After that, Leonard stopped paying attention to the ghosts, who in reality could do basically nothing. He went about his own business. He had always been the type to act the moment he decided on something, and he began carrying out the task of helping Owen contact the other defense zones.
Leonard took on the role of intermediary between the kingdom and America, explaining the situation to these defensive strongholds and showing the evidence he had learned from Owen about the Grim Reaper to his colleagues who did not believe the Magical Kingdom, letting them personally go nearby by means other than fireplaces to verify it for themselves.
In truth, most of the other defense zones established by American Wizards were still relatively calm. They could listen to Leonard's advice and comply with his suggestions. After losing contact with Chairman Picquery earlier, most of the people in charge had already known that defeat was inevitable—especially since among these Americans from the Magical Kingdom who had come determined to resist, besides those doing it for freedom, quite a few were also there because they had been on the list the kingdom had previously issued, which said they were connected to the earlier attack at the Dueling Tournament in Greece.
But now that they had received the kingdom's promise that they would no longer be held accountable for these responsibilities, they took the step Leonard offered them and went with the flow, deciding to surrender to the United Nations. Rationally, they believed they should no longer make meaningless sacrifices.
However, in the hawkish stronghold of MACUSA, Leonard's work persuading people to surrender met its greatest obstacle in the defense zone overseen by the radical Congressman Donald.
"Even if the United Kingdom doesn't pursue responsibility against people like us, we still can't surrender