Chapter 285 Caught!

The four deans stood near the end of the long table, holding crystal balls in their hands. They first asked the prefects of each college to come over and ask them if they were Death Eaters, and then asked them to stand near the door.

Then, the students at the four tables, starting from the first grade, were called one by one in alphabetical order of their surnames to ask if they were Death Eaters, and then they were arranged to stand near the door.

And so on, until the fourth grade was called, a Hufflepuff student finally showed some movement, but before she could put her right hand into the inner pocket of her robe, a Stunning Spell knocked her unconscious.

The classmates around her wanted to disperse, but were stopped by the nearby Aurors, forcing them to maintain their original sitting positions and let the fainted student lie on the long table and faint.

"Ms. Parkinson, are you a Death Eater or working for the You-Know-Who's forces?" Snape asked coldly.

Pansy Parkinson was so nervous that her legs began to tremble, and she said calmly, "I'm not."

The crystal ball in Snape's hand lit up.

Two nearby Black Aurors immediately shot out magic ropes to tie her up, and used the "Langlock" spell to make her tongue stick to her upper palate, preventing her from making any defense.

Soon, the results of the investigation came out. Five students were knocked unconscious for making abnormal movements at the long table, and four of them lit up the crystal ball when they denied their Death Eater identities.

The crystal ball is a magical item used by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to conduct preliminary identification of the credibility of confessions, that is, the legendary lie detector ball.

When Taylor and Holly represented the Muggle authorities in a meeting with Umbridge, Chen Bin had seen the pink witch use this prop to detect their credibility, and Chen Bin was transformed into Yuan Fang at the time, and was often asked by the witch: "Is that so, Mr. Nama?"

Basically, as long as you use this toy to ask complete and detailed affirmative sentences, and the other party can only answer yes or no, the accuracy rate is infinitely close to 100%.

This does not rule out that masters of brain occlumency such as Dumbledore, Voldemort, Snape and Chen Bin can fool the crystal ball, but it is 100% accurate when used against students who have never seen the world.

Only the Ministry of Magic can purchase and authorize the production of this thing, and it must be registered and marked with serial numbers. It is not like the memory ball that turns red when the owner forgets something and can be purchased and manufactured at will.

Since this thing has been invented by someone a long time ago and it is a controlled product, the Nama family has never studied it and can only borrow four polygraph balls from Fudge to check for Death Eaters.

Chen Bin did not use this thing before because he was at odds with Fudge, and the right to allocate this item belongs to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement under Minister Fudge.

The next process is very simple. The prefects of the same gender are responsible for body searches, and professors are responsible for inspecting the magic items found.

Only two of the nine people carried dark magic items with them, so they took student representatives and Aurors of all levels to search their dormitories and found a lot of tools that could be used to commit crimes, some herbs that could be mixed into poisons, some parts of dark magic items, some paper, pens and mirrors that could be used to write letters over long distances, and other props that normal students should not have.

According to Chen Bin's experience in investigating cases in his previous life, even if they were suspects, finding these tools could not prove that they were the murderers, because the parts held by each person had no lethality, and were not products prohibited by law. They needed to be combined together to become murder tools, and the communication products needed to have a criminal record to be considered as evidence.

Except for Pansy Parkinson, the other eight were students whose names were not mentioned in the original book.

They were all students from the fourth to seventh grades, distributed in four colleges, and only Parkinson, a hidden Death Eater, was found in Slytherin.

Professor McGonagall was very troubled by this. If she was serious, the nine people should be sent to Azkaban, but since they were students and had not committed crimes in time, the acting headmaster didn't know what to do.

"Professor McGonagall, the student status cannot be used as a defense for exemption from criminal responsibility." Chen Bin and McGonagall came to the room behind the auditorium for a small meeting, and the other professors and Aurors conducted a secondary investigation of the students.

Chen Bin felt that McGonagall tended to treat these students leniently, but this was incompatible with Chen Bin's philosophy.

Not long after, the door was knocked, and Catalina came over with a serious face and whispered: "Three more Death Eater students were found, one of whom was Alicia Spinnet."

"Spinnet?" Chen Bin checked the student list in his mind and finally remembered that she was a chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, a seventh-year Indian girl.

He looked at McGonagall, her face was even paler, her mouth moved a few times, but she didn't speak.

In the original book, this girl participated in the D.A. organized by Harry and Hermione; in reality, she was a Gryffindor with excellent character and academic performance.

Now, after checking, she became a Death Eater student.

Chen Bin looked at the checklist. The girl answered many questions but did not cause the crystal ball to light up. Until she was asked: Has anyone asked you to help the dark wizards to plot against Hogwarts? After she answered no, the crystal ball lit up.

Then, the Aurors took out another list of questions and asked that she was asked by her father to help the Death Eater students smuggle regulated items to the castle, and now she was controlled by the Aurors.

"Bring her here." Professor McGonagall's face was quite ugly, and she waited quietly for Arya Spinnet to be taken into the room.

"Professor McGonagall, Professor Namar." Spinnet was tied up by magic ropes, with some tears on her face. She lowered her head and did not dare to look into the eyes of the two.

"Why did you do this? Did you know that Harry was almost burned to death, and you were one of the accomplices. Do you deserve the trust between teammates?" McGonagall asked with a sullen face.

Spinnet was pressed by two female Aurors on the shoulders, lowered her head and dared not speak.

"Do you have any difficulties?" Chen Bin asked gently.

No answer.

"Are there any relatives in your family controlled by the mysterious man?"

No answer.

"Did some Death Eater relatives die in the battle?"

No answer.

Chen Bin asked many questions patiently, but Alia Spinnet kept her head down and did not speak.

"Do you know that the highest punishment for you to bear it alone is to endure the kiss of the Dementor?" Chen Bin's last sentence scared her whole body.

"The Dementor has been sealed by the Ministry of Magic." Alia Spinnet whispered.

"We just don't let them guard Azkaban. When we need to execute the sentence, we can still bring a Dementor as a tool." Chen Bin was not threatening, well, it was really threatening now, but the Defense Department and the Wizengamot really had the power to use the sealed Dementors.

He didn't need to scare for long before Alia Spinnet told him the whole story.

Her uncle died as a Death Eater in the Voldemort Resurrection War, and her parents were very sad about it.

During the Christmas holidays, her family had guests and asked her parents to let her take a bag of things back to school and put it in the room where the miscellaneous items were piled in the Room of Requirement.

She did so, but only after Harry was killed did she think that these things might be related to the murder of Harry. She believed that the Death Eaters were hateful, but their crimes were not punishable by death. They should be sent to Azkaban after being tried by the Wizengamot, instead of being shot on the battlefield.

Chen Bin had a headache. The experiences of the next two students were similar to those of Alia Spinnet. Their parents were entrusted by their friends to deliver the parts of the crime tools to the castle.

"Naima, do you still insist on punishing these students severely?" Professor McGonagall said this and walked out of the room, leaving Chen Bin with a headache.

"Bin, what should we do?" Catalina came in with a thick confession, which was full of evidence of the students' crimes, and there were no new suspects.

"Binbin, are you really going to arrest them all and put them in Azkaban?" Yisha, who only knew how to watch strongly, asked while eating watermelons.

"Eating watermelons" is not an adjective, she was really eating watermelons.

"Damn it! I don't want this crappy position anymore!" As soon as Chen Bin finished speaking, the White Devil flashed in the room for half a second and took Chen Bin away.

That night, the Hogwarts Evening News arrived at the readers' hands two hours late.

This time, the headlines reported that parents of students used their children to help Death Eaters destroy Hogwarts, and even conspired to carry out large-scale massacres.

All the students involved have been controlled by the school, and their parents have been arrested by the Ministry of Magic and scheduled to be tried by the Wizengamot.

Hogwarts conducted a seven-hour search of all dormitories that night, confiscated all magic items and herbs without reasonable explanation, and prohibited students from using any communication items other than owls. Even Hermione's short message machine was confiscated by Ishaben.

As compensation, the Finance Department promised to allocate no less than one million gold galleons every year in the future, allowing students to use a fixed amount of parchment, stationery, clothes, classroom herbs and related textbooks for free, but students are strictly prohibited from bringing the above items and any magic items without permission.

In other words, Hogwarts has become a completely free magic school, even the daily consumables and clothes of students are fully covered, but it also cuts off students from bringing any undeclared items, even a piece of white paper.

All packages sent by owl mail must be inspected before they can be released, and items sent from home or ordered by mail must be declared before students can use them.

Although this is a waste of money and time, it really completely eliminates the possibility of students carrying dangerous items.

The utility room in the Room of Requirement was cleaned up by the Auror Corps. This took nearly a week, and countless invalid dark magic items were found, proving that there are unruly wizards among the students of all generations.

As for the nine Death Eater students and three auxiliary staff, after consultation between the school, the Department of Defense and the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, they were allowed to choose whether to submit the case to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for a court date or voluntarily wear a tracking necklace that cannot be removed.

The eleven people also have normal thinking, so they all wore the necklace obediently and signed a guarantee that they would not violate any magical laws within ten years, otherwise they would be sentenced to Azkaban immediately.

In fact, there is no such rule in the wizarding world. Chen Bin referred to the "Binding over" system of Muggle law, the concept of probation, and the American GPS digital shackles (prisoners wearing trackers stay at home instead of in jail) to create this kind of absurd sentencing.