Afterwards, Karn listened to Hermione talk about the Wizarding World's reforms.
The direction was good, as sticking to the old ways and refusing to change would eight times out of ten invite destruction, but Hermione's methods were a bit too kind; decisions made two years ago still faced opposition today, which showed that the internal cleansing and unification were incomplete.
Students going to Hogwarts ten years ago rode the steam magic train, and the ones going ten years later still rode the same thing; meanwhile, the Muggle world was constantly progressing, and before long it would upgrade from trains to express bullet trains, while reconnaissance capabilities would advance further.
If Muggles invented a device to explore electromagnetism and discovered a massive population of wizards hiding right under their noses, a war would be the only outcome.
Reaching out for contact and cooperation in advance was a good idea, and if Karn were in charge, he probably would have been a bit more radical than Hermione.
Still, for Hermione this could be considered quite good; ordinary people wouldn't even dare to think about such things, and only Grindelwald from a century ago had thought of things more radically than Hermione.
The Wizarding World offered very little help to Karn now, but goblin craftsmanship was still quite good. If not for the suppression by human wizards, current goblin craftsmanship would definitely be even more advanced than before; goblins seemed to have a natural bonus in this regard, and very few could rival their alchemy methods.
Aside from Nicolas Flamel and Karn, the goblins possessed the strongest alchemy craftsmanship in the Wizarding World.
However, under the increasing oppression of wizards, the goblins still slowly leaned towards Karn's Potions Ingredients Shop. By now, quite a few goblins had already signed cooperation contracts with Karn's