A few days later, the "bombshell news" of a Muggle village being brutally massacred by Dark Wizards made the front page of the Daily Prophet for the first time.
In the past, this would have been almost impossible, yet now it had brazenly appeared on the Daily Prophet's front page.
In the short, concise article, there was not a single criticism of the Ministry of Magic's incompetence, nor was there any mention of Voldemort, the culprit behind the massacre of Muggles. It merely calmly described one thing:
A group of Dark Wizards had destroyed a remote Muggle village, causing heavy Muggle casualties.
That was all.
It left people utterly baffled.
After all, ever since Voldemort had taken control of the Ministry of Magic in England, similar incidents had happened countless times.
However, in the eyes of the many anti–Dark Lord groups, this was a taunt and provocation from the Death Eaters.
There was no shortage of indignant "people of lofty ideals," and even more people muttered curses at the Death Eaters under their breath. But what enraged them most was that the two major organizations resisting the Dark Lord remained indifferent, allowing Voldemort and the Death Eaters to massacre Muggles and create Inferi on a massive scale.
Apart from the Defense Association and the Order of the Phoenix, the British wizarding world naturally had no shortage of other groups opposed to the Dark Lord.
Most of these people had emerged during the period when the Death Eaters had been suppressed some time ago. They were largely keyboard warriors—the sort who only dared to flap their gums in private yet could not summon the courage to act. Some among them were also idle people hiding in shelters, most of whom had once been Muggle Wizards rescued from Azkaban.
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