Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

When Dumbledore talked about history with Zhang Xu, he mentioned that before the International Federation of Wizards' Secrecy Act came into effect, many wizards in England served the royal family and nobles.

The idea of ​​"learning literary and martial arts, making goods and the emperor's family" is not only found in the East, there are many wizards who follow the secular regime for various purposes.

And the royal family and nobles who know the role of wizards will not give up these useful subordinates.

People who could read, write, and count in society at that time could be said to be rare, and some nobles were even illiterate for generations.

And all the wizards have received higher education in Hogwarts, and all of them can write and count. The illiterates were blown to death in potions before they graduated from Hogwarts.

These knowledgeable and cultured wizards can also be used as senior advisors and clerks.

Not to mention the wizard's force value, encountering beasts and bandits in the territory, sometimes one or two knights and farmers with hoes and pitchforks are not as good as a wizard.

Especially hundreds of years ago, in the era when the level of medical treatment was low, if there was a wizard who passed Potions in the family, the average life expectancy of the whole family could be increased by at least ten years.

Such an all-round talent who can be both civil and military, who can be a general and a minister, and who can also cure diseases, which nobleman doesn't like it.

At that time, the nobles had only two options for appointing literati, the priest of the church and the wizard graduated from Hogwarts.

The problem is that there is a big boss above the pastor, and the nobles can only be regarded as their second boss.

The nobles are not stupid. When recruiting, they will definitely give priority to wizards who regard themselves as big bosses, not to mention that the military strength of wizards can beat the priest who can only talk about it.

However, the church that had been robbed of its business would naturally rise up to resist, and the witch hunt campaign launched after fooling the public was a success, and later the International Federation of Wizards secrecy law was born, and wizards began to hide.

For example, the Malfoy family completely cut off contact with Muggle society after the Act of Secrecy came into effect, and then beat them to death denying that they had been in contact with Muggles, even if they were slapped in the face by historians.

However, there are still some wizards who have not separated from the British royal family and nobles after the Statute of Secrecy came into force.

You said that I eat hot food and drink spicy food around the big boss, and I am served by people every day, and the big boss will carefully consider the suggestions I put forward. Why should I give up the job with less work, high wages, and great power, and hide in the ravine with you? ah.

Hiding this aspect, hiding is impossible to hide, impossible to hide in this life.Farming but not knowing how to grow, only by working for the big boss can we maintain a life like this, entering the noble castle feels like going home, and the feeling in the noble castle is much better than at home. Looks good, I like it very much

Although the royal family and the nobles are clearly afraid that the enemy wizards will be bad for them, the royal family and the nobles are not stupid. They still know that the best way to guard against enemy wizards is to have wizards around them.

Just like the best way to prevent the atomic bomb from being thrown on one's head is to own the atomic bomb, "wizard deterrence" has made wizards never really break away from Muggle society for hundreds of years.

Moreover, the witch hunting movement at that time could not control the royal family and nobles. Even if they found out, they would find a slave to take the blame, which was not a big deal for feudal lords.

At the beginning, the Ministry of Magic planned to use tough measures to deal with these wizards, but a major event happened shortly after the implementation of the Secrecy Act that forced the Ministry of Magic to make a compromise.

For a long time, the vast majority of wizards did not farm, graze, mine, or smelt. Their daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, cloth, porcelain, wood bricks, gold, silver, copper, and iron had to be purchased from Muggles.

After the implementation of the secrecy law, no

Not long after, the wizards almost broke out in a famine after completely cutting off all ties with the Muggles. The Ministry of Magic had to rely on the wizards who had defected to the royal family and nobles to establish a communication and trade mechanism with the Muggle government.

At the same time, these wizards took advantage of this to force the Ministry of Magic to admit that their actions were legal, otherwise they would advise their bosses to double the price of food before selling it to the magic society.

In the end, the Ministry of Magic had to compromise with these wizards, as long as they didn't use magic in front of the common people, the Ministry of Magic didn't care.

Since then, this group of wizards has lived beside the royal family and nobles.

Cast aside by the magical society, the children of these wizards cannot enter the Hogwarts system to learn magic, so they can only study at home with their elders.

This makes the descendants of these families inferior to Hogwarts graduates in overall development, but often surpass Hogwarts students in terms of family specialties.

Moreover, these wizards also take advantage of the wizarding society's exclusion and discrimination against Muggle-born wizards, and keep digging them to their side.

Think about it, these Muggle-born wizards have been subtly influenced by their parents for so many years. When the magic society is hopeless, someone suddenly offers you a job as a national civil servant. What did the wizards themselves think? What did the wizard's parents think?

Of course I agreed.

With the addition of these new wizards, the wizards who have separated from the magical society not only added fresh blood, but also indirectly learned the latest research results of Hogwarts.

During the colonial period, the wizards of the royal family and nobles followed the colonists all the way to expand the territory and laid a great land for Lafayette.

However, after they rushed to the east with the hope of getting rich more than 100 years ago, many of them never came back, which greatly damaged the vitality of the wizards of their line.

This led to the fact that when Voldemort was making troubles in the 70s, they, who were at the forefront of the Cold War, were unable to take out their hands to deal with Voldemort.

In the Three Broomsticks bar, Horatio Rodney and Zhang Xu talked about the history of their own wizards while drinking.

There are also some conflicts with the records in Hogwarts.

As for how much private goods were mixed in his words, and whether the reason for sitting back and watching Voldemort become bigger in the end was because of the Cold War, this kind of question will have to be explored slowly in the future.

The bottle of rum was finished, and Rodney's story was finished.

Just now Zhang Xu wanted to order a glass of sherry for Rodney, but was despised by the other party.

"This kind of sugar water is only drunk by children like you. As the descendants of Horatio Nelson and George Bridges Rodney, the soldiers of the Royal Navy don't bother to drink sugar water."

So Zhang Xu simply asked for a bottle of "Nelson's Blood", and the two drank it to each other.

It's a pity that Zhang Xu didn't prepare black powder, otherwise he would play a trick of wine testing in the sailing period in front of this old navy: mix rum and black powder, if the rum concentration is high enough, then pass the rum Black powder soaked in wine can also be ignited.

You have a story and I have wine, and when your story is finished, so is my wine.

Horatio Rodney's mission for today's trip was successfully completed, and it was not easy for him to stay on the territory of the Ministry of Magic any longer. He finally said goodbye to Zhang Xu after a few polite words.

After Zhang Xu sat in the bar for a while and waited for the alcohol to pass, he could only go back and write a report to send to his superiors.

As for Harry Potter who was carried away earlier, Zhang Xu had long forgotten about him.