Seeing Dumbledore's actions, Murphy knew that he had seen through his tricks again.
If he had known that Dumbledore was coming, he would have brought the real diary!
This so-called "Dark Lord's Diary" was naturally forged by Murphy.
After all, it is still difficult to verify the crimes he reported Lucius through a real notebook. When Tom Riddle wrote that diary, he had no idea that there would be a guy named Lucius Malfoy who would follow him in the future.
His tricks of "burning and revealing" were just to confuse people - if a Dark Lord's notebook could be viewed by "quickly revealing", it would be a bit too childish. Instead, burning with fire was a way to break through the thinking of wizards.
And his behavior of wearing gloves was to highlight the danger of the notebook.
After all, if the Dark Lord's things were not cursed, it would be unacceptable.
But now none of this mattered.
Dumbledore had verified that there was no black magic in this notebook.
"A friend gave it to me. He got it from the Malfoy family's cellar." Murphy continued to lie.
"Would you like to tell me the name of this friend?" Dumbledore asked.
"He calls himself Tony Wayne," Murphy lied, "but I guess it's a fake name. He doesn't trust the Ministry of Magic and has been fighting crime in secret."
Dumbledore naturally didn't know the meaning of the name of the Iron Man and Batman hybrid. He thought for a while and said, "Based on my understanding of the mysterious man, he is unlikely to leave such detailed evidence. If it is necessary to leave it, it will definitely be heavily protected."
"This notebook may not be from the mysterious man himself." Dumbledore said, "But we can't ignore the information revealed in it. I think the trial of Crabbe, Goyle, Karkaroff and others should be restarted."
After talking for a while, the judges expressed their support for Dumbledore's judgment.
"Mr. Murphy, do you have any other evidence to add?" Dumbledore asked.
"No, Professor."
"Lucius, even if this notebook does not belong to the Dark Lord, your crime of hiding a large number of dark magic items has been confirmed by Dobby just now. Do you have any rebuttal to this?"
"I... those... those are inconspicuous things, some items handed down from my ancestors, and I don't know their specific uses! Moreover! They have all been destroyed and burned in the fierce fire! And the guy who set the fire is Murphy Darkholm! Dumbledore, you should judge him! Not me!"
"It sounds like we should thank Mr. Murphy for his contribution to the safety of the wizarding community." Dumbledore teased.
"Thank you? He burned my house! He killed my friend! He almost killed me!" Lucius screamed, "He is violating the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy! Did you hear what I said?!"
Dumbledore looked at Murphy: "Lucius accused you of multiple crimes of arson, murder and violation of the Statute of Secrecy. Do you have anything to say about this, Mr. Murphy?"
"No, Professor. I think Lucius, this despicable man, just wanted to kill me out of a sinister revenge mentality and some commercial competition considerations, so he made up these lies!"
Things have come to this point, although it is not the best result, and Lucius was not sent directly to prison, but it is actually still within Murphy's script.
Although reporting Lucius is a ruthless move, in fact, Murphy did not have to make it work. This move is actually just a preliminary step to exonerate himself later.
"Lucius, you despicable Death Eater! You are a scumbag! Merlin's shit soup!" Murphy suddenly became indignant. He looked at the people in the judgement seat, "Everyone! You all know in your heart! Who is Lucius! You all know that he is a Death Eater! You all know what he did all those years following Voldemort!"
"Everyone! If you let this devil go again today, one day you will be ashamed of your behavior! I sincerely hope that you will not leave a stain on your conscience!"
"You are misleading people with your lies! You have no evidence! Your evidence is all false! Don't listen to his incitement! I am not guilty! I am innocent!" Seeing that the matter was going to the judgement again, Lucius also shouted loudly.
"Quiet! Quiet!" Dumbledore had to speak again to interrupt the two people's scolding.
He glanced at Murphy, as if he wanted to see through his thoughts, and the latter looked at him fearlessly.
Professor, what are you hesitating about?
You know that Lucius is a Death Eater, and today is the best and last chance to bring him to justice!
Even if the evidence is false, so what?
Do we still need to pay attention to procedural justice when dealing with enemies? !
The gaze seemed extremely long, and it seemed to be just a moment. Dumbledore retracted his gaze. He raised his hand and looked at the judge's seat, "I think we can now make a verdict on Lucius's retrial. Those who think Lucius is not guilty, please raise your hands."
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Lucius's face darkened, "No, I'm not guilty! I'm not guilty!"
"Those who think Lucius is a Death Eater, please raise your hands."
Contrary to Lucius's expectations, only a dozen people raised their hands this time.
Dumbledore looked at it and asked again, "Those who think Lucius is guilty but not a Death Eater, please raise your hands."
This time, more than 20 hands were raised.
"Please put it down." Dumbledore looked at Lucius, "There is insufficient evidence to prove your Death Eater charge, but the jury believes that you have committed crimes such as hiding dark magic items. You will be fined 5,000 Galleons and detained in Azkaban for three months."
"What? No!" Lucius was furious, "You can't do this to me!"
He glared at everyone and finally looked at Murphy, "What about him? Why don't you try him? I have evidence!"
At this time, Murphy ignored his roar and looked at Dumbledore, "You haven't expressed your opinion just now, Professor."
However, Dumbledore did not answer, but looked at Lucius. , "What evidence do you have to prove your accusation?"
"I have it! I have it!" Lucius said, "There is a wand in my pocket. It belongs to the attacker. I seized it."
He looked at Murphy, "You must not have thought that your wand was not burned! And I got it!"
He said, excited, and when the judge found the wand from Lucius's belongings and placed it on the podium, he looked at the judge's seat, "This is the attacker's wand! Just use the flashback spell on it, and you can see what it did to my house!"
"And I have a witness who can prove that this wand belongs to Murphy Darkholm!"
(End of this chapter)