Kingly Adventures

Chapter 28: New Subjects

Alexander was not in a hurry to implement the next stage of his plan. Alexander continued his exercise for the next one week while his errant boy Jack ran to his former pack telling them tales about a mad wizard who had captured his pregnant wife and 8 years old brother-in-law and was demanding him to gather as many werewolves as possible. The pack did not believe him at first but Jack took a magical vow signifying his truthfulness.

Jack had left the pack because the daughter of pack leader had fallen in love with Jack but Jack and Sarah became mates so Jack left the pack in order to not to bother the girl anymore. Alexander who got the report sighed at the classic love triangle scenerio. But in this case, the other girl did not have any feelings for Jack except for friendship as she had also found her mate. Alexander again sighed at the thought of not having the chance to witness a romantic drama between the three.

Now, the pack believed Jack, they were not going to just offer themselves up to a seemingly mad wizard for whatever aim he had. They had made a mistake by believing Grindlewald but Grindlewald was a charismatic fellow and this wizard was mad. Who knows when he would snap and kill off somebody. A bigger problem now stood before them, if a new dark lord was rising then  he would approach other packs also and if any pack decides to follow him then, the rest would also have to follow the new dark lord as the ministry of magic and the general populace would increase their prosecution and werewolves would not be able to even go to Knockturn Alley and only one who would took them in would be the dark lord as he needed canon fodder. The werewolves had no delusions of grandeur if there is an uprising of a new dark lord then they would be used as meat shields and a means to terrorize the wizarding populace. The werewolves didn't want to join any dark lord anymore. The pack leader, Williams called for a meeting among the various pack leaders living in Britain. They all had decided that they would always stand as a whole after the global wizarding war and would take decisions jointly. They wanted to come to a decision on how to deal with this mad wizard.

Alexander thought, " If the werewolves were this much vigilant against joining any dark lord then how the hell Riddle managed to recruit so many werewolves. No!! Riddle did not first recruit the werewolves, he recruited Greyback and used him as a tool to make the ministry and common wizards and witches believe that the werewolves had sided with the new dark lord like they had sided with the previous one.  Then, he used his pureblood supporters to pass very harsh laws against the magical creatures and also on the side pressuring the various pack leaders. Still, several werewolf packs fled the country and then, Riddle had the law passed that no werewolf can leave the country without taking the permission of the ministry. The excuse given was that the werewolves were leaving the country to gather foreign support for the dark lord. Left with no other choice, the werewolves tried to escape in the muggle world but surviving in the muggle world was even more difficult for them. In the end, they joined Riddle."

Alexander had his elves track the letters send out by Williams and posted a single elf for each pack. There were 35 werewolf packs in Britain. The official population of werewolves in Britain according to Ministry was 5,000 but not all werewolves lived in a pack or in the magical world. The news of a possible new dark lord caused mayhem in the packs. Thankfully, the Ministry of Magic was as incompetent as Alexander thought as they didn't even come to know about all this. All the werewolf leaders and their betas decided to meet in clearing up in the mountains.

Alexander could have easily made Jack submit to him but he didn't do so. Werewolves have phenomenal instincts regarding the nature of others. They could tell from the body language and manner of speech whether a person was speaking the truth or not. If Alexander had made Jack submit then Jack would have been totally loyal to Alexander even if he didn't show it to others, his former pack would have easily detected that something was wrong with Jack and had not believed him in any way.