"But how can we investigate?"

After listening to Avada and Fleur's explanations, Krum couldn't help but his eyes lit up, but after thinking for a while, he still raised the question: "This kind of gambling is generally unofficial, more personal, and confidential to clients. His work will definitely not be bad. Bagman himself will definitely not tell anyone about such a shady matter. I am afraid that the only ones who know who he bought are himself and the banker..."

"I'm afraid even the banker doesn't know. This kind of gambling is usually anonymous."

Avada shook his head and added: "This is indeed a problem - and we couldn't have gone to investigate the gambling itself in person. We can't even leave the school now."

"Hmm... Or maybe we can change our thinking... Did Bagman do anything special when he was interviewing you, Krum?"

He suddenly asked Krum.

"No."

Krum recalled it for a moment, and then answered affirmatively: "He asked normal questions at the time, and he didn't provide any hints at all... If he really hopes to help me win the game by cheating, , shouldn’t you secretly reveal some information to me while we are alone?”

"What about his performance? You have had conflicts before - was he acting stiff or unnatural?" Avada asked reluctantly.

"……nor."

Krum shook his head: "He behaved quite normally at the time, as if our previous conflicts did not exist at all... and he also offered to be the first to interview me at that time. I was a little surprised at the time. …”

"This can be one of the supporting evidences for our inference...but the strength is too weak, almost nothing."

Avada couldn't help but rubbed her temples in distress: "But what else can I do..."

"Why don't we just go find it in Bagman's relics?"

At this time, Fleur, who had been silent just now, suddenly said something like this, causing Avada and Krum to look at her in astonishment at the same time.

"What's so surprising? Isn't this an easy way to think of it?"

Fleur looked at the surprised expressions of the two with some confusion, smoothed her hair and explained: "No matter what happens in the gambling situation, since Ludo Bagman participated in this gambling, he must have a note in his hand. Something like that, and it is very likely that he brought it into Durmstrang, as long as we look through his office and belongings, we can find it!"

"Even if what we find in the end is not a direct answer, but just a series of numbers or something else, it is still a very important clue - at least we have the capital to investigate independently, right?"

"..."

"Are you crazy?"

Krum tilted his neck, and it took him a long time to spit out this sentence: "Don't you know where Bagman's relics are now?"

"If they are lucky, they will still stay in that stagnant office, and they will be strictly guarded by the three floors outside and inside all day long, and no one will be allowed to touch them... But if they are unlucky, they will Now it has fallen into the hands of the British investigation team! We don’t even know where those things are - a certain room that has been specially requisitioned as a reference room? Or is it in those small tents on the playground? "

"And if it's like your reasoning, and those people in the investigation team have problems... how do you think they will deal with the evidence that is not good for them?"

"That would be easier."

Fleur shook her waterfall-like hair and showed a confident smile: "How about we go directly to them?"

"???"

Krum fell into a daze as if he had been hit by a petrifying spell, completely unable to understand Fleur's thoughts.

"You mean...Legilimency, or the Imperius Curse?"

However, Avada, who has been wandering around the edge of Azkaban for many years, was stunned for a moment and then quickly followed Fleur's thoughts: "I can use these spiritual magics with my bare hands - but don't forget that we still have surveillance badges on us. Yes! I have studied it carefully. It is difficult to shield this thing without leaving any trace. It is the type that will immediately send out an alarm at the slightest touch, and the alarm is almost impossible to intercept. Dumbledore did not have any backdoors when making them. Leave……"

Krum glanced at Avada silently, and then quietly sat further away without leaving a trace - this guy seemed to have said just now that he could cast the Imperius Curse with his bare hands?

As a top student in Durmstrang, I think you are a bit extreme.

"Ahem, it's not that exaggerated!"

Fleur was also shocked when she heard the idea of ​​the Imperius Curse. She didn't quite understand why a fifteen-year-old boy could come up with such an idea of ​​punishment without changing his expression. But then her expression softened, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly: "It's a gentler and more hidden way."

"Those guys naively thought that taking away my wand would completely restrict me - hehe, as long as they asked Madame Maxime for advice, they wouldn't have made such a big mistake..."

Suddenly, she pushed her hair behind her ears and smiled at Avada and Krum - for a moment, in Avada's eyes, Fleur's whole body seemed to be glowing, and her face seemed to be suddenly illuminated. As if a certain veil has been lifted, one becomes incomparably beautiful and moving, and the whole body's figure becomes countless times more graceful, and every move seems to be dancing...

"Is this... Veela's innate magic?"

Avada blinked and used his mental power to dissipate the influence. Then he touched his chin and thought for a while, then his eyes lit up: "This method seems feasible!"

"This kind of magic seems to have a direct effect on the senses. Even Occlumency can't completely prevent it. If someone in the investigation team is not so determined, I can also use it hidden nearby. Small tricks...maybe they can actually be tricked!"

"Even if this move is a little stronger, maybe we can directly control those people to help us get what we need... uh, Krum?"

He suddenly noticed that Krum next to him seemed to have fallen into a sluggish state, staring blankly at Fleur, so he had to poke him in the ribs to force him to wake up: "Okay, it looks like This trick works well..."

"His performance can be regarded as determined."

Fleur murmured, while staring at Avada with a monster-like look, her tone was full of disbelief: "I just turned on the natural magic to the maximum! You are not affected at all??"

"...Ahem, actually a little bit."

Avada then realized that her calm performance might have slightly affected Fleur's self-confidence, and scratched her head in embarrassment: "I have made some achievements in mental magic, so it is normal for me to be more resistant in this area... "

"...Anyway,"

Fleur had no choice but to take back her talent along with her frustration, and raised her head to defend herself: "As long as I'm here, there won't be any danger in the subsequent investigation - after all, I didn't cast any magic. , I just asked a staff member casually, and he told me everything I wanted to know. Besides, we didn’t ask for any sensitive information. We were just asking about trivial things like who Bagman bought and who won... Surveillance Even if our people see these processes completely, it’s hard to say anything, right?”

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