Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 375 Li Weide: Always Question
"You'd better come up with a suitable reason." Dumbledore's face turned cold and he stared at Grindelwald who suddenly broke in.

In order to prevent this outstanding student, Li Weide, from going astray in the future, he is working hard to guide him...

I didn't expect to be interrupted by this bastard rushing in!
So, he'd better have a good reason, otherwise...

Dumbledore calmly took out the Elder Wand and placed it on the table...

Grindelwald ignored Dumbledore's murderous gaze and looked at Levid. "Very good, you are here too. That saves me the trouble of looking for you..."

"Mr. Director, what do you want to talk to me about?" Li Weide stood up and asked politely on the surface.

"I have found out some things about the group that attacked you." Grindelwald pulled over a chair and sat down, not at all shy.

"That's strange. You've been searching for more than a month and found nothing, but now you suddenly find it?" Dumbledore asked in a deep voice.

"Because these guys deliberately revealed it to me." Grindelwald said.

It turned out that for more than a month, Grindelwald saw that he could not find anything, so he started to torment those pure-blood families...

Since we don't know which company it is, let's try them all! There must be someone involved here anyway!
It definitely wouldn't be much different, because only pure-blood families that could have family members serving in high positions in the Ministry of Magic would be qualified to participate in planning such an attack.

Only these guys would dare to deliberately manipulate public opinion and try to put the blame on Grindelwald! No one else would have that guts!
So, for more than a month, all the pure-blood officials or employees working in the Ministry of Magic have been indiscriminately "bullied" by Grindelwald...

Ever since he had the Ministry of Magic issue a new recruitment law, many witches and wizards had been admitted to the Ministry of Magic, and then, with their outstanding abilities and money, they gradually rose to high positions...

So, after Grindelwald's order was issued, the pure-blood families in the Ministry of Magic were now being harassed and made to suffer. And even high-ranking officials like the Minister of Welfare were being harassed by Grindelwald himself...

Finally, after more than a month of tossing and turning, Grindelwald began to receive some letters of denunciation...

When these pure-blood families united, they must have first contacted many capable families.

Therefore, there must be some families that received invitations but ultimately did not participate...

These families may not understand the deeper things, but they definitely know some surface information.

So, after being tormented like this, these people definitely can't stand it.

Those guys joined forces to cause trouble, and those of them who were not involved were innocently implicated. How could they possibly endure it?
Although they may not be able to reveal the specific family name due to the magical confidentiality contract, they can still hint at some of the family's names.

Of course, Grindelwald would not easily believe the contents of these letters, so...

He deliberately announced that he had received the report, and also said that when he was clearing up the accounts later, he would let the reporting families go free...

In fact, Grindelwald's words would hardly deceive these shrewd pure-blood families, but...

No one dares to take the risk! What if I don’t report it, but someone else does?
It would be fine if they got what they got from Li Weide, but the problem is that they got nothing, it was all in vain!

Grindelwald's conspiracy was an open one, taking advantage of human nature.

So, Grindelwald received another wave of anonymous letters of complaint!

Even some pure-blood families who had nothing to do with this matter, in order to escape the dilemma of being harassed all day long, wrote down their suspected targets in letters of accusation and sent them anonymously to Grindelwald...

Grindelwald actually found some clues among these massive letters of complaint!
He has probably locked onto ten pure-blood families, but of course, he is not sure which ones they are yet.

But most importantly, Grindelwald determined who the group of desperadoes who attacked the Hogwarts Express were.

Those families can be investigated slowly, but Grindelwald will never let these confirmed desperadoes go!

“Then, who attacked us?” Li Wade asked. “The ones who attacked you were the Purifiers,” Grindelwald said in a deep voice.

"The Scourers? Weren't they wiped out long ago?" Dumbledore frowned.

"Yes... at least that's what it appears to be. It seems they haven't been completely wiped out. At least a small portion has been hiding. After years of recuperation, they've regained some capabilities..."

Li Weide asked: "What is the Purger?"

"They're a notorious group..." Grindelwald explained. "They were born in America... and their members come from all over the world..."

"They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries," Dumbledore continued. "At that time, the Magical Congress of the United States of America had not yet been established, so they exploited loopholes in the law enforcement mechanism. Regardless of whether they were criminals or not, as long as they could exchange them for a bounty, they would choose to hunt them down... Over time, these people became increasingly corrupt and brutal. Eventually, they began trafficking wizards, even capturing innocent Muggles and passing them off as wizards to the Puritans who hunted witches in exchange for rewards."

"During the famous Salem witch trials, at least two of the so-called Puritans who tried witches were Scourers... After this infamous trial, the Magical Congress of the United States of America was established and issued an international manhunt. They began to capture and try these outlaws who had betrayed their kind. However... the capture work did not go smoothly, and the Aurors had a hard time finding these hidden Scourers."

"Later, by chance, we caught some of the escaped Purgers, and eventually learned a lot of intelligence about them from them..."

"It turns out they formed a family with Muggles... and then disappeared into the Muggle population. There were so many Muggles that no one could find them without exposing their magic."

"Moreover, if they marry Muggles and their children have magical talents, they will be abandoned directly...because only in this way can they continue to hide and not be discovered."

"Before they disbanded, they discussed together and decided to pass on their beliefs to their descendants: magic is real, and wizards should be eliminated once they are discovered!"

"Although the Aurors knew the information about the Scourers, they had already hidden themselves among the Muggles. So, even if they knew how they hid, the Aurors were still helpless..."

Grindelwald said, "That's right... Although these guys were ostensibly wiped out, their descendants inherited their will and caused quite a bit of trouble... In the United States, Muggles and wizards can't marry because there was once a descendant of the Scourers who, after meeting a witch named Dorcas Twelvetrees, extracted a lot of information about the magical world from her and made it public, seriously violating the International Statute of Secrecy... That's why the Magical Congress of the United States of America banned marriage between wizards and Muggles..."

Li Weide grasped the crux of the matter. "So, how could these Scourers suddenly reappear? Since all their descendants with magical talents have been abandoned, shouldn't the Scourers be completely lost in the long river of history? Even if there are still some hiding, it would be difficult for them to cause any trouble... However, I remember that the wizards who attacked the Hogwarts Express were not mediocre wizards who knew nothing."

"People are always different, Vader. Most of the Scourers fled. But that doesn't mean all of them are willing to give up... There are always some who refuse to give up what for them was a wonderful life..." Grindelwald said. "Some Scourers didn't abandon their magical offspring, but they also instilled their beliefs in them... So, although they knew magic, they were taught to hate everything about it. These people have reunited... It's a bit like what the Muggle world calls a sociopath. A group of sociopaths come together and form an antisocial organization..."

"How do you know all this?" Levid asked. "And this is also completely illogical... I was facing hundreds of them! How could the Scourers, with their sheer size, have remained hidden until now? And why could you only capture one, and not all of them? Could it be that they were deliberately released for you to capture, and then used the Scourers' name to let them off the hook? Furthermore, with the Scourers' hatred of the wizarding world, how could they possibly ally with the pure-blood families? Furthermore, if they were already so powerful, they wouldn't have waited until now to reappear!" Levid felt that there were still too many strange things about this matter. He didn't believe Grindelwald hadn't noticed these loopholes.

Grindelwald snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, so I didn't believe what was said in those reports at first. However, since so many of them mentioned the Scourers, I set a trap myself without telling anyone... and then successfully captured a Scourer... Although he wasn't a core member, I still learned a lot from his mind."

"Then your trap is quite sophisticated... You happened to capture only an unimportant member, and based on his intelligence, you were unable to capture more people... Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Li Weide still had doubts.

There is still a very high possibility that this so-called captured Purger was deliberately captured by Grindelwald after the pure-blood families had their memories modified.

Having been tortured by Grindelwald for over a month, if Levitra were from a pure-blood family, he would have done the same...

All it takes is sacrificing one attacker and then deliberately stepping into Grindelwald's trap.

"Do you think I can't tell whether a person's memory has been modified?" Grindelwald said.

Dumbledore frowned and said, "You mean, his memories are all true? There's not a trace of modification?"

"But there is still a possibility that your memory has been modified without you being able to tell..." Li Weide said.

The wizarding world isn't big, but it's not small either. Even someone as powerful as Grindelwald can't possibly understand all the magic...

How do you know that there is no way to modify memory without leaving any trace in the inheritance of those pure-blood families?
Grindelwald frowned and changed his sitting position.

Even Grindelwald was speechless after hearing Levid's series of questions...

(End of this chapter)