Hogwarts Wasteland: The Witch from the Borderlands

Chapter 546 A Letter from One Year Later

It has been a long time since that great war that determined the fate of mankind.

But as long as you look up on a cloudless night and see the two bright moons running parallel in the sky, it feels as if everything happened just yesterday.

With the winter curse eradicated and the stubborn dust clouds disappearing from people's heads, the earth returned to the hopeful state it was fifty years ago.

Sunshine and rain, wind and frost, lightning—people are always fascinated by the ever-changing celestial phenomena, just like a toy they can never tire of seeing.

Of course, climate change will not happen overnight. The sudden return of the sun and the sharp rise in temperature could even lead to large-scale meteorological disasters on a global scale.

But people remain hopeful, and things are gradually improving as the reconstruction progresses.

Harry stood on the terrace of the moving Round Table Hall tower, looking at the distant, rolling green mountains. He had matured a lot, grown taller and stronger, and his face bore the marks of time and scars, contrasting sharply with the lingering childishness he still possessed.

The sun was slowly setting, while on the other side of the sky, two moons of similar size were slowly rising, one after the other.

Among them, the crescent moon, which resembles a hook, is the true moon belonging to Earth.

The other round, forever golden and forever full, belongs to Hermione, the witch who turned into the rising moon a year ago and never returned.

He tightened his grip on the parchment, gazed at the full moon that was somewhat hazy in the twilight, took a deep breath, sat down at the table on the terrace, and began to write.

Dear Hermione:

I hope you are well when this letter arrives. (Hilmi said that the letter could be sent to the moon and seen by you through the icon in the Hall of the Round Table.)

A year has passed. At first, everyone thought you would be back soon, maybe in just a day, a week, or a month.

But you missed our entire fifth grade, a whole year of this rapidly changing world!

Everyone misses you, including me.

Hilmi said, "You're busy with something very important, as important as the Wish Cup, and none of us can help you with that."

Okay, I admit he's right, you're moving too fast, so fast that we can't keep up with you.

What should I write next? — I don't write letters to others much, so you might find this a bit disjointed. —

Ah! That's it! The situation on the mainland! You must be very interested in this!

After you transformed into the moon and flew away, we, led by Hilmi, quickly wiped out Rielland and captured the remaining fairies.

Grindelwald's madness subsided quickly, but no one could untie the restraints binding him, and he seemed unwilling to be freed either, silently returning alone to the Eiffel Tower.

During that year, he almost never showed his face again. The entire Wizarding Party was leaderless, and it was only Rozier and Hilmi who were holding it up. Now Hilmi is practically the person in charge of the entire wizarding camp.

Oh, right! Kaguya-sha!

This is a global wizarding organization spearheaded by Hilmi and based on the Hall of the Round Table.

After that great war, the wizards who received the Holy Mark experienced the benefits of the recall mechanism, and Hilmi took the opportunity to organize everyone and establish this society, which was not very mandatory and was maintained only by missions, just like the Order of the Phoenix in its early days.

Of course, to get more recalls, you still need to pray for me sincerely, he said, which will be very helpful for your awakening and return.

We are now all members of the Moonlit Society. Apart from attending classes, we spend most of our time taking on missions from Professor Figg and participating in global endeavors.

Actually, we don't learn much more at school now; we're way ahead of the professors, but Mom still stubbornly insists we complete the entire school year.

As for the mission of the Shining Moon Society—this might not make you very happy, but I think you'll still want to know.

After that great battle, the Fairy Extinction Faction was completely wiped out, but the Hidden Faction remains deeply hidden. We don't intend to eliminate them, but at least we need to know where they are to make sure they don't suddenly reappear and cause trouble one day.

And then there are the Muggles. The fall of Ryrland threw the Soviet Union into chaos. They lost their most important weapons production base, and their internal political parties underwent a dramatic transformation.

That annoying Nikolayevich didn't die. Hilmi put him back, letting him stir up trouble on the Muggle side, at least making the commissar faction's stance uncertain.

Nowadays, the Soviet Union has split into several camps, and while constantly fighting civil wars, they also deliberately provoke friction with the wizarding communities from time to time, trying to frame other factions and divert the trouble eastward!

However, we have truth serum and mind control, so they rarely succeed.

Our missions sometimes involve venturing into treacherous places to search for possible goblin caves, or resolving conflicts with Muggles. Of course, Filch assigns different tasks based on each person's abilities; he's always reliable, isn't he?

That year, we dealt with the Soviet nuclear satellite crash—one of their reconnaissance satellites, carrying a nuclear reactor, went out of control and crashed near the French coastline! It almost caused a major disaster!

There's also the Virus Pigeon Incident—the dying Commune Alliance faction used peace pigeons purchased from Beauxbatons as virus carriers in an attempt to spread the plague within the wizarding community!

There's also the Tribunal faction's century-old cannon. They've spent decades, and expect to spend decades more, building a cannon with a mountain as its emplacement, capable of destroying a city a thousand miles away with a single shot!

Oh, and the Red Flag faction's sexual orientation bomb lab—that was truly wicked; we completely buried it.

We also rescued a large number of young wizards who had been mind-controlled and brainwashed by the political commissar group.

In short, those divided Muggles, each faction with its own ideas, have each divided up some people and territory. Without centralized control, they have become even more unrestrained, making the whole of Siberia very chaotic.

The Muggles' overall strength was considerably weaker than when they had the goblins' help, but their ability to cause trouble had increased many times over.

Forget about these terrible things; the world as a whole is still moving in a positive direction.

Did you know that because you turned into the moon, the professors say the whole world seems to have become more active, the probability of young wizards awakening has increased significantly, and the number of new students this year has once again reached a new high!

Professor McGonagall had to expand the college dormitories again, as even if all the previous ones were full, they wouldn't be enough!

Ah~ I've already written so many lines without realizing it. I hope you don't think I'm being long-winded.

Although Hilmi said a long time ago that she could write to you, I always thought that was too girly.

But we're going to do something big tomorrow!

The Muggle Science Bureau faction has developed a colossus-class sky machine called Swarlog, and Hilmi says there must be something you need in it!

In order to nip the threat in the bud, and to wake you up sooner, we're setting off tomorrow to take down that giant metal lump!

But you don't need to worry about us. The meditation room has been greatly improved and expanded by Hilmi, and we haven't forgotten to keep adventuring in the borderlands. Now everyone is very strong!

Outsiders have given us some cool nicknames, but I feel a little embarrassed to read them to you here.

So let's wait until you wake up and then find out for yourself!

Best wishes, Harry Potter forever!