The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Greed and lust are synonymous with the human being.

It is an instinct engraved on human DNA since ancient times.

It is the purest animal nature.

Many people in Link's previous life believed that it was the existence of war that led to the rapid development of modern human technology.

Some 50Ws with ulterior motives even distorted this theory and came up with a terrifying 'truth' - the reason why a certain ancient country that has been passed down for thousands of years can develop into its current grand scene is entirely due to the continuous infliction of aliens. invasion and domination. If there were no foreigners who came to invade and destroy this ancient country every time it became extremely corrupt, then I am afraid that the current country will be turned into a country similar to the three countries next door. situation.

There is no doubt that this is a fallacy!

The reason why such a conclusion can be drawn is not that the butt determines the head, but that this theory is wrong from the underlying logic.

It has never been war that drives human development, but desire and greed itself.

It is precisely because of human beings' instinctive possessiveness and greed for resources that the industrial revolution, the technological explosion, and the monster war have been born.

But despite greed and desire changing our lives.

This does not mean that greed is good.

Greed can also lead to ruin.

This is a double-edged sword!

So Link has always believed that when facing greed, one must always be cautious.

This is true of greed in one's own heart, and even more so of greed for others who can threaten oneself.

So adhering to this concept, when the old Batty wearing a heavy hood opened the door of the Response Room according to Link's instructions in the middle of the night and appeared in front of Link, Link didn't say a word of nonsense.

He didn't even wait for old Barty to take off his hood to salute him, and raised his wand impatiently.

"Legiliency!"

As the white light flickered, Old Barty lay on the ground stiff as if he had been electrocuted, and began to twitch continuously.

In order to ensure the authenticity of the information obtained, Link did his best this time in a real sense.

This will inevitably cause the old Batty to have intense pain, but Link doesn't think it's a big deal.

Compared to his negligence that caused the dementors to escape into Voldemort's camp, it was really just a small punishment.

After more than ten minutes, Link put down his wand, closed his eyes and recalled the memory picture he just saw.

Things are already clear.

The reason why Voldemort was able to win the support of the dementors even though Link had received the news in advance was not because some of Barty or Percy chose to rebel.

This is also more in line with Link's previous conjecture.

After all, Percy is fledgling, far from being able to fly solo.

Batty Sr. signed an 'unbreakable oath' with him.

In that signing, it can be said that the old Batty signed countless unequal contracts. Link felt that even if the old Batty was smart enough to find loopholes that could be exploited, he would not completely rebel.

From this perspective, Old Batty's status in Link's organization is indeed lower than that of Percy.

At least Percy can barely be regarded as Link's subordinate, and old Barty is a complete slave.

The real cause of all this happening now is actually very simple.

Since Batty Sr. defeated Fudge with the support of Link, their power in the Ministry of Magic began to soar extremely brutally.

And when this expansion reaches a certain level, internal friction begins.

Especially after Percy gained a certain amount of power, everyone finally returned to the familiar confrontational environment, and the original internal friction became internal fighting.

Driven by desire and greed, both Percy and old Batty made defeating each other and monopolizing the Ministry of Magic their top priority.

In this way, Link's order about guarding against dementors was naturally sent down to the second echelon.

Link sat back on the sofa, picked up the wine glass on the coffee table and slowly sipped the dark brown wine inside.

And old Batty fell limply at his feet, his whole body drenched in sweat, breathing in the air like a stranded fish.

As a person who has completely experienced the entire Second Wizarding War, Barty Sr. was also persecuted by the Cruciatus Curse of the Death Eaters when he was young.

But even the pain caused by the forbidden curse with the name of unforgivable is definitely not half of what Link inflicted on it just now.

The pain of directly opening the skull, taking out the brain and exposing it to the air, kneading, needle sticking, cutting, and burning is simply the most terrifying punishment in the world.

Compared with it, the shame of memory being flipped through at will becomes nothing to mention.

This also reminded Old Batty of Bellatrix who had only seen the photo this morning.

How did the Longbottoms, who were tortured into madmen by her back then, persist?

Or maybe they didn't hold on at all, but Bellatrix continued to torture them on purpose in order to avenge Voldemort?

Just as old Batty's brain was thinking wildly due to excessive stimulation, Link had already drank the last drop of wine in the glass.

He threw the wine glass back on the coffee table very casually, turned his head to look at Old Batty and sighed.

Just as the barely audible sigh sounded, Old Barty struggled and knelt down on the ground, pressing his head against the cold marble floor.

In the fireplace not far away, orange flames were constantly jumping and flickering.

The light and shadow of this flame refracted on the smooth ground, and also shone into Old Batty's eyes, giving Old Batty the illusion that a poisonous snake was opening its teeth and claws at it.

In fact, this is not an illusion.

Because Arkham had indeed crawled out of Link's neckline, and was bending over to observe Old Barty at the moment.

Seeing that the muscles of Arkham's whole body were getting tighter and tighter, and he was about to bite the old Batty, Link finally spoke:

"How is your son now?"

Old Batty shuddered when he heard the words, and hurriedly replied:

"He's currently being held in an Auror interrogation room at the Ministry of Magic, and the Aurors are using Legilimency spells and Veritaserum to get him to give information about Voldemort.

But because he also knows Occlumency, he uses more Veritaserum. Although he did provide some lists of personnel, they are already stupid.

Don't worry, the interrogation of him is not over yet, we will definitely dig out more information! "

A sneer appeared on Link's face.

What Batty said just now, he has already seen through Legilimency.

The whole thing was indeed exactly as Batty Sr. described.

But old Batty was definitely not trying to dig out any information, but purely because he didn't want to kill his son.

Even Link had to admit that, as a father, Batty Sr. had indeed done his best.

You must know that his son Batty Jr. was trying his best to harm him, and even almost killed him.

It's just that Barty's behavior is a kind of contempt for Link.

Link returned Barty Jr. to him in the first place, not to reunite the two father and son.

"Old Barty, you're bloated."

With a chuckle, Link said slowly.

At the same time, Arkham also felt Link's mood swings, and slowly avoided the cold marble floor, climbing along the coffee table to Old Barty.

Feeling the rustling sound coming from his ears, Old Batty was about to collapse.

He knelt down on the ground trembling all over, and the clothes on his lower body were constantly being soaked by the out-of-control liquid, so he kept saying:

"Master, I was wrong! Master! Please..."

Ding, ding, ding...

A brand-new gold coin bounced in front of Old Batty. Just as Old Batty moved his gaze away, he heard Link say:

"Don't worry, I'm not Voldemort, and naturally I won't kill people casually.

But I am more interested in the information your son knows. Since you can't find anything through interrogation, why not let me take over. "

Old Batty raised his head in horror, then lowered it at a faster speed, tremblingly said:

"Yes... yes, Master!"

"The person who received Barty Crouch Jr. will appear in front of you tomorrow with the same gold coin as this one, just hand it over to him." Link tilted his head and said expressionlessly, "As for you Well. I also want you to remember that I am not the only puppet that can be used by you.

You may not like Percy as a candidate, but Fudge should be fine, right?

Anyway, his current arrogant temperament has almost been polished.

If I want to drive him, it shouldn't be a problem even if I ask him to sign an 'unbreakable oath', right? "

Old Batty suddenly froze.

The muscles on his face were constantly twitching, as if he had lost control.

This reaction was even bigger than when he heard that his son was about to be taken away by Link.

But he can't be blamed for that.

Because he knew very well that Link was definitely not joking just now.

Link really thought about reactivating Fudge, and a guy like Fudge would never let go of such an opportunity.

And if all this comes true.

With Fudge's temper, what will happen to him after he takes power...

Old Batty instantly felt that his soul was about to leave his body.

It wasn't until Link whispered "Get out" again that Old Barty stood up with difficulty, picked up the gold coins on the ground, and left the Room of Requirement in a daze.

"Hisss!~" (He's so disgusting!)

As he spoke, Arkham slowly crawled back onto Link - affected by the habits of snakes, its moving speed was extremely slow in winter.

"Yeah, who said no."

Link groped Arkham's smooth head and said.

It was Batty Sr. and Percy, two disgusting fellows, who made Voldemort score another point.

But leaving Percy aside, old Batty is bound by an 'unbreakable oath' and shouldn't have done these things in the first place.

Could it be that the damn plot inertia is at work?

Link shook his head.

Now that something has happened, the most important thing should be to solve the problem, rather than staring at the mistakes of the past.

Right now, the Ministry of Magic is in a typical three-legged situation after throwing aside Fudge, the puppet minister.

Percy, Old Batty, and Scrimgeour control the administrative power and military power of the entire Chinese magic world.

Among them, the old Batty's swollen heart should return to calm after experiencing tonight's warning.

Percy was simpler.

In Link's eyes, both he and old Batty are just dogs led by him with the chain of power.

The only difference between them is that the old Batty generally doesn't bark, even if you kick him, he will endure it and wait for the opportunity to retaliate. He is an existence that needs to be vigilant.

Percy was just a yellow dog that barked and didn't bite.

There is no need for any means to deal with such a dog.

When Link planned to send old Beckman to the Ministry of Magic to pick up Barty Jr., he would just torture Percy and let him understand his master's unhappiness.

The only thing that made Link a little tangled up was Scrimgeour.

This is a pure hardline military figure, there is no possibility of buying control.

At the same time, while he has recently vigorously expanded the recruitment of Aurors, he has also continued to promote personality cultism among Aurors and strikers.

Let him continue to expand like this, and he might threaten the status of old Batty and Percy with his absolute strong military power.

But that's not a big deal.

Link thought of a solution after a little thought.

Since Scrimgeour is now all focused on improving the strength of the Aurors so that they can be loyal to the king and serve the country, then let him solve the problem of the dementor rebellion.

Anyway, the issue of dementors must be resolved, and Scrimgeour will certainly not refuse on this matter.

It should be in Link's best interest for the Aurors he led to fight with Voldemort's Death Eaters.

After making such a decision, a smile finally appeared on Link's face again.

He looked out the window at the gradually whitening sky, left the Room of Response, and walked towards the M.O.M.H.L factory.

Since it was the weekend, even though it was the usual time for everyone to get up and go to class, the auditorium and corridors that Link walked through were still empty.

This situation did not change until Link walked into the workshop of a M.O.M.H.L factory.

This workshop is specially provided by Link to the Kennedy brothers and sisters for alchemy experiments.

Only people like Emily and Cedric who really know Link understand that among all the newly selected followers, what Link values ​​most is not Newland and Sceffen, but the Kennedy brothers and sisters.

To be precise, it is the alchemy research being carried out by the Kennedy brothers and sisters.

Therefore, when preparing this workshop, Link directly appropriated nearly 20,000 Galleons of funds.

When the hardware level of this workshop laboratory is directly stretched, it also deliberately takes comfort and beauty into consideration.

But right now, when Link returned to this experimental workshop that satisfied him after many days, the scene in front of him made him, who is used to wind and rain, stunned.