A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 466: The testimonial of the sparkle

Amelia Bones showed a surprised expression. The monocle on her face was about to slip off. She took it off and wiped the lens.

"Dumbledore, if I read correctly, neither of them has a master..."

Winky has been standing there with a dazed expression, until then, she suddenly screamed: "Winky belongs to the Crouch family! Winky has his own master! His name is Barty Crouch"

"Nope!" Dobby retorted, "Wizards, Mister Barty Crouch set Winky free! Dobby saw it with his own eyes!" Winky closed his eyes and shouted at the top of his voice, "No! No! No!" Dobby shouted louder, "Now Winky is a free elf like Dobby!" He proudly puffed out his chest, and the wizards around him were stunned.

Never seen such a different kind of elf, no, some people have seen it in the "Future World" company, and they turned their heads to Felix.

Felix said calmly: "Dobby used to serve a big family, and when he got free, I gave him a job," he emphasized, "just a job."

"I've heard that the 'Future World' company has a group of weird house elves." A wizard muttered.

Winky was still screaming when Fudge interrupted her rudely, "Little goblin! Your name is Winky? Was Barty Crouch's house-elf?"

"No no no no" Winky was still shouting, she had already started rolling on the ground, tears and snot pouring out of her head, Dobby tried to pull her up, but undoubtedly failed, he stood in front of Winky, helplessly Waving her slender arms, "Yes! Her name is Winky, and my name is Dobby."

"Dumbledore, you want them to testify? House-elves are not to be trusted"

"I don't think so," Dumbledore said with a smile. "From the clothes on them, it can be seen that their will is entirely their own, and there is no need to worry that they will be bound by a magical contract that cannot be broken."

Fudge stared at Winky rolling on the ground, "Are you sure? Except for an extra dress, she is no different from other house elves."

"Dobby, you can first talk about what happened that night," Felix said, "only what you saw in Crouch's old house."

"Oh, of course! Dobby would love it!" Dobby quickly recounted what happened that night. He only mentioned the cold voice and Crouch's abnormal behavior, but those present believed it. For the most part, at least they almost confirmed that Crouch was indeed controlled by someone, and that person was not Crouch Jr. He was still at Hogwarts at the time.

While Dobby was talking, Winky gradually fell silent, sobbing softly.

"He didn't mention that person." Amelia Bones glanced at the record quickly and raised her head to ask.

"Dobby is an outsider, if it wasn't for inviting friends to spend Christmas together, he has nothing to do with this matter," Felix said, "As for more information" he looked at the elf sitting on the ground, Said gently: "Winky, your testimony is very useful, at least it can prove that Mr. Barty Crouch is not an evil lunatic."

"The master is not crazy!" Shining shouted hoarsely, "He has been under a terrible magic!"

"So Winky? What's the name? Can you be more specific?" asked Amelia Bones. "If the truth is otherwise hidden, I can consider retrialing Barty Crouch."

"Will the master be released?" Winky asked excitedly, she finally stopped going crazy.

"Impossible!" cried Fudge. "Impossible." He said it again, and Ms. Bones gave him a reproachful look, then turned to Winky and said, "Acquittal . . . is unlikely, But we will reconsider his sentence, you know, he was originally in prison for life."

Shining's eyes were shining with hope, "Xingying...Xingying is willing to testify."

"A year ago... the master was still at work, a man broke in suddenly, he subdued me and released Master Batty"

"Who is that man?" Ms. Burns asked sharply.

"It's a man named 'Peter' who can turn into a mouse, Winky has seen that before!" squealed Winky, and the wizards present exchanged glances, and someone whispered, "Peter Pettigrew." Winky continued to describe his appearance, "Short, fat, a little bald... and a pair of small eyes..." She took a sneak look at Fudge, and whispered, "It's a bit like this wizard."

Fudge's chest heaved violently, like an ancient bellows, and seemed about to explode.

"Short, fat...and a bit bald..." Ms. Burns couldn't help but repeat, the wand outlined a person in the air, "Is that him?" The portrait in midair was Peter Pettigrew.

"It's him!" Winky confirmed, and mentioned an important message, "He's holding an ugly baby, and he still calls that baby the master!"

There was a loud gasp in the conference room.

"Are you sure it's a baby?" Ms. Burns asked seriously.

"Yes, yes!" Winky stammered, not daring to look at her, "It's a very, very...very ugly baby!"

"When the master came back at night, Master Batty got the magic wand for a long time. He hid under the invisibility cloak and attacked him when the master lifted the clothes." Winky panted, and said painfully: "Oh, Ba Dee this bad boy, he brought back a bad friend!"

"We know, what's next?"

"After that, after...the master was controlled, and he went to work as usual, and Winky thought there was no problem, my God!" Winky let out a mournful cry, and tears fell like beans, "Winky still takes care of them, cooks for them... ..."

"Maybe it's the Confusion Charm," Felix said.

"Later, they inadvertently mentioned that they planned to sneak attack on someone, and wanted to enter the school instead of him to complete a dangerous task"

"What task?"

Winky's eyes widened. "Xinky doesn't know! When they were discussing things, Winky was ordered to go back to her place. Winky is an elf who obeys orders, and Winky is a very good elf!"

"Very well, we can roughly guess who it is, Alastor is really unlucky. Go on, what else do you know?"

"The man named Peter disappeared, and it is said that he was arrested. Afterwards, Master Batty also left, and came back every ten days. Winky was in charge of taking care of the baby, Winky..." She suddenly showed a terrified expression, " Winky sometimes sees that baby tormenting the owner! Winky is just watching! Oh my God!"

She covered her face with tears streaming from between her fingers.

"Let's go here." Felix said, and he motioned to Dobby, who nodded and pulled Winky away with a "poof".

The office was enveloped in an extremely oppressive silence.

"You should let her finish," said Amelia Bones, looking at Felix disapprovingly.

"All that needs to be said, if you want to hear someone's name, or the overall plan, unfortunately, you heard it too, she has limited knowledge. In fact, you did have a chance once, That's Peter Pettigrew...unfortunately, he was sucked out of his soul by a dementor."

Fudge stared at him and said word by word: "That little elf has also been cursed."

"I can't pretend it didn't happen," Felix said. "It should be the Confusion Curse. Voldemort seems to have underestimated the house-elves and thought the Confusion Curse was enough, or she was going to be disposed of in the end. It's not worth wasting time. But in short, Winky has not been tampered with memory, if there is any objection to this, you can arrange for a therapist from St. Mungo's to check."

Fudge was stunned for a while, then suddenly lost his temper, "Another specious evidence! All of them! I don't know what is the point of our discussion today!"

"Connelly," Dumbledore said wearily, "I raised this issue not to negate or subvert anything, but to remind something. We discussed this matter in private, but you For some reasons, you refuse to believe the existing evidence, you should know how much we lost in the last war, do you want to experience another war that was caught off guard?"

"I'm not you" Fudge was dumbfounded.

"A key question is, do you know what you're doing, Minister Fudge?" Felix said softly.

"What do you mean?" Fudge turned liver-colored.

"Let's make a hypothesis." Felix tilted his head in the direction of Amelia Burns with interest in a way of exploring the problem, "Please also Ms. Burns and the people present Be a witness"

Ms. Burns fiddled with her monocle ~IndoMTL.com~ to get a better view of Felix.

"We heard two diametrically opposing views today, each in conflict, but time will tell who is right. It's just that... we need to ask ourselves, if war does happen, does someone need to Responsible for this"

"Nonsense!" cried Fudge. "Do you know what you're talking about? Blaming a Minister for Magic, who ordered you to do that?" Dumbledore moved between.

"That's the same sentence, Minister Fudge...I know what I'm talking about, but you don't seem to understand what you're doing." Felix said with a smile, "The above is just a hypothesis, to discuss a possibility for the future, Isn't it?"

"I really don't have the ability to let an incumbent Minister of Magic step down or accept punishment." He said contemptuously, Fudge is about to die of anger now, no one has threatened him so blatantly, yes, he Take Felix's words as a blatant threat.

“…But everyone is responsible for what he says and does, especially those in power,” Felix said. You can put your thoughts in your heart, and when everything is clear, you will naturally know who to support and who to deny."