novelhk Chapter 537 Final Reform! A Joyous Event in Life! (The Grand Finale)
Chapter 537 Final Reform! A Joyous Event in Life! (The Grand Finale)
Historically, the wizards' move from living among Muggles to establishing the Wizarding Secrecy Act to hide the magical world was not a mistake; on the contrary, it was a wise and necessary step.
Wizards possess magic, while Muggles do not. Due to the complexity of human nature, there will always be Muggles who are jealous of wizards, fear wizards, or want to persecute wizards.
The number of wizards is far less than that of Muggles, so even if only a small number of Muggles wanted to harm wizards, that would be an astronomical number for wizards.
Furthermore, without the protection of magic, even powerful wizards are just as vulnerable as Muggles.
Wizards can get sleepy, lose focus, be deceived, and react slowly. Without their wands, they generally have difficulty using magic. They can get stabbed, hit by stones, or fall from buildings... just like everyone else, they can get injured and die.
Therefore, as long as wizards and Muggles live together, it is inevitable that wizards will be persecuted by Muggles.
Historically, there have indeed been large-scale persecutions of wizards by Muggles. It was because of that dark history that the International Statute of Wizardry Secrecy came into being in 1692.
Some might ask, why are wizards so cowardly? When persecuted, they only think of hiding. They are powerful beings who wield magic. Can't they fight back against Muggles, or even wipe out all the Muggles?
In fact, it is true that Muggles have persecuted wizards, and wizards have never stopped harming Muggles throughout history.
Throughout history, there have been countless instances of ruthless dark wizards using Muggles as experimental subjects, as materials for spellcasting, or killing Muggles for revenge and amusement.
In modern times, whether it was Grindelwald and the Saints, or Voldemort and the Death Eaters, when they started a great war against the White Wizard, who didn't use the "reappearance of bones" technique to create a wave of Shadows?
The materials used for the Infernal are mostly fresh Muggle corpses.
Back then, wizards who were successfully murdered by Muggles would be ridiculed by some self-proclaimed powerful wizards, who believed they had disgraced the wizarding profession.
During the period when Muggles were persecuting wizards, many wizards retaliated against Muggles, committing massacres.
Even wizards who were close to Muggles were given the derogatory term 'Mudblood,' which is the earliest origin of the name 'Mudblood.'
However, the target of the "Mudblood" insult gradually shifted from wizards who were close to Muggles to wizards whose parents were both Muggles.
Wizards can fight back against Muggles, but they cannot exterminate them, even in the age of cold weapons.
It is neither possible nor appropriate to do so.
The reason why it cannot be done is:
Many wizards have Muggles among their parents or relatives, but those who are crazy enough to help wizards exterminate Muggles are ultimately a tiny minority.
Once wizards and Muggles start a war of extermination, most wizards, as well as those who love peace and are close to Muggles, will choose to go into hiding with their families to protect themselves, or simply side with the Muggles.
If a wizard helps a Muggle, or if a Muggle captures a wizard and keeps him by their side, then the wizard cannot use simple magic such as a Muggle banishment spell to block the Muggle's perception of the wizard.
In this way, even though wizards can still use magic to wipe out Muggles in waves during a direct confrontation, they will eventually become exhausted.
With their numerical advantage and sufficient morale, the Muggle army can inflict heavy losses on the already small number of wizards.
Of course, if things go wrong, some wizards who know spatial teleportation magic such as Apparition, or who possess magical items such as Portkeys, can teleport away to escape.
However, wizards who do not possess the corresponding skills or fail to use them in time will suffer a miserable fate once they are surrounded and attacked by Muggle armies.
Therefore, even if the wizarding elite had the determination to exterminate Muggles, they couldn't do it.
The reason why this cannot be done is:
Wizards need Muggles. There is a chance that Muggles and Muggles will have a wizard, and Muggles and wizards can also have a wizard.
If a small group of wizards were to intermarry and reproduce generation after generation, it would greatly increase the rate of birth defects and infant mortality in their offspring, leading to their own demise.
For the wizarding community to continue to develop healthily and orderly, it cannot do without Muggles.
Similar considerations exist for the Muggle community as well.
Wizards cannot wipe out Muggles, but Muggles cannot wipe out wizards either.
As long as wizards break into smaller groups and infiltrate the Muggle population, it's impossible for Muggles to kill all of them.
On the contrary, wizards who infiltrate Muggle society can cause destruction whenever they want, and they can easily fool and manipulate Muggles.
As long as there are no fellow wizards to stop them, knowing even half of the Confusion Charm, Legilimency Charm, Oblivion Charm, Imperishable Charm, Disillusionment Charm, Polyjuice Potion, and Apparition, one can easily carry out manipulation, disguise, or decapitation tactics against any Muggle high-ranking official.
This was possible in the era of cold weapons, and it is equally possible in today's era of firearms.
If pushed too far, neither side will fare well.
Not to mention, it's possible for a wizard to be born from the birth of a Muggle.
Can we expect every Muggle who has a wizard baby to kill their own child?
On this point alone, the Muggle community, just like the wizarding community, cannot be united.
In conclusion, the wizarding leadership's formulation and implementation of the Wizarding Secrecy Act, which concealed the magical world and caused most Muggles to forget the existence of wizards and magic, maintaining only official contact with the Muggle leadership, was a reasonable, intelligent, and essentially the only approach.
But now, with the earth-shattering changes brought about by Dali, everything is different.
The blessing magic of the founders of Hogwarts granted Muggles a direct path to becoming wizards, ensured that good people would not be harmed, and subtly guided them to abandon evil and do good through encouragement.
In recent years, a large number of good Muggles have opened the door to magic and become wizards.
Through various countries' magic schools that have fully implemented Hogwarts-style educational reforms, and through dream realms guided by virtuous and powerful white wizards, students not only learn magic but also gain a deeper understanding of the current state of the magic world in different countries.
With them acting as a bridge between wizards and Muggles, and with the planned and gradual propaganda and reassurance from white wizards in various countries, it is possible to largely avoid Muggles developing jealousy and fear towards wizards, gradually achieving mutual acceptance between the two groups and ushering in a new era.
In fact, Hermione and the other young wizards used this kind of analysis to persuade white wizards from various countries.
With the logic clearly explained, Dudley and Dumbledore as backers, and the miraculous power of blessing magic as a guarantee, the white wizards from various countries only hesitated for a while before agreeing to this epoch-making plan.
The International Wizarding Secrecy Act was repealed worldwide, and high-ranking white wizards and Muggle leaders began negotiations.
With many good Muggle leaders having been converted to wizards and experienced the ways of the wizarding world, this reform of the relationship between wizards and Muggles progressed smoothly and steadily from the very beginning.
Most adult white wizards around the world mobilized, and under the overall coordination of the national ministries of magic and Muggle leaders, and with the assistance of wizards converted from Muggles, they spread into Muggle society to carry out propaganda and reassurance.
As time went by, wizards and magic gradually returned to the understanding of Muggles.
Meanwhile, more and more good Muggles were blessed and became wizards.
Most people were delighted by this, after all, which Muggle hasn't fantasized about having superhuman powers to make life more exciting?
The relatively small minority of evil people, including evil Muggles and dark wizards who were overlooked in the past, are filled with envy and hatred.
But under the overwhelming tide of history, they will eventually become crushed remnants of the era.
Moreover, before they are crushed, they are excellent training tools for white wizards and valuable tools to further strengthen the relationship between wizards and Muggles.
Compared to the few remaining dark wizards, there are a considerable number of evil Muggles.
White wizards use magic to help Muggle law enforcement capture and eliminate evil Muggles. This not only enhances their experience by understanding the wickedness of human nature, but also makes Muggle society more harmonious and stable, earning them the recognition and love of the Muggles.
This can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In addition to this epoch-making reform, many personal joys were also happening at the same time.
Professor McGonagall, who became younger, and her husband Elphinstone, who also became younger after his resurrection, gave birth to twins with wizarding talents.
Harry and Ginny, Hermione and Ron, Neville and Hannah, Draco and Astoria, and Cedric and Cho Chang—five couples—held a mass wedding.
They had children within five years of their marriage.
When they were naming their child, they wanted to include their friend's name, especially Dali's, but Dali explicitly refused.
Dali told them that a child's name is not a record of past achievements or a memoir of parents; a child needs a future of their own and a name of their own.
People readily agreed and gave their children unique names.
Luna, just as in the original story, married Rolf Scamander, the grandson of Newt and Tina, becoming a wizarding couple who shared a passion for studying magical creatures. They had twin sons after their marriage.
In the process, Newt played a matchmaking role to some extent.
During their time at school, Luna, Newt, and Hagrid became close friends despite their age difference, based on their shared experience of creating the harassing fly and their love for magical creatures. This laid the foundation for Luna's acquaintance and deeper understanding of Rolf.
Lupin, too, did not miss out on the fate in the original story.
Even though Dudley changed the plot, Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks did not meet as in the original story, and they were not even assigned to the same Starfield battlefield by Dudley during the Great War of Wizards at Hogwarts.
Later, Lupin, as Sirius's close friend, attended a Black family gathering and naturally met Sirius's second cousin, the natural-born disguise master Magus-Nifadora Tonks.
Without the inferiority complex and fear of being a werewolf present in the original story, Lupin and Nymphadora's love story progresses much more smoothly than in the original tale.
A year after their marriage, Teddy Lupin was born, and the child will grow up happily under the loving care of his parents.
Besides love and marriage, there are also cases of people celebrating their careers.
Fred and George, the healthy and well-adjusted Weasley twins, opened the Weasley Magical Alchemy Workshop in Diagon Alley after graduation, selling not only prank magic items but also normal high-level magical items.
Seamus not only works for the Ministry of Magic, contributing to the reform of the relationship between wizards and Muggles, but he also found a side job in the Muggle world: helping Muggles blast mountains and mine.
He's like a one-man team of demolition engineers, plus an unlimited supply of explosives—a true engineering cheat code for Muggles.
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Among the people Dali knows, there are far too many similar happy events.
This was also one of the important sources of happiness for Dali after he came of age in this world.
Eighty years after the successful implementation of the reforms to the relationship between wizards and Muggles, the world has become a supernatural world, with the vast majority of people becoming wizards and only a few remaining evil Muggles.
Even if the blessing magic were to cease now, the vast majority of humanity in future generations would still be wizards.
At the same time, the original technological development path of Muggles and the magical development path of wizards were successfully integrated.
Rune programming, magical mechanics, extraordinary chemistry, and the genetics of wondrous organisms... many disciplines have emerged through their fusion and have made great strides.
Humanity has begun to utilize the combined power of magic and technology to venture into the vast universe.
Dudley, too, had the idea of traveling to other extraordinary worlds.
The future is long, but it will be full of fun.
(End of the book)