Chapter 2 The Death Eaters on Trial

'Crack! '

"quiet!"

Presiding over the trial was Barty Crouch from the British Ministry of Magic.

He had recently grown in prestige by sending his own son into Azkaban himself. Although not the chief mage of the Wizengamot, he has gained the power to preside over the interrogation of all special Death Eaters.

Voldemort and his henchmen have harmed Europe and set off a wizard war, which is a heinous crime.

On Halloween in 1981, Voldemort went mad and went to Godric's Hollow, the hiding place of the Potter family, to trick or treat candy. As a result, both sides were injured in the candy war and died.

Immediately afterwards, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and the death eaters and dark wizards were killed or imprisoned, which was very satisfying.

But this process did not happen overnight. Now it is the fourth year after Voldemort's death, the overall situation has been settled early, and there are very few Death Eaters who have not been brought to justice.

On trial today is Stanley Shafiq, one of twenty-eight pure-blood families in Great Britain.

Stanley's wife, Catherine Shafik, was from the Fawley family of twenty-eight purebloods.

The two's son, Kane Shafik, is six years old, born in 1979, one year older than Harry Potter, who was living in the cupboard of his aunt's house at this time.

Of course, this is only the physical age, and there is a big gap in the psychological age, because Kane is the soul-wearing Zhao Wenrui.

"Your Excellency, I think Stanley should receive a commutation of his sentence. After being humiliated by radical Aurors, he is still willing to believe in the credibility of the Magic Association and surrendered himself. For such criminals who really want to repent, we should start from Leniency."

"I disagree, Your Honor, it's too coincidental that the Auror was killed by lightning while in law enforcement."

"Hmph, so Henry Reeves knew he was enforcing the law? Who dares to say that what he said was not nonsense?"

"This memory of Stanley may not be true, it may have been modified through dementia."

"You can be convicted only by guessing? The Stanley family was chased to the end of the road, and the Muggle bakery was robbed by Aurors. Under such circumstances, you can still meet the master of insanity to help you modify your memory. I think this The probability of being struck by lightning is lower."

"Stanley has been on the run for four years! Unrepentant, he injured Aurors many times..."

"I don't know how to repent, I'm afraid it's because there is an Auror who won't accept the surrender and must let his family die as a hindrance? Excuse me, how long has Henry Reeves hunted and killed Stanley? Is it from the beginning to the end?"

"Stanley was burdened with multiple blood debts, and he confessed to it..."

"Most of the people he killed were Muggles armed to protect wizards."

"Muggles are human too, against discrimination..."

"You use the word Muggle now, which is itself part of the discrimination."

"Stanley is a staunch Death Eater, unforgivable!"

"I think Stanley has at least two points that are far better than ordinary Death Eaters. First of all, he is honest enough, unlike some people who use the Imperius Curse and Fascination Curse as an excuse to say that he is being manipulated and cannot help himself." .Secondly, he loves his family. He is indeed not a good person, but he has family values, loves his family, and is willing to sacrifice his life for it. I think he is not a big evil, and he has the value of saving."...

Both pros and cons were arguing red-faced, and Kane, who was sitting in the defendant's family seat, seemed to hide half of his body behind his mother in horror, peeking out from the gap between her arms, but was actually silently observing these people.

Authority, reputation and strength, the fifty people of the Wizengamot can be said to be the ceiling-level figures in the entire wizarding world, and there is no harm in observing and analyzing them.

Once the hatred has settled, it is not so easy to dispel. The wizard war has lasted for eleven years, and now is the time for liquidation.

As Kane expected, the intensity of the dispute in this public trial can be called the most trial of all Death Eaters.

Not only because of the special action of Stanley's surrender, but also because of the wealth of the Fangli family and the Shafik family.

Before Stanley, there had never been a core Death Eater who was willing to surrender, and no one had been tried as the patriarch of an ancient pure-blood family like Stanley.

Fang Li and Shafik are two ancient pure-blood families who are not thriving but not yet completely ruined.

Today, the male heirs of Fang Li's family are all dead, and even the most powerful guardians have died in the wizard war.

As for the Shafik family, only Stanley and Kane are left.

The two families have a lot of wealth, such as the ancestral house in the secret realm, the secret book of ancestral artifacts, and so on.

Many of these items cannot be taken away under normal circumstances, and they specifically involve ancient and sacred contracts.

Only by breaking the agreement and clearly proving it, can these protection treaties be circumvented and sanctioned.

And now, whether it is the International Federation of Magic, the British Ministry of Magic, or other pure-blood families, they all want to take this opportunity to get valuables.

For example, sharing the ancestral secrets of the Fangli family and the Shafiq family.

"Prohibited black magic spells must be identified and eliminated." Crouch could not refuse the sentence.

Afterwards, he said to Shafik's mother and son in a slow voice: "This is also for your own good. Power can easily breed ambition. The last thing you need is ambition, but to live in peace. Without these things, you will lose a little Extraordinary coveting!"

What he said seems to make sense, but the Fangli family and the Shafik family have lasted for nearly a thousand years, and there are many amazing talents among them. Who has the final say on whether the technique they invented is black magic or not?

For example, spells like "Shenfeng Wuying" are vague in nature, left and right, all in the mind of the examiner.

In addition, the process of identification is the process of recording. Wizards are not willing to destroy knowledge at will. They will write it down, package it into a forbidden book, and store it in the secret library. As for who can read it, guess what?

After experiencing the wizarding war, the wizards on the righteous side represented by the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix felt that their technical background was not strong and their overall combat power was low.

Wizards on the evil side always come up with strange and mature spells from time to time, either to reverse the situation, or to escape from the sky.

This is also the main reason why Death Eaters are particularly difficult to fight and capture. It is not because of their tenacious will to fight, nor because of their high magic power, but because they always have endless new methods.

Of course, no one felt that the magic was invented by the Death Eaters themselves, but rather by their family background. Inherited for a long time, there is always accumulation.

The righteous people have learned from the painful experience, deeply aware of the importance of the barrel of a gun, and also deeply aware of the importance of having a few tricks that are not universally used.

However, magic is not something that can be invented with a slap on the head. Even if you have that talent, you must have other corresponding conditions. For example, money.

In this context, it is obviously the most efficient to directly take what is ready-made.

So, isn't now a good opportunity? The details of two ancient pure-blood families can be cleaned up at once. If they are killed, it will be difficult to get all of them with the means of hiding things of wizards.

So there was Crouch's sentencing.

"I object!" This time it was the British Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who stood up and loudly objected. He said righteously: "This is a trample on the dignity and glory of the ancient family."

Crouch said: "The problem now is precisely that their own descendants are disdainful, and they use these banners to shame their ancestors. I think the British Ministry of Magic can send people to participate in specific actions to identify which are black magic books."

Fudge sat down. He won the right to share the cake for the British Ministry of Magic.

Crouch looked around and said majesticly: "Does anyone have any opinions on this?"

Another person 'Teng' stood up, and he was also a member of the Wizengamot judges. He said loudly: "The loser loses everything. There is nothing wrong with that. But today has set a very bad precedent. The Shafik family took the initiative Surrender yourself, but what you get in return is deprivation in a bone-squeezing style!"

Kane paid this person enough attention, and saw that he was a middle-aged fat man with a bald head.

This fat man has a rosacea, and he is not capable and handsome in appearance, and because of excitement, the few locks of hair covering his bald head from the side are all scattered and drooping, giving him a somewhat 'unkempt' sloppy feeling.

However, this man spoke powerfully and boldly, so I heard him continue loudly: "From now on, there will be no more Death Eaters who surrender themselves. If there is a next Wizarding War, I think there will definitely be one. By then , the war will be even more tragic."