Chapter 2988 The Secret of No Trace (Twenty)

"Help!"

Pomona came to the whomping willow tree and looked at a student "hanging" on the branch. Unfortunately, he was from Hufflepuff Academy.

"What are you doing up there? Diego!" Pomona yelled.

"Help, Dean!" Seeing someone coming, Diego immediately yelled. As a result, this move alarmed the Whomping Willow, and he saw it swinging its branches to knock down the "debris" on the tree, causing waves.

Mona immediately hit the scar on the Whomping Willow with a stun.

"Come down! It won't hurt you!" said Diego from Pomona.

Diego immediately climbed down from the branch as fast as he could, and Pomona also took this opportunity to collect the bark and leaves that the Potions Master wanted.

After Diego's legs landed on the ground, Pomona had almost collected the bark and leaves, and the two quickly left the attack range of the Whomping Willow.

"What's going on?" Pomona asked Diego. "Why did you run up to the tree?"

"Like you, collecting leaves." Diego said.

"This is dangerous, you know?" Pomona asked.

"I know, that tree killed a student." Diego said.

Pomona didn't know how the rumor spread like this. All in all, Diego was fine except for his robe being cut.

"I want you to keep it a secret and not tell anyone what you just saw," Pomona said.

"No problem." Diego said, "I promise I won't tell anyone."

In fact, even if Diego leaks the secret, it won't be a big deal, because there are no "ghosts" in the Shrieking Shack now, not to mention not everyone can discover the secret passage under the Whomping Willow.

In order to act as a warning, Pomona asked Diego to come to her place for "confinement" one day before the holiday, and then she went to the greenhouse.

After placing the medicinal materials, she went to the abandoned greenhouse where the frozen stones had been stored. Even in spring, the plants in the greenhouse showed no signs of re-germinating. Originally, the greenhouse had to be cleaned regularly because of overgrown weeds.

The ruined place of Azkaban was also so barren of vegetation.

"What are you doing?"

Pomona was taken aback.

She turned around and found the old bat standing behind her.

"I got you all the medicinal ingredients you asked for," Pomona said.

"Let me ask you, what are you doing 'now'?" he said carefully.

"Look." Pomona looked at his desolate greenhouse, "It's all caused by that stone."

"Is it impossible to recover?" Severus asked.

She shook her head, "I don't know. You won't know until you try."

He didn't care whether the greenhouse could be restored. When he arrived at Greenhouse No. 1, he seemed to be staying here until 9 o'clock today before going to patrol the castle.

In fact, it was her duty to patrol today, but in exchange, she had to "take notes" on his behalf.

This time it was not Dumbledore who defeated the Dark Lord, but Lily, so the Ministry of Magic dared to intervene in the internal problems of Hogwarts.

Indeed, as Graplan said, it was a whistleblower who convinced the Ministry of Magic that there were dangerous creatures in the school that endangered the safety of the students.

Take the story of the "Joker" as an example. The scene where he shot was in the subway. There are many people's DNA in this kind of public place, and there are no cameras. The most important thing about scientific evidence is "accuracy", which is exactly what happened.

Scientific evidence is “reliable” because it is “accurate”.

When this kind of reliable evidence cannot be confirmed, the testimony of less reliable witnesses must be used. The pressure will distort people's memories. What's more, it was dark in the subway at that time, and the witness's lack of memory and vision made it difficult for him to

The credibility of the testimony has been questioned. The usual method is to find more witnesses and use their cross-remembering of an incident from multiple angles to find a breakthrough point to solve the case.

However, the "murder weapon" used by the Joker was a police pistol. The Gotham police could "tell a little lie" and say that no other witnesses were found, and they could only rely on the description of a mentally unstable witness.

The murderer is a clown" testimony, to arrest the prisoner.

Workers participating in the parade wore clown masks to mock and provoke the police, with real clowns mixing among them.

Confrontation is a reliable means of testing the credibility of a statement, but officials from the Ministry of Magic refused to reveal who made the tip. What Pomona needs to do is to find out from the files the number of cases the Ministry of Magic has solved through tip-offs and the number of times it has solved the case through its own investigation.

, just like Igor Karkaroff did.

Pomona didn't know whether Severus planned to clear her suspicions or really wanted to drive away the "tentacles" of the Ministry of Magic. Anyway, she put these files in the office in the greenhouse, and there were often people in the offices in the castle.

It would be bad if students come in and out and these materials are seen by them.

Many judges do not accept the testimony of children because children often see people, things, and things that adults do not see, just like their fantasies, and they try to persuade adults to adopt their fabricated stories.

However, there have also been cases of abuse of judicial resources in human history. This is based on the "winner takes all" system. That is to say, if it is beneficial to the initiator of the lawsuit, then even a futile lawsuit may endanger the entire society and bear unnecessary expenses.

, will also sue.

If the person initiating the lawsuit makes a false accusation, isn't defamation punishable?

If the plaintiff wins, he will also consider the cost of the crime, that is, the penalty he will suffer if he is found guilty of defamation.

If the court mediates between both ends, it cannot prove that there are dangerous animals in the school, nor can it prove that the plaintiff is making a false accusation. It is just dealing with both ends. This is called a futile lawsuit. To put it in another easy-to-understand explanation, it means that there is nothing to do and the judge can ignore the whistleblower.

If they do, they can handle other more important cases. But if they bother with this case, they won't have time and energy to handle other cases.

The final outcome is usually reconciliation, which means convincing the school to reach an agreement with "someone" to avoid harming the interests of both parties.

Ordinary people, of course, would just like to graduate smoothly, but "someone" would not be so willing to give up.

"What evil has this done?" Pomona flipped through the files and couldn't help but sigh.

"How about singing a song?" Severus said without raising his head.

Pomona couldn't tell if he was joking or if he was serious.

The girl who sang to him last time was still so happy even though she was in solitary confinement. She sang songs about weird witches while working, and then Snape singled her out and asked her to sing "seriously".

Ordinary people would not dare to make a mistake when they saw his serious face, but she actually sang.

To save her life, Pomona decided not to sing, although she moved her feet under the table as if dancing.

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Fudge's nephew recently did a big thing. He turned a Muggle subway into nothing.

Of course, the subway was empty. He waited for the subway to stop running and then ran to the subway parking area to hide it.

Even so, he was suspended and now works in the Office for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Magical Items where Arthur once worked. He was immediately investigated after the incident.

The Office for the Misuse of Magical Items used to be a very "marginal" office, but now it has become a large department, which makes Arthur Weasley a war hero.

"What's new?" Severus asked.

Pomona raised his head. He was concentrating on examining the golden horn camel powder sent by Liz Stewart.

"All winter, not one owl brought us newspapers," Pomona complained. "I thought that's what they did!"

"I thought you remembered how many blizzards it had." He said without raising his head.

"What about February? The wind and snow have stopped in February."

"What's the news?" he asked impatiently.

Pomona told him what Liz had written in the letter.

"I don't care about Rufus Fudge, I'm asking about other people."

Now Isabella Sidney is also working for Tourt, because to deal with poachers, this team needs someone who is very familiar with the law.

There is also "Amata", who serves as a coordinator and shuttles between various departments of the Ministry of Magic.

Everyone seemed to be moving forward, except Pomona who stayed where she was.

"What are you thinking about?" Severus asked.

Pomona turned her eyes to him, and he was staring at her.

What can she complain about? There is a "new star" accompanying her here.

So she took a sip of her breakfast coffee and told him the contents of the letter.

In fact, now that I think about it, she also identified who the informer was without any evidence.

No matter how "reasonable" the suspicion is, it requires evidence.

In mystery novels, even if the detective tells all the crime process, as if he saw it with his own eyes, the murderer can still feel proud.

Because he knew that the detective had no evidence and that the evidence had either been destroyed or taken away by him. What could the detective do to him?
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