Mastering Thunder from Hogwarts

"Yeah." Fushahui nodded vigorously, "We have two local stores that represent Yinshan Trading Company's products. Those magic lamps and record players are all very good, but they are very expensive, and every time

They are all in short supply, and I can't even buy them even if I want to. The Ministry of Magic has also purchased some. I saw them in the Director's Office, so I can recognize the emblem on them."

After excitedly expressing her feelings of envy, Fushae suddenly realized that the young man in front of her seemed to have said that this was his business.

"Could it be that you are the boss of Silver Flash Trading Company?" Fushahui looked at Anduin in disbelief.

"Yes, Silver Lightning Alchemy Development Company is indeed my industry. I came to Germany this time to discuss cooperation with local businessmen."

Anduin was not lying. The contract he signed with the German businessman in Egypt was a bit conservative. It was basically a fixed order and did not agree on long-term trade cooperation. In other words, the contract will arrive after the goods of the existing order are shipped.

After the deadline, it is not certain whether we will cooperate with these companies in the future.

In other words, except for those knowledgeable and wealthy alchemist masters in Egypt, few countries dare to be so unrestrained and directly sign long-term cooperation contracts.

You must know that after signing this kind of contract, you have to place a certain amount of orders every year regardless of whether there is business or not. This is quite risky for many small companies and small businesses.

At the same time, Anduin did not know the actual operating conditions of the other company, so he basically signed short-term orders. He only signed long-term contracts with the Egyptian company and the Romanian meat uncle who knew the details.

Anduin's trip to Europe happened to be a chance to inspect the local industry, kick out some partners with insufficient strength and bad reputation, and then identify some stable long-term partners.

"Oh my gosh, I heard that the boss of Silver Flash Trading Company is a young wizard. It is said that he also won the Gold Medal for Pioneering Contribution at the International Alchemy Conference. It turns out it is you." Fushahui looked at Anduin excitedly at this time, as if

Treat the other person as normal.

"This is nothing to boast about. By the way, you haven't told me clearly yet about the division of Germany." Anduin quickly brought the topic back to the right track.

"Ah, right, right." Fushae stuck out her tongue in embarrassment upon hearing this. As a wizard who had just graduated from a magic school a few years ago, she did not have such a high level of professionalism and still behaved like a student.

"The German wizarding world is now basically the same as the Muggle society. It is divided into East Germany and West Germany according to the country." Fusaei brewed her emotions for a while, then rationalized her thoughts, and continued. "And the flight between East and West Germany

The road network is now the same as between countries, it is not completely connected together, and you also know that the floo network cannot be directly connected between countries."

Anduin nodded when he heard this. He understood this situation. In Europe, the floo networks between different countries are not connected. After all, it involves diplomatic issues.

However, in the wizarding world, there are many places where the country divisions are not exactly like the ordinary Muggle world. For example, although Spain and Portugal are two countries, their wizarding worlds are unified. Another example is Ireland in the United Kingdom.

Also like Northern Europe, although it is divided into three countries in the Muggle world, in the wizarding world it is actually co-managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Magic.

But generally speaking, countries are still distinguished like the real Muggle world, and even the national borders are basically the same as those of Muggle countries.

The reason why this is so.

On the one hand, this is because most countries are divided based on cultural and linguistic differences, and a large part of the wizards in the same area are of Muggle origin, so this division is more in line with national conditions.

On the other hand, because the Secrecy Act needs to be maintained by the Ministry of Magic and the Muggle government, and the Ministry of Magic has the obligation to protect Muggle leaders and reach coordination and communication, it is more reasonable for a Muggle government to have a Ministry of Magic.

The reason why there are three countries with one Ministry of Magic like in Northern Europe is mainly because the cultures and languages ​​there are similar and the population is sparse.

In fact, the reason why Grindelwald was able to gain momentum back then was mainly because World War I caused changes in the borders and borders of a large number of countries.

At that time, Germany was annexing other countries too quickly, which resulted in many Ministry of Magic nominally losing the Muggle governments they could contact.

This has also put many ministries of magic in an embarrassing situation. You can ask whether the German Ministry of Magic should accept you directly like the Muggle world, such as Belgium, which was killed at that time.

Anyway, the German Ministry of Magic must have had what they had in mind at the time, and their excuses were just and fair.

And those countries in the Muggle world definitely don't want to lose their territory, so this causes conflicts.

In fact, there were many conflicts between wizards in various countries at that time, and wizards were even involved in the Muggle Wars.

However, the Wizarding International at that time still intervened, requiring the Ministry of Magic of various European countries to wait and see what happened and not to have excessive contact with Muggle heads of state, otherwise it would easily expose the wizarding world.

At the same time, in order to prevent wizards from being involved in Muggle wars, Wizards International also required wizards to avoid and hide, and cut off their contact with Muggle society.

To be honest, this is a bit of a one-size-fits-all approach.

However, this requirement is unacceptable to many wizards, because many wizards are born as Muggles, or have Muggle lovers or Muggle friends.

Even those pure-blood wizards are more dissatisfied, because many pure-blood families rely on cooperation with Muggles to gain wealth.

Therefore, they were completely separated from Muggle society, and these wizards were naturally dissatisfied.

So during the First World War, Grindelwald took advantage of these dissatisfactions and allowed those wizards who were unwilling to hide and yearned to live in the sun to follow him, and eventually even trained an army.

Moreover, Grindelwald also ignored the instructions of the Wizarding International, blatantly contacted Muggle Germany at the time, and tried to provide help to the Muggle head of state and use potions to train super soldiers.

In the end, he even took the army he trained, the "Saints Party", to carry out terrorist attacks everywhere, trying to directly expose the wizarding world to Muggle society.

This led to the entire wizarding world being wanted and targeted, and he was finally arrested. In fact, if Grindelwald's methods and goals were not so extreme, he might have been able to achieve it.

And because of the lessons learned from the Grindelwald incident, the Ministry of Magic in various countries will not immediately have disputes because of the Muggle wars and changes in the country.

But now Germany has been divided for more than thirty or forty years. Anduin remembers that the Democratic Republic of Germany was established in 1949, which is almost forty years now.

But even though Muggle Germany has been divided for many years, wizarding Germany should not have changed much. After all, he had never heard that the German Ministry of Magic split into two.

At this time, Fusae told him the reason, "Although the entire German wizarding world is still under the unified management of the German Ministry of Magic, there are great internal conflicts."

"After all, the split between East and West Germany can basically be regarded as enemies, and the split of the past forty years has also led to the growth of a large number of Muggle-born wizards on both sides of East and West Germany, which has even lasted for 2-3 generations.

, and the hostility in Muggle society has gradually spread to wizard society."

"Even pure-blood wizards have differences because of whether they are East German Muggles or West German Muggles who are cooperating with the family."

"At the beginning, these wizards were only a minority. After all, most wizards at that time did not think that the split would last too long. They believed that reunification would be restored soon, and even if reunification was not restored, East and West Germany would not always be so hostile.

If this goes on, the relationship will always ease."

Indeed, there were divisions and wars between Ireland and Northern Ireland, but later relations slowly eased.

"But who knows, decades have passed and there is still no sign of a merger between the two sides."

Fusae couldn't help but sigh when she said this. As a local and a mixed-race wizard from East Germany, she never expected that Germany could be divided since she was born.

Anduin couldn't help but shake his head secretly after hearing this. East and West Germany had really been hostile to each other for decades. After all, in Muggle society, the two separated countries represented two different ideas. How could the conflict not be fierce?

At the same time, Anduin also vaguely understood why the German Ministry of Magic might be split. Sure enough, the division between East and West Germany took too long, so long that two generations had passed.

"So just because the division has been maintained, the Floo Network was divided into two, just like two completely different countries?" Anduin looked at Fushahui speechlessly. The country's

The wizard is really unlucky.

"Yes, the wizards here, as long as they are born as Muggles or mixed-bloods, will always be influenced by some hostile or hateful ideas since childhood. This has led to increasing conflicts between wizards from East and West Germany."

"And the far-fetched division has made those wizards gradually lose their patience. After all, decades have passed. Who knows whether it will be divided permanently. Even Berlin was cut in half by the Berlin Wall. Although that wall

The wall is nothing to us wizards, but it is a huge blow to everyone, and everyone is becoming more and more impatient. Maybe Germany will really become two countries in the future."

Even Fushae didn't have much confidence in her heart, and she couldn't see clearly what the future would hold.

"Does the Wizarding International not care? When wars broke out in the Muggle world before, didn't the Wizarding International immediately intervene in management?"

Anduin asked with some confusion. Although he is now considered an influential person in the UK, he really doesn't know much about the international situation. After all, he has just graduated and his previous focus was not here.

"We just want to split, not go to war with anyone, and to be honest, this is an internal matter and does not involve other countries. Of course, the Wizarding International has nothing to do with it." Fusaei curled her lips helplessly.