vncnus Chapter 142 A Crisis Caused by a Small Matter
Chapter 142 A Crisis Caused by a Small Matter
Chapter 142 A Crisis Caused by a Small Matter
The words "magic school," "Ministry of Magic," "wizarding law," and "secrecy law" formed a simplified version of wizarding society in Nava's mind.
She seems to have sketched out a mysterious and dazzling magical civilization hidden beyond the known world, lurking in the inner layers of the world.
Because the wizards she encountered all seemed to be rare elites, some of whom were unparalleled geniuses.
So I subconsciously raised my average standards for what I imagined the magical world to be.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and a waiter from the restaurant pushed in a small food cart to serve the dishes.
Nava stared wide-eyed at the people in front of her who were still talking nonchalantly, and the werewolf in the corner who was still twitching.
Isn't this reasonable?
Aren't you all going to try to avoid people around?
But the waiter who came to serve the food acted like he was blind. After setting everything up, he bowed and left without saying a word.
A bizarre thought popped into Nava's head: she believed it was a wizard's magic that had created a different scene before the waiter's eyes—how profound was the theory of light and shadow! How incomprehensible was this hallucination caused by a neurotic!
Magic is indeed mysterious!
But as mysterious as it was, she knew that her little sister's words would never receive a response.
No matter when or where, the law has always only bound those who can be bound by the law, while the upper class and the "invincible" have always treated the law as a dispensable plaything.
The former can circumvent the law because it is the creator of the law, while the latter adheres to the fundamental principle that "if a person is killed, they will die."
The two people in front of her were clearly people who could circumvent the law and create it, since one of them was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Magic, and Julia was talking to them about the law.
Nava shook her head slightly, feeling that Julia still had a childlike quality.
"Miss Julia, please." Ryan pushed the plate on the table in front of Julia, gesturing for her to eat more and talk less.
At this point, someone was already pouring truth serum into the werewolf's mouth.
After taking three drops of truth serum, the effects were immediate.
Ryan walked up to the werewolf: "Your name."
"Herbert-Avery".
Why transform into a werewolf in a crowd?
"I'm afraid of Aurors."
Almost everyone glanced in Julia's direction, then nodded to themselves in agreement. The Auror's traits were too obvious; to a true expert, she didn't seem like a qualified Auror. But to a layman, she was an Auror.
"Why are you afraid of Aurors?" Ryan pressed.
"Theft—" The werewolf uttered a single word, a response that Ryan found completely unsurprising, even leading Ryan to suspect that the werewolf's theft was no ordinary crime.
This is not discrimination against the wolf pack.
Rather, it's because infected werewolves are discriminated against within the wizarding world. This is because werewolves are indeed highly contagious and dangerous, and they do exhibit a strong aggressive urge on the night of a full moon.
Faced with this aggressive urge, many ordinary wizards and junior wizards are powerless to protect themselves. This is why werewolves are considered very dangerous.
Therefore, the werewolf community faces a difficult life in the wizarding world.
Moreover, many werewolves with an extremely bloodthirsty nature will actively infect normal wizards, causing the already poor reputation of werewolves to plummet further, making their lives even more difficult, like rats in the sewers.
The wizarding world's prejudice against werewolves wasn't originally too extreme, but with the addition of some bad apples, it has led to the current situation.
"Because of theft, he was afraid of Aurors and chose to flee the wizarding world, begging for a living in the ordinary world. Because he was afraid of Aurors, when he saw Miss Julia, he thought he had been discovered and attacked in hopes of escaping—."
A seemingly ordinary little incident has somehow exposed the magical world to the world—
Moreover, even after the scene has been dealt with, it will still be exposed because technology is developing. Even if there is some communication and contact between the Ministry of Magic and governments of various countries, it cannot prevent ordinary people from discussing this matter.
But if there is one, there will inevitably be two, and if there are two, there will inevitably be three.
This reminded Ryan of what the intelligence report said: the ways of man and the ways of man will eventually intersect.
"What do we do now?" Julia asked, holding her plate and fiddling with her knife and fork, though she couldn't eat anything at all.
"Nothing much, just eat and sleep as usual," Ryan replied. "If you want to use the time-traveling device to go back to the beginning and stop all of this, I won't stop you."
Although he didn't believe deep down that the time converter could achieve such an effect, Ryan could easily see from Professor Nicolas Flamel's comments in previous lessons that the time converter's general usage could not change established facts that had already occurred.
Since everyone's understanding of time converters is not in-depth, it can only be said that, in the current methods used by wizards, it cannot change established facts. However, it cannot be said for sure that time converters are absolutely incapable of changing established facts.
After all, anything can happen.
Magic is no exception.
"I can't borrow a time converter."
To Ryan's astonishment, Julia actually said that, as if this woman from the Magic Congress had no idea what the limit of the time converter was, and she seemed to think that Ryan had made a very good suggestion!
"It seems Iphamoni's education level needs improvement—"
"Huh?" Julia blinked, not quite hearing what Ryan was muttering.
"It's nothing."
"Excuse me for interrupting, have you all finished speaking?" Nava asked, her eyes shining.
"Ms. Nava, please speak." Ryan was somewhat hesitant about this woman who had mistakenly entered the magical world. According to the secrecy law, he should raise his hand and cast "Oblivion" to show his respect.
But it is precisely because he looks down on this secrecy law that he feels nauseous whenever he sees it.
Therefore, they have no intention of complying with the provisions of the secrecy law.
"I just observed that you wizards seem to have some secrets from ordinary people, and I am an ordinary person, what you call a Muggle."
"What should I do in this situation?"
Moreover, those who took photos earlier must have been able to capture my image, which would definitely cause me a lot of trouble in the ordinary world.
Nava's words were reasonable and well-founded. In her view, the people in front of her were all in the prime of their lives, full of youthful vigor and spirit, and did not appear to be bad or wicked. They would not sit idly by and do nothing about what was about to happen to innocent people.
To put it nicely, this is called fighting for legitimate rights and interests, hoping for a perfect resolution so that everyone is happy.
"Ms. Nava, are you worried about your personal safety? Please rest assured, at least you won't be harmed in the magical world. As for some opinions from the ordinary world—first, it's true that you can upload photos online nowadays, but the resolution isn't clear enough to properly identify a person. Also, your accent doesn't sound French; you can easily return to the other side of the ocean, and no one will be able to harass you."
Ryan reassured Nava that things were different now than they would be decades later; ordinary events wouldn't spread across borders as dramatically, at most they would just become a strange tale or something.
"It's not entirely about my personal safety. Also, will you use a forgetting spell on me?"
As soon as Nava finished speaking, the atmosphere in the room instantly became tense.