roccoschili Chapter 171
Chapter 171
The third basement floor of the British Ministry of Magic, the central hall of the Wizengamot Parliament, used to be the glory of the British Ministry of Magic, and it is the most yearning place for all ambitious wizards in the whole of the UK.
As long as you come to this place to work, you can basically be sure that your future will be infinitely bright, whether it is working in legal affairs, or turning from legal affairs to politics.
This is the most core place, where each minister of the Ministry of Magic will give an inaugural speech, and then formally take office amidst the symbolic votes and applause of all members.
There are not only veteran politicians who have retired from various important departments, but also young people who are emerging from various departments. As long as you can work here, it means that you can touch the core of power.
However, this place, which once symbolized the glory of the Ministry of Magic, has now become a place that cannot be described in words.
This is not only reflected in the change of its appearance, but also in the word-of-mouth of British wizards. Wizards who lived in the UK before talked about this place, and they would say that this is the place where fairness and justice are enforced.
But now, whenever those wizards talk about this place, they will only remain respectful on the surface, but secretly curse, it is just a place where a group of despicable and shameless old people and a group of freaks with abnormal brains are located
Looking at the dim parliament hall in front of him, Mr. Russell felt hopeless at the moment. He used to have many choices, but unfortunately, he chose the worst one.
As a member of the prestigious Rozier family throughout Europe, Mr. Russell has witnessed the rise of Grindelwald and the killing of Voldemort in the British wizarding world.
Several ups and downs, the ebb and flow of the tide, the whole family is also in the great waves of history, continuous glory and decline, the Rozier family, who stood on the wrong team several times, faced a major choice this time.
He chose to hedge his bets. On the one hand, his grandson was very close to his good friend, Mr. Lucius Malfoy.
He led the young people of the family to do quite well in European business, and slowly recovered the almost exhausted family financial resources.
And he took the other members of the Rozier family who were still staying in the UK, and continued to swing between the British Ministry of Magic and Augustus.
With this two-sided asking price to win more benefits for the family, when Augustus wants to hand over the financial power of the entire magic world to the Malfoy family.
Mr. Russell was angry. He didn't care too much about the share allocated to the family in the process.
Instead, I am very concerned about what position my family is in during this process, and my family cannot just gain wealth.
It is necessary to regain the former lofty status in the process. You must know that the so-called British pure-blood nobles, in the eyes of these European pure-blood wizards, are just a bunch of bumpkins.
My own family, when Augustus's financial situation was just starting, contributed so many valuable network resources.
And in the history of his family, there is also a woman who has a close relationship with Grindelwald, although Augustus' surname is Dumbledore on the surface.
But as an old man who lived from that era and witnessed Grindelwald's heyday, Mr. Russell only needs to see the other person for the first time, and Mr. Russell can be sure that this young man must have a very important relationship with Grindelwald relation.
So Mr. Russell joined forces with a group of old-fashioned pure-blood families to thwart Augustus's plan at the Wizards United Bank, trying to let the other party understand that these elderly people and ancient families still have the power to dominate the wizarding world. ability.
While Mr. Russell and others were waiting for Augustus to surrender, the situation changed dramatically. Augustus resolutely handed over all his wealth to Lucius Malfoy.
And directly ordered the Magic Congress of the United States and the French Ministry of Magic to allow them to inject funds and hold shares at the same time, directly bypassing the wizarding families in the UK, and established the Wizarding United Bank across the entire European and American continents.
Although because of Voldemort's relationship, the United Kingdom's Wizarding Bank actually exists in name only, and only has a few offices in the Muggle world.
It is convenient for wizards working in the Muggle world to exchange their British pounds into Galleons, but now it seems that these offices can be revoked, because the current British wizarding world can no longer buy anything they want. want something.
The other party's tactic had already made Mr. Russell and others prepare to surrender, but the appearance of Voldemort made this group of old people start using traditional wall-riding techniques.
Wanting to negotiate with the other party again through the strategy that he may fall to the other party at any time is this fatal mistake that has led to Mr. Russell's current desperate situation.
The former Mr. Russell naively believed that although Voldemort was cruel, he should not be a fool, as long as the other party wanted to rule the British wizarding world.
You should unite your own pure-blood wizard families to strengthen your own strength, and you can use your own resources to settle many things that they are not good at.
But in less than half a year, Mr. Russell felt extremely desperate, not only disappointed with Voldemort himself, but also terrified of the cruelty of the other party.
Even several members of his own family were secretly executed by the other party on trumped-up charges. Just yesterday, the other party led people into his family's castle, trying to capture the remaining few Roziers.
Fortunately, the mysterious red light appeared and rescued several of his grandchildren, otherwise the Rozier family might have perished yesterday.
And this morning, I received an invitation letter from the other party using Mr. Cornelius Fudge, inviting me, a lifelong member of the Wizengamot Council, to attend some plenary meeting.
The moment he stepped into the gate of this parliament hall, Mr. Russell already thought he was a dead man, and he had seen the torture methods of the other side.
But Mr. Russell is not intimidated. For more than 80 years of his life, he thought he was not a good person at all.
I have never had any beliefs, the only thing I can do and can't do is to increase the interests of the family, even my son and grandson say that I am cold-blooded.
It's not like an elder who doesn't have any love for family members. I can watch my granddaughter beating and scolding me indifferently, just because I married her to another important family member that she doesn't know at all.
You can also severely beat your grandson because of a small mischievous move, just because the other party has humiliated the face of the family.
But today, Mr. Russell felt extremely relaxed. He finally didn't have to care about the responsibilities he was carrying, and he didn't have to think about what his father had said to him.
Not to mention talking to a white wall in an empty room in the dead of night.
No one would care what he thought, they would just think of themselves as nothing more than a ruthless and inhuman patriarch.
No one wanted to understand how he brought a family that was on the verge of collapse to the status of a first-class family in the British magic world.
Today, Mr. Russell just wanted to abide by his own heart.