London, Second Basement, Ministry of Magic, Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Auror Office.
"Boss!"
Montgomery pushed open the door of the Auror command room forcefully, looking a little pale.
Scrimgeour raised his head from behind his desk, his hawk-like eyes scanned his face, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, "Is the investigation back?"
Montgomery nodded, opened the file bag in his hand, and took out a few magic photos.
"Look at this photo of the room being burned. It is initially judged that the dark magic fire curse was used, but An... Director Weasley is obviously very good at controlling this spell. The burning is controlled to the point where everything outside the indoor walls is burned.
All."
Scrimgeour's expression flashed, and he nodded without saying anything, just staring at the photo in silence.
"Look at this again."
Montgomery swallowed, and tremblingly pushed the photo with his fingers so that it could be turned to face the director. "These Muggle mummies have been floating in the air. We have tried many methods, but we can't make them fall down."
"The most important thing is that the characteristics of their death are very strange. All the blood in their bodies has disappeared, and..."
He took a deep breath and said, "We asked experts to check, and they determined that the cause of death of these Muggles was very much like their souls being sucked away by dementors!"
Scrimgeour raised his eyebrows, "Dementor's Kiss?"
This was the method used by the Ministry of Magic in the past to execute criminals, allowing dementors to absorb their souls. This horrific punishment could effectively prevent anyone from using resurrection rituals to save criminals.
This is an extremely serious punishment, and there is no possibility of the criminal turning into a ghost after death.
"Yes." Montgomery showed off more magical photos, "But we all know that the dementors are all in Azkaban now, and it is impossible for Director Weasley to mobilize them to kill these Muggles."
"Given his past experience, I think we can at least be clear..."
Montgomery hesitated for a moment, then finally gritted his teeth and said, "Anthony Weasley is an extremely powerful dark wizard, and he is so powerful that it is beyond our imagination.
Scrimgeour chuckled and nodded at the photo on the table, "Is it strange? The battle between him and the mysterious man at the Ministry of Magic was only less than ten days ago."
"But……"
Montgomery's hanging hands clenched tightly, and his knuckles turned pale, "He is a dark wizard!"
Scrimgeour pursed his lips, took out a silver metal cigarette case from his pocket, took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, and then took out an exquisite and simple lighter...
He stared at the lighter blankly. After being an Auror for decades, this was the first time he received a gift from a subordinate.
It was not that no one offered him gifts. As the leader of the only legal violent organization in the Ministry of Magic of a country, there were too many temptations, but he coldly rejected them all.
Only the boy gave me the lighter, which he accepted with a smile.
Perhaps because he had been exposed to too much of the dark side of the world, he could not help but be impressed by such a crystal clear and pure soul.
Perhaps it is to keep a token of past friendship with such a powerful figure who may become Dumbledore in the future. As an old Auror, he can definitely be keenly aware of opportunities. Maybe when can he
Use it.
But no matter what the reason was, he actually liked the boy Anton.
"Boss!" Montgomery didn't know when he started. His eyes were red, his lips were twitching as if he was enduring something, and his words became trembling.
"We Aurors have been fighting dark wizards our whole lives, so many..."
"So many familiar figures fell down in front of us one by one, and were sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Maladies one by one, never to come out again..."
"Hmm." Scrimgeour nodded slightly, flipped the lighter, and a flame ignited in the dark office. After a while, he raised his head and exhaled a deep stream of smoke.
"Montgomery..."
His voice became a little lighter, as if his thoughts were dancing.
"But did you know? The purpose of our Auror Office has always been to uphold the Statute of Secrecy. This is why we fight against dark wizards."
"To be honest, the Statute of Secrecy is just a stopgap measure for the wizarding community. The huge changes in the Muggle world three hundred years ago made us wizards shift from attaching themselves to the Muggle King to keeping our own existence secret and accumulating strength."
"If times change, Aurors must also adapt to the changes and choose to tolerate dark wizards."
Montgomery was stunned, "But... aren't we Aurors just to safeguard fairness, peace and justice..."
Before he finished speaking, Scrimgeour just chuckled and shook his head, "Then tell me why half of the prisoners in Azkaban were captured by your teacher. Why is he such a big credit?
He, Mad-Eye Alastor Moody, retires and I become Head of the Auror Office?"
Montgomery was speechless.
"Or tell me, why are some wizards sentenced to serious crimes just because they hurt Muggles instead of wizards without doing anything wrong?"
Montgomery was still speechless.
"Then tell me again, I am calling the mysterious man's name loudly now..."
Scrimgeour said loudly, forcefully, and word by word, "V! Earth! Demon!"
Montgomery's expression became tense, and he immediately took out the wand in his hand and carefully observed his surroundings.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Hahahahahaha..."
Scrimgeour pointed at him and smiled, laughing so hard that his whole body trembled, "Tell me why, he has obviously been resurrected and sensed that someone dared to speak his name openly, why didn't he send someone here?"
Kill me?"
As he spoke, he patted his thigh hard, and tapped his chest hard with his fingers, "From here, all the way to his legs, when his name was mentioned because of the implementation of the combat plan, they were like this
He rushed here and almost peeled me in half!"
"You know, they don't care about the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort doesn't take the Ministry of Magic seriously at all."
Scrimgeour breathed out the smoke faintly, "Do you understand? Times have changed. The mission of us Aurors is to protect the "Secrecy Act", and the mission of the "Secrecy Act" is to protect our tribe, but...
"
"Now it seems that the "Statutory of Secrecy" can no longer protect our clan. Instead, a dark lord like Voldemort has inexplicably found himself in such an opportunity and has become a very complicated character."
"They are all smart people. He saw this opportunity and blatantly formed a force in Azkaban. In the past, those who yelled and killed were Aurors and Order of the Phoenix, haha~"
Scrimgeour clicked his tongue twice.
"I know that you have a very good relationship with Anton, and you hate dark wizards very much. This discovery makes you feel particularly uncomfortable."
"But I want to say that you should learn to tolerate Anton's so-called dark wizard identity."
"It's not because we want to show favoritism."
Scrimgeour lowered his head, his eyes full of cold emotions, "Because, next, you need to learn to tolerate dark wizards, learn to tolerate saints, and learn to tolerate Death Eaters!"
Montgomery's eyes widened and he stared at Scrimgeour in disbelief, "Boss, what did you say?!"
Scrimgeour stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, and walked out from behind the desk with a slight limp. His tall body looked down at Montgomery, his teeth holding the cigarette in his mouth biting hard, and his eyes became serious.
"Listen, the idea that Aurors uphold justice is just a kind of political correctness. In the beginning, everyone just wore such a shiny skin. When the mysterious man first started a terrible war, he was too cruel.
This makes the idea of "maintaining justice" become as if it is really what we should do. "
"But you have to remember, don't say yes
Dark wizards, even ordinary wizards, are also evil to Muggles. When you use the morality in your heart to measure it, you will find that if you are completely righteous, you should choose to catch all wizards.
Go inside Azkaban."
"Don't just believe it after you say it."
"From the beginning to the end, in the three hundred years since its establishment, the Auror Office has been doing the most cruel thing, which is to use amnesia spells to cleanse the memories of Muggles wantonly, leading to countless terrible consequences. Maybe you should go there more
Look at those files we have!"
"Aurors are a violent institution that protects the wizarding community. This is true no matter which country you are an Auror in the Ministry of Magic. Do you understand?"
Montgomery looked at Scrimgeour blankly, and finally nodded weakly, "I understand."
"Oh, I got it, I got it, but I don't understand." Scrimgeour muttered, "When you really see the Muggle witch hunt, when you really experience the war between the wizarding group and the Muggle group.
, you will understand what I am talking about.”
He clicked hard on the photos on the table, "I'm telling you this because you're basically going in the wrong direction."
"Ha, of course I understand what you are thinking. Anton is an extremely powerful magic master. These Muggles are just like ants on the ground. They were brutally killed. This goes against justice and your beliefs."
"But I want to tell you, this is just your belief. Your belief was given to you by your teacher Mad-Eye. His belief was passed down from a group of old-fashioned men like Sir Merlin. They all ended up surrounding
In Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix!"
He squinted his eyes and grabbed the photo in his hand so hard that it was distorted.
"And these are not the beliefs of our Auror Office!"
"You may not know that our Ministry of Magic was established under the auspices of the International Confederation of Wizards to oppose Sir Merlin's tactics. And the Auror Office was established to implement the Ministry of Magic's tactics.
Established."
"When did the beliefs of Sir Merlin become the beliefs of our Auror Office?"
Scrimgeour turned his back to Montgomery and said in a low voice, "I am gradually clearing my mind in the office to cope with the challenges brought by the future. Montgomery, you are my favorite Auror, don't let me down..."
Montgomery was silent. He looked at the magic photo that was crumpled into a ball by Scrimgeour in a daze, and remained silent for a long time.
The two of them stood like this for a long time.
It wasn't until footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the Auror command room, and the two Aurors walked away laughing, that Montgomery let out a deep breath.
"Boss, I still firmly believe in the need for justice and the need to punish criminals."
"But I will give everything I have to the Auror Office. I have been in this office since I graduated and have been working for countless years. I am willing to uphold the beliefs of the Auror Office."
Slytherin pursed his lips, turned to look at Montgomery's determined expression, and chuckled, "As stubborn as your teacher Mad-Eye..."
But at least, he had no way of doubting the loyalty of the young man in front of him to the Auror office.
If one day the Order of the Phoenix and the Auror Office were on opposite sides, he knew that Montgomery would be on the side of the office, and that would be enough.
"Listen, in the eyes of Aurors, when encountering such a case, the first thing they pay attention to is not the crime of dark wizards. Understand, don't just catch dark wizards all day long."
"These people are no longer ordinary Muggles. Of course we will not take the initiative to harm any Muggle civilians, because letting wizards harm these Muggles willfully goes against the morals in our hearts and will also put the wizarding community into a terrible situation.
.”
"But these people are not civilians! They are spying on the situation in the wizarding world!"
"You need to change your thinking. When you encounter this kind of thing, the first thing that comes to mind should be" witch hunting movement, and then go to check in this direction. If it is not, then of course it is good, but if it is...
…”
Scrimgeour said nothing more, Montgomery
Li Ke already knew.
"Times have changed. Times are undergoing drastic changes..."
He grabbed Montgomery's shoulder hard and said, "Those dark wizards who were released from Azkaban before, relax their restrictions and let them help us keep an eye on more Muggles."
Montgomery was silent for a while and nodded slightly.