Chapter 1309 Magic City and Weave

The competition of the magic family in the industrialized market is obviously a signal.

This not only means that it is profitable, but more importantly, it represents the position of the ancient pure-blood family camp.

The Ministry of Magic and the International Federation of Wizards may be able to punish a wizard who crosses the line, but in this layout involving family continuity, if the International Federation of Wizards forcibly interferes and interrupts, then it will not wait for outside forces to counteract, the International Wizards Federation The interior of the Council and the interior of the Ministry of Magic will be split into several sections.

On the bright side, the wizarding world has really begun to enter the era of the “Magic Industrial Revolution”, and the market has become extraordinarily active.

However, from a slightly worrying point of view, the consumer market in the magic world is too small…

It is easy for the major magic families to realize that with such a small number of wizards, it is difficult for them to realize the potential of their investment in the magic industry.

Even without Elena’s push, the invisible hand pushed the pure-blooded wizards to start chasing a bigger market, just like the empire on which the sun never sets, which spread from the British Isles to the world’s oceans centuries ago , magical industrial products penetrated the non-magical world faster than the plague.

The International Federation of Wizards originally thought that this would seriously damage the world pattern and expose magic to the vision of the non-magic world in an instant.

But the reality is far better than they think, Muggles don’t realize the weirdness of those “premium” products.

Especially when the Gringotts goblins acted as publicity consultants, this risk was almost reduced to a minimum—

…in a way that the gentlemen of the International Confederation of Wizards cannot understand.

“A magical invigorating infusion inspired by the herbal archaeological texts of ancient Anglo-Saxon wizards.”

“A brand-new polymer, a magical rotating multi-space care wing.”

“Wake up the lion’s spear at midnight and try the dragon’s blood paint!”

Such slogans, as well as a little bit of exclusive patent application documents, and the powerful lobbying helpers of fairies.

In an age where everything seems to be accelerating, no one thinks there’s anything weird about these novelties.

On the contrary, countless capital and bankers are waving sterling wanting to join the chess game – maybe they can’t take the production line, but they have at least first-level agency rights, second-level agency rights, township resale authorization, linkage rights, etc. …and more importantly, for the declining British government, this group of new-generation companies that have suddenly risen is a coveted booster, which can directly save British society from the Great Depression.

And as the British magic families took the initiative to march, various magic families in Europe also began to move…

Of course, there are still old-fashioned and stubborn families, but most of those magical families, like the Gaunt family, will probably become history in the foreseeable future.

Those who want to survive decades, and even centuries, have only one solution:

Follow the example of other magic families and get off the field as soon as possible to participate in the competition of the “big cake” of the magic industry.

Otherwise, when the cake is divided, those who did not enter will only be left with the result of being submerged by history.

Thanks to the reorganization and renovation of Gringotts Wizarding Bank not long ago, now the Ministry of Magic has an important source of income called “tax”, when Cornelius Fudge and others learned from the Magical Government Tax Office After the rough figure of the tax increase, most of the opposition and concerns disappeared – even though those taxes didn’t go directly to their personal coffers, but according to the Goblin Commissioner, as high-ranking officials at the Ministry of Magic, they were free to dispose of the wealth .

Obviously, in terms of administrative expenses, it is a more reasonable thing to improve a little bit of personal office and living treatment.

As for the concept of abuse of power and tax corruption, neither the public nor the officials in the magical world have formed yet.

In addition to this, people are finally beginning to figure out how many “half-human” and “non-human” wizard groups exist in the wizarding world.

Lockhart’s speech ignited a sense of equality among wizards, and every morning protesters gathered in front of the Ministry of Magic.

At the very beginning, it was only the “hemp wizards” and “half-blood wizards” who gathered to protest.

Gradually, “half-elf wizards”, “half-elf wizards” and “half-veela wizards” became more “hybrid” wizards in the protest team.

And a week later, “short wizards”, “flat chested witches”, “freckled wizards”… all kinds of wizards who have been classified by society and others because of certain characteristics gathered together, hoping to report to the Ministry of Magic Seek the right to end their persecution and discrimination by others. They swarmed the entrance to the Ministry of Magic, holding up signboards to stop every Ministry employee who came out of the fireplace, explaining their point of view.

Connelly Fudge, angry and irritable, issued arrest warrants and deportation orders, trying to scare off the wizards who came to make trouble.

But Lockhart’s imprisonment seemed to be a kind of glory, and those protesters rushed to provoke the Aurors, proud of being the first to be deported and imprisoned.

At the same time, the Ministry of Magic even arrested more than 30 wizards who came to the parade, but when these people walked out of the door of the Ministry of Magic, they became heroes, or small leaders, of the marchers waiting outside. As a fodder for them to call on others to fight the Ministry of Magic.

After dragging and pulling for more than half a month, the Ministry of Magic finally had to give up and let the protesters gather in front of the Ministry of Magic every day.

In fact, except for the Aurors in the Auror Office, most of the Ministry of Magic staff did not recommend that the Ministry use violence to expel and arrest those who marched.

Different from the non-magical world, every wizard who arrives at the Ministry of Magic can set off a small fireworks if they are in a hurry, um, the kind that will blow up people.

Perhaps the status of mixed-blood wizards in the magical world is not high, but it is undeniable that most “mixed-bloods” – no matter what kind of blood they are mixed with – are definitely above the average in terms of pure magical combat power. If you get them in a hurry, these marchers can break through the Ministry several times a day.

Ludo Bagman was deeply touched by this. He was beaten down by her husband just because he looked at a half-breed siren on the way to work.

However, even the most radical mixed-race protests pale in comparison to the massive Squib movement.

……

The Ministry of Magic has never counted Squibs, it’s as if they never existed in the wizarding world.

But this does not mean that they really disappeared from this world, and the owl messenger will still serve them faithfully.

Just like Mr. Filch and Mrs. Figg, many people hide in corners, always watching every move in the magic world.

As time passed, word spread quickly that Argus Filch was in control of magic.

Hogwarts and Filch became the most frequently mentioned words in the Squibs’ letters, and they were also the most frequent recipients.

Considering Mr. Filch’s work, Elena specially arranged for him a house elf who was responsible for automatically replying to those letters.

The content of the reply is very simple:

“Hogwarts Castle is covered with a magic network that allows mana blockers to release magic online.”

“Hogwarts welcomes inquiries at any time to come and experience – of course, round-trip tickets, travel expenses, and other necessities will not be reimbursed.”

At first, many thought it was just a bad joke, or Filch’s personal miracle of luck.

After all, in the cognition of the magic world, the recovery of the Squib spellcasting is just a legend, and such a thing has never happened in thousands of years.

But when more and more Squibs arrived at Hogwarts, the legend came to this world in a real reality.

This made the whole UK, oh no, it should be said that the Squibs all over Europe, and even the whole world, fell into a frenzy.

Thousands of Squibs connected in various ways. They gathered in front of Ollivander’s wand shop to buy wands. They gathered in the Livender Bookstore to buy all kinds of magic books. They were like locusts crossing the border from Diagon Alley. Go there and frantically buy everything Hogwarts students will use.

Kings Cross has seen its biggest wave of traffic of the year, with people pushing trolleys excitedly across platforms nine and three-quarters.

The Hogwarts Express has an unprecedented increase in frequency, with new “older students” arriving on the platform every day at Hogsmeade Village.

Of course, Hogwarts does not recognize the official status of these special students.

As far as the school is concerned, they are just ordinary visitors temporarily living in Hogsmeade.

Hogsmeade Village obviously can’t receive so many tourists, but if you add the peripheral area of ​​”College Urban Research Institute”, let alone thousands of people, even tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of permanent residents – in Irene When Na first planned, the area was originally planned according to the size of a large city. Taking this opportunity to expand by the way, it is also easy to complete the unbuilt residential area… Especially in the magical world, the civil engineering is too simple.

The off-campus practice venues for Transfiguration and Charm classes are now available. Whenever it is the turn of the senior class, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick will lead the students to the outside of the castle to help build houses from time to time. It can be said to be one of the most important and basic life skills of an adult wizard.

At the same time, the “Squibs” who temporarily lived around Hogwarts also waved their wands and participated in the magical building together.

They tirelessly directed the furniture to fly around, decorate the house, and let the color of the walls change with the sky. They were like freshmen, excited and excited to appreciate the rhythm of every magic. With Hogwarts Castle as the center, a magical city is spreading at an unprecedented speed, and at the same time, the coverage of the Hogwarts Magic Network – the magic network is constantly moving towards the number of wizards. The castle stretches out.

This is something Elena never thought of before: when a wizard connects to the network and builds a magic hut, the strength and stability of the magic net will also increase.

If in the non-magical world, the signal network comes from the spread of base stations, then in the magic world, every wizard is a mobile base station.

With the “Squibs”, oh, now people don’t call them “Squibs”, the Squibs have a new name; “Wizards of the Web.”

With the increase in the number of wizards, the management pressure around Hogwarts suddenly increased.

The Ministry of Magic had to become a separate working group to coordinate the affairs here, or the administrator of this temporary settlement.

Dolores Umbridge would like to suggest himself, but it seems to everyone that there is another former Ministry of Magic official who is more suitable.

“Oh, wait—I didn’t manage that…”

Rufus Scrimgeour looked bewildered at Ms. Burns who stood before him.

After discussions between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, he was elected as the first mayor of “Academy City”.

Those retired and resigned Ministry of Magic employees also gathered here to assist Scrimgeour to jointly administer and coordinate the surrounding work.

Of course, the most important thing is to teach those “wielding wizards” how to use magic safely and with restraint, instead of causing trouble all the time like a child who just got a new toy – as a former Auror office director, Scrimgeour is in this regard Obviously has considerable convincing ability and prestige.

The work of Filch, the first “Wizard Wizard” of this century, has also expanded from Hogwarts Castle to the surrounding areas of Hogwarts.

Now he not only has to manage the daily behavior of the school children, but also manages the daily security of the surrounding “Magic Web” area.

Many people thought that Filch’s bad temper would be unbearable for everyone.

But to everyone’s surprise, since Filch picked up the wand, he doesn’t seem to be as disgusting as before.

Argus Filch still hates those mischievous guys who break the rules at will, but he won’t be as gloomy and scolding as he used to be. Instead, he calmly pulled out his wand to cast a counter-spell, and then recited a certain rule with ease and made the corresponding punishment. The wizards of the web are now his focus in place of the students, and Filch has only one ultimate power: he can file a report and force a violator to be “disconnected.”

In fact, this penalty for disconnecting from the Internet is not only useful for magic net wizards, but also has a rather terrifying deterrent effect on the Hogwarts campus.

Hogwarts students can now connect to the Internet – not only the magic net, but also the “local area network”, “the Internet”.

The research project led by Arkhipovna has made a breakthrough. After the successful transformation of magic energy, the ternary magic computer also landed soon.

On the other hand, the scholars who had been invited by the black wizard from the United States also showed great potential as Elena thought.

Different from the non-magical technological process that Elena knew, in this world, the “World Wide Web” was first born in the magical world.

The ternary magic computer has become the cornerstone of computer science at Hogwarts, and has been quietly integrated into the Muggle world. The models and ideas of the former Soviet Union scholars are not wrong. In terms of pure algorithms, the ternary computer is indeed superior to binary computer. Therefore, Hogwarts students can safely and freely browse the immature network outside the non-magical world, and at the same time do not worry that the other party can enter Hogwarts’ own network world through the reverse network.

This is also the reason why the International Federation of Wizards reluctantly agreed: even in the online world, wizards still have a solid barrier~www.readmtl.com~ However, the International Federation of Wizards has put forward an additional request, they hope Hogwarts professors They can help supervise the students who are surfing the “Internet”, after all, the “core host” of the magic network exists in Hogwarts Castle.

Of course, this has also become one of the few extra tasks for Elena and others.

As the disciplinary committee members, they are also responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the magic net…

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