Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

Zoe could feel the heart beating in her chest, and she could even feel the blood running up the blood vessels to her head, all because of the Diggorys' sincere thanks.A hand was placed quietly on her shoulder, and she knew whose hand it was.

"...Miss Siegel," Mr. Diggory flushed, and he seemed reluctant to say these things, but he hesitated for a long time before speaking."I think I should...for those false comments about you that I have discussed with people in the past...apologies, apologies."

"It's okay, sir. I'm used to it and don't care too much..." Zoe said calmly.She had a period when she hated these rumors and felt extremely desperate.But at least after so many years, at least after some warmth and care in her hands, she now can face the pain that she could not face in the past.

"Um..." Mr. Diggory frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but was stopped by his wife."Let the children rest, Amos... we have bothered them for too long." They stood up."You guys go back too." Zoe said to Draco and they, then turned to look at Hermione, she seemed to be hesitant to stay.

"I'm okay, Hermione. You go back together, and you can bring me two books tomorrow. I didn't have an exam, and I don't know if Dumbledore is willing to give me a chance to make up the exam." Hermione listened to her. That said, all of a sudden froze.

"What's wrong?" Zoe asked her hastily.

"Oh, can I also apply for a make-up exam?" Hermione smiled wryly, but didn't say anything more."It's nothing, just remembered that a drop of ink was dripped on the paper... Sure enough, I still stayed?" She repeated it nervously. Although Zoe felt warm, he refused her.

"Bang." Before the door of the infirmary knocked, it was suddenly pushed open. The messy footsteps of several adults came from the door. The headed man's face was pale. There were three people behind him, two of whom were in charge of detention. Prisoners, they may also be Aurors, because their eyes are cold and cold that ordinary people don't have.

"Minister!" Mr. Diggory stood up and greeted him, and Fudge shook his hand absently."Where is Zoe Siegel?" He looked away from her as if he didn't know Zoe at all, then looked at the other people in the infirmary, and everyone scanned it.

Zoe raised her hand while sitting on the bed, and she secretly speculated about Fudge's purpose here.She noticed that there was a man with a mad look behind Fudge. He was firmly imprisoned in the same place, still talking about something in his mouth.

"Very good." Fudge walked over, his complexion complex, and finally turned around and nodded to one of the wizards. The wizard walked silently to Zoe's bed and grabbed her hand that hadn't let go. The action decisively pressed her to the bed.

"What are you doing?!" Hermione was stunned. She was about to rush up and knock the wizard away. Fudge stepped forward to grab her and shook her head."Don't bother yourself, miss." Fudge said coldly.

"Zoe Siegel, you have been arrested by the Ministry of Magic for a number of crimes including assisting Death Eaters, performing dark magic rituals, using the unforgivable curse, spreading false panic emotions, etc., until the trial begins, your whereabouts will be The Ministry of Magic is strictly guarded... Come with us, Miss Siegel."

Chapter 108 Arrest (Part Two)

"Don't try to resist, Siegel, so that we can all be safe." At Fudge's motion, the Auror holding Zoe stopped the wand not far from her head.Fudge yelled in pain. He couldn't hold Hermione, Hermione pointed her wand straight at the Auror, and the other Auror pointed her wand at her, and the atmosphere was flaring.

"Let go, let her go." Hermione's voice trembled, and her expression told everyone that she was at a loss now, but she couldn't relax at all. "Put your wand off her head! You! Don't you know if there is a fire..." She didn't finish her words, but took a breath.

"Do you know what you are doing now, Miss Granger!" Fudge roared, and he leaped forward and grabbed Hermione's arm and removed her wand. "Are you trying to attack a Ministry official? Do you want to go to Azkaban and go to jail together hand in hand! Don't throw your own future on such trivial things, it's not worth it..."

"Small, trivial matter?... Mr. Minister, do you think this is just a trivial matter?" Hermione stared at him angrily. Her emotions were obviously out of control. "Zoe is still a wounded, and she just got out of danger! You guys! How dare you treat her like this?! Do you think she is a beast!"

I don't know how long it took before Fudge spoke to the Auror: "... let go of her first." He looked at the others helplessly, "put down the wands! Think this is a battlefield?" Luna and Draco Then he lowered the wand and ran to the panting Zoe. Hermione struggled, but didn't break free.Finally Fudge let go of her, and she ran to the bed.

"Is there any misunderstanding..." Mr. Diggory walked over and looked at Fudge nervously.

"There is nothing to misunderstand, Amos, you are just kept in the dark." Fudge rubbed his hands. "Look at that man, do you have an impression?" Mr. Diggory looked at the tied man, wrinkled He shook his head hesitantly.

"Sure enough, you can't recognize it? No wonder, he is very different from before, right." Fudge said.Mr. Diggory thought for a while without confidence."I always think that face is a bit familiar..."

"Is it a bit like Barty?" Mr. Diggory suddenly realized, and then opened his eyes in surprise.

"That's also Barty Crouch, but not the old one." Fudge gritted his teeth. "He put us all together."

"But Minister... Barty Jr. should have been..." Fudge nodded."Yes, we all thought he was dead, he died in Azkaban, but the reason why Cedric and Harry were teleported to other places and encountered danger is because of this guy!" He found that Mr. Diggory was not Believe his words, continue, "These are all told to us by himself who drank Veritaserum."

"Using the identity of Aristo Moody, he lurked in Hogwarts waiting for the opportunity to throw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire, making him the fourth warrior, and then he worked on the trophy and turned it into The door key...not to mention that this damn bastard actually shot his biological father, using him as one of the chess pieces of the Ministry of Magic...This kind of crime has already made him rotten in Azkaban for three lifetimes! "Fudge said.

"But..." Mr. Diggory asked strangely, "Why would he do this? And, what does this have to do with Siegel?"

Fudge waved his hand: "How do I know what a madman really thinks? According to him, it was to greet his master, but in my opinion this is completely nonsense! The man who can't even name his name is already in the past. It’s a disaster...but what I can confirm is that he would do this because he must have been bewitched by someone, a person who is powerful enough to instruct him and make him willing to work for him...you now know what I'm talking about What happened?" He looked at Mr. Diggory's shocked face with satisfaction.

"But, Minister..." At this moment Mrs. Diggory also came over, "Is this decision a bit sloppy? I heard Seid said that Miss Siegel is not a prisoner, but a victim like them... ... Besides," she exchanged glances with her husband anxiously, "Sed said he saw it too, the mysterious man...returned."

"...Madam, are you questioning me?" Fudge's chest rose and fell quickly, looking very excited."It's not like that, Minister. It's just whether there was a mistake when the ministry issued the arrest warrant... You must have heard a similar answer from another party," Mrs. Diggory said softly.

"Yes, Harry also said similar nonsense... But think about it carefully, if they are facing mysterious people, why can they come back alive? Those wizards who are much stronger than them are there. Lost his life in the catastrophe. Potter said he resonated with the mysterious man’s wand. How can I believe this kind of joke! Cedric must have been deceived. I suggest you take him to check if he is similar. The spell hits..."

"This..." Mr. Diggory gave it a go. He couldn't resist Fudge too much. After all, he was his boss. "But I also ask you to consider a similar possibility. If that is the truth, then maybe we can do it. Some preventive measures..."

"Amos, your tone sounds a lot like Dumbledore." Fudge sneered. "You are all tired of the easy life, don't you? I feel like spreading rumours that will cause people to panic for no reason and make everyone Is it fun to be worried about tomorrow? It’s a responsibility, Amos! During my tenure, there was such widespread panic that disrupted my current peaceful life and I would be dismissed. Yes!" He slammed the cabinet and said fiercely.

"We can't leave it alone, Minister. Even if that might be a lie, just treat it like that. But Miss Siegel saved Seid's life. We must speak for her. Please calm down." Mr. Diggory was right. When he was about to back down, his wife said softly, and Fudge took a deep breath so that he wouldn't lose control.

"The Ministry is not unreasonable, madam, please forgive me." He helped the top hat on his head. "If we hadn't got some information, we wouldn't have found Siegel."

"I also said before that this man-Barty Crouch Jr. confessed everything he knew. Dumbledore and the others were interrogating him in Moody's office. At the time, he was still frantically planning to Harry did it—the demon! They gave him Veritaserum, and I went there when they were halfway through." Fudge lowered his voice.

"Do you know what else he confessed besides those crazy words that he thinks are the truth?"

"Let me talk about it next, Connelly? I don't want you to continue to instill some biased concepts for the Diggory and the others..." An angry voice came from outside the house, and the Auror holding Batty was unhappy. Don't run to the side to avoid being hit by Dumbledore.Dumbledore’s old courteous affinity completely disappeared, his eyes burst into an astonishing rage, Snape followed him, glanced at Zoe who was surrounded by him, and withdrew again. Sight.

"I thought we had already concluded, Dumbledore," Fudge said. "It was Barty Jr. himself. You can never think that he is lying! There are no lies under Veritaserum!"

"I also thought you would think carefully about the details and unreasonable points, instead of rushing over and trying to catch the real murderer-Barty's mouth was vomiting'Max' instead of ' Zoe', why don't you want to admit that these are two different people?"

"Ha! You want to say that he didn't lie? It's ridiculous, Max Siegel is dead! This is the conclusion you reported to the then Minister of Magic! You are the last person to meet her, aren't you? ! And how similar this girl is to her mother, except for the eyes!" Fudge snarled, pointing at Zoe, "Since Max is dead, tell me what he said in his mouth. Who is the ghost who helped the plan! It can only be her daughter, it can only be Zoe Siegel, not anyone else!"

Chapter 109 Arrest (Part 2)

"Dumbledore, no matter how much you want to protect this girl, I can't pretend to be blind to this news. This is not what you promised me, because you said that she won't have any problems, and I just tried The people agreed to protect her. Even I heard two years ago that she had made a lot of trouble in school and used her snake-like accent to drive monsters to hurt people...but I believe you too."

"Should she be sent to Azkaban just for this reason?" Hermione said sharply. Fudge ignored her and looked at Dumbledore."The Ministry of Magic gave her the right to defend and will hold a trial later. You can find someone to state her innocence, and finally decide whether to let her stay in jail based on the votes of approval and disapproval..."

"Since this can't be stopped, at least let her pass the last days of the semester. Tolerance is always the best quality for a person, Connelly." Dumbledore said softly."Impossible, it must be taken away here. What if she takes the opportunity to escape?" Fudge refused to accept this opinion.

"Then," said Dumbledore, "if she escapes, you can put me in Azkaban instead. This is not a difficult authority for you, whether it is a child or an elderly person. You will always treat it unselfishly."

Fudge was frightened, and his face became very horrified: "How is this possible! Do you think you are really an ordinary old man? Why can't we always reach a consensus?"

"It's not that we couldn't reach a consensus, Connelly. We used to be able to." Dumbledore said, "Apart from all the packaging on the surface, we are just one person. Zoe is just a minor child. And I am a dying old man. Just like you always value bloodliness too much, you always lack the vision and courage to face the truth..."

"I am the Minister of Magic, Dumbledore! I am not a newcomer anymore. I don't need to send several letters every day to ask you for advice!" Fudge shouted angrily. "I really don't know what you are thinking about. What, paying too much attention to the illusions of the children, but turning a blind eye to the real murderer standing in front of him? You want me to join the giants! Don’t you know what horror they are?"

"Look, that's why we have a disagreement. Connelly, I can't let you take Zoe away right now. She still needs to recuperate, and there are many things to deal with. Her future does not belong to Azka. Ban, so I won’t let her leave school-related things rashly... I use myself to guarantee her, and I also need you to guarantee some conditions. Since Zoe was taken into custody only as a suspect and not a criminal, according to the regulations you Nor should you use Veritaserum or torture to extract a confession for investigation. You value your career very much, Connelly, and let others do it." Dumbledore hid his emotions behind his lens again.

"...I will come again in half a month." Fudge finally gave in.Zoe found that he looked at him with cold eyes this time. Fudge was always kind to her before, even though she knew that this kindness was based on Dumbledore's face.

"I'm fine." She looked at a few people who were in a much lower mood than her, and this sentence was not just to comfort them, "Actually, I am in a calm mood now, really. I have thought about it countless times. When I went to Azkaban, I also thought about what it would be like. I originally thought it would be a painful memory..."

"But in fact, I feel so calm now that I feel incredible. Things that should have been sad, but now I don't feel at all." Zoe patted Hermione on the shoulder, "Please don't blame yourself, Mr. Diggory , Mrs. Diggory, it’s not your fault that I was taken away."

What she didn't say was that not only did she feel sad and disappointed, she even felt happy.If you say these things at this time, you will probably be regarded as a lunatic, after all, other people are still angry for her."You have zero points in all subjects, and you will repeat if you don't seize the opportunity." Snape said coldly as if he couldn't understand the atmosphere.

"Ah, then you are in the same grade as me, maybe that's not bad?" Although I don't want to fantasize about such a shameful scene, it can be said to be Luna's unique way of comfort?

"I'm going to help Professor Dumbledore prepare the defense-related materials. Using this unreasonable and crude method to take you away, I will never accept it" Hermione hugged her and promised her.

"Draco?" The boy regained his thoughts like a dream. "What's wrong with you?"

"I...nothing..." Draco's answer was a little confused, "I'm going to talk to my dad, he must know what to do..." He clenched his fist in a corner that no one could see.

When everyone else was driven away by Madam Pomfrey, after the lights were turned off, only a little moonlight in the infirmary shone through the window and cast on the bedside cabinet.She glanced at Cedric's back, she must have fallen asleep.In fact, she also wanted to sleep, and a strong sense of exhaustion came to her heart, but her spirit was inexplicably high. She felt that something might be wrong.

If the life of freedom is considered with the saddest ending, only about half a month remains.She has never been to Azkaban, but as the book says, it is a cage described as the source of all evils only of despair. The dead will be buried hastily in the dirt around the prison. Just spread the terrifying dementors and the helpless prisoners.