Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 130: Desire to Spread
"I have no other choice." Madam Maxime shook her head and said, "If I let her be captured by the Aurors, she will have a miserable fate as she has Veela blood. Who knows what those people will do nowadays."
Dumbledore was silent for a moment, then said solemnly.
"It looks like the French Ministry of Magic is preparing to align itself with the Dark Lord."
Madame Maxime was stunned.
She was stunned for four or five seconds before she came to her senses and kept shaking her head.
"Impossible! If they plan to do this, more than 60 percent of wizards will rebel! Those Muggle wizards will never be willing to be slaves, and they will kill anyone who has this idea at all costs!"
Dumbledore looked up at her.
"I don't want this to be the case, but all the signs from the French Ministry of Magic now show that they are indeed eliminating families that are friendly to Muggles and are not interested in the pure-blood theory. As you said, they have now reached the point of using any means necessary, even to the point of exterminating the Delacour family."
"And you. The real reason they kicked you out of Beauxbatons was not that you distorted the students' minds, but that you never openly supported pure-bloods. They thought you were disobedient, so they had to find a way to replace you."
Madame Maxime opened her mouth wide. Dumbledore's analysis made sense, but she was unwilling to believe that the French Ministry of Magic would do such a crazy thing.
What good does this do to those people?
Just to snatch the benefits that should belong to Muggle wizards?
France is different from Britain. The Muggle wizards here are more courageous, especially the old wizards who have lived from the last century to the present. The Ministry of Magic does not have an invincible wizard like Voldemort.
Aren't they afraid that once the bloodline class announces its implementation, those extremely angry Muggles will rush into the hall of the Ministry of Magic and devour all the creators of the system?
"Who is the highest-ranking pro-Muggle figure in the French Ministry of Magic now?" Dumbledore asked in a deep voice.
Madame Maxime said with a pale face: "The Chief Justice of Wizards - Adele Roland, she is a kind witch of mixed blood."
"Has her position recently shown any signs of insecurity?" Dumbledore asked.
Madame Maxime shook her head decisively.
"No, not only is her position stable, she has also been fighting against those people. Recently, I heard that she is investigating the charges against the Delacour family and trying to clear their name and overturn the case."
Dumbledore looked thoughtful.
"Roland... I have had several exchanges with her at the International Confederation of Wizards before. She is indeed fair and just. I will find a way to get in touch with her. I hope there is still a chance to stabilize the situation in France."
Just as Dumbledore finished speaking, a blue-headed tit suddenly flew in from the window. The bird did not make a sound when it flew in, but just stood quietly in front of the window looking at Madame Maxime.
After seeing the bird, Madame Maxime's body began to tremble.
"They found this!"
Jon never thought that her huge body could move so quickly. She rushed to the wall and picked up a suitcase that was half the size of Jon.
"Sorry! I have to leave France, Albus!" Madame Maxime said hastily, "If I continue to stay here, I can't imagine what they will do to me!"
She turned to look at the ghost girl who was at a loss and looking at her timidly.
"Gabriel, I'm in a very dangerous situation now. I can't take care of you anymore. You have to follow Professor Dumbledore. He will take you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where you can get the best protection and instruction. After leaving France, I will go find your father, mother, and sister, and I will ask them to pick you up from Hogwarts!"
The girl had tears in her eyes, and she seemed to be trying hard not to cry and cause more trouble to the situation.
"Dad, mom, sister, and you, ma'am, everything will be fine, right?"
"It will be fine." Madam Maxime's eyes were red. She hugged the girl named Gabrielle and said, "The future will be good. You have to live a good life. I will find a way to help you find the antidote for the Dead Soul Water and return you to your original appearance!"
Finally, she turned her head and looked at Dumbledore with a pleading look on her face.
"Please, Albus, I hid her body in the secret room of Beauxbatons. I am the only one who knows the room and no one can find it. Please help me take good care of her!"
Dumbledore nodded seriously.
"I will."
After getting his promise, Madame Maxime did not stay any longer. The blue-headed tit jumped onto her suitcase, and then she used Apparition to leave the cabin.
Dumbledore took John and Gabrielle, who was left behind by Madame Maxime, and left here using Apparition.
Dealing with a few Aurors was certainly not a problem for him, but this was the French wizarding world after all. Even if he concealed his identity, Dumbledore did not want to take action here.
He can now use Apparition to help Madame Maxime confuse the Aurors who are tracking her.
Sure enough, three or four minutes after Madame Maxime and Dumbledore left, the four-meter-high door was blown open from the outside with a spell!
Three or four Aurors in dark blue robes rushed in with their wands raised, but no one was seen inside.
Soon, professionals detected the landing points of the two apparitions from the Apparition traces here. They split into two groups without hesitation.
The team that was tracking the traces of Dumbledore's Apparition arrived at the landing point and wandered in the sky on their broomsticks for a long time, but they still couldn't find any signs of the presence of wizards, and finally they had to return empty-handed.
And just 10 minutes after they left, two ordinary stones on the roadside suddenly turned into human shapes.
Dumbledore and Jon dusted themselves off, and the ghost girl Gabrielle's hairpin was in Jon's pocket.
Dumbledore did not use Apparition again immediately, but instead took Jon along the path towards a Muggle town not far away.
"The Dark Lord must have made some kind of deal with the French Ministry of Magic," Dumbledore said in a deep voice. "After Horace joined his team, the first news he sent me was that he had not been focusing on Britain during this period, but was paying great attention to intelligence from the French wizarding world. That's why our actions in Hogwarts Castle were so smooth."
He looked deeply at the slowly turning windmill beside the wheat field in front of him.
"His desire is no longer limited to the UK. He wants to spread his influence and rule throughout Europe."
