Chapter 444 442 Prince

Chapter 444 442. Prince

As for how this public trial should be conducted, Jon actually discussed it with Dumbledore before he left England with Lily.

In addition to the execution and how to judge, the most certain consensus between him and Dumbledore is that this public trial must not leave everyone with the impression that it is just a bloodline confrontation, that the Mumbled are judging the purebloods, that all purebloods are guilty, and that all oppressed Mumbled are kind.

This is obviously wrong, because there is no shortage of pureblood wizards in both the Order of the Phoenix and the Wizarding World. Although they are only a minority, their emotions must still be considered.

If it is just a simple trial of purebloods, or the public trial is only aimed at bloodline, then perhaps the purebloods in the Order of the Phoenix will not say anything when watching this public trial, but if some words like "those with bloodline are villains" are spread afterwards, they will definitely feel chilled.

And through this public trial, Dumbledore and his team must also make one thing clear to all students and even wizards in the outside world of the Wizarding World.

What they are going to overthrow and defeat is the theory of bloodline, not pure-blood wizards alone!

This is very important, because once the goal is wrong, even if they win the final victory later, there is a great possibility that another confrontation will be set off.

At that time, pure-bloods will become the bottom of society, and Muggles will become the upper class. History will repeat itself in an inverted way, until one day it may be reversed again.

And Muggles like Henderson are obviously accomplices in the theory of bloodline, and in Hogwarts Castle, Muggles living in the basement actually don’t have much contact with pure-blood students in most cases. These high-ranking masters feel ashamed to even breathe the same air with them. Many oppressions and management of them are achieved by cultivating traitors, that is, people like Henderson.

So some things are more shocking to the hearts of Muggles than to judge pure-bloods.

Slughorn, who was sitting in the audience, could naturally think of all these things very clearly, and after all the charges were confirmed, Henderson naturally did not escape the fate of death.

In the midst of the fury, he became the second person to be hanged on the gallows.

Slughorn looked at Henderson's still swaying body, and for some reason he suddenly realized that his previous thoughts were all wrong.

He thought that if Voldemort was really defeated in the future, the magic world would return to the state before he began to rule more than ten years ago, but now he felt that if the situation really continued like this, the magic world would move towards a completely new direction.

A completely new direction that no one had ever seen and no one could have predicted!

This public trial certainly would not end after just trying two people. There were many people queuing up behind them, and they were pulled up to the platform one by one.

Among these people were purebloods, half-bloods, and punks. Most of them had committed heinous crimes, and the gallows erected on the platform also played its greatest role, hanging eight former castle students in a row!

The oldest of these people, like Henderson and Flint, were already 18 years old, while the youngest was only 15 years old.

That was the eldest daughter of a pure-blood family, and one of the worst of the eight people who were hanged. She had already killed two Muggle slaves!

This was not ordered by her parents. They were just jealous and hateful of the two Muggle girls who were prettier than her, so they had their faces burned with a spell and their families killed in front of them, on the grounds that they wanted to experiment on how to drive a normal person crazy.

Although 17 years old is considered an adult among wizards, there has never been a "XXXX Protection Act" in the magic world, not to mention that this was during wartime, and such behavior extremely touched the moral bottom line of mankind.

Those who were brought to the platform later were not as anti-human as the first eight.

Although their nature was equally bad, for example, the two pure-blood witches who had previously testified Flint's crimes as witnesses, persecuted Asiya, and served as Floyd's accomplices, because they were not the masterminds and were willing to testify later to make up for their mistakes, they could at least be spared from death.

But after the first eight public trials, the emotions of all the students in the audience were obviously aroused. They looked at everyone brought up on the stage as if they were extremely evil villains. For example, before McGonagall finished announcing the charges against these two pure-blood witches, there was a cry of "hanging" from the audience.

They were so scared that they almost fainted on the spot, and they collapsed on the high platform and couldn't even stand up straight.

Fortunately, the role of McGonagall, Flitwick and Lupin on the stage was to avoid such a situation. In the end, the two witches were not sentenced to hanging, but to 15 years in prison.

This is why they followed Freud to harm punks, but they did not kill anyone, and Asiya did not really die in the end, otherwise it would not be only 15 years.

Draco also watched all the public trials.

He was not selected as the subject of the public trial. In the final analysis, he was arrogant and had a bad personality, but he had not or did not have the courage to do so many evil things.

Lucius' own hands were dirty, but out of protection for his family, he did not let his son touch those things. Also, because of the existence of the house-elf Dobby, the Malfoy family did not accept Muggles as slaves, which left him little room to make mistakes.

Therefore, after being taken to France, he confessed everything he had done in Hogwarts Castle without any threats. In fact, he only occasionally mocked and insulted some half-bloods, and nothing more serious.

For his situation, of course, there is no need for a public trial. He only needs to write a self-criticism in private and then be assigned to labor reform for a period of time.

But after watching this public trial today, it still had a great impact on Draco, especially when he saw those faces that were not unfamiliar to him being hung on the gallows, kicking their legs weakly, and finally completely stopped breathing. The scene made him feel his legs weak and his body trembled even when he was sitting on the chair.

Unlike the original book, when Britain was completely ruled by Voldemort, Draco was exposed to a more complete blood theory education since childhood.

Just like the Muggles who were taken to Hogwarts Castle were taught from childhood that they were inferior and slaves, the noble new generation of pure-bloods were also instilled with the idea that they were superior and born stronger and more noble than others.

Before meeting Jon, Draco believed in this theory. Even after meeting Jon, he had been comforting himself in his heart that Jon was just an outlier among the punks.

But today, when five familiar pure-blood bodies among the eight hanged people were dangling in front of him, the concept he had been shaped for fifteen years was truly shattered!

What is born noble?

On that gallows, bloodline, identity, status, everything is false, whether there is bloodline or not is the same, they will be hanged in the anger and condemnation of the public!

Draco certainly didn't remember that day in the castle when Voldemort occupied his body. The only memory left in his mind was a passage Jon said to him before he fell into a coma. He said that if the witches won later, his father would definitely die, and he would still have a chance to live.

At that time, he felt very angry, extremely angry, but after hearing the accusations of those who were hanged today, he knew that Jon was right at that time.

Lucius's men were stained with the blood of members of the Order of the Phoenix, so he would not be alive no matter what.

Unless he had made great contributions to stabbing Voldemort and liberating the whole of Britain, even if Dumbledore wanted to stay, he would not be able to stay, not to mention that Dumbledore had no reason to keep him.

And Draco himself knew clearly that with his father's fence-sitting personality, he would never make any risky backstabs before the situation was clear, which meant that as long as Dumbledore won, he would definitely die!

Draco thought of this, and at the same time, he also saw the Mammoth students who were sitting on the chairs, covering their faces and crying after the public trials.

He looked at the students who were about the same age as him, and his mood was a little complicated.

In the past, he never regarded the so-called "mudbloods" as normal people, because that was the education he received since childhood.

Only today did he truly know that these people who were buried in the grave in the bloodline theory could also cry and laugh. They were not inferior to him in any way except for their different origins.

Jon and Lily returned to the Spider's End Alley.

Even if they had a list of medicinal materials, they could not find more information about what medicine Snape made for Voldemort.

Sometimes the magic of potions is even more magical than magic. Let alone vague materials, even if it is a specific list of materials, no potion master dared to confirm a certain potion based on this list.

Because in addition to the potion formulas that have been explored and explored for thousands of years, new potions will appear in the magic world almost every once in a while.

Not to mention that the potion that Voldemort needs must be extraordinary, otherwise it would not be so hidden, even the second Voldemort in his body was kept secret.

Therefore, it is obviously unwise to check what the potion is in this situation. They only need to catch Snape again, and then they can ask any questions.

Besides, regardless of whether there is a clue of the potion or not, Lily will definitely only pursue Snape.

"After Snape was brought to France, shouldn't we have fed him Veritaserum for interrogation? Why didn't we find out about the potion?"

Walking along the river near Spinner's End, Jon asked in confusion.

He felt that even if Dumbledore wanted to do something, he couldn't have planned it at that time.

Lily just said calmly.

"He has achieved great success in brain occlumency. Our people have verified this after bringing him back from England. With this ability, if he wants, not only Legilimency, but also Veritaserum can be circumvented and some false information can be answered."

Jon nodded after thinking.

He himself has a high level of attainment in brain occlumency, but he only knows that this magic is resistant to Legilimency, and he has never done any experiments on Veritaserum, so he is not clear about this.

"Then how can you be sure that Snape is likely to stay in this city and not go anywhere else, professor?" Jon asked.

Lily did not directly answer Jon's question, but asked back.

"Do you know why Snape took the pseudonym Prince?"

Jon shook his head. He obviously didn't know much about Snape's past. He just knew that Snape had given himself a "half-blood prince" when he was young, and the word "Prince" was Prince if used as a name or surname.

When he first heard the pseudonym Prince, he thought that the old bat man was still a middle-aged man and still wanted others to call him a prince.

"His mother is Irene Prince, and this surname is her mother's surname."

Hearing Lily's words, Jon's face showed a look of realization.

Lily did not show any shyness about her past when she was a child, and continued.

"I have known him since childhood. He even told me about magic, wizards and Hogwarts for the first time. It was near this Spider's End Alley, where there used to be a lawn."

"His mother is a pure-blood wizard and a very gentle woman, but his family is not good. His father hates everything about wizards and has a violent tendency. So at that time, he actually hated his father and didn't like his last name Snape. He secretly called himself Prince."

Jon blinked.

"So?"

"So he actually still has feelings for his mother, and this has not disappeared because he joined the Death Eaters. Otherwise, he would not have been using the name Prince until now when he chose a pseudonym."

Lily looked at the chimney in the distance that was still spewing black mist into the sky and said softly.

"So, I concluded that if he really stayed in the UK and didn't go back to his master, Snape would definitely stay in this city. The most dangerous place is actually the safest, and this is still his and his mother's home."

Her analysis was well-founded, and Jon also thought it made sense.

"But this city is not small, where should we start looking?"

"Don't be so anxious because of me. I have waited for so many years, and I will not be impatient for these few days. It's so late, let's find a place to stay first."