Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

"Shacklebolt, maybe you should add another item to your report." Snape, who had been trying to remain silent, suddenly said.

"What?" Kingsley's expression suddenly changed, and he checked again solemnly before saying, "Thank you for reminding me. The remaining magic fluctuations on Delis's body prove that he was controlled by the Imperius Curse before he fainted. ."

The Imperius Curse?Dean's heart moved. This can be explained. No wonder Delis behaved so abnormally - unless he was a Death Eater, an Auror would never attack Muggles and underage wizards easily.

So the question is, when was Delis controlled by the Imperius Curse?What is the purpose of the person who controls him?Why let Delis attack them?

Dean couldn't figure it out for a moment.

At this time, a silver ball of light attracted Dean's attention, and he discovered that it was a huge lynx patron saint.

The lynx Patronus was summoned by Kingsley. After he whispered a few words to the Patronus, the Patronus turned into a ball of silver light and flew away into the distance - it was obvious that Kingsley used the Patronus to send a message to who.

About 5 minutes later, a patron saint of swallows and falcons flew over and brought Kingsley some news.

After receiving the news, Kingsley's expression was obviously relieved: "Mr. Thomas, given our previous findings, your risk level has been judged to be greatly reduced, so you don't have to worry about spending the night in Azkaban tonight."

"I'm glad to see your fair side." Snape's expression became visibly relaxed: "I think this is enough to prove that my students are innocent in the whole incident. - After Delis was under the Imperius Curse It became so dangerous that Mr Thomas and a couple of Muggles would be perfectly understandable in taking him down in self-defence."

Kingsley shook his head and said disapprovingly: "Perhaps the charge of attacking an Auror can be cleared, but it is an indisputable fact that he violated the "Reasonable Restraint of Minor Wizards Act", which cannot be denied for the time being. - So Mr. Thomas still needs to appear before the Ministry of Magic tomorrow."

Snape snorted coldly, and after an embarrassing silence, he said with a straight face: "We'll see."

Kingsley ignored Snape's weirdness and said to Dean seriously: "Mr. Thomas, you need to know that attacking an Auror is a serious illegal act, and it will fully make people aware of your danger. For such a dangerous person, we will always throw him into Azkaban as soon as possible."

After Kingsley finished speaking, he glanced at Snape intentionally or unintentionally and added: "So you must be especially careful. If you show any signs of weakness, the Aurors will come."

"Shacklebolt, when did you Aurors start taking pride in intimidating a young wizard?" Snape asked with a smile.

"Snape, don't forget, see you in the courtroom on the tenth floor underground of the Ministry of Magic at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." Kingsley seemed too lazy to talk to Snape.

"Shacklebolt, I think you should have noticed that several Muggles, this child's family, have been paying attention to this place." Snape reminded.

Behind the door, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas kept looking at them nervously.

"Okay, I'll take care of it." Kingsley nodded and walked towards the door.

"Don't hurt my family!" Dean warned in a serious tone.

"Don't worry, they will just think it's an incredible nightmare." Kingsley finally showed a smile on his face.

"Professor, I think..." Dean wanted to say something else, but was rudely interrupted by Snape.

"Mr. Thomas, don't you think you've caused enough trouble tonight?" Snape yelled in an extremely irritable tone, "I don't understand why you should ask me instead of your headmaster to give trouble to a reckless Gran." Fendo wipes his ass! This is the second time!"

Dean immediately shut his mouth knowingly. He didn't know if Snape and Kingsley were acting, but Dean could clearly feel that Snape's anger was real. Reason told Dean that it was the most important thing at this time. It's better not to continue to irritate him.

By this time Kingsley had already dealt with the Thomas family. He just gently used a sleeping spell and a confusion spell to make them sleep peacefully.

Dean knew that this was the least harmful way to his family, at least it was much stronger than a simple and crude forgetting spell.

"Well, Mr. Thomas, you should be lucky that you have someone else in your bed tonight." Snape pushed Dean, "I will pick you up tomorrow morning and take you to trial in person!"

……

The day before Christmas, it snowed heavily in London.

The biting cold wind did not stop the children from having fun in the thick snow.

However, all this has nothing to do with Dean.

When it was just dawn in the morning, when most people were still lazily enjoying their rare vacation in the warmth of their beds, Snape had already come to the door.

"Hurry up, Dean, this place is not close to the Ministry of Magic. I don't want to be late!" Snape, whose robes were already soaked, apparated directly into Dean's bedroom with a pair of thick black circles under his eyes.

Snape's tone was full of impatience, and Dean seriously suspected that he had been waiting outside the door all night.

"Professor, did you stay up all night? Could it be that you were afraid that I would escape, so you stayed there all night?" Dean asked half-jokingly.

"Dean, not everyone is as laid-back as you..." Snape suddenly stopped talking here, giving Dean the feeling that he was deliberately hiding something.

"Don't worry about your family. They will think you went out shopping with your friends. As long as you can get back before dark, it will be fine - you have to pray that there will be no surprises in today's trial." Snape quickly changed the subject. , his tone was still arrogant, but Dean felt a strong sense of care - Snape had already solved his worries.

"Professor, we can go." After Dean quickly washed and dressed, he said to Snape respectfully.

Even though Snape probably didn't care, Dean had to appreciate it.

"Dean, take my arm now." Snape extended his right hand to Dean.

"Professor, do you want to take me to Apparate to the Ministry of Magic?" Dean asked.

Dean had been "forced" to disembark once before by Mundungus, and Dean had successfully activated "Follower Apparition", so he did not resist Snape's suggestion.

After Dean arrived at Hogwarts, he realized how reckless Mundungus had been. He rashly took a young wizard who had never learned to apparate, which often resulted in the young wizard's entourage failing to apparate, thus losing him. body part.

Dean is still afraid. Maybe he should be grateful that Mundungus's magic is strong enough and his apparation is skilled enough, otherwise Dean will regret it for the rest of his life.