[Comprehensive] The Wizard and the Fugitive

The sound of Hermione slamming the door and leaving echoed in the silent minister's office. Several secretaries outside looked at each other. Before they could relax, they saw Mr. Minister come out with a sullen face.

"All arrangements for this morning are cancelled. If anyone comes to see me, just say that I'm not here." Kingsley ordered word by word, and no matter how dull he was, he could hear his suppressed anger.Several secretaries looked at each other stupidly, and finally issued a bold reminder: "There is an international conference this morning."

Kingsley stared at the secretary: "Is there any word I can't understand?"

The secretaries shook their heads in unison, fearing that they would bring Mr. Minister's anger onto themselves and become an innocent punching bag if they were a second late in expressing their views.

"That's it." Kingsley nodded, went back to his office, locked the door, and quickly returned to his home through the fireplace.

Moriarty was lazily lying on the sofa, enjoying the butterbeer of the wizarding world, and studying the moving photos in the newspaper over and over again. Kingsley's sudden appearance surprised him for a moment, but he soon regained his composure.

"Those three people went to look for you again?" Before Kingsley could speak, he had already guessed: "No. They wouldn't choose to meet you early in the morning, those two boys are not the type to get up early .It was you who met the girl alone before they came to you. Do you think it is possible to win her over to your side?"

Kingsley froze for a moment: "How do you know?"

Moriarty shrugged casually, did not answer this question, and continued: "That girl can't help you, she will just let you drive Muggle criminals out of the wizarding world quickly..." Speaking of this, he exaggerated With a look of sudden realization, he slapped his hands suddenly: "Yes, you came back in a hurry just for this."

Before Kingsley could say a word, he had already guessed everything that happened in the morning, and Moriarty Xiaolu shocked him with one hand, completely determined to keep this helper.

"Since you've guessed it all, what should we do now?" He waited eagerly for Moriarty's answer, and unconsciously handed over the position of decision-making.

Moriarty raised the corners of his lips, and the topic suddenly changed, and it became Kingsley's most concerned issue all the time: "It's not difficult to deal with Malfoy, since he has been freed of the charge of Death Eater, then we will specialize in dealing with Malfoy." Make him a new one."

The consulting criminal who can disturb the wind and rain everywhere smiled excitedly, but Mr. Minister, who was exposed to conspiracies and tricks for the first time, was still in a daze facing the rapidly changing topic, struggling to understand what it meant to create a special charge.

His bewildered look made Moriarty couldn't help showing a little sympathy for his mind that couldn't turn a corner. He patted him on the shoulder and said simply: "Leave this problem to me. What you have to do is another thing."

"What?" Kingsley asked immediately, looking like a kid who was looking forward to his own task, completely obeying the teacher's instructions.

"I've read a lot of potions textbooks in the past two days." Moriarty took out a parchment notebook, which he started to record after entering the magic world. It was full of content about Veritaserum and memory spells.He flipped the note to the middle, pointed to one of the specially circled lines and said, "As long as Malfoy drinks Veritaserum, he can only tell the truth, right?"

Kingsley nodded: "But he's still lying, I don't understand what's going on."

"What if he didn't lie?" Moriarty waved his hand to Kingsley who wanted to refute, signaling him not to worry, and then asked the next question: "What if he thinks he's telling the truth?"

Kingsley raised his eyebrows: "You mean, he can fool himself?"

Moriarty nodded: "As far as I know, there is a spell in the magic world called 'memory modification'..."

"That's impossible." Kingsley interrupted without hesitation, his expression full of clear disdain: "If Draco Malfoy had such a great ability, I'm afraid he wouldn't work for the Dark Lord .”

Moriarty, who has already studied memory magic, nodded in agreement: "It's true that Malfoy can't do it, but someone can." He grabbed the Daily Prophet aside, and pointed to a piece of Draco's photo.The gentle and silent man next to the boy, who always followed like a guard but never had a sense of presence, was finally seen by Kingsley.

"You mean him?" Kingsley raised his eyebrows in surprise, suspecting that Moriarty was guessing as a Muggle.The man in the photo looked like a Hufflepuff at first glance, how could he have practiced such advanced black magic as "memory modification"!

However, no matter how many reasons Kingsley had to rule out the suspicion of this person, Moriarty's fear would never diminish.He knew that the owner of this face had a well-known codename in the Muggle world——Thanatos, and had a family with a deep background as the backing.This person's status in the scavenger world is like a king on the altar. He shouldn't have appeared in the magic world, but since he is also a wizard, he must not be just an ordinary ant.

"I only know his name is William Schiller." Moriarty said casually, but carefully watched Kingsley's reaction.

Just as he guessed, as soon as William's name was uttered, Kingsley stood up abruptly, stared at him in shock, and shouted: "What did you say his name was?"

"William Schiller, a Norwegian." Moriarty repeated lightly.

"This is impossible..." Kingsley muttered to himself, and fell back into the chair exhausted.

Moriarty ignored his reaction, and continued: "The book says that the aftereffects of memory spells are exaggerated. Malfoy's brain must be very fragile now. Magic should easily make him completely collapse, right?"

"Should..." Kingsley barely kept up with his train of thought and muttered to himself.

"That's easy," Moriarty shrugged, "We don't need to risk killing him, we just need a little trick to make Slytherin think that he is completely fooled by the aftereffects of memory magic." .”

Speaking of this, he suddenly grinned and showed an exaggerated smirk: "Can you guess whether the remaining Slytherins will continue to concentrate on dealing with the Ministry of Magic, or they will mess up and fight against William Schiller first?" ?”

Kingsley fell silent, and took a while to speak: "There is only one question, how to avoid Schiller and attack Malfoy?"

Moriarty smiled: "There will be a chance, they can't stick together forever."

Kingsley nodded, finally recovered, and then remembered the most important thing when he came home: "By the way, Hermione still said today..."

"A deadline for me to leave?" Moriarty continued, "Can magic locate Muggles?"

Kingsley froze for a moment: "Probably not."

Moriarty shrugged indifferently: "That's it, I will move to Diagon Alley, just treat it as if I have already left."