If Foggy had been afflicted by the Soulsnatch Curse, he might have acted smarter instead of being so stupid.
His performance at the trial today was enough to prove that he was not afflicted by the Soulsnatch Curse. Otherwise, it would have been a giant controlling him.
But thanks to him, the trial that the Ministry of Magic had prepared for so long had turned into a joke.
"Don't think we haven't thought of that, Harry." Mr. Weasley whispered so that Elwyn and Harry could hear him. "But Dumbledore thinks that Foggy is acting according to his own will. In his words, it doesn't bring much comfort. It's best if we don't talk about it now."
The elevator door slid open. The main hall was now almost empty, and Elwyn saw Rita being stopped outside by Eric, the wizard on duty.
"I'll go talk to her," Elwyn said. "About the report on the trial …"
"Alright!" Mr. Weasley said, glancing at Rita Skeeter, still upset about the meeting between Lucius and Foggy. "This really isn't a good time to visit the Ministry of Magic. Harry, you and Elwyn wait for me in the hall. I'll go up and call them."
Elwyn and Harry left the elevator and walked toward the golden fountain.
"No, ma 'am, the minister won't let you in," Eric said, stopping Rita outside the main hall.
"People have the right to know the truth, Foggy …" Rita kept cursing, her clothes a little disheveled.
Iven hurriedly walked over and pulled her to a corner. He told her about the trial in detail in a low voice.
It was mainly about Foggy's performance and their promise to investigate the Soul Taker.
Harry did not follow. To be honest, he admired Elwyn and Hermione for being able to deal with Rita Skeeter.
In the last semester, he had experienced this woman's prowess.
Harry stopped beside the golden fountain and took out the money bag from his pocket. Once again, he carefully studied the statue on it, feeling unprecedentedly happy. Then, he turned the money bag upside down. Instead of counting out ten Garen's, he poured all the money inside into the pool.
After more than ten minutes, Rita Skeeter, who had learned the details from Elwyn, Phantomized and left, ready to go back and revise her report. Mr. Weasley came down with Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George.
"I told you two not to run around. Fortunately, you didn't cause any trouble …" Mr. Weasley said.
"We just went to Percy's office to take a look!" Fred said with a smile, walking to Elwyn's side.
"It's just outside the minister's office. It's a rather large hall with very luxurious decorations. His desk is right there, and it's full of documents written by Percy," Fred said, winking hard at Elwyn.
Seeing their expressions, Elwyn realized that they must have left some prank product near Percy's desk.
"What is it?" Elwyn asked directly.
"Our new product, the portable swamp!" Fred said, lowering his voice.
"We've already disguised it. It's right under the chair. He'll be shocked when he finds out," George added.
On the other side, Harry repeated the outcome of the trial to Ron, Hermione, and Ginny.
"Congratulations, Harry!" Ginny said, looking at Harry with a flushed face.
"I knew it!" Ron punched the air. "You always got away with it!"
"They'll definitely acquit you. It's obvious. I've analyzed it in the newspapers." Hermione looked so nervous that she was about to faint. She covered her eyes with a trembling hand. "There's no reason to convict you. There's no reason at all."
"That's right. Although you all knew that I would be fine, everyone seems to be relieved." Harry said with a smile. "The questioning of Elwyn is over. Foggy has completely failed …"
They walked in the empty Golden Hall with smiles on their faces.
To celebrate Elwyn and Harry's appeal and their successful revenge on Percy, Fred and George began to dance a kind of war dance.
Soon, Ginny joined in. Hermione danced a few times, but she couldn't keep up with the rhythm.
"They're fine, they're fine, they're fine!" The three of them sang again and again.
"Enough, be quiet!" Mr. Weasley shouted hurriedly. "Really, this is the Ministry of Magic."
Even so, he still had a smile on his face.
When they returned to Number 12 Isolation Film Square, Lady Weasley first hugged Harry and then Elwyn when she heard the news. She wiped her tears with her apron, equally overjoyed.
"Well, all of you, sit down and have lunch. Especially you, Harry, you barely had breakfast."
They sat down at the dining table, still digesting the good news.
"The report on the trial will be published tomorrow. If Rita is fast enough, I think we'll get her report in the afternoon," Elwyn said. "You probably can't imagine Foggy's expression at the time."
"It was really funny." Harry said. The dizzying feeling of relief, which had been a little affected by his encounter with Lucius Malfoy, was now surging in his heart again.
He recalled Foggy's behavior at the time and found it funny.
"I said long ago that as long as Dumbledore supports you, they won't convict you. That goes without saying," Ron said cheerfully as he put large pieces of mashed potatoes on everyone's plates.
"Yes, he helped me settle the matter," Harry said. He felt that if he said, "I hope he'll say a few words to me, even if it's just a glance," it would seem ungrateful, not to mention childish.
But he did hope that Dumbledore could say a few words to him. Then he remembered what Elwyn had told him before.
At this thought, the scar on Harry's forehead suddenly hurt, and he quickly covered it with his hand.
He had been practicing Cerebral Occlusion recently, but there had been no progress.
Elwyn had already told Harry everything he knew. He was not very proficient in this complicated magic technique and could only barely grasp it.
In Harry's current situation, the help he could offer was very limited.
Perhaps he should let Snape teach him. Snape's Cerebral Occlusion had almost become his body's instinct. In the past ten years, he had tightly sealed his consciousness and protected it. Even if no one wanted to know what he was thinking, he still did not relax and never stopped this magic.
Elwyn noticed Harry's abnormality. Did this mean that Lord Voldemort also knew the result of the trial and was angry?
Or rather, he had learned something from Lucius.
It would not be so quick to instigate Malfoy to defect. Lord Voldemort might not know that three of his soul vessels had been destroyed.
The more times a soul was split, the weaker the connection between the souls.
But if he continued to destroy them, Lord Voldemort would find out sooner or later. This was also why Elwyn did not find all the soul vessels in one go and destroy them.
At the same time, this also meant that Malfoy would be unlucky sooner or later.
The pain from Harry's scar disappeared as quickly as it came, and no one else noticed.
At this moment, they were all serving food and cheering for Harry and Elwyn's escape.
Fred and Qiao Qia were still singing, while Hermione and Ginny were whispering something.
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