Chapter 523 I hope you are a smart person

Scrimgeour didn't know how to answer Old Barty's question.

As the director of the Auror Office, he should clearly stand on the legal side and oppose Old Barty's so-called "death penalty", but his heart was telling him that Old Barty might be right.

If even the laws of the Ministry of Magic cannot guarantee fairness among wizards, then who is willing to follow the laws of the Ministry of Magic? !

Scrimgeour still remembered a case he personally led on a case involving a wizard using the Unforgivable Curse to kill people.

The cause of that case was a large-scale transaction of magic props between two wizards. Both wizards signed a magic contract for the transaction, but the magic contract was relatively simple and had not been re-encrypted and protected by other magic.

This allowed one of the wizards to exploit a loophole and use the contract magic inherited from his family to secretly erase some of the conditions of the magic contract they signed and tamper with the content of the magic contract.

This resulted in a magical contract that required the other party to pay the wizard hundreds of thousands of gold galleons, but the wizard did not need to give the other party anything!

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this wizard had tampered with the contents of the magic contract and deliberately harmed the other party.

But under the modification of magic, even the Ministry of Magic can only confirm that the magic contract is still valid, and the tricked wizard still needs to pay hundreds of thousands of gold galleons without getting anything!

After the tricked wizard refused to pay the gold Galleons, the wizard who had tampered with the magic contract actually bit back and sent a complaint from the other party to the Ministry of Magic for trial.

Even if Scrimgeour and the judges at the time knew the truth of the matter, the magical contract was in front of everyone, and the Ministry of Magic could only find the framed wizard guilty according to the law and send him to Azka. Two weeks in jail!

Two weeks is not much, but it is definitely not much.

Even the dark wizards who had actually committed crimes could not bear this kind of pain, let alone the wizards who had been wronged and imprisoned in Azkaban Prison. !

Therefore, after the framed wizard was released from prison, he immediately sought out the enemy who had tampered with the magic contract to frame him, and even filed a complaint that caused him to be imprisoned in Azkaban Prison.

He used the most cruel method to torture the four members of the wizard's family who had tampered with the contract with the Cruciatus Curse until they died!

This is also one of the most shocking massacres in the British wizarding world in recent years.

The Ministry of Magic did not disclose the details of that case to the public. The wizards in the British wizarding world only knew that a vicious dark wizard used the Cruciatus Curse to wipe out entire families, but they did not know the inside story.

But Scrimgeour, who knew the inside story, understood that if there were not flaws in the Ministry of Magic's laws and the trial was not fair, how could the framed wizard be unjust and imprisoned in Azkaban? !

If the wizard had not been so wronged, would he have followed his original path and killed the other's family of four with cruel means? !

Perhaps the cause of everything was the greed of the exterminated wizard, but the Ministry of Magic definitely had an unshirkable responsibility.

You know, at the beginning of that trial, the wizard who was framed proposed to use veritaserum on the wizard who tampered with the magic contract, so that he could tell the truth and clear his name.

However, the judges of the Ministry of Magic rejected the wizard's request on the grounds that the case did not yet meet the conditions for the use of Veritaserum.

The Ministry of Magic has strict restrictions on the use of Veritaserum, but it was this so-called restriction that cost the lives of five wizards!

Perhaps in the eyes of the Ministry of Magic, it has gone to the extreme. As the only government in the magical world, the Ministry of Magic must weigh the pros and cons.

But for wizards, they don't think so much. They only know that if the Ministry of Magic cannot bring them fairness, then they will get it themselves!

"If I serve as Minister of Magic, the first thing I will do is to abandon Azkaban Prison, and the second thing is to increase the death penalty..."

Old Barty looked at Scrimgeour and said slowly.

As Old Barty finished speaking, he gently waved the wand in his hand, and with a "pop" sound, he apparated away from the Floo Network Management Bureau.

Scrimgeour stared at the position where old Barty was standing before he left for a long time, then slowly looked away and ordered to Column beside him: "Take Michael's body away, and when it is announced to the public, say that Michael resisted arrest and Attacked the Auror, and was accidentally hit on the head by a disarming spell during the Auror's self-defense counterattack and died."

Hearing this, Kelen was stunned, and he hesitated: "But..."

Michael was obviously knocked down by Old Barty's crushing curse and killed by a cutting curse. How could he be accidentally hit in the vital part by the Auror's counterattack and die? !

Scrimgeour waved his hand and said impatiently: "Do as I say!"

Seeing that Scrimgeour had no intention of answering his questions, Colin no longer hesitated. Completing his boss's mission was the most important thing. He agreed and left, dragging Michael's headless body.

After Coren dragged Michael's body away and the employees of the Floo Network Administration also dispersed, Scrimgeour lowered his eyes slightly.

"Being the Minister of Magic? Where does your confidence come from?"

Scrimgeour said softly, his expression full of complexity.

On the other side, Old Batty's figure appeared in his office with the flash of white light.

"Huh... I hope you're a smart man, Scrimgeour..."

Old Batty whispered to himself, his expression still complicated.

In fact, Old Barty could have secretly helped the Aurors to arrest Michael as he had done in the past, and after the trial by the Ministry of Magic, he could have found an opportunity to cause Michael to die accidentally.

Instead of doing all this in front of Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror Office, he almost handed over his handle to the other party in person.

Obviously, Old Barty did this on purpose. Whether he was telling Scrimgeour his thoughts or "accidentally" revealing his ambition for the position of Minister of Magic in his words, Old Barty did this on purpose. !

Old Barty could see that Scrimgeour was by no means a loser like Fudge, but a truly capable Auror, someone who could work with him to make the Ministry of Magic a better place in the future.

Therefore, Old Barty hopes to win Scrimgeour's support in advance.

He didn't expect Scrimgeour to cheer him up.

As long as their thoughts can reach a certain degree of unity, it will be enough to make old Batty happy. (End of chapter)