While the Anti-Voldemort Alliance was preparing for the coming Hogwarts Great Battle, Voldemort, having just endured a beating at Nurmengard prison, was pulling back his forces, intending to retract the tentacles he had previously extended into Britain.
Now that he had obtained the Deathstick, remaining on the European continent would only invite endless trouble.
As for the grudges he had formed with the Ministries of Magic across Europe, Voldemort believed that no country would be foolish enough to come looking for trouble on his turf.
However, this order greatly disappointed the Dark wizards who had been eager to stir up trouble. They had thought Voldemort would whip up a massive storm across Europe, but it had unexpectedly ended in such a hasty, almost playful fashion.
Most Dark wizards were deeply dissatisfied. Having grown accustomed to a life of "feasting on meat," how could they be willing to return to the miserable days of "living on bran and vegetables"? Unfortunately, after Voldemort returned to Britain, without the Dark Lord's protection, those who had been committing evil under Voldemort's name were all placed on the Blacklist of the various Ministries of Magic. If they did not flee quickly, they would sooner or later be wiped out by enraged Aurors. The Dark wizards who had caused the most trouble were directly abandoned as Voldemort's sacrificial pawns, easing the anger of the European nations so that those people would not, with nowhere else to vent their fury, truly come to Britain to fight them to the death.
Unfortunately, peace had ceased to exist the moment Voldemort went to Europe to make trouble. Some people consumed by hatred would never permit their own Ministries of Magic to compromise with the Dark Lord.
This left Yaxley, Voldemort's right-hand man, exceptionally busy. Not only did he have