The British Wizarding World had undergone a major transformation, and it could be said to have embarked on a completely different path from the wizarding worlds of other countries.
In the fifth year after Voldemort was caught, the Ministry of Magic made its preliminary attempt at reform, allowing wizards and Muggles to come into contact and cooperate. A new social class-Wizard Capitalism-emerged in Britain.
Within the wizarding world, however, those who held favorable views toward Muggles remained a minority, and half-blood wizards did not particularly support this Ministry resolution either-let alone the fact that this resolution had been proposed by an assistant to the Minister for Magic who was not even twenty years old.
Moreover, she was a Muggle-born wizard; even with very strong backing, many people refused to accept it.
In the end, however, this resolution was still pushed through because of the existence of Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop.
It started out as a mere magical ingredients shop, but later expanded its potions business, gradually allowing monopolistic practices to run rampant throughout the wizarding world. By now, Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop had already dabbled in many businesses.
It employed over two hundred wizards alone, and its employee benefits were considered the best in the wizarding world. According to a Daily Prophet survey, aside from the Ministry of Magic, the place where wizards graduating from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry most wanted to work was Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop.
In fact, in the survey data, the desire to go to Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop came close on the heels of the former, trailing by less than one percent; its branch in France also cooperated with Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, recruiting quite a few witches as store clerks.
With the support of Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop, Hermione Granger was able