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Hogwarts, the public trial continued.
Albus Dumbledore's voice boomed like thunder in the ears of every wizard, and compared to the deafening reprimands, people were even more shocked by the astonishing accusations contained in the old wizard's questioning.
More than half a year ago, at the opening feast of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Gringotts goblins and the Ministry of Magic broke into the school one after another, informing everyone of an unbelievable piece of news - Hogwarts had been mortgaged to Gringotts by "the mysterious person."
For a long time after that, Ministry of Magic Aurors aggressively searched almost every corner of Britain, and ultimately found nothing more than suspecting that all of this might be related to "the mysterious person." Later, the joint repurchase plan statement issued by the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts reassured people, and they quickly put the matter behind them.
As long as they knew that Hogwarts would not fall into the hands of the goblins, most wizards would at most sigh a few times about the losses and costs that the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts might bear behind the scenes, and would not really take it to heart.
However, now that Dumbledore has brought up the matter again, it is clear that he has found some breakthrough points on Peter.
Faced with Albus Dumbledore's questioning, Peter Pettigrew's eyelids twitched slightly, and he replied with a wooden expression:
"These things were indeed done by me, in order to better assist the Dark Lord. I will prepare everything before the master returns, and this time, I will receive more glory than any other Death Eater, far more than before..."
"The mysterious person is dead! He will never come back, you lunatic!"
Cornelius Fudge frowned, as if he had been pricked by a needle, and said fiercely.
However, various absurd things have appeared in piles in the past few days, so that Cornelius Fudge finds it difficult to believe something 100% as he used to. The man looked at Peter Pettigrew with a gloomy face, as if looking at a monster.
"Cornelius, don't get excited," Dumbledore shook his head, "No matter what the truth is, we will definitely get to the bottom of it today, believe me... In this matter, I am more angry and more eager to know the truth than you."
After slightly appeasing Cornelius Fudge's emotions, Dumbledore looked at Peter Pettigrew again.
"So, Peter, tell me - who ordered you to do this? How did you do it?"
"The Dark Lord, the great Dark Lord foresaw all of this a long time ago."
Peter Pettigrew replied woodenly, and a strange smile seemed to faintly appear on his loose cheeks. In the calm and rigid narration, a secret hidden for ten years was gradually revealed in front of tens of thousands of wizards.
"Hogwarts Castle once belonged to Salazar Slytherin, which is a past event recorded very clearly in 'Hogwarts: A History', and the great Dark Lord happens to have the noble blood of the Slytherin family flowing in his body."
"After finding out his own background, the Dark Lord once wanted to return to Hogwarts to find more secrets left by Salazar Slytherin, but was refused entry to the school by Dumbledore. Therefore, I, who was lurking in the Order of the Phoenix, could only replace the Dark Lord in searching for the secrets left by the Slytherin family in the castle, as well as those unknown treasures..."
"Wait! Return to... Hogwarts?"
At this moment, Amelia Bones, sitting next to Cornelius Fudge, suddenly narrowed her eyes tightly, the edge of her monocle almost digging into her flesh. The witch stared at Peter Pettigrew and asked sternly.
"So, the one whose name must not be mentioned once entered Hogwarts? Who is he?!"
The entire Quidditch pitch seemed to instantly fall into silence, everyone subconsciously held their breath and looked towards the center of the field.
As the "most dangerous dark wizard" in history, Voldemort was like a shadow that appeared out of thin air in the wizarding world, and both his past identity and background were shrouded in a terrifying mist.
There is no doubt that Voldemort, who had extremely high attainments in name magic, knew the importance of true names and magic names.
Apart from his closest and most trusted subordinates, people didn't even know his real name - this caused the Ministry of Magic to encounter many difficulties in combating the dark forces and clearing the Death Eaters after Voldemort's downfall.
Fudge, who originally wanted to stop Amelia Bones from asking questions, stopped his arm in mid-air after hearing the question from the witch. After thinking for a while, he put it down again without showing any expression, putting on a surprised expression.
Unexpectedly, Albus Dumbledore, standing in front of the main trial platform, did not show any intention of stopping him, but instead raised his eyebrows meaningfully, waiting for Peter Pettigrew's answer with a noncommittal expression.
Peter Pettigrew trembled, a look of yearning appearing on his face, and said slowly.
"Of course. Not only did the great Dark Lord enter Hogwarts to study, but during his time at school, he successively served as a prefect, male student council president, and also won the Outstanding Moral Character Award, Special Contribution Award, and even a Merlyn Medal..."
"Hmm? Received the Merlyn Medal during school? I seem to have some impression."
Cornelius Fudge's face changed slightly, and he whispered thoughtfully.
In order to find a suitable reason to award himself a Merlyn Medal, Cornelius Fudge had carefully studied the various reasons for receiving the Merlyn Medal in modern magical history. Combining Peter Pettigrew's words, he vaguely had some impression at this time.
Before he could recall the specific content, Peter Pettigrew not far away had already taken the initiative to reveal the final answer.
"My master, the supreme Dark Lord, the descendant of Salazar Slytherin, Tom Riddle, the most outstanding student in the history of Hogwarts, even Dumbledore in his student days could not compare with the great Dark Lord!"
Under the influence of Veritaserum, Peter Pettigrew's voice still had no ups and downs.
But even so, everyone present could still vaguely see the shadow of that dazzling male student council president during his student days from Peter Pettigrew's plain voice. For a moment, the entire venue fell silent again.
Whether it was students who were still at Hogwarts now, or adults who had already graduated, this time they had a fairly intuitive understanding of Peter Pettigrew's description. No one could have foreseen that Voldemort, who was once mysterious, terrifying, and difficult to track, had actually transformed from a legendary shadow demon king into a human wizard in such a situation.
After a few seconds of silence, Cornelius Fudge swallowed and slowly looked at Dumbledore, who was still looking normal, beside him.
"Professor Dumbledore, is that really the case? Did you know all this a long time ago?"
"That's right, alas..."
Dumbledore sighed lightly, his eyes still fixed on the parchment in front of him, but it felt as if his thoughts had unknowingly left the words on the paper and flown back to the years decades ago.
"Few people know that Voldemort's previous name was Tom Riddle. This is actually a very childish word game, but other than that, it is difficult for me to find other evidence to prove the connection between the two."
"Word... game?"
"That's right, just like this, simple letter changes."
Dumbledore turned his head, glanced at the Ministry of Magic people with confused faces, and waved his wand in the air, a series of green letters floated in the air, forming three shining names.
[Tom Marvolo Riddle]
Then, after everyone had almost seen these characters clearly, Dumbledore waved his wand again, and the letters automatically changed their positions, becoming:
[I am Voldemort]
Amid people's whispers, Dumbledore stared at the string of names in the air for a while, then suddenly waved his hand vigorously, dispersing the shining magic characters, and continued with a slightly tired expression.
"Fifty years ago, at Hogwarts, I personally taught him. After he left school, he disappeared... Traveling around, his footprints all over the corners of the magical world... He sank deeper and deeper into the quagmire of dark magic, mixed with many evil guys in the wizarding world, underwent many dangerous magical transformations, and finally reappeared as Voldemort."
"At that time, it was already difficult for people to recognize him. Almost no one could associate Voldemort with that smart, handsome male student council president who had studied here, and I personally think that Voldemort who appeared at this time had also completely severed ties with the former student. There is almost no connection between the two..."
"But you are wrong, Dumbledore." Cornelius Fudge suddenly said loudly, "If you had told the Ministry of Magic this news in the first place, when the situation started to go wrong, we could have tried..."
"Don't meddle with fields and forces you are not familiar with, Cornelius."
Dumbledore turned his head and interrupted Fudge's words without explanation. The old man's sharp eyes pierced Cornelius Fudge's eyes from his crooked nose, and said seriously, "I admit that I may not have made the most appropriate choice, but everything is in the past. What we need to do now is not to blame each other, but to face reality together."
"Obviously, Voldemort left many secret instructions to Peter Pettigrew before he fell... Fortunately, before he could implement all the conspiracies, we had already successfully caught him. The tragedy of Hogwarts is just the beginning. Their conspiracy can never be just a little Galleon..."
Dumbledore looked around at the wizards around him with a solemn face and said in a serious tone.
"Please think about it, an undead, vicious, and possibly returning dark wizard, a Death Eater who does not hesitate to pretend to be stupid and feign death for nearly ten years for the sake of conspiracy, playing the wizarding world in the palm of his hand, and at the same time has amazing magical attainments, if the two meet again, what a terrible disaster it will be for the wizarding world and even the entire human world..."
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Chapter 1! Oh my god!!
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