Chapter 371 Fairy Brothers
Just when Xie Ling was about to close the suitcase, he suddenly saw a small crack at the seam of the suitcase. He put his wand in and gently picked it up, and actually took out a piece of parchment from it.
Xie Ling's mouth corners slightly raised, it seems that this is the really interesting thing.
The parchment was blank, nothing.
Xie Ling shook his head. Although Bagman's caution is worthy of praise, such a crude hiding method is really hard to compliment. Not to mention Xie Ling who has the magic eye, maybe Hermione can also solve this thing.
"Hurry up and show yourself!" Xie Ling raised his wand and read.
Dense words began to appear on the parchment.
Xie Ling nodded as he read. The content on it was some internal secrets of the Ministry of Magic. It recorded that some senior officials secretly contacted the Death Eater forces during the First Wizarding War and conducted some shameful transactions under the table.
Schelling dared to say that if these contents were leaked, it would definitely be enough to set off an uproar in the entire British wizarding world.
Bagman himself was one of them. When he lost money in gambling and was chased by creditors, Rookwood, who was in the Death Eaters, found him and offered to exchange money for some information from the Ministry of Magic. Bagman himself was a pure-blood wizard. Although he was not an extreme pure-blood supremacist faction, he was not too opposed to Voldemort's ideas, so the two of them got together.
When Rookwood was imprisoned and implicated him, he thought he was going to be finished. Who knew that the Wizengamot group would easily let him go in a casual trial just because he was a popular star.
Schelling looked at the names on the list one by one, and he couldn't help but feel sad for the many holes in the Ministry of Magic. Many absurd actions of the Ministry of Magic were explained at this moment-
Why can a place like Knockturn Alley, where filth and dirt are hidden, stand firm?
Why can the Ollivander family monopolize the wand market for more than a thousand years?
Why can even Arthur Weasley, who has no power in the Ministry of Magic, deliberately leave loopholes in the law for his own interests?
In the entire Ministry of Magic, almost half of the people have disregarded the interests of the masses for their own selfish interests, ignored the decline of the British magic world, caused the entire magic world to stagnate, and hindered the development and innovation of magic.
Sherin sneered and carefully put the parchment in his pocket.
In order to fulfill his distant ambition, the first step is to change the corrupt, unfair and bureaucratic Ministry of Magic. These social termites must be removed.
Not only that, a new system must be established, officials must be selected based on merit, the selection process must be open and transparent, and the performance of officials must also have a fair review system. They must be responsible for all their actions while in office, be supervised by the general public, and eliminate the possibility of officials protecting each other.
(List of corrupt officials obtained!)
Not long after all this was done, with a crackling sound, Dobby appeared again, and he said respectfully: "Master, the person you want to meet has been contacted by me and Shanshan, shall we go now?"
"Well, I just got it done here, let's go!" said Sherin.
Sherin put his hand on Dobby's shoulder, and the two disappeared from Sherin's room with a crackling sound, and then appeared in Bath City in southwest England.
This ancient city was excavated by the Romans in 70 AD, and has a history of nearly two thousand years from a remote town to the present.
This is also the place where the most goblins are active in Great Britain. It is rumored that in the early tenth century, the goblin royal family once lived here as a base.
Of course, Sherin did not come here for archaeology or tourism.
In a certain underground VIP room of a tavern called the Green Goblin, Sherin sat calmly opposite three aggressive goblins.
The expressions on the goblins' faces were not really friendly, even though they were now facing Sherin, who was in the limelight of the magic world.
Sherin did not blame them. At this time, the relationship between wizards and goblins was at one of the lowest points in history, almost comparable to the goblin rebellion in the 18th century.
The cause was that about a year ago, the Ministry of Magic tried to introduce a new goblin rights bill. At that time, the Ministry of Magic's Department for the Control of Magical Creatures sent a delegation headed by Royden Pork to hold a meeting with the Brotherhood of Goblins in Chipping Cromwell.
The Brotherhood of Goblins, abbreviated as BOG, is a political organization representing the goblin community, and its leader is Cross-eyed Bolig.
According to Sherin's understanding, the talks between the two sides were simply talking to a deaf person. When the arrogant wizards were happy to tell the goblins about the small profits they were about to be given by the Ministry of Magic, they did not know that what the goblins had always wanted to obtain was actually the power to own and use wands.
Just as Royden Poker was feeling smug about his self-progress, the first explosion outside woke him up from his narcissistic fantasy.
The goblins outside got wands from nowhere and started wreaking havoc on the street, turning Muggle mailboxes and trash cans into wildebeests and other beasts, and shouting slogans such as "We are not ugly fairies", demanding that the Ministry of Magic release the goblin activist Cocoon Hand Hodred and give justice to the oppression that the goblins have faced for a long time.
These demands far exceeded the bottom line that the Ministry of Magic could tolerate. The Ministry of Magic had never taken the lead in admitting mistakes. Most of the time, admitting mistakes also meant that the Minister of Magic had to step down. Callus Hand Hodred was not a good guy. He shrunk three wizards with a shrinking spell and tried to crush them. Aliens attacking wizards was a serious crime, and he could not be released anyway.
Seeing that the negotiations were fruitless, the Ministry of Magic could only send out the Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team and the Reversal Emergency Magic Events Team to suppress the matter in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control.
Afterwards, the author of "Little People, Big Plans", Splayed-Foot Ragno, said in an interview with the Daily Prophet: "The relationship between wizards and goblins has faced the most severe test in centuries, but despite this, the Ministry of Magic still does not listen to our voices." Ragno is a moderate in the Goblin Brotherhood. He does not support goblins to fight back with violence, but he also believes that the riot was caused by the Ministry of Magic's long-term indifference to goblins.
(Note: This is from the Daily Prophet published in 1999, but the content above is about 1993)
At this moment, among the three goblins sitting opposite Sherin, the two on the left are the two leaders of the Goblin Brotherhood - the chief leader, Cross-Eyed Bolig, and the deputy leader, Splayed-Foot Ragnor.
As for the one on the far right, Sherin had never heard of his appearance before, and could not know his identity for the time being, but seeing that he could sit with the chief and deputy leaders of the Brotherhood, and from the shrewd and fierce light hidden in his eyes, Sherin had already vaguely guessed his identity.
The first to speak was Cross-Eyed Bolig, who stared at Sherin with his cross-eyed eyes, and said in a somewhat unfriendly tone: "Listen, Mr. Malfoy, although we all know your reputation and status in the wizarding world, please understand that the current relationship between us goblins and wizards cannot be called friendly. We have lost patience with the arrogance and lies of wizards. If you have anything to say, you'd better speak directly and don't waste our precious time!"