Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 288 The Path to Becoming a Wizard from a Muggle

After speaking with Winston Robinson, Murphy weighed the strength at his disposal.

Firstly, regarding the magical world, the purge by the British Ministry of Magic is essentially complete.

Through personnel changes in key positions, Murphy has significantly increased his control over the British Ministry of Magic, and the most important departments are now basically staffed with his people.

Both of the two violent institutions, the Auror Command and the Watchmen, are led by trustworthy individuals. Coupled with the internal oversight powers of the "Disciplinary Forces," Murphy has firmly grasped the reins of officials at all levels of the Ministry of Magic.

It can be said that he has essentially seized control of the executive branch of the British wizarding world. The only remaining entity, the "Wizengamot" wizarding council, is still outside Murphy's power sphere, but it won't remain so for long.

Secondly, in the Muggle community, Murphy's actions against the State of Sue have yielded good results.

The disintegration process of the Soviet Union was forcibly interrupted. Now, thanks to the efforts of Qin Yeli and Valery, as well as the bribery and control of a large amount of anti-aging virus, the turmoil in the Soviet political arena has basically ended. The two have stabilized the situation and have regained control of the power that was on the verge of collapse.

The Sukhothai Kingdom has weathered its most difficult period, and things in all aspects have begun to run smoothly again.

With a Muggle regime and a wizard regime in hand, and with figures like Dumbledore who could directly hinder him now relegated to the periphery, Murphy felt the time was ripe to take further action.

First, he reaffirmed his goal.

What he wanted was to study magic in a scientific way, and at the same time, to use magic to advance technology, so that the two would complement and promote each other, thereby pushing his understanding of "truth" into a deeper and broader realm.

Therefore, he plans to establish a national-level research base in the country of Su, using the Magic Research Institute as a blueprint to replicate a larger center for magic research.

According to Murphy's vision, this research base will bring together the nation's top scientists from various fields, concentrating their efforts to advance research into magic on a scale far exceeding that of the atomic energy program.

Actions of this caliber are bound to be difficult to conceal completely. Therefore, once the plan begins, it will attract attention from all sides, and magic will gradually be exposed to the eyes of various Gherkin governments, becoming an open secret.

This level of openness is still some distance from fully revealing the existence of magic to the general public, but it is much broader than the scope of openness where only heads of state know about the existence of the magical world.

Undoubtedly, this is a major violation of wizarding secrecy laws and will inevitably provoke opposition and suppression from the magic ministries of various countries.

Fortunately, the Kingdom of Su is a relatively closed country, and Alkaim is somewhat out of touch with wizards from other countries, making it difficult for them to influence the Kingdom of Su and Alkaim.

On the other hand, he wanted to expand the Magic Research Institute as a base and, relying on the Umbrella Corporation, continue to build several large-scale magic research institutions within the UK.

However, his control over British Muggle society was not yet sufficient, so this matter could not be brought to the forefront and had to be carried out under various ostensible names such as "Biotechnology Research and Development Center" and "Semiconductor Research and Development Center".

Looking further into the future, in order to reduce resistance to his actions, he also wanted to gradually advance his infiltration of British Muggle society.

Compared to the Soviet Union, where political power was decentralized, Britain found it difficult to control the entire country by replacing one or two individuals; it had to proceed gradually.

He plans to train a group of Muggle-born wizards in the near future, help them readjust to Muggle society, and then send them into the Muggle government after training.

At the same time, he also plans to seek Muggle collaborators and find agents through ordinary means, under the guise of an umbrella.

Thinking about this, he suddenly realized that he hadn't been in contact with Patrick for a long time.

……

At the lakeside villa, Murphy met Patrick again.

The latter was playing soccer with his son on the lawn when he suddenly saw someone waving at him from the side of the woods.

He left the child with the nanny and went to the edge of the woods. "Murphy! It really is you!"

"Patrick, long time no see," Murphy smiled.

"It has been a long time, a whole year. If Laura and the others hadn't shown me the surveillance footage of you occasionally returning to the research institute, I would have thought they murdered you," Patrick joked. "I heard you went to the magical world to find a way to heal yourself. Did you find one?"

"Found it," Murphy said without elaborating. "How have you been lately?"

"Me? Of course, it couldn't be better. Little Ares can already speak, although his pronunciation is a bit unclear, but that's what makes it interesting. Oh, by the way, I suspect Ares might become a wizard."

"Huh?" Murphy exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"

Ares Jr. was once a pure Muggle human child, but last year he and Patrick were bitten by werewolves. Although they were saved from death by a failed transformation with a magic potion, they could not reverse the werewolf transformation process, which resulted in Patrick and Ares Jr. becoming werewolves.

To suppress their berserk state during the full moon, the Magic Research Institute developed an enhanced version of the wolfsbane potion for them. One injection can last for a year, making them not much different from ordinary people.

Muggles who are converted into werewolves generally have very low magical abilities. For example, Patrick, apart from becoming younger and stronger through the werewolf conversion, did not show any wizarding abilities.

But did little Ares actually exhibit magical properties?

"Maybe it was because Audrey was changing Ares' diaper that day, and he wasn't happy about it, so he ran away—you know, two-year-old boys are very naughty—and just as Audrey was about to catch him, he suddenly disappeared and then reappeared on the stairs on the second floor, which really scared Audrey."

"After that, strange things started happening around him, like jam-stained handprints on the ceiling, broccoli suddenly disappearing from his plate... The nanny swore she once saw Ares sleeping in mid-air..."

Murphy nodded. "A magical outburst, and it happened quite early... Ares might really be a wizard."

interesting.

It's highly unlikely that Ares was a wizard by nature. The opportunity that led him to acquire wizarding abilities was probably the werewolf virus and the magic potion.

Perhaps, being infected with the werewolf virus in childhood can unleash the magical potential of Muggles?

If this isn't a coincidence, then could all Muggle children become wizards in a similar way?

"If you have time, take Ares to the research institute for some checkups," Murphy said.

In addition, the Hogwarts Admission Book is also a means of verification. If Ares's name is written in the Admission Book, it means that his magical level has been recognized by the Admission Book and has reached the standard for entering Hogwarts to study—that is, the same as ordinary wizard children.

"Okay." Patrick had the same idea. "But you didn't come here today to talk about this, did you?"

"Oh, right!" Ares was so pleasantly surprised that he almost forgot his main purpose. "I came to ask you if you'd like to go into politics?"

(End of this chapter)