Chapter 4096

From February to April, there were often news about Death Eaters causing trouble in the Daily Prophet.

They published articles in the Daily Prophet advocating "pure blood supremacy". Attacking Muggle-born wizards, two Muggle wizards were killed in the past two months.

They were killed by Death Eaters, and the terrifying Dark Mark floated over their homes.

The frequent occurrence of these vicious cases has made Voldemort and Death Eaters more notorious, and many wizards are afraid of them.

Because the population of the British wizarding world is only about 3,000 people. In China, it is equivalent to a large village.

And in a village, a murder case is enough to talk about for several years, making people worried about it.

What's more, murders happen every month. So it's not surprising that people are afraid.

Especially those wizards from Muggle and mixed-blood families live in fear every day, afraid that they will be found by Death Eaters if they are not careful.

In contrast, the conservatives in the magic world were happy to see this and celebrated it. Not only did they not condemn the evil deeds of the Death Eaters, but they implicitly supported them and even obstructed the Ministry of Magic's investigation of them.

Because the conservative forces in the magic world are still strong, the reformists, who are mainly half-blood and Muggle-born wizards, have difficulty moving forward and are repeatedly constrained, so the crackdown on Voldemort and the Death Eaters has been delayed.

Even public opinion cannot interfere, allowing those articles advocating "pure blood supremacy" to continue to be published in the Daily Prophet.

This also made Voldemort's prestige great and attracted a large number of pure-blood wizards to be loyal. Like Lucius Malfoy, Joshua Goyle, Jamie Crabbe, Amycus Carrow, Bellatrix Lestrange, etc.

The weakness and incompetence of the Ministry of Magic also made the British wizarding world increasingly dissatisfied.

After all, in the British wizarding world, Voldemort and the Death Eaters are still a minority, and even the pure-blood families are a minority. Otherwise, if pure-blood wizards were the majority, they wouldn't have called themselves the "Holy Twenty-Eight Clans".

But these minorities now rely on their inherent power, violence, and terror to override all wizards, suppress dissidents, and harm their own kind, which is naturally infuriating.

Therefore, a change is brewing in the British magical world.

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The ups and downs outside the school have no great impact on Hogwarts.

The students still eat, drink, and play.

Because although Voldemort killed some people and caused some damage, he did not come to the school to harass students, so the students could not empathize with him.

Even Slytherin students are eager to see Voldemort become more fierce and cruel, and it would be best if all Muggles and half-blood wizards were eliminated.

Therefore, these days, they have become increasingly arrogant in school, often bullying younger classmates and casting curses on them, such as leg-locking curses, imprisonment curses, confusion curses, bat spirit curses, etc., torturing them painfully.

However, because Xiang Nan was notorious and had defeated five Slytherin seniors, no one dared to bully him. But people like Joey Farrell and Benjamin Winslet were unlucky.

They were not as strong as Xiang Nan, nor were they pure-blooded like Gregory Foley. One of them was born as a Muggle and the other was born as a mixed-blood. They were both bullied, so they were often cursed, making them miserable.

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"Sever, save me, my legs are locked by them again." Joey Farrell asked Xiang Nan for help.

His legs were locked together by the leg-locking curse, and he could not move. He could only jump to walk. On his way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he was cast a leg-locking curse, so he jumped to the second floor.

"Stop the curse~" Xiang Nan waved his hand, and Joey's legs were immediately untied.

"Thank you, you really should teach me this spell to break it, otherwise I'll always be bullied by them." Joey was grateful, and then complained.

"Who are they specifically?" Xiang Nan asked.

"There are Dolfin Rowle, Rabastan Lestrange and Coban Yaxley." Joey explained.

"No Lucius Malfoy, Walton McNeill, Joshua Goyle and others?" Xiang Nan asked in confusion.

Joey was talking about these sixth-year Slytherin students.

"No. They are busy preparing for the NEWT exam." Gregory waved his hand and said, "If they don't do well in the exam, they won't even be able to find a job."

The NEWT exam, full name Advanced Wizard Level Exam, is a professional exam that seventh-year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry need to take, as a certification of their academic qualifications when applying for positions after graduation.

If you want to find a job in the wizarding world, you must take this exam. Because many professions need to refer to this exam score.

For example, applicants for the Auror position at the Ministry of Magic need to obtain "excellent" or "good" grades in at least five NEWT exam subjects; applicants for the position of Healer also need to obtain at least an 'E' grade in the exams of Potions, Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts.

The exams will be held in May or June, and there is only one month left, so they should be busy reviewing for the exams and are unwilling to spend time tossing the freshmen.

Xiang Nan nodded. He suspected that those people were not busy with the exams, but had already joined the Death Eaters and joined the Dark Lord, so they looked down on the petty fights of the juniors.

"I see." Xiang Nan nodded.

"Then how are you going to deal with them?" Joey asked with concern.

Benjamin and Gregory also looked over curiously.

"Sever, don't fight with others. Fighting is a bad behavior and will be punished by the school." Lily saw this and advised Xiang Nan.

Hearing her say this, Joey, Benjamin, and Gregory were a little dissatisfied.

Because it was obviously they who were bullied first, Xiang Nan was just helping them to retaliate. But Lily still wanted to stop him. It was really that the board didn't hurt her.

"Don't worry, I promised you that I wouldn't fight with others first." Xiang Nan smiled, "But if someone takes the initiative to fight me, it's not my fault."

"But how dare they fight you? They were scared away as soon as they saw you." Joey waved his hand and said.

Xiang Nan is one of the few freshmen who is not bullied. Those seniors are afraid of him.

After all, he had fought Lucius Malfoy, Walton McNeill, Joshua Goyle and five other people alone, and not only was he unscathed, but he also made them all run wild, which established his reputation in one fell swoop, and no one dared to bully him anymore.

"Don't worry." Xiang Nan smiled, took out his wand, and fiddled with his face twice. His originally obvious hooked nose suddenly became much rounder, and his cheeks became rounder, from a duck egg face to a square face... He looked like a different person.

"Oh my God~" Seeing this scene, the classmates were all surprised.