It's a miracle that such an incompetent liar has managed to survive until now.
At the same time, everyone suddenly realized the benefits of this new wizarding law.
At least, from now on, opportunistic people like Lockhart will no longer have a place to survive.
Now wizards will be even less likely to resist the new wizard law, and they even express their support. Many wizards have taken the initiative to go to the Ministry of Magic to register their wands and obtain an 'identity card' to walk around in ordinary society.
As for the common people, seeing that the new wizarding law was so 'strict', many of them were still a little scared, and the last bit of worry they had was gone.
When the first batch of wizards who had obtained "identity cards" came into society, they were warmly welcomed by the people.
The people enthusiastically took these wizards to learn about the modern world and even treated them to dinner.
Of course, their main reason is that they want to learn about the real situation in the wizarding world from the mouths of these wizards.
At the same time, some conscientious media also bravely came forward to interview.
The wizards were somewhat flattered by the enthusiasm of the people, but they immediately behaved themselves and did not do anything wrong. They refused some requests to demonstrate magic and also answered some questions seriously.
The two sides got along very well during their first contact due to a series of preparations made before.
There are also many wizards from ordinary families who have returned home with their identities revealed.
The parents who had been pointed at by neighbors for years because their children were doing something mysterious and nobody knew what they were doing, finally felt proud and attracted a lot of surprise from their friends and neighbors.
It was only at this time that people finally realized that the wizard was not far away from them, and might even be right next to them, but he had been hiding too well before, so no one had discovered him.
Moreover, the appearance of these wizards from ordinary families also confirmed the previous "rumors".
It turns out that it is really possible for ordinary families to give birth to children with wizarding talents!
Now people will be even less likely to resist wizards returning to society. After all, no one can guarantee whether their offspring will have wizarding talent.
Therefore, even if we don't talk about fighting for the interests of wizards, at least for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we should not discriminate against or treat wizards differently.
But soon, the people discovered that they did not need to fight for the interests of the wizards at all, and their talents themselves were enough to bring them enough preferential treatment.
This was because, with the implementation of the new wizarding law and more and more wizards returning to society, as well as the large number of immigrant wizards in Britain, the Ministry of Magic was gradually running out of management staff.
Thus, a round of large-scale expansion of the Ministry of Magic, and a wizard civil service examination began.
Although there are recruitment quotas for ordinary people, they are mainly unimportant civil service positions.
In comparison, the recruitment quota for wizards accounts for more than 90 percent.
Aurors, who are mainly in law enforcement positions, and newly established positions similar to auxiliary police, account for 80 percent of this recruitment target.
The rest are menial workers, responsible for checking wands and finding out what magic wizards know when filing records.
And these are things that only wizards can do.
Ordinary people will see the huge difference in the quota ratio (1:9) and then look at the population ratio between ordinary people and wizards (1W:1).
My goodness! The difficulty of getting such a stable job for an ordinary person and a wizard is nearly 100,000 times different!
Why do they need to fight for anything for the wizards? They have earned the preferential treatment based on their own abilities.
But ordinary people didn't say anything. After all, this expansion of enrollment had no intention of favoritism. It was just a practical matter. Those positions could only be done by wizards.
Some even feel that the authorities are willing to allow ordinary people to enter the Ministry of Magic, an institution that manages wizards, which is already taking the feelings of ordinary people into consideration.
After all, this is an institution that already existed for wizards, and it originally only accepted wizards.
…To be continued….
Chapter 168 Hermione: Oh no, I’m a substitute!
The controversy surrounding the wizards' return was quickly overshadowed by the public expansion of the Ministry of Magic.
People have turned their attention to the 'civil service examination'.
They mainly want to see which lucky ordinary people can pass the exam. After all, it is much more difficult than the ordinary civil service exam.
Ordinary people naturally hope that these reference people can bring them some glory.
As for wizards, people also pay some attention to them, but most of them are those who have wizards among their neighbors.
They also wanted to see whether these new wizards who had grown up under their watch could achieve anything.
However, compared to ordinary people, these wizards were not that nervous, but rather relieved.
Because they have finally gotten rid of the "torture" of being pestered with questions every day.
Although they were happy to show off and answer questions at the beginning.
But after a long time, after answering one question after another, they almost became ruthless parrots and became numb.
Later they even discovered that everyone seemed to treat them like monkeys, so they began to be even more afraid to go out, which seriously affected their normal lives.
It’s better not to come back!
This idea gradually began to spread rapidly among the wizards who returned to society.
It is precisely because of this situation that the expansion of the Ministry of Magic has been made so high-profile.
This was done deliberately by Grindelwald in order to distract the public's attention and indirectly rescue these poor returning wizards.
Of course, Grindelwald requested and obtained approval from Bai Qiangdai.
Although he is now the head of the British Ministry of Magic, when things rise to the national level, he is not able to make decisions on his own and requires Bai Qiangdai's personal approval.
Regarding the situation of the returning wizards, Bai Qiangdai even asked local police officers to patrol near the homes of these returning wizards every day to maintain order, disperse ordinary people who gathered around without reason, and reduce the situation of the returning wizards being disturbed.
In fact, high-level officials such as White Gunda and Grindelwald were quite helpless about the "inhumane" treatment received by the returning wizards. They really did not expect such a situation to occur.
But when I think about it carefully, it seems natural.
After all, the ratio of ordinary people to wizards is there. A wizard who is one in a million would be a rare creature among ordinary people.
Even though Britain now has the largest number of wizards in the world, and a large number of wizards are gradually returning to society, wizards are still a rare existence, and there are a lot of ordinary people who have never seen a wizard with their own eyes.
These people were really curious, so when a returning wizard appeared in the local area, it naturally attracted a large number of ordinary people to come and watch.
However, this situation will gradually decrease as the Ministry of Magic expands.
The main reason is that the number of Aurors and Viki (wizard auxiliary police) will increase. In the future, law enforcement and patrol forces will be strengthened, and ordinary people will see wizards more frequently.
In addition, the official law enforcement identities of these Aurors and Viki make ordinary people dare not do anything presumptuous towards them.
It not only makes ordinary people accustomed to wizards, but also makes them feel a certain degree of awe towards them, and they will not dare to mess around with ordinary wizards.
At the very least, the situation where you treat others as monkeys is unlikely to occur.
"Fortunately I didn't go back, otherwise I would have been treated like a monkey, and I couldn't stand this."
Hermione looked at a survey report on the current situation of returning wizards, and couldn't help but feel a little fortunate that she and Su Mo did not go home to visit their parents after leaving school, thus escaping the disaster.
Well, yes, Hermione has now left Hogwarts and is no longer attending school.
Mainly because Su Mo recruited her in advance, now Hermione has become a member of the Dimension City and has been given the Divine Road System.
Asking her to study those things at Hogwarts would just be a waste of time for her.
However, although Hermione had been recruited, she did not settle down in the dimensional city.
Instead, he stayed in the Harry Potter world. In addition to studying with Bai Qiangdai, it also made it convenient for Bai Qiangdai to keep in touch with the dimensional city.
So, these days, she has been following Bai Qiangdai, watching how Bai Qiangdai manages a country, learning something from it, and occasionally helping Bai Qiangdai and handling some chores.
At the same time, because she has been following Bai Qiangdai, she has also appeared in some major events.
For example, Hermione participated in the previous awarding ceremony, and it was she who presented the medal to Grindelwald.
For example, at the coronation ceremony, she was the one who presented the crown and scepter to Bai Qiangdai.
And when Bai Qiangdai was giving a speech, she was standing next to him.
So much so that Hermione is now famous, because everyone knows that the new king will always have such a child by his side.
But apart from the professors and some students at Hogwarts, her parents, and some of her elementary school classmates, no one knew Hermione.
Hogwarts is a semi-closed school, so naturally it cannot reveal any information.
As for their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granger would never tell anyone about it.
As for elementary school classmates?
How could those little ones remember so much? They had almost completely forgotten Hermione, the academic master who couldn't get along with anyone. At most, they had only seen her on TV and felt that she looked familiar.
So, when no one revealed Hermione's background, the public had no way of knowing Hermione's identity, and they began to use their imagination to imagine Hermione's identity.
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Some people said that Hermione might be the child of a high-ranking official, who was sent to White Gundai to be a servant in exchange for a smooth career for himself.
But it was quickly denied by others. Regardless of whether they were children of high-ranking officials, it was impossible to exchange one's career for one's children.
After all, this is the attendant of the king of a country, the best place to be gilded. Just letting your children come in is already a great grace. You still want to exchange it for benefits? How big of a face do you have?
Moreover, the claim that the children of high-ranking officials are gilded is unlikely, because Hermione is too young. What else can she do at this age besides doing odd jobs? How can she be gilded if she can't do anything?
Then someone else said that Hermione might be the illegitimate daughter of His Majesty! So... she is Mordred!
(Mozi: Meow meow meow?, Hermione: Oh no, I’m a substitute!)
The public was also shocked by this statement.
Then, as expected, someone jumped out to refute it.
... .. ....
Regardless of whether the girl is Mordred or not, even if she is really His Majesty's child, there is no need to hide it. Can't you just give her the identity of a princess? Why do you have to keep her with you without revealing her identity?
The person who made this statement immediately responded: "It is precisely because she is Mordred that her identity cannot be revealed. Don't forget that the legend says that she started a rebellion."
Wow, what he said actually makes sense.
When many people heard this, they thought it made sense and began to support this statement and started to passionately argue with the opposing party.
After that, various statements emerged, such as conspiracy theories, which directly said that Hermione was the mastermind and Bai Qiangdai was just a puppet pushed to the front.
Or maybe, Hermione was actually Bai Qiangdai's military advisor, and played a key role in the previous change of dynasties.
People, you say you are right, I say I am right, you finish your speech and I take the stage, all kinds of ideas emerge one after another like a hundred flowers blooming.
In just two days, the public had come up with dozens of possible identity backgrounds for Hermione, and they had added various explanations to increase their credibility, which made the agents from MI5 and MI6 call her an expert.
It turns out that there are many experts among the people. With such a skill in fabricating identities, it would be a shame not to join their unit as an agent.
Until the wizard joined the discussion.
But soon some wizards realized that Hermione was a wizard and that she should be in school at her age, so they wrote to Hogwarts to inquire about the situation.
Then, Hermione's identity was finally exposed, and the gossip war over the identity dispute came to an end.
It turned out that all the guesses were wrong. It was just that the girl happened to know His Majesty.
…To be continued…
PS: I have an inexplicable headache, which affects my thinking. I will leave it at that for today and make up for it tomorrow.
Chapter 169: New types of missions, destiny weapon cards? The world's favorite?
This kind of little gossip had no effect on little Hermione, and she didn't even know it existed.
It’s not that Hermione is out of touch with the news. On the contrary, she is around Bai Qiangdai and can receive the most information.
Because all the important information from all over Britain will be gathered here at Bai Qiang.
Hermione was doing odd jobs for Bai Qiangdai, serving tea and water and handling various documents, so naturally she came into contact with this information.
For example, the "Recent Investigation Report on Returning Wizards" that she was looking at now was something she picked up when she saw it while removing the files that had been processed by Bai Qiangdai.
That’s right, she just casually picked up and read important national intelligence, and no one stopped her.
There are two main reasons for this. One is naturally the nature of her current job, which gives her plenty of opportunities to read through these documents when handling them.
The second is her identity.
Hermione has now been recruited by the Dimension City. Naturally, she is someone Bai Qiangdai can trust, so Bai Qiangdai does not guard against Hermione.
When the others saw that His Majesty had allowed Hermione to do this, they naturally did not dare to say anything.
Of course, there were also some stubborn and honest people who stood up and tactfully told Bai Qiangdai that this might have a bad influence.
