The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 734 The Battle Situation Has Improved (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After talking with Mrs. Greengrass, Ryan and Hermione returned to the main building of the manor. After leaving the manor for half a month, they now had a lot of things to do and didn't have much time to waste on other things.

They now have a lot of things to do, including but not limited to the making of potions and props, the training of some followers, and discussing certain things about the current situation with the Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic and Headmaster Dumbledore.

The best news recently is that Voldemort's economic strength has been suppressed to a very low level due to Ryan's persistent strategic sabotage in the past few months. Especially after at least 80% of the manors and workshops belonging to those pure-blood families were completely destroyed, Gringotts in the United States could not afford such losses and chose to withdraw from the UK, which also caused serious problems in Voldemort's economic chain.

Naturally, Voldemort, who was already overwhelmed by the various attacks, had no energy or strength to go after the Americans. In this case, they even had to take out some money from their already limited budget to pay the Americans to make up for some of their losses, in the hope that the Americans would not turn to Hogsmeade.

One of the main reasons for Voldemort's current predicament is that Gringotts in the United States is a private organization. They can cooperate with the United States Magical Congress to perform some tasks, but they are unlikely to make sacrifices if there is no profit or even requires losing money, not to mention that once they really anger wizards of the level of Ryan or Dumbledore, the losses may be more than just money.

Therefore, American wizards now hold the idea of ​​making as much money as possible while disrupting the British wizarding world as much as possible, and begin to threaten Voldemort with turning to the Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic to ask for money to make up for their losses.

The Death Eaters naturally saw what the Americans were thinking, but in order to avoid a large-scale collapse of their own side after the Americans suddenly changed sides and turned to Hogsmeade, Voldemort had no choice but to swallow this bitter fruit.

"The You-Know-Who is now asking those who have joined him to hand over their wealth. A medium-sized dark wizard organization from Albania angered the You-Know-Who because they wanted to leave with the money they earned, and as a result, everyone in the organization was executed on the spot." Hermione's eyes widened as she looked at the intelligence from the Order of the Phoenix. "Doesn't he know that if he does this, everyone except extremely loyal people like Bella will rebel against him?"

"I think even though the mysterious man has only a few souls left, he should know that what he did is very bad in the long run." Ryan spread his hands. "But the biggest difference between wizards and ordinary people is that strength is the most important thing for wizards. The mysterious man is confident that even if he has no money, he can turn his subordinates' wallets into his own through his powerful strength."

"Not just wallets." Hermione turned to the next page, pointed to a paragraph and read: "According to the report from the observers in Diagon Alley, the mysterious man led his men directly into Gringotts, killed more than a dozen goblins that blocked the way, and then moved away a large amount of currency and treasures. This time, Gringotts in the UK suffered heavy losses."

"The loss of wealth is just a small matter. You have to know that the core of a bank is credibility, and now Gringotts has lost their credibility. Even if these fortunes can be recovered after the war, Gringotts will not restore its past status." Ryan was not too surprised by Voldemort's move, because his actions were completely within Ryan's expectations.

Gringotts was established after the goblins were defeated. On the one hand, it was to appease the goblins and avoid the periodic goblin rebellions. On the other hand, it was to order the goblins to provide financial services to wizards for free and create wealth for them.

But goblins are not like house elves who are plundered by wizards. Over the years, they have accumulated a lot of wealth through various financial means. At the same time, they naturally learned to collude with the pure-blood wizards who hold power in the Ministry of Magic, using wealth to exchange for protection from the Ministry of Magic when they seize money.

This way of waving money around has brought countless wealth to the goblins, but it has also worn down their will. In particular, although goblins are immortal, their lifespan is limited after all. Now the new generation of goblins have not experienced war, so the courage to fight to the end is also running out. Therefore, after Voldemort killed people to establish his authority, these goblins naturally chose to surrender. For Voldemort, a typical blood discriminationist, even Muggle-born wizards who are also human beings are considered to be inferior creatures, not to mention these non-human creatures. In his eyes, goblins are no different from house-elves, and they should all be slaves of pure-blood wizards. So he naturally did not care about any impact and directly took out the wealth that he thought belonged to him from Gringotts.

"This is good news of some kind." After the shock, Hermione said in a narrative tone, "The pure-blood families have monopolized the entire wizarding world's financial industry before, and now the two attacks on Gringotts by the You-Know-Who have almost completely destroyed the goblins' credit. As a result, it is basically a foregone conclusion that the British United Wizarding Bank in Hogsmeade will replace Gringotts after the war."

"That is to say, the You-Know-Who has helped us remove the biggest obstacle in our attempt to seize financial control of the UK." At this point, Hermione stood up and said excitedly, "Gringotts has always been a neutral organization, and goblins rarely get involved in human civil wars. So I've always been worried that if the pure-blood families use Gringotts to rise quickly after the war, our war would be in vain."

"It's definitely not in vain. You're worrying too much." Ryan consoled. "Because even if they have money, they don't have enough manpower to support them. After we provide enough jobs, those Muggle wizards won't need to rely on pure-blood families to support themselves. Pure-blood families themselves have very few people, and we've cleared out some of them this time. It will take a long time for the remaining people to recover to their current level."

"You're right. I did think too much." Hermione paused and took out a letter from the bottom of the pile. "By the way, here is a letter from Headmaster Dumbledore. He hopes that we can inform him of the route of action to avoid accidental injuries in the chaos."

"That's a good idea." Ryan nodded. "We and the Order of the Phoenix often choose to launch surprise attacks at night. In this situation where visibility is unclear and everyone is very nervous, if we really choose the same target, it is easy for us to start fighting first."

"But it's easy to solve." Ryan thought of the little toy that the 101st Airborne Division brought with them when they landed in Normandy during World War II. "I'll make a batch of badges first. When the badges are close to each other, they will light up or vibrate. This way, each dispatched personnel only need to bring two with them and don't have to worry about accidental injuries."

Life went back to normal. On the one hand, after a long attack, Ryan and his men destroyed 80% of the targets and nearly 90% of the production capacity of the pure-blood wizards in the south. As more places were destroyed, the places that the Death Eaters needed to protect also decreased. Each of the remaining points was guarded by a lot of dark wizards. In this case, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be almost no losses as we are doing now if we want to continue the attack.

On the other hand, perhaps because the persistent attacks by Ryan and his team after the war started dealt a heavy blow to Voldemort, Voldemort and the Ministry of Magic in London have been much quieter in recent times, and it seems that they are strategically shrinking due to insufficient strength. Therefore, Ryan and his team could not find too many targets.

In short, this boring and monotonous life was broken by a letter from Hogwarts in mid-April. This letter was mailed by Dumbledore, who invited Ryan to go to Hogwarts to discuss some important matters.

"It seems that this boring life is finally over," Ryan said after receiving the letter and waving the letter to Hermione who was drinking tea beside him, "Maybe this war will soon be over too."

(End of this chapter)