Cardcaptor at Hogwarts

"The facts I would like to state are as follows..."

Standing in the dock, Lucius spoke calmly.

Lucius did feel fear when he knew that he still had to undergo a trial.

To Lucius, the word trial was not a verdict of crime, and such a trial would never fall on a member of the Malfoy family.

In his understanding, there is only one kind of judgment that will fall on him, and that is that after the war, the victorious party puts the defeated party on the dining table and shares the flesh and blood of the defeated party.

Lucius was not surprised by this, and was not even unfamiliar with it. The Malfoy family suffered a lot of blood during the last wizarding war, but why was he brought to the table again this time?

This time he has clearly abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side!

Lucius quickly found Professor Gandalf. Unexpectedly, Professor Gandalf asked him to go to trial and said that the Ministry of Magic would give him a fair deal.

Lucius's heart went cold at that time. As we all know, when a group of people who have always had dark hearts suddenly tell you that they will deal with you impartially, it usually means they have given up on you.

Lucius had almost figured out how to write his will, but he didn't expect that at this moment, things would take a turn for the worse. Professor Gandalf suddenly came to him and told him how to defend himself in court.

Lucius breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was going to go through the process and receive "fair" treatment. He was familiar with this. He could have said no earlier. It was shocking...

But after reading the confession, Lucius fell into silence. This confession... seemed... to be... fair.

"First of all, I want to state the situation when I joined the Death Eaters. At that time, Voldemort returned to England and officially began to expand his power under the slogan of restoring the glory of pure blood. My father was one of the people who was deceived by his slogan. One, and I, who was attending Hogwarts at the time, also joined the Death Eaters..."

Voldemort's name is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but few people actually know his experience. Everyone does not know that the expansion of Voldemort's power is actually divided into two stages.

The first stage was when Voldemort himself was studying at Hogwarts. He recruited fellow Slytherins into his ranks, which was the prototype of the Death Eaters.

The second stage was when he returned to England after traveling around the world for ten years. This stage was when the real Death Eaters were formed. At that time, Voldemort had begun to use black magic to transform himself, and his appearance had undergone inhuman changes, but his power had also become stronger because of it, far more powerful than 99% of the wizards in the world.

The scaly claws of secrets from the past made everyone unable to help but listen carefully to the statement of this quite famous criminal among the Death Eaters.

In Lucius's statement, he did not join the Death Eaters on his own initiative, and his life as a Death Eater was not pleasant.

"Mr. Bernard, I apply to use the scales of Anubis on this criminal!"

Arthur Weasley couldn't help but get up again.

As an old man who joined the Order of the Phoenix during the last Wizarding War, his hatred of Death Eaters was extraordinary, and Bernard did not reject his idea:

"Lucius, are you willing to use the Scales of Anubis to prove that all of your statements are true?"

"I do."

Lucius took a deep breath and watched Bernard use Anubis's scale on him. He watched his heart leave his body and fall to one end of the scale under the influence of invisible force. A bar naturally emerged from the other end. Ostrich feathers.

Then, Lucius repeated his previous statement.

Arthur stared at the scale the whole time, but the scale did not tilt toward one end until the end.

"How is this possible?"

"Why is it impossible? Do you think I am willing to serve a master who always uses the Cruciatus Curse to punish incompetent subordinates, and the reward is usually a master of black magic? I haven't gone to the battlefield before, so what's the use of that kind of thing?"

Lucius said bluntly.

He is the head of the Malfoy family. What is useful to him is not the knowledge of dark magic, but power and money. However, Voldemort only spends the Malfoy family's money from the beginning to the end, and basically never sees the money coming back!

As for rights, Voldemort didn't win, and what he said about pure-blood supremacy was just a slogan shouted casually to reasonably torture Muggles, and of course there was no such thing.

Compared to his sister-in-law who was devoted to Voldemort, Lucius was a refined and self-interested businessman. He only wanted to choose the side that was more beneficial to him. Unfortunately, he couldn't help but join the Death Eaters. When he saw Voldemort clearly, he It's too late.

Arthur was stunned by Lucius's sudden questioning, especially since Lucius's heart was still on Anubis' scale during this process, and the scale was still balanced.

He didn't lie!

Lucius continued to look at Bernard and said:

"Mr. Bernard, I voluntarily surrendered after Voldemort died and the Death Eaters were arrested. Before that, I had left the Death Eater organization and served as an assistant professor at Hogwarts. I hope these actions can Let me get a reduced sentence, and if the sentence allows, I would also like to apply for probation.”

If the above words are still within everyone's understanding, then Lucius' next words will directly burn the CPUs of a large number of people in the court.

"In addition, my home, the Malfoy Mansion, was illegally occupied and destroyed by Voldemort after I escaped from the Death Eaters and entered Hogwarts. I hope to sue the Death Eaters and recover part of the losses."

Ah, this... can it still be like this?

Everyone couldn't help but look at Bernard.

"This is a reasonable request."

Bernard glanced at Anubis's scale, thinking that the scale could only judge whether a person was lying, but could not judge the truth of the matter. The words he spoke were as steady as ever:

"Since the property losses caused by Death Eaters in various parts of the wizarding world are still being counted, the identification, judgment and compensation of property losses will be unified in the end, and this court will take your accusation into consideration."

The clerk on one side of the court noted this point.

After the questioning and statement, Lucius, who had not lied throughout the whole process, finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his heart return to his chest.

Although he knew he was not lying, it was really creepy to watch his heart beating somewhere else, and he could not get used to it at all.

"Then, next, this court will announce the verdict on the defendant Lucius Malfoy!"

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Bernard.

"Lucius Malfoy confessed to his crimes, but considering that he surrendered himself, was coerced during the crime, and did not actively cause the death of others."

When Bernard said this, he couldn't help but look at Lucius Malfoy strangely.

Lucius was a well-known figure among the Death Eaters. He really stayed in the back to pay money and never killed anyone personally. It was really... I guess Voldemort didn't want this money bag to have an accident on the battlefield.

Speculating inwardly, Bernard added the sentence for Lucius:

"Sentenced to 30 years in prison, with probation, but the defendant must work at Hogwarts during this period, and must report any trips outside of Hogwarts and his residence, and must regularly cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's inspections..."

Bernard explained the conditions of probation one by one, basically changing the cell where Lucius was imprisoned to his home and Hogwarts, and the conditions were slightly more relaxed.

Of course, this was from Lucius's point of view, but in the eyes of those who knew what the new Azkaban was like, it was a great relaxation of the conditions of imprisonment.