The Tenth Courtroom of the Ministry of Magic.
At this moment, everyone, including Scott, was looking at the closed door.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the door was pushed open, and a tall and thin middle-aged wizard walked in from outside.
He wore a fur-decorated robe, had short white hair, and a goatee with a small curl at the end on his thin chin.
“It’s you!”
Mr. Rowe, who was supporting his wife, said the name of the visitor in great surprise.
“Igor Karkaroff!”
Hearing this name, Scott couldn’t help but frown.
Karkaroff’s appearance caused a commotion in the courtroom.
If Carlo’s request to summon a witness in his favor was unexpected enough, then the identity of the witness who walked into the courtroom was undoubtedly more unexpected.
Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of Durmstrang School of Magic, a traitorous Death Eater, many people knew his details.
Scott also heard the discussions of the people around him.
“Karkaroff? How could it be him?”
“In order to escape punishment, he betrayed many of his fellow Death Eaters to Crouch.”
Scott had also heard about Karkaroff’s deeds.
It stands to reason that now that Voldemort, who was hiding behind the scenes, has gradually surfaced, Karkaroff, the former traitor, should stay away.
No one thought that he would appear here and become a witness to the acquittal of the descendant of a murderous Death Eater.
Of course, maybe it was because he was threatened.
Scott looked coldly at Karkaroff below and walked up quickly and stood beside Carlo who was on trial.
“I object!”
At this moment, Mr. Rowle, Caitlin Rowle’s father, spoke loudly.
“Judge, I object to Karkaroff as a witness! As everyone knows, he is just a Death Eater who escaped punishment by chance!”
As Mr. Rowle spoke, the courtroom fell into complete silence.
At this moment, everyone present looked at Fudge, the presiding judge, waiting for him to speak.
But Fudge obviously had no idea at the moment.
He subconsciously looked at Bones and Dumbledore sitting on his left and right.
“Let’s hear what Karkaroff has to say.” Bones, who was wearing monocular glasses, spoke.
Dumbledore also said, “After he finishes his testimony, we will judge the truth.”
Fudge nodded.
“Igor Karkaroff!” He looked at Karkaroff below seriously, “Say your testimony.”
“No problem, Judge.” Karkaroff bowed gracefully.
He looked up and smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.
Scott looked at this scene with some surprise.
According to his understanding, Amelia Bones, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, should be a director who enforces the law impartially, and Dumbledore is undoubtedly fair, but neither of them explicitly opposed Karkaroff to become a witness.
Not only that, after the two spoke, Mr. Rawl, who was protesting loudly just now, also sat down quietly.
This scene is really a bit unreasonable.
Unless…
Scott’s eyes lit up.
Unless the plaintiff has other evidence besides the witness who failed to show up.
Just as Scott was thinking, Karkaroff, the defendant’s witness, spoke.
“Ms. Rowe’s death was not caused by Mr. Rowe.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Mrs. Rowe stood up suddenly and screamed, “You are talking nonsense! If it wasn’t him, how could he escape? He killed my daughter!”
“Silence!” Fudge frowned and reminded.
He looked at Mrs. Rowe who stood up repeatedly to “make trouble” with some displeasure.
Mr. Rowe hurriedly pulled his wife to sit down and whispered to comfort him.
Fudge then asked Karkaroff, “Do you have any evidence for what you said, Karkaroff?”
Karkaroff bowed slightly again and began to elaborate on his testimony in detail.
“All students at Durmstrang know that something is wrong with Miss Rowle.”
“She is always moody and either beats or scolds Mr. Carrow. More than one student on the Durmstrang campus has seen such a scene.”
Hearing him say this, Mrs. Rowle wanted to refute again, but Mr. Carrow covered her mouth and held her down, so she could only sob softly.
Fudge frowned and said to Karkaroff, “This has nothing to do with what you want to prove.”
“Of course, I’m just explaining some background.” Karkaroff said respectfully, “It happened on the night of April 1st. I remember it very clearly. That day was April Fool’s Day…”
According to Karkaroff’s narration, Caitlin Rowle’s body was first discovered by students at Durmstrang in a hidden corner of the school.
As the principal, Karkaroff launched an investigation at the first time.
During the investigation, a student told him that it was Elijah Carrow who called Caitlin Rowle away, and other students said that they heard a fierce quarrel between the two when they passed by the scene of the incident.
However, due to Caitlin Rowle’s usual behavior, the students who heard the quarrel were already used to it and did not go close to see.
When Karkaroff and other professors thought of finding Elijah Carrow to find out what happened, he had quietly left Durmstrang.
Karkaroff talked for a long time, and everyone was confused.
Because his statement was obviously unfavorable to Carrow.
But both Elijah Carrow, who was on trial, and the members of the Carrow family who were listening in were sitting peacefully at the moment.
At this moment, Karkaroff suddenly changed the subject.
“At first, I also thought that Mr. Carrow killed her.” He said, “but then we found something wrong.”
At this point, his tone paused.
The courtroom was silent, with only Mrs. Rowe’s vague sobbing sound ringing in everyone’s ears.
“Miss Friedrich from the Durmstrang School Hospital examined Miss Rowe’s body.” Karkaroff said, “We found that Mr. Carrow only knocked her out with a coma spell, and her real cause of death was poisoning.”
Carrow, who was tied to a chair with iron chains, spoke in time, “Principal Karkaroff is right, I just knocked Caitlin out with a coma spell.”
The two people’s statements were full of loopholes, and Scott frowned when he heard them. He really wanted to know how they were going to make up their lies.
The presiding judge Fudge also looked ugly at the moment.
He stared at the two people below with his small eyes, and asked in a very stern tone: “Carlo, since you only used a Stunning Spell on Miss Rowle, why did you run away from Durmstrang?”
“I was just too depressed.”
Carlo lowered his head, his voice a little artificial and pitiful.
“I went to Durmstrang to study for Caitlin, but she always treated me badly.”
“That day, after quarreling with her, I attacked her with a Stunning Spell in a rage… Anyway, I couldn’t stand it.”
“I am her fiancé, but she treated me like that. I don’t want to be so humble and long for love anymore, so I decided to leave there.”
Scott felt a little nauseous listening to Carlo’s remarks.
This guy, he had vowed before that he would go to accompany Caitlin Rowle after fulfilling her wish, but now he is regretting it?
After listening to Carlo’s statement, Fudge picked up a pen and wrote something on the document, and then turned to look at the defendant witness.
“Karkaroff, how do you prove what you said? Why didn’t you tell the Rowe family about your discovery when you sent back Miss Rowe’s body? And, even if Miss Rowe died of poisoning, how do you know that the defendant was not the one who poisoned her?”
Karkaroff said: “Miss Friedrich can prove what I said, presiding judge.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the courtroom was pushed open again, and an unusually tall witch walked in.
This is a witch who looks like a man, at least 1.9 meters tall. Even if she is wearing a female therapist’s skirt and has long golden hair, she still looks like a transvestite wizard.
“Yes, I can prove it.” She said.
Until he heard her voice, Scott was sure that she was really a woman.
Fudge looked at Miss Friedrich, who came uninvited, with a bad face.
“I didn’t summon you, ma’am.”
Miss Friedrich was not frightened by Fudge’s eyes.
She walked calmly to Karkaroff and stood still under the gaze of everyone.
When the two stood together, she looked half a head taller than Karkaroff, and even her shoulders were much broader than the thin Karkaroff.
She took out a small glass bottle from her pocket and held it up.
“This is the poison left in Miss Rawl’s mouth.” She said in a flat tone, “I have tested it. This is a drug that only Muggles use, and wizards have no history of using it.”
Karkaroff continued, “Your Honor, I remember that a guy who specialized in poisoning pure-blood wizards appeared in Britain some time ago. Mr. Burke and the Yaxley family were killed one after another, and the murderer was called the Hidden Poison Wizard.”
In the corner of the courtroom, Scott’s eyebrows jumped as he listened to the two people talking.
Miss Friedrich added, “I specifically visited Liam Yaxley, who was attacked by the Hidden Poison Wizard. The Yaxley family still retains the poisonous blood extracted from his brother who died of poisoning. After comparison, I found that the poison contained in the poisonous blood is consistent with the poison in my hand.”
“You still can’t prove that what you said is true. If you can’t produce decisive evidence, then I will declare your testimony invalid.” Fudge didn’t listen carefully to what the two said at all, and directly rejected their testimony.
Now Fudge has stood on the side of Medea, and the Rawl family has also joined Medea. Of course, he will try his best to be biased towards the plaintiff.
“Judge.” Karkaroff suddenly stepped forward, “What we said is the truth. Whether it is me or Miss Friedrich, we are willing to accept the truth serum test.”
“And me.” Carlo also raised his head, “I can too.”
The words of the two immediately caused an uproar.
Scott frowned instantly.
He looked at the three people below who were fearless and self-righteous, and instantly understood their tricks-
Their memories have been modified!
As long as the wizard who modified their memory is skilled enough, the false memory will become the real memory. In this case, even truth serum cannot change their statement at this time.
On the other hand, if a wizard’s memory is modified, only wizards who can be called masters of soul reading can detect the clues, but these people cleverly took advantage of a loophole –
The results of soul reading cannot be used as legal evidence.
What Scott can think of, everyone present can think of.
At this moment, Bones and Dumbledore, whose expressions had remained unchanged, changed their faces slightly, and the two of them and Fudge gathered together to discuss in a low voice.
Scott felt a little uncomfortable with the noisy sound of whispers in his ears.
Karkaroff and Miss Friedrich mentioned the “Hidden Poison Wizard”, which made him feel a little uneasy.
He didn’t know if it was because he was too sensitive, but he always felt that this fire might burn him.
At this moment, he felt a vibration in his chest.
Scott’s face sank, and he took out the identity card of the Scholars’ Union from the inner pocket of his robe.
Relying on the fact that he was sitting in the last row and no one was paying attention to him, he used the cover of his robe to turn the card into [The Book of Prometheus].
Scott lowered his head and opened [The Book of Prometheus], and saw the owl outlined on the page.
He took a deep breath, stretched out his finger and clicked, and the letter quickly unfolded.
[Smart guy, if you don’t take the initiative to respect me, Karkaroff and Friedrich will tell everyone in the courtroom that you are the Hidden Poison Wizard.
BB]
Scott looked at the brief content of the letter and felt his eyebrows begin to beat continuously.
But he still closed the [Book of Prometheus].
Then, he began to observe everyone in the courtroom obscurely, trying to find Mr. B who had no official name.
Although his magic perception always covered the entire courtroom. But magic perception cannot replace vision. He can only sense the magic state of everyone, but cannot detect some people’s small movements.
“Judge.”
At this time, Carlo suddenly took the initiative to speak.
“I have to explain one more thing.” He said loudly, “I sneaked into Hogwarts to find the Hidden Poison Wizard and avenge Caitlin!”
Fudge asked in surprise, “You mean, the innocent student you attacked is the Hidden Poison Wizard?”
“Yes, it’s him!”
Carlo ignored his body tied with iron chains and struggled to turn his head to look at Scott sitting in the back row.
“That’s him, he’s right there!” He smiled grimly, “He’s Scott Trollope!”
Instantly, everyone’s eyes were focused on Scott.
Scott didn’t control his expression, but gave the most appropriate response at the first time.
He was surprised at first, then at a loss, and then looked at Dumbledore in front of him with a look of help.
Dumbledore gave him a calm expression.
Scott looked at Carlo again, glared at him, gritted his teeth, and tried to play the role of a simple student who was framed.
Carlo turned his head and looked at him in a very awkward posture, and laughed strangely.
“This statement is absurd, Mr. Carlo.” Bones said, “You first said that Miss Rowle died at the hands of a hidden poison wizard, and then identified that student as a hidden poison wizard.”
She shook her head and continued to ask, “Excuse me, how could a student at Hogwarts go to Durmstrang to kill Miss Rowle?”
