Volume 7: A World with Bad Consequences Chapter 462 The Great Judgment
The next day was the first day of November.
Fawkes suddenly appeared in Iniesta's office early in the morning. He brought nothing with him. After Apparating to the ground, he just stared at the newly established temporary Minister of the French Ministry of Magic.
After receiving Fox's gaze, Iniesta seemed to know clearly what he was going to do.
He took a deep breath and stood up from his chair.
"Go back, I know what to do."
So, on November 1st, all the wizards in the wizarding world, whether it was the British wizards of the Order of the Phoenix or the French wizards of the French Ministry of Magic, were organized!
The Star, which served as the Wizarding World's exclusive internal propaganda tool, also delayed the sale of its daily newspaper this morning upon receiving Dumbledore's instructions. Instead, it printed a new batch of newspapers before noon and then distributed them to all the wizards who were supposed to have received them this morning.
Before lunch, almost all the wizards in France saw the big, bold headline on the front page of the Star.
【A trial from the public! 】
The content of this report is not long. It just tells an event in the most concise words, something that will start tomorrow.
After the Triwizard Tournament ended and all the cities in France were completely liberated, the thugs who supported the theory of bloodline and practiced it, of which only a small number had been dealt with and the vast majority had been temporarily detained in wizard prisons, were finally going to receive the final judgment.
This public trial will begin tomorrow in the conference hall of the French Ministry of Magic where Voldemort was announced as the French Minister of Magic. This is a completely transparent conference room that allows everyone who comes to the French Ministry of Magic to observe anything that happens inside.
Even wizarding people who are unable to come to the Ministry of Magic in person can tune into the wizard-only frequency band at home and witness the trial through the radio.
Many wizards will only feel excited after hearing this news.
Those scums who wanted to create inequality and use illusory bloodline to oppress people will finally pay the price they deserve!
And there was a small group of people who clearly sensed that this public trial, which had been held on a trial basis in Hogwarts but had been delayed for so long in the French wizarding world, revealed some different meanings.
There is no need to prepare anything in advance for a public trial. It will be a success as long as the public can participate in the trial.
However, Dumbledore and his colleagues had shown no signs of conducting a public trial before. Instead, in November, the public trial suddenly began without any announcement.
This obviously reveals something unusual.
But no matter whether one could sense the special significance of this trial or not, the trial came as scheduled the next morning.
On the morning of November 2nd, apart from the employees of the Ministry of Magic who still had to ensure the basic operation of the French magical community, all other wizards gathered in this transparent conference room that was once used to hold parliamentary meetings.
All the top leaders of the Wuping Line had already gathered here, and right in front of them, on a high platform visible to everyone, a brand new gallows had been erected!
Except for Dumbledore, Iniesta and other wizard management who are the chief judges of the public trial, whoever arrives first can sit down in the front row. Even if there are no seats around, they can stand directly on the sides. If there are no seats on the sides, they can gather outside the glass conference room. Wizards who cannot squeeze into the innermost part outside the conference room and have no way to see the public trial can hear the sounds of the public trial through the wizard radio.
In short, as long as people come here, there will always be various ways for them to witness this trial.
John also came to the public trial. As the biggest contributor to the victory of the Triwizard Tournament, he was certainly qualified to sit in the front row, next to Dumbledore.
The host of this public trial within the French magic community was none other than the minister Iniesta himself.
"No one in this world can guarantee that they will not make mistakes, but there are some mistakes that we as human beings should never make!"
The amplifying spell carried his voice throughout the entire public trial venue. At the same time, his opening remarks were heard throughout France and even in other parts of Europe that were paying attention to the internal situation in France.
"Some people, for their own selfish interests, have proposed the so-called theory that wizards have pure blood and are superior! They have artificially divided us into different classes, making themselves the superiors in order to gain absolute power! This is the root cause of this war. But even if black and white can be reversed, even if justice can be trampled on, there are still some truths that they can never distort! Let us peel off the hypocritical faces that whitewash themselves and oppress others, face up to everything we have encountered in the past two years, and publicize all the evil deeds of the criminals who created this war that should not have happened, and then hand it over to all of you for trial. This is the meaning of our gathering here today!"
His voice was sonorous and powerful, not only allowing everyone present to hear his speech, but also enough to mobilize everyone's already suppressed hearts that had not yet been repaired by the short-lived peace.
There were cheers and applause all around, and Iniesta had no more long speeches.
At this point, no amount of words can be as touching as the bloody reality!
Although the time that France fell into Voldemort's hands was not long, only less than two years, the damage caused by the theory of bloodline to this originally stable and peaceful magical society was still extremely serious, so there were quite a few criminals imprisoned in wizard prisons awaiting trial.
With the experience of the public trial that had been held in Hogwarts before, this trial for the public was not difficult to conduct, because this most straightforward and simple act of exposing the evil to the eyes of the general public did not require any skills at all. It only required bringing all the evil deeds these people had done and the people they had persecuted to the stage and making them all public. That was what this trial was supposed to do.
Although John missed the public trial at Hogwarts, he did not miss this one in the French wizarding world.
The first people to be brought to the podium were the parliamentarians who were willing to be his lackeys for the sake of profit when Voldemort first became the French Minister of Magic, and who were in collusion with Bella, who was pretending to be the Chief Wizard Justice.
These people have been screened, and many of them said at the beginning that they were wronged. They chose to support Voldemort not willingly, but because they were under Bella's Imperius Curse.
But in this matter, Wu Pingxian would certainly not refrain from using Legilimency or Veritaserum on them out of humanitarian considerations. As long as these two methods were used, and then they were asked whether what they just said was a lie and whether their original behavior was sincere, all cover-ups would become futile.
Among these people, there are many different situations.
Some of them chose to stand with Voldemort from the very beginning, causing the whole of France to fall into bloodline oppression. Others were indeed controlled by the Imperius Curse and did things they did not want to do at all.
Among them, the largest number of people were controlled by the Imperius Curse in the beginning and made actions to support Voldemort. But the Imperius Curse was lifted later. They were forced to change their minds due to the actions they had already taken, as well as the benefits and power brought to them by Voldemort in the early days of his rise to power. They were no longer forced at the beginning, but became voluntary.
Except for those who were truly controlled by the Imperius Curse from beginning to end, those who were in the other two situations were brought to the trial platform!
The first person to come to the stage was the official who had followed Bella and had been recruiting Muggle and Half-blood wizarding talents for her.
He could almost be said to be the first person in the entire French Ministry of Magic to know Bella's true identity, and the first French wizard to willingly surrender to Voldemort.
This person secretly followed Bella's request and relied on Bella's scam of pretending to be the Chief Wizard "Roland" to support the Muggles to continuously recruit outstanding Muggles wizards. Then he either killed them directly, sent them to Britain as slaves, or tortured them to death by various means!
This person knew from the beginning that he would definitely be sentenced to death for the crime he committed. He tried to commit suicide many times since he was caught by Wu Pingxian. He was afraid that he would be punished by retribution and suffer more torture, which would make him unable to die. However, he was stopped every time.
And this public trial of all wizards in France was much more radical than the pilot one at Hogwarts.
Instead of having other people proclaim the charges against the criminals on trial, they were fed truth serum from the very beginning, so that they had to answer every question on the podium!
And when this official who was an accomplice of Bella and helped the tyrant to commit atrocities named all the people he had killed one by one and described their tragic endings, the entire scene became completely boiling!
Simply confining ourselves to summarizing things in words or passing them down by others will ultimately not be able to truly touch people. Only when the people who have done these evil things tell everything themselves, expressing in bloody terms how they betrayed their compatriots and killed young people who were full of ideals and vigor, and how they did all of this just to get better enjoyment and a higher status for themselves, can people feel the trembling that rises from the bottom of their hearts.
It turns out that there is really no limit to how bad people can be. It turns out that some people do not have any psychological burden or pressure at all when committing such evil deeds that can make people's scalp tingle just by hearing about them .
Just like the public trial at Hogwarts, the first person to be brought to trial in France was also the choice made by Iniesta and others after careful consideration.
The noise rose and fell all around the conference. On the podium, not only were there statements from the prisoners themselves, but also the helpless and grief-stricken stories and cries of the families whose children were taken away by him.
There is no more touching scene in the world than this. Even before Iniesta finally started to let everyone present vote on the trial, voices of "don't let him die so easily" were heard everywhere in the venue!
Through the truth serum, everyone present heard that this former official of the French Ministry of Magic was not actually afraid of death. He himself had tried to understand his own life many times in prison. What he was really afraid of was that he would experience the kind of torture that would be worse than death!
Since he is afraid of something, public judgment will give him that.
After everyone present raised their wands and voted with the tips of their wands flashing different colors of light, it was finally decided that the official would be punished with 27 Cruciatus Curses!
Each Cruciata curse represented a life he persecuted to death, and in the end, even if his willpower surpassed everyone else and he survived all 27 Cruciata curses, he would still be hanged on the gallows.
After being sentenced, all executions begin on the spot!
9 members of the Wizarding World will take turns using the Cruciatus Curse on him 27 times. This kind of torture that strikes directly at the human soul has always been despised by normal wizards, who are unwilling to see it used openly in the magical world.
But this time, no one frowned or raised any objection. Instead, after the official let out a shriek of pain after the first Cruciatus Curse fell on him, the cheers became more intense, and it seemed as if they were going to overturn the ceiling!
No one can withstand so many Cruciatus Curses.
Just after the fifth Cruciatus Curse, the official's eyes began to roll and he lay on the ground motionless as if he had lost his soul. Only his heavy breathing showed that he was still alive.
But since it was agreed to be 27 rounds, there cannot be a single round less.
By the 13th shot, he had completely stopped breathing. He was tortured to death by this punishment, dying from the thing he feared most.
But the remaining 14 Cruciatus Curses still fell on his body according to the results of the trial. Now that the verdict had been determined, it must be executed, regardless of whether the person being executed was still alive.
This was one thing that Dumbledore and Iniesta wanted to make clear to everyone during the first public trial, and it was also the main tone they set.
Jon was sitting in the front row, so he could clearly see the official who looked like a fat pig falling to the ground at the beginning. His body trembled violently with each Cruciatus Curse, and there was no sign of life at all in the end.
Perhaps in the future, after they have achieved complete victory, someone will bring this up and accuse this punishment of being inhumane.
But faced with something that has lost its humanity and cannot be called human, inhumane means are the most humane response to the victims.
