"Ottaline Gambol was a great Minister of Magic..." Dumbledore said with feeling. "If there had been no Hogwarts Express, the other magical trains would never have appeared either."
"After all, trains had only just appeared back then," Vizet said with an approving nod. "The policies carried out by the next several Ministers were just as contradictory."
"After Minister Ottaline Gambol left office, the next Minister of Magic, Radolphus Lestrange, became conservative again..."
"The Muggle Research Committee, which Minister Ottaline Gambol took the lead in establishing, had even received help from the Department of Mysteries..."
"After the Muggle Research Committee was disbanded, it was the Department of Mysteries that kept the relevant materials, so Minister Radolphus Lestrange wanted to shut that department down."
"Because the Department of Mysteries had such a long history, Minister Radolphus Lestrange's plan came to nothing, and he was forced to step down because of it."
"When it came to how to view the Muggle Research Committee, Minister Evangeline Orpington's thoughts were the complete opposite of Minister Radolphus Lestrange's."
"She not only supported the Hogwarts Express, she even built a platform in King's Cross Station—that is, Platform 9 3/4."
"Minister Priscilla Dupont and Minister Dugald McPhail were a similar case... Priscilla Dupont absolutely hated the Muggle Prime Minister, and even turned the Muggle Prime Minister's coins into frogspawn."
"Meanwhile, Minister Dugald McPhail used the materials left behind by the Muggle Research Committee to modify a Muggle bus, which later became the Knight Bus."
"For a very long time after that, the Magical World lived in considerable peace. When Queen Victoria passed away, Minister Faris Spavin even attended the funeral."
"A period of peace, was it?" Dumbledore sighed with some emotion and turned to look out the window, as if recalling something.
He recovered quickly, picked up the