Chapter 371 Fairy Brothers

Chapter 371 Fairy Brothers
Just as Xie Ling was about to close the suitcase, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a small crack at the seam of the suitcase. He put his wand in, poked it lightly, and actually took out a piece of parchment from it.

Xie Ling's mouth corners slightly raised, it seems that this is something really interesting.

The parchment was blank, with nothing on it.

Shalling shook his head. Although Bagman's caution was commendable, such a crude concealment method was hard to praise. Not to mention Shalling who possessed the magic eye, even Hermione might be able to unlock this thing.

"Show yourself quickly!" Xie Ling raised his wand and chanted.

Dense words began to appear on the parchment.

Sherin nodded as he read. The contents were some internal secrets of the Ministry of Magic. It recorded that some high-ranking officials secretly contacted the Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War and conducted some shady deals under the table.

Xie Ling dared to say that if these contents were leaked, it would definitely be enough to cause an uproar in the entire British wizarding world.

Bagman himself was one of them. When he lost money in gambling and was chased by his creditors, Rookwood, who was a Death Eater, approached him and offered to exchange money for some information from the Ministry of Magic. Bagman himself was a pure-blood wizard. Although he was not an extreme pure-blood supremacist, he was not too opposed to Voldemort's ideas, so the two of them got to know each other.

When Rookwood was imprisoned and implicated him, he thought he was finished. Who knew that the Wizengamot group would easily let him go in a casual trial just because he was a popular star.

As Xie Ling looked at the names on the list, he couldn't help but feel sad for the many flaws in the Ministry of Magic. Many of the Ministry's absurd actions were explained at this moment.

Why can a place like Knockturn Alley, a place full of filth and dirt, remain standing?
Why was the Ollivander family able to monopolize the wand market for more than a thousand years?
Why could even Arthur Weasley, who had no power in the Ministry of Magic, deliberately leave loopholes in the law when amending it for his own interests and hobbies?

In the entire Ministry of Magic, almost half of the people have disregarded the interests of the masses for their own selfish interests and ignored the decline of the British wizarding world, causing stagnation in the entire wizarding world and hindering the development and innovation of magic.

Xie Ling sneered and carefully put the parchment into his pocket.

If he wanted to accomplish his far-reaching ambition, the first and foremost step would be to change the corrupt, unfair and bureaucratic Ministry of Magic; these parasites of society must be eradicated.

Not only that, a new system must be established to select officials based on merit. The selection process must be open and transparent, and there must be a fair review system for officials' performance. They must be accountable for all their actions while in office and be subject to supervision by the general public, and the possibility of officials protecting each other must be eliminated.

[List of corrupt officials obtained! ]

Not long after all this was done, Dobby reappeared with a crackling sound. He said respectfully, "Master, the person you want to meet has been contacted by Winky and I. Shall we go over now?"

"Well, I've just finished my side, let's go!" Xie Ling said.

Sherin put his hand on Dobby's shoulder, and the two disappeared from Sherin's room with a crackling sound, and then appeared in Bath, a city in southwest England. This ancient city was discovered by the Romans in 70 AD, and has a history of nearly years since it developed from a remote town.

This is also the place with the most goblin activities in Great Britain. It is rumored that in the early tenth century, the goblin royal family once lived here as their base.

Of course, Xie Ling did not come here for archaeology or tourism.

In a certain underground VIP room of a tavern called the Green Goblin, Xie Ling sat calmly opposite three menacing goblins.

The expressions on the goblins' faces were not very friendly, even though they were facing Xie Ling, who was at the peak of his power in the wizarding world.

Sherin didn't blame them, at this time relations between wizards and goblins were at one of their lowest points in history, almost comparable to the goblin rebellion in the eighteenth century.

The cause was that about a year ago, the Ministry of Magic attempted to introduce a new goblin rights bill. At that time, the Ministry's Department for Control of Magical Creatures sent a delegation headed by Royden Porke to hold a meeting with the Goblin Brotherhood in Chippingcrombie.

The Brotherhood of Goblins, or BOG for short, is a political organization representing the goblin community, led by Cross-Eyed Bolliger.

According to Schelling, the talks between the two sides were like talking to a deaf person. When the arrogant wizards were happy to tell the goblins about the small benefits they were about to receive from the Ministry of Magic, they did not know that what the goblins had always wanted was actually the power to own and use magic wands.

Just as Royden Poker was feeling smug about what he considered to be "high progress", the first sound of an explosion outside awakened him from his self-indulgent fantasy.

The goblins outside got wands from somewhere and started wreaking havoc on the street, turning Muggle mailboxes and trash cans into wildebeests and other wild beasts. They shouted slogans such as "We are not ugly fairies" and demanded that the Ministry of Magic release the goblin activist Callushand Hodred and give justice to the oppression the goblins have faced for a long time.

These demands far exceeded the bottom line that the Ministry of Magic could tolerate. The Ministry of Magic had never taken the precedent of admitting mistakes voluntarily. Most of the time, admitting mistakes also meant that the Minister of Magic had to step down. Calloused Hodred was not a good guy either. He shrunk three wizards with a shrinking spell and tried to crush them to death. Aliens attacking wizards was a felony, and he would never be released under any circumstances.

Seeing that the negotiations were fruitless, the Ministry of Magic had no choice but to send out the Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team and the Emergency Magical Event Reversal Team to suppress the matter in order to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

Afterwards, Split-footed Ragno, author of Little People, Big Plans, said in an interview with the Daily Prophet: "The relationship between wizards and goblins has faced the most severe test in centuries, but despite this, the Ministry of Magic still does not listen to our voices." Ragno is a moderate in the Goblin Brotherhood. He does not support goblins using violent means to resist, but also believes that the riot was caused by the Ministry of Magic's long-term indifference to goblins.

(Note: This story comes from the Daily Prophet published in 1999, but the content above is about 1993)

At this moment, among the three goblins sitting opposite Xie Ling, the two on the left are the two leaders of the Goblin Brotherhood - the chief leader Cross-eyed Bolig and the deputy leader Splayed-legged Ragnor.

As for the man on the far right, Xie Ling had never heard of his appearance before, and was unable to know his identity for the time being. However, seeing that he could sit side by side with the chief and deputy leaders of the Brotherhood, and from the shrewd and fierce look in his eyes, Xie Ling had already made a vague guess about his identity.

The first to speak was Cross-Eyed Bolig. He stared at Sherin with his cross-eyed eyes and said in a somewhat unfriendly tone: "Listen, Mr. Malfoy, although we all know your reputation and status in the wizarding world, please understand that the current relationship between us goblins and wizards cannot be called friendly. We have lost our patience with the arrogance and lies of wizards. If you have anything to say, you'd better speak directly and don't waste our precious time!"