Volume 7: A World with Bad Consequences Chapter 468 Party!
It was the same day that Jon started working at the Department of Mysteries.
The first war of the Wizarding World in Britain broke out. The village of Hogsmeade next to Hogwarts Castle was occupied by the Wizarding World. The British Aurors who were originally stationed here and always monitoring Hogwarts Castle were either captured or killed. No one was spared.
This was also the first victory achieved by the Wizarding Horizon after declaring war on the British Ministry of Magic, but the Daily Prophet certainly did not report this incident, and the news did not even appear on the next day's edition. However, even if it was not mentioned in the newspaper, wizards did not lack the circulation of information. After occupying Hogsmeade, the wizards of the Wizarding Horizon did not restrict the original residents of this wizarding village from staying or leaving.
Therefore, even though this incident had not been reported yet, more than half of the people in the entire British wizarding world knew about it.
Even if the Ministry of Magic wanted to try its best to minimize the impact of the situation, it would be of no avail.
It was during this period, six months after Cornelius Fudge stepped down from the position of British Minister of Magic after the end of the Triwizard Tournament, that Barty Crouch Jr. was officially elected as the current British Minister of Magic.
Voldemort gave him a lot of power to deal with the attack on Britain by the wizarding world. And Voldemort himself finally met all the purebloods again after disappearing from the public eye for a long time.
On this side, of course, John was also present, right in the main hall of the Ministry of Magic, and he gave a speech that was clearly intended to respond to Dumbledore's declaration of war.
He still looked as young and handsome as before. Regardless of the real situation among the pure-bloods, the actual effect was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the rumor that Voldemort was cowardly and dared not face Dumbledore.
But John, who actually worked in the Department of Mysteries, saw it clearly that even if Voldemort stepped forward, he could not change the fact that a huge split had already occurred within the Death Eaters, that is, the pure-bloods.
At the same time, after getting familiar with the work of the Department of Mysteries for a few days, Jon also had a general understanding of this most mysterious and unknown department of the British Ministry of Magic.
This world is not only populated by wizards and other magical animals or races, but also by beings with living beings and independent self-awareness who can use magic.
There are also many magics that have always existed and are not controlled by anyone, but can be maintained on their own.
For example, time, death, planets, prophecies...
That’s right, prophecy itself is actually an independent magical existence, and the wizard’s divination is just to obtain or peek into them through another kind of magical ability.
These are all wonderful things, and countless wizards have been fascinated by them since ancient times.
For example, when Jon was leading the Hogwarts ship sailing on the sea, he met "Sir Stoker", who had an obsessive love for astronomical magic such as planets.
There are also fortune-telling masters traveling around the country, and these people are all enthusiasts of spying on prophecies.
There is also the now lost alchemy of making a time converter, which is proof that ancient wizards mastered and used time magic.
This also applies to Horcruxes. The person who created a Horcrux must have extraordinary attainments in the study of death magic.
The Department of Mysteries is a gathering department that brings together all of this kind of magical existence in the UK and even the whole of Europe.
The Department of Mysteries already existed when the Ministry of Magic was not yet called the Ministry of Magic but was called the Wizarding Council. From that time on, the name of the people working here has been passed down. The wizards working here are not called employees but "Unspoken".
The Department of Mysteries has a great deal of autonomy and is the only department in the Ministry of Magic that does not need to take orders from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. The Quiet Man, who can be called a "scientist" in the wizarding world, can even ignore the intervention of the Minister of Magic.
Of course, that was all in normal times. Ever since Voldemort came to power, all the special features were no match for absolute strength.
Even if the Unsungs did not have to obey the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, they had no way to disobey Voldemort's wishes, which led to the pure-bloods' purge of the entire Department of Mysteries.
After understanding the nature of this department, John looked back at the behavior of the pure-bloods occupying the Department of Mysteries. He felt it was absurd that a group of second-generation rich people expelled the academicians of the Academy of Sciences and then came here to have a party.
All I can say is that reality is far more outrageous than stories.
These new pure-bloods haven't even studied wizard magic, let alone the magic that is innate.
Therefore, in the early days of entering the Department of Mysteries, they couldn't even comprehend the most basic information left by the previous Unspoken People. They thought that they were short of manpower and that as long as they recruited enough people, they could get the affairs of the department back on track.
But the reality is, a fool is a fool. Even if there are ten thousand fools together, they can never become elites who can get things done.
After Jon and his group of pure-bloods joined the company to expand the staff, those pure-bloods who originally thought that recruiting people could solve the problem found that even if they recruited more people, they would not be able to understand the things they didn't understand before , so these people started to completely give up.
Only a very small number of pure-bloods who had previously stayed in the Department of Mysteries as Unspoken Men could still do something, but with only a number of them that could be counted on one hand, they were of no help to the overall situation.
So these people just stopped caring and immersed themselves in their previous research fields. As for the others, you can do whatever you want.
As for bringing back the Silent Man who knew how to do things before?
That is definitely impossible. Those Unspoken People who have been excluded are either half-blood or pure-bloods who have made it clear that they will be loyal to whichever Voldemort rules Britain. These are irreconcilable issues and it is impossible to bring them back.
Since we can't get anything done, and we can't find people who can do it, then let's just do it together!
Anyway, the Ministry of Magic will still pay their salaries, and the work in the Department of Mysteries has nothing to do with the daily operation of the wizarding world. As the new direct leader, Slughorn will not check their work progress and status, so even if everyone is partying here all day and doing nothing, it doesn't matter at all.
After seeing the chaos of these pure-bloods, Jon could only say that he truly saw the diversity of human beings.
But this can be considered a very good thing for his and Slughorn's actions here.
Judging from the current performance of these pure-bloods, they have not been given any further instructions since they were ordered to move into the Department of Mysteries. It seems that the only thing they have to do is to watch over this place and not let anyone else get their hands on anything here.
These pure-bloods who have sided with Voldemort No. 2 are not very distant in their attitude towards Spike, whom Jon is currently impersonating, and Slughorn, who have not yet made a clear stance on who they stand with.
After all, their attitude is just vague, not that they have made it clear that they will not stand with them. So as long as they hold more parties and their feelings improve, everything else will be easy to deal with.
Jon also took this opportunity to establish a good superficial relationship with the pure-bloods who were not much older than him in age. After that, when they met, they were at least more than just acquaintances.
At the same time, with the help of the identity of assistant director provided by Slughorn, he visited all the halls in the Department of Mysteries that he could enter these days.
The purebloods in charge of each hall were basically having parties. Some of them even brought their house-elves over and had barbecues on the spot in the planetary hall, calling it "romance".
Jon was quite speechless about this, but he didn't express any opinion and even got a few skewers from the barbecue party.
It was impossible to go to the Planetary Hall. It had been messed up so much that as soon as the door opened, there was a stench of barbecue. Also, there was obviously nothing in the hall that had anything to do with what Jon was looking for.
There is a locked door next to the Planetary Hall. At first, the purebloods were very interested in this room that could not be entered. After they failed to open the door no matter what they tried, they got the name of the room behind the door from various materials - "Love House".
As the name suggests, it is a room dedicated to the study of love.
After learning this, the purebloods suddenly felt bored and stopped looking for a way to enter the door.
As for the Death Hall, which was used to study death, no pure-bloods could easily enter it after the warning from the only remaining genuine Silent Man.
They are trash, but not stupid. They know that nothing good is ever associated with death.
In addition, they used the Time Hall as an exhibition hall. That is, the current time converters could not be used for some reason. Otherwise, many pure-bloods would probably take a few home, and even if they were not used, they could be used as family heirlooms.
No one went into the Brain Hall. The few genuine Unspoken ones who stayed behind were all experts in studying human thinking. They hid in the Brain Hall, closed the door, and didn't care about what those ignorant pure-bloods did. No one else would bother them.
Moreover, this room was filled with disgusting brains flying around like jellyfish, and few purebloods were interested in them.
Almost no one goes to the Hall of Prophecy. Most of the time, this room serves as a storage room for various prophecies from ancient times to the present. The most famous of these is, unsurprisingly, the prophecy about the savior who can fight against Voldemort. However, that prophecy is said to be placed in the storage room, but only Voldemort himself knows where it is hidden.
Purebloods also know the importance of things, and no one would come to a place like this to have fun.
After a few days, some pure-bloods became bored with life in the Department of Mysteries. This was partly because the war on the Wizarding Front in Britain was apparently going more smoothly.
After occupying Hogsmeade at the beginning, the wizarding world used Hogwarts Castle and Hogsmeade, which had served as the goblin headquarters for a period of time during the goblin rebellion, as a bridgehead.
During the Hogwarts carriage exile period, the large and small safe houses secretly built in various places were used as small strongholds to launch attacks on the senior officials of the British Ministry of Magic, that is, those noble pure-bloods.
In recent days, many pure-bloods have been attacked in their own manors or castles and have suffered damage, but the wizards of the Wizarding Horizon, who took the initiative to attack, have hardly paid any price.
So the purebloods began to spontaneously choose to stick together. They temporarily abandoned their family residences and gathered together to prevent being defeated one by one.
However, these families all have industries in the UK, and they almost monopolize 100% of the upper-class businesses in the UK. Otherwise, how could they afford their luxurious life relying solely on the "meager" wages in the Ministry of Magic?
After they formed a group, the Wizarding World began to crack down on the shops and commercial transportation activities of these pure-blood families, making them overwhelmed. They constantly put pressure on the current Director of the Auror Office, Karkaroff, to find a way to counterattack against the actions of the Wizarding World as soon as possible.
All these messy things added up, and the purebloods who came to work in the Department of Mysteries had no intention of staying in the department to party.
They began to be absent from work frequently. The most exaggerated time was when, after Jon came to the company, the number of people who showed up for work could be counted on ten fingers!
Slughorn, who acted like a good old man, didn't say much about this, and he didn't have the slightest intention of calling those who were absent from work over to reprimand them.
During this period, Jon can now boldly and confidently search more deeply for the source of the golden sand.
However, although these purebloods are sloppy and unreliable, there are still a few among them who are obviously here with a mission.
Jon discovered that several of them were very different from those reckless pure-bloods. Even if they didn't understand the work in the Department of Mysteries, they would not mess around. Instead, they wandered around the halls every day like patrolling with clear division of labor, and clocked in every day. Even after get off work at night, some people would stay behind, like special security guards.
If you ask them what they are doing, they will say they are just walking around because they are bored.
After Jon determined the movements of these people, he no longer paid any attention to them.
He was now a pureblood with a legitimate identity, and the identity of Spike given to him by Kingsley was not a useless pureblood young master, and he still had a certain level of knowledge. In addition, Ollivander's wand business would not be affected in any way, so his absence from work would not attract attention.
Therefore, Jon's subsequent investigation went very smoothly. He quickly ruled out other rooms and locked his final target within the Time Hall.
Because in the main hall of the Time Hall, there are many hourglasses of various sizes, and the sand constantly flowing in those hourglasses is very similar to the bottle of golden sand obtained from Snape.
