At first, Yaxley had planned to turn Hogsmeade into the most popular black market in all of Europe. Of course, it was not merely for the petty matter of making money, but also to help the Dark Lord absorb lawbreakers from across Europe, expand their own influence, and consolidate his power.
However, things never went entirely as one wished.
Hogsmeade had indeed become a renowned black market in Europe and gathered quite a few ruthless people, but Yaxley had overlooked something important: most Dark wizards had joined the Dark Lord's camp primarily to make money more easily.
Voldemort's reputation might intimidate those vicious people for a short while, but when their own interests were involved, even Voldemort was no use.
From that moment onward, conflict had become unavoidable.
Its outbreak had come so quickly solely because someone had secretly stirred things up, intensifying the contradictions between both sides.
The Death Eaters were naturally not as incompetent as they had seemed, but if the ones who died were all actors, it would naturally give the foreign Dark wizards the impression that the Death Eaters were all useless fools.
And since they were useless fools, they naturally had no right to bully them, much less control the place.
The black market that advocated free trade had smoothly gained its freedom, to the delight of all. No one was willing to share the money in their pockets with others.
Having tasted the sweet fruit of free trade, people naturally had no desire to easily give up Hogsmeade's black market, nor the place where they could make vast sums of money.
Ironically, after Hogsmeade broke free from the Death Eaters' control, public order actually improved at once, and it leapt to become the most popular place in all of Europe.
Rather than descending into