Tenth Inquisition of the Ministry of Magic.

At this moment, everyone, including Scott, was looking at the closed door.

In full view of everyone, the door was pushed open, and a tall, thin middle-aged wizard walked in through the door.

He wore a fur-trimmed robe, had short white hair, and had a thin chin with a goatee with small curls at the ends.

"It's you!"

Mr. Rohr, who was holding his wife, was surprised to say the name of the person who had come.

"Igor Karkarov!"

Hearing this name, Scott couldn't help but frown.

Karkaroff's appearance caused a commotion in the courtroom.

If Carlo's request to call witnesses in his favor was unexpected enough, the identity of the witness who then walked into the courtroom was undoubtedly even more unexpected.

Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is a betrayed Death Eater, and there are many people present who know his details.

Scott also heard the chatter of the people around him.

"Karkaroff? How could it be him? ”

"In the beginning, in order to get away with his crimes, he confessed many of his fellow Death Eaters to Crouch."

Scott also heard about Karkaroff's deeds.

It stands to reason that now that Voldemort has gradually surfaced behind the scenes, Karkaroff, a former traitor, should be far away.

No one expected him to be here, to be an exonerated witness to the offspring of a Death Eater who committed murder.

Of course, maybe it's because they've been threatened.

Scott watched coldly as Karkaroff below walked forward quickly and stood beside Carlo on trial.

"I'm against it!"

At that moment, Caitlin Rohr's father, Mr. Rohr, spoke loudly.

"Presiding Judge, I am against Karkaroff as a witness! As we all know, he was just a Death Eater who got away with it! ”

As Mr. Rohr spoke, the courtroom fell silent.

At this moment, the eyes of everyone present were looking at Fudge, who was the presiding judge, waiting for him to speak.

But at the moment, Fudge obviously didn't have any ideas.

He subconsciously looked at Bones and Dumbledore sitting around him.

"Let's hear what Karkaroff has to say." Bones, wearing one-sided glasses, spoke.

Dumbledore also said, "After he finishes his testimony, we will judge whether it is true or false." ”

Fudge nodded.

"Igor Karkarov!" He looked solemnly at Karkaroff below, "Name your testimony." ”

"No problem, Presiding Judge." Karkaroff bowed gracefully.

He looked up and smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

Scott watched with some surprise.

As far as he knew, Amelia Bones, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, was supposed to be an impartial director, and Dumbledore was undoubtedly impartial, but neither explicitly objected to Karkaroff being a witness.

Not only that, but after the two of them spoke, Mr. Rohr, who was protesting loudly just now, also sat down quietly.

This scene is really a little unreasonable.

Unless......

Scott's eyes lit up.

Unless the plaintiff has evidence other than the witness who was not present.

Just as Scott was thinking, Karkaroff, who was a witness for the defendant, spoke.

"Miss Rohr's death was not caused by Mr. Carlo."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mrs. Rohr stood up violently and screamed, "You are talking nonsense! If it weren't for him, how could he have escaped? It was he who killed my daughter! ”

"Silence!" Fudge frowned and reminded.

He looked with some displeasure at Mrs. Rohr, who had repeatedly stood up to "make trouble".

Mr. Rohr hurriedly pulled his wife to sit down and whispered to reassure him.

Fudge then asked Karkaroff, "Is there any evidence for what you said, Karkaroff?" ”

Karkaroff bowed slightly again and began to elaborate on his testimony.

"All of Durmstrang's students knew that something wasn't quite right with Miss Rohr."

"She was always moody, and she beat and scolded Mr. Carlo. On Durmstrang's campus, more than one student saw that. ”

Hearing him say this, Mrs. Rolle tried to refute again, but Mr. Rolle covered her mouth and held her down, and she could only whine and cry lowly.

Fudge frowned and said to Karkaroff, "It's not about what you're trying to prove. ”

"Of course, I'm just giving some background." "It happened on the night of April 1st, and I remember it very well, it was April Fool's Day," Kakaroff said respectfully, "It happened to be April Fool's Day......"

According to Karkaroff, Caitlin Rolle's body was first found by Durmstrang students in a hidden corner of the school.

Karkaroff, as the principal, launched an investigation at the first time.

During the investigation, some students told him that it was Elijah Caro who called Caitlin Rolle away, and other students said that they had heard a heated argument between the two while passing by the incident.

It's just that due to Caitlin Rolle's usual behavior, the students who heard the two arguing have become accustomed to it and don't come closer to see it.

By the time Karkaroff and the other professors wanted to talk to Elijah Kahlo, he had quietly left Durmstrang.

Karkaroff spoke for a long time, but everyone couldn't understand why.

Because his statement is clearly not in favor of Carlo.

But both Elijah Caro, who was on trial, and the members of the Caro family who were in attendance, were sitting peacefully at the moment.

At this moment, Karkarov's words suddenly changed.

"At first, I thought Mr. Carlo had killed him." "But then we realized something was wrong." ”

At this point, his tone paused.

The courtroom was silent, except for the faint whimper of Mrs. Rohr.

"Miss Friedrich of the Durmstrang School Hospital examined Miss Rohr's body." "We found out that Mr. Carlo simply knocked her down with a stun curse, and that the real cause of her death was poisoning," Karkaroff said. ”

Carlo, who was chained to a chair, spoke in time, "Principal Karkaroff is right, I just knocked out Caitlyn with the Unconscious Charm. ”

The two men's statements were full of flaws, and Scott frowned at them, wondering how they were going to lie.

Presiding Judge Fudge's face was also ugly at the moment.

He stared at the two people below with a pair of small eyes, and asked in a very stern tone, "Caro, since you only used the Stun Charm on Miss Rohr, why did you escape from Durmstrang?" ”

"I'm just too bored."

Carlo lowered her head, her voice a little contrived and pitiful.

"I went to Durmstrang for Caitlin's sake, but she always treated me badly."

"That day, after arguing with her, I attacked her with a stun curse in a fit of rage...... Anyway, I can't stand it anymore. ”

"I was her fiancé, but she did that to me, and I didn't want to be so humble and thirsty for love anymore, so I decided to get out of there."

Scott listened to Caro's remarks with some disgust.

This guy swore that he would accompany Caitlin Rohr after fulfilling her wish, but now this is a reversal?

After listening to Caro's statement, Fudge picked up a pen and wrote something on the paper, and then turned to look at the defendant's witnesses.

"Karkaroff, how do you prove what you say? Why didn't you explain your discovery to the Rohr family when you brought back Miss Rohr's body? And, even if Miss Rohr was poisoned to death, how do you know that it was not the defendant who poisoned her? ”

Karkaroff said: "Miss Friedrich can prove what I said, presiding judge. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the courtroom was pushed open again, and an unusually tall witch walked in.

This is a witch who looks like a man, at least 1.9 meters tall, and even though she wears a female healer's skirt and long blond hair, she still looks like a transvestite male witch.

"Yes, I can prove it." She spoke.

It wasn't until hearing her voice that Scott was sure she was really a woman.

Fudge looked at the uninvited Miss Friedrich with an unkind face.

"I didn't summon you, lady."

Miss Friedrich was not intimidated by Fudge's gaze.

Under the gaze of everyone, she calmly walked up to Karkaroff and stood still.

When the two stood together, she looked half a head taller than Karkaroff, and even her shoulders were much wider than that of the emaciated Karkaroff.

She took a small glass bottle from her pocket and held it up.

"It's the poison left in Miss Rohr's mouth." "I've tested it, and it's a Muggle-only drug, and wizards have no history of using it." ”

Karkaroff continued: "Presiding Judge, I remember that some time ago there was a guy in England who specialized in poisoning pure-blood wizards. Mr. Bock and the Yaxley family were killed, and the murderer was known as the Hidden Wizard. ”

In the corner of the courtroom, Scott's eyebrows skipped a beat as he listened to the two of them.

Miss Friedrich added: "I paid a special visit to Liam Yaxley, who had been attacked by a hidden wizard. The Yaxley family still had the poisoned blood that had been extracted from the body of his brother who had been poisoned to death, and after comparison, I found that the poison contained in the poison was the same as the poison in my possession. ”

"You still can't prove that what you say is true, and if you can't produce conclusive evidence, then I will declare your testimony null and void." Fudge didn't listen carefully to what the two had to say at all, and directly rejected their testimony.

Now that Fudge is on Medea's side, and the Rohr family is also under Medea's command, he will of course try to favor the plaintiff's side.

"Presiding Judge." Karkaroff suddenly stepped forward, "What we say is the truth, whether it is me or Miss Friedrich, we are willing to be tested for truth-vomiting." ”

"And me." Carlo also looked up, "I can too." ”

The words of the two immediately caused an uproar.

Scott instantly frowned.

He looked at the three people below who were fearless and confident, and instantly understood their tricks-

Their memories have been altered!

As long as the wizards who modify their memories are clever enough, the false memories will become real memories, and in this case, even the truth potion will not be able to change their statement at this time.

On the other hand, if a wizard's memory is modified, only the master of soul retrieval can detect it, but these people are very clever to take advantage of a loophole -

The results of the dementorship cannot be used as legitimate evidence.

What Scott could think of, everyone in the room could think of.

At this moment, Bones and Dumbledore, whose expressions had remained the same, changed their faces slightly, and the two and Fudge got together and discussed in a whisper.

There was a cacophony of whispers in his ears, and Scott felt a little uncomfortable.

Karkaroff and Miss Friedrich's mention of the "hidden wizard" strikes him as a little unpleasant.

I don't know if it's because he's too sensitive, he always feels that this fire might burn on him.

At that moment, he felt a jolt in his chest.

Scott's face sank, and he took out the Scholars' Alliance's ID card from the pocket of his robe.

Sitting in the back row with no one paying attention, he used the disguise of his robe to turn the card into [Book of Prometheus].

Looking down, Scott opened [The Book of Prometheus] and saw the owl with lines drawn on the page.

He took a deep breath and tapped his finger, and the letter quickly unfolded.

[Clever little one, if you don't take the initiative to respect me, Karkaroff and Friedrich will tell everyone in the courtroom that you are a hidden wizard.]

B•B］

Scott looked at the brief content of the letter and felt his eyebrows begin to beat continuously.

But he closed [the Book of Prometheus] anyway.

He then began to obscure everyone in the courtroom, trying to find out the unnamed Mr. B.

Although his magical perception has always shrouded the entire courtroom. But magic perception is not a substitute for sight, he can only perceive the magic state of everyone, but he can't detect the small movements of some people.

"Presiding Judge."

At this moment, Carlo suddenly took the initiative to speak.

"I'll make one more point." He exclaimed, "I infiltrated Hogwarts to find the Hidden Wizard and avenge Catelyn!" ”

Fudge asked in surprise, "You mean, the innocent student you attacked was the Hidden Wizard?" ”

"That's right, it's him!"

Ignoring his chained body, Carlo struggled to turn his head and look at Scott, who was sitting in the back seat.

"That's him, he's there!" He smirked, "He's Scott!" ”

For a moment, all eyes were on Scott.

Scott didn't deliberately manage his expression, but he gave the most appropriate response at the first time.

He was surprised at first, then bewildered, and then looked at Dumbledore in front of him with a pleading gaze.

Dumbledore gave him a calm look.

Scott looked at Carlo again, glared at him, gritted his teeth, and tried to play the role of a simple student who had been framed.

Carlo turned his head to look at him in a ten-twisted posture and laughed weirdly.

"That's ridiculous, Mr. Carlo." Bones spoke, "You first said that Miss Rohr died at the hands of the Hidden Wizard, and then you identified the student as the Hidden Wizard. ”

She shook her head and continued, "Excuse me, how could a Hogwarts student run to Durmstrang to kill Miss Rohr?" ”