Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 201: Wizard Equality Front
Something similar to what Lupin and Tonks were doing was happening all over France at this moment.
Even though Voldemort has completely taken control of the upper-level wizards, his control over the country is not absolute.
Just as some people obey out of fear, there are certainly others who resist out of dissatisfaction.
These people who rebelled are exactly the ones that Dumbledore and his men want to unite now. The person with the highest status and the most famous among them is naturally Javier Iniesta, a student of Nick Flamel.
To be precise, Nico Flamel never accepted any disciples or successors during his lifetime. He only taught at Beauxbatons for a period of time as a professor of alchemy a few decades ago, and when he left, he donated all his salary from those years to help Beauxbatons build a fountain park in the manor.
It was during this period that all the French wizards who had taken classes with Nico Flamel could call themselves his students, but Javier was indeed the most talented, the one favored by the alchemist, and the one with the highest achievements.
Before Voldemort ruled the whole of Britain, Dumbledore had met this gentle wizard at Nick Flamel's house, so he knew very well that he was not someone who was seeking fame and fortune by using Nick Flamel's name.
And before that, Javier had been serving as a professor of Charms and part-time vice-president at Beauxbatons.
It was just that at the beginning of this year, before Voldemort officially appeared in the French wizarding world, Madame Maxime was driven away, and a wizard who was not well-known in the French wizarding world was parachuted into the school as the principal. Then, Javier was inexplicably accused of privately researching black magic and using students for human experiments, and was wanted.
For nearly half a year, he had been hiding in exile in various places in France, and at the same time he had been keeping track of the political changes in the Ministry of Magic. The dramatic changes within Beauxbatons had made him alert.
Sure enough, on the night of the temporary parliament meeting, he reacted immediately after Voldemort publicly announced that he had been elected Minister of Magic of France.
As quickly as possible, he went to the homes of several of his former Muggle-born wizard friends and students, gathered them together, and began to hide from the Aurors behind him.
For example, Tony and his seven companions who openly attacked the Ministry of Magic at the beginning were originally people they had contacted, but these people reacted more violently and behaved much more radically. They wanted to use the action of blowing up the Ministry of Magic to make more French hemp-blooded wizards resist.
However, the destroyed Ministry of Magic was restored to its original state by Voldemort overnight, and the news of their actions was blocked. Few wizards knew what kind of feats these seven people had performed.
After a small-scale resistance and the gathering of a number of Muggle-born wizards, Dumbledore sent someone to contact them.
At the beginning, there was actually some controversy among them about whether or not to unite with Dumbledore and others.
It was not only under Voldemort's rule that wizards of bloodline would resist the entry of British wizards into France, but the Muggle wizards were the same.
But in the end, Javier overcame all opposition and decided to meet with Dumbledore to facilitate a union between the two parties.
There were actually three parties who met together in the end, and one of them was said to be the new principal of Durmstrang School in recent years, an elderly wizard named Gellert Bagshot.
Dumbledore led the remaining Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix, Javier led the French anti-wizard remnants, and Gettler led some of the remaining and newly recruited members of the "Witch Party" (the official name of the Saints) in Northern Europe to meet in Lyon, the second largest city in France.
Their demands are absolutely unified, that is, to defeat Voldemort, liberate all enslaved Muggle-born wizards, abolish any bloodline titles, and ensure that all wizards, regardless of their origins, have equal rights.
So that night, Wizards equal front was established.
Dumbledore and Javier joined forces in France to save the French hemp-born wizards who were being hunted and killed, using the unstable and chaotic French wizarding world as the front line of the war.
Gellert operated in Northern Europe, ensuring their logistics and the safety of non-combat personnel, while contacting other wizarding regimes such as Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden to gain their support.
This was the starting point of Voldemort's bloodline enslavement rule over the whole of Europe, and also the opportunity for rebellion that Dumbledore had been waiting for.
After so many years of operation, the whole of Britain has been built into an impregnable fortress by Voldemort. It is too difficult to overthrow his rule from within Britain.
But once Voldemort starts to invade other countries, it will force more people to stand against him. The Order of the Phoenix can use this opportunity to gain support from the outside and ultimately achieve the goal of recovering the British mainland.
This is the policy set by Dumbledore and also the goal agreed upon by all members of the Order of the Phoenix.
After the Wizarding Equality Front was officially established, this new organization also began to operate.
The first and foremost goal they face now is to rescue as many Muggle wizards as possible, gather them together, and select those who can form combat effectiveness and their families who can only serve as logistical support personnel.
After Voldemort ruled the French wizarding world, he established two political and military centers to radiate his influence on the entire French wizarding world.
One is naturally the French Ministry of Magic in Paris in the north, and the other is the Beauxbatons School of Magic in the Pyrenees in the south.
The people from the Wizarding Equality Front rescued many punk-type wizards in areas far away from these two centers.
Dumbledore was temporarily stationed in Lyon, where he assigned tasks with Javier and also met with and comforted the rescued Muggle-born wizards.
After a busy day, he lay down in the chair somewhat tiredly, closed his eyes and prepared to think about something. However, before he lay down, there was a knock on the office door.
The old man, who was over a hundred years old, sat up again, put on his crescent-shaped glasses, and let the person outside in.
Mag held the materials in his hand and placed them on his desk.
"Those of us who remain in the UK have privately contacted many enslaved muck-blood wizards. A small number of them still have the idea of resisting, but most of them have been affected by the long-term slavery contract and choose to be content with the status quo."
Dumbledore shook his head.
"Let Kingsley who is staying in the UK find a way to resolve the contracts of those who still have rebellious thoughts. We are still too short of people, especially wizards with combat capabilities."
