Hogwarts Crawler

"The facts I want to state are as follows..."

Standing in the dock, Lucius spoke calmly.

When he knew that he still had to stand trial, Lucius was indeed afraid.

For Lucius, the word trial was not a verdict on the crime, and such a trial would never fall on the Malfoy family.

In his cognition, there was only one kind of trial that would fall on him, that is, after the war, the victorious party would put the defeated party on the table and eat the defeated party's flesh and blood.

Lucius was not surprised by this, and was even familiar with it. The Malfoy family had suffered a lot for this in the last wizard war, but why was he served on the table again this time?

He had obviously abandoned the dark and joined the light this time!

Lucius quickly found Professor Gandalf, but he didn't expect Professor Gandalf to let him stand trial and said that the Ministry of Magic would give him a fair treatment.

Lucius's heart was cold at that time. As we all know, when a group of people who have always been black-hearted suddenly tell you that they will deal with you impartially, it usually means giving up on you.

Lucius had almost figured out how to write his will, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Professor Gandalf suddenly found him and told him how to defend himself in court.

Lucius breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was going to go through a process and accept "fair" treatment. He was familiar with this. He should have said no earlier. It was a shock...

But after reading the confession, Lucius fell silent. This confession... seemed... to be... really... fair treatment.

"First of all, I want to state the situation when I joined the Death Eaters. At that time, Voldemort returned to Britain and officially began to expand his power with the slogan of restoring the glory of pure blood. My father was one of the people deceived by his slogan, and I, who was studying at Hogwarts at the time, also joined the Death Eaters..."

Voldemort's name is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but few people know his experience. People don't know that Voldemort's power expansion is actually divided into two stages.

The first stage was when Voldemort himself was studying at Hogwarts, and he recruited his fellow Slytherin classmates to join him, which was the prototype of the Death Eaters.

The second stage was when he returned to England after traveling around the world for ten years, and this stage was when the real Death Eaters were formed. At that time, Voldemort had begun to transform himself with black magic, and his appearance had undergone inhuman changes, but his power was also stronger, far more powerful than 99% of the wizards in the world.

The glimpse of past secrets made everyone listen carefully to the statement of this famous criminal among the Death Eaters.

In Lucius's statement, he was not involuntarily in the process of joining the Death Eaters, and his life among the Death Eaters was not pleasant.

"Mr. Bernard, I apply to use the Scales of Anubis on this criminal!"

Arthur Weasley couldn't help but stand up again.

As an old man who joined the Order of the Phoenix during the last wizard war, he hated the Death Eaters very much, and Bernard did not reject his idea:

"Lucius, are you willing to use the Scales of Anubis to prove that all your statements are true?"

"I do."

Lucius took a deep breath, watching Bernard use the Scales of Anubis on him, watching his heart fall off his body under the influence of invisible forces and fall to one end of the scale, and an ostrich feather naturally emerged at the other end.

Then, Lucius repeated his previous statement.

Arthur stared at the scales the whole time, but until the end, the scales did not tilt to one end.

"How is this possible?"

"How is it impossible? Do you think I am willing to serve a master who often punishes subordinates who do not do their job well with the Cruciatus Curse, and rewards are usually dark magic? I didn't go to the battlefield before, what's the use of that kind of thing?"

Lucius said bluntly.

He is the head of the Malfoy family. What is useful to him is not the knowledge of dark magic, but power and money. However, Voldemort has only spent the money of his Malfoy family from beginning to end, and basically has never seen this money return!

As for power, Voldemort did not win, and what he said about pure blood supremacy was just a slogan to torture Muggles reasonably, so of course he didn't have it.

Compared with his sister-in-law who was devoted to Voldemort, Lucius was a sophisticated and selfish businessman. He just wanted to choose the side that was more beneficial to him. It was a pity that he joined the Death Eaters involuntarily, and it was too late for him to see Voldemort clearly.

Arthur was stunned by Lucius's sudden questioning, especially during this process, Lucius's heart was still on Anubis's scale, and the scale remained balanced.

He didn't lie!

Lucius continued to look at Bernard and said:"Mr. Bernard, I surrendered myself after Voldemort died and the Death Eaters were arrested. Before that, I had left the Death Eaters and worked as a professor's assistant at Hogwarts. I hope these actions can get me a reduced sentence. At the same time, if the sentence allows, I would like to apply for probation."

If the above words are still within everyone's understanding, then Lucius's next words will directly make a lot of people in the court burn their CPUs.

"In addition, my home, the Malfoy mansion, was illegally occupied and destroyed by Voldemort after I left the Death Eaters and entered Hogwarts. I hope to sue the Death Eaters and recover some of the losses."

Ah... Is this possible?

Everyone couldn't help but look at Bernard.

"This is a reasonable request."

Bernard glanced at Anubis's scale, thinking that the scale could only judge whether a person was lying, but could not judge the truth of the matter. The words he spoke were as steady as ever:

"Since the property losses caused by Death Eaters in various parts of the wizarding world are still being counted, the identification, judgment and compensation of property losses will be unified in the end, and this court will take your accusation into consideration."

The clerk on one side of the court noted this point.

After the questioning and statement, Lucius, who had not lied throughout the whole process, finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his heart return to his chest.

Although he knew he was not lying, it was really creepy to watch his heart beating somewhere else, and he could not get used to it at all.

"Then, next, this court will announce the verdict on the defendant Lucius Malfoy!"

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Bernard.

"Lucius Malfoy confessed to his crimes, but considering that he surrendered himself, was coerced during the crime, and did not actively cause the death of others."

When Bernard said this, he couldn't help but look at Lucius Malfoy strangely.

Lucius was a well-known figure among the Death Eaters. He really stayed in the back to pay money and never killed anyone personally. It was really... I guess Voldemort didn't want this money bag to have an accident on the battlefield.

Speculating inwardly, Bernard added the sentence for Lucius:

"Sentenced to 30 years in prison, with the possibility of probation, but the defendant must work at Hogwarts during this period, and must report any trips outside of Hogwarts and his residence, and must regularly cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's inspections..."

Bernard explained the conditions of probation one by one, basically changing the cell where Lucius was imprisoned to his home and Hogwarts, and the conditions were slightly more relaxed.

Of course, this was from Lucius's point of view, but in the eyes of those who knew what the new Azkaban was like, it was a great relaxation of the conditions of imprisonment.