Arrival at Mount Greylock

After learning the cause of the matter from Loren, Pickley and Nancy were not surprised.

The impact of the Brooklyn Werewolf Inferi incident still lingered. The American Muggle government was still holding the Magical Congress accountable. Since then, Voldemort had become more than just a wanted criminal in British wizarding society—he was now a world-famous wizarding terrorist, his influence only slightly less than Grindelwald's.

"I heard the Ministry of Magic worked with Dumbledore to expel Voldemort and his Death Eaters from the country. Our director always says your British laws are too lenient. When dealing with Dark wizards like that, they should simply be executed."

Pickley led the way as they left the airport for the nearby shopping street. "I heard your Ministry of Magic has not directly executed a Dark wizard in decades. The Execution Chamber downstairs was converted into a Courtroom, while prisoners are thrown into the Island Prison, essentially fed to Azkaban's Dementors."

Loren secretly glanced at a certain Witch beside him. The prospective minister had already frowned slightly, so he explained solemnly, "Those laws were approved by a vote of all Wizengamot members. Dementors cannot be destroyed through conventional means. Using them to guard prisoners can ease the conflict between Dementors and humans and prevent them from causing unrest in Muggle society."

Pickley shrugged. "A law that hands criminals over to Dementors for torture while abolishing the death penalty—it is hard to say whether it is humane. It is even harder to say whether it is progress or regression."

Hermione opened her mouth but said nothing in rebuttal.

They arrived at a small shop selling handicrafts, the sort of ordinary store beside an airport where people who suddenly remembered, just before boarding, that they needed souvenirs for family and friends hurriedly picked a place with "handicrafts"