"As expected of the leader, I think so much..." Harry flattered quietly.

Lockhart smiled at the Savior: "Before I became Minister of Magic, I thought wizards didn't know much, did nothing, and let Muggles chase and surpass. But now I have permission, and I can read top-secret files and materials. ...so I know: the wizarding world has long since realized that something was wrong, and the Ministry of Magic has long since had an institution similar to a Muggle research institute. It's just that for various reasons, there is no way to start work smoothly-"

"Why?" Bill knew he was finally getting to the point.

"The most fundamental point is that there are too few wizards who are willing to study the nature and principles of magic. Most wizards, including myself, prefer to use the spells that were taught to us at Hogwarts. It's good to use it proficiently, why do you need to understand how it works." Lockhart reluctantly admitted: "In this regard, most wizards are not even comparable to guys like Voldemort, at least they are willing to study it. Magic, although it's just to make the spell more powerful and make the body stronger... It's a pity that the path has gone astray, or it's going in a direction that others can't accept."

"Understood." Furong also showed a rare look of admiration: "That's why you need more wizards, but the immigrants... are all for welfare."

"When you're full and warm, the wizard will naturally want to find something to do. You see Arthur, he's an honest man, working hard all day to feed a large family. Are you curious about how magic works? No? Possibly! Likewise, I can't ask wizards who haven't solved the problem of eating to worry about 'pointless' things like 'how magic works' - but with welfare, the population base will go up again, and it will come out naturally Talent and people of interest." Lockhart looked at Gabriel, and the little Veela still looked at him with that look of admiration. "Even if only one wizard out of ten would be curious about the magic he was using, only one out of a hundred so curious wizards would be willing to put in the actual action to study this thing—"

"Then if there are a thousand wizards, there can be one wizard scientist..." Hermione helped him finish. "What a strange term. Wizard scientist."

Arthur was a little interested: "How many wizards are registered with the Ministry of Magic now?"

"In the early 10,000s," Lockhart said, "but it's still increasing, and maybe more when the Floo network recovers."

"There are so many wizards in England?" said Fred in surprise. "No wonder our business is always better than expected."

"In the past, the number of registered wizards at the British Ministry of Magic was only 3,000, because the registration not only required payment. There was not much benefit - oh I can't say no benefit, at least the Daily Prophet will be provided. The rest Many of the wizards in the world do not have access to tailor-made wands, so the Ministry of Magic cannot use wands to detect their spellcasting behavior. Ninety-nine percent of criminal wizards are unregistered - the three thousand who are registered A wizard, even if it is a crime, it is a matter of temper or philosophy. There are very few malicious violations." Lockhart explained: "At the same time, we also include centaurs, elves, fairies and other magical creatures with the same intelligence as wizards. In the population, the number will naturally go up... When the werewolves are also included in the later stage, the number may be more."

"The main target of Aurors and Strikers is this part of the unregistered wizards." Hermione asked softly, "It sounds very messy."

"Of course it's messy, those three thousand registered wizards would be very easy to catch if they committed crimes with their registered wands!" Lockhart nodded, "but for unregistered wizards, I don't know where they came from: dug up from graves, ancestral, Even grabbing wands to erase their marks and commit crimes in non-wizard gathering areas, it's too difficult to find out! It takes a lot of visits and investigations to find them and then arrest them. The only cute thing about them is that most of them have not undergone formal wizards. Training, average combat power, and generally not Apparating... Once you find it, you're catching it."

"You can't do anything about it. Usually, it is registered and educated, and then released after a period of time." Arthur knows this very well. After all, the capture of unregistered wizards has something to do with his original work. "Like Mundungus...even if Dumbledore doesn't go and get him out of jail, he's locked up for a while. He's just a petty thief after all. Not enough for a dementor kiss. he."

"Where is Mundungus now?" Hermione asked.

"After registering my identity, I hid." Bill said, "I guess it's embarrassing to see us."

"I'll go find him in two days," Lockhart said. "After all, he's pretty good at collecting gossip. But he can't call himself the Order of the Phoenix anymore. A small group of wizards who struggled, transformed into a large multinational forum-type organization of highly qualified and enlightened wizards..."

"It turns out that the dispute between black and white wizards that we are talking about is essentially that the Ministry of Magic uses a part of the money of law-abiding wizards to hire a small number of excellent law-abiding wizards and let them deal with a large number of unregistered wizards who do not abide by the law?" . It's shocking that you can't touch the bottom part of these wizarding worlds at all. "I've never understood why there are so many dark wizards!"

"That's right, and most of the money comes from the purebloods," Lockhart said, "so you get the idea... I guess that's what's happening in other countries right now, and it's just a Voldemort-like figure to provoke something. The pure-blood family has broken the law of secrecy. The British Ministry of Magic is the first wizard government in Europe to completely get rid of the control of the big family. It needs to maintain the strongest strength. Once other countries are dissatisfied with the law of secrecy and try to challenge it, Send the Aurors to investigate immediately to see if Voldemort is up to something."

"So you also suspect that he ran out of the country?"

"It's just to guard against this possibility. You really have to believe in evil. The more you think it's impossible, the more you have to guard against it." Lockhart looked at Furong, but thought it seemed too obvious, so he looked at others first. "For many reasons, I need a large number of wizards to immigrate now. As the Order of the Phoenix~lightnovelpub.net~, you must take the lead in supporting this operation. If there are relatives abroad who have this intention, you can invite them to the UK. "

"Well, I have a few distant relatives. I can get in touch and ask them to bring the old and young to come over and get them a manor." Sirius spoke first.

"Well, thank you." Lockhart nodded, "Furong, you see Gabrielle also learned English, do you want to consider letting your parents come too, she can go to school at Hogwarts, I can let the school The professors here took special care of her."

"Ask my parents about this, I can't call the shots." Furong rarely questioned other people's decisions honestly.

"Well, I can write an invitation if necessary." Lockhart pretended to say casually, ignoring the little Veela who was still full of charm, and his heart was hot again.

Lockhart made up a lot of reasons to keep this wonderful little stunner? Of course not, it is true that the Ministry of Magic welcomes immigrants from all over the world, and there are already a large number of foreign wizards intending to immigrate - so many that there is no need for members of the Order of the Phoenix to call their relatives to join in. But if this little treasure can be left behind with a reasonable excuse, that is naturally the best outcome.

"I'm afraid that some foreign perverts will come to the British wizards to be polygamous-" Mrs. Weasley was still very resentful of this policy.

"I can stipulate that this law is not applicable to new immigrant wizards." Lockhart curled his lips indifferently. Anyway, this law is only the product of his selfishness, and he can change it any way he wants. "I sincerely hope that the wizarding world, at least the British wizarding community, can break the stagnant state during my tenure, showing vitality and a new look. Sincerely hope...we wizards can always proudly tell Muggles: I can magic. ."

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【Recommended ticket. 】

——(To be continued.)

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