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You aren't entirely wrong. That is, you have the right time, but my people are only suffering the effects of that war, not fighting in it. The one we are fighting is over much of the same territory, but with someone who wishes to impose his twisted ideology on the entire world. He wants to enslave the muggles, and while I have no great love for them, I don't support that, and neither do most of Britain's wizards. And so he would like to take charge of the country by force. I do not know what would become of us if he succeeded.
Oh, please do be kind to him for my sake. He is here from the last century, and he's very respectful of his elders, but he does have the sort of pride that I suppose is natural in a boy his age.
Thank you. I don't believe I'll have any trouble, because magical defenses will work as well against vampires as anyone else, but of course I would rather it didn't come to that.