"Being content with the status quo," preferring to remain set in one's ways rather than embrace change or readapt to the world, was hardly uncommon among humanity.
It could even be said that throughout human history, such people had always been the majority.
Of course, just as in history, whenever an opportunity for change arrived, there were equally many people willing to support "change"!
Polo was a very ordinary wizard.
After graduating from Durmstrang in his youth, he returned to Austria and joined the German Ministry of Magic. In the wizarding world, due to culture, customs, population, and other factors, Austria and Germany had a far closer relationship than they did in Muggle society, their political arrangement resembling that of the British Commonwealth.
More precisely, similar systems existed throughout continental Europe.
For instance, Southern Europe centered around France, the three Baltic states, Scandinavia, and the Russian Federation spanning Europe and Asia.
Sparse populations were the most fundamental problem troubling these countries, especially after the Muggles' two World Wars.
Polo had been born after the Second World War. He had not experienced prewar society and could not deeply understand why his homeland, along with Germany, had provoked the war.
But he knew that those two wars that had swept across the world were inseparable from Europe's wizarding world.
"Pure-bloods... They've truly never changed, all to protect their own interests."
He recalled the increasingly heated reports and editorials in Austria's Daily Prophet concerning the werewolves' marches.
Even an ordinary wizard like Polo could smell the coming storm.
But—
"Yes, pure-bloods have never changed. After all, people always like to maintain inertia and stay within the comfort zone they are used to, even when they know it is wrong."
Leonid gazed at Nurmengard, dark beneath the night sky. "But not everyone is like