical community is more traditional in thinking and more resistant to come into contact with muggle-related matters."

"And on the Muggle wizards' side, as the Muggles in France are more obsessed with the matter of equality, this has also led to these Muggle wizards being very disgusted with the current situation in Britain, and we have received a lot of their support. This has also made the confrontation between the bloodlines more and more intense, and there have been more clashes within the French magic community involving the bloodlines in the past two years."

Voldemort's influence seems to be spreading outward from Britain, and the first to bear the brunt is the closest France.

It has always been argued that Voldemort's grasp of the world and layout are not comparable to that of Grindelwald, after all, Grindelwald has set his sights on the future of the world's magical community from the very beginning, and his own influence has covered the whole of Europe and half of America, nearly more than half of world's magical government.

Jon has actually debated about this in his previous life.

The so-called layout is just a different direction in which they chose to acquire power in the beginning.

Grindelwald learned magic in the northernmost part of Europe, a school of magic established in the Scandinavian Peninsula, Durmstrang Institute.

Even if he was expelled later, the wizards he initially came into contact with and the forces that he gathered were essentially from the Nordic magical community.

The magical government is different from the muggle countries, whether in terms of influence or in terms of regulations, they are far from being comparable, and the population base of wizards themselves is far smaller than that of muggles, so even though the magical government in the Nordic side has also been established by relying on the regime of the muggle countries in the past, there is an enormous gap compared to those powerful magical governments due to the low number of wizards.

After being expelled from school, he went to a lot of places, including meeting Dumbledore in Britain, stealing Gregorovitch's Elder Wand in Germany, returning to Northern Europe to organize the Acolytes Protection Agency (the official name of the Acolytes) and so on.

After travelling around Europe, Grindelwald established his foothold in countries that were isolated from major magical regimes - centring on the Nurmengard Castle in Austria - and began a guerrilla war against various magical governments in Europe, even bringing the war to North America at one point.

Add to that the fact that he had followers under him from all over the world, and many of them were notorious dark wizards in their respective magical communities. As well as his ultimate ideals and political goals were completely detrimental to the vast majority of wizards - wizards who just wanted to live comfortably and didn't want to break the Statute of Secrecy and start a war with muggles.

And so Grindelwald's influence spread throughout the world; after that, magical governments all over the world perceived his threat to the Statute of Secrecy.

While Voldemort, who attended Hogwarts when he was young, had already enlisted a large group of like-minded "friends" with his own methods and charisma during his school years, and then stayed in Britain for a few years after graduation, before travelling around the world as well.

During this time he also relied on his own philosophy to attract a large group of "allies", and then returned to the United Kingdom.

But from this point on, the way of acquiring power between Voldemort and Grindelwald differed.

Grindelwald wanted to occupy a small magical regime, then grow stronger, gradually erode the more powerful magical regime to unify the entire global magical community, and finally complete his ultimate goal.

While Voldemort was directly selected to begin with the most difficult bone to chew, the British magical community, at that time he at least split his soul five times, so his mindset has become somewhat arrogant and self-centred.

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