Raven's Feather

"Disgraceful! Ridiculous! Absurd!"

The "new" Minister of Magic, Eugenia, was raging inside the Ministry of Magic, waving the very newspaper Manus had been reading in her hand.

The Death Eaters breaking into the Ministry of Magic as a group before had been bad enough. At least they could say the enemy had been numerous and powerful, while most people in the Ministry were clerks who were not skilled at magical combat.

But this time, just two people had infiltrated the Ministry through Transfiguration and openly taken away two criminals awaiting trial...

The Ministry of Magic had lost all face!

Before Eugenia, a group of Ministry employees stood with their heads lowered, taking her scolding, but inwardly they could not have cared less.

The other side had precisely seized the period between the two men leaving the holding room and being escorted to trial, when security was at its weakest, to take them away. There had to be an insider—but how were they supposed to identify that insider?

In theory, not many people knew about it, but there were so many people in the Ministry that anything they did would inevitably be seen by a large number of them. If they really counted it, more than half the Ministry could have indirectly known that time window.

Eugenia could not possibly interrogate everyone with Veritaserum, could she?

And besides... they could not really investigate everything, could they?

If they truly confirmed that at least four out of every ten Ministry employees had colluded with outsiders, could they fire nearly half the staff?

In the end, it would only be dropped without resolution.

Seeing the bastards standing there and letting her curse at them, Eugenia took several deep breaths in anger, yet there was nothing she could do. She was the Minister of