"Ah!" Foggy said, looking completely at a loss. "Dumbledore, yes. So, you, uh, uh, you received our letter and knew that the time and place of the interrogation had changed?"
"Looks like I didn't." Dumbledore said cheerfully, "However, I made a lucky mistake and came to the Ministry of Magic three hours early, so it didn't cause any trouble."
"Yes, well, I think we need to get another chair, I … Weasley, can you?"
"Don't worry about it, don't worry about it," Dumbledore said gently.
He pulled out his wand and shook it gently. A soft, polished cotton print armchair appeared out of thin air next to Harry.
Dumbledore sat down, the fingertips of his long hands touching.
He looked over it at Foggy with an expression of courteous interest.
The members of Weisengamore were still whispering to each other, all fidgeting.
Foggy was terrified to the extreme. Elwyn's previous interrogation had already made him lose his momentum, and now that he saw Dumbledore appear, he panicked even more, not at all behaving like the head of the Ministry of Magic should.
"Yes." Foggy said, moving the documents in front of him. "Well, now it's, uh, an accusation, yes."
He pulled out a piece of parchment from a pile of documents, took a deep breath, and read aloud, "The defendant is charged with the following crimes: The defendant has previously been warned in writing by the Ministry of Magic for similar charges, and this time, with full knowledge that his actions are illegal, deliberately and knowingly, on August 2, at 9: 23 p.m., in the residential area of two Muggle, in the presence of a Muggle, cast a Call to God's Guard, in violation of the third paragraph of the Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards Act of 1875 and Article 13 of the International Union of Magicians Secrecy Act. So, you are Harry Jaime Potter, residing at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey? "
Foggy asked as he glared at Harry over the parchment, trying to calm himself down.
"Yes," Harry replied.
"You were formally warned by the Ministry of Magic for using magic illegally three years ago, right?"
"Yes, but …"
"And you conjured up a Patronus on the night of the second of August?" said Foggy.
"Yes!" said Harry. "But..."
"You know that you're not even seventeen yet, and you're not allowed to use magic outside of school?"
"Yes, but …"
"You knew you were in a place full of Muggle?"
"Yes, but …"
"You were fully aware that there was a Muggle nearby?"
"Yes." Harry said angrily. Foggy did not let him finish. "But I used magic only because we …"
Ms. Bowens interrupted him in a loud, deep voice. "You conjured up a full-fledged Patronus?"
"Yes," said Harry. "Because …"
"A physical body protector?"
"Yes." Harry felt irritated and a little desperate. "What Elwyn taught me was a stag, a stag every time."
"Every time? You've conjured a Patronus before? " Ms. Bowens asked in a loud voice, and then turned her eyes to Elwyn. "Mr. Mason next to you can also conjure a physical Patronus?"
"Yes, I've been doing it for more than a year," said Harry. "Elwyn mastered it before me, he …"
"You're fifteen now?" Ms. Bowens paused. "Mr. Mason is a year younger than you?"
"Yes, we …"
"You learned it at school?"
"Yes, I learned it when I was in third grade, and I practiced for a long time," said Harry.
Every time he said a word, the whispers grew louder.
The members of Wesengamo were surprised that they could summon a complete physical Patronus. Was this magic very powerful?
"It's amazing," said Ms. Bowens, looking at them from above. "It's really amazing that you can conjure up a real Patronus at your age!"
"In fact, many students in Hogwarts can already summon their own physical Patronus. It's nothing to be surprised about." Elwyn said, "Speaking of which, it's all thanks to the Minister's arrangement of Dementors to protect the school that we could find such a good practice target and have the opportunity to master this spell."
"I remember now. When you guys caught Peter Pettigrew, it did mention this. Many people saw two complete Patronus appear and chase away hundreds of Dementors …" Ms. Bowens nodded.
The two Patronus were a stag and a doe. The stag was summoned by Harry, but he did not know who summoned the doe.
This person did not appear later, and Harry once suspected that it might be his mother.
"My niece also told me about this. She came back from school and told me that she could summon a physical Patronus," said a witch in the back. "To be honest, I was really surprised at that time."
The wizards above began to whisper to each other again, as if they just realized that many of their children had learned the Patronus Incantation.
"Amazing, really amazing. The education level of Hogwarts is better than I thought," said Ms. Bowens. Ms. Burns said, "Dumbledore, I must sincerely admire you. It's not easy to let so many young wizards learn the Patronus Charm, is it?"
"Thank you for the compliment, Amelia!" Dumbledore said gently. "But these are all self-learning by the students. As Elwyn said, if you need to thank someone, I think the Minister has made a great contribution."
Foggy's face had turned purple. This was a great humiliation and irony for him.
The young wizards learned the Patronus Incantation because he had sent Dementors to the Hogwarts as guards.
If the outside world knew about this, what would they say?
Because of his incompetence, the young wizards had to protect themselves spontaneously …
Later, it turned out that his decision to send Dementors to the Hogwarts at that time was a stupid one.
"I think the education situation of the Hogwarts is better than expected. There are no problems that we were worried about before," said Ms. Bowens. "In that case, sending to the Hogwarts …"
"Enough, this is not a question of how great magic is, nor is it a question of discussing the reform of the Hogwarts' education," Foggy said in an angry voice. "This is a trial. In fact, I think the more great it is, the worse it is, because that child did it in front of a Muggle!"
Many wizards murmured in agreement, and Percy also nodded, pretending to be serious.
Harry was instantly enraged. He said loudly, "I did it because of the Dementors!"
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