Frank, Alice, Lucius and Narcissa nodded and had to admit that the Takamaki patriarch was right. Their society was failing and the population was shrinking. He had seen, how many witches and wizards were struggling to get children and the rate of squibs was rising. Without the olde rituals and ways, the magical population was growing weaker and weaker. For example, many children, whose parents were blindly loyal to Albus Dumbledore, were a lot weaker than the children from dark families, who were doing the rituals in private and keep the public away from them.