Li Chuan, who had just walked out of the door key office, looked at the hundred-story magic building and thought to himself:
"This looks more impressive than the British Ministry of Magic."
Before coming here, he had already checked the relevant information about the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
Unlike the British Ministry of Magic, which is built underground and is a separate building, the Magical Congress of the United States of America shares a building with ordinary people.
The entrance to the Woolworth Building is a revolving door. Normal people enter the Woolworth Building through the revolving door, but when wizards pass through the revolving door, they enter the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
"Where to go?"
Entering the magic elevator, an old goblin wearing a felt hat and a suit asked Li Chuan.
Goblins and house elves look very similar, but their status in the wizarding world is completely different from that of house elves.
The status of house elves is that of slaves, while the status of goblins is actually not much worse than that of wizards. They are good at metal processing, especially making silverware. The currency of the wizarding world is made by them.
They even run Gringotts Wizarding Bank and control the wizarding world's economy to a large extent.
“Lobby registration desk!”
Li Chuan replied politely.
The old goblin nodded, raised the crutch in his hand, and pressed the button with 1 written on it.
A few seconds later, the magic elevator reopened, and Li Chuan had arrived at the registration hall on the first floor.
The architectural style of MACUSA is very similar to that of a church. There is a huge portrait of a witch hanging at the door, which is none other than Serafina Picqueli, the current president of MACUSA.
The corridors are wider and cleaner than those of the British Ministry of Magic. There are brooms and mops that have been casted with enlightenment spells to clean them all the time, and there are also golden metal giant eagles flying.
The wizards seemed to be relatively relaxed, and many were sitting on benches reading newspapers and chatting.
Perhaps because of the recent unrest in the United States, there are not many foreign wizards registered at the registration office. In the past, Li Chuan registered all the information without queuing.
"You are a wizard from the UK. You may not know that wizards here in the United States need a wand license to hold a wand. You go to the wand license office and apply for a wand license before you can leave."
The witch in charge of registration reminded Li Chuan after registering his information.
Li Chuan was not surprised when he heard this, he just nodded and walked towards the magic elevator again.
Applying for a wand license is a unique rule in the American wizarding world, and every wizard needs to apply for it.
Because the Aurors here can trace the wand of the wizard who caused the crime through the magic fluctuations on the wand license, thereby determining the identity.
On the 25th underground floor, Li Chuan followed the sign and walked into a room that was obviously enlarged dozens of times by the traceless stretching spell.
Tables are neatly arranged here, and each table is connected to a metal transparent pipe leading to the upper floor.
From time to time, documents that have been folded into mice will escape from the pipe, and then be torn into pieces on the table.
Apparently this is where congressional staff shred useless documents.
However, Li Chuan became slightly more interested in the magic that turned files into mice that could handle themselves.
Yesterday when he was at the British Ministry of Magic, he also saw the witch in the foyer using magic to turn paper into paper airplanes and automatically go looking for Theseus Scamander.
At that time, he was thinking that it would be a good idea to replace ordinary paper with detonating symbols, then let them turn into paper airplanes and fly towards the enemy before detonating them.
"It seems that next time I go to Naruto World, I will not only find a way to learn Orochimaru's ninjutsu that can swallow items into the stomach to preserve them, but also learn how to make detonating talismans."
Walking along the tables to the end, a sign with a wand license office suddenly appeared in front of him.
Under the sign, a short-haired witch wearing a windbreaker was sitting in front of her desk in a daze, thinking about something.
"Hello, I'm Tom Foley from London, here to apply for a wand license."
"Uh-huh, I'm Tina Goldstein, welcome to New York, give me your wand and registration certificate."
The witch named Tina suddenly woke up, weakly took out a special magic card from the side, and said to Li Chuan in a very formulaic manner.
Tina Goldstein, the future wife of Newt Scamander. She was originally the best Auror at the Magical Congress of the United States of America. She violated the law because she helped an abused Muggle and performed magic in front of many Muggles.
The Wizarding Secrecy Act.
Now, he has been demoted to the Wand Licensing Office as a clerk by MACUSA President Serafina Picquery.
After hearing the other party's name, Li Chuan immediately knew the other party's identity.
However, he didn't deliberately strike up a conversation, he just handed the other party Tom's wand and the registration certificate he just got in the lobby.
After Tina made his wand license, he turned around and left like a normal wizard.
He didn't want his intervention to cause huge changes in the subsequent plot, at least he couldn't let the encounter between Newt and Tina not happen because of him.
That would be of no benefit to his next plan.
He came to New York firstly to use the original plot to strive for his apparent identity and become completely famous in the wizarding world. Secondly, he wanted to cooperate with Grindelwald secretly and reap benefits.
Therefore, he will try his best to ensure that everything is within his control without disrupting the development of the plot in the early stage.
After leaving MACUSA, Li Chuan directly followed the information he had found before and came to Magic Street in New York, where he temporarily found a bar to stay.
The Magic Street in the United States is located in Times Square, New York. The entrance is a stone tablet. When you touch the stone tablet and enter your magic power, you will enter the Magic Street.
I spent a day walking around the entire Magic Street. Apart from picking up some magic books that I had not found at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore before, and tasting the local magic delicacies, I didn't find anything extra.
But this is normal. It has been less than two hundred years since the founding of the United States. How long is the history of wizards in the United States? Most of them are British wizards who immigrated here.
Even the founder of the American magic school, Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Aesop Seal.
It was also because I often heard many stories about Hogwarts from my aunt Gormley Gaunt that I founded Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry out of my dream.
Even the four major colleges in the school are modeled after the four major colleges of Hogwarts.
So even though the American Ministry of Magic is much grander than the British Ministry of Magic, and the magical streets are much larger than Diagon Alley, in fact, in terms of background, American wizards are still inferior to British wizards.
In the movie, if it weren't for Newt Scamander's help, Grindelwald could have killed all the Aurors in the entire MACUSA.