Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 631 Clash of Powers

"Checkmate!" Dumbledore picked up a Queen's Chess piece and placed it next to the Tierra's Chess piece.

"Hehe." Although Tiera lost, she was not upset. Instead, she smiled happily, knocked over her king piece, and conceded defeat cleanly.

"One more game?" Tiera tapped the chessboard, and all the damaged pieces automatically restored themselves and returned to their original positions.

"Forget it, I'm not coming anymore." Dumbledore leaned back gently. "Ten rounds, ten wins, it's so boring."

"Mr. Dumbledore's chess skills are superb." Tierra picked up the black tea placed beside the chessboard, took a sip, and praised him with a smile.

“You did this on purpose,” Dumbledore said, shaking his head helplessly. “You’ve never used Time Reversal even once.”

“Playing chess with you is for entertainment, for relaxation, for passing the time, not for winning,” Tiera said calmly. “If I wanted to win, I could go find the wizard chess champion, Sabek Sobek, and use time reversal. He’s downstairs. That would be more satisfying than beating an old headmaster who has lived in seclusion in the palace for a long time.”

After hearing Tyrell's words, Dumbledore remained silent for a long time, looking at Tyrell with a strange expression.

“It’s strange,” Dumbledore sighed. “Your face is so young, but your soul is so mature.”

“Maybe there really is a Gellert Grindelwald hiding here,” Tierra teased, pointing to her head.

“Oh, well, it’s not quite that mature yet,” Dumbledore said with a smile.

After saying that, Dumbledore and Tyrell exchanged a smile and tactfully changed the subject.

"What's with those kids cosplaying Gellert?" Dumbledore asked, taking a sip of his tea.

"You noticed that?" Tierra asked in return.

"How could I not notice?" Dumbledore said with a laugh. "They're practically wearing the Deathly Hallows symbol on their clothes."

"What's your opinion of them?" Dumbledore continued. "I'd like to hear it."

“They are victims of the old system. Although most of them came from it, many were oppressed and exploited. They have a natural revolutionary spirit,” Tierra said. “So your real purpose in establishing this joint school is them?” Dumbledore asked.

“What my real purpose is in running this joint school is completely irrelevant,” Tierra said. “It’s a dead end; no matter which way they move, it’s checkmate.”

“I demand a joint venture. The deeply entrenched families and interest groups in the area, in order to ensure the safety and security of their heirs, will definitely try every means to prevent their relatives and direct descendants from being sent here. This will lead them to send a large number of oppressed people from the area to us instead of their own interest groups—”

"Unlike Britain, where I could use my powerful military to, with minimal losses, dismantle the colluding interest groups and establish a political, economic, and cultural system sufficient for at least the next fifty years of development," Tierra said. "But the countries in Europe and America are different. They haven't experienced Voldemort's Death Eater rebellion in the last twenty years. Their local family forces and interest groups remain strong, interconnected, and deeply entrenched. They've reached a point where they can't be completely dismantled or broken without a massacre, a major war. And as I've said, war means death, death means waste, and life shouldn't be wasted like that if they can be governed and used for higher goals and ideals."

"So you chose joint teaching?" Dumbledore countered.

"These large, oppressed groups in the local area, being sent here in place of their own interest groups, means they've sent a large portion of the revolutionary and reactionary talent to us. If not all, at least 70% of them can become our comrades after being reformed," Tiera said with a smile. "And if the local Ministry of Magic is truly fair and just, sending their family heirs here is even better. If they do send them, I certainly won't let them go back. With numerous positions and wealth vacant, local families and interest groups will have no choice but to support their collateral relatives, even wizards completely unrelated to them, to rise to power. And once these long-oppressed wizards gain power and establish themselves, they will inevitably fight against the old family forces and interest groups. And once they start fighting, hehe..."

Tyella didn't finish her sentence, but Dumbledore understood what she meant.

Both emerging and established forces will inevitably seek external assistance, and at this time, the only relatively stable magical community in Britain will become their best source of help.

Tierra could even legitimately and legally intervene in the internal struggles of the country by relying on the "hostages" who were forcibly detained in Britain.

"So their only chance is to use their ability to seal or kill divine beings while I'm fighting on multiple fronts, to stop me or kill me," Tierra said. "France is a little short, but as long as Germany, France, and the US don't unite, I have nothing to fear."

"So on the eve of the war, I took advantage of my relationship with Vinda Rosie and the remaining influence of Gellert Grindelwald to turn the German wizarding world against us. Then, with lightning speed, I eliminated the resistance of the Magical Union and the Ministry of Magic in the United States."

"France is quite surprising; they didn't surrender first, but instead went all in," Tierra said with a light laugh. "But in the end, they couldn't hold on alone."

"So don't expect to get what you can't get on the battlefield, or even through underhanded schemes," Tiera concluded. "Especially for a mysterious race like wizards, a race whose power is concentrated in the individual. Our wars, everything between us, can be reduced to a clash of individual strengths, just like your epic battle with Grindelwald."

I'm really sorry, everyone. I've been quite busy lately, so the update frequency has been a bit irregular. Please bear with me.

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(End of this chapter)