Chapter 251: The Clever Fudge

As soon as Mike stood up, he felt a strong sense of dizziness. At the same time, he felt as if his limbs were soaked in ice water, so cold that he almost lost consciousness.

Mike knew that his face must be extremely pale now, so he reached out to Snape.

Although Mike was still in a state of tongue-locking and throat-blocking and could not speak at all, the meaning was already very clear.

Snape curled his lips, and when he saw that Mike looked like he might fall down at any time, he reluctantly took out a bottle of black and purple potion and handed it to Mike.

The taste of this bottle of potion was very special. As soon as Mike took a sip, he felt a stench exploding in his mouth.

If you have to describe it, this smell is similar to the shark jerky produced in Iceland, the smell of the toilet in the slums that is so smelly that it hurts the eyes, and it makes people instinctively want to vomit.

Mike strongly suspected that Snape was deliberately taking revenge on him!

However, the effect of this potion was beyond words. When Mike swallowed it despite the stench, it quickly turned into a warm current that spread throughout his body, allowing Mike's body, which had become weak due to excessive blood loss, to regain vitality.

Black and Lupin, who were still hanging in the distance, were relieved. They didn't care too much about their future fate. For them, Mike, the child they implicated, was the most important.

After re-casting a restraining spell on Mike, Snape came to Black and Lupin again.

The first thing he did next was to wave his wand and use magic to pull off their pants!

Black's pants looked extremely luxurious. They were made of silk. Although Snape didn't recognize the brand printed on them, it should be a luxury item just from the appearance and material.

This made Snape very angry. He recalled Black's identity. The eldest son of the Black family was also the only heir now!

At the same time, he also remembered the all-round bullying that Potter and Black, the second-generation rich, had done to him since he was a teenager!

This made Snape very unhappy, so he flicked his wand imperceptibly, and Black's remaining pants disappeared.

Black obviously couldn't stand being humiliated in front of Mike, a junior, and he struggled hard, with angry roars coming out of his mouth.

However, these roars sounded like the most moving music in the world to Snape, and he rubbed his palms excitedly and came to Lupin.

Compared with Black, Lupin was obviously a more frugal person, which could be seen from his beige striped pants with gray patches.

Seeing this, Snape could no longer control himself. He held his stomach and laughed loudly. After he calmed down a little, Snape raised his red face and asked:

"How poor are you, Lupin! Even... even this needs to be patched... Hahaha!"

Snape laughed again halfway through his words.

This time, his laughter was even more exaggerated. He lay down on the ground without paying attention to the dirt and gravel on the ground, holding his stomach with one hand and hammering the ground with the other hand.

In this continuous laughter, Lupin's face was gloomy and seemed to drip water, but since he could not do anything to Snape at the moment, he could only lower his head and try not to look at Snape's hateful face.

I don't know how long it took, but Snape seemed to finally remember the existence of Mike.

Perhaps to restore his majestic impression in front of Mike, Snape stood up quickly, brushed off the dirt on his body, wiped the tears from his laughter, and then put on his usual arrogant and indifferent expression.

At this moment, the Aurors who had noticed the battle here arrived.

"Merlin! Professor Snape, you actually caught him! I really should give you a first-class Order of Merlin!" Fat Fudge squeezed out from the Aurors. When he saw Black hanging, a trace of surprise flashed across his face. "Mr. Black, it's really hard to find you! But it doesn't matter, we finally meet after my unremitting efforts!"

After that, his eyes quickly glanced at Black's vital parts, and then teased Snape: "Wow! It's much smaller than I thought!"

This witty remark successfully made many Aurors present laugh. Just when Fudge was proud of his sense of humor, he suddenly noticed Mike and Lupin next to him.

"Professor Snape, can you explain to me what's going on with these two people?"

"I'm happy to serve you, Mr. Minister." Snape bowed slightly and explained, "This is Remus Lupin, the new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. You may not know that he and the murderer Black were very good friends when they were students, and this time he wants to stop me from arresting Black, so I think he should be Black's accomplice!

As for this little wizard here, I think I don't need to introduce him again, the famous duel champion (Snape's tone suddenly became frivolous when he said this)! Although he also attacked me with Lupin, given his age, I think he should have been bewitched."

Listening to Snape's explanation, Fudge nodded continuously.

In his opinion, Snape's explanation was logically clear and well-reasoned, and it could almost be used as testimony in court.

"Very good, then Black and Mr. Lupin will be handed over to us first, as for the one over there..."

"Wait!"

Fudge was interrupted in the middle of his words and looked at the source of the voice indignantly, and saw that Mike had broken free from Snape's restraints at some point and was now walking towards this side.

Snape frowned at the wand in Mike's hand. He remembered that the black wand had been knocked away by him.

But after seeing Shuke behind Mike, he completely understood.

"Mr. Minister, Black is innocent, and Peter Pettigrew is still alive!" Mike straightened his collar and looked at Fudge, "It was not Black who betrayed the Potters, but Peter!"

When Mike spoke, Fudge and Snape both looked at him blankly, and after a while, Fudge burst into a surprising laugh.

"Hahaha! Mike, Mike, it seems you have been brainwashed. Why are you talking nonsense?"

"I have locked Pettigrew in Hogwarts now." Fudge

's smile came to an abrupt end. He stared at Mike's eyes, trying to find some evidence to prove that Mike was lying. At the same time, his brain began to quickly think about the pros and cons.

After a long time, Fudge came close to Mike and asked seriously:

"Mike, can you guarantee that what you said is true? If you were lying just now, I advise you to admit it now, because the consequences of playing tricks on me will be very serious."

"I can swear on my wand."

After getting a positive answer, Fudge's face was covered with a smile again.

"I believe you."

As soon as Snape said this, he was unwilling to do it. He thought that everything Mike did was to delay time. If he really delayed until Dumbledore came back, his plan to take revenge and send Black to hell might have new changes.

However, Fudge did not intend to listen to his advice. He did not even have the desire to appease Snape's emotions. He directly ordered the Aurors to take Black and others back to Hogwarts.

Seeing this, Mike whistled at Snape, and then followed Fudge back to Hogwarts in Snape's eyes.

He had expected Fudge to react like this.

When Black was sentenced, Fudge was not the Minister of Magic. The person who dealt with Black was Barty Crouch, the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Mr. Crouch, who came from Ravenclaw College and belonged to the same Raven's Nest as Mike, perfectly fits people's inherent impression of Ravenclaw:

erudite, powerful, slightly eccentric, and outstanding.

Although Mr. Crouch also has some minor shortcomings, it does not prevent him from being very successful in the Ministry of Magic.

He even became a hot favorite in the ministerial election.

Unfortunately, he has a son who is a pitfall.

His son Barty Crouch Jr. is a fanatical admirer of Voldemort. After this was discovered, not only was he thrown into Azkaban, but even his father, Mr. Crouch, lost the right to run for minister.

As for Black, Mr. Crouch can't be blamed entirely.

At the time, Voldemort was out of power, and a large number of Death Eaters were arrested. After being arrested, these people began to bite each other, hoping to redeem themselves in this way.

As a result, the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Magic was overcrowded.

The Law Enforcement Department did not have enough staff to conduct a comprehensive review of everyone, so although Mr. Crouch knew that there would be many innocent people among them, he still chose to cut the Gordian knot and bypassed many trial procedures to directly throw a large number of suspects into prison.

This was the case for ordinary people who were not seriously suspected, not to mention people like Black who seemed to have solid evidence.

As a result, the Ministry of Magic showed extraordinary efficiency in Black's case and stuffed Black into Azkaban in just a few days. Although

this move was a helpless move at the time, it is different now. In the peaceful days after Voldemort's disappearance, the people are increasingly dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic, the organization that once protected them. Officials will be greatly condemned by public opinion as long as the slightest mistake is exposed.

Fudge has a deep understanding of this. The Dementors he sent to Hogwarts just sucked a little bit of the students' happiness, and he was sprayed like a dog without even hurting anyone.

So he could almost imagine the extent to which Mr. Crouch would be criticized if Black's case was really a false accusation.

At least he would have no chance in the next ministerial election!

Crouch has always been his biggest competitor in the election for the minister. Now if he can take this opportunity to completely eliminate Crouch's threat, then he will make a fortune!

Thinking of this, Fudge's smile became even brighter, and his steps became lighter.

Seeing this, Mike was also very relieved. Fudge was actually not stupid at all. Just kidding! How could someone who could be the Minister of Magic for so many years be a fool?

The reason why some of Fudge's actions and orders in the original book seemed so stupid was that his ass determined his head. Sometimes his actions were incomprehensible to outsiders, but they were the most beneficial to him.

When the group returned to Hogwarts, everyone in Hogwarts had gathered in the hall, but the number of people in Hogwarts was much smaller than usual. It seemed that Fudge had planned it in advance. Holding such a quasi-entertainment activity during the Christmas holiday would undoubtedly minimize the impact.

Fudge was already very anxious. He didn't even ask where Black and Lupin were imprisoned. He followed Mike to the Room of Requirement.

When Mike opened the door of the Room of Requirement, Fudge and the two elite Aurors following him didn't show any surprise on their faces. Mike didn't find it strange.

To be honest, whether it was Fudge or those elite Aurors, they should have been influential figures at Hogwarts. Such people should know about the Room of Requirement, which is like a secret treasure.

When the group entered the cell where Peter Pettigrew was imprisoned, Peter was holding a piece of dry bread and chewing it.

Mike clearly saw that when the uniformed Aurors came to the cell, Peter, who was in the form of a mouse, suddenly stopped chewing the bread, and then returned to normal, and the chewing speed seemed to be a little faster.

Fudge looked at Mike with a puzzled look, and Mike saw that Peter Pettigrew was still trying to get away with it, so he smiled and said:

"This is Peter Pettigrew, he is an illegal Animagus."

Fudge nodded, and then an Auror came forward and grabbed Peter out of the cell.

Only then did Peter start to struggle hard, twisting his body wildly, and biting the Auror's fingers with his big front teeth, hoping that he would let go in pain. Unfortunately

, these Aurors were wearing dragon leather gloves, and the front teeth of the mouse could not bite through the skin of such a powerful creature.

The Auror's hands did not stop moving, and he quickly took out the wand and pointed at the mouse in his other hand.

Powerful magic gushed out, and Peter Pettigrew's struggle became more and more crazy, but the Auror's hand was like a pair of iron clamps that firmly fixed his body.

Gradually, Peter's body began to swell, and in just a few seconds, he changed from a little mouse to a short and fat middle-aged man.

Perhaps because he had been in the form of a mouse for many years, Peter looked and moved very similar to a mouse.

Peter was obviously very uncomfortable with appearing in front of people in human form again. He instinctively shrank his body, and his chubby hands curled up in front of his chest and kept twisting.

Seeing that everyone present was looking at him warily with their wands raised, his eyes rolled around like a cunning mouse. After a while, he opened his mouth, revealing a pair of yellow buck teeth, and said to Mike affectionately:

"Mike! Hello Mike! I'm Scabbers! I'm your friend Ron's pet!"