Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 127 Bloodline Conflict
"I know you. You just graduated from Beauxbatons. Because of your excellent grades, you were even exempted from the assessment and directly recruited into the Ministry of Magic as a Muggle student. You have been in the limelight recently."
At the table next to Dumbledore and John, two tables of guests who had been eating peacefully suddenly started a conflict for some unknown reason. Their voices gradually became louder, and by this time had attracted the attention of most people in the tavern.
The person who said this was a well-dressed wizard wearing a dark purple robe. There was a sneer on his face, and his seemingly flattering words were actually sarcasm.
The object of his ridicule was a young wizard opposite. The wizard's face turned red and he snorted coldly.
"Hasn't the Ministry of Magic's selection rules always been like this? They recruit based on merit. Since they've decided that I've demonstrated sufficient ability, they'll of course give me priority. Why are you embarrassed? Because I've taken up your place?"
His words seemed to have touched the purple-robed wizard's pain, and his expression became obviously extremely ugly.
"You are indeed a fresh-faced young man who just graduated from school. What do you think will happen to you even if you enter the Ministry of Magic with your background? You will still be a handyman for the rest of your life!"
"Even if it's just odd jobs, it's better than some people who have a distinguished family background but don't even have the qualifications to go in, right?"
The young wizard had obviously grasped his sore spot and was determined to expose his scars. The purple-robed wizard's self-control was not very strong either, and he immediately drew out his wand in anger.
"You lowly bastard! This is only in France! If the Ministry of Magic adopts the British system, then a fool like you who is not even qualified to hold a wand will not even be worthy of shining my shoes!"
His words also deeply trampled on the young wizard's self-esteem. He angrily drew out his wand and confronted the purple-robed wizard!
Their companions also raised their wands and stood up with fierce expressions, and the atmosphere became tense for a while.
The pub fell completely silent, as if the two people were discussing some sensitive topic. Everyone shut their mouths and no one spoke.
Only the pub's waiter and the bar owner ran over nervously, half-forcing and half-appeasing the two groups to leave the pub, and even waived their meal fees.
After they left, the tavern gradually became noisy again, but the atmosphere was obviously different from before. Jon heard many wizards discussing topics related to bloodline in low and obscure voices.
Dumbledore's face became a little solemn. There were so many people here that he didn't talk much with John. Instead, after finishing dinner, he asked for a double room .
Night was certainly not a good time to visit, they needed to stay here for the night.
When they arrived at the guest room, Dumbledore shook his head and said.
“This is not a good phenomenon.”
"What about the conflict between those two people when we were having dinner just now?" Jon asked.
Dumbledore nodded. "Britain is very close to France, and wizards from the two countries have the most frequent exchanges. After the Dark Lord completely took over the British wizarding world, many Muggle-born wizards sensed the situation was not good and fled here."
Jon said thoughtfully.
"They brought the Dark Lord's policies here, allowing the pure-blood and half-blood wizards in France to see the benefits? And thereby exacerbated the bloodline conflicts here?"
"Not only that." Dumbledore added, "The British Muggle wizards who fled here will definitely squeeze out some of the resources and interests of the original French wizards, which will further intensify the bloodline conflict. What's more, the French wizarding world is more conservative and more resistant to contact with Muggle-related things."
"As for the Muggle wizards, the Muggles in France are more obsessed with equality, which makes them very disgusted with the current situation in Britain. We have received a lot of help from them. This has also made the conflict between bloodlines more and more acute. In the past two years, there have been more and more bloodline-related conflicts in the French magic world."
Voldemort's influence is spreading from Britain , and the first to be hit is France, which is closest to it.
Some people have always said that Voldemort's vision cannot compare to that of the first Dark Lord Grindelwald. After all, Grindelwald has set his sights on the future of the world's wizarding world from the very beginning, and his influence covers the whole of Europe, most of America, and nearly half of the wizarding governments.
In fact, Jon had always looked at this issue dialectically in his previous life.
The so-called pattern is just the different directions they chose to obtain power at the beginning.
Grindelwald studied magic at the Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the northernmost part of Europe, located in the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Even though he was expelled later, the wizards he initially came into contact with and the forces he gathered were basically from the Nordic magic world.
The magical government is different from the Muggle country, and is far from comparable in terms of influence and norms. The population base of wizards themselves is also much smaller than that of Muggles. Therefore, although the magical government in Northern Europe is also established based on the political power of Muggle countries, the gap between it and those powerful magical governments is still huge.
After being expelled from school, he traveled to many places, including meeting Dumbledore in England, stealing Gregorovitch's Elder Wand in Germany, returning to Northern Europe to organize the Witch Party (the official name of the Saints), and so on.
After traveling around Europe, Grindelwald established his base in a country away from several powerful magical regimes. With the Nurmengard Prison in Austria as the center, he began a guerrilla war against various European magical governments and even brought the war to North America.
In addition, his followers come from all over the world, many of whom are notorious dark wizards in their respective magic circles. In addition, his ultimate ideals and political goals completely undermine the interests of most wizards - wizards just want to be content with the status quo and do not want to violate the Statute of Secrecy and start a war with Muggles.
Grindelwald's influence then spread to the entire world. After all, magical governments around the world were aware of his threat to the Statute of Secrecy.
Let’s look at Voldemort. He studied at Hogwarts when he was young. While at school, he had already won over a large group of like-minded "friends" with his own methods and personal charm. Then after graduation, he stayed in the UK for a few years and then traveled around the world.
During this period, he also relied on his theories to win over a large group of "allies" and then returned to Britain.
But from here on, the way Voldemort and Grindelwald obtained power differed.
Grindelwald wanted to occupy a small magic regime, then use it to strengthen himself, then slowly erode the powerful magic regime to unify the entire global magic world, and finally achieve his ultimate goal.
Voldemort chose to start directly with the toughest bone to chew in the British wizarding world. At that time, he had split his soul at least five times and had become somewhat arrogant in his thinking.
