Crows were often associated with death. Wherever a corpse appeared, the opportunists soon followed.
After the burial ceremony for the saint's stone sarcophagus, Georgiana met Carolan and an official from the French Ministry of Magic outside the church. He told her roughly what had happened.
Ney had led troops into Switzerland and dissolved the council of the Canton of Schwyz. The canton had a strong independent streak and had resisted Austrian rule in the past. When the government in Bern led an uprising, Ney fought the Swiss around the Grosser Mythen.
Liechtenstein was not far from Switzerland, and winter was approaching. With the humans fighting below the mountains, the Mountain Trolls living in Liechtenstein saw their chance. They plundered human food and livestock, even carrying off people, to stock their winter larders.
The Swiss and Liechtenstein Ministries of Magic should have handled the matter, but Switzerland was at war, while Liechtenstein had long taken an uncooperative stance on the Troll problem. Pierre Bonaccord, the French wizard who headed the International Confederation of Wizards, wanted to ban Troll hunts and grant Trolls rights of their own. Yet it was French Muggles who had sparked this conflict.
Georgiana suddenly understood why Albus Dumbledore would become president of the International Confederation of Wizards rather than Minister for Magic in Britain.
Fortunately, Georgiana did not bear the title of French Minister for Magic. The acknowledged leaders of the French Ministry of Magic were the Lestrange family and their allies. Hunting down the Trolls would be simple, but doing so would mean intervening in a Muggle war.
The International Statute of Secrecy said nothing about it, but every wizard knew what could be gained by fighting in a war. The Malfoy family's lands in Wales had been granted to one of its ancestors as a