The Muggle comic Fudge brought up was enough to make even the Wizengamot members lose their composure.
If even they reacted that way, the wizards attending the hearing and watching the live broadcast outside were even less likely to hold back.
It did not even qualify as circumstantial evidence. If such a clumsy accusation could stand, then would those underground literary works circulating on the black market about Dumbledore and Grindelwald's love-hate relationship also count as evidence?
Hearing prosecutor Bones narrowed her eyes tightly. The rim of the monocle on her face had sunk into the flesh around her eye. "Hearing chair and decision-making speaker, other than a Muggle comic, do you have any further evidence? I mean more direct evidence."
Fudge did not even look at her, merely fiddling with the documents before him. "No. What I said was that Vincent Wayne had an inseparable connection with the Batman Family. As far as I know, this model student has many bad habits. One of them is getting up in the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, to wander around the school. What we commonly call 'night wandering.'"
Bones' eyes widened slightly, and a distinct red mark remained where her monocle had pressed into her skin. "You believe he might have encountered the Batman Family while night wandering?"
"Yes." Fudge casually put the documents back in their place. "I believe that a student who frequently gets up in the middle of the night behind the backs of professors and classmates cannot be called a model student at all. Furthermore, he is not as morally upright as he appears. More than once, I have received letters accusing him of committing school violence against fellow students."
Several people in the gallery, led by the Malfoy family, immediately looked delighted, especially