Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

"Eh? Stalingrad ?!"

Elena's expression was slightly startled, and she immediately looked at the old wizard in disbelief.

Thanks to the ghost and animal video that was popular in Ellie Island in the past, she is very familiar with the pronunciation of this noun, especially in this slightly German accent, Stalin, you will never hear it wrong.

"Wait, you wouldn't want to say ... Your wizards are also involved in the Second World War ?!"

"No, it's us, the wizard."

Grindelwald raised his finger and shook it, the expression on his face was quite complicated.

"Accurately, that war was both the cause of the war in the magic world, and it could be said that the war broke out with the war in the magic world. When the flames of war enveloped the whole world, no one could be spared whether you were hemp Melons, or wizards, are inevitably involved. "

World War II, this is the largest world war in human history.

The war ranged from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. More than 61 countries and regions and more than 2 billion people were involved in the war. The area of ​​operation was 22 million square kilometers.

And this data is just a fuzzy statistics of the non-magic world.

If you count the wizarding war that broke out before the official outbreak of the Second World War, and all the wizards and magical creatures involved, this number and scope may need to be increased further.

It's just that in the magic world, you don't usually use "World War II" to describe this war.

"Sin of Grindelwald, this is the name of the previous war."

Grindelwald glanced at Dumbledore, and shook his head quite self-deprecatingly.

"In the beginning, our purpose was not to provoke war, but to eliminate all crises in the bud before the Muggle started the war, but the vortex was getting bigger and bigger until we came back to God, everyone Already in a quagmire, taking a step back, even worse than death. "

"Around Stalingrad, that was the battlefield for the last and first decisive battle of the Wizards."

"Muggles and wizards are involved in that fierce battle. The killing efficiency of wizards and Muggles on that hundreds of thousands of battlefields is not much different until the end ..."

Speaking of this, Grindelwald twitched his cheek and fell into a very rare silence.

Obediently hugged her knees and shrank her head on the soft sofa to listen to the story. She crooked her head curiously and looked at the first-generation Dark Lord who suddenly broke the chapter. The eyes flashed a little, and then subconsciously asked.

"Until finally defeated by the justice Soviet sorcerer and the Red Army, and then retreated to Germany, he finally fought against Professor Dumbledore on the top of the Forbidden City, and was defeated by a single stroke. The castle for decades? "

"Of course not! In fact, despite the non-magical war, the Soviet Union won."

Grindelwald glanced quizzically at the white hair balls, shook his head again, and sighed.

"That group of fools put too much attention on supporting the Muggle battlefield, so on the battlefield of the magic world, we won the magic school built next to Stalingrad and turned it directly into ruins, the entire Soviet magic world. The heritage is buried there. After the Great Patriotic War, the young wizards of the Soviet Union had only a handful of people left, so that even the most basic spells could only rely on the translation of British magic. Textbooks to learn. "

After that war, the Soviet magic world almost became a joke.

Even after more than forty years of cultivation, it has just taken a breath. This is also due to their non-magic government's policy of vigorously encouraging fertility. Under the huge population base, the probability of the birth of a wizard will eventually be met. Higher.

"It ’s not just the Soviet Union, the British magic world, no, to be precise, the entire European magic civilization, because of the extremely severe decline of the decades of war! There are only eleven left in the world of magic schools. Place. "

Hearing Grindelwald take the initiative to talk about this topic, Dumbledore continued in a heavy tone.

As a principal of a magic school, a person who ended the war personally, the only thing he regretted was that he didn't take action early. In that case, maybe the situation will not end up so uncontrollable.

The constantly updated weapons of Muggles, plus the various war magic researched by wizards in the past millennium, in a war in which all people have lost their minds, people have reached the peak of **** each other.

Compared to those spells that were later included in the list of prohibited black magic because of the appearance of Voldemort.

The war magic that was born, improved or used for the first time on a large scale during the Second World War was almost completely destroyed after the war, whether it was a curse or a record, it was completely eliminated. The only thing that remained For the memory of war magic, except for the survivors of that year, there is only the old guy like them.

Has proved that this is indeed a wise choice.

At least Tom Riddle later became Lord Voldemort and tried to practice terror in the British region. His biggest worry was that he could n’t find the powerful war magic at all. Unless he created his own spell from scratch, they could use it. The magic is just an enhanced version of the spell on the human level.

"Is this the case? No wonder ..."

Silently listening to Grindelwald and Dumbledore, you told me the story of the year, Elena nodded thoughtfully, the puzzle that had been lingering in her heart was finally solved.

Has to say that she has been very confused about the current state of the magic world since being in contact with Grindelwald.

It stands to reason that with the unscientific medical protection, strong self-sufficiency, closed and stable magic world, there is no reason to appear as sparsely populated and a single social composition as it is now. Destructive.

And one of the weirdest is the irrational population structure in the magic world.

The population distribution in the magic world presents a very strange situation. The vast majority of wizards are under the age of sixty. Once they are over sixty, a very terrible age fault will appear, which is not in line with common sense. As a wizard whose theoretical lifespan is about half higher than that of Muggles, it is impossible for him not to have an aging population.

If you think about it, the oldest in the Malfoy family is Lucius Malfoy; the Black family is left with only one Sirius Black; even the leafy Weasley family, the old generation of wizards are also very poor , And most of them are still witches; as for the Gunter family, well, this is because of their own death and annihilation ...

On the other hand, the teaching staff such as Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout lived exceptionally long, and lived to 70 or 80 years without illness and disaster. However, it is difficult to find the same age group after leaving the Hogwarts Castle People.

Not only is there a huge gap in the age group, as a Hogwarts student and a veteran Harry Potter series fan, Elena had a lot of doubts before crossing it, and now it is all solved. .

For example ...

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