Hagrid could be a bit dense at times, but he always knew where he stood on matters of great importance.
Upon realizing that the magical creatures he had bred could potentially cause a world-ending disaster, he reluctantly agreed to Roger's request.
Seeing this, Roger nodded. Instead of immediately eliminating the Fear Demons, he first bound the ones Hagrid had bred with a spell, while simultaneously casting a magic to seal off a large surrounding area.
He then left the small hut near the Forbidden Forest and headed straight for Hogwarts Castle.
Returning to Hogwarts, Roger went to the Divination classroom.
Divination was an elective for third-year students, and as a first-year, he hadn't taken it.
"Professor Trelawney, could you come out for a moment?"
The moment she saw Roger, Professor Trelawney couldn't help but shiver.
After all, for a crippled diviner who relied on the half-baked talent inherited from her Seer ancestors, whose predictions were hit-or-miss, it was difficult to stand tall when encountering a truly powerful Seer.
Roger wasn't familiar with Professor Sybill Trelawney, who taught the class. His sudden appearance made her think that this true Seer was going to steal her livelihood.
Fortunately, Roger quickly explained his intentions, much to her relief.
Roger possessed a letter left by Dumbledore. This letter was not only a token but also a magical item that could mobilize many of Hogwarts' resources, essentially granting him half of the Headmaster's authority.
Roger instructed Professor Sybill Trelawney to temporarily halt her class and summoned students whom she believed possessed genuine divination abilities.
Professor Sybill Trelawney was usually quite eccentric, and most of her class time was spent on 'psychological divination'—the kind of trickery used by fake mystics at street fortune-telling stalls. Nine out of ten predictions were false, but she did possess divination abilities.
The prophecy concerning Harry and the Dark Lord was her doing.
Naturally, she could discern which students truly had divination talent.
Using the Headmaster's token, Roger quickly assembled a team of diviners.
In the study of divination, it was much easier to divine events that had already occurred than to predict future events.
Roger had called these people together to prevent any possible oversights and to ensure that all existing Fear Demons were annihilated! Although Roger was a Seer, his primary abilities were focused on precognition of danger. While his other predictions weren't entirely useless, they didn't reach the level of a 'Seer.'
Therefore, a method of cross-verification and mutual checking was more secure.
There was nothing remarkable to say about the extermination process; a single spell took care of it.
Fear Demons that hadn't fully matured weren't that difficult to deal with.
It was like how any raptor, while still an egg, is fragile.
However, everything did not end with the completion of the extermination.
After a screening process more rigorous than a Bio-Safety Level 4 laboratory, Roger first asked Hagrid to find the little girl named Luna, who could see Pestering Mites.
Meanwhile, he returned to Hogwarts and went directly to find the person he was most familiar with and who currently held the highest position in the school: Professor McGonagall.
"Contact the Ministry of Magic?" Professor McGonagall's eyes widened.
"Yes, I need to speak directly with Minister Fudge and the person in charge of the Department of Mysteries," Roger said with a serious expression.
"However, given my status, my words carry little weight. I hope you can convey my message to them on my behalf."
What Roger intended to do next was simple: inform the Ministry of Magic and the Department of Mysteries about the existence of the Fear Demon species and the potential harm it could cause.
Although the Department of Mysteries was nominally a subordinate agency of the British Ministry of Magic, in reality, the Department of Mysteries was established even earlier than the Ministry. Even the Minister of Magic sometimes couldn't fully interfere in all internal affairs of the Department of Mysteries.
This department, which researched cutting-edge fields of wizarding civilization such as time, death, souls, and the universe, possessed a certain degree of independence. Therefore, it was best to inform both parties.
Of course, to avoid legal troubles and other future complications, Roger wouldn't blindly reveal all the information.
He would suggest that the Ministry of Magic seal the information about the existence of the Fear Demon in magical archives, similar to how some of the Department of Mysteries' never-before-revealed internal research was handled, perhaps using a magical equivalent of the Fidelius Charm, and create targeted contingency plans.
As for the Fear Demons, he would only state that they were bred from Boggarts and another magical creature, but he wouldn't reveal that the other creature was a Pestering Mite or any other details.
After all, as long as the Ministry of Magic strengthened its control over Boggarts, the Pestering Mites would naturally be unable to act alone... If it weren't for Hagrid's special methods, these two creatures wouldn't interact in the wild.
As for Luna, he would handle it later. Not only would he control the information, but he would also release some false intelligence to prevent Luna from encountering unnecessary trouble because of this.
...Lies and strategic deception were different. Although Roger disliked lies, he wasn't that rigid.
"Why?" Professor McGonagall was somewhat confused.
Since Roger had already resolved the matter, there was no need to report it to the Ministry, was there?
The principle of protecting one's own was a kind of convention in this small, insular wizarding society. Sometimes, if a matter wasn't beyond salvaging, people wouldn't readily escalate it to a higher authority.
Understanding Professor McGonagall's meaning, Roger replied, "Covering things up isn't the best way to solve a problem."
If Hagrid could create something like the Fear Demon, others could too. Roger didn't believe that in the countless years of human civilization to come, Luna would be the only anomaly capable of seeing 'Pestering Mites.'
Not just in the future, perhaps ancient wizards could also see them, but they were called by different names in ancient wizarding texts... Perhaps Pestering Mites were what some Easterners called 'inner demons'?
What if, in the future, someone happened to meet Hagrid's and Luna's conditions, and Fear Demons reappeared and quietly proliferated? "Since we've recognized the possibility of a crisis, we must resolve it. We can't have people in one generation realize a problem exists or cause trouble, and then turn a blind eye, letting all the dangers fester until they become unmanageable, only to pass them on to future generations?"
Therefore, it was better to have the Department of Mysteries create a relevant contingency plan.
"You doing this might bring some trouble upon yourself..."
"I know," Roger interrupted Professor McGonagall's admonishment.
Back in the Middle Eastern battlefield, Roger had the opportunity to leave, but he didn't. He chose to honor his commitment and fight the entire battle.
In the Wizengamot, having a lawyer defend him might have been safer, but Roger didn't want to entrust his life to someone he couldn't trust. Therefore, even though he knew the outcome might not be good, he defended himself and chose his own destiny.
Roger had actually said from the very beginning that he feared death, and he had never denied it.
But... for Roger, 'self-will' was also a part of life.
Doing things that violated his own principles and becoming someone he detested was, in Roger's eyes, equivalent to death! If I am no longer myself, what is the point of this body? Therefore, Roger would always fight and never do things he believed were wrong.
Professor McGonagall looked at Roger's calm, unruffled eyes, nodded, and got up to contact the Ministry of Magic and the Department of Mysteries through Hogwarts' channels.
After the professor left, while Roger waited for both parties to arrive, he suddenly rubbed his forehead.
He suddenly remembered something.
He had provided the ideas and some of the technology that led Hagrid to accidentally create this magical creature with such potential for disaster. Since this could happen once, it was definitely possible for it to happen a second time.
It seemed he couldn't be too careless about outsourcing his path to others.
"Harry..." Thinking of Harry potentially coming to find him, Roger frowned slightly.
In a sense, Harry was the protagonist of a certain destined path.
If Harry were to truly begin practicing the path of time and space magic and encountered problems, Roger didn't think the trouble he could cause would be any less than Hagrid's.
"I need to put some safeguards in place."
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