The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 670 Cruel War (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan's prediction was not an act of unfounded worry, and the next morning after removing the piece of Voldemort's soul attached to Harry, an extremely bad news appeared in the newspaper.

"Let me see what's in the news today?" After finishing the breakfast brought by the house elf, Hermione sat in the small living room and began to read today's "British Magic News". "Front page news, this is - damn! How could they do this?" Hermione exclaimed after reading the front page of the newspaper, her tone full of disbelief and extreme anger.

"What happened, Hermione?" Ryan put down the tea in his hand and looked at Hermione after realizing something was wrong. He saw Hermione holding a newspaper with red eyes, and her hand was shaking slightly.

"Take a look at this news." Hermione handed over the newspaper, with blood-red letters on the front page: "Revenge of the Death Eaters, the Polkadot Village Massacre." Below was a burning room, and on the ground in front of the room was a torn stuffed bear.

"--Yesterday, the Death Eaters gathered and massacred a Muggle village, killing 46 people. The oldest was 74 years old, and the youngest was six months old. In addition, 17 people suffered irreversible injuries." Ryan felt a fire burning in his chest after reading these words. He threw the newspaper to the ground, "Since they are not human, I don't think there is any need to treat them the same way as humans."

"You're right." Hermione took a deep breath and regained her composure. "I think there are things that those dark wizards have never experienced, so they dare to do evil without any scruples."

After calming down a bit, Ryan and Hermione walked out of their room. At this time, many students had finished breakfast and were preparing to go to class or return to the common room. The corridors were full of people.

During breakfast, owls would deliver today's newspapers to everyone, so Ryan could hear the students coming and going discussing the news that had just been published in the newspaper. For them, the news this morning brought them a great shock. After all, the students who stayed here, even if they were pure-blood families, were not extreme bloodline theorists. They might not think that Muggles were as good as wizards, but they at least thought that Muggles and wizards were all human beings.

So after seeing this terrible news, many girls had red eyes, and some boys were gritting their teeth and cursing the Death Eaters who did such a thing. When Ryan and the others walked into the hall, they saw a Hufflepuff girl sitting by the wall, covering her face and crying, and several people around her were standing beside her to comfort her.

"What happened here?" Ryan walked up to Hannah Abbott, a member of the reading club who was comforting her classmates. "Why is she crying so sadly?"

"Because of the news in the British Magical News this morning." After realizing that it was Ryan who asked her, Hannah Abbott sighed and then slowly spoke. "Mary is a Muggle wizard, and in the tragedy in Poca Village before that, her uncle, aunt, and her newborn nephew were all killed."

Different from the previous style of the Daily Prophet, the British Magical Newspaper did not just report a simple number when reporting Muggle casualties as before, but instead set aside a page to simply write the names, ages and occupations of the Muggles killed, just like reporting the wizards who died. This is why the Hufflepuff girl learned about the death of her relatives as soon as she read the newspaper.

This was a rule Ryan had set with Hermione before. They believed that the way the Daily Prophet reported the deaths of Muggles as just a number was easy for people to ignore. By adding some simple personal information, the victims would be transformed from a simple number into a living person, which would allow everyone to truly understand the crimes of the Death Eaters.

Now it seems that the propaganda effect has indeed been achieved. Ryan can see everyone in Hogwarts discussing the cruelty of the Death Eaters. Although for Ryan and others, this kind of news with propaganda effect is not what they want to see.

"Don't worry, those dark wizards will definitely receive the punishment they deserve. I swear to you." Just as Ryan was thinking about the newspaper, Hermione walked to the little witch named Mary, knelt on one knee, held her hand and comforted her, "No evil person can escape punishment." After that, Hermione stood up and pulled Ryan out of the hallway and walked along the road to the outside of the school gate. But what they didn't notice was that when they walked out of the castle gate, Principal Dumbledore was standing in front of the window of his office looking at them.

"Albus, don't you stop them?" After a series of wood-colliding thuds, Moody, who had just returned from Azkaban, limped over from behind Dumbledore. "Don't you realize by now? Your two students basically don't leave any alive in a fight. I'm a little worried that they will cause a lot of casualties this time."

"Alastor, you are worrying too much." Dumbledore turned his head and looked at Moody and replied. "I believe they are not the kind of people who kill innocent people. At least last time at the Ministry of Magic, even in such a tight situation, they only killed those Death Eaters who had killed people, and for this reason they would rather risk being exposed and let go of the clerk in the courtroom."

"But as you once said, killing changes a person's mind." Moody still looked worried. "If the cost of destroying a Dark Lord is to create a new generation of Dark Lord, then what is the point of what we do?"

"What we need to do now is to trust them and believe that these two children will not go astray." Dumbledore nodded slowly, and then said, "Only trust and love are what we can truly rely on. Unfounded suspicion will only deepen the gap between people, and this is exactly what Voldemort needs."

"What's more, the minds of those two children are far beyond those of their peers. I can feel that their wills are extremely strong and cannot be twisted by just killing." At this point, Dumbledore showed a relaxed smile. "So you really don't need to worry too much. By the way, you need to come to Azkaban this time-"

Seeing that Dumbledore didn't want to continue the conversation, Moody had no choice but to put aside his worries and began to tell Dumbledore what he needed to do this time after coming from Azkaban.

While Professor Dumbledore and Moody were discussing, Ryan and Hermione, who were the subjects of the discussion, had already left the Hogwarts Castle.

"Where should we go now?" After leaving the castle, the two of them left the road and came to the woods beside the castle. After making sure that there was no one around, Hermione asked Ryan. "For the dark wizards who did such cruel things, our next step should be to retaliate to warn others not to involve these innocent people in the war. But the most important problem we are facing now is that we don't know the details of the group of attackers at all. Apart from knowing that it was done by the Death Eaters, we don't even know who the participants are."

"So the first step is to collect intelligence." Ryan said. "Let's go back to the manor for the next two days. The fewer people who know about our future actions, the better. So it is very important to isolate yourself first to avoid leaking the news. As for intelligence, I think I have enough ways to get what we want to know."

"I hope we can get accurate intelligence in a short time." Hermione said. "Because the origins of those Death Eaters are too complicated now, I am worried that some of them will leave Britain after earning enough gold coins."

"Don't worry, Hermione." Ryan smiled. "It's not like we can't leave the UK. We can just follow them to other places. I promise that no one can escape the punishment they deserve."

(End of this chapter)