Amelia Burns sighed silently in her heart, maybe Dumbledore is really old? He thought Fudge was like a shabby house that was about to fall, and could be knocked over with a single kick. But don't think that Fudge's house will be ruined. If you go up and kick, a large group of burly men will run out and beat you.
Amelia Burns was certain that Fudge was on his feet with today's resolute handling of Peter Pettigrew. At this time, even if he stood up to impeach Fudge, it would not be able to pose a substantial threat to him, and it would only lead to Fudge's frantic revenge afterwards.
Borns knew that he had found a problem, and the group of people who had allied with him must have also found a problem. When the impeachment was launched, there would only be fewer people who would follow him to impeach, and then the momentum would become weaker...
No impeachment! Amelia Burns made up her mind that unless Fudge's reputation was truly shaken, she would never take action.
But how could Fudge, who is in full swing, suddenly lose his reputation?
...
Veteran Auror Kingsley and new Auror Tonks board the Thestral carriage. The two of them sandwiched Peter, who had been poured in the Living Hell Potion, between them. Outside the carriage, there are a full eight dementors, and they will **** the carriage to Azkaban.
After Tonks and Kingsley got into the carriage, the Thestral carriage started on its own.
At this time, perhaps because of the presence of dementors, the weather in London was getting worse, the whole sky was gloomy, and the sky was no longer raindrops, but snowflakes.
Muggles held up their umbrellas and ran quickly to their destination or went into nearby shops to hide from the snow. Over their heads, a carriage that they could not see was speeding northward.
It will break through the clouds and face the waves to Azkaban, an isolated island in the North Atlantic.
However, when the carriage flew to the sea, the entire team was suddenly enveloped in a large cloud of silver mist, and the dementors around the carriage encountered this cloud of silver mist and fled like insects exposed to light. When the silver mist appeared, Kingsley and Tonks in the carriage also noticed the abnormality.
"Pull out your wand and point it at that guy!" Kingsley yelled at Tonks, pulling out his wand and looking out the window through the glass of the carriage, but the window was already covered by the silver mist, completely obscuring it. Can't see the situation clearly.
At this moment, a large cloud of smoke suddenly erupted from the inside of the carriage, and the smoke completely blocked the sight of the two of them.
"Broken, hurry--cough!" Kingsley realized the enemy's goal and wanted to remind Tonks, but he swallowed a large cloud of smoke with one mouth, and he couldn't help coughing.
At the same time, there seems to be cold wind pouring in around. Kingsley immediately felt bad, the situation was critical, and he couldn't take care of that much anymore. He directly used silent casting, pointing his wand at the location of Peter Pettigrew in his memory, and cast a split spell.
But the scene of blood and flesh did not appear. His spell blew a large hole in the back of the carriage, and more icy air poured in from the outside, sweeping the smoke inside the carriage.
When the unsightly smoke dissipated, Peter Pettigrew, who had been sleeping honestly in his seat, had disappeared, leaving only Kingsley and Tonks looking at each other in the carriage.
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"Connelly, today is a good day - the weather is not good, but that doesn't stop us from having a couple of drinks during the court break, does it? We can discuss Sirius Black's vindication and Pettigrew Pettigrew's Order of Merlin recovery application."
Trials at the Ministry of Magic are not one after another. There will be longer or shorter breaks between trials. After Fudge sentenced Peter to life in prison, he announced a temporary adjournment. The wizards present all gathered together in twos and threes, smoking, drinking tea, and chatting. Fudge was no exception. He was looking for a place to get some fresh air when he saw Dumbledore walking towards him.
Fudge, who received Dumbledore's invitation, showed a flattered expression and immediately agreed.
"Professor Dumbledore, I have a hard time imagining that Peter Pettigrew would betray the Potters - I always thought it was Black - his whole family is Slytherin!" Dumbledore and Fudge looked for a In a secluded place with no one, he took out a kettle full of wine from under his robes and chatted while drinking.
Dumbledore took out a small bag of chocolates and gave Fudge two.
"There is a small chance that the Sorting Hat will put students in the wrong house. I always thought that Black was the wrong one in the group of four, but I didn't expect the Sorting Hat to be wrong." Dumbledore was a little emotional. He admits that many times prejudice is a mountain.
In the latter stages of the Wizarding War, he always felt that there was a ghost in the Order of the Phoenix. The biggest suspect is Sirius Black, a member of the Black family.
Dumbledore himself believed in Sirius, but for the sake of safety, he coldly dealt with Sirius intentionally or unintentionally, and did not give him a very important task.
Sirius's origin did bring him a lot of trouble. His parents were purebloods, his younger brother Regulus Black was a Death Eater, and his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange was a Death Eater elder. With such a group of relatives, how could the people of the Order of the Phoenix be completely at ease with Sirius?
Even one of his best friends, Lupin, is wary of Sirius - even more hilariously, Sirius also feels that there is a ghost in the Order of the Phoenix, and the most suspicious person is the werewolf Lupin...
"Something went wrong, like it put Peter in Gryffindor, making Peter the only Gryffindor who was a Death Eater." Fudge shook the jug in his hand and hiccupped.
"Perhaps Peter was still a qualified Gryffindor when he was in the Sorting House... People can change..." Dumbledore's eyes were filled with grief that could not be concealed.
The Sorting Hat at Hogwarts can hardly go wrong, it sorts young wizards into the house they should go to. But what happens to the little wizard in the process of growing up is beyond the control of a hat.
And is Peter really not brave? Of course not, he is super brave. Not everyone can hide as a rat for twelve years. After his resurrection, he crossed the English Channel alone, traveled across the European continent to Albania to find Voldemort. The hardships involved can be imagined.
Isn't that courage?
While Fudge was chatting with Dumbledore, a paper plane flew into his hands.
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Today is the story of Hesphaestus Gore, the seventh minister of the Ministry of Magic. He is also the second longest serving Minister of Magic in the wizarding world (the longest being Kingsley)
Hesphaestus Gore worked at the Ministry of Magic and became one of the first Aurors at the Ministry after Minister Edrich Diggory established the Auror Recruitment Program.