Ravenclaw's Sapphire

"Don't try to resist, Siegel, so we can all be safe." Under Fudge's signal, the Auror who was pressing Zoe stopped his wand not far above her head.Fudge yelled in pain, he couldn't hold Hermione, and Hermione pointed her wand straight at the Auror, and the other Auror also pointed her wand at her, and the atmosphere of the scene was explosive.

"Let, let go of her." Hermione's voice trembled, and her expression told everyone that she was completely overwhelmed now, but she couldn't relax at all, "Put your wand off her head! You Don't you know if something goes wrong..." She gasped for air before finishing her sentence.

"Do you know what you're doing, Miss Granger!" growled Fudge, grabbing Hermione's arm and pulling her wand away, "Are you trying to attack a Ministry of Magic official? Do you want to go to Azkaban hand in hand and go to jail together! Don't throw your own future on such trivial things, it's not worth it..."

"Small, small thing?...Mr. Minister, do you think this is just a small thing?" Hermione glared at him angrily, her emotions were obviously out of control, "Zoe is still a wounded person, and she just escaped from danger! You guys How dare you treat her like this?! Do you think she is a beast!"

I don't know how long it took before Fudge said to the Auror: "... let go of her first." Then he looked at the others helplessly, "Put down your wands! Do you think this is a battlefield?" Luna and Draco Only then did she put down her wand and ran to the panting Zoe. Hermione struggled a bit, but did not break free.At last Fudge let her go, and she hurried to the bed.

"Is there some misunderstanding..." Mr. Digory came over and looked at Fudge nervously.

"There's nothing to misunderstand, Amos, you're just kept in the dark." Fudge rubbed his hands, "Look at that man, do you have any impression?" Mr. Diggory looked at the tied up man and frowned. Shaking his head hesitantly.

"You can't recognize him? No wonder, he's very different from before, isn't it?" said Fudge.Mr. Diggory thought a little uncertainly. "I always think that face looks familiar..."

"Isn't it a bit like Barty?" Mr. Diggory suddenly realized, and then opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"That's Barty Crouch too, but not the old one." Fudge gritted his teeth, "We were all put together by him."

"But, Minister... Barty Jr. should have..." Fudge nodded. "Yeah, we all thought he was dead, in Azkaban, but the reason why Cedric and Harry were teleported to other places and encountered danger was because of this guy!" He found that Mr. Diggory was not Believe what he said, and continued, "These are all told by him who drank Veritaserum."

"He used Alastor Moody's identity, lurked in Hogwarts and waited for an opportunity to throw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire, making him the fourth warrior, and then even manipulated the trophy to turn it into Portkey... Not to mention that this damn bastard actually shot his biological father and used him as one of the pawns of the Ministry of Magic... This kind of crime has already cost him three lifetimes in Azkaban! said Fudge.

"But..." asked Mr. Diggory strangely, "why would he do that? Besides, what does it have to do with Siegel?"

Fudge waved his hand: "How do I know what a lunatic really thinks? According to him, he wanted to meet his master, but in my opinion, this is complete nonsense! That person who can't even say his name is already in the past Disaster... But what I can confirm is that he must have been bewitched by someone to do this, a person who is powerful enough to instruct him and who can make him willing to work for him... You now know what I'm talking about Anything?" He looked into Mr Diggory's shocked face with satisfaction.

"However, Minister..." At this moment, Mrs. Diggory also came over, "Is this decision somewhat hasty? I heard from Seid that Miss Siegel is not a prisoner, but a victim just like them... ...Besides," she exchanged an anxious glance with her husband, "Sed said he saw it, too, that You-Know-Who . . . has returned."

"... Ma'am, are you questioning me?" Fudge's chest rose and fell rapidly, appearing very excited. "That's not true, Minister. It's just that the Ministry will make mistakes when issuing arrest warrants... You must have heard a similar answer from the other party." Mrs. Diggory said softly.

"Yeah, Harry has said similar nonsense... But think about it carefully, if they are facing a mysterious person, how can they come back alive? Those wizards who are much stronger than them are all there Lost their lives in the catastrophe. Potter said that he resonated with the wand of the mysterious man. How could I believe this kind of joke! Cedric must have been deceived. I suggest you take him to check if there is any similar The spell hits..."

"This..." Mr. Diggory gave it a go, he couldn't resist Fudge too much, he was his boss after all, "but I also ask you to consider similar possibilities, if that is the truth, then maybe we can do something Some precautions..."

"Amos, your tone sounds a lot like Dumbledore." Fudge sneered, "You're all tired of the easy life, aren't you? Feeling that spreading rumors that will cause people to panic for no reason makes everyone Is it fun to worry about tomorrow? It's a responsibility, Amos! During my tenure, there was such a widespread panic that disrupted this peaceful life, I would be fired Yes!" He slammed the cabinet and said fiercely.

"We can't ignore it, Minister. Even if it may be a lie, let it be that. But Miss Siegel saved Seid's life, we must speak for her, please calm down." Mr. Diggory said When he was about to back down, his wife said softly, and Fudge took a deep breath to keep himself from losing control.

"The Ministry of Magic is not unreasonable, ma'am, please forgive me." He lifted the top hat on his head, "If we didn't have some information, we would not have found Siegel."

"As I said before, this man—Barty Crouch Jr. confessed everything he knew. Dumbledore and the others interrogated him in Moody's office. Harry did it—the fiend! They gave him Veritaserum, and I was over there when they were more than halfway through." Fudge lowered his voice.

"Do you know what else he confessed besides those crazy words that he thought were the truth?"

"Let me tell you next, Connelly? To save you from continuing to instill some biased ideas on the Diggory couple..." An angry voice came from outside the house, and the Auror holding Barty Jr. Don't step aside to avoid being hit by Dumbledore.Dumbledore's old politeness and intimacy completely disappeared, his eyes burst into astonishing anger, Snape followed behind him, glanced at Zoe who was surrounded by him, and then retracted line of sight.

"I thought we had already reached a conclusion, Dumbledore." Fudge said, "This is what Barty Jr. told himself. You can never think that he is lying! There are no lies under Veritaserum!"

"I also thought you would think carefully about the details and irrationality, instead of rushing over to try to catch the real culprit - Barty spit out 'Max' instead of ' Zoe', why don't you want to admit that these are two different people?"

"Ha! You want to say he didn't lie? Ridiculous, Max Siegel is dead long ago! That's what you reported to the then Minister for Magic! You were the last person to see her, weren't you? And how similar this girl is to her mother, except for the eyes, it can even be said to be exactly the same!" Fudge pointed at Zoe and growled, "Since Max is dead, tell me what he said is always Who is that ghost assisting the plan! It can only be her daughter, it can only be Zoe Siegel, and it cannot be anyone else!"