The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 328 Plan (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
A magical scene appeared in the headmaster's office of Hogwarts: Principal Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and listened attentively, while two Muggle-born wizards spoke opposite him.

After Hermione introduced the appeasement policy of Britain and France before World War II, Dumbledore fell into deep thought. It was several minutes later that he remembered that there were two students in the office.

"Well, I think you must be very tired after going through so much today. Now go to bed quickly." After saying that, Dumbledore stood up and sent the two of them to the stairs. When Ryan and the others walked down the spiral staircase, they could see Dumbledore returned to the table and began to think seriously.

In a corridor without murals, Ryan took the rag doll out of the box. He had originally planned to use it to get away with it, but he didn't expect Dumbledore to ignore the box at all.

As soon as he closed the box, he felt his hand sink. It seemed that Rose Quartz had placed a space beacon at the place where she slept in advance, and returned immediately after the box was empty.

"Good night." After returning to the common room, Ryan handed the box to Hermione and waved goodbye to her, then returned to his dormitory. Today was really too busy, and he had planned to count the spoils. But as soon as he lay down on the bed, he felt tired and immediately changed his mind, deciding to count when he was free. Anyway, those things would not run away, so it was better to have a good sleep now.

The next morning, after Ryan finished his meal, he finally got rid of a large group of students who were chattering around him and were very curious about what happened yesterday. Just as he was about to go to class with Hermione, Professor McGonagall's voice came from behind. "Mr. Liang, Miss Granger. Headmaster Dumbledore needs to meet with you."

The two looked at each other, and saw worry in each other's eyes. Then they followed Professor McGonagall to the headmaster's office. Professor McGonagall didn't say anything along the way, but from her tightly pursed lips and hurried steps, it could be seen that it was not a good thing to find the two people.

"Macaron." Professor McGonagall shouted the command to the monster in front of the headmaster's office, and the monster jumped to the side, revealing a spiral staircase inside.

Pushing open the door decorated with a griffin knocker, you can see that in addition to Professor Dumbledore, there are also Harry Potter and Professor Snape in the headmaster's office. After hearing the sound of the door opening, the three people in the room looked towards the place where the door opened. After seeing Ryan and the others, Snape immediately left.

"Thank you, Minerva." Headmaster Dumbledore nodded to Professor McGonagall and then looked at Ryan and Hermione; "The results of your analysis last night have unfortunately all come true. This morning I asked Fudge out for a half-hour talk, but he still refused to admit that Voldemort had returned. He also accused me of jumping to conclusions based on what a child said. He thought I was determined to create a panic and destroy everything he and the wizarding world had painstakingly built over the past thirteen years!"

"Why would he think that, sir?" Harry asked somewhat puzzled.

"Because he thinks I'm trying to seize power, Harry. Just because I suggested that Voldemort had returned and that I wanted the Ministry to get the news out to everyone in the community -"

Ryan felt that Dumbledore's behavior was indeed like a power grab, because this matter was under the management of the Ministry of Magic. Dumbledore was only the headmaster of Hogwarts, and no matter how famous he was, he should not interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Magic, which belonged to Fudge.

But this incident also shows that Professor Dumbledore was more influenced by Grindelwald when he was young, and he could completely ignore other people for the greater interests in his mind.

However, compared to the impression in the original book that Dumbledore proposed a solution to Fudge after Voldemort returned and declared that he would part ways with Fudge after being rejected, Dumbledore was gentle this time. He just invited Fudge to his office to discuss the matter, and after the matter broke down, he just watched Fudge leave angrily, and did nothing else. "-- I plan to tell everyone in public that Voldemort has returned next, what do you think?" After summarizing his conversation with Fudge just now, Dumbledore turned around and asked Ryan and the others.

"I think we are just students--" "It doesn't matter. We will need every bit of strength when facing Voldemort, and you may be able to provide some unexpected information from the Muggle perspective." Dumbledore comforted.

"Well, with all due respect, Professor. That will only make the situation worse." Ryan thought Dumbledore would be angry after he said this, after all, this was against Dumbledore's plan. But Dumbledore didn't get angry but looked at Ryan with interest.

"Very good, tell me your reasons." Headmaster Dumbledore looked at Ryan with encouraging eyes.

"On the one hand, as far as I know, Minister Fudge has been in that position for more than ten years. As the highest official in the Ministry of Magic, he naturally does not want anyone to tell him what to do, including you. On the other hand, most of the supporters of the Ministry of Magic are those pure-blood families, and these people are related to the You-Know-Who. In this case, they will also do their best to prevent the news of the You-Know-Who's return until that person decides to show up. So your plan, Headmaster, will have no effect except that they will use it to induce the people who suffered heavy losses in the last war and became tired of war to dislike and hate you."

"That's true. If it was just the Fudge problem, it would be easy to deal with. But the problem is that ordinary people in the wizarding world don't want to admit it, so they prefer all the lies that Fudge and his team made up." Hermione then added the story of how Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, who reminded the public to be vigilant before the Second World War, were marginalized. "Human nature is like this. They don't want to hear bad news. Sometimes they are even willing to accept some lies that sound better. Even if these lies will cause endless troubles."

"But, but if that person really resurrected it would be a huge disaster involving everyone. How could they choose to deceive themselves about this matter?" Harry said in disbelief.

"World War II was also a disaster for the people at that time, but they still chose to deceive themselves. I don't think there is any difference between wizards and Muggles in this regard. The history of the Muggle world has told us everything. You can find out if you read some books on that subject, Harry." Hermione sighed.

"So what do you think is the best thing for us to do now?" Professor Dumbledore asked seriously.

"In fact, when it comes to war, a great man among my compatriots said something that makes a lot of sense, which is to unite all the forces that can be united, so that we can have more friends and fewer enemies." Ryan answered very seriously.

"In this situation, our core task is to win over the majority of neutral people. Because the backbones of both sides will not change much." At this point Ryan saw Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall nodded.

"As for how to win over neutral people, the specific plan must be formulated based on the knowledge of the evidence in this kidnapping incident." Ryan shrugged as he looked at the professors who were looking at him expectantly. He really couldn't formulate the next plan without knowing how much evidence they had.

(End of this chapter)