Chapter 470 468 Party!

Chapter 470 468. Party!

It was the same day that Jon joined the Department of Mysteries.

The first war of the Wizarding Front in Britain broke out. Hogsmeade Village next to Hogwarts Castle was occupied by the Wizarding Front. The British Aurors who were originally stationed here and always monitored Hogwarts Castle were either captured or killed.

This was also the first victory of the Wizarding Front after declaring war on the British Ministry of Magic, but the Daily Prophet certainly did not report this matter. This news did not even appear on the next day's page. Even if the newspaper did not say it, wizards did not lack the circulation of information. After occupying Hogsmeade, the wizards of the Wizarding Front did not restrict the original residents of this wizard village from staying or leaving.

So, even if this matter has not been reported, almost more than half of the people in the entire British wizarding world know about it.

Even if the Ministry of Magic wants to try its best to minimize the impact of the situation, it will be of no avail.

It was during this gap that Barty Crouch Jr. was officially elected as the current British Minister of Magic six months after Cornelius Fudge retired from the position of Minister of Magic after the end of the Triwizard Tournament.

Voldemort gave him a lot of power to deal with the attack of the Wizarding World on Britain. And Voldemort himself finally met with all the pure-bloods again after disappearing from the public eye for a long time.

John was of course present at this meeting. In the main hall of the Ministry of Magic, he gave a speech that was obviously intended to respond to Dumbledore's declaration of war.

He still looked as young and handsome as before. No matter what the real situation was among the pure-bloods, the actual effect was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the rumors that Voldemort was afraid of fighting and did not dare to face Dumbledore.

But John, who actually worked in the Department of Mysteries, saw it clearly. Even if Voldemort stood up, there was no way to change the fact that there had been a huge split among the Death Eaters, that is, the pure-bloods.

At the same time, after getting familiar with the work of the Department of Mysteries for a few days, Jon also had a general understanding of this most mysterious and unknown department of the British Ministry of Magic.

This world is not only about wizards and other magical animals or races, such beings with vivid lives and independent self-awareness can use magic.

There are also many magics that have always existed, uncontrolled, but can be maintained by themselves.

For example, time, death, planets, and prophecies.

Yes, prophecies themselves are actually independent magical existences, and wizards' divination is just obtained or peeked into them through another magical ability.

These are all very wonderful things, and countless wizards have been obsessed with them since ancient times.

For example, when Jon led the Hogwarts to sail on the sea, he met "Sir Stoke", who had a magical love for astronomical magic such as planets.

There are also divination masters walking around, and these people are fanatical fans of peeping prophecies.

There is also the alchemy of making time converters, which has been lost until now. This is the proof that ancient wizards mastered and used time magic.

Including Horcruxes, the person who created Horcruxes must have extraordinary attainments in the study of death magic.

The Department of Mysteries is a summary department that gathers all the magic in the UK and even the whole of Europe.

The Department of Mysteries already existed when the Ministry of Magic was not called the Ministry of Magic, but was called the Wizards' Council. Since then, the name of working here has been passed down. The wizards working here are not called employees, but "Unspoken".

The Department of Mysteries has great autonomy and is the only department in the Ministry of Magic that does not need to obey the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Unspoken people, who can be called "scientists" in the magic world, can even ignore the intervention of the Minister of Magic.

Of course, that was in normal times. Since Voldemort came to power, all special features cannot match absolute strength.

Even if Unspoken people do not have to obey the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, they have no way to disobey Voldemort's wishes, so there is this pure-blood purge of the entire Department of Mysteries.

After understanding the nature of this department, Jon looked at the behavior of the purebloods occupying the Department of Mysteries again, which made him feel absurd that a group of second-generation rich people expelled the academicians of the Academy of Sciences and then came to have a party.

It can only be said that the reality is far more outrageous than the story.

These newly settled purebloods have not even studied the magic belonging to wizards, let alone these innate magic.

So in the early days of entering the Department of Mysteries, they couldn't even count the most basic information left by the previous silent people. They thought that there were not enough people, and as long as enough people were recruited, the affairs of the department could be brought back on track.

But the reality is that idiots are idiots, even if 10,000 idiots are put together, they can't become elites who can do things.

After Jon's group of purebloods who came to expand the staff joined, those who originally thought that recruiting people could solve the problem found that no matter how many people they recruited, they couldn't understand the things they didn't understand before, and these people started to completely give up.

Only a very small number of pure-bloods who had previously stayed in the Department of Mysteries as Unspoken Men could still do something, but with only a number of them that could be counted on one hand, they were of no help to the overall situation.

So these people didn't care and just plunged into their previous research areas. You guys can do whatever you want with others.

As for bringing back the Unspoken who knew how to do things before?

That's definitely impossible. Those Unspoken who have been squeezed out are either half-bloods or pure-bloods who have made it clear that they will be loyal to whichever Voldemort rules Britain. These are irreconcilable issues and it's impossible to bring them back.

Since they can't do anything and can't bring back those who can do things, let's just do it together!

Anyway, the Ministry of Magic will still pay their salaries, and the work in the Department of Mysteries has nothing to do with the daily operation of the magic world. As the new direct leader, Slughorn will not check their work progress and status, so even if everyone is partying here all day and not doing anything, it doesn't matter at all.

After seeing these pure-bloods dancing wildly, Jon can only say that he truly saw the diversity of human beings.

But this can be regarded as a good thing for his and Slughorn's actions here.

Judging from the current performance of these purebloods, they have not been given any further instructions since they were ordered to move into the Department of Mysteries. It seems that the only thing they have to do is to keep an eye on the place and not let anyone else get their hands on the things here.

These purebloods who have turned to Voldemort II are not very distant in their attitude towards Spike, who Jon is currently pretending to be, and Slughorn, who have not yet made it clear who they stand with.

After all, they are just vague in their attitude, not that they have clearly stated that they will not stand with them. As long as they have more parties and their feelings are improved, everything else will be easy to talk about.

Jon also took this opportunity to make good superficial relationships with the purebloods who are not much older than him, so that they will at least not be nodding acquaintances when they meet later.

At the same time, with the help of the identity of the director's assistant provided by Slughorn, he has visited several halls in the Department of Mysteries that can be entered these days.

The purebloods in charge of each hall were basically having a party. Some of them even brought their house elves to the planet hall and had a barbecue at the scene, calling it "atmosphere".

Jon was quite speechless about this, but he did not express any opinions, and even ate a few skewers of skewers at the barbecue party.

The planet hall could not be visited. It had been tossed there. As soon as the door was opened, there was a smell of skewers. Moreover, there was obviously no place in this hall that had anything to do with what Jon was looking for.

There was a locked door next to the planet hall. At first, the purebloods were also very interested in this room that could not be entered. After they failed to open the door no matter what they tried, they got the name of the room behind the door from various materials - "Love House".

As the name suggests, it is a room dedicated to the study of love.

After learning about this, the purebloods suddenly felt bored and stopped looking for ways to enter this door.

As for the Death Hall used to study death, after the warning of the only remaining genuine Silent Man, no purebloods easily entered.

They are trash, but not stupid. They know that things that are related to death are never good.

In addition, they use the Time Hall as an exhibition hall. For some reason, the current time converters cannot be used. Otherwise, many pure bloods would take a few home. Even if they are not used, they can be used as heirlooms.

No one goes into the Brain Hall. The few genuine Unspoken people who stay are experts in human thinking. They hide in the Brain Hall and close the door. They don't care about what other unlearned pure bloods do. Others will not bother them.

Moreover, this room is full of jellyfish-like flying, disgusting brains, and few pure bloods are interested in them.

There are basically few people going to the Prophecy Hall. Most of the time, this room serves as a storage room for various prophecies from ancient times to the present. The most famous one is, without a doubt, the prophecy about the savior who can fight Voldemort. However, that prophecy is said to be placed in the storage room, but only Voldemort himself knows where it is hidden.

Purebloods also know the importance of things, and no one comes to such a place to have fun.

A few days later, some purebloods got tired of life in the Department of Mysteries, and part of this was because the war of the Wizarding Line in Britain was obviously going more and more smoothly.

After occupying Hogsmeade at the beginning, the Wizarding Line relied on Hogwarts Castle and Hogsmeade, which had served as the goblin headquarters for a period of time during the goblin rebellion, as a bridgehead.

During the exile of the Hogwarts carriage, the large and small safe houses secretly built in various places served as small bases, and began to attack the senior staff of the British Ministry of Magic, that is, those noble purebloods.

These days, many purebloods have been attacked in their own manors or castles, and have been damaged, but the wizards of the Wizarding Line, who are the active attackers, have hardly paid any price.

So the purebloods began to spontaneously choose to stick together. They temporarily abandoned their family residences and gathered together to prevent being defeated one by one.

But these families all have industries in the UK. They almost monopolize 100% of the upper-class business in the UK. Otherwise, how could they afford their luxurious life with only the "meager" salary in the Ministry of Magic?

After they formed a group, the Witch Line began to attack the shops and commercial transportation of these pure-blood families, which made them anxious and constantly put pressure on Karkaroff, the current director of the Auror Office, to find a way to counterattack the actions of the Witch Line as soon as possible.

These messy things added up, so that these pure-bloods who came to the Department of Mysteries to work had no intention of staying in the department to party.

They began to frequently absent from work. The most exaggerated one was that after Jon came to the department, the number of people on duty could be counted on ten fingers!

Slughorn, who looked like a good old man, never said much about this, and he had no intention of calling the absentees to scold them.

During this period, Jon could boldly and confidently go deeper to find the source of the golden sand.

However, although these purebloods are unreliable, there are still a few of them who are obviously here with a mission.

Jon found that some of them are very different from those reckless purebloods. Even if they don't understand the work in the Department of Mysteries, they will not mess around. Instead, they wander around the halls every day with clear division of labor, just like patrols, and clock in every day, and even stay after get off work at night, just like special security personnel.

If you ask them what they are doing, they will say that they are bored and just walk around.

After confirming the movement trajectory of these people, Jon no longer cares about them.

He is now a pureblood with a formal identity, and the identity of Spike given to him by Kingsley is not a useless pureblood young master, and he still has a certain level of knowledge and literacy. In addition, Ollivander's wand business is unlikely to be affected in any way, so his absence from work is not noticeable.

Therefore, Jon's subsequent investigation went very smoothly. He quickly ruled out other rooms and locked the final target within the scope of the Time Hall.

Because in the main hall of the Time Hall, there are many hourglasses of various sizes, and the sand constantly flowing in those hourglasses is very similar to the bottle of golden sand obtained from Snape.