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Oliver Russell's is the Head of the Russell Magician Family, of the 20 Major Families in Britian's Magical Association. Their base like the other Families was massive. Naturally Oliver has his own Manor where his family lives along with servants. But his base was an entire neighborhood on the outskirts of Lydd. Lydd was on the south-east of London on the sea, making it a perfect hideout for people like him.
His trade business was not as strong as other members in the Great Families, but it still brought some income.
Right now they were in the Meeting room where the High Class, the Captains were gathered. And 'Gato' was not happy "You mean to tell me that Reginald along with Five Officers and their teams were completely wiped out!" Oliver roared out as he slammed his fist on the table.
"Yes sir" Tommy Blake answered "One of my Officers and his team went to check out the situation, all they found was a destroyed battlefield and an abandoned shop which was in pristine condition. We can only assume that Reginald lost and the enemy retreated."
"Damn it all" Oliver grit his teeth as his hand crushed the arm on the chair. ' This is going to make me a laughing stock!'
"Boss, we need to do damage control." John McQueen said in a serious tone, losing a High Class was a big thing. They are called Major Families for a reason, each only has four or five High Class fighters or magicians including the Boss of the family.
Oliver sat down and started to calm himself 'Even though we are allies, those four bastards won't hesitate to double cross me. Our alliance only works because together we have a monopoly on the magical plants and agriculture industry in Britain. Any family that wants to buy magical plants has to buy it from us or look for the expensive import form Germany or France.
And since we have a monopoly we can manipulate the prices to our advantage. One day one of us will raise our prices by a lot saying there is a short supply and the people will go to buy from one of the other four who also raised their prices slightly. We just continue to rotate and everybody profits. Naturally most don't know we own all of the industry just under different names. There is also logistic, growing, production, each Family has their own advantage so they don't lose money even if only one or two are mainly focused on Selling.
But if I show a big weakness, the other four will come in like vulture's, ripping apart my business and splitting it amongst themselves. I need to move fast, they will get the news soon that i failed. Why did I have to brag that things were going to be finished today' he rubbed the bridge of his nose still feeling frustrated, unable to keep himself calm.
That's just the way things were in the Magician Association. Not just here but through the whole world. Most beginners believe only devils and demons are cut throat and they are, but so are humans. Demons and devils do more 'evil' things to satisfy their urges and sins, but when it comes to business, its always the same no matter where you go.
And this was just Oliver's allies, let alone the other competitors among the Twenty Major Families.
'Putting more effort on Potter seems to be the way to go. I don't know how he killed Reginald and normally I would just cut my losses and move on. But those damn Pots are too valuable. If I can get them not only will I recuperate my losses but I will go beyond my current level and be able to content globally. Potter is just one boy a wizard, who refuses to do politics. With my resources and connections i can rapidly create factories and increase production at least by three folds.'
"Do the other families show any activity to look into the battle" he turned to Roman Hamilton, the last High Class in his family. Roman was in charge of intelligence and counter intelligence.
"Not yet, its still to early to say, but everybody has their own things going on in the background. I suggest we move fast and say that the boy retreated as soon as he sensed danger and let the shop be destroyed, that he slipped through our fingers, and that Regulus is out on missions. That way we can hide his death for at least a month, maybe two if we are lucky"
Ever since Reginald became a High Class he has been going to parties and meetings. Due to his younger age and lack of accomplishments its easier for up and coming magicians or families to approach him. Whether to directly join their ranks, or to become a subordinate family. The Middle ranked Families talk alliances with the more experienced High Class
Now that he has disappeared. It won't take long for people to put two and two together. Roman will have to spread some fake news and most likely disguise someone to make an appearance or two as Reginald. But that would still only buy them the time he suggested, he had already taken this into account. Maybe he can spread some rumors and make the other families more distracted for a few extra days.
Oliver nodded and closed his eyes, he thought carefully about the options he had, if he doesn't make any moves he will continue to lose influence and territory. Racketeering territory to me more accurate and clients.
Magicians are useful because they are hired to protect companies from other magicians and devils, demons and etcetera. Not literally protect them, but from mind manipulation spells. Actual protection costed a lot more.
And the only way to keep these is to get a huge advantage that will even cover up the loss of Reginald and the five Officers.
"Focus on Harry Potter, give me any information you can find. Maybe there will be a weak spot, a family member, a girlfriend, anything that we can use as leverage. Check out the American school that he went to, there might be something there. But be discreet, we don't want to alert the brat, next time we are capturing him. I'll go personally if I have to"
The others nodded and the meeting continued for another thirty minutes discussing other various problems before everybody left to do their job. Only two people were left in the room.
"Am I making the right decision Tobias" Oliver turned to the man who sat throughout the whole meeting without uttering a single word. He was Tobias Clark a man in his late eighties, but looked to be more like his early seventies. He was dressed in a suit, his white hair and beard were well groomed and he had this sharp look in his eye. Age hasn't dulled his intellect and wisdom. Tobias served Oliver's father as an advisor as well, he has done a lot for the family and was deeply trusted
Tobias only sighed when he heard the question "If you want to quickly recuperate your losses this is the only way to do it. However if it were me I would just let the matter go and take some future losses as well. Something feel right about that boy. No matter how sloppy Reginald was he was still a High Class and could escape if he wanted to or at least call for help. Yet that didn't happen, meaning either the boy is a lot more powerful that what he has shown or he has some strong backers."
Oliver nodded, he understood what Tobias was saying, but things were a bit complicated to let go that easily
"I though about it too, but the boy is really a recluse, he practically makes an enemy of everybody he meets. And I know the situation is strange, but loosing Regulus and everybody that was with him was a big hit. We lost nearly a fourth of our 'military strength' luckily we still have some more Officers and Soldiers. That will cause us big losses and we will probably lose some territory. It took a lot of time to raise through the ranks, I'm not going to be dropping back now"
"Well you are the boss. Its my job to give you advice now that I have, get out there and get it done, let an old man rest some more" Tobias shot him a small smirk. He has known the boy since he was in dippers. in the entire Family only he can talk to him like this, naturally they only do it when they are alone, he doesn't want to undermine Oliver's position
"Heh, crazy old man" Oliver shook his head as he left the room.
~ Harry's side
"AHHHHHHHHHH" Reginald screamed as Harry sorted through his memories. "Oh for God's sake you are a High Class, tough it out! Hope gag him"
His lovely assistant just put a towel in Reginald's mouth. She had cold eyes as she looked at him 'You started this, don't go complaining now. And you hurt Harry, don't look at me with those eyes begging for help'
Reginald was strapped on a table with runes panted all over his body sealing his magic. "HMMMMMMMM"
'Oliver Russell huh. And fucking hell he really does resemble Gato from Naruto. To think a little shorty like him actually has the balls to come after wizards. And thanks to Reginald I finally know why wizards have mostly lived in peace from the other factions. Its because they are fucking insane. No other faction wants anything to do with wizards.
Wizarding kind has successfully managed to enslave an entire race. A feat that not even Devils and Demons have accomplished. It was a low level race of Brownies that became House Elves. But it was still not done before, the closest one to do this was Lucifer himself when he started turning Demons into Devils.
That and the wizards crazy rituals that they have developed that wipes out magic ' Harry let out a dry chuckle
'To think my kind is so crazy that people go out of their way to avoid us, a few centuries ago devils and demons completely stopped making any deals with wizards. That's kind of fucked up I'm not gonna lie. The scum of the earth actually looks at wizards with the same view point others look at them.'
Harry didn't stop for a single second, he was going to take every single piece of useful info from this man's head. Spells and theories on mana, Russell Family secrets, their location, bases, safehouses, members. Information on other families that Reginald had access to which was quite a lot even as a newly promoted Captain of the Family.
'Interesting, these people have a lot more influence than i imagined, and each controls a few key parts of Britian's economy along with criminal underworld. Sure their influence weakened significantly outside this country, but it was not bad.'
Harry continues to extract information from Reginald's head while other clones were working on other things, taking muscle tissue and bone marrow samples, Testing how big of a change happened to the body once Reginald reached High Class. Testing out extremely small doses of poison to see how the body of a High Class would react.
"In any case, the best way to deal with these guys is by getting stronger. I'll make some better portkeys. Hell, I'll just dig out tunnels under my shop so they can go in and just leave under any anti-teleportation barrier they make. As for this little attack, well they try to wreak my shop, its only fair I do the same and I'll do it old school."
Hope perked up "Speaking of school Harry, we leave in three days"
Harry frowned at her but then realized what she was talking about "Right.. forgot about that. We have to go back to Hogwarts. Well at least I can continue researching the Room of Innovation. And now I'm pretty confident about dealing with the Basilisk." he let out an evil grin "Oh this year is going to be so much fun"
~ A/N
I don't know why the page refreshed so randomly, dude like 700-800 words, gone... that just sucks.
Anyway here is the breakdown of Russell's Family
5 High Class.
Oliver -Boss (Tobias Mid-Class, just an Advisor)
Roman Hamilton- Intelligence and Counter Intelligence
Tommy Blake
John McQueen
Reginald - Captured by Harry
They lost 5 Mid Class, but there are still about 20-27 of them left. And about a hundred Soldiers (Low- Class of different levels)