A short song meant as an interlude quickly ended, and short goblin waiters in black tailcoats wove through the hall, carefully watching the trays in their hands to avoid being stepped on by drunken wizards—before the Giggle Spirits Leonard and the other two had ordered had even been brought over by the goblin servers, the host stepped back onto the stage amid scattered applause. After telling a few brief jokes mocking foreign wizards, he noticed Graves, who had already arrived below the stage.
"Now then, I'll let my jokes bother your ears again in a little while. Let us welcome the next speaker. Many of you here should recognize the gentleman about to take the stage—quite a few of us, myself included, have been arrested by him a few times for drunken disorderly conduct..." The host's words once again drew chuckles from many people in the bar. "Yes, he comes from the Graves Family, one of the twelve Aurors first recruited by MACUSA, and currently serves in MACUSA's Major Crimes Investigation Division. Let us welcome Gondofus III of the Graves Family!!!"
Graves's supporters responded with applause far warmer than what they had given the host earlier, but some people who favored appeasement deliberately raised their voices and scoffed at this extremist. That immediately drew angry sideways glares from his hot-tempered supporters, and some even started cursing.
Some wizarding newspaper reporters set off puffs of smoke, took several photographs of Graves and the audience's reactions, then took out paper and quills, preparing to make notes.
Wizarding Television from the United Kingdom had already swept through the Magical Worlds of various countries, but most countries had yet to develop their own television industries. After all, the patent was held by the Harris Family of Umbrella. Although they had not stopped other countries