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 openly 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 took control of Britain's Ministry of Magic, similar incidents had occurred countless times.
However, in the eyes of the many groups opposed to Lord Voldemort, this was a taunt and provocation from the Death Eaters.
There was no shortage of righteous "men of ambition" outraged by this, and even more people quietly cursed the Death Eaters. But what angered them most was that the two major organizations resisting Lord Voldemort remained indifferent, allowing Voldemort and the Death Eaters to slaughter Muggles and create Inferi without restraint.
Besides the Defence Association and the Order of the Phoenix, the British magical world naturally had no shortage of other groups opposed to Lord Voldemort.
Most of these people had emerged during the period when the Death Eaters had been suppressed some time ago. Most were armchair critics—the sort who only dared to wag their tongues in private but could not muster the courage to act. Some of them were idle people hiding in the Shelter, most of whom were Muggle-born wizards rescued from Azkaban Prison earlier.
Do not listen to how convincingly they talked. If they were actually