In the next three weeks, Newt suddenly became the busiest person in the family.

Whenever he has time, he will take his hat and cash and travel to various cities in Russia and Ukraine to visit his old friends. Many times it will be late at night before the old wizard will get out of the fireplace with a tired face.

come out.

There are no pleasant reunions with old friends.

In most cases, what Newt experienced was just one sad memorial journey after another.

During the First Wizarding War, the magical world of the former Soviet Union could be said to have suffered the most heavy losses in magical civilization. As the last position to resist Gellert Grindelwald's attack, the Kodos Doriz Magic School was almost razed to the ground.

flat ground.

Tens of thousands of wizards died in the war that lasted for more than twenty years, and there were serious faults in the magic inheritance.

Rising from the ashes and regaining its past glory is not an easy task.

Especially when this process is often interspersed with natural and man-made disasters, it becomes even more difficult.

If the decades-long "Dark Shadow" of Voldemort brought the British wizarding world to a standstill for nearly two decades, then the loud noise that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant six years ago almost extinguished the wizarding world of the former Soviet Union.

The last spark of fire.

Perhaps the death toll was not that high, but almost all the old wizards who had experienced the Wizarding War fell on that land.

Just like the cause of death recorded on Ivanovich's tombstone, it was a high-risk curse, or nuclear radiation.

The wizarding world defines this situation as "Wizard's Tragedy", and the radiation area is marked as "Wizard's Restricted Area".

In the face of high-intensity radiation, wizards are no stronger than Muggles - especially when cancer cells appear. Conventional healing magic will not only fail to alleviate the condition, but will further accelerate the wizard's death.

In fact, even if healing magic is not used, the magic in the wizard's body will spontaneously perform similar "self-healing".

High-intensity radiation is far more harmful to wizards than Muggles. This is a force that wizards cannot understand, and it is also the most uneasy force for Ministry of Magic officials. The influence of Gellert Grindelwald still remains on the European continent.

, many wizards still firmly believe that this is a weapon specially developed by Muggles to deal with wizards.

Therefore, after the Chernobyl accident, the International Magical Association immediately issued a recommendation to evacuate the entire territory.

The vast majority of young wizards chose to leave the territory of the former Soviet Union, or set up layers of magical protection and physical barriers next to their homes to ensure that they would not be implicated in the stupid behavior of Muggles.

Only a very few, some stubborn old guys with special beliefs, chose to violate the Ministry of Magic's ban.

Of course, they were all ultimately tried jointly by the Wizengamot International Wizarding Tribunal—even though they had erased the memories of most of their fellow Soviet soldiers, they were still found guilty of blatantly "violating the law of secrecy."

Considering that most of these "stupid" wizards have been infected with "Wizard's Tragedy".

In addition, most of these old wizards are "war heroes" who participated in the First Wizarding War and protected the "International Federation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy" from being destroyed by Gellert Grindelwald. The wizarding world has no choice.

They were sent to the death chamber or a prison similar to Azkaban for processing, and there was no large-scale publicity for the trial.

During this process, all trials and sentencings were conducted in secret.

Therefore, except for a very small number of wizards, the news that most people in the wizarding world have received is nothing more than "Pripyat has become a restricted area for wizards" and "Several Grindelwald followers have been arrested for violating the law of secrecy."

"...

Ivanovic is just one of them.

After collecting the wands of those stubborn old guys, the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic everywhere put them under house arrest in their respective homes, and then left them to fend for themselves - no one knows their achievements, but their

All names have been recorded on the first-level danger list in the wizarding world, alongside Gellert Grindelwald and others.

On the other hand, most of these wizards who are willing to stay in this land are also fire bearers who support the inheritance of magical civilization in Russia, Ukraine and other places.

Their death and imprisonment can be said to be an extremely fatal blow to the magical civilization in this area.

Even in the eyes of many wizards who know the inside story, Ivanovich and others are still sacrificing the interests of wizards to help Muggles, especially those who are trying to play with the dangerous power of "Wizard's Sorrow".

of muggles.

However……

"...Ivanovich betrayed the magical world! I will never forgive him!"

"My grandpa is not a bad person! He is not the kind of person you say!"

In the past few weeks, the middle-aged wizard's angry voice and the little girl's childish and stubborn retorts would appear in Newt Scamander's ears from time to time, which made him look like

A lot more haggard than before.

What's worse is that this situation is just a microcosm of more than two hundred "criminal" families...

However, no matter how Tina asked, Newt never told the reason.

To be more precise, as soon as Tina started asking what happened in the past few days, Newt's mind began to keep thinking of the cold tombstones. This method of coping was very effective, although it made him look worse.

In a daze, Tina Scamander began to worry whether her husband was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Newt Scamander knew exactly what he was facing and the implications of his answer.

This is not a small problem that can be solved by defeating one or two evil wizards or going to the Ministry of Magic to discuss it - maybe Elena's approach is gentler than Grindelwald's back then, but the resistance they face is essentially

are consistent.

If the Ministry of Magic has long been like a high wall between the non-magical world and the magical world, then Elena and Grindelwald are like people on both sides of the wall, with completely different purposes and philosophies that ultimately lead to...

The same result, breaking down the high wall that exists between the two worlds, is just that one is domination and the other is integration.

As time goes by, Newt's heart becomes more and more shaken and worried...

On the one hand, he is afraid that he will become the accomplice of the next Dark Lord, and on the other hand, he is worried that stories similar to Ivanovich will continue to repeat themselves. In fact, judging from the current situation in the non-magical world, people's lives are about to reach a point where

It's the limit.

"One more, another... this world shouldn't become so difficult..."

Newt seemed to be trapped in some kind of obsession, constantly wandering around that land, looking for information about his old friends, hoping to find one or two pieces of evidence that could refute Elena, or something that he didn't even know about himself.

hope.

Finally, the day has finally arrived.

Just during the day, Newt's visit to friends finally came to an end.

It is also a journey without meeting each other, but it is slightly different from before.

The Lotnikov family, who previously lived in the suburbs of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, was not affected by the disaster six years ago. On the contrary, their lives were better than before.

According to the information Newt Scamander learned, the Lotnikov family moved from Ukraine six years ago.

The last record of Lotnikov's appearance in the wizarding world was the appalling "Pripyat illegal gathering" involving hundreds of well-known wizards... However, he was acting as a whistleblower and important

The identity of the witness.

In short, after this, the Lotnikov family completely disappeared from the magical world of the former Soviet Union.

It is said that someone once saw Lotnikov in the countryside of Louisiana, USA. However, it seems that the family also changed their names when they moved, so the person was not sure whether it was Lotnikov who saw him.

Husband's family.

But in any case, the Lotnikov family should be doing pretty well now.

After all, they had just received a very generous bonus from the International Federation of Wizards a few years ago, and it is said that they even had a Merlin Second Class Medal - this was for Lotnikov's protection of the "International Federation of Wizards Secrecy Law"

award.

"Oh, Second Class Medal of Sir Merlin..."

Newt stood in the study and turned his head to glance at his own Medal of Merlin, Level 2, which was placed on the bookshelf. It was awarded by the wizarding world in recognition of his "contribution to the study of magical animals and magical zoology."

and awarded medals.

He didn't know why, but for the first time in his life, he felt that this medal looked a little dim.

Next to this shining golden medal, there are now a bunch of medals that look a little rough and worn.

Most of them are Patriotic War medals with a sickle and hammer pattern, most of which are medals from Ivanov and his comrades; there are also a small number of medals with a drop of blood and three curves printed on them.

The Chernobyl Rescue Medal, these mostly come from the hands of the descendants of the old wizards who passed away.

Newt Scamander raised his hand and ran his index finger over the medals, a trace of hesitation flashing in his eyes.

Is it true that the non-magical world and the magical world cannot coexist under the sun?

If you want to gain something, does one have to make sacrifices?

Or……

"Newt! What are you doing standing still upstairs?"

At this moment, Tina Scamander's roar came from the living room downstairs.

"The children are waiting for you at the dining table! If you don't come down, you won't eat at home for a week. You'll go to Russia and Ukraine to have dinner with your old friends!"

Today is also the last weekend that Elena and others spend at Newt Scamander's house.

Tomorrow is the last day of August. After the girls go to say goodbye to the British Quidditch national team, they will start to pack their bags, then go back to their homes to hug their parents, and then they will set off to Hogwarts.

The train is here.

Tina Scamander prepared a quite sumptuous dinner for this purpose, with four or five kinds of fish alone.

In fact, as early as a few days ago, Tina had already started arranging and collecting the ingredients that Elena, Luna, Hannah and others wanted to eat, whether it was pickling in advance or seasoning.
To be continued...