To the wizards on-site at Hogwarts, or the audience watching the live broadcast in front of their Televisions, to any bystander who knew what great event was taking place in the Magical World at that moment, the wizarding city suspended in the sky and the dazzling blue light of the Mythallar carried a wondrous allure—and a kind of unsettling, lethal danger.
For the ruling classes of other countries, whether their Ministries of Magic or those ancient Pureblood families, that pressure was even more intense and made them far more anxious. Even wizards who had once paid no attention to the United Kingdom's Magical World or to Harris now had no choice but to face it squarely... It could even be said that they had felt the sense of threat Harris brought them.
This was not merely because he had reformed education and taught students some tremendously powerful magic. For those ancient families that still retained their Inheritances, this was fatal in the long run because it cut at their roots, but in the short term it would not affect their rule. Allen leveling a mountain peak brought more of a threat in that it proved his personal strength was greater than they had imagined, that was all. Even the feat of building something on the scale of a city in the Magical World and raising it into the sky gave Harris more advantages in honor and politics, and, like the library, it could not affect foreign Magical Worlds all that much.
But now Allen had just openly and without the slightest concealment described the Mythallar's function and influence. This would, without question, have an unprecedented positive effect on the wizards living at Hogwarts, but at the same time, it brought enormous pressure to wizards in other settlements. And for ordinary