New Professor at Hogwarts

Xia Ran stood doing nothing. Although he actually had the urge to pull out his wand and kill Thicknesse, his reason told him to endure it.

This is at the Ministry of Magic. Thicknesse has no clear evidence that he is a Death Eater. Even if Sharon, Dumbledore, and Ms. Bones have guessed that he is a member of the Death Eater organization, there is no The evidence is unavailable.

"Alas, I still don't have enough combat power, otherwise why would I worry so much?" Xia Ran sighed inwardly.

"On the night of July 20th, around seven o'clock, I went out to buy cat food at the corner store at the intersection of Wisteria Road." Mrs. Figg said in a cramped voice. Listening to her words, it seemed that she had already finished what she was going to say. I memorized all the words, "Later I heard a commotion coming from the alley between Magnolia Crescent Street and Wisteria Road. I walked to the entrance of the alley and saw a dementor running..."

"Run?" Ms. Bones said sternly. "Dementors can't run, they can only slide."

"Yes! Yes! That's what I mean." Mrs. Figg said quickly, with a blush on her dry face, as if she was nervous. "They were sliding in the alley and pounced on people who looked like two boys."

"What do they look like?" said Ms. Bones, squinting her eyes so tightly that the edges of her monocle dug into her flesh.

"Oh," Mrs. Figg replied, "one is quite big, bigger than the boy, and the other is skinny..."

"No, no!" Ms. Bones said impatiently, "Dementors... describe what they look like."

"Oh," said Mrs. Figg, the blush now spreading to her neck. "They're big, big, and they wear cloaks..."

Harry felt his heart sink horribly as he listened to Mrs. Figg's testimony.

No matter what Mrs. Figg said, it sounded to him like she had only seen photos of Dementors, and photos could not convey the true nature and terrifying abilities of those guys.

The weird and terrifying look of them as they levitate inches above the ground, the putrid stench they give off, and the horrible creaking sound they make as they devour the air around them...

None of these things can be reflected simply by photos.

On the second row of benches, a short, fat male wizard with a big black beard approached a curly-haired wizard next to him and whispered in the ear.

The witch smiled triumphantly and nodded.

Xia Ran didn't seem worried. As long as Mrs. Figg could testify in court normally, Harry's final acquittal was almost foreseeable.

"Big, wearing a cloak..." Ms. Bones repeated, and Thicknesse snorted sarcastically beside her, "I see, is there anything else?"

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Figg nodded and said, "I felt them. Everything was getting colder at that time. It seemed that it was the coldest winter. Don't forget, it was still a very hot summer night. What! Then I felt...as if all the happiness had disappeared from the world...I...I remembered so many terrible things..."

Her voice trembled and gradually became inaudible.

Ms. Bones's eyes widened slightly and she asked, "What did the dementors do?"

A glimmer of hope suddenly rose in Harry's heart.

"They jumped on two boys." Mrs. Figg replied, her voice stronger and more confident now, as if talking about the Dementors had given her confidence, and the blush on her face receded. "A boy One fell down, and the other one stepped back while trying to fight off the dementors, this one was Harry."

"He tried twice, but all he conjured was silver smoke. The third time he tried again, he conjured a patronus. The patronus rushed over and knocked down the first dementor. Then he mustered up his courage and turned it over again. The second Dementor ran away from Cousin Harry. This... this is what happened."

When Mrs. Figg finished speaking, her voice began to sound a little weak again.

Ms. Bones looked at Mrs. Figg silently. Thicknesse didn't look at her at all and just fiddled with the papers on the table in front of him.

Finally, Thicknesse raised his eyes and said, somewhat aggressively: "That's what you saw, isn't it?"

"That's what happened at that time." Mrs. Figg nodded emphatically.

"Very good." Thicknesse said proudly, "You can go."

Mrs. Figg looked timidly at Thicknesse, then at Dumbledore and Sharon, who nodded to her.

So she stood up and shuffled toward the door.

Harry heard the door slam shut behind her.

"This witness is not convincing enough," Thickness said arrogantly.

Yaxley and others nodded in agreement.

"Oh, I don't think so," Ms. Bones said in her usual strong voice. "She described the power of the Dementors' attack very accurately. I can't imagine that if they weren't there at the time, she would Why do you say that?"

"But a Dementor ran into a Muggle residential area and happened to meet an underage wizard?" Thicknesse said contemptuously, "This possibility must be very small, almost negligible, even Bagman won't bet either..."

"Well, I don't think any of us would believe that the Dementors being there was a pure coincidence," Dumbledore said softly.

Xia Ran laughed and said: "I think all of us already know one thing. When the previous Minister Fudge was in office, the dementors had completely surrendered to the mysterious man - ah, yes, of course. Voldemort is dead - and we should all know that Harry is the only person who survived Voldemort's killing curse. Voldemort had a certain intention...or, one of his Death Eaters had a certain intention. , sent dementors, rushed to Privet Drive and launched this attack..."

"If you think about it this way, doesn't it make sense? It's no longer a coincidence or an accident, but an inevitable event!"

Thicknesse, Yaxley and others moved slightly, but the others remained motionless and silent.

"I would like to remind you that the behavior of the two dementors - regardless of whether it is true as Harry Potter said - even if they are not the product of this child's random thoughts, they should not be the subject of our interrogation this time. Topic." Thickness said rudely, "We are here to interrogate Harry Potter's violation of the Reasonable Restraint of Minor Wizards Act!"

"Of course it is, that's right." Dumbledore said, "But the appearance of dementors in the alley is closely related to this case. Article 7 of the law states that under special circumstances, a young wizard can Using magic in front of Muggles. As for those special circumstances, I don’t need to say more. Everyone knows that the lives of the wizard himself or other wizards or Muggles present at the same time must be threatened!"

"We are very familiar with the contents of Article 7. Thank you very much!" Thicknesse roared.