The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 631 Overall situation
What Ryan didn't expect was that he thought he only needed to stay here for a day or two, and Professor Dumbledore would be able to solve all the problems and send someone to replace them. But three days and three days passed, until one morning a week later, a five-man team led by Moody arrived here to replace Ryan and his team.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting here for a long time. Now we have finally organized a team to take over your place. You can return to school now. Leave this to us." Moody said after seeing Ryan, "By the way, Professor Dumbledore is waiting for you in the principal's office of the school. He seems to have something to tell you."

"Okay, I'll tell you how to use these new magic defense systems. Then Hermione and I will go back to school together." After explaining everything, Ryan and Hermione Apparated out of the hall. Before leaving, they saw the guards of Azkaban smiling, probably because they had received news that their relatives were safe.

After a slight snap, Ryan and Hermione appeared outside Hogsmeade. In the case of war, it is better to hide some things as much as possible, because hiding one more day can gain one more day of advantage.

"What's going on? Why are all the people coming to Hogsmeade?" Hermione looked at the surrounding scene in some surprise. Now there are many colorful tents outside the town of Hogsmeade, and many wizards are walking around among the tents. It looks just like the Quidditch World Cup. The biggest difference from the World Cup is that everyone's face is not smiling, but sad.

After following that road through Hogsmeade, Ryan noticed that many of the people living in the tents could be classified as the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and were not helpers found by Dumbledore as he had imagined.

"Maybe everyone has come here to seek Professor Dumbledore's protection. It seems that the British wizarding world is indeed in chaos." Ryan thought so and came to the gate of Hogwarts with Hermione. Now the gate is closed and there is a group of people patrolling inside.

"Ryan, you're back?" After seeing Ryan and the others standing at the door, the patrolling wizards came over, led by Percy Weasley. He came over to help open the school gate.

"You did a great job. We all heard about you from the Hogwarts Light." Percy said excitedly. "Come in quickly. By the way, Headmaster Dumbledore asked me to tell you to go to his office as soon as you get back."

"Thank you, Moody has already informed us of the news. We'll be there now." Ryan nodded to Percy and walked along the road towards the castle.

It was class time, and the corridor was quiet. When Ryan arrived at the door of the principal's office, he just remembered that Dumbledore didn't seem to tell them what the password was today, when the two monsters at the door of the office automatically jumped to the sides, and then the stairs slowly rotated upwards.

Walking up the stairs to the oak door, the bronze handle on the door automatically turned. The door opened, and Professor Dumbledore, who looked tired, was sitting there reading a document. He raised his head after hearing the sound of the door opening.

"Ah, Ryan and Hermione? You must have been very busy this week. Sit here and take a break and eat something. I'll talk to you after I finish the documents on hand."

After saying that, he waved his magic wand, and two comfortable armchairs and a small coffee table appeared in the principal's office. On the coffee table between the armchairs, there was a large silver plate with various snacks, a teapot with hot black tea, and two teacups.

Ryan and Hermione sat down and started eating and drinking without any hesitation. Today, they came directly when Moody came to relieve their shift, which resulted in them not having breakfast at all.

When the meal was almost finished, Professor Dumbledore had finished the work at hand. He looked at the almost empty plate and asked, "Is the food in Azkaban terrible? Do you want some more?"

"Thank you, but no. We're full." Ryan said after drinking the remaining tea in the cup. "When the Dementors were around, the wizard guards needed to keep up their morale with delicious food and entertainment, so the food in Azkaban is actually similar to that in Hogwarts. We're so hungry only because we were notified to return early this morning after patrolling last night without having eaten." "I'm really sorry, Ryan. I made you come to talk to me when you're hungry and tired." Dumbledore said in an apologetic tone. "But in the current situation, we must cherish every minute, because the situation is getting worse and worse."

"I understand." Ryan nodded. "When I was in Azkaban, I listened to the London wizard broadcasts through that radio, such as the Muggle-Born Registration Committee, such as you and Ms. Bones were wanted-"

"Yes, yes." Dumbledore nodded. "But this is not the worst. The worse news is that Voldemort and his followers have completely controlled London's magic and Diagon Alley, as well as more than 90% of the production and trade of magic materials in the UK. I even have to adopt a rationing system when students are in potions class to ensure that everyone has enough medicine to use."

"You are the greatest white wizard! How can the situation be so embarrassing?" Hermione asked with some confusion.

"This is actually quite reasonable." Dumbledore spread his hands. "Most of the magic farms and alchemical material production plants in the UK belong to the pure-blood families. Now that they have all sided with Voldemort, they will naturally cut off their supply to us."

At this point Dumbledore looked at Ryan and said, "And I must thank you. If you hadn't built your own magical herb plantation in advance and connected the trade with the Celestial Empire, we might not even have the remaining 10%."

"This is what I should do," Ryan said, "but I really don't understand how the situation could be so bad? Everything was normal when we came to school that morning."

"This is all because of me, an old man who is overly optimistic due to my experience and self-confidence." Dumbledore smiled bitterly. "I originally thought that my intimidation and Scrimgeour's ability should be able to deter those guys who were ready to make a move. But I didn't expect that the Death Eaters had infiltrated the Ministry of Magic so deeply. The control of the Ministry of Magic changed before I was prepared. I only had time to gather those exiles who escaped."

Ryan finally understood what was going on this time. It was not that Headmaster Dumbledore was unprepared. He might even have planned to take advantage of Voldemort's attack on the Ministry of Magic to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic to attack Voldemort from both sides.

At least in the conflict at the end of last semester, even Voldemort himself led the Ministry of Magic to hold out for several hours. Such a long time was enough for Dumbledore to gather people and attack after receiving the news.

However, this time the situation changed suddenly, and under the control of the insider, Voldemort wiped out the command core of the Ministry of Magic in an instant. Under this circumstance, the Ministry of Magic, which was a loose sand, naturally could not resist Voldemort's control.

Not to mention that after the last war, Dumbledore's actions greatly reduced the living space of those pure-blood families. Therefore, after Voldemort captured the Ministry of Magic, the pure-blood families who actually controlled the Ministry of Magic simply turned to Voldemort and established a Ministry of Magic belonging to Voldemort in a short period of time. In this way, those who favored Dumbledore had no choice but to flee.

This is the fundamental reason why the current situation is so chaotic. The rapid fall of the Ministry of Magic exposed a series of problems. It took a whole week for Dumbledore to figure out all the situations, get out of the chaos, and re-establish order.

(End of this chapter)