The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 697 Discussion
In the headmaster's office of Hogwarts, Ryan vowed to Headmaster Dumbledore that he could quickly restore some of the resource production in the British wizarding world and make up for the loss of production capacity caused by his previous destruction.

This is not perfunctory or prevarication. After integrating the technologies of several worlds, Ryan has developed a new plantation that can be operated with only a small amount of manpower. However, because these manors are likely to compete fiercely with those pure-blood manors, Ryan has not brought these things out.

Although these things were not taken out in this world, Ryan had already established three such plantations in the world of "The Lord of the Rings" and the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" as experiments and to obtain sufficient resources. After nearly a year of operation, Ryan can confirm that all of this can be run smoothly for a long time.

In addition to the six plantations in these two worlds, Ryan, who had a hoarding habit like a hamster and abundant resources, prepared six more sets of all the necessary equipment and raw materials for the plantations, which could build six new manors in a very short time. And this time, Ryan planned to use three of them to build three manors in his own controlled area.

"It seems that you have considered many things in advance." Dumbledore said slowly, staring at Ryan and the others with blue eyes that became as deep as a lake. "I hope you can answer my last question honestly. Why do you choose to split the British wizarding world?"

"We didn't--" Hermione was about to argue, but Ryan raised a hand to stop her, and then asked Professor Dumbledore. "We admit that we are consciously dividing the wizarding world, but we want the end of this war to become the beginning of true peace, rather than a truce of less than 20 years."

Ryan expected that Dumbledore could see his arrangement clearly. Whether it was the attack on pure-blood wizards and their vassals, the introduction of independent financial institutions, or the transfer of overall industrial dominance by destroying and rebuilding those magic resource production bases, it was obvious that Ryan was trying to rebuild a magic society.

As a centenarian who had experienced so many things, it was impossible for Headmaster Dumbledore to not see the back-up plan Ryan was making. But what made Ryan a little strange was that Professor Dumbledore had only discussed this issue with him now, which was a little late in some ways.

"I hope you know that the purpose of war is peace." Dumbledore said solemnly. "And everything you have done is actually tearing apart the British wizarding society and will seriously intensify the conflicts between pure-blood, half-blood and Muggle wizards."

"Of course I know that." Ryan nodded. "But now the British wizarding world has actually been divided. Ever since the You-Know-Who established the London Ministry of Magic with the help of that group of pure-blood families, the British wizarding world has been openly divided into two hostile parts. And all of this stems from the mistakes made after the last war."

"Oh? Where do you think the mistake was?" Dumbledore looked at Ryan with interest. "After the last war, we emerged from the shadow of the war as quickly as possible, continued to maintain the status of British wizards in the world, and restored the prosperity of the British wizarding world in the shortest possible time. In my opinion, this is already a very good result."

"But this also laid the roots of the current war." Ryan pointed out bluntly, "The last war was not so much provoked by the You-Know-Who's ambition as it was a counterattack by the pure-blood families who felt their interests were infringed after the Statute of Secrecy was amended and the number of Muggles and half-blood wizards increased greatly."

"After the defeat of the You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters, the British wizarding community did not seriously settle accounts with those who provoked the war. A large number of Death Eaters who held extremely serious bloodline discrimination and participated in the last war were not tried, and they still retained their own ideas, their own status, and their own wealth and resources." Ryan looked at Dumbledore seriously. "You may think that after the last compromise, these wizards from pure-blood families should be grateful, repent, and correct their deep-rooted prejudices, but you are wrong. At least from the rapid fall of the Ministry of Magic and the series of battles that followed, we can see that those people have not repented at all, but buried their hatred in their hearts, ready to erupt at any time, and once again devote themselves to their so-called cause of clearing dirty blood."

"I think even if the You-Know-Who didn't resurrect this time, the war would still have broken out." Ryan finally pointed out a cruel conclusion he had deduced. "I've heard a popular term from Slytherin since I started school: Mudblood. During the Quidditch World Cup, I saw a gathering of former Death Eaters. This means that some dirty and dangerous ideas have been circulating in the minds of many people. Your kindness last time only earned them ridicule for your weakness and preparation for the next war."

"You're right, kid. You're right." Professor Dumbledore looked extremely tired, and he did not defend himself as Ryan had imagined. Because the current situation was just as Ryan had said, the enemies from the last war were back again, and they started a war again for the same reason.

"At that time, I just hoped that more people in the British wizarding world could survive and that the losses in the British wizarding world could be minimized." Professor Dumbledore began to tell Ryan and the others about that past event. "When I was young, I experienced a brutal wizard war that spread across Europe. A large number of people died in that war. Since then, I have hoped to minimize the losses when dealing with problems."

"Your idea is very good, Professor. I think the only purpose of a reasonable war is to stop war." Hermione said after listening for a long time, "But I have to say that in the last war provoked by Grindelwald, the pure-blood families that originally dominated Europe except Britain were hit hard. In this way, they can just complete the integration after the war and make up for the conflicts between pure-blood, half-blood and Muggle-born wizards."

"But Britain doesn't. Under your protection, Grindelwald's forces have never come to Britain. British wizards still retain the oldest social structure and even more deadly old ideas. With the further development of society, there are more and more Muggles and half-blood wizards, but the stubborn pure-blood wizards occupy almost all resources. In this case, war will break out one day. The only difference is who starts first."

After reading a lot of books recommended by Ryan, especially those related to politics and history, and practicing in several worlds, Hermione gained a deeper understanding of the causes of several wizard wars. One of the most important understandings is that when the power of a group of people is not proportional to their status, these wars in the wizarding world are inevitable.

"And professor, you have experienced two world wars in the Muggle world before." Ryan continued, "Germany's different development directions after the two wars are very telling. So we believe that this time we can only achieve real and lasting peace by completely clearing up those bloodline theorists. Everything we are doing now is to achieve this goal."

"Yes," Hermione nodded, and then gave Headmaster Dumbledore a slightly awkward smile. "You know, we're still young. So we really don't want to spend our lives either fighting wars or preparing for wars."

"Okay, okay, this time you can do it the way you want." Dumbledore leaned back in his chair after he finished speaking, as if he was extremely tired. "But you must not forget your original intention in the war."

(End of this chapter)