From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Can you explain why you infiltrated Mr. Crouch's house and reported on Mr. Crouch's family style, Ms. Skeeter?"

The interrogator asked Rita a desperate question in a calm tone.

She knew she couldn't clean herself up - her report about Barty Crouch had caused so much harm to the director, and she would have to bear the consequences.

Rita looked desperately at her life-saving straw, or the woman she thought was her life-saving straw not long ago.

Her smile was very secretive, but Rita could recognize it - she had been sparing no effort to build momentum for Umbridge, and Umbridge was giving her a certain amount of protection, but now it seems that their cooperation has failed. .

‘She could obviously send me a message! ’

As the Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic, Umbridge did not send her a useful message during her imprisonment.

Rita doesn't believe Umbridge can't do it - so now it's Umbridge who wants to kill her?

But the trial continued, "Can't you explain, Ms. Skeeter?"

"So, can this court find that you were working for the Death Eaters, secretly providing intelligence to them, and even single-handedly planned the news plan to frame Mr. Barty Crouch after the mysterious man disappeared?"

Such accusations caused the jurors of the Wizengamot to talk about it. At that time, everyone was still a little angry at Mr. Barty, but now, everyone has only sympathy for the unlucky Mr. Barty, let alone the strongman. Not long ago, the commander captured a large number of hidden Death Eaters.

"I didn't! That report was a complete lie! I made it all up, made it up!"

Rita was already in a panic - she had been good at deception all her life, but even she had never thought of such a horrifying slander.

A hidden Death Eater, she single-handedly planned the frame-up plan for the die-hard hawk Crouch. After being charged with this crime, she even did something she had never thought of before - publicly admitted that all her press releases were fabricated. from!

"Made it up? Then why did you use illegal Animagus transformation to sneak into Professor William's house?"

"I...I'll go," Rita found that she couldn't explain. She closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and quickly judged the pros and cons - what would happen if she admitted that she stole the Triwizard Tournament information and sold it?

No - that won't help.

She made a judgment, but it was not something to be happy about. In any case, her crimes were enough to stay in Azkaban for a lifetime.

'Will Umbridge save me? ’

‘No, the crime that brought me to death may have been planned by the deputy minister - it doesn’t matter if it’s not her, I can’t go into Azkaban by myself while she is free outside. ’

There is no death penalty in the British wizarding world. She can already get through Azkaban, and she also has to worry about whether Umbridge will arrange someone to silence her. In this case, it doesn't matter whether she participated in the frame-up.

Why did she have to go to Azkaban and Umbridge have to stay outside?

What's more important is that if Umbridge is also involved, even if she just loses her power, she will not be able to reach into Azkaban to silence her.

She has always believed in herself instead of placing her hopes on others, otherwise she would not turn into a beetle to gather information herself.

Instead of expecting Umbridge to let her go, it would be better to drag down the guy who is most likely to silence her.

She made a difficult decision, then breathed a sigh of relief and began to make simple calculations - fortunately, she had collected enough black information about Umbridge to make this possible.

"I admit it! I'm a Death Eater!"

Rita spoke suddenly, saying something that everyone present could not believe - this tenth interrogation room was almost exclusively used to interrogate Death Eaters, but among so many Death Eaters, either Those who are begging and unwilling to admit it, or those who look arrogant and are too lazy to say anything.

No one has ever openly admitted that he is a Death Eater like he does now.

"Are you a Death Eater?"

"Yes," Rita said without hesitation, "After I left Hogwarts, I was lucky enough to meet my superior and guide, Ms. Dolores Jane Umbridge."

As the name was spoken, Umbridge's expression changed drastically.

"She's lying, I'm not!"

Her voice became extremely urgent - several Ministry of Magic staff members were dug out during the last purge, and in the last purge, several senior officials from the Ministry of Magic were brought in!

"She is! I was bewitched by her and have been following her orders!"

"She is a witch who hates Muggles from the bottom of her heart. She even pretends to be a pure blood!"

Not to be outdone, Rita broke the news - she had found out these things a long time ago, but she had always covered them up for Umbridge. Who would have thought that now they have become so useful?

"Be quiet, be quiet!"

The interrogator shouted, but Umbridge had no intention of stopping - she knew Rita's aggression better than anyone else, and she also knew what she had done.

She even took out her wand and destroyed the clothes on her arms in public, showing off her shirtless body to everyone regardless of the image.

"I don't, I'm not - I don't have the Dark Mark, I'm not a Death Eater!"

"Of course not, neither did I!"

Rita was stunned for a moment and thought quickly - she knew very well that even without the mark, she would still be labeled a Death Eater. In this case, she simply made up a new lie on the spot.

"She told us that because of our special status, we don't need to add the Mark of the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord will personally give us the honor after gaining power from the Ministry of Magic!"

"She gave the order to sneak into Mr. Crouch's office, just to take revenge on Mr. Crouch for his firm opposition to the Dark Lord!"

"She is the most loyal supporter of the Dark Lord. In order to maintain her pure-blood dignity, she even openly denied her relationship with her father, and completely severed her relationship with her Muggle mother and Squib brothers!"

Rita shouted loudly, fearing that she would be interrupted if she spoke slowly.

The jury's eyes were a little unkind - the mysterious man was surrounded by die-hard pure-blood supporters, and Rita said that Umbridge's behavior was indeed a bit like...

"I have sufficient proof that Alford Umbridge is her father, a former employee of the Ministry of Magic and a staff member of the Magic Maintenance Department!"

"Her mother is Ellen Cranell! A Muggle. In order to make herself look more like a pure blood, she completely severed the relationship with her mother and the Squib brother!"

The black material that Rita found was detailed enough, and she quickly added other things that were enough to frame the case.

"She was just an ordinary employee of the Abuse of Magic Office of the Ministry of Magic at first, but she privately alleviated the crimes of those Death Eaters and punished Muggles to satisfy her bad taste, thus gaining the Dark Lord's trust!"

Rita frantically made up half-truths - Umbridge had indeed done these things, but at that time it was a non-public rule to please some purebloods.

But by chance, a lot of Death Eaters appeared among the pure bloods...

"Because of her performance, the Dark Lord gave her great trust and decided to help her climb up in order to obtain more secrets of the Ministry of Magic."

"She was on the verge of becoming head of the office before she was thirty, on the verge of attaining the higher status of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement—but Mr. Barty Crouch stood in her way, in every sense of the word."

Rita begins to concoct lies about herself and Umbridge.

"So, I, who was under Umbridge's care from the beginning to the end, and a Death Eater under her command, began to follow her orders and get to know Mr. Crouch a little bit. Otherwise, why would I, an ordinary reporter, be following her? If you don’t let Mr. Crouch live, you can even break into his home?”

In the jury box, Crouch's face had turned livid now. He stared at Rita unfavorably, and then glanced at Umbridge.

The incident of being stabbed in the back by his son and news reports had always bothered him, but today, he learned the 'truth' about everything.

Compared to Rita's revenge for the Dark Lord's disappearance, he was more inclined to believe that Umbridge planned this incident alone - the Dark Lord has disappeared, how could his conspiracy be so powerful?

Instead, he stayed where he was, blocking Umbridge's path, scheming early, calculating early, and then exploding.

This is the truth - otherwise, how could he fail so quickly?

He originally thought that his competitor was adding insult to injury, but unexpectedly, the ultimate beneficiary was the fast-moving Deputy Minister of Magic!

"Lies, lies, all lies!"

Umbridge started shouting crazily - she always thought Rita's sarcastic words and sharp writing were great, but she never thought that when they fell on her, they were so sharp that they could even penetrate her heart!

But her hysterical shouting didn't have much effect. Rita has always been good at facing the suffering of her victims without changing her face - not to mention that after Umbridge was dragged into the water, she didn't need to worry about silence. , just by biting out a Death Eater, the reduced sentence would be enough for her to expect.

First there was Karkaroff and then there was Malfoy. She knew the deeds of these two people very well. At this point, she did not expect to be able to go out directly. She could just reduce the sentence to the previous ten years.

"quiet!"

The interrogator shouted, "She may not be telling the truth. Please keep the court quiet, Deputy Umbridge - otherwise I will forcibly remove you from the courtroom."

Then, he motioned for Rita to continue speaking - there were many people who flattered Umbridge, but there were also many who looked down on her. By coincidence, he was the latter.

The minister's face must be given, but as for the deputy minister, that's another story.

Umbridge stopped making noise, she stared at Rita, and began to think about how to escape, but Rita didn't pay attention to her gaze.

Rita even began to look at Umbridge with vindictive pleasure, deciding to add the final kick.

"Although the Dark Lord has disappeared, Umbridge and I both have control over each other, so we have carried out abnormal cooperation during this period."

"I wrote enough news stories for her to strengthen her influence, and she reciprocated by designating me as the dedicated reporter for the Ministry of Magic on various occasions."

"But her ambitions were greater than I imagined. About a little more than a year ago, Umbridge came to me and claimed that the current minister Fudge allowed Sirius to escape from prison and escape, so she felt that Fudge The minister is likely to lose the trust of the people."

Fudge, who was still looking surprised at first, now turned gloomy - what he hated the most was the news of Sirius's escape from prison, especially since the other party ran away after he visited the prison. During that time, he was attacked in a very embarrassed manner.

Umbridge's expression began to change dramatically. She was one of Fudge's confidants - so she knew better than others what Fudge hated the most.

If there weren't a bunch of wizards at the scene, she even wanted to pull out her wand and cast an unforgivable curse on Rita over there, but she couldn't do it.

"She began to instruct me to collect some information about Minister Fudge. It was very difficult," Rita forced herself to leave a way to survive. "I worked hard for a long time, but it was all fake news, Ms. Umbridge. Quite unhappy with my progress.”

"She accused me and secretly revealed to me that Professor William had received unprecedented attention from the minister," Rita decided to lie. "So, she asked me to keep an eye on Professor William and let me check it out. Is there any serious illegal power-for-money trading behavior?”

"And the reason I reveal all this is because Ms. Umbridge once showed off to me -" Rita finished the last thread of the web, "that she can command some dementors to do things they won't do at will. If she reveals anything, I'm worried that she will silence her."

"I don't know yet whether this ability was taught to her by the Dark Lord, but I am certain of it."

Rita said her last words and paused.

The court fell silent for a moment, and everyone was no longer paying attention to Rita, but to Umbridge.

Everything is logically explained - Mr. Crouch blocked Umbridge's upward path, so she asked Rita to find a way to discredit Mr. Crouch, so she soared to the top and is now a deputy minister.

But isn’t there someone above the Deputy Minister? It seems that Ms. Umbridge’s desire to pursue progress has become a matter of course.

After all, although Rita said she only had some dirty information about the minister, everyone present knew how much it contained, but they just didn't say it.

First Crouch and then the Minister, all senior officials of the Ministry of Magic. It is difficult to explain why Rita is so brave without an instigator.

"So, what's going on with Dumbledore's information?"

The interrogator ignored the direct contradiction between the minister and the deputy minister and continued to ask questions.

"Umbridge's suggestions can be used to mess up the relationship between Minister Fudge and Dumbledore if necessary."

Rita answered without hesitation.

Fudge's face became even more livid - he had just complained about Dumbledore's reputation during this period, and Umbridge thoughtfully said a lot of bad things about Dumbledore.

At that time, he felt that Umbridge was indeed a suitable helper, but now he saw...