Chapter 355 The Wand Ban
In 1974, the 417th Quidditch World Cup final was Syria vs. Madagascar, and Royston Edwind, then International Director of the International Wizarding Federation Quidditch Committee, passed a strict French ban on all officials except the ICWQC Everyone outside brings their wands onto the field.
Crowds and a wand that could go off at any moment sounds like a nightmare. People in the 1970s liked to express their thoughts, and many fans claimed to boycott the 1974 Quidditch World Cup.
The empty stands are exactly what Edwind hoped, but his strategy didn't work. The witches and wizards who came to watch the World Cup after the start brought a new instrument called a camouflage pipe: a colorful pipe that can Cheers loudly for the supporting team and creates smoke in the colors of the flag.
In the first few games, only a few wizards came to watch the game, but those camouflage tubes enlivened the atmosphere of the game, the upsurge of using camouflage tubes gradually heated up, and the number of spectators gradually increased.
At the Syria-Madagascar final, the stands were packed, each with his or her own camouflage tube. When Royston Edwind appeared in the top box, hundreds of witches and wizards poured into the disguise pipes and booed loudly, and changed them back to their original wands, Edwind resigned on the spot, The wizarding world rejoices.
Lily hadn't seen the Quidditch World Cup, she clamored to go, at that time Pomona was already an adult, and she was worried that the pure-bloods would make trouble at the Quidditch World Cup, so she took her and West Fleurs went to watch Quidditch.
Quidditch tickets were easy to come by because everyone resisted at first, and then it became more and more difficult to get tickets. James and Sirius were big Quidditch fans and went to almost every game, while Severus didn't seem to have much interest in Quidditch. It's just that he would rather go to a crowded place to "join in the fun" than being left alone for the summer vacation.
The Death Eaters of '74 were glamorous, and they helped Eugenina Jenkins quell the Squib parade, albeit in a very violent way.
With so many wizards together, it's hard not to be discovered by Muggles, especially when they like to fly around on broomsticks. When Pomona was called by the Aurors to help with the defense, Severus and Lily were hanging out in the tent area. When they were there, they met James and Sirius who were also hanging out.
James thought it was Severus and Lily who came alone, and he was so jealous that Sirius didn't care much about this aspect. Fortunately, even if their guardian Alphard took the two of them away, otherwise they would be in a crowded place. Using jinxes indiscriminately will cause riots.
Pomona prefers to sleep than Quidditch, and she sleeps in the tent when everyone else is watching the World Cup, but when the loud camouflage pipe sounds, she knows the others are back.
She opened her eyes impatiently, waking up from her sleep, but what she saw was not the tarpaulin of the tent, but the log roof, and the sound of the camouflage pipe came from the next door.
Sometimes she couldn't tell if she was dreaming or awake, and she'd been reluctant to believe that Severus was dead.
And Tonks, they are still so young, it is extremely difficult to accept people younger than themselves, especially they were once their own students who died in front of them, Minerva did not hang a portrait of Severus in the principal's room.
Gold doesn't come out of thin air, the goblins suffered a lot when Voldemort first rose, they were robbed. Goblins have always been considered inferior creatures in the magic world. If you want to describe a person as lowly, you can just say that he looks like a goblin.
Goblins are not house-elves, and throughout the history of magic, goblin rebellions have occurred several times, most notably in the 17th and 18th centuries.
It's just that the words "bloody" and "thrilling" are not enough to describe those rebellions. Not only the goblins were killed by the whole family, but many pure-blood families were also extinct in those rebellions. Under the choice of peace talks, wizards and goblins sit down and negotiate.
Wizards can't enslave goblins like house elves, and don't even think about taking back Gringotts Bank. All wizards trying to master Gringotts' tricks are tantamount to breaking the covenant. In 1631, the wand legislation prohibited all magical creatures except wizards from holding There were wands, which indirectly led to the goblin rebellion in the 18th century.
A group of young wizards pushed the slovenly Lala into the village pond. He didn't have a wand to protect himself. Although he survived in the end, he was unfairly tried when he sued the Wizengamot. At that time, there was no goblin representative in the Wizengamot, and those wizards were released on the spot because of insufficient evidence. If justice could not be done, then they would go to claim justice themselves. Blood flowed like a river once.
Fairies' perception of reward and compensation is very different from that of humans. In the values of fairies, the legal owner of an item is always its maker rather than the subsequent buyer. The buyer should return the original item to the maker after death. .
What the wizard pays for the items made by the goblin is only a rental fee, and the ownership remains with the goblin.
The goblin king made swords for Gryffindor, and Griphook believed that the sword of Gryffindor should be returned to the goblins after Gryffindor died, but it was passed down from generation to generation in Hogwarts.
In the center of the foyer on the 8th floor of the Ministry of Magic is another large pure gold statue, located in the center of the fountain pool, the tallest is a wizard holding a wand, surrounded by a witch, a centaur, a goblin and a domestic Elf. Wizards and wizards are the most prominent, and other statues look up to them with "great admiration", and the fountain's illusion of a harmonious picture of the wizarding world can only fool the naïve and ignorant. Both the centaurs and the goblins feel they are vastly superior to human wizards, on the other hand house-elves get no pleasure out of serving wizards, most of the main hall was destroyed during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996, 1997 After the collapse of the Ministry of Magic, the puppet regime replaced the fountain with a stone statue of magic as power. After the end of the Second Wizarding War, the Magic Brothers fountain was restored from the first floor below the Wizengamot courtroom to the main hall on the eighth floor. At that time, someone proposed to adopt a new design, which was rejected by Kingsley.
Sometimes, for good luck, wizards will throw coins into the fountain, and all proceeds from this fountain will be donated to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Wounds. on the fountain.
If Muggles were added, where would they stand in the Fountain of Brothers?
Pomona sat up, and there was a dressing gown by the bed, it was also dark blue, the same color she had given Severus to wear.
She didn't go to the Quidditch World Cup in 1994, she saw the Death Eater riot and the report of the Dark Mark after the final in the Daily Prophet, and Edwind reappeared after 20 years of disappearance , and made a brief statement in the newspaper: The wand ban doesn't look so stupid now, does it?
Since the dragon was freed, the security of Gringotts in recent years has been taken care of by the troll security, and the goblin has been mad with anger.
The goblins never let go of the debts they should recover. In 1994, Ludo Bagman owed so much money to the goblins and ran away. Humans do not keep their promises, and it is difficult for goblins to stand on the side of wizards.
Now humans have very serious problems, if they continue to be happy like fools, they will die.
If you want to protect your own interests, you must have enough force. Unarmed lambs will only be deprived of their interests. At first, it is the wool on their bodies, then their own mutton, and finally even their own children will be served on the table, becoming Grilled lamb chops are such a delicacy.
Most people think of the deliciousness when they see the lamb chops, and the rapid secretion of saliva, no one will sympathize with the lamb.
Perhaps only the naive girl like Ma Li, who told the ministers why people can't afford bread and don't eat cakes, would sympathize with that poor animal, because she didn't know the taste of hunger, and how hungry people would be in order to survive.
