Chapter 359
Organization
Chapter 359 Organization
"Great." Wade breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Has Professor Snape figured out a solution? What exactly is that thing that forced Remus to transform?"
"That's the bad news - let me see where to begin."
Dumbledore lowered his head and ate another piece of pie, as if he was organizing his words, or thinking about which part to tell him.
"Professor." Before he spoke, Wade reminded him, "If you don't want to tell me the truth, I can also find a way to investigate it myself."
"Well, you'll soon find out..."
Dumbledore said vaguely, and then said: "You know, Wade, the wizarding world and the Muggle world live on the same land, but they are two completely isolated worlds."
"We wizards do our best to hide ourselves. Any violation of the Statute of Secrecy will be severely punished. This is a protection for us and Muggles."
"Many people have always believed that, with the exception of a very small number of Muggles, most Muggles know nothing about our world - maybe this is true in the UK, but in another country across the ocean, the truth is different."
Vader frowned: "You mean...America?"
"Yes, America - where Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is located."
Dumbledore had forgotten to eat dessert. He frowned and said gloomily, "In the 18th century, a very serious leak occurred in the United States."
As Dumbledore told the story, a piece of history that Wade knew nothing about unfolded before him.
When the new continent of America was "discovered", Muggles and wizards from many different countries flocked to that land.
Since there were no laws or law enforcement agencies there at the time, vicious incidents occurred frequently and bounty hunters came into being.
There was a group of wizard mercenaries who hunted anyone who could be exchanged for money, including trafficking wizards, or selling innocent Muggles as wizards to Puritans. They were later punished and hunted down by the Magical Congress.
These people were the earliest [Purifiers].
They are well aware of the existence of the magical world, but are full of hatred for wizards. It is even said that if their own children have magical talents, they will be abandoned or abused.
In the 18th century, a descendant of the Scourers named Bartholomew Barebone met a witch, which was the beginning of the tragedy.
The witch Dorcas Twelvetrees was madly obsessed with Bartholomew Barebone, and he tricked her into revealing a lot of information about the wizarding world, including the location of Ilvermorny and MACUSA.
Bartholomew Barebone then stole Dorcas Twelvetrees' wand, displayed it in public to journalists, printed leaflets promoting the existence of the "evil" wizarding world and various secret locations, and assembled a number of heavily armed men to launch a witch hunt.
This was the worst leak in the history of magic.
Later, Bartholomew Barebone was arrested and imprisoned for attacking innocent Muggles who "suspected to be wizards".
The Magical Congress of the United States of America also took measures to make up for it as much as possible, defining the entire leak as the fantasy of Bartholomew Barebone's insanity, and casting the Forgetfulness Charm on some people who knew the secret information.
However, because the news was spread so widely before the wizarding world discovered it, MACUSA was never able to confirm whether it had erased the memories of everyone who had known about the leak.
The answer, it turns out, is no.
For more than two hundred years, there has actually been a mysterious force in the United States that has been studying magic.
They also knew that the magic world would not allow such a thing to happen, so they always acted very covertly and did not even have a formal name to the outside world, simply calling themselves "the organization."
The initial research was actually absurd and unfounded, based on myths and legends and human imagination, and was obviously false by anyone with a discerning eye.
Some left because of disappointment, some joined again with hope, some spent all their wealth, and some worked hard to become billionaires in order to qualify. They have persisted for more than two hundred years.
In fact, Wade can best understand this kind of persistence - people who possess magic are often not as able to appreciate the value of magic as ordinary people.
Even though we know that we live in a world with magical powers, we are never able to enter the door and are always tortured by aging, illness, disability, etc. This gap can even drive people crazy.
The most important thing is that there really is magic in this world.
So those people’s efforts were not in vain in the end.
Of course, in the eyes of the magic world, this is not hard work, but psychotic paranoia and madness.
As for magical powers, they either exist or they don’t. Human technology has never been able to crack the mystery behind them, making it impossible for ordinary people to master magic.
But there are some things that you don't need any talent to have.
That is - werewolves and vampires.
In the wizarding world, these are actually two incurable diseases, both transmitted through blood and saliva, and have huge side effects.
Werewolves will attack indiscriminately after losing their minds, and vampires may seem perfect, but in fact they are equivalent to the living dead and are restrained by many natural enemies. The change in diet is only their most insignificant shortcoming.
And no matter which kind of transformation it is, it has an extremely high mortality rate on Muggles.
Therefore, the "organization" has been conducting a large number of experiments to try to find a stable and effective transformation pathway.
Wade couldn't even imagine how many people died in this process.
The surviving experimental subjects became members of the organization after being brainwashed and are active all over the world.
Seize funds, capture wizards and magical creatures, kidnap underage wizards, abduct ordinary people to become experimental consumables, sneak into magic schools to steal magical knowledge, and cultivate reserve forces.
For some reason (Vaid suspected it was Dumbledore's intimidation), the organization's influence had rarely penetrated into the British wizarding world in recent decades, merely collecting some information and occasionally stealing a few people.
But in the past one or two years, the organization's claws have finally extended to Britain (this time Wade can be sure that it is the butterfly effect caused by himself), and werewolves, vampires, and some wizards who have been trained by them since childhood have sneaked into Britain.
Creating chaos, creating conflicts, and initiating wars are the usual tactics used by these people.
During the three days that Dumbledore was away, he not only captured the vampires that attacked Lupin, but also, with their "help", "visited" the secret bases of the two organizations and obtained a lot of important intelligence.
It's a pity that the people sent to Britain didn't have much information, and even their memories had been altered, so they couldn't resist Dumbledore's magic.
After hearing this, Wade didn't know what to say for a long time, but he was surprisingly not very surprised.
Even a true fairy tale has many bloody and dark parts, not to mention that this is a real world that looks like a fairy tale.
"And I have something else to tell you," Dumbledore said finally. "I have brought back a man."
Wade was stunned for a moment, then he understood: "——Khalil?"
Make up for one more
(End of this chapter)