Chapter 1594 A War Without a Winner (Part 46)

Chapter 1596 A War Without a Winner (Forty-six)

"Do you think he will give in?"

At the big round table, several leaders of pure-blood families gathered together again after a year apart. In front of them was the latest front page of the newspaper:

Report on the attack of the Inferi on the Muggle village.

"Probably... not."

An older man's words were more helpless and sighing.

It was obvious that their temporary minister did not intend to follow "everyone's advice" and continue to adopt the "muddy water" policy after the end of the First Wizarding War. Instead, he planned to "liquidate" the British wizarding world. The step-by-step oppression made everyone present feel a strong threat, forcing them to get together to discuss a response plan.

"What should we do?"

The hall suddenly fell into a strange silence. It was obvious that they didn't know what to do, otherwise they wouldn't need to get together to discuss a solution.

"Or, continue to cause trouble for him and force him to compromise?"

"Find a way to drive him out of office or let him die unexpectedly?"

These are the simplest and most commonly used solutions, but it is difficult to get everyone's approval at the moment.

Kingsley is not that easy to deal with, otherwise he would have died long ago, how could he become the new minister?

"I suggest talking to him again."

An old man tapped the newspaper on the table with his fingers, reminding everyone present, "This time we lost, and we need to pay a price for losing. Submission to the new minister is a necessary process."

"Submission, look at what he is doing." A middle-aged wizard said angrily, "We lost, but he can't take all the benefits away, that's not in line with the rules."

This statement was quickly recognized by others around.

Noble pure blood can admit their failure, beat themselves up a few times, and bleed to give up some benefits, but Kingsley can't go too far, because this is the consensus of British pure blood. Now that the war is over, the best solution is to smooth things over and ease the conflict between the two sides.

But Kingsley didn't dare to do that, because it wouldn't solve any problems in essence, and it might even completely ignite the conflict.

What's more, the times have changed.

There are invisible hands behind them pushing them to do that.

However, some purebloods haven't realized this yet, and are still trying to use old thinking to solve the problem, not realizing that once something is done, it means there's no going back.

Because Kingsley is not the only one who is completely annoyed.

Mr. Minister also has his own family, allies with common interests, and the group of wizards who were oppressed in the war in the past will stand with him.

Everyone wants all the "dark wizards" to die.

After the Ministry of Magic survives, there will inevitably be a large-scale counterattack and revenge.

But most of the stubborn wizards don't realize that someone has already prepared the ropes for them.

They only know that if they don't resist, Kingsley will completely deprive them of their interests in the Ministry of Magic.

That's something they absolutely can't tolerate.

"Wait a little longer!"

The man who had remained silent at the round table suddenly said.

"Maybe, put some more pressure on them, and then talk to Kingsley. It's best to resolve it peacefully. After all, we lost this time, and losers need to pay a price."

"What makes you weak, Parkinson?" Someone couldn't help but sneer.

"Voldemort is dead, we have no chance of winning, and it's more important to stop the loss in time."

"Of course you can stop the loss in time. The entire Malfoy family has been swallowed by you, and you don't care, but what about us?"

The party ended in displeasure, but they all reached a consensus tacitly, that is, to put more pressure on their temporary minister.

Concessions and compromises are inevitable, but the purebloods will never tolerate Kingsley taking the whole pot away and not leaving them even a bowl of rice.

Both sides are very clear.

This struggle over the power and interests of the Ministry of Magic will continue until one side compromises or falls completely.

This is hard for the workers below.

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“This is a warning, a naked warning. They want to keep us busy!”

At this moment, in the office of the Minister of Magic, the head of the Auror Office, who had not yet left work, reported the latest attack to Kingsley indignantly.

Although the attack did not cause too many casualties in the Muggle village, it caused a lot of trouble to the Ministry of Magic, and many departments were implicated and forced to work overtime.

According to the residual images of magic retrospection, it was still the work of those bastards before, and the Ministry of Magic could do nothing about it.

“We expected this a long time ago, didn’t we?”

Kingsley looked up at the emotional Gadwin, and could understand the other party’s bad mood for continuous overtime.

“We must do something.”

“Then speed up the search and elimination of the corpses, mobilize other people to participate in the search, and it’s better to carefully screen the whole UK for me.”

“This…”

Gadwin Robards thought Kingsley's proposal was too absurd. How many people would be needed and how much time would be wasted to complete it.

"Can't Anderson help to divine the whereabouts of those dark wizards?"

Gadwin Robards hesitated for a moment, but still said what Kingsley wanted him to say, "It's better to catch the bastard who deliberately caused trouble for us."

"You know, Albert is just a name, and he doesn't like the Ministry of Magic. It's hard to expect him to help, unless..."

"Unless what?" Gadwin asked.

"Unless the Ministry of Magic is willing to pay him to help with divination?" Kingsley smiled bitterly.

"So, the previous rumor is true?"

Gadwin Robards understood Kingsley's hesitation. As an interim minister, he obviously did not have the power to waste money lavishly, not to mention that the Ministry of Magic was particularly short of money now. Taking out a thousand galleons and asking Albert to help find someone would make him look incompetent.

"Perhaps, the price can be lowered a bit, but you can't expect him to help the Ministry of Magic for free. You have to pay him first."

Kingsley was quite helpless about this. It's not that he didn't think about looking for other fortune tellers for help, but the number of real fortune tellers is small, their status is still very high, and most of them can't tell fortunes accurately. The most important thing is that they also charge fees, and the price is not low.

Want to get it for free, it doesn't exist.

After a careful look around, Kingsley found that asking Albert for help is the most worry-free, labor-saving and cost-saving way, but the only problem now is how to convince others.

At least, this matter cannot be proposed by him, and he even has to discuss it with everyone and get the consent of the majority before he can make the final decision.

"I will mention this matter in the recent meeting." Gadwin Robards agreed.

There is no way. Cleaning up the mess left by the dark wizards has already exhausted them. If they come every few days, they don't need to do anything else.

"We must find out who is behind this, and eliminate them completely to solve the problem once and for all."

"We can all guess who is behind this." Kingsley suddenly said.

The office suddenly fell into silence.

Yes, even without divination, it is not difficult to guess.

"I remember that the guys who wanted to kill Umbridge also hated Voldemort's minions. Maybe we can guide them to do something... This will undoubtedly be a win-win deal. They can complete their revenge on the dark wizards, and we can also avoid a lot of trouble." Gadwin Robards knew Kingsley's dilemma very well, but it did not mean that they could not use other means.

If it was really that group of lingering losers who were behind the scenes, they should be killed even more.

But since becoming a minister, Kingsley has had many concerns about doing things, and he has fully demonstrated the saying "the art of politics is compromise", so even if he knows that some guys may have problems, he can't do anything. At most, he can only find someone to take the blame as Gadwin Robards said.

But Kingsley didn't want to do that, not because those people were his former companions, but... they were all like time bombs that could blow him and the people around him to pieces at any time.

He didn't dare to try it easily.

No wonder Albert said he was becoming more and more hypocritical. Maybe he should talk to that person in private.

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