Admiral of Hogwarts

Just when Hugo and Enterprise had almost finished talking about the group of voodoo wizards through the Admiral Network, Enterprise's story about Hermione also came to an end. After hearing this story, Hermione's face immediately showed a mixture of anger and confusion.

"Is this true?" Hermione raised her head and asked the enterprise with some confusion, "If this is true, then why has no one exposed this liar's trick?"

"This should be true, because after hearing the narration of the voodoo wizards yesterday, I asked my friends in the United States to go to the small mountain village to investigate, and found some clues from the local villagers." The company said . After yesterday's incident, the company immediately contacted the ship girls in the United States and asked them to help verify it.

Even though Enterprise and Hugo knew that Lockhart was indeed a despicable person who used the Forgetting Curse to rob others of their previous experiences, they wanted to ensure that the people they recruited were not in trouble. They still need to conduct a certain level of background checks on these personnel to ensure that there will be no unexpected troubles in the future.

After receiving the request, Massachusetts immediately took Salem and used the Floo network to rush overnight to the small mountain village in the Appalachian Mountains where these voodoo wizards had lived before. Then after the sun rose this morning, he pretended to be a folklore professor at the university and asked the villagers about their previous affairs.

I have to say that Lockhart was able to work in this industry for such a long time without falling over. At least in Massachusetts, several villagers said that they had seen a middle-aged handsome guy with blond hair solve the problem of the village in the distance. The monster that had been causing trouble for a long time restored peace to the village.

But while Massachusetts was asking questions, Salem quietly used magic to check the situation of these villagers. It turned out that unlike the relatively subtle traces of spellcasting found during the previous examination of the old wizard, the traces of memory modification on the souls of these villagers were very obvious.

Obviously, it is due to the tradition of the wizarding world as a whole that despises or even ignores ordinary people who do not know magic. Generally, wizards will only conduct simple interrogations when facing ordinary people who do not know magic during investigations. So even if Lockhart modified the memories of these No-Majs out of caution, the modification process was naturally much rougher than when modifying the memories of wizards.

So after just using a few simple magics to check the villagers, Salem could confirm that what the previous voodoo wizards said was indeed true. Lockhart had indeed taken away the glory of their teacher and purged others. memory. To ensure that his crimes are not exposed.

After Massachusetts and the others carefully questioned these villagers, the two of them got more information. Through the collection and analysis of this intelligence, the ship girls found more evidence against Lockhart in this werewolf incident.

For example, the battle broke out late at night, and the villagers, who knew there was danger outside, could only cautiously look out through the windows of their homes. Naturally, this small mountain village does not have many lights, and the phone booth is at the entrance of the village. Therefore, even on a full moon night, it was impossible for those people to see clearly what was happening in the phone booth more than ten meters or even dozens of meters away.

After further questioning, some other villagers said that there was indeed an older and unkempt herbalist who lived on the edge of the village with his three students. However, not long after the village got rid of the werewolf intrusion, the old herbalist seemed to be sick, so his disciples took him to the big city to see a doctor.

The answers of the villagers were consistent with the information that the Kitchen Goddess received from the three wizard apprentices. The three students had told the Kitchen Goddess that when they left, they used the teacher to go to the big city to see a doctor as an excuse to the local villagers.

"This is really unacceptable." After listening to the company's previous investigation of the specific situation through friends, Hermione shook her head in disbelief. "This is a public figure. How can he use this method to deprive others of their credit?"

"What's incredible about this?" Hugo turned his head and looked at his sister and said, "Not everyone is willing to gain wealth and glory through their own struggle. Compared with hard work, there are many People are more willing to resort to certain tricks to achieve their goals, like those who try to cheat on exams.”

"Okay, what you said is indeed right." Hermione spread her hands with a helpless expression, and then asked the company. "Then why don't these victims go to the police, for example, find a judge or an Auror to accuse this man named Lockhart of the criminal acts he has done before, and then let the law punish him."

"Ah, this is indeed a good idea in theory. Because according to wizarding laws, Lockhart's actions are also serious crimes." The company shrugged in a very American style, "But in practice Not so, even considering the identities of those three apprentices, it is extremely difficult to accuse Lockhart."

The company then explained the reason why she said this. Like the courts in the Muggle world here, the courts in the British and American wizarding world also adopt the case law of the maritime law system. In other words, if you have enough money or power, you can use various methods to influence the jury to acquit you.

Under such circumstances, as the most famous writer and star in the wizarding world now. Gilderoy Lockhart had a thousand ways of getting rid of his crimes. And the three voodoo wizard apprentices obviously did not have enough power to seek justice from Lockhart for their teacher through various legal procedures.

"It seems that the wizarding world is no different from the world of ordinary people in this regard." After hearing what the company said, Hermione showed a helpless expression on her face. As a person who is a little precocious and has read a lot of extracurricular A girl who reads books, she naturally learned a lot about the dark side of society from books.

"Yes, this is what our world is really like." Enterprise shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "So now I use my connections to ask them to go to my friends in the UK. Those friends of mine have some special information. Magic should be able to help their master’s current situation.”

"Sounds like good news indeed." Hermione nodded and said. At this time, their ship successfully crossed the ocean and arrived at the habitat of the cloud whale. So they ended the messy content before and started observing this magical animal.

Over the next period of time, they visited various tourist attractions in the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, the two people also completed their summer homework with the guidance and help of the company.

Happy days are always short. When the time came on August 8, they ended their vacation and prepared to fly back to London. But not long after he boarded the passenger plane, Hugo saw a piece of news that shocked him.