Amelia Bones showed a surprised expression. The monocle on her face was about to slip off. She took it off and wiped the lenses.

"Dumbledore, if I'm not mistaken, neither of them have masters..."

Shin stood there with a dazed expression, until then, she suddenly screamed Said: "No—Shanling belongs to the Crouch family! Shining has his own master! His name is Stinchcombe ·Crouch—"

"No!" Dobby retorted, "Everyone, Mr. Stinchcombe ·Crouch. Shining is free! Dobby saw it with her own eyes!" Shining closed her eyes and shouted, "No! No! No!" Dobby shouted in a louder voice, "Now Shining is a free elf like Dobby!" He straightened his chest proudly, and saw the wizards around him stunned.

I have never seen such a different kind of elf, no, some people have seen it-in the "Future World" company, they turned their heads to Felix.

Felix calmly said: "Dobby once served a Great Family, and later he was free. I gave him a job," he emphasized, "It's just a job."

"I have long heard that the'Future World' company has a group of weird house elfs." A wizard muttered.

Sparkling was still screaming, Fudge interrupted her unceremoniously, "Little Goblin! Your name is Sparkling? Was Stinchcombe Crouch's house elf?"

"No ——No——No——" Shining was still yelling, she had already begun to roll on the ground, tears poured out of Snot's brain, Dobby tried to pull her up, but it undoubtedly failed. He stood in front of Shining, helplessly. He waved his slender arms, "Yes! Her name is Shining, and my name is Dobby."

"Dumbledore, do you want them to testify? house elf untrustworthy ——"

"I don’t Think of it this way," Dumbledore said with a smile, "you can tell from the clothes on them that their will is completely theirs, don't worry about them being bound by the magic contract that cannot be violated."

Fudge stared. Open your eyes and watch the glitter rolling on the ground, "Are you sure? Except for one more dress, she is no different from other house elf."

"Dobby, you can talk about what happened that night first. ," Felix said, "Only what you can see in the Crouch Old House."

"Oh, of course! Dobby would be happy!" Dobby quickly said what happened that night, he just Mentioned the cold voice and Crouch's unusual behavior, but most of the people present believed that Crouch was indeed controlled by someone, and that the person was not the little Crouch-he was still in Hogwarts at the time.

While Dobby was talking, Shining gradually calmed down, sobbing in a low voice.

"He didn't mention that person." Amelia Bones glanced at the record quickly, lifts the head asked.

"Dobby is an outsider. If it wasn't for inviting friends to spend Christmas, he has nothing to do with this matter," Felix said. "As for more information—" he looked towards the person sitting on the ground. The little elf said mildly: "Shin, your testimony is very useful, at least it can prove that Mr. Stinchcombe · Crouch is not an evil lunatic."

"The master is not a lunatic!" Shining shouted hoarsely. "He got a terrifying magic!"

"So—Sparkling? Is that name? Can you tell me more specifically?" Amelia Bones asked. "If the truth is otherwise hidden, I can consider re-interrogating Stinchcombe · Crouch."

"Will the master be released?" Shining asked excitedly, and she finally stopped going crazy.

"Impossible!" Fudge yelled, "Impossible." He said it again, and Ms. Bones gave him a reproachful look, then turned her head and said to Shining, "Impossible to be released...Impossible. But we will reconsider his sentence, we must know that he was originally imprisoned for life."

There is a light of hope in Shining eyes, "Shinning... Shining is willing to testify."

"One year ago... the master was still at work, and someone broke in suddenly. He subdued me and released the Stinchcombe Young Master——"

"Who is that person?" Ms. Bones was stern. To ask.

"It's a man named'Peter', he can turn into a mouse, Shining has seen it before!" Shining shrieked. The wizards present exchanged glances, and someone whispered: "Pettigrew Peter." Shining continued to describe his appearance, "Short, fat, a little bald...and a pair of small eyes..." She glanced at Fudge secretly, and whispered, "It's a bit like this Master Wizard."

Fudge's chest undulates violently, like an ancient bellows, and it seems to be about to explode.

"Short stature, fat...and some baldness..." Ms. Bones couldn't help but repeat, wand outlines a person in the air, "Is it him?" The portrait of in midair is Pettigrew Peter. .

"It's him!" Shining confirmed, and mentioned an important message, "He is holding an ugly baby, and he calls that baby the owner!"

In the meeting room There was a loud gasp.

"Are you sure it's a baby?" Ms. Bones asked seriously.

"Yes, yes!" Shining stammered, not daring to look at her, "It's a very, very...very ugly baby!"

" When he came back in the evening, Stinchcombe Young Master got the wand for a long time. He hid under the Invisibility Cloak. When the master opened his clothes, he sneak attacked him—" Shining panted, and said in pain, "Oh, this bad child, Stinchcombe. , He brought back a terrible friend!"

"We know, what will happen afterwards?"

"After, after... the master was controlled and she went to work as usual. No problem, my goodness!" Shining let out a mournful cry, tears falling like beans, "Yingy also takes care of them and cooks for them..."

"It may be Confundus Charm." Felix said.

"Later, they inadvertently mentioned that they had prepared a sneak attack for someone to enter the school instead of him and complete a dangerous task—"

"What task is it?"

Shiny opened his eyes wide. "Xingling doesn't know! When they were discussing things, Xing Xing was ordered to return to her place. Xing is an elf who obeys the orders. Xing is a very well-behaved elf!"

"Very well, we I can guess who it is. Alastor is really unlucky. Continue to say, what else do you know?"

"The man named Peter is gone. It is said that he was arrested. Then Stinchcombe Young Master also left. After coming back once more than a dozen days ago, Shining takes care of the baby, Shining..." She suddenly showed a horrified expression, "Sometimes Shining sees the baby torturing the owner! Shining is watching! Oh, my God!"

She covered her face, tears streaming from her fingers.

"Let's stop here." Felix said, and he gestured to Dobby. Dobby nodded and pulled Shining "pu chi" and left.

The office was enveloped by a silence that was extremely suppressed.

"You should let her finish her sentence." Amelia Bones looked at Felix dissatisfied and said.

"Everything has been said. If you want to hear someone’s name or overall plan, unfortunately, you have also heard it. She has limited knowledge. In fact, you did After a chance, it was Pettigrew Peter...Unfortunately, his soul was sucked away by the dementor."

Fudge stared at him and said word by word: "That little elf—she too I’ve been cursed."

"I can’t pretend that it never happened," Felix said. It is to be disposed of, not worth wasting time. But in short, Shining has not tampered with her memory. If you have any objections, you can arrange a St. Mungo's Healer inspection."

Fudge was stunned. After a while, I suddenly got angry, "It seems right but actually isn't proof again! It's all! I don't know the meaning of our discussion today!"

"Cornelius," Dumbledore somewhat Wearily said, "I raised this issue not to deny or subvert anything, but to remind something. We discussed this matter privately, but you-for some reason, refused to believe the existing evidence, you You should know how much we lost in the last war. Do you want to experience a completely unprepared war again?"

"I—you—not—" Fudge was dumbfounded.

"A key question is, do you know what you are doing, Minister Fudge?" Felix said softly.

"What are you—what—mean?" Fudge's face rose to the color of pig liver.

"Let’s make a hypothesis." Felix tilted his head in the direction of Amelia Bones in a way of discussing the problem. "

Ms. Bones fiddled with her monocle to let herself see Felix better.

"We heard two diametrically opposed views today, neither giving way to the other, but time will prove who is right. It’s just... we need to ask ourselves a question, if the war is really If it happened, do you need someone to be responsible for it—"

"Fudge!" Fudge loudly shouted, "Do you know what you are talking about? Accuse a Minister of Magic, who instructed you to do this? Did it?" He looked at Felix fiercely, his eyes moving between him and Dumbledore.

"The same sentence, Minister Fudge...I know what I'm talking about, but you don't seem to understand what you are doing." Felix smiled and said, "The above is just a hypothesis. Maybe, isn't it?"

"I really don't have the ability to get an incumbent Ministry of Magic to step down or accept punishment." He said contemptuously, Fudge is about to die of anger now, not yet People threatened him so blatantly, yes, he took Felix's words as a blatant threat.

"...But everyone is responsible for his words and deeds, especially those in power." Felix said, "Therefore, I would like to ask everyone here to keep in mind the views of both sides of today’s debate. You can put your thoughts in your mind, and when everything is clear, you will naturally know who to support and who to deny."

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