Chapter 267 Emergency Meeting

Now Lucius and the French Ministry of Magic have assumed that Dumbledore and Grindelwald are trapped in the magic village, so the French Republican Auror Corps (the Ministry of Magic army exclusively named by the Muggle authorities) is besieging the incoming enemies.

This is not the worst news. What's worse is that the goblins rebelled two hours ago! They announced to the outside world two hours ago that they had rebelled to Voldemort's side, but they interrupted the magic transmission and communication of various countries since five o'clock in the evening.

Therefore, this is a premeditated magic assault.

In the European magic civilization, among the existing intelligent races, only four species have their own magic system, and their scale is in order: human wizards, goblins, house elves and vampires. There are also some humanoid creatures such as Veela, which are all classified as magical animals. The reason is that they do not have a complete magic system and are more inclined to intelligent creatures with magic resistance such as giants and centaurs.

The elves were conquered by wizards before the Middle Ages and became the house elves of today, but they still have their own complete magic civilization, but they have lost their creativity.

Therefore, the only foreign race that can live openly in Europe is the goblins, who have both complete magic civilization and the status of human-like spellcasters who can get along with human wizards on an equal footing.

However, they secretly launched an attack last night, using racial magic that is different from the wizard system to destroy the means of communication between the various magic ministries.

In terms of individual strength and overall scale of the race, European wizards are absolutely better than goblins, but goblins control the entire banking and financial system of the West and North Africa, and are very united internally.

All these factors add up, as long as the goblins do not threaten, the Western magic world is still accustomed to peaceful coexistence. Another reason for not going to war is that the magic worlds are not a whole, but the banks controlled by goblins connect the entire race.

Any single magic world cannot fight against the wizard bank, because the latter can summon most of the world's goblins to any magic world in a short period of time, and can also use racial magic to interfere with the connection between the magic worlds.

To put it in a more vivid way, goblins, whose individual and collective strengths are not as strong as those of wizards, like to concentrate their superior forces to surround and attack a certain magic world, and they can also interfere with the communication and marching speed of the reinforcements. Often, when the reinforcements have not arrived or there will be no reinforcements at all, the rebellious human magic world will compromise with the goblins.

Their demands have always been only for the control of finance and banking, and have not touched the bottom line of the magic world. On the contrary, every confrontation and riot is caused by human wizards trying to take back financial power.

Now, the wizard bank has fallen to Voldemort, which is obviously an unwise decision.

Sirius is now leading the "Authorized Royal Legion" to surround Gringotts; Sprout is still watching over Crabbe and Goyle; Professor McGonagall is guarding Hogwarts, maintaining the normal operation of the Defense Department, and coordinating the joint defense affairs of foreign representatives stationed on campus and national defense students (foreign Auror reserves), etc.

"... Therefore, we now need to contact the Ministry of Magic in London." Professor McGonagall just finished talking about the joint defense arrangement and rubbed her temples hard.

She is no longer young, but like Chen Bin, she has been here since 1:00 last night.

"Na Ma, what do you think?" Her eyes fell on Chen Bin, and everyone in the room also looked at him.

"Wait, I have something important to ask." Chen Bin also got into the mood and asked the participants: "What are you doing in this meeting? In addition to Mr. Malfoy representing the Finance Department, do you have any official legal duties to issue any orders?"

The atmosphere suddenly became heavier, and everyone glanced at their accomplices around them, but did not make any sound.

Chen Bin did not want to spoil the show, but this so-called "highest internal meeting of the Defense Department" was indeed a bit dubious.

Four Weasleys, the deans of the four colleges (two were absent due to official business), Lupin and Sirius were only deputy captains of the Civil Security Team.

Chen Bin and Kate were even more funny. They were international friends of Chinese origin in the Muggle society, but they were just ordinary professors in Hogwarts. In the British magic world, they were members of an ancient family, not the head of a family, but ordinary magic residents at most.

If we have to talk about his legal position, he is the captain of the Civil Security Team under the Department of Defense, that is, the leader of the Boy Scouts.

This funny position that is not even considered a regular army is specially used to disgust Umbridge.

"I am the director of the Office of Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Equipment and the Department of Prohibition of Abuse of Muggle Objects." Arthur raised his hand first to speak.

"Secretary of the Treasury." Lucius continued.

"Chief Financial Accountant of the Department of Finance." Percy said a little unconfidently.

"The Auror Office of the Department of Defense specially recruited trainee Aurors, and also the third-level commander of the "Authorized Royal Legion" under the Department of Defense." Bill raised his hand.

Seeing that the rest of the group didn't speak, Chen Bin said helplessly: "I am the captain of the Civil Security Team, that is, the leader of the Hogwarts children's militia. I think the others who didn't speak don't have any official positions in the Ministry of Magic?"

Mrs. Weasley immediately denied it and said: "No, there is also Alastor who is guarding the door. He is now the head of the Auror Office."

"Puff!" Chen Bin laughed unkindly, causing Professor McGonagall to glare at him. It's not that Chen Bin is funny, but that these people are too funny. They actually let the Commissioner of Police and the Minister of National Security guard the door, but let the housewife sit at the table for the meeting?

Seeing the puzzled expressions of the crowd, Chen Bin also knew that time was running out, so he spoke his mind directly.

To contact the Ministry of Magic now would mean handing over military power for nothing. Dumbledore was trapped in a village in France, but he concurrently held many command posts in the Department of Defense.

So, the only person who could be equal to Fudge now was Lucius Malfoy. However, he was only in charge of finances and could not make any comments on military affairs, and his identity as a former Death Eater also restricted him from making any comments on military power at this sensitive moment.

In contrast, before Dumbledore seized the military and financial powers, Minister Fudge had indirect command over the national armed forces, that is, to appoint subordinates of his own faction to take charge of various departments that had the legal right to use force, including but not limited to: Auror Command (Office), Reversal of Incidents Team, Memory Cancellation Command, and security personnel of the Department of Mysteries.

The force they were authorized to use was also related to their own duties. For example, members of the Memory Cancellation Command could basically only use "Oblivion", but this was also considered a kind of attack spell.

If the rest of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, the Department of International Magical Cooperation, the Department of Magical Traffic, the Department of Magical Sports and Games, and their subordinate agencies need to use force, they must apply to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for combat personnel to assist in their duties.

The Department of Magical Law Enforcement is the largest department of the Ministry of Magic, with eight major agencies, four of which have gathered the vast majority of the core combat forces of the Ministry, namely the Auror Office, the Striker, the Magical Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team, and the Ministry of Magic Witch Watchers.

Aurors are a mixture of special police, secret agents, spies, and soldiers, and are the most outstanding elites in all aspects.

Striker is a highly trained combat wizard, a special police who attacks serious crimes head-on, and is a bit like a mixture of the Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Tigers in the police system.

The Witch Watchers are a special force, openly stationed in major strategic locations to search for fugitives, and their daily tasks and case handling procedures are still little known. Chen Bin learned from Old Deng that in addition to actively pursuing wanted criminals across regions, they would also deal with wizards who defected to the Muggle society. Therefore, this force is more like a hybrid of the FBI and the CIA.

The Magic Law Enforcement Reconnaissance Team is an ordinary police force that handles daily crimes.

The use of force by other departments is more restricted. This is like the functions of customs, urban management, firefighting and auxiliary police, etc., which will not be explained one by one. They can only use designated attack spells against legal groups within a specific range, and their law enforcement power is greatly restricted, and they don’t even need to fight when facing dark wizards.

Who has ever seen urban management or auxiliary police conduct counter-terrorism or fight with gun gangs?

This was originally a vertical administrative system with ministers as the backbone, but Dumbledore intervened and transferred the financial power and armed personnel of various departments and institutions to the newly established Finance Department and Defense Department, without making any changes to the entire administrative system.

That is to say, the finances of each department must be approved by the Finance Department, and the armed forces of each department are also commanded by the Defense Department, but the administrative staff and combatants are still retained in the original structure.

The benefits of this plan are obvious - all the dirty and tiring work is done by the Fudge faction, but any financial transfer and armed action also need to be authorized by Dumbledore and Malfoy.

That is to say, every move of Fudge's faction is also one-way transparent, but what deployment Dumbledore has made must be known by Fudge himself, and even most of the secrets and details can be hidden.

In order to avoid the infiltration of the Death Eaters, this kind of inhumane control is indeed effective in preventing the disclosure of military intelligence and deployment.

However, now that Dumbledore is in crisis, the disadvantages are also very obvious - Minister Fudge can reasonably persuade officials to take back the armed forces of the Defense Department and restore the minister's direct command.

The Director of the Defense Department has disappeared, but the magic world is in crisis. The minister does not even need to think of an excuse and can definitely take back the military power.

Military and administrative power are also in Fudge's hands. Can financial power still be in Malfoy's hands?

With the three powers returned to Fudge's hands, can the Ministry of Magic still keep secrets?

From then on, the Ministry of Magic will become a house with leaks on all sides, and any important information can be leaked to Voldemort in one direction.

Chen Bin shook out this disadvantage, and everyone's face suddenly became ugly.

"That is to say, before contacting the Ministry of Magic in London, someone must temporarily take over the position of Director of the Defense Department, right?" Malfoy's brain circuit is different from everyone else's.

Chen Bin wants to stop them from contacting Fudge, but Malfoy is thinking about how to suppress Fudge head-on.

——〈Dividing line〉——

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I couldn't help but feel sorry for Snape for a second. He was only 31 years old when he appeared in the first movie, but he was played by a super veteran actor in his fifties.