Goose Step

In front of the Ravenclaw Temple in Diagon Alley, armed Aurors had replaced the usual patrol Aurors to maintain order.

The Ministry of Magic had already announced that a press conference would be held here today. The Ministry, the Harris Family, and the Ravenclaw Temple would be launching a cooperative project in response to the recent attacks—one nominally led by the Ravenclaw Temple.

The press conference would be broadcast live on Harris Television, so the station's staff had arrived at the temple early, busily setting up their large filming equipment. Many reporters from the news media waited outside the red line set up by the Aurors, and some were even organizing their interview notes, preparing questions they could ask during the open session.

Given the heated discussion in every major publication and media outlet about the devil attack on Hogsmeade, everyone understood that this press conference was bound to be the Ministry of Magic's response to the incident. Therefore, aside from the media controlled by the Ministry itself, outlets controlled by Britain's native pure-blood families and even some foreign magical media had also come to the scene.

In addition, many wizards with ulterior motives, who had been suppressed by the Harrises, also seemed to have arrived in an organized fashion, ready to stir up trouble. At this moment, they were making sarcastic remarks, trying to steer public opinion in a direction unfavorable to the Ministry of Magic.

These people, along with the media controlled by those pure-blood families, did not attack the Harris Family directly. Instead, they acted as if they were simply discussing the matter itself, clinging to the Ministry of Magic's security failings. After all, on the surface, this incident had nothing to do with any family, but everyone knew that the Ministry of Magic was now under