Chapter 1669: War Without Victors (119)
Just as Lee Jordan had said on the Wizard Lookout Station Broadcast, when the scourge of werewolves completely erupted across Britain, the Ministry Aurors simply had no time to provide aid to witches and wizards threatened by werewolves—or rather, they had no spare manpower to do so.
The Aurors needed to prioritize suppressing areas densely populated by Muggles, ensuring that werewolves would not cause widespread chaos in the Muggle World and lead to an irreparable disaster.
Of course, Kingsley had another reason for having the Aurors deal with werewolves in the Muggle World first: most witches and wizards lived in sparsely populated places, and even if werewolves truly appeared nearby, those beasts could do only limited harm.
Besides, any listener who had heard the Wizard Lookout Station's werewolf awareness broadcast should know how to protect themselves and their families from the threat of werewolves, provided they were not too foolish.
For all anyone knew, some eager people had already secretly followed the methods Lee Jordan had provided and successfully taken down the werewolves active near their homes.
Under such circumstances, there was naturally no need to deal with them as a priority.
As for accidents happening by mistake? They could only count themselves unlucky.
After all, there was no guarding against everything.
Moreover, even if they sent a letter to the Ministry of Magic asking for help, it would still take quite some time before the Ministry dispatched Aurors to solve the problem.
Let alone tonight.
After werewolves began appearing in droves, more than half of the Ministry of Magic had already been emptied out.
The Aurors had formed their original five-man squads and begun hunting the suddenly appearing werewolves across Britain.
Behind those Aurors followed a group of unlucky ones responsible for helping