The good news of Voldemort's death was immediately announced to the entire British magical world by Kingsley through the Daily Prophet.
Yet after the news gradually spread across Britain, it failed to bring the witches and wizards the cheers and laughter that had followed the victory of the First Wizarding War. Instead, it plunged the entire British magical world into an eerie silence. Anyone unaware of the truth might have suspected that Voldemort, the one who had been killed, was the real savior.
The British magical world's strange reaction was entirely due to the deeply ingrained pain inflicted by the Second Wizarding War. Most British wizards were in too much pain to laugh.
Of course, it might also have been because the devastation of the Hogwarts Great Battle had terrified every wizard who heard the news into numbness, leaving no one in the mood to celebrate this hard-won victory.
Still, after the good news that Voldemort was dead spread throughout the British magical world via the Daily Prophet, it had a visibly immediate effect.
The tense atmosphere Voldemort had created vanished in an instant. Wizards began sending out their owls to contact acquaintances. Those who had regained their courage no longer cowered as they once had. As they gradually loosened up, some wizards planned to travel to Hogwarts in groups, hoping to see with their own eyes whether the Wizard Lookout Station Broadcast was true.
However, for their own safety, most people did not head straight to Hogwarts. Instead, they first went to Hogsmeade, because reliable information said that Britain's last remaining Wizard Village had been completely destroyed in the earlier battle. They did not need to risk getting close. Simply observing from afar through binoculars would be enough to verify the news.
When people caught sight of the completely