Hogwarts: From Little Wizard to White Lord

What kind of hatred or grudge is this that makes it so big?

Vaughn didn't care about the dire situation Fred and George were about to face. In fact, he wasn't hiding from the twins on purpose to teach them a lesson. He just had something urgent to do.

On the evening of April Fool's Day, he received a letter.

From the Rosier family of England.

Unfortunately, it brings bad news!

"...I'm sorry, dear Mr. Weasley. Although I really want to help rescue your friend, a Rosier, the embarrassing thing is that because of an incident decades ago, the Rosier family has long lost its power in the North American wizarding world."

"A distant relative of the family, Wenda Rosier, who hails from the main French Rosier line, was once the deputy of the infamous Gattler Grindelwald... I don't intend to shirk responsibility, but it is clear that after Grindelwald's defeat and imprisonment in Nurmengard by Dumbledore, all of Grindelwald's followers were investigated and liquidated."

"Unfortunately, Wenda Rosier has received widespread attention due to his position in Grindelwald's gang, especially from MACUSA. Grindelwald brought disrepute to them—he once transformed himself into Percival Graves and infiltrated MACUSA, using the poor Auror Commander's face and name to stir up trouble in North America."

"You can imagine how humiliated and enraged MACUSA was when the truth came to light. They certainly wanted to take revenge on Grindelwald, but Dumbledore refused their request to execute him... Those Yankees didn't dare to offend Dumbledore, so they could only vent their anger on others."

"I've read Isabella's letter you sent me. I can bet my pureblood reputation that the trouble Isabella is facing is definitely caused by the Graves family. Those petty-minded fools regard Percival Graves's experience as an unwashable shame. Since they can't take revenge on Grindelwald, they are targeting the Rosier family everywhere."

"Poor Isabella! Her background is so remote. Perhaps no one ever told her that members of the Rosier family should never go to North America. This is a lesson learned in blood... Please forgive my inability to help..."

Vaughn had previously imagined that the Rozier family might not bother with such an insignificant branch.

He had thought that the other party would find an excuse to refuse.

But I didn't expect to receive such a letter that was full of secrets and seemed reasonable.

"Graves... Wenda Rosier..."

Crouch's mansion is located in the Muggle community. Vaughan silently recited these somewhat familiar names, his consciousness constantly flipping through the archives of memory.

Thanks to the organization of his own memories after learning memory magic, he soon found some fragmentary memories of his previous life.

These are some detailed impressions of the Harry Potter extension, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Crack!

The sudden green fire in the fireplace woke Vaughn from his thoughts.

Crouch is back. This high-ranking official of the Ministry of Magic, who always shows a serious face, probably only suddenly breaks down and twitches the corners of his mouth when he sees Vaughn.

He emerged from the fireplace, dusting himself off as he said dryly, "A few days ago you told me you had to prepare for the exam and didn't have time to treat little Barty. How come you have time to come today?"

Vaughn seemed not to notice his sarcasm and handed the letter over. "I need your help with something urgent."

"Ah!"

As expected!

Crouch forced a smile but didn't refuse. He took the letter, read it carefully, and nodded. "Old Rosier didn't lie to you. What he said is basically true."

"Do you also think that the trouble Isabella encountered was caused by the Graves family?"

"It's very likely." Crouch flipped through the letter from Isabella that was sent back with the package and said, "At least from what Isabella said, the trouble she encountered on Halloween was probably a conflict with the Graves family."

"You probably don't know this, but the Rosier family is actually a very large one. Originally, it was only found in France, but later it gradually spread to England and North America. Yes, there used to be branches of the Rosier family in North America, and they developed there from England."

"However, those branches are now extinct. When I was a young man, the Rosier branch in North America had already died out due to various reasons, such as the Muggle government, dark wizards, natural disasters, man-made disasters, and other 'accidents'."

"Old Rozier might be a bit mediocre and incompetent, but his assessment of the Graves family isn't wrong. That family is indeed rather petty."

Vaughn was not interested in the feud between the two families; he just felt it was a difficult situation.

If Isabella was caught in the crossfire due to official reasons, such as internal conflicts in North America, then it would not be too difficult to rescue her.

Barty Crouch is in charge of international communication affairs. With his status, as long as he helps contact North America and says hello, he can basically get Isabella back.

But the problem now is that the trouble she encountered and the fact that she was wanted were probably not crimes officially determined by the Magic Congress, but more likely stemmed from the hostility and manipulation of a native North American family.

As a result, the hope of rescuing people through official channels was shattered - no matter how closed the Magic Congress was, it still had to consider international public opinion. Anything could be discussed, but a family did not have so many concerns.

Crouch shared the same view. He handed the letter back to Vaughn, "There's nothing I can do. The most I can do is contact the Magic Congress for you and put you in touch with the Graves family... Although I'm not optimistic. To be honest, the so-called pure-blood families in North America are even more stubborn and paranoid than those in England."

"Imagine..."

Vaughn pinched his brows. When he read Isabella's letter before, he could see that the main conflict in the current turmoil in North America was actually the conflict between pure-blood wizards and half-blood and Muggle wizards.

North America has been vigorously promoting the International Statute of Secrecy, certainly not because they are highly conscious and actively respond to the instructions of the International Confederation of Wizards.

Rather, it was because the pure-blood families in power in North America wanted to maintain their own family interests and tried to use the Statute of Secrecy to completely separate wizards from No-Maj.

In a society, as long as there is no influx of fresh blood to promote class mobility, the classes will become solidified, and only old families can avoid the fate of having their interests diluted.

Chapter 99: Ilvermorny's invitation, test and training

It seemed that Vaughn understood.

Crouch began talking to Vaughan about North America.

He said, "I've also been paying attention to North American issues in recent years... Don't look at me like that. After all, I'm the Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation. This is my job."

"The North American No-Maj government is indeed trying to crack the power of wizards, but countries around the world know that they actually started in the 2s and 30s. Decades have passed, and there has been basically no progress. No-Maj..."

Crouch paused. "I'm still used to talking about Muggles... Muggles without magical powers simply can't understand the power of wizards. Their so-called science does have its merits. I've studied it in detail. Yes, the power of nuclear weapons is astonishing, but that's all."

When it comes to the most terrifying technological achievement of Muggles, the nuclear bomb, Crouch has neither the ignorant contempt of ordinary wizards nor the fear of Muggles.

Instead, they spoke in a rather distant manner, as if they were just chatting about a new large toy.

Vaughan knew that this alienated attitude was precisely the true attitude of the knowledgeable people in the wizarding world towards Muggles and Muggle creations.

All because, Muggles can't do magic!

The longer he was exposed to magic and the deeper he went on the path of magic, the more Vaughan understood how vulnerable Muggles were when facing wizards.

One fact that must be acknowledged is that the technology used by Muggles in weapons is indeed incomparable to that of wizards in terms of pure destructive power.

However, the problem is that since the elimination of ancient magic, the modern spell system developed by wizards has abandoned the concept of power supremacy and turned to diversified development.

Let’s use some of the most common spells in the wizarding world as examples.

First, the Oblivion Charm and the False Memory Charm!

This pair of spells combined allows a wizard to modify the memories of others at will, especially the Memory Charm, the effect of which is almost permanent.

Even for wizards, the only means to deal with these two spells are brain occlumency and counter-spells. Among them, the Oblivion Spell is not very effective in counter-spells because it clears the memory too thoroughly.

And what about the Muggles?

In the eyes of wizards who have mastered memory magic, their skulls are almost equivalent to public toilets, which can be entered at will without any defense.

As far as Vaughan knows.

Among the magical incidents handled by the Ministry of Magic every year, at least hundreds of them are caused by wizards using memory magic on Muggles - the Oblivion Charm is regulated by the Ministry of Magic, but the Dream Charm and the Nightmare Charm are not prohibited.

Even the strictly restricted use of the forgetfulness spell has actually been rampant for a long time.

Under the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes of the Ministry of Magic, there is an organization called "Memory Deletion Command", which is the office location of the memory deletion officers.

Since the implementation of the International Statute of Secrecy, after hundreds of years of evolution, the once inconspicuous memory cancellation officers have expanded year by year in modern times when Muggles witness magical accidents frequently.

Today, the Memory Deletion Command has become one of the institutions with the largest number of staff in the Ministry of Magic, second only to the Auror Office. In peacetime, the role of Aurors has been greatly reduced, while handling magical incidents and maintaining the Statute of Secrecy have become the focus of the Ministry of Magic.

Of course, another important reason is that the current Minister of Magic, Mr. Cornelius Fudge, comes from the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, and this department is considered to be his direct line.

The job of a memory eraser, as the name suggests, is to erase the memory of Muggles who accidentally witnessed or experienced magical events, so that they forget everything they saw and experienced.

This method has become the Ministry of Magic's main means of dealing with magical accidents in recent years. Even though wizards all know that the Oblivion Charm is a spell that can easily get out of control, facing the unguarded minds of Muggles, it is difficult for wizards not to choose this simplest method.

In addition to memory magic, there are also spells involving the soul, such as the Confusion Curse, the Muggle-Repelling Curse, and the Imperius Curse.

These magics are defenseless against Muggles.

Especially the Confusion Spell.

"In my past life, in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Gattler Grindelwald used the predicted nuclear explosion to hype up the Muggle threat theory, but that was just his method."

'Why has the wizarding world continued to live its life at a leisurely pace, without any sense of urgency about being destroyed by Muggles, all these years after the invention of nuclear weapons? Because after the invention of nuclear weapons, wizards realized that it was just another tool made by Muggles.'

"In the eyes of Muggles, all tools are inanimate objects, but wizards are different. In the eyes of wizards, everything has aura, so some spells are not limited to intelligent life or inanimate objects, such as the Confusion Charm!"

Vaughn's thoughts were somewhat scattered.

The Confusion Charm can not only confuse and manipulate a person, but also confuse and manipulate an object. In the "future", Barty Crouch Jr.'s Confusion Charm confused the Goblet of Fire and sent Harry into the Triwizard Tournament.

A Muggle nuclear weapon is certainly terrifying, but as a tool, it can be affected by the Confusion Charm like any other tool.

Imagine a wizard, maintaining a Muggle-Repelling Charm, walking into a Muggle nuclear weapons base as if on a picnic and casting a Confounding Charm on a nuclear bomb.

With just one spell, control of the Muggle's most powerful weapon was taken away...

Crouch had no idea what Vaughan was thinking. His expression was grave. "So, the wizards' retreat and the advancement of the Statute of Secrecy were never due to fear of Muggles, but were caused by a combination of factors."

He did not elaborate on what the so-called "multiple reasons" were. It has been exactly 300 years since the birth of the Statute of Secrecy (the International Statute of Secrecy was enacted in 1692), and everything that happened in the past is now a distant past.

However, if this scope is limited to pure-blood families, then the mentality of the pure-blood families in cooperating with the implementation of the "Statute of Secrecy" is still easy to summarize - compared to enslaving Muggles who are "useless" and "have no magic power", it is obviously most in line with their ideals to sever the connection between Muggle society and the magical world and let magic belong to pure-bloods forever.

This is probably the unanimous opinion of pure-blood families around the world, otherwise the Statute of Secrecy would not have appeared 300 years ago.

The same is true of the North American wizarding world, which evolved from England and copied almost all of its systems.

"So the essence of the current North American conflict is still that the pure-blood families are exploiting the Statute of Secrecy in an attempt to restore the purity of magic."

Crouch said, "Most of the threats and persecutions against wizards by the Muggle government are self-produced. I dare say that the pure-blood families in North America are probably the masterminds behind the tragic examples mentioned in Isabella's letter."

"On the one hand, they promote the Muggle threat theory and strictly enforce the Statute of Secrecy. On the other hand, they sell intelligence about Muggle-born wizards to the Muggle government, creating persecution and intensifying conflicts among themselves."

"……Probably."

Vaughn nodded. As a man of mature thinking, he was not afraid to speculate on anything involving politics with the greatest malice.

However, what Vaughn didn't understand was why Crouch said this to him?

Soon, he got the answer.

"The reason I'm telling you this is because I want to tell you that you don't need to try to get Isabella back through the pure-blood families or Dumbledore and I. She's caught up in this huge vortex now, and none of us who are on the outside have any good solutions."

"Even the Watchers organization she's joined now, I'm afraid they're not clean either. These organizations that issue death threats to pure-blood families as soon as the conflict becomes public are either stupid or evil. They might even be tools used by some radical families to 'persuade' other pure-bloods."

"Plus, there's a conflict between her last name and the Graves family. If we intervene rashly, it could very well backfire."

Hearing this, Vaughn was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.

He just hadn't thought about it before, but when Crouch mentioned it vaguely, he immediately realized it.

It is difficult for humans to unify their goals and ideas. Perhaps all pure-bloods in the world want to drive out half-blood and Muggle-born wizards, but differences are inevitable in specific actions.