Peter burst into tears there and kept telling his helplessness, "I was forced too. The mysterious man found me, and there was nothing I could do...his magic power is too powerful!"
Sirius cast a look of contempt at him.
Peter was furious, "Don't look at me with that look. If it were you, you would confess! Besides, the Dark Lord can also use the Imperius Curse, Veritaserum, and Legilimency—"
"Peter, when you first learned about the Loyalty Curse, you probably didn't listen carefully." Dumbledore glanced at Peter and interrupted him. "The Loyalty Curse is an extremely complicated spell. It uses magic to keep someone's secret forever.
Hidden in the soul of a living person - the secret keeper. That secret will never be discovered. There is only one way to know it: the secret keeper voluntarily leaks it."
Peter:……
Harry looked at this chaotic farce and thought it was very absurd.
"Peter's crime has been confirmed." Seeing that Peter was speechless when asked, Dumbledore felt that this should be over. So he looked at Fudge, waiting for his response.
"Well, yes, that's right," Fudge fiddled with the bowler hat in his hand uneasily, "I'll go back to the ministry first and bring someone over to take him away..."
Fudge was extremely nervous. He knew very well that Sirius only resented Peter now, but after Peter was punished, he would probably point the finger at the person who handled the case, that is, him. Such an incident appeared on his resume,
The election of the Minister of Magic is extremely unfavorable.
Well, elections. Wizards also have to hold elections! The candidate for the Minister of Magic is elected through democratic elections. However, in an emergency, you can also directly request someone to take up this position without voting, but this situation is very rare.
There is no fixed limit on the term of office of the Minister of Magic - if the prestige is sufficient, the Minister of Magic can continue to serve until his death, but they must hold elections regularly, with a maximum interval of 7 years.
By the way, since there is no fixed term limit, since the birth of the Ministry of Magic, few ministers of the Ministry of Magic have resigned with honor. From the first minister Yuric Gamp to the current Fudge, there are a total of 32 ministers.
The longest minister worked for eighteen years, the shortest only served for two months. They often resigned for various reasons: poor handling of the goblin rebellion, inability to cope with work pressure, excessive appeasement, impending deadlines, and even sudden death.
Perhaps the most bizarre was Hortensia Mirifat, Minister of Magic from 1841 to 1849, who was forced out of office after she introduced a law against pointed hats.
Fudge was very worried, fearing that the Sirius case would be the trigger for his downfall. However, after a brief panic, Fudge quickly calmed down. Because he thought about it carefully and found that this did not seem to be a particularly bad thing for him.
of bad things.
The people who handled the Black case back then, excluding those insignificant minions, there were a total of three core figures. These three people were mainly responsible for the Black case: myself, Barty Crouch, who was the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the time, and the former Magic Law Enforcement Department.
Minister Millicent Bagno.
He was responsible for arresting Black, collecting evidence and submitting reports, and initiating lawsuits by the way. Barty Crouch was responsible for leading the trial of the Magical Law Commission, and Millicent Bagno only signed. Of these three, Millicent...
Bagnot had retired a long time ago, let's not forget that. Barty's future was ruined because of his son's affairs, but he was prosperous and prosperous, and even became the Minister of Magic.
It stands to reason that if Blake makes things worse, who is the person most afraid of? In other words, who can't bear the price? The retired old lady, Barty Crouch whose future is ruined, or himself? It must be himself.
!But Fudge recalled a detail, which suddenly gave him confidence.
Making mistakes is not scary, but finding someone to take the blame is scary. And Barty Crouch Sr. is very suitable to take the blame.
Although Fudge made countless mistakes, it was Crouch's decision that ultimately made the whole thing irreversible: he sent Sirius to Azkaban prison without trial. At that time, this decision made his
The reputation was unparalleled for a while, but now it has become a perfect excuse to pass the blame.
Looking back and analyzing Sirius' case again, it is not difficult to find that this unjust case was largely caused by the failure to follow correct trial procedures.
Can he take advantage of this and remove himself? Fudge thought in his mind. In 1990, Millicent Bagno retired and Fudge took over. It has been three years since Fudge took over. Fudge has gradually become familiar with the role of Minister of Magic.
, coupled with his previous experience in the Ministry of Magic, calling him an official veteran is not an exaggeration at all.
It is not difficult for him to shirk the blame, and it is not impossible for him to clear himself from this incident and even reap benefits.
In the blink of an eye, Fudge sorted out his emotions. He put on his bowler hat and said calmly to Dumbledore: "Please keep an eye on Peter first. I will go back to the Ministry of Magic to mobilize people and convene a trial meeting.
Bring this madman to justice!"
"Okay." Fudge's calmness was somewhat beyond Dumbledore's expectations, but this did not affect his approval of Fudge's arrangement. After all, it was unreasonable for the Minister of Magic to escort Peter back alone.
"See you later!" Fudge waved his hand, opened the door and walked out. He walked so fast that he didn't notice a pair of malicious eyes staring at him.
On the way back, he had already thought of a strategy: he just had to firmly claim that he had been deceived and that it was all Crouch Sr.'s fault.
After all, it was Crouch who made the decision to throw Sirius into prison. He, Fudge, was just a humble and pitiful social instrument with a seriously excessive workload.
During that time, he was running around every day to eliminate the remnants of the Dark Lord's gang. It is only natural for people to make small mistakes in a moment!
As for whether the dignified Deputy Director of the Ministry of Magic can be regarded as a "humble social instrument" and whether Fudge made a small mistake, he himself refused to answer.
If Fudge knew anything about the British Lord Justice Bacon, he would have shouted to the reporter of the Daily Prophet: One wrong verdict is better than ten crimes, because crime only pollutes the water, and wrong judgments pollute the water.
water source.
What Crouch polluted is the water source of justice for the British Ministry of Magic!
Fudge had already thought of a strategy before he returned to the Ministry of Magic.
At the same time, the conversation between several people in Dumbledore's office has not yet ended.
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