Volume 6: Summer at Spider's End Alley Chapter 452 Role Playing
Instead of returning to France to find Dumbledore immediately with the bottle of grit, Jon returned to Spinner's End .
He guessed where Snape was going, and based on the feathers left on Lily's body, he knew exactly where she was, but Jon had no intention of getting involved in this tragedy.
Walking out along Spinner's End Alley, he soon spotted the referee amid the Muggles who were still in chaos.
Matthew Graves.
He didn't look in good condition, and was wandering anxiously among the crowd, as if looking for someone, until his eyes met Jon's.
Jon had no intention of hiding his whereabouts, and he didn't even conceal his identity. The appearance he showed was just himself.
As Matthew was the one who witnessed Jon complete the Triwizard Tournament and awarded him the championship, he certainly would not be unfamiliar with Jon's current appearance.
"Jon Green."
He called out Jon's name.
Jon watched as their eyes met in the air.
"Hah, what a coincidence, Mr. Graves, good morning."
Jon behaved like a good boy, waving and greeting with a smile.
Everyone would only regard him as a well-educated, obedient and well-behaved 10-year-old boy, but Matthew knows better than anyone what kind of person is hidden under his young appearance.
Matthew walked quickly towards Jon, closing the distance between them, and at the same time lowered his voice and spoke sternly in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
"Don't pretend to me. What do you want to do? I came here with the Wizarding Party, but it's a mess here. There are Death Eaters, Wizarding Party and you, the Wizarding Horizon. There are all kinds of people!"
Jon acted innocently and spread his hands.
"I can't answer that for you, sir. You know, I'm just an ordinary fourth-year student at Hogwarts. If you have any questions about this, you can go to our Professor Dumbledore. He should be able to give you a satisfactory answer."
Jon's sincere words sounded only like sarcasm to Matthew.
"Then why are you here!?"
"Hey, I just finished a tense and exciting game, so it's normal for Professor Dumbledore to give me a vacation to relax. Isn't this normal?"
"Come to England, the enemy's base camp to relax?"
Jon cleared his throat twice.
"It's normal that my way of relaxing is different from others. Just like what was rumored in Hogwarts Castle before, when I have nothing to do, I like to use the Killing Curse to kill two people for fun. If I have to kill, I definitely won't kill my own people, so there's nothing wrong with that..."
"Don't play dumb with me!"
Matthew suddenly raised his voice. He seemed to be in a bad mood and had no patience to continue talking to Jon.
"You are Dumbledore's most trusted student, so you can help me convey this message to him! Dumbledore must know better than anyone what Grindelwald is doing in Northern Europe! The Congress has been very tolerant of his leaving the prison, which is considered to be giving Dumbledore some face, but he has no intention of stopping! I don't know if you have your own position here, but the Congress's opinion is very clear."
He stared into Jon's eyes and spoke very sternly.
"Grindelwald will always be the enemy of the Magic Congress! Anyone who stands with Grindelwald will always be the enemy of the Magic Congress! Europe's own problems have not been resolved yet. I hope you will think carefully before creating new troubles!"
The smile on Jon's face also faded. He calmly listened to Matthew's speech, which was both advice and a threat, without interrupting him. He just asked calmly after he finished speaking.
"Then I would like to know one thing, Mr. Graves. If Professor Dumbledore and Headmaster Grindelwald really joined forces, and we exclude everyone else but the two of them, would you really be able to deal with them?"
Matthew blushed at Jon's question.
The answer is of course obvious. Grindelwald alone made the entire MACUSA look humiliated. In the end, it was Dumbledore who won the duel and resolved the threat.
And if Dumbledore really joins forces with Grindelwald, and once Voldemort is truly defeated, the power they now possess will represent the entire European wizarding world. Who else can Congress deal with?
Matthew gritted his teeth and said in a nearly exasperated tone.
"Then we can't..."
"United with Voldemort, right?" John continued without blinking.
Matthew was silent at this moment. He might have been able to speak out his attitude towards Grindelwald with certainty before, but regarding Voldemort, there was no consensus within the Parliament, so he naturally could not really say such words.
"You'd better think it over before you speak. I don't know much about the situation in the United States, but as far as I know, you are the ones who have the closest ties with Muggles, right? Even one of the founders of Ilvermorny was a Muggle. The number of families that can be called pure-blood can be counted on one hand. If you really want to unite with Voldemort, you will start a quarrel among yourselves first."
Jon shook his head. He didn't really mean to put pressure on Matthew, but wanted him to think clearly about the current situation. After all, the situation in the wizarding world was different from that in the Muggle world, and the Magical Congress of the United States did not have such unique strength in the world.
"Regarding the matter of the Wizarding Party, I haven't had much communication with Professor Dumbledore about this, but I can be sure that within the Wizarding Horizon, the connection between the Order of the Phoenix, the French wizards, and the Wizarding Party in Northern Europe is not that close. Especially the Wizarding Party, they only provide us with material assistance in Northern Europe and have not participated in the war in terms of personnel. In other words, I don't know whether the professor knows what Mr. Grindelwald is going to do , but he definitely has no intention of getting involved."
Then, Jon adjusted his robe and coughed twice to make his voice sound more mature.
"I said the above to you as a fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The following advice is from my role as the professor of Transfiguration at Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Matthew's expression changed from contemplative at the beginning to a little confused now, watching Jon complete the transition between roles in this way.
"It's none of your business what our principal wants to do! You want to control everything from America to Northern Europe, right? Did you defeat the people? Did you lock them up? Do you really think you are the world's police? MD, is it really so righteous? When Voldemort was killing innocent people, were you constipated? You couldn't even fart?"
