HP - Shadow Monarch! [BOOK 1]

Chapter 196 - Heading to the dueling tournament!

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Months had passed since the event that took place in the Muggle city, and chaos had taken hold of England with force, making international headlines and worrying wizarding and non-wizarding governments all over the world.

A new minister had taken the place of Eugenia Jenkins, the former Minister of Magic. His name is Cassius Travers, from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

Voldemort had been silent, and there had been no attacks from the Death Eaters, but even so, everyone was afraid because the threat had never truly disappeared and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named seemed to just be waiting for the right moment.

The same could be said of the man known as the second Dark Lord, who had been keeping a lower profile, but reports of homes being invaded by shadow creatures continued throughout England.

No one knew exactly how he was acting, but the reports continued as they began to mention the targets of this second Dark Lord—magical portraits.

Somehow, he was searching all magical places in England looking for them, whether family portraits or common ones. The sales of magical paintings became chaotic from this point on, with magical painters falling into a bad situation as people began avoiding commissioning artwork due to the threat of magical creatures invading their homes.

In any case, the Ministry began a mass recruitment of Aurors. Although they had always been elite wizards trained to combat dark wizards in the magical world, they had to lower some of their high requirements in order to further increase the number of law enforcers in England.

At least more than two hundred Aurors had been recruited since the new minister took office, and it didn't seem like that was going to stop—everything in an effort to try to catch the man who had been invading homes. Now more discreetly, but still entering properties—whether those of nobles or even of common wizards. Or to face another attack from You-Know-Who and his followers.

The situation had reached a point where even Seers were being sought out across the country and the world. Some claimed things that the Daily Prophet published as absurdities.

Some said that the Second Dark Lord is not in this dimension and comes only to cause chaos.
Others said, "He will plunge the world into darkness, being far more dangerous than Lord Voldemort."

This was also a major blow against the reputation of the first of the Dark Lords. At the same time...

Some still claimed, "The entire world will have a war in the future, and the Second Dark Lord will be at the center of this battle of chaos."

There was a Seer who was sought in Central Asia, where she claimed that the Second Dark Wizard is a student at a school.
Which was taken as a great absurdity by the public.

Even so, everyone in the magical world here on Earth was placing their faith in the new minister, hoping to put an end to the activities of the Second Dark Lord in the country. Meanwhile, the Second Dark Lord remained mysterious with his magical creatures. At the same time, many questioned:

Whose was that Patronus specter?

The Ministry only said they didn't know, leaving the situation very open to interpretation.

At the same time, there was a certain dissociation from You-Know-Who. Due to his defeat—which many claimed he had suffered at the hands of the Second Dark Lord—he began to lose support, and some pure-blood families started to distance themselves from him, even encouraging many to break ties. Meanwhile, others still continued to declare their loyalty to the ideology and sympathize with it.