She forced herself to stay alert despite her exhaustion as she took the crystal ball and asked, "Is it any different from the results of this morning's preliminary interrogation?"
"If you mean the list, then no." Scrimgeour's face was stern. "But there are other developments. We assembled our most elite Aurors and spent four hours carefully combing through John Mir's mind."
"After screening his memories, we discovered that thirty-eight days ago, John Mir was bought off by a wizard calling himself Mister Mystery. He began cooperating with him to stir up the emotions of those North American werewolves, guiding the marchers into clashes with wizards—based on the timeline, we can basically confirm that those memories are real."
As she listened to his report, Amelia picked up the crystal ball and tapped it lightly with her wand. The swirling mist inside immediately began to move.
It reconstructed scene after scene.
Whether through a crystal ball or a Pensieve, that was the safest way to examine another person's memories. After all, not every wizard was proficient in memory magic.
After giving them a cursory review, Amelia frowned. "That Mister Mystery never took off his hood?"
"No. We checked all of his memories from the past thirty-eight days. The other party was very cautious. Also, according to what John Mir revealed under Veritaserum, he believed Mister Mystery had around five or six companions. They were well-mannered and spent lavishly—"
He stopped at just the right moment.
But Amelia had already caught his implication. "John Mir has no actual evidence as to who Mister Mystery really is?"
"That's right!"
"Then why did he give that list to Vaughn?"
At Amelia's question, Rufus Scrimgeour seemed reluctant to speak. After a long while, he finally muttered, "That's the problem, Amelia. That list was very likely forged