The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

Because this magical world is real, not a fairy tale.

The more he saw and understood, the more Li Weide was influenced.

The darkness hidden in the magical world is so creepy...

This made Li Weide's character more and more cautious... God knows what methods others use to harm others that he is not aware of?

But Li Weide himself is not a cold-blooded person, so the struggle between rationality and subjective consciousness has led to Li Weide's behavior being full of contradictions...

For example, he didn't trust Miravia and could have released her without taking the risk, but he did it anyway.

However, after doing so, they set up many defensive measures around them... It seemed that they distrusted the other party to the extreme.

For a moment, I didn't know what he was thinking, it was very contradictory.

Dumbledore had been watching Levitra's actions all along, and naturally saw the contradiction in his heart.

Therefore, the main purpose of today's conversation is to untie Li Weide's knot and make him less conflicted in the future...

"Actually, you don't need to think too much, Wade... Miravia insisted that you give her a name because you were the one who freed her. In other words, you were the one who gave her a second life. That's why she asked you to give her a name... This may not mean much to you, but for Miravia, it is a very memorable thing... Everyone present today understands this, but you are the only one who hasn't figured it out..." Dumbledore explained.

Li Weide blinked, and he suddenly understood why Slytherin mocked him for being confused.

"I'm sorry... Professor, I... I've actually been adjusting recently. In fact, the more I understand this world, the more insecure I feel..." Li Weide also opened his heart a little.

"That's why you need friends... Wade!" Dumbledore, who was sitting opposite him, leaned forward slightly and said sincerely, "I don't know what happened in the past that made you feel so alone, but in fact, you already have many trustworthy friends around you..."

"Even the most trustworthy friends may stab you in the back..." Li Weide murmured.

"I won't deny that some people might eventually give up their bottom line, but you can't deny that most friends wouldn't do that, right? Are you going to give up all worthwhile friends just to guard against a potential bad friend? I remember your ancient Eastern countries have an idiom... something like 'to stop eating because of choking'... I think it makes a lot of sense. We can't just stop eating because we're afraid of choking, right?"

Li Weide silently picked up the drink and took a sip without saying anything else.

Dumbledore didn't say anything more, because he knew that Levitra was a smart kid and would figure this out sooner or later. He just needed some guidance, and he had already done the guidance work. Next, it all depended on Levitra's own thinking...

"Aha! You reckless idiot! Don't even think about getting past my Master Jack and interrupting the great conversation between the great Master Wade and Professor Dumbledore!"

"shut up!"

The office door opened and Grindelwald strode in.

Chapter 375 Li Weide: Always Question

"You'd better come up with a suitable reason." Dumbledore's face turned cold and he stared at Grindelwald who suddenly broke in.

In order to prevent this outstanding student, Li Weide, from going astray in the future, he is working hard to guide him...

I didn't expect to be interrupted by this bastard rushing in!

So, he'd better have a good reason, otherwise...

Dumbledore calmly took out the Elder Wand and placed it on the table...

Grindelwald ignored Dumbledore's murderous gaze and looked at Levid. "Very good, you are here too. That saves me the trouble of looking for you..."

"Mr. Director, what do you want to talk to me about?" Li Weide stood up and asked politely on the surface.

"I have found out some things about the group that attacked you." Grindelwald pulled over a chair and sat down, not at all shy.

"That's strange. You've been searching for more than a month and found nothing, but now you suddenly find it?" Dumbledore asked in a deep voice.

"Because these guys deliberately revealed it to me." Grindelwald said.

It turned out that for more than a month, Grindelwald saw that he could not find anything, so he started to torment those pure-blood families...

Since we don't know which company it is, let's try them all! There must be someone involved here anyway!

It definitely wouldn't be much different, because only pure-blood families that could have family members serving in high positions in the Ministry of Magic would be qualified to participate in planning such an attack.

Only these guys would dare to deliberately manipulate public opinion and try to put the blame on Grindelwald! No one else would have that guts!

So, for more than a month, all the pure-blood officials or employees working in the Ministry of Magic have been indiscriminately "bullied" by Grindelwald...

Ever since he had the Ministry of Magic issue a new recruitment law, many witches and wizards had been admitted to the Ministry of Magic, and then, with their outstanding abilities and money, they gradually rose to high positions...

So, after Grindelwald's order was issued, the pure-blood families in the Ministry of Magic were now being harassed and made to suffer. And even high-ranking officials like the Minister of Welfare were being harassed by Grindelwald himself...

Finally, after more than a month of tossing and turning, Grindelwald began to receive some letters of denunciation...

When these pure-blood families united, they must have first contacted many capable families.

Therefore, there must be some families that received invitations but ultimately did not participate...

These families may not understand the deeper things, but they definitely know some surface information.

So, after being tormented like this, these people definitely can't stand it.

Those guys joined forces to cause trouble, and those of them who were not involved were innocently implicated. How could they possibly endure it?

Although they may not be able to reveal the specific family name due to the magical confidentiality contract, they can still hint at some of the family's names.

Of course, Grindelwald would not easily believe the contents of these letters, so...

He deliberately announced that he had received the report, and also said that when he was clearing up the accounts later, he would let the reporting families go free...

In fact, Grindelwald's words would hardly deceive these shrewd pure-blood families, but...

No one dares to take the risk! What if I don’t report it, but someone else does?

It would be fine if they got what they got from Li Weide, but the problem is that they got nothing, it was all in vain!

Grindelwald's conspiracy was an open one, taking advantage of human nature.

So, Grindelwald received another wave of anonymous letters of complaint!

Even some pure-blood families who had nothing to do with this matter, in order to escape the dilemma of being harassed all day long, wrote down their suspected targets in letters of accusation and sent them anonymously to Grindelwald...

Grindelwald actually found some clues among these massive letters of complaint!

He has probably locked onto ten pure-blood families, but of course, he is not sure which ones they are yet.

But most importantly, Grindelwald determined who the group of desperadoes who attacked the Hogwarts Express were.

Those families can be investigated slowly, but Grindelwald will never let these confirmed desperadoes go!

"So, who attacked us?" Li Weide asked.

"The people who attacked you were the Purgers," Grindelwald said in a deep voice.

"The Scourers? Weren't they wiped out long ago?" Dumbledore frowned.

"Yes... at least that's what it appears to be. It seems they haven't been completely wiped out. At least a small portion has been hiding. After years of recuperation, they've regained some capabilities..."

Li Weide asked: "What is the Purger?"

"They're a notorious group..." Grindelwald explained. "They were born in America... and their members come from all over the world..."

"They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries," Dumbledore continued. "At that time, the Magical Congress of the United States of America had not yet been established, so they exploited loopholes in the law enforcement mechanism. Regardless of whether they were criminals or not, as long as they could exchange them for a bounty, they would choose to hunt them down... Over time, these people became increasingly corrupt and brutal. Eventually, they began trafficking wizards, even capturing innocent Muggles and passing them off as wizards to the Puritans who hunted witches in exchange for rewards."

"During the famous Salem witch trials, at least two of the so-called Puritans who tried witches were Scourers... After this infamous trial, the Magical Congress of the United States of America was established and issued an international manhunt. They began to capture and try these outlaws who had betrayed their kind. However... the capture work did not go smoothly, and the Aurors had a hard time finding these hidden Scourers."

"Later, by chance, we caught some of the escaped Purgers, and eventually learned a lot of intelligence about them from them..."

"It turns out they formed a family with Muggles... and then disappeared into the Muggle population. There were so many Muggles that no one could find them without exposing their magic."

"Moreover, if they marry Muggles and their children have magical talents, they will be abandoned directly...because only in this way can they continue to hide and not be discovered."

"Before they disbanded, they discussed together and decided to pass on their beliefs to their descendants: magic is real, and wizards should be eliminated once they are discovered!"

"Although the Aurors knew the information about the Scourers, they had already hidden themselves among the Muggles. So, even if they knew how they hid, the Aurors were still helpless..."

Grindelwald said, "That's right... Although these guys were ostensibly wiped out, their descendants inherited their will and caused quite a bit of trouble... In the United States, Muggles and wizards can't marry because there was once a descendant of the Scourers who, after meeting a witch named Dorcas Twelvetrees, extracted a lot of information about the magical world from her and made it public, seriously violating the International Statute of Secrecy... That's why the Magical Congress of the United States of America banned marriage between wizards and Muggles..."

Li Weide grasped the crux of the matter. "So, how could these Scourers suddenly reappear? Since all their descendants with magical talents have been abandoned, shouldn't the Scourers be completely lost in the long river of history? Even if there are still some hiding, it would be difficult for them to cause any trouble... However, I remember that the wizards who attacked the Hogwarts Express were not mediocre wizards who knew nothing."

"People are always different, Vader. Most of the Scourers fled. But that doesn't mean all of them are willing to give up... There are always some who refuse to give up what for them was a wonderful life..." Grindelwald said. "Some Scourers didn't abandon their magical offspring, but they also instilled their beliefs in them... So, although they knew magic, they were taught to hate everything about it. These people have reunited... It's a bit like what the Muggle world calls a sociopath. A group of sociopaths come together and form an antisocial organization..."

"How do you know all this?" Levid asked. "And this is also completely illogical... I was facing hundreds of them! How could the Scourers, with their sheer size, have remained hidden until now? And why could you only capture one, and not all of them? Could it be that they were deliberately released for you to capture, and then used the Scourers' name to let them off the hook? Furthermore, with the Scourers' hatred of the wizarding world, how could they possibly ally with the pure-blood families? Furthermore, if they were already so powerful, they wouldn't have waited until now to reappear!" Levid felt that there were still too many strange things about this matter. He didn't believe Grindelwald hadn't noticed these loopholes.

Grindelwald snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, so I didn't believe what was said in those reports at first. However, since so many of them mentioned the Scourers, I set a trap myself without telling anyone... and then successfully captured a Scourer... Although he wasn't a core member, I still learned a lot from his mind."

"Then your trap is quite sophisticated... You happened to capture only an unimportant member, and based on his intelligence, you were unable to capture more people... Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Li Weide still had doubts.

There is still a very high possibility that this so-called captured Purger was deliberately captured by Grindelwald after the pure-blood families had their memories modified.

Having been tortured by Grindelwald for over a month, if Levitra were from a pure-blood family, he would have done the same...

All it takes is sacrificing one attacker and then deliberately stepping into Grindelwald's trap.

"Do you think I can't tell whether a person's memory has been modified?" Grindelwald said.

Dumbledore frowned and said, "You mean, his memories are all true? There's not a trace of modification?"

"But there is still a possibility that your memory has been modified without you being able to tell..." Li Weide said.

The wizarding world isn't big, but it's not small either. Even someone as powerful as Grindelwald can't possibly understand all the magic...

How do you know that there is no way to modify memory without leaving any trace in the inheritance of those pure-blood families?

Grindelwald frowned and changed his sitting position.

Even Grindelwald was speechless after hearing Levid's series of questions...

Chapter 376: I've done great things for the society! I've shed blood for the organization! You can't send me to Azkaban!

Dumbledore nodded, approving of Levid's caution.

He still advised Li Weide to trust his friends more, but he would not let him get rid of the habit of questioning at all times when facing unfamiliar things.

Although the probability of Li Weide's questioning is very low now, it is not impossible.

Besides, the Purger's affairs seemed to have too many loopholes and were too bizarre...

Even if it was really as Levid expected, and this was a scapegoat created by the purebloods, then the plan they set up was too confusing... and it was full of loopholes.

Dumbledore believed that forces capable of launching an attack of this scale would definitely have a way to make things more perfect.

So, why are they so confused?

"Even if your suspicions are valid, now that I've found this clue, there's no reason not to pursue it further," Grindelwald responded to Levid's question. "After all, there aren't any other obvious leads at this point."

"But if you do this... you might end up on the path that some people want you to take..." Li Weide said solemnly.

"That's certainly possible..." Grindelwald didn't deny it this time. "But even if a goose leaves traces, it leaves traces. If there really was a group of people behind this, they couldn't have left no trace at all."

"Well... there's really no other way now..." Li Weide pondered, "Can I meet the Purger you captured?"

"Yes... but I've already thrown him into Azkaban. If you want to see him, you'll have to go there..." Grindelwald said. "I also hope you can find any traces of his memory being altered, or get more information from him..."

Grindelwald paused, then continued, "Especially the information about the Scourers. If they really exist... even if this incident has nothing to do with them, we'd better arrest them and bring them to justice... These people hate wizards, but they themselves happen to be powerful wizards. If they are not eliminated, I am worried that many innocent wizards will be harmed... Or, in other words, many wizards have died at their hands over the years, but we just haven't discovered it..."

Grindelwald is serious about this issue. Of course, this does not prove that he is a good man who wants to protect innocent wizards. It is because the number of wizards is originally small. For an ambitious man like Grindelwald, every wizard may be his most solid supporter in the future!

If the Scourers were dealing with Muggles instead of wizards, he wouldn't bother with this mess.

Dumbledore frowned when he heard that he was going to Azkaban.

Azkaban, the most terrifying thing about that place is the huge group of Dementors...

Anyone in Azkaban will have all their positive emotions sucked away by these monsters... Being around these things is like temporarily suffering from severe depression...

The negative emotions generated in that place are too strong, and most people can't stay there for long... So, he doesn't want his students to go to that kind of place.

However, when Levid heard about Azkaban, his expression changed from calm to obviously excited.

Even his breathing became heavy, and after a long time, he was able to calm his breathing down.

The influence of the "residues" is still there. Before they are completely purified by the broken jade, these "residues" are constantly tempting Li Weide...

Before he completely suppressed these impulses, he didn't know what he would do if he really went to Azkaban.

Therefore, Levid, who had originally planned to go to Azkaban immediately, finally managed to suppress his impulse and decided to wait a few days.

Grindelwald seemed to have noticed something was wrong with Levitra, but he still thought Levitra was just acting in front of Dumbledore, pretending that he was not interested in Azkaban...

In fact, Grindelwald didn't believe that Levid would be afraid of a place like Azkaban...

You know, Levitra is the ruthless guy who asked me to catch Dementors for him as a Christmas gift!

"When you're ready, come find me. I'll take you to Azkaban..." Grindelwald said, then turned to Dumbledore, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I won't let anything happen to Wade. If you're really worried, you can come with us."

Dumbledore nodded. "Wade, if it's really inconvenient for you to go, that's fine. I can go and take a look for you. Then, place the memory in the Pensieve."

Dumbledore had long known the characteristics of the "residues", so he naturally knew that Levid's condition was not suitable for going to Azkaban now.