Three days later, inside The Blind Pig bar on Magical Street in the United States.
Li Chuan looked at the newspaper he had just bought, a smile appearing on his face.
"It seems it's today, I didn't misremember the time."
The past few days' newspapers were filled with reports about the "Prohibition Act"; the Chief of Staff of the Magical Congress of the United States of America proposed introducing a Prohibition Act like the Muggle government, but President Seraphina Picquery rejected the proposal.
Claiming that the witches and wizards of the United States were already suffering enough from conflicts with Muggles, and that giggle water must absolutely not be prohibited, she won the unanimous support of the local witches and wizards.
But today, the headline of the newspaper was strikingly changed to "Magical Disturbance, Threatening to Expose the Wizarding World".
The accompanying picture below was of a destroyed house and a cracked road, describing how yesterday an unknown magical creature attacked a Muggle's house, and many Muggles witnessed the situation at the time.
There are many descendants of Scourers in the United States. Scourers are what humans who extremely hated witches and wizards in the Middle Ages were called. Most of them were Puritans, who took pride in killing, trafficking, and enslaving witches and wizards.
Among the most famous was the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts colony in 1693, where Scourers bewitched Muggles into killing twenty witches and wizards on trumped-up charges.
Although those Scourers were later retaliated against and killed by the witches and wizards, this incident also greatly intensified the conflict between local witches and wizards and Muggles. Even now, the relationship between American witches and wizards and local Muggles is the worst in the entire World.
Unlike in England, where at least the Muggle government leaders and individual members know of the Ministry of Magic's existence, the Magical Congress of the United States of America and the American government have no communication or cooperation at all.
Nowadays, a descendant of Scourers named Mary Lou Barebone has established an anti-witch organization called the New Salem in the local church.
She declares the wickedness of witches and wizards every day, further deepening the gap that had already slightly subsided.
Settling the bill for his breakfast with silver Sickles, Li Chuan quickly left the bar, and an Apparition took him near the New York International Bank.
If he remembered correctly, in the movie, it was on the morning of the day this news appeared that Newt Scamander met his Muggle friend Jacob and future wife Tina at the entrance of the New York International Bank.
"Since there is light in this World, there will be shadows. In this city of brilliance, there are such shadows lurking. They wreak havoc, and then disappear without a trace.
We must fight, join us, the Second Salem, we stand shoulder to shoulder."
At this time, on the steps at the entrance of the bank, a middle-aged woman in a purple coat was giving an impassioned speech.
She was Mary Lou Barebone, who gave speeches in front of the bank every morning, encouraging humans to join her anti-witch organization. In the evening, she would provide porridge to help those homeless orphans distribute leaflets.
She herself also adopted three children, two boys and a girl, but she was not kind to them, especially the boy, whom she abused almost every day.
Li Chuan walked out of the alley and crossed the street. He didn't pay attention to Mary, who was giving a speech above, but instead took a flyer from the hands of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy and started chatting with him.
"What's your name?"
"Credence."
The boy had a bowl cut, his eyes flickering, looking timid and inferior.
"My name is Tom Foley, is that your mother?"
Li Chuan pointed to Mary, who was still giving an impassioned speech.
The boy glanced at Mary, and a look of fear suddenly appeared on his face:
"She's not, she's just my foster mother."
"I see, I think you seem to have some talents that ordinary people don't have. Are you interested in going to other cities with me to make a living?"
Li Chuan said with a smile.
The boy looked at Li Chuan in surprise, a look of hesitation appeared on his face, but he quickly shook his head:
"No, thank you."
After saying that, he crossed the street and started handing out flyers to pedestrians on the opposite side.
If someone had said they wanted to take him away from here before, he would have agreed immediately, because he no longer wanted to be subjected to the physical abuse his foster mother inflicted on him every day.
But now, he already had new hope.
A witch, like the sister who had helped him before, promised that as long as he helped her with errands, she would take him into the wizarding World and make him a witch.
Seeing this, Li Chuan didn't say anything more, just smiled, and then walked through the crowd to a spot next to the bank's gate to observe.
This introverted boy named Credence is actually Grindelwald's target in coming to New York, an Obscurus with great destructive power.
An Obscurus refers to a very special parasite formed when a witch or wizard does not learn magic in childhood and properly channels the magic power converted in their body.
It generally appears in the era when witches and wizards are in turmoil and are hunted down by Muggles. Many young witches and wizards deliberately suppress their magic in order to escape the hunting of Muggles, thus turning into Obscurials.
Obscurials normally die before the age of ten, and the reason why Credence was able to live to this day, even dying at the age of twenty-three, is because he contains more talent and potential than normal witches and wizards.
Therefore, the power of the Obscurus in his body is also exceptionally terrifying. The houses and streets that were destroyed yesterday were actually caused by him losing control of his emotions again due to his foster mother's abuse.
Grindelwald came to New York to obtain this wide-ranging destructive parasite, but he doesn't know yet that Credence is an Obscurial, thinking it's one of the orphans in Mary's church.
That's why he uses becoming a witch or wizard as bait to win the trust of the simple and timid Credence, so as to help him find the Obscurial.
At this time, Grindelwald is only forty-three years old and has just officially started his career. Although he has a group of supporters, he has not yet established a solid rule in Europe and needs the assistance of the destructive power of the Obscurus.
Of course, this is just Li Chuan's guess, because in the movie Grindelwald said he wanted to use the power of the Obscurus to kill Dumbledore, but he felt that that shouldn't be the real reason.
After all, Grindelwald should know best how strong Dumbledore's strength is. Although the Obscurus is powerful, it is impossible to kill Dumbledore.
"Here it comes!"
Just then, a little commotion suddenly broke out among the crowd listening to Mary's speech at the entrance of the bank. Li Chuan keenly noticed a creature like a platypus squeezing out of a suitcase in the hand of a curly-haired man.
"It seems to be him."
That little guy who keeps shuttling through the crowd like a platypus, stealing coins and jewelry, is obviously the Niffler with a special preference for treasure.
And the curly-haired man who was chasing after the Niffler with his suitcase was Newt Scamander.
Tina, who was monitoring Mary in the crowd, saw this and, out of her original Auror instinct, followed.
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