When cheers began to erupt inside the chamber of the United States Congress, even louder cheers echoed above Hogwarts Floating City, bolstered by sheer numbers. Weasley Whiz-Bangs fireworks were launched from every corner of the Floating City, and jubilant hymns were sung in unison...
Whether in the bustling Commercial Plaza, the solemn and majestic Ravenclaw Temple, or the newly renamed Ministry of Magic of the United Magical Kingdom, different races could be seen everywhere and different languages heard everywhere. Everyone had gathered together to celebrate the founding of the kingdom.
Just as the Ministry of Magic employees had done that morning, it was not only Hogwarts Floating City. In the mainland United Kingdom, and in Germany, which had only just been planted with the expired United Kingdom banner, every place that had previously hung the insignia of the British Ministry of Magic saw those symbols representing the Ministry of Magic—the capital M with a wand in the middle—taken down without nostalgia by wizards and replaced with the new emblem of the United Magical Kingdom: Allen's Eye of Providence.
At this moment, whether wizards, Centaurs, or the Merpeople living in the Black Lake... all kinds of races were celebrating in their own ways.
The Centaurs gathered at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and shot magical arrows whose arrowheads had already been removed high into the sky. The arrows burst apart in midair and turned into stars. Joyful Foals ran and chased one another freely beneath those stars, filling the air with laughter and neighs.
The Merpeople, whose skin was iron-gray and whose long, thick, tangled hair was dark green, emerged from the Black Lake. Their tails slapped the lake surface, sending spray everywhere, while they sang songs that sounded beautiful to them—though once those voices broke the surface, they became