Albert had long learned through internal channels why the Death Eaters were manufacturing Infernals in large numbers. While it was related to Snape's suggestion that the Death Eaters conserve their strength, the blame could not all be pinned on him.
Snape was not a professional scapegoat, after all.
The new headmaster of Hogwarts simply did not want the Death Eaters to clash head-on with the anti-Voldemort forces and drag Hogwarts into the conflict again, because he had promised Dumbledore that he would do his utmost to protect the students of Hogwarts.
No one had expected the Death Eaters' understanding of conserving their strength to be this kind of strength conservation.
In truth, it was not that the Death Eaters wanted to conserve their strength this way. They simply had no choice but to do so.
After the last Hogsmeade incident, the Death Eaters had learned their lesson and no longer dared rashly recruit more Dark Creatures.
Without the Dark Lord to keep them in check, continuing to recruit those Dark Creatures or Dark Wizards would only bring them greater trouble.
Organize Dark Wizards for intensive training like the Defense Association?
That was even more impossible.
Even the Dark Lord would likely find it difficult to pull off. Otherwise, those Dark Wizards would not merely be Dark Wizards—they would be well-trained Aurors.
After the Death Eaters stopped placing their hopes on those Dark Wizards, they soon discovered with delight that creating Infernals was indeed a good solution. They were vulnerable to light and fire, but even if an ordinary wizard knew an Inferius's weakness, destroying one still took some effort.
Once there were enough Infernals, most wizards would have to run even if they knew their weaknesses.
Even if members of the Defense Association and the Order of the Phoenix came