Lockhart (Please vote and recommend)

After talking with Anduin, Grindelwald felt as though his entire worldview had been shattered.

He had never imagined that the Wizengamot, which he had always considered useless, was actually playing a stunning game of chess that spanned several centuries.

As for whether everything Anduin had told him was true, Grindelwald already knew the answer after recalling everything he had experienced in his youth.

It was true. Decades, perhaps even a century ago, the Wizengamot had begun deliberately downplaying the distinction between Muggle-born wizards and Pure-bloods. At the same time, it had gradually eased restrictions on unions between wizards and Muggles.

Because of the Secrecy Law, the Wizengamot had put the Wizarding World in the weaker position from the very beginning. As a result, these unions had not aroused suspicion among the highest levels of Muggle government.

The results had been quite clear. In wizarding communities in countries such as France, Egypt, and Spain, Muggle-born wizards already enjoyed a status not much different from that of Pure-bloods, and their population had been steadily increasing.

If this climate of public opinion continued to develop for a few more decades, marriages between wizards and Muggles might no longer face discrimination.

That, in turn, would bring a sharp rise in the wizarding population, until the gap between wizards and Muggles had narrowed to a certain point.

Perhaps then would be the best time to increase the wizarding world's influence!

Of course, that was assuming nobody interfered. Grindelwald knew that he had launched his revolution because he had been dissatisfied with the wizarding world's isolation and had grown to hate its gradual rapprochement with Muggle Society.

But viewed in the long term, he had actually slammed the brakes on the developing wizarding world, reigniting the conflict between wizards and Muggles.

Thinking of this, Grindelwald couldn't