The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

"presiding judge."

Just then, Carlo suddenly spoke up.

“I also need to make one more thing,” he said loudly. “I infiltrated Hogwarts to find the Hidden Poison Wizard and avenge Catelyn!”

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

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

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

“It’s him, he’s right there!” he grinned menacingly. “He’s Scott Trollope!”

In an instant, all eyes were on Scott.

Scott didn't try to control his expression, but he gave the most appropriate response immediately.

He was first greatly surprised, then looked completely bewildered, and then looked at Dumbledore in front of him with pleading eyes.

Dumbledore gave him a reassuring look.

Scott then looked at Carlo, glaring at him angrily, gritting his teeth, trying his best to play the role of an innocent student who had been framed.

Carlo turned his head to look at him in a very awkward posture and chuckled strangely.

“That’s absurd, Mr. Carlo,” Borns began. “First you said Miss Roll died at the hands of the Hidden Poison Wizard, and then you identified that student as the Hidden Poison Wizard.”

She shook her head and continued, "Excuse me, how could a Hogwarts student possibly go to Durmstrang to kill Miss Raoul?"

Chapter 391 Fudge's Swift Actions

Scott was also very curious at this moment.

He was very curious about how Carlo and the others were going to pin the label of "Hidden Poison Wizard" on him.

After all, to the fifty members of Wizengamot who were in charge of the trial, and to the wizards in the audience, Scott was just an insignificant Hogwarts student.

The identities of a "hidden poison wizard" who once caused panic and an underage wizard cannot be easily equated.

Scott believed that everything he had done was very discreet and left no hidden dangers.

Even if someone suspects him, as long as the other party cannot produce conclusive evidence, such suspicion will sound utterly absurd.

Just look at the reactions of everyone in the courtroom right now.

Despite Carlo's confident pronouncements, most people present thought he was just making baseless accusations.

Scott could draw this conclusion from the discussions he had overheard.

The Wizengamo members sitting at the front of the courtroom were also looking at Carlo and the two defendant witnesses with suspicion.

Although all three of them offered to withstand the truth serum test, no one actually believed a word they said.

Scott guessed that even the wizards who sided with the Carol family would only believe them verbally at most.

In short, after seeing everyone's reactions, Scott had completely calmed down.

He coldly watched Carlo below, waiting to hear how he would respond to the questions posed by the head of the Enforcement Division, Borns.

After staring at Scott with a strange look for a while, Carlo, twisting his neck in a very awkward position, finally managed to turn his neck back.

“I don’t know!” he answered Borns with complete confidence. “He’s a wizard too, he has many ways to do this!”

That kind of answer is cheating.

"Evidence!" Fudge glared at Carlo below and shouted, "Anything you say needs evidence. We will not believe your wild accusations!"

At this moment, Dumbledore also spoke up.

“I can testify for my students.”

He looked at Scott, who was sitting in the corner of the courtroom, as he spoke.

“I can assure you that my student Scott Troop has never left Hogwarts before today, and he is only a fifth-year student and has not learned the Apparition Charm.”

Upon hearing Dumbledore's words, some of the wizards present gave Scott a friendly smile.

Of course, most people watched coldly, and a few wizards even looked at him with malice.

Scott ignored them.

He was simply playing the part of an ordinary underage wizard, looking at Dumbledore with grateful eyes.

“No evidence is needed,” Carlo suddenly chuckled. “You just need to search Trolop’s belongings; you might find the same poison on him.”

Scott frowned.

He couldn't quite understand what the other person was doing.

Searching personal belongings?

He wasn't afraid of having his belongings searched.

He had long ago hidden everything he didn't want anyone to see in the oak cabin protected by the Curse of Loyalty.

Moreover, Wisengamour would never agree to search him.

It is illegal to search a wizard without any basis, especially since he is a minor wizard.

Just as Scott had expected, Burns decisively refuted Carlo's claim, "That's impossible! We won't search a wizard who has no criminal record without cause."

“Now, what needs to be verified first is your suspicion of murdering Miss Roll, Elijah Jaden Caro!” Fudge said sternly.

“Principal Karkarov and Miss Friedrich have confirmed that I am not the murderer,” Carlo said. “We are willing to undergo truth serum testing.”

Karkaroff also said, "Mr. Karlo is right. The reason for not telling the Roll family the truth in advance is because we were afraid that the real murderer would become alert."

As he spoke, he turned around and gave a perfunctory bow to Mr. and Mrs. Rolle in the audience.

His actions infuriated the two grieving wizards, a man and a woman, who were trembling with rage.

When Carlo mentioned the truth serum, Fudge's expression turned ugly, and the trial seemed to have reached a stalemate.

Scott's furrowed brow remained furrowed.

With Mr. B's threats in his letter and Carlo's sudden accusations coming one after another, he would not believe that the unexpected events during the trial had nothing to do with Mr. B.

He was pondering Mr. B's identity.

Was the other party involved with the Death Eaters and thus chose to help Carlo, or was they simply using this incident to threaten him?

Scott intuitively felt that the second hypothesis was more likely.

Thinking this, the Book of Prometheus in his hand trembled slightly a few times again.

Scott glanced around casually, and finding that no one was paying attention to him, he lowered his head and opened the Book of Prometheus again.

[Child, are you thinking that they have no evidence to accuse you of being the Hidden Poison Wizard?]

You're right, they really don't have any evidence.

I don't have any either.

But that doesn't stop them from pinning the crime of poisoning several wizards (including Caitlin Roll) on you.

Would you like to give it a try?

B·B]

Scott stared at the other party's latest threat without moving, and only slowly exhaled after a long while.

He closed the Book of Prometheus again, even turning it into a card and putting it into the pocket of his robe.

He certainly wouldn't compromise because of a few threats from the other party.

I'd like to see how these guys try to pin the blame on me.

As Scott thought this, he looked up and silently observed everyone in the courtroom.

He maintained that there was a high probability that Mr. B was present at the scene.

At that moment, Fudge, as the presiding judge, spoke up again.

"After discussion, it was determined that the use of truth serum testing was not in accordance with the procedures of this trial."

He spoke very seriously to Karkarov and Miss Friedrich.

"Because you cannot produce conclusive evidence, your testimony will not have legal effect."

“I protest!” Carlo shouted. “We voluntarily underwent the truth serum test; it was in accordance with procedure!”

"Protest denied!" Fudge said harshly, in an even louder voice.

In the audience, the burly and ugly witch Alecto Caro stood up again. "Your Honor, you still cannot prove that Elijah really killed Caitlin."

“We can certainly testify,” Mr. Rol also stood up. “Your Honor, we have another witness, Melanie Straw, a healer from St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Injuries.”

Upon hearing this, Alector Caro's ugly face immediately showed a look of surprise.

“Meream Straw, the witness!” Fudge shouted immediately.

Scott turned his head again and watched as a witch wearing a gold and silver wreath and a green healer's dress hurried into the trial chamber.

Although she was dressed as a healer, she was the complete opposite of the transvestite-like Mademoiselle Friedrich; she was a gentle and kind-looking witch.

She even has a unique magic that makes people think of the word "mother" when they see her.

As Ms. Slaughter entered the courtroom, Mr. Roll said with some sorrow, "After Caitlin returned home, I specifically asked Ms. Slaughter to conduct some physical examinations on her, and no one else knew about it."

Fudge nodded and said to Slaughter, who was standing still, "Now, please state the conclusions you have drawn after your examination, Ms. Slaughter."

Ms. Slaughter nodded and began to deliver her testimony in a soft voice.

"Your Honor, I have conducted a thorough examination of Miss Roll's body, and my conclusion is that Miss Roll's cause of death was a killing curse."

“I also conducted a detailed examination of the subtle remaining magic in Miss Roll’s body, and the source of that killing curse was the defendant Elijah Caro.”

As she spoke, she took a document out of her pocket and handed it over.

“This is a legally binding document,” she said. “It bears the magical seal of St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Injuries.”

"you are lying!"

This time, it was Alecto Caro's turn to be unsettled.

“Elijah is still a minor; he can’t possibly use the Killing Curse!” she said viciously. “Furthermore, Miss Friedrich also examined Caitlin’s body, and she found poison in her mouth!”