Chapter 261 259 The Truth

It took Lisa a few days to fully recover from her injuries, and during this time Feeney also did not leave the cabin.

He is still not sure who wants to kill him. Is it the Ministry of Magic, other pure-blood families, the Council of Elders, or all three?

So he can't show up yet. He needs to hide himself for a short time so that the magical world thinks he is dead, so that all the masterminds hiding under the water can surface.

Rushing to show up in the magic world without clarifying this matter can indeed solve a lot of troubles and chaos that should not occur for a while, but it also lays down some hidden dangers for the future.

This time, they can blatantly violate the rules of turning over the alley and attack Finny at the door of Silvermoon Potions Store. Next time, they may attack Finny at the door of the Ministry of Magic or even break into Hogwarts.

After all, it’s not like this has never happened before.

Feeney needs to know who the enemy is behind the scenes, so that he can better contain, resist, and even fight back and take revenge.

Now that the enemy is in the dark and he is in the light, he can only choose to temporarily disappear to transform his existence into being in the dark and force the enemy to appear in the light.

Because the participants in the whole thing were either dead or crazy at the time, even those surviving werewolf wizards were disposed of by the Auror team sent by the Ministry of Magic for a reason.

Although Sirius reacted quickly and saved some of them, no one knew about the situation of Feeney and Lisa.

Many people doubted whether Feeney was dead.

It can even be said that they are extremely looking forward to this possible realization. Phineas Black, a boy who is only thirteen years old, has put too much pressure on these pure-blood families. They can't even imagine it. As a notification Why was a pure-blood family that had been in the magical world for thousands of years controlled by a young wizard for ten years and unable to fight back?

Feeney's existence has become a shadow in the hearts of many pure-blood family leaders.

Unlike these people who expected Finny to die, Sirius firmly believed that Finny was not dead, but just suffered some injuries and was recuperating somewhere.

While searching for Feeney, he also began to put pressure on the Ministry of Magic.

Why did so many dark wizards openly attack Finny in the alley under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic, and the Ministry of Magic only rushed to the scene after the fact, and even attacked the wizards who protected Finny?

With just this question, Sirius naturally has no way of posing any threat to the Ministry of Magic. After all, he is not Finny, and he is not a madman who will start a family war at any time.

However, just because Sirius can't do it, doesn't mean that others can't do it.

The families attached to the Black family, or in other words, attached to Feeney himself, cooperated with Sirius and began to put pressure.

Among them, the Weasley family and the Baronton family who work in the Ministry of Magic, the Malfoy family, the noble family of the wizarding world, and the Greengrass family, the darlings of the Presbyterian Church, are supplemented by the Ollivander and other neutral families who favor Black. Caused a lot of trouble.

As time goes by, Feeney has not come forward, causing rumors that he is dead to become more and more intense in the magical world, and the Black family's actions become more and more tough.

Sirius strongly demanded that senior officials of the Ministry of Magic take responsibility for this matter, especially the Minister of the Auror Department. You must know that the current Minister is a member of the Rich family. This request put Fudge in a dilemma. There was no way he could offend both departments. To deal with this issue under the circumstances, one would either offend Rich or Black, but unfortunately, he couldn't afford to offend either of them now.

On the other side, many neutral families in the magical world, such as the Lovegood, Bursted, Macmillan, Slughorn and other families, have also begun to suffer.

The reason why they were dismissed was not to take sides, but because there were also underage wizards in their families.

Now that the Richie faction (in everyone's opinion, it was the Richie faction who attacked Finny) can openly attack the heirs of the Black family because of their hostility to Black, then there will be a day in the future when they can do it because of their hostility. There is no reason to attack their descendants by taking refuge with them, and the Ministry of Magic's current lack of reaction can also be seen as siding with the Rich family's choice.

Unfortunately, this incident was not planned by the Rich family. They just added fuel to the flames after learning about the attack on Feeney and provided some help to the people behind the scenes.

Therefore, gradually, some affiliated families under the Rich family, the Lestrange family, and the Selwyn family also began to suffer, and they all asked the Ministry of Magic to give a reasonable explanation.

This result made Fudge even more overwhelmed. The fate of the Rich family made him, who was politically astute, instantly understand that there were other black hands behind this matter.

If he had reacted before this, he would definitely pursue the investigation with all his strength so that neither party could help nor offend either party. However, now, Rich's power has also come to an end.

This resulted in Fudge having no opportunity or time to carefully examine the cause of this matter.

"Minister, you may need to come and take a look at this matter in person."

In Fudge's office, there was a fat woman wearing a fluffy pink cardigan, a broad, saggy face, and a small black velvet bow on her short curly hair. , said to Fudge in a shrill, fussy voice like a little girl’s,

Fudge looked at the woman with a headache, and said with a little anger,

"Dolores! Do I need to do everything? Then what do I want you to do? It's better to find a curly baboon in your office. In the end, I need to handle it myself."

The woman, or rather Dolores Umbridge, said in an artificial, sweet voice,

"But, Minister, there is really a lot about this matter that you only need to know,"

Fudge stood up impatiently. Although he hated the toad-like woman in front of him, he still chose to believe her. After all, this flatterer really made people feel comfortable.

Fudge followed Umbridge to the room where the black-robed wizard who was thought to be the one who attacked Finny was being held at the door of Silvermoon Potions Store. He looked very confused at the Auror responsible for interrogating the black-robed wizard.

"What did you discover that I must come to in person?"

The Auror handed a test tube bottle to Fudge, and inside was a golden memory fragment.

Fudge's test tube finally came to the pensieve in the corner of the room, poured the memory fragments into the silver-white liquid in the pensieve, and inserted his entire head into it.

The memory reacted when it encountered the liquid. A burst of smoke appeared in the liquid. As Fudge's head was inserted,

Before he was in a trance, he came to another place. This was the memory of the black-robed wizard, and it was also his Auror who interrogated the memory that he needed to check personally.

It was a very dilapidated and old house, the kind where people upstairs would constantly shed dust when they walked back and forth.

The black-robed wizard from Fudge's perspective at this time was standing in this house with many similarly dressed wizards, waiting for someone to arrive.

A moment later, as the wooden stairs creaked, a short man with gray hair and bald head walked down the stairs.

The moment he saw the appearance of this short man, Fudge couldn't help but scream,

"How can it be!"

It was a man with a mouse-like face and a pointed nose, small watery eyes, pale skin, less hair, dull, disheveled and bald, and the most important thing was this man’s The right index finger is missing.

This is a person Fudge is very familiar with, and it is precisely because of him that his authority as Minister of Magic has been weakened many times.

This man was officially captured by Phineas Black months ago, reminding the Ministry of Magic that there were multiple problems with the trial of Sirius Black, and was the main person who wronged a hero, once Sirius Black, James Tom Potter, Remus Lupin's good friend, Peter Pettigrew with the nickname Wormtail!

"This is completely impossible!"

Fudge repeated again,

This is indeed impossible, or unrealistic,

Because the matter of Peter Pettigrew was handled under the supervision of Feeney, in reality, he was subjected to the soul-destroying criminal law equivalent to the death penalty by the Dementor's Kiss, and then was pushed into the mysterious door of the Department of Mysteries, with no survivors at all. Maybe that's right, how could it appear in the memory of this black-robed wizard, and it seemed like not long ago?

Could it be that the opposite side of that door was not the world of death, but another place in this world, and that was why Peter Pettigrew escaped? But this is not right. You must know that there is no way to reverse the Dementor's Kiss. ​​In other words, the person who is punished by this punishment can only be a living dead for life.

However, Peter Pettigrew stood here clearly, standing in the memory of the black-robed wizard.

"The master has issued an order, and you need to complete it at all costs!"

Peter Pettigrew said after looking around all the black-robed wizards, and at the same time pushed out a stroller behind him,

Lying inside the stroller was a being that was even more unacceptable to Fudge.

That was a baby. Of course, the one sitting in the stroller must be a baby, but the characteristics of this baby were too obvious. It had no nose, and its skin color was as pale as if there was no trace of blood in its body. A pair of The snake's pupil eyes were fixed on Fudge, or rather the owner of the perspective Fudge was looking at at this time - the black-robed wizard.

"Find him, kill him, kill the boy who has disobeyed me many times, the little wizard from the Black family, Phineas Black!"

The moment he heard this, all the doubts in Fudge's heart were cleared.

Why did Dumbledore stand so firmly beside Phineas Black, a young wizard from a pure-blood family? Why did Hogwarts not care about the Ministry of Magic's attitude at all? Why was Finny attacked? I also ended up talking, because the mysterious man was really not dead, because the mastermind behind the attack on Feeney was the mysterious man!

'No! This is not true, this is a false memory, a memory that has been modified by someone. That person must have told such a completely invisible lie in order to hide himself. The mysterious man is dead and he will not come back. Got it!'

Fudge's heart roared incompetently, but this was just him deceiving himself.

After raising his head from the pensieve, Fudge looked at Umbridge and asked,

"Who knows about this?"

Umbridge still said in a high voice,

"He's the only one,"

As he spoke, he pointed at the Auror beside him.

At this time, Fudge could no longer care about hating Umbridge's voice and acting style. He was now so panicked that he directly raised his wand and pointed it at the Auror and fired Avada Kedavra!

"Don't blame me. This matter cannot be revealed. The mysterious man must be dead. He must not come back!"

At this time, Fudge was already crazy, because the news of the mysterious man's return made him extremely crazy.

He could not accept the return of the mysterious man who had disappeared during his tenure. In that case, his tenure would definitely become a laughing stock. He would not be able to lead the Ministry of Magic to resist the mysterious man's army.

In order to maintain his reputation in the magical world and to still control the Ministry of Magic, he decided to conceal the news of the mysterious man's return. No, the mysterious man was dead. He would never return at all!

Umbridge seemed to have guessed that Fudge would do this. She didn't care at all about the death of the Auror. In other words, she and Fudge were the same people. They only cared about the power in their hands. As for whether the mysterious man returned , for them, it must be in their interests not to return,

As for the mysterious man's true return?

Impossible, even if it is a fact, it must be a rumor!

The nearby man's eyes were rolling wildly, and he kept thinking about how to deal with the attack on Finny in his mind.

Now it is definitely not possible to really find the murderer, and the resurrection of Peter Pettigrew is completely unimportant. ,

Now he needs to find a few scapegoats, scapegoats that the entire magic world believes in,

The Auror who died just now can be one, and the head of the Ritchie family in the Auror department can be considered one.

The Department of Magical Law Enforcement, the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters, and the Department of Magical Traffic all need people to carry guns. Only in this way can they be of sufficient weight.

Fudge also understood that after this incident, the Ministry of Magic still needed to come up with appropriate benefits to make the Black Group give up its continued pressure on the Ministry of Magic.

"Is Arthur Weasley a member of the Department for the Suppression of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts at the Ministry of Magic?"

Fudge asked Umbridge,

Umbridge nodded,

"That's right,"

"Then he will be the head of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters. Lucius Malfoy may be willing to be the honorary head of the Department of Legal Enforcement,"