Harry Potter’s Natural Villain

For a while after the party ended, Lucius began to run around for his son, and Malfoy, who stayed at his home, spent a relatively peaceful time.

The final court hearing is scheduled for Friday.

There was no public hearing.

The news was blocked very well. Under Umbridge's "suggestions" and methods, the trial was limited to a small circle, and the results were only announced to the public after the conclusion.

Presumably with the help of the Daily Prophet, public opinion will soon be changed.

The Malfoy family arrived at the Ministry of Magic early. Compared with the previous time, they were more nervous about Lucius' incompetent lawsuit against Dumbledore. This time, their mood was much more relaxed.

Lucius, in particular, is confident.

Narcissa even fought for her son's different privileges to be handcuffed, so that the chains on the armrests on either side of the chair would not maliciously restrain him when he was tried.

They all came early, and Malfoy sat on the chair in the center of the room, staring at the rows of empty benches that stretched from low to high in front of him.

He wasn't worried about the outcome of this trial, it was already doomed.

Afterwards, the door was opened, and a faint light illuminated the dark room. People came in one after another, and they sat down one after another with the help of the dim torch light that was better than nothing.

A middle-aged man walked with great strides, dragging his robe all the way to the first row, and sat down with Lucius.

"Lucius, I hope that after this trial, I can give my daughter a surprise. That kid from your family can give me some anger." Hector Parkinson said with a frown, and patted Lucius affectionately. s shoulder.

It is equivalent to a disguised cheer.

"Wait and see." Luciusk nodded curtly, leaning his cane against the seat.

Dozens of jury members in purple-red robes began to enter the arena one after another. Just after they found their seats and took their seats, there were ten drumming bells above their heads. After passing through the layers of stone walls, I came to the courtroom.

Time is up.

"If everyone is here,

I think it's time to start, okay? ' said Umbridge in her delicate voice.

What I have to say is that Umbridge, as a boss who squeezes and controls himself, will look very annoying.

But when she is approaching to please someone, the convenience she gets is beyond imagination.

For example, when Malfoy saw the vast majority of the jury members in the audience now, they smiled kindly at him and nodded incessantly, and Umbridge took a large part of the credit.

Of course, his father also contributed a lot to it.

Move for profit, enough to make many neutrals fall to them.

There were a few exceptions, and the look at Malfoy was full of hostility and questioning.

A man sitting in the front row, his brown hair was like the hair of a lion, it was ragged and scattered, and the center of his eyebrows was deeply sunken, which looked very scary.

Rufus Scrimgeour, looking straight ahead with those wide-eyed eyes, was not angry.

As a former contender for minister, he resents Umbridge's near-inaction strategy.

Especially now, with Dumbledore's death, the situation is even worse, and a radical person is needed to stand up and take over the current situation.

In his eyes, Malfoy was very suspicious and worthy of repeated torture.

Umbridge stood for him again, and even reached out to the Wizengamore Court, and many people were lobbied by her.

The impact of Dumbledore's death is not limited to Hogwarts. Just look at the speech that Dumbledore gave here not long ago, and the testimony of his students. At that time, many people believed it. , now changing direction.

The position is extremely easy to change.

Percy of the Weasleys stood respectfully behind Umbridge, scribbled something on the parchment with a quill, and then stopped again, waiting for the hearing.

Malfoy's eyes swept across his eyes, and even saw Professor McGonagall, whom he had only seen not long ago, her eagle-sharp eyes gleaming in the dark courtroom, staring at him motionless.

It was pure scrutiny.

Of course she didn't know that the Hogwarts commotion not long ago was caused by Malfoy.

And it's over.

Because nothing seemed to be lost and no one was injured.

Of course, the injury to the bridge of Ron's nose should not be counted. After Madam Pomfrey's treatment, it healed in one night.

The other anomaly was that Pansy was distracted all day.

But no one's going to connect this to that riot, is it? Who would care about the psychology of a female student, at this age, emotional changes are normal.

The school then took another day off to ease the situation, and classes resumed the day after the funeral.

On the evening of the day before the resumption of classes, she was about to perform her duties as a new principal. When she started to work, an owl with a red envelope in its mouth broke through the glass window and broke into her office.

After tearing open the envelope, she read through the thin lens, and received a request from the Ministry of Magic to sit in.

So came here this morning.

Looking at Malfoy on the podium, she still had an inexplicable sentimentality.

Last time, Dumbledore was in the same position and was being questioned, but now everything was different.

Regarding the performance of this student, she still hoped that he would be innocent and hoped that she could be persuaded.

This is out of a teacher's vision. No normal teacher wants her students to go astray, especially her kind of old-fashioned and stubborn witch.

"Okay." Umbridge cleared his throat and tapped the small hammer on the table in front of him.

With the two sounds of "dong dong", everyone's attention was attracted.

"To save everyone's time, how about we skip the charges against Mr. Draco Malfoy? After all, at the last trial, everyone already knew what happened to him."

The jury members began to whisper, as if reminiscing about the previous trial.

Few people objected.

Because most people's positions are clear before the court session.

In the previous trial, Dumbledore was eloquent and eloquent. The rebuttals of several witnesses drove Lucius to a dead end. If it wasn't for his departure because of Azkaban at the last minute, the conclusion would have been reached.

But with his "death", the situation turned around.

Victim and witness Barty Crouch did not attend the new trial for unknown reasons.

Now, almost all the factors against Malfoy have been cut, and the favorable factors are in the lead.

Coupled with Umbridge's deliberate guidance, everything is going in the right direction.

Whitewashing, under the coercion of power and the temptation of wealth, does not seem to be as difficult as imagined.