Chapter 440 438 Public Trial at Hogwarts

Chapter 440 438. Public Trial at Hogwarts

"He came to me. The so-called transfer of me from the International Magical Cooperation Department to the Secretary Department of the Minister's Office was for this."

In Dumbledore's office, the old man who was eating pineapple candied fruit said with a smile.

Dumbledore rubbed his brows. He had no free time during this period.

"What did you answer him?"

The old man licked the remaining icing on his fingers and then spread his hands.

"What else can I say? Since he has such great trust in me, I naturally have to tell the truth. Although that thing is difficult to refine, I can't be worse than Snape. However, its difficulty lies in the fact that a lot of materials are needed in the early stage of refining to enhance the feel. If you want to ensure success every time, you must have at least more than 5 times of production experience. If I want me to completely replace the former Snape, he needs to give me time."

Dumbledore asked calmly.

"Then what?"

"Then of course he made me one of the preparations. He had someone who was capable of making this potion and could guarantee loyalty. I was the most suitable person, and there was no one else. Of course, he also stepped up his efforts on Snape's side and made preparations for both situations. He would naturally choose to catch Snape back, and make him willing to serve him again, no matter what method he used."

Speaking of this, the old man wiped his hands and asked incomprehensibly.

"I can't figure out how you can get Snape? Is it really just that his master's abandonment this time made him completely heartbroken? I didn't see how loyal he was before?"

Faced with this question, Dumbledore showed some emotion.

"It's not that he wasn't very loyal before, but that he had never been loyal to anyone. In your eyes, he is cunning, evil, insidious, but all the choices he made are actually very simple, so simple that it is unexpected."

The old man frowned.

"When will you change your bad habit of making people guess?"

"When you no longer need me." Dumbledore smiled and blinked, and stood up from his seat.

The old man also stood up.

"Now that you have settled down in France, some students have seen my name in some information about my position in the UK, what do they think?"

"It hasn't aroused any major suspicion yet, because there are few photos of you. They just think it's someone with the same name. After all, you have been dead for almost three years. Who would think that your death was fake at that time?"

Slughorn, who appeared in France at some point, couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard Dumbledore's words.

"At least my students found it on the spot, didn't they? Now think about it again. I was really scared that night. If you didn't help me get my wand back, I would really be ashamed to be this teacher."

They walked out of the office. There were not many professors and students passing by in the corridor. Even if there were, there was no way to tell who Slughorn was from his current appearance.

Dumbledore walked out of the house with Slughorn, and he said softly.

"Your students have scared everyone over the years. Let's take a look. We had a lot of internal disputes on how to properly deal with these people brought back from the UK. As a result, Jon on the side made a very good suggestion. Some people still have some doubts about this, so we simply use Hogwarts as a pilot. After all, we have brought back many former Hogwarts students this time."

Slughorn nodded and said.

"In fact, if we just punish these pure bloods, it is not a difficult problem. Unless someone deliberately shields them, there will be no problem as long as they are strictly dealt with. The key point is how to solve the bloodline concept brought by the Dark Lord. Although there were disputes over bloodline in the past, they have always been in the dark. Now they have been solidified into policies and have been implemented in the UK for more than ten years. For French wizards, this kind of thinking is not deeply rooted, but for British wizards, it is different."

Dumbledore agreed.

"Yes, you are right. This is also what the students we brought back from Hogwarts Castle have discovered. Pureblood and half-blood students are not arrogant at all, and treat Muggles coldly and cruelly according to their bloodline. As for the senior Muggles brought back from England, our people have tried their best to correct their modified memories these days, but their cowardice and inferiority engraved in their bones and their reverence for bloodline cannot be changed so easily. It is for this reason that many discussions have been held within the Wizarding Horizon. This is just the problem we are facing in France. If we really take back England in the future, how can we guide the ideas of wizards in England who have been ruled by the bloodline class for so long to become normal people?"

"Jon made a very interesting proposal in that meeting. He said that once a habit is formed, it is difficult to change, especially the already formed concept of superiority and inferiority. But we can make use of the trial of purebloods and conduct a large-scale public trial. It is similar to a public court. In front of everyone, each pureblood who has been determined to be guilty will be tried one by one, and the former oppressed will be allowed to publicly tell everyone about the treatment they have suffered as witnesses. In the end, everyone present will decide what kind of punishment the defendant should receive."

After thinking for a long time, Slughorn clapped his hands with emotion.

"Great idea, this should be an emotional release. As long as the oppressors' suppressed emotions are stimulated, no one will want to be a servile slave forever."

"It is estimated that it will start soon. Let's go and take a look first."

Dumbledore led Slughorn to the open space outside the school, which was now surrounded by students.

Among them, it is obvious that there are many different groups with clear realms. The largest number of people are naturally those half-blood and pure-blood students from the former Hogwarts Castle who are classified separately. These people are also obviously divided into two groups. A small part of them are half-blood. They are all those who have been carefully checked and interviewed by the Order of the Phoenix and confirmed that they have not done any evil in the school.

But there is still a large number of people who are being managed by McGuffliev and others at this time, lining up in front of a high platform.

Most of these students are obviously trying to be calm, and some younger students can't even maintain their "bloodline pride" and look around in panic.

The second largest number of people are of course the students in the Hogwarts carriage. There are many chairs arranged around the high platform. They are sitting on these chairs and watching the castle students waiting for the trial whispering to each other.

Next to the carriage students, there were a small number of students who were sitting restlessly. These people were obviously the Muggle students who had been oppressed in Hogwarts Castle. They seemed to be very uncomfortable with the current situation of being openly exposed outside, especially when they were sitting while the pure-blood and half-blood students were standing.

After handing over all the pure-blood and half-blood students whose wands had been confiscated to the sixth and seventh-year students on the carriage, McGonagall, Flitwick and Lupin walked up to the platform and sat at the long table on one side of the platform. The three of them were the final judges, and they were also a guarantee to prevent the students below from being too excited and demanding the highest punishment directly no matter what kind of crime they heard.

Dumbledore and Slughorn, who no one could recognize at this time, sat at the front of the audience. They did not go to be referees, but just came to be the audience of this large-scale social experiment of wizards.

"Jon told me that this method was not invented by him," Dumbledore said softly, "He said that decades ago, some Muggles used this method to stimulate and awaken those who were oppressed and numb."

Slughorn did not speak again, because the public trial had already begun.

McGon acted as the chief judge in this special trial court. After maintaining order on the scene, she announced the start of the trial.

At this time, everyone in the audience fell silent and looked at the first pure-blood student who was brought to the podium.

It was a wizard who looked very old, definitely a seventh-year student who was about to graduate.

He was brought to the podium, without a seat, and stood alone facing everyone else, and everyone's eyes were on him.

This obviously made him more nervous and flustered. He barely maintained a calm expression on his face, but his pale lips and trembling hands showed that he was uneasy.

"Ganos Flint, a former seventh-year pure-blood student at Hogwarts."

McGreg's voice was very cold. She revealed the identity of the student standing on the podium, and at the same time, compared it with the parchment in her hand, she read out the charges he was accused of.

"You are accused of forcing the mixed-blood student Athea Conrad to submit to you, and using Hedda Floyd and others who were also pure-bloods to threaten Miss Conrad with death, to further coerce her, and eventually led to her death, is that right or not?"

After hearing what McGreg said, most of the students in the carriage in the audience below were stunned for a moment.

They hadn't taken this public trial as anything, but just thought it was an alternative and special extracurricular activity. Even if the students in the castle were bad before, how bad could they be?

In any case, Hogwarts Castle was once a school, and there would definitely not be anything that would anger the heavens and the people.

But after hearing the charges against the first pure-blood student on trial, many people found it hard to believe. They didn't expect that the first person to come up would be accused of murder!

Flint denied loudly with a trembling voice.

"No! I didn't do it! We were in love with each other. It was all Freud, that vicious woman who did it!"

There were voices of discussion in the audience, but Mag's face remained unchanged. She continued.

"Bring up the witness."

Soon, three people were brought up from the platform, and all three of them were girls. After they stood on the platform, they were a little embarrassed, especially the two girls who were brought out from the team that was originally going to be tried, who were even more uneasy.

"Willet Starr, Celia Peck, you are all former seventh-year pure-blood students at Hogwarts Castle. In your confessions, you confessed that you had participated in the school violence against Miss Cornelia, and the cause of this violence was because your friend, Miss Floyd, who was not present, was jealous of Miss Cornelia and thought that she had won the favor of Mr. Flint, right?"

The two pale-faced chickens of Floyd nodded like pecking at rice.

"Yes!"

"Does Mr. Flint know about this?"

The two henchmen secretly glanced at Flint standing in the middle of the platform and found that he was also looking at them pleadingly. However, after knowing that they were only accomplices and could reduce their guilt as long as they confessed honestly, the two of them betrayed the former "Master Flint" without hesitation.

"He knew it!" The henchman named Starr shouted, "He knew everything that Floyd had done before. At that time, Conrad had been avoiding him and rejected his love in every possible way!"

The henchman named Peck also shouted.

"I, we heard Flint's friends talk about it. He once boasted to his roommate that he deliberately let Floyd bully Conrad so that he could take advantage of the situation and create the best opportunity for him."

Their confessions caused a round of boos from the audience below, which was a disdain for Flint's previous statement of mutual affection.

And Mag turned his eyes to the last witness.

"Misty Mesa, you were Miss Conrad's roommate. Regarding the relationship between her and Mr. Flint, you testified that she was afraid of Mr. Flint's love."

"Yes, she was very scared!" Mesa seemed to have mustered up all her courage, "In the UK, wizards of different bloodlines cannot marry each other. Even if they just have a relationship, it is a crime for the lower bloodline party! So she has always been very afraid of this, but she can't resist!"

Hearing the testimony of these three people, Flint's face was extremely pale. He knew that his biggest lie had been exposed. The main reason why Asiya fell to that was due to his coercion!

The noise in the audience below became louder. Many of them were denouncing and despising Flint's behavior.

Slughorn, who was sitting in the audience, noticed the reactions of those innocent half-bloods and the former castle punk students who were originally sitting in fear below.

This was not a tragedy between blood and non-blood, but it was more suitable to be put in the first scene as a public trial.