After that, Antoine fell completely silent. Wade glanced sideways and saw that he was rapidly writing out a message.
Wade shook his head. His gaze turned to the large screen, but his thoughts drifted for a moment.
He himself was looking back at the present through the eyes of someone thirty years in the future. His perspective was naturally broader and more complete than that of the people here.
It was not that Kingsley, Antoine, Grindelwald, and the others lacked wisdom, but that everyone's thinking was inevitably confined by the era they lived in—
Technologies that had yet to be born, mindsets forged by wars they had never experienced—because they were unfamiliar, they naturally formed invisible barriers.
That was why, upon hearing his plan, they found it flawless and were wholeheartedly convinced.
Kingsley believed that a counterbalance of public opinion could perfectly resolve the problem of magic being exposed. Antoine believed that conditioning Muggles' perceptions could allow the Wizarding World to integrate more smoothly, reducing conflict and bloodshed.
But in truth, Wade had a third intention—
To make Muggles willingly accept the existence of the Wizarding World, to feel toward wizards something akin to longing, admiration, and yearning, and to firmly believe that integration brought immense benefits rather than fear...
Then the image of wizards would be refined layer by layer through all kinds of artistic works, molded into perfect works of art.
In the wake of that trend, Muggle society would also actively produce vast numbers of works, in turn defining the wizards of their imagination—
Wizards were powerful, capable of unleashing tremendous force with a wave of their hands;
Wizards also had to be mysterious, walking in the shadows of the city and fulfilling people's romantic fantasies of the unknown;
Wizards had to be kind and just. Perhaps