Chapter 192 End of February
A few days passed, and it was March.
After entering March, the weather became clearer. If students went outdoors, the biting cold wind could still make their hands and faces hurt.
As Schelling expected, the investigation of the missing students had no progress and came to a standstill. Accompanied by Dumbledore, the two Aurors investigated all the senior students and questioned all the portraits, statues, and ghosts, but still found nothing. No matter how dissatisfied the four families who lost their children were, they lost the ability to continue making trouble.
After all, Dumbledore was still the most powerful wizard of this century and the spiritual leader of the European wizarding world. He was willing to take time out and actively cooperate with the investigation because of his good temper, but this did not mean that he was a clay man without temper and could be manipulated by others, and it was even more impossible for the Ministry of Magic to further invade Hogwarts.
In his heart, Hogwarts was a pure land of education, and he would never let politics invade the campus!
The four families who lost their children had no choice but to give up. As for whether they secretly gathered together and wanted to plot some new plans, that was another matter and we will not mention it here for now.
As for the other people, they just lived their lives as they should.
On the surface, nothing has changed, but in fact, as long as people in the vortex know, everything is different.
As mentioned earlier, although the pure-blood families have a common philosophy and are all supporters of pure-blood supremacy, they are not really a close alliance. For the sake of family interests, development, and survival, each family actually has its own little thoughts.
For a long time, the Malfoy family has been the most prosperous one on the surface, but secretly there are actually many pure-blood families who disdain the nouveau riche style of the Malfoy family. These families, such as Selwyn, Carrow, Avery, Yaxley, and even the destroyed Lestrange and Rowle, have always had the momentum to unite and suppress the Malfoy family.
Those second-rate families, such as Vankanda and Bletchley, were originally affiliated families of these families, but as these sovereign families showed their decline, they gradually had different thoughts.
After the student disappearance incident, the Vankanda family was very satisfied with their foresight. After gaining the friendship of the Malfoy family, Sherin's cooperation with them in the business world allowed them to successfully earn a lot of wealth, and the family's eldest daughter Narelle also became the head girl of the sixth grade as she wished.
In contrast, the Bletchley family, who bet on the wrong bet and stood on the wrong team, suffered a lot. Mr. Bletchley was originally a director-level figure in the Law Enforcement Department, but he was suppressed for no reason. Just because he made a small mistake, he was transferred to the Centaur Liaison Office of the Department of Biological Management and Control.
As we all know, although there is a Centaur Liaison Office in the Ministry of Magic, the arrogant Centaurs have never used it, so this is actually a sinecure, which means that Mr. Bletchley has been marginalized by the power center. Now it's even worse. Even Miles Bletchley, the heir who was most expected by the family, has disappeared for no reason. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Bletchley family is on the verge of a dead end.
These two families are actually just two examples of the most obvious changes.
In this changing situation, as long as they are not led by idiots, they will basically smell the future trend after seeing the very different endings of the two families, and they will respond and make new choices. For a while, the political, business, and even student factions within Hogwarts began to see various undercurrents of personnel transfers.
Schelling's reputation was further enhanced after Druella's funeral and the second event of the Triwizard Tournament.
At Druella's funeral, many neutral, wait-and-see, moderate, and even profit-oriented pure-blood families saw opportunities in the attitude shown by Schelling.
In the second event, although Schelling did not score the highest, his way of breaking through was undoubtedly the most dazzling and shocking. Dumbledore's comments on Schelling's Transfiguration spread, and with the media's overwhelming coverage, almost the entire European wizarding world heard about Schelling's innovation of Transfiguration. Even Zhang He, who was far away in China, heard about it and wrote a letter to Schelling to verify it.
Reputation is like a snowball. As long as it accumulates to a certain level and breaks through the threshold, it will show a leap-forward growth. With several relatively powerful families, such as Carrow, McLaggen, and Runcorn, taking the lead in showing goodwill to the Malfoy family, the banner with Schelling as the signboard was quickly erected.
Soon, other small and medium-sized families, or business families that were still waiting and watching, followed suit, fearing that they would fall behind and approached the Malfoy family to express their position and intention to surrender. Among them, there were even many families that were originally affiliated with Selwyn, Avery, and Yaxley, and they were not afraid to publicly change their flags and switch to the Malfoy family camp.
The momentum of the Malfoy family once again reached its peak. The last time the Malfoy family was so powerful was during the time of the tenth-generation head of the family, Sethimos. (The then Minister of Magic, Osbert, became his puppet.)
After Draco wrote a letter to Lucius, the latter had no choice but to give up the idea of continuing to support pure-blood supremacy. In his past life, he had been instilled with the idea of pure-blood supremacy by his family elders and friends, which had led to the idea of pure-blood supremacy being deeply rooted in his heart. When Sherin first proposed to give the family a new direction that violated the supremacy of pure-blood supremacy, even though Sherin was his beloved biological son, he might not have said much, but he was deeply unhappy in his heart.
This does not mean that he is really stupid. In his opinion, Sherin's current situation is already established-
The Malfoy family looks extremely prosperous at the moment, but he knows clearly in his heart that these families and forces that come to form an alliance, make friends, rely on, and seek refuge are actually all for Sherin's reputation. Rather than an alliance with Malfoy, it is better to say that it is actually an alliance with Sherin himself.
To put it bluntly, Sherin has successfully stirred up the situation in the British wizarding world and even became one of the centers of the situation.
At this moment, Sherin knew the situation of the British wizarding world and every major event that happened in the UK, because the four house elves were almost constantly Apparating all over the UK, and they were constantly transferring intelligence from all over the UK to Sherin or Daphne. In addition to the intelligence that was really important and needed to be reported directly to Sherin by the elves, Sherin usually handed over other information such as which small and medium-sized families were attached to him.
As the eldest daughter of the Greengrass family, Daphne had been trained by the family since she was a child. She was familiar with the interests and intrigues between the various families. As a lady from a noble family, she did show enough aura to calm the scene, making everyone who saw her (the elves took her out with Apparition) obedient and seeing her was like seeing Sherin.
And Sherin himself was hiding in the laboratory in the suitcase space.
He knew that the time was ripe and it was time for the Sleeping Dragon Society to enter the second stage of the planned plan.
Before that, he needs to master a magic!
Mr. Bletchley working in the Ministry of Magic is an official setting, from the 7th book of the original novel, when Arthur mentioned that he used the "Cloud Curse Undo" to solve the rain in the office, but the position and other things were added by the author privately.