Chapter 275: Changing the Method of Death
And the Werewolf Wizard!
Ivan hadn't forgotten Tom that there were a lot of werewolf wizards involved in that battle, and he left behind several werewolf wizards' corpses...
Could it be Walker, Flann, them?
Ivan frowned deeply and continued to torture Joseph, trying to get more information from him.
To Ivan's disappointment, however, Joseph knew very little.
At the time of the attack on the Boginbock store, Joseph happened to be out to listen to the information, and by the time he returned, the battle was already over.
So for more than a month, Joseph has been in a state of disconnection, wandering in Tumbledown Alley to find out what happened that day, and gathering all the other missing people.
Ivan did not give up and poured the remaining black-robed wizards with the elixir, and after asking them one by one, the news they got was almost the same.
No one knows whether Karaktakus Bock is dead or alive now, only that the Ministry of Magic has not found his body.
Looks like I'm going to have to make a trip to the Magic Shop in Borginbock...
Ivan's mind moved slightly, and he was ready to go to the scene to see if he could get any useful clues.
While the effects of the elixir were still working, Ivan finally asked. "How did you confirm my disguise?"
"We sent ten men to attack that dark magic shop, and your answer is wrong," Joseph said sluggishly.
"Ten people in total? But I found only nine bodies of the attackers there. Ivan muttered to himself.
Between questions and answers, Sirius, who was in the audience, gradually figured out the cause and effect, and looked at Ivan with a little more pity in his eyes.
"Don't be too upset, Hals, sooner or later we will find the murderers and kill them all to avenge your mother." Sirius said comfortingly.
"No, there's another possibility!" Ivan interrupted Sirius's reassuring words, there were indeed ten corpses at the time, but...
Thinking of this, Ivan decided to verify it and put a long strand of hair into the bottle containing the compound decoction.
He remembered that in the original time and space, someone had deceived the world and made a person's body be buried as another person, creating the illusion that that person was dead, and successfully deceived everyone...
After debugging, Ivan walked up to the gorgeous witch named Kelly and poured her the potion in his hand.
Ivan's wrists trembled as he poured the medicine, and his eyes watched as the gorgeous witch in front of him began to change shape in front of him.
After a few moments, she changed into another strange witch, with the same hair color as Althea.
Ivan trembled and excited, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed Kelly's face and looked at it carefully.
"What exactly are you going to do?" Sirius looked at Ivan's expression and was confused for a short time, a little worried about whether Ivan was stimulated too much and went crazy.
Ivan ignored Sirius's words and whispered to himself.
Before putting Althea's body in the basement, he had taken a piece of Althea's hair for later use, just to confirm something by this means.
It's just that Ivan has never had the courage to do so, because the time turner can't change the established reality, and once the result is confirmed, the closed loop is completed, and even if you go back to the past, you can't reverse it.
Ivan knew this well, so he even intended to abandon the idea of verification, in which case the result would always be unknown.
And the unknown means that it can be changed... Later, when he uses the time turner to go back in time, he will be able to deflect things the way he intended.
It wasn't until Ivan had just learned from Joseph that there were more attackers than he had imagined, that he remembered this again and made up his mind to verify it.
Because at that time, if the corpses of Althea were also included, there were exactly ten corpses, the same number as the attackers...
"No, that's not enough!" Ivan quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart, because he still had a lot of questions to be confirmed.
Now comes the point...
"Broken bones!" Ivan silently walked behind Kelly and suddenly drew his wand and cast a spell on her back.
The white light hit Kelly's back, and a terrible scream sounded, and the huge pain directly broke Kelly out of her trance.
Before Kelly could resist, Sirius swung her wand, and a cyan spell struck her head, causing Kelly's screams to stop and her body to the ground.
"Enough, Hals! I know you're angry right now, but I hope you'll calm down a bit. Sirius exhorted with a calm face.
Sirius understands Ivan's pain, but he really doesn't want to see Ivan lose himself in hatred.
Whether it was killing or torturing people, Sirius felt that this was not something that a child of Ivan's age should do. If it really had to, Sirius would prefer to do it herself...
"No, I'm not interested in torturing her, I'm just confirming something." Ivan shook his head, then turned to Dobby.
"Dobby, watch him, don't let him mess with him..."
"Yes, sir!" Dobby nodded, his brass bell-sized eyes staring at Sirius' every move, his fingers dancing with the light of magic, ready to knock him unconscious.
"I'm not that easy to deal with," Sirius grinned, and with a wand, he wouldn't be afraid of a house-elf.
However, Sirius hesitated for a while, but still did not interfere with Ivan's follow-up, he was ready to see what Ivan wanted to do.
Instead of torturing or killing the next person as Sirius had imagined, Ivan stared straight at Kelly who was already dead.
Kelly's body lay silently on the ground, lifeless, but the effects of the polyjuice decoction still worked on her.
Ivan wasn't surprised, because it was something he had known for a long time.
Crouch Jr. once said that his mother was imprisoned in Azkaban in his place, and because he had been taking a polyjuice decoction, he did not immediately return to his original form after death, and was finally buried as him.
This means that taking a sufficient amount of a decoction may allow one person to die and maintain the appearance of another person for a short period of time...
As long as he could go back in time, intervene in that battle directly, save Althea, and use the Polyjuice Potion to find someone to die in his place, he would be able to recreate the scene he saw when he returned to the Dark Arts Shop!