The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 566 Back to School (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Soon, Mrs. Montgomery prepared a sumptuous dinner. The Montgomery family was not an ancient pure-blood family. So there were no house elves at home, and they had to cook by themselves. Of course, their financial situation was much better than the Weasleys, from the size of the manor to the decoration of the rooms. Ryan suspected that this was probably because they were a dual-income family with only three children, which was much better than the Weasleys with one income and seven children.

After finishing their meal in silence, several people went upstairs to check the little guy's physical condition. After confirming that the little guy had completely turned into a new werewolf, Mrs. Montgomery stayed upstairs to take care of her little son, while Mr. Montgomery returned to the living room with Ryan and the others to discuss future plans.

"I think except for the two daughters who are studying at Hogwarts, the rest of our family must leave the UK." Mr. Montgomery, an international trader, sighed. "Because this time my child was attacked by a werewolf and almost lost his life, I realized that the UK is not so safe now. It can even be said that except for the Hogwarts Castle where Professor Dumbledore is in charge, all other places may be the next target of the evil and crazy Death Eaters."

Looking at Mr. Montgomery who was frightened by this incident, Ryan truly felt the helplessness and sadness of an ordinary person who was isolated and helpless in such a war-torn environment. After exchanging a glance with Ryan, Professor Lupin extended his invitation on behalf of everyone. "You can stay with us. As new werewolves, we have our own home in northern Europe, where we can provide enough help for your son. At the same time, we new werewolves also need international traders like you--"

"You already have so many people?" Mr. Montgomery said in shock after listening to Professor Lupin's brief introduction. "I never knew you had done so much until my friend Clark told me about it."

"Yeah, who would pay attention to werewolves like us?" Lupin laughed at himself, then looked at Mr. Montgomery seriously and said, "You don't need to make a decision right away. We will wait for you. Just inform us when you make a decision."

"Don't think about it anymore. We have decided to leave England as soon as possible. I will send an owl to the Ministry of Magic tonight to resign." At this time, Mrs. Montgomery walked down the stairs, then stood beside her husband and looked at Ryan and the others, then turned to look at her husband. "Dear, we should not hesitate any longer. I think those Death Eaters may attack again after finding out that little Andrew is not dead. Our manor will definitely not be able to withstand their attack. I don't want our son to suffer this again."

"You're right." Perhaps the topic about children touched Mr. Montgomery, and he nodded gently. "But you love your work so much. I still remember what you said to me in seventh grade-"

"But none of these are more important than life." Mrs. Montgomery shook her head slightly and said that as a mother, she valued her children more than anything else. "I believe I can still start over if I go somewhere else. Besides, now that our two daughters are in school, we don't have much financial burden, so we don't have to worry about living in a new place."

"Okay, you've thought it through very carefully. Let's do this." Mr. Montgomery made up his mind, then turned to look at Lupin. "I am willing to work for you. I just hope that our little son can grow up normally like other people in your place, and no longer suffer from such abominable attacks now."

"Don't worry about it." Lupin comforted him in a kind voice. "We have children there too. I think Andrew won't feel lonely there. And when you go there, you'll find that our plantation is producing more and more things, and the business is getting better and better. But because we are werewolves, most people haven't received a good education, so we need people like you to help us. I think you will show your value there."

Afterwards, Lupin briefly talked about the current trade relations between the plantation and the wizarding world of various countries, especially the Celestial Empire. Ryan saw that the tension of the Montgomeries because of going to an unknown place was relieved a lot with Lupin's explanation.

After a discussion, Professor Lupin and Clark decided to stay at Montgomery Manor for one night to protect the Montgomery couple so that they could leave together the next morning after little Andrew had fully recovered. After seeing that everything was arranged, Ryan and Hermione said goodbye to the owner of the manor.

"We have to go back to Hogwarts now. Hogwarts' magical defenses have been improved by more than one level recently. We got here with the help of Professor Dumbledore's fireplace. So we can't let him wait for us too long now." Ryan said to the Montgomeries.

"If that's the case, I won't keep you here, but I really appreciate you saving our child this time. If you need us in the future, please let us know and we will do our best to help you." Mr. Montgomery held his wife's hand and said to Ryan and the others, "I wish you all the best." "Well, goodbye." After saying this, Ryan turned around and stepped into the green flames in the fireplace. After the word Hogwarts came out, he left Montgomery Manor.

"Good evening, Ryan." When Ryan walked out of the fireplace in the principal's office of Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore, who was manipulating the pile of silver utensils on the table to spit out smoke, immediately greeted him and asked, "How is the child from the Montgomery family now?"

"He's been rescued, and the child is no longer in danger of death." Ryan said, taking out his wand to help Hermione, who had just arrived, clean off the soot on her body, and then looked at Professor Dumbledore. "But he's still a werewolf, and I can't reverse this process."

"It's not your fault." Headmaster Dumbledore turned around and sat behind the table. "The current situation is becoming more and more chaotic. Both the Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic are trying their best to maintain social order and stability. But we cannot protect everyone."

"Then why not arm everyone and provide combat training for everyone like Ryan did." Hermione usually respects authority, but today after seeing the miserable condition of the victims, she was so stimulated that she couldn't resist the impulse in her heart and asked Dumbledore her question.

"Child, there is no need for us to let innocent people get hurt. The war should be left to the soldiers who participate in it, and civilians should not be dragged into this war." Dumbledore looked at Hermione and said.

Dumbledore's view is a traditional view of war in the wizarding world, that is, war only belongs to those who participate in the war and has nothing to do with civilians. This view is not wrong, because before this war, especially before the abolition of the Statute of Secrecy, the number of wizards in the wizarding world was not large. Therefore, every wizard war is a limited war. Because the purpose of the war is to seize control of the wizarding world. Given the small number of wizards in Britain, if a full-scale war is launched, it is likely that there will be few people left after the war is won.

But after Voldemort became half crazy because of making Horcruxes, he completely broke this rule, but Headmaster Dumbledore still viewed the current war with a past perspective.

"But now the You-Know-Who has dragged ordinary people into the war. Since they can use the Imperius Curse to control children to hurt their grandfather or order werewolves to bite children, it is not surprising that they do anything evil. In this case, I think everyone should learn to master the power to protect themselves." Ryan said to Dumbledore excitedly.

"Let's discuss this later." Dumbledore said with his hands down. "It's getting late now. I think you must be tired after being busy all afternoon. You should go back to the dormitory and rest."

"Well, good night, Mr. Headmaster." Seeing that the headmaster didn't want to continue discussing this issue, Ryan tactfully took Hermione to say good night to Professor Dumbledore, and then left the headmaster's office.

(End of this chapter)