The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

Link's words sounded like he was worried about Dumbledore or wanted to share Dumbledore's worries, but in fact he was a little eager to give it a try.

After all, the benefits hidden in interrogating Bagman are too great.

If Bagman is really Voldemort's internal agent, then Link is very likely to dig out some information about that mysterious force from him.

And if Bagman is innocent.

The person who took the blame was also Dumbledore, and he had nothing to do with Link.

"Cruciato and cutting out the bones? That's the Unforgivable Curse!"

Dumbledore's face changed drastically when he heard this, and his voice became urgent and stern as he said, "I remember I warned you to use less black magic, especially the Unforgivable Curse! But now you seem to regard this as trouble. Your first choice? You have to know that you are special! Black magic, especially the three unforgivable curses, is poison to you!"

Link frowned. Dumbledore was not a person of very high rank in his mind like Mrs. Foley. When he was suddenly retorted like this, Link instinctively retorted:

"I know the condition of my body. In my current state, I can use black magic like the three unforgivable curses as regular magic!"

Link did not lie.

After the Occlumency spell was raised to LV6, his wall of heart and mental power had greatly increased. This knew that the negative effects caused by his use of black magic had been suppressed to an extremely low level and could almost be ignored.

After hearing this, Dumbledore opened and closed his mouth quickly a few times, as if he wanted to continue to say something, but in the end he realized that he could not convince Link at all. He took a few deep breaths in silence before finally slowing down. He said in a sincere tone:

"There used to be countless people who had the same idea as you, thinking that they could become the masters of black magic instead of being enslaved by black magic. But as you can see, there are very few people who can really do this.

I don't expect you to give up black magic completely, but your future is bright, and I don't want this future to be stained by black magic. "

After Dumbledore finished speaking, he didn't give Link a chance to speak. He turned to Filch and said:

"Argus, Link's knowledge of the Unforgivable Curse must be kept secret. This is of great importance!"

"Of course! Headmaster Dumbledore! I know!"

Filch was aroused by Dumbledore's power, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he nodded repeatedly.

But in fact, even if Dumbledore didn't tell him, he would keep Link a secret. After all, his friendship with Link was far beyond Dumbledore's imagination.

When Link saw that Dumbledore had silenced him, his dissatisfaction was slightly relieved.

As if nothing had happened, the two of them arrived in silence all the way to the door of the innermost cell.

In the cell, Bagman was indeed still moaning and whimpering in a vague voice, such as 'I am wronged', 'Dumbledore, please...' and the like.

Today's Bagman looks quite embarrassed compared to his previous glory.

His dress, which cost up to 1000 gold galleons, was covered in dust and stains, and he collapsed on the ground, letting the sewage in the dungeon half soak his cheeks.

However, after meeting Link and Dumbledore, his depressed state immediately became excited.

I saw him rolling and crawling to the cell door, holding on to the iron railing with both hands, his eyes widened, and he sobbed:

"Let me out! Please! Dumbledore! I just wanted to increase the ratings so I kept the camera focused on Link. As you know, everyone likes Link...ah! You do too, Link Here you go! You should know, right? Everyone likes you, I just gave everyone what they wanted..."

Hearing Bagman mention his name, Link frowned and covered his nose, shook his head and took a few steps back.

Now he began to understand why Dumbledore was willing to take such a big risk to use Veritaserum on Bagman.

Judging from his current performance, Bagman has not received any training to resist interrogation at all, and his ability to hide emotions is almost zero.

The smell of fear emanating from him was so strong that it was pungent, which in itself was a sign of guilty conscience.

Normal people who are innocent would not be afraid like this.

Dumbledore stepped forward with a complicated expression and said:

"Ludo, my old friend, tell me everything you have hidden. This is the last chance I can give you."

"Dumbledore, what are you talking about? I'm not hiding anything from you...ah!"

Bagman screamed in surprise - he saw that Dumbledore had taken out the Veritaserum. Although he did not know what the potion in the bottle was, this did not prevent him from being afraid of it.

He screamed and fell to the ground, and quickly crawled backwards until his back was firmly pressed against the wall. Only then did he realize that he actually had no way to escape, so he forced himself to smile. He stammered:

"You, you can't do this, Dumbledore, we are friends! Yes, old friends! We knew each other when I was a batsman for the Wimborne Hornets, and I even gave you an autograph at that time With on-site tickets!”

Hearing this, Dumbledore's expression also showed a trace of nostalgia and pain, but this emotion had no effect at all. He still pushed open the cell door and walked in.

"It's a pity, Ludo, that I have to do this for the sake of those innocent lives."

Dumbledore said as he poured the Veritaserum into Bagman's mouth.

It's not that Bagman didn't want to resist, but his body, which was still barely strong, was controlled by Dumbledore's magic at the moment, and he even made some movements to cooperate with drinking the medicine.

Bang Chi!

The empty bottle fell to the ground, and Bagman began to twitch and foam at the mouth - this was the only resistance he could make under Dumbledore's magic.

But this did not make him spit out the Veritaserum he drank. After 5 minutes, Bagman's resistance began to become weak, and his expression gradually became dull.

Dumbledore removed Bagman's control, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers twice in front of him. After seeing no response, he asked:

"What's your name?"

"Lou, Ludo Bagman."

"gender?"

"male."

"age?"

……

Dumbledore obviously also knew some knowledge about interrogation. After asking a series of test questions, he seemed to confirm that the Veritaserum in Bagman's body had fully taken effect. He nodded to Link before continuing to ask:

"Are you the spy placed in Hogwarts by Voldemort?"

This time, Bagman did not answer the question immediately as before, but remained silent for a long time.

During this period of silence, the heartbeats of Dumbledore and Link accelerated to varying degrees. But after this long silence, Bagman answered crisply:

"do not know."

"do not know?"

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes slightly and repeated it again.

He had some doubts as to whether the Veritaserum had not taken effect yet. Otherwise, why would Bagman give a third answer other than yes or no?

Just when he was hesitating whether to take the test again, Link also stepped into the cell and said to Bagman word by word:

"Why did Harry become the fourth warrior?"

As soon as he said this, Dumbledore's eyebrows suddenly raised again. It was obvious that he also understood the mistake in his question. Compared with the broad question, the detailed question like the one Link asked now The question is obviously easy to answer.

And this is indeed the case. Bagman said without any hesitation after hearing this:

"You already know this, don't you? Because I cast a confusion spell on the Goblet of Fire, causing it to mistakenly think that there are four participating schools, and set Harry to be the only one from the fourth school. A registrant, so that he can naturally become a warrior. To be honest, this is not difficult for me at all. After all, I am a member of the organizing committee of the competition. As early as when the Goblet of Fire was just transported to the Ministry of Magic of the United States, I All the work has been done.”

Bagman seemed a little proud as he spoke. Link and Dumbledore looked at each other before continuing to ask:

"Who ordered you to do all this?"

"Opulus."

"Who is that?"

"A bastard, a demon, a piece of shit..."

Bagman's expression suddenly became ferocious, and he began to curse continuously, with various meaningless sentences mixed in between various swear words, as if he was completely stupid.

Link and Dumbledore quickly changed the topic. After more than an hour of roundabout questioning, the two finally figured out the relationship between Bagman and O'Brien.

It turned out that Bagman had already been involved in the gambling industry when he was a batsman for Wimbourne Wasps. He was initially hired to fix matches.

Later, after he retired, he began to expand his business scope by relying on his previous connections in the sports world. From the initial job of a worker, he became a mid-level organizer.

After accumulating some experience and reputation through these activities, he was elected by the industry bosses to become the director of the Magic Sports Department due to his status as a well-established Miaohong, and officially became the puppet protector of the entire sports betting industry. I also began to use this status to independently undertake small and medium-sized spinach businesses.

If we follow the normal development logic, Bagman's final destination will be either 'Ba Boss' or 'Bamou'.

But something weird happened next.

Like most pure-blood wizards, Bagman's mastery of mathematics is not as good as that of a Muggle junior high school student. In daily life, he often makes mistakes when giving change in stores (there are also goblins here who deliberately mislead the currency). If the exchange ratio is complicated).

Such a guy has no idea how odds are set.

Unfortunately, he didn't know himself yet and was unwilling to pay a large share of the profits to hire goblins to settle accounts.

As a result, the handicap held by Bagman miraculously suffered continuous losses. In the end, not only did Bagman lose all the wealth he had accumulated in the past, but even made Bagman owe a large amount of loan sharks.

The debt grew larger and larger, eventually reaching an astronomical sum that Bagman could not afford to pay back in his lifetime.

This made Bagman feel extremely scared.

Different from the strange phenomenon in Muggle society where 'the one who owes money is the boss' and 'if I owe a hundred million, I am the father of the bank', the wizarding world has a very unified attitude towards those who owe large loans and fail to repay them. Sent to Azkaban.

The loan shark "shadow banks" will directly choose to send such people to hell.

Although this will lead to the emergence of many bad debts, everyone in the entire industry is resolutely implementing this tradition.

The reason is to maintain a deterrent effect and encourage borrowers to repay their loans more actively.

Bagman is obviously about to be dealt with in this way.

But at this critical moment, Obulus appeared.

He began to send Gold Galleons to Bagman on the pretext of letting Bagman use his authority to do some small favors. At first, these favors were just small things that Bagman could easily do, but later, Obu Les then specified that Bagman should participate in the Triwizard Tournament.

Bagman is not a fool. He knows that the risks for him in such a big event are almost unimaginable.

But at this time he could no longer turn back.

O'Brien had already mastered a large amount of his evidence and IOUs, so he could only follow O'Brien's instructions and first let Harry become the fourth warrior.

Subsequently, he continued to reveal information and strategies to Harry and Link so that they could successfully reach the finals.

And O'Brien's last instruction to Bagman was to keep the camera locked on Link and never transfer it to Harry.

"Then who is this Obulus? Did you find out anything during your cooperation with him?"

Dumbledore asked impatiently after listening to Bagman's story.

This is the most important purpose of their interrogation of Bagman this time, to trace the mysterious force through the people behind Bagman.

Upon hearing this, Bagman turned pale, and the muscles on his face twitched as he said:

"Opulus is a businessman. He specializes in smuggling between the Muggle world and the wizarding world. He sells various potions and props from the wizarding world to the Muggles, and then collects resources from the Muggles and sells them to the wizards. .

This is information I found out by hiring an Auror who likes to do private work.It's a pity that the Auror didn't find out how O'Brien made money, otherwise I would have got involved in such a big business. "

As soon as this was said, Dumbledore and Harry had strange expressions.

This Obulus is obviously a vest of that mysterious force, and his identity as a businessman also explains part of the source of funds of that mysterious force to a certain extent.

But the question is, how can an organization that has a close relationship with Voldemort cooperate with the Muggle world for smuggling?

This is simply Arabian Nights!

But this is not a big problem. Anyway, the name Obulis has been discovered. I believe that as long as we follow the clues all the way, we will definitely gain something.

Thinking of this, Link nodded, without having high hopes, and just asked politely:

"Mr. Bagman, do you have anything else to say?"

"Oh, of course." Bagman raised his head and said with a dull look, "I suddenly remembered. Among the gold galleons O'Brien gave me, I once found many gold coins with the Black family mark. "