From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Next test, high temperature!"

In the empty classroom, the four warriors were still carefully deciphering the secret hidden in the golden egg.

On the table in the middle of the classroom, the golden egg that had undergone hundreds of experiments had shrunk by about a small circle, and the booklet in front of Harry and the others was already densely packed with various test results.

The four people nodded at the same time, and then, a blazing flame burned violently in the center of the table.

After about five minutes, everyone nodded at the same time and put away their wands.

Nancy quickly summarized the test results, "The blazing spell cannot have an effect - it is speculated that the temperature may not be enough or the key to unlocking the golden egg is not in this area."

"Put the highly destructive high-temperature experiments at the back. What's next, Potter?"

Harry wrote down the results as he turned to the next item, "Based on the results we discussed last night, the next test is to soak them in water - but this must be done after the golden egg has cooled."

"It seems that we can take a rest." Meng Tai took off the protection and took a long breath. "I don't know how the other school's warriors are doing their research. We have triggered five different kinds of weapons these days. It’s a trap!”

"The first was the golden snitch logo, then the wand logo, then the evil curse that filled people's ears with buzzing, and the two curses that we completely protected but didn't understand the effects of..."

Cedric pulled up a chair and said in a voice that sounded like he was mumbling to himself, "What does it mean? I always feel that these curses hide some message."

"I am more inclined to think that it is an invalid message, and it is completely used by the professor to distract and teach those warriors who are not paying attention."

"The real secret must be hidden inside the golden egg. We just need to successfully open it!"

Montague waved his hand and emphasized his tone. As he spoke, he turned to look at Harry, "Potter, what do you think?"

After getting along with each other for a while, Harry barely gained everyone's recognition with his keen sense of smell. Although he was inferior in terms of spell strength and knowledge reserve, he could often come up with some interesting but practical solutions. .

As for Nancy, he had no intention of persuading - it is not easy to convince a Ravenclaw. The more outstanding a Ravenclaw is, the more unique his way of looking at and handling problems will be, unless you can use iron The facts are before them, but this is often impossible to do, because in most cases, the Ravenclaws are always on the right side.

"I don't support any conjecture before there are enough results——"

Nancy, who was thinking deeply, raised her head and said, "The current temperature of the golden egg should not be destroyed in the water. Let's start the next test."

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"The next trial will begin immediately."

In the courtroom, the Wizengamot team, who had taken a short break and were just about to start the preparatory process for trying the prisoners, were stopped by a Ministry of Magic employee who walked in hurriedly.

"The tenth courtroom?"

The interrogator frowned after listening to what the employee of the Legal Enforcement Department of the Ministry of Magic said.

"Hasn't it been inactive for a long time since it was activated again this summer - and another Death Eater was caught? My God, there are so many fish that slipped through the net."

"Probably not - I just received a notice that the place has been temporarily activated again, and Minister Fudge is also here."

"Fudge to be the interrogator? Great - I'll be there to sit in."

The Wizengamot is the highest court in the wizarding world, and it is almost the only court - the reason why it is almost the same is because some small cases do not require the Wizengamot at all, and the Strikers can handle them enough.

Specifically it is an organization that predates the Ministry of Magic and now serves as a combination of the Courts and Parliament. Composed of approximately fifty members, the highest officer is known as the Chief Magician of the Wizengamot - the current Chief Magician is Albus Dumbledore.

Obviously, Dumbledore, who even Professor McGonagall couldn't catch at all times, naturally couldn't confirm his attendance at every trial - to be precise, most members of the Wizengamot couldn't attend the trial on time, because of his Its members include the Minister of Magic, Deputy Ministers and various top figures in the wizarding world.

Generally speaking, a trial is held once a month, and then an interrogator and a clerk plus seventeen juries, a total of nineteen people, are tried. This is usually used for cases that require a long period of time in Azkaban. offense.

After all, in Azkaban, you can simply go in for a few days without dying inside, but if you are detained for a long time, no one knows whether the other person will come out alive.

This power may be considered huge in the eyes of ordinary wizards, but for these top wizards, it is a very happy thing to be able to pass the work to Fudge.

"No, Minister Fudge is just here to observe. It is said that there are many more people on the jury this time, there may be more than thirty people."

"It's just..."

The interrogator complained, "Well, they all like to be lazy, and by the way - is Dumbledore here?"

"No, I haven't heard anything about Dumbledore coming."

"It seems that the problem is not big," the interrogator shook his head, "but if the problem is not big, why use the tenth interrogation room? The last time it was used, it was used to interrogate Death Eaters."

"Then I don't know."

The staff of the Ministry of Magic shook his head and left quickly - he still had to see how the facilities over there were and whether they needed repairs.

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"Rita Skeeter, it's time for your interrogation."

Rita, who had heard that she was going to be tried early in the morning, finally felt relieved - the damn detention was finally about to end and a formal trial was held.

During this period, she was imprisoned in a temporary prison used by Aurors to imprison the most vicious dark wizards, and she could not get any information.

Some of the relationships she was originally quite proud of could not fit into the Auror office at all - the selection threshold for Aurors was much higher than that of other departments within the ministry, and they had gone through a series of devilish training after joining, and they had superb strength and outstanding achievements, except for Apart from the director of his own office, he doesn't even have much respect for the Minister of Magic.

This caused Rita to suddenly become extremely worried about gains and losses after being confident for a few days before being imprisoned.

Some days, she even worried whether she would be forgotten and spend the rest of her life in this damn little prison - if Mad-Eye had forced it, she felt that was entirely possible.

After a long enough period of time, she began to seriously reflect on what she had experienced during this period.

She didn't think she had done anything wrong - before she went to Hogwarts, she realized that some of the lies being told could bring huge benefits to her.

Sometimes people don't care about the truth, but they desperately want the truth to be what they think it is.

At the beginning, she just made up some rumors in the hospital to get everyone's attention - for example, so-and-so was dating so-and-so, they must be very suitable, or so-and-so was secretly embarrassing someone somewhere, thinking that no one see.

But although everyone likes such rumors, they are easy to see through - many Ravenclaw students found flaws in the fabricated stories, and they began to reject Rita, but her stories attracted Her supporters, however, stood by her unswervingly.

She realized that the momentum was wrong, so she pretended to be bullied and became taciturn.

The guy who was originally eloquent and popular with everyone suddenly became taciturn, instantly attracting many sympathizers. And those who exposed the flaw in the story lost interest in pursuing the investigation when Rita repeatedly pretended to be dead, leaving her so quiet. became silent.

However, she didn't just respond to everyone's questions with silence - before she awakened and responded with silence, she had already discovered her biggest shortcoming in simply weaving stories.

That is - she has no real secret that can scare the person involved, no truth that can scare the other person!

She found the key and began trying to open the most powerful lock - Animagus transformation.

What she wants to do is to spy on a person in the most inconspicuous way, thereby digging out the secrets hidden deep in his heart and soul.

That paranoid persistence and superior talent finally allowed her to open the lock.

Afterwards, it was a hearty life from beginning to end.

Rita could dream about that success every night in the temporary prison - strange, why had she never recalled this during her smooth success before?

'First, we successfully found out the little secrets of the provocateurs, and then gradually spread them, making them embarrassed in front of the students. We still don't know why they were discovered. ’

‘Then I graduated. With my excellent grades and the recommendations of several friends, I went to work as an intern reporter at the Daily Prophet when I was in seventh grade. ’

"What a wonderful day. It made big news just after graduation... That idiot didn't even find out why he stepped down in the end."

Rita giggled, making the batter next to her who was responsible for escorting the prisoners look extremely ugly.

'Well, the report about Old Barty is probably what made me famous. My article describing the terrible education in that family had a huge effect. That guy could have been the Minister of Magic...'

She was only thirty years old at the time. She became famous in one battle and directly became the chief reporter of the Daily Prophet and the official collaborator of the Ministry of Magic.

Sometimes, she even dared to use some remarks to make the Ministry of Magic officials unable to come to the stage - but what does that matter? She knows better than anyone else that the Ministry of Magic is more than one person's Ministry of Magic. She can make some officials unable to come to the stage in exchange for her news. Authenticity and authority are things that her network likes to see.

How could anyone doubt that a reporter who was attacking Ministry of Magic employees in one story was being phony in his next praising report?

Not to mention, she will occasionally break big news, the kind that is quite reliable in authenticity.

Sometimes she even thinks she is above the Ministry of Magic - even Fudge has to rely on her to flatter him, doesn't he?

Dumbledore was reportedly ridiculed, so what?

Her supporters won't be offended - they think that's real enough.

'How wonderful...Why did you meet such a monster?'

She couldn't help but shudder.

She still deeply remembers the wizard who even wanted to destroy her own house, that madman!

It was just a beetle, and that madman almost demolished the house!

Her dream, her journalism career, her unfinished book that will give her the highest honor - a book used to attack Dumbledore, the most powerful white wizard, and a book used to attack Fudge, the most powerful former minister in the wizarding world. !

‘Why did it become like this? ’

"Walk faster, Rita."

Striker's tone was full of unkindness - he was an admirer of Dumbledore and was quite dissatisfied with Rita's description of Dumbledore as a madman.

Not to mention that she tried to discredit Mad-Eye, which is even more unforgivable.

"This is not the route to the Inquisition."

Rita was stunned for a moment, realizing something was wrong.

"It's right here. You came here to spend your summer vacation - and your proud photographer kept scolding us that the light here is too dark."

‘Summer vacation? ’

Rita was stunned for a moment - she had come to the Ministry of Magic so many times that she couldn't even count them.

‘Summer, summer…it’s the tenth courtroom! ’

She shuddered and came to her senses completely - that place had been sealed, and the meeting during the summer vacation was only used to convict the Death Eaters who had slipped through the net!

"I remembered?"

The batter's face was full of smiles, and he and his companions directly pressed Rita, whose face was full of fear, into that side - he did it on purpose, and the effect was good.

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"You illegally used Animagus transformation and then illegally sneaked into Professor William's office, right?"

The interrogator's words were cold and emotionless, but Rita had no time to notice that at the moment.

There were nearly forty members of the Wizengamot at the scene - this was almost the second largest lineup after interrogating Death Eaters, and she really began to panic.

Umbridge, who had supported her from beginning to end, stood there with a blank expression on her face. She no longer had her usual smile or warm welcome.

Judging from the gloomy look on her face, Rita thought that instead of trying to save her, she was adding insult to injury and hoping to lock herself into Azkaban as soon as possible.

"defendant?"

The interrogator's voice increased.

"Yes, but I was just trying to eavesdrop on some news about the Triwizard Tournament."

Rita tried hard to exonerate herself - although she still called those professors crazy, she had to thank them for threatening them with the heaviest punishment.

"Okay, it looks like the defendant admitted this."

The interrogator nodded and started the next question.

…

'fine…'

Rita breathed a sigh of relief. According to the previous momentum, plus what if Umbridge helped a little bit, then...

"Defendant, did you illegally sneak into Mr. Barty Crouch's home and do what you did..."

A sudden problem awakened Rita - illegally sneaking into the home of Crouch, who was then the director of the Department of Law Enforcement?

What a joke!

However, her defense became very weak. Since she could sneak into the professor's house, there would be no problem with the director's house.

That is to say, the other party is a senior official of the Ministry of Magic who is clearly fighting the Death Eaters. He has the most elite Auror office under his command, and he is also a popular candidate to be the next minister...

It's not a big problem, anyway, the Death Eaters must be trying their best to sneak in there.

A smile appeared on Umbridge's face - she finally managed to complete the fatal blow according to Minister Fudge's wishes, without involving the Minister, and at the same time completed the task...

However, Rita noticed the smile on her lips.

To be precise, it was Rita who was hit by this crime and fell into the abyss.