Detective Ryan

[Ministry of Magic employee died under suspicious circumstances. St. Mungo's Hospital promised last night to conduct a full investigation into the death of Ministry of Magic employee Broderick Bode Bode.]

Forty-nine-year-old Mr. Bode was strangled to death in his hospital bed by a potted plant; the therapist could not save him.

Mr. Bode was injured in a work accident several weeks ago.

Melanie Strau, the therapist in charge of Mr. Bode's ward at the time of the incident, was on paid leave and did not give an interview.

In Ryan's mental palace, the book bearing the words "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" moved without wind, turning to the page of "Chapter 25: The Helpless Beetle".

Just now, as Ryan was lamenting that the soliloquizing wizard was still in a closed ward two years later, his subconscious mind was inexplicably stirred.

He then realized that the sorcerer who was talking to himself was Broderick Bode Bode.

That person was originally injured in a work accident two years later.

Then he died unexpectedly on Christmas.

The murder weapon was a bedside plant disguised as Christmas Cactus's Devil's Snare.

It also has another identity: a Christmas gift.

After Broderick Bode Bode's language and motor skills had largely recovered, the therapist Strau encouraged him to take care of the plant himself.

As a result, Bode, who was recovering from his illness, was strangled to death the moment he touched it.

What's even more interesting is that in the original timeline, when Harry Potter and his friends came to visit Arthur Weasley, they happened to encounter an old, decrepit wizard with a horn-shaped hearing aid visiting Bode, who had been abandoned by his family.

Even the plant was delivered to Bode's bedside right before their eyes.

This is clearly an assassination attempt.

To outsiders, Broderick Bode Bode is an ordinary Ministry of Magic employee who has been abandoned by his family.

But in reality, he belongs to the most mysterious Department of Mysteries.

In the original timeline, he was injured by Death Eaters at the end of 1995, losing his ability to speak and believing himself to be a teapot.

Even so, he was put on the Devil's Snare and assassinated without knowing whether he had fully recovered.

In this current timeline, Voldemort and his last Death Eaters are in Azkaban.

The Death Eaters of the Ministry of Magic had long since been eliminated and killed.

Even though the Ministry of Magic still has Death Eaters, the reason Bode was injured— the Prophecy Orb containing the complete Prophecy of the Chosen One —had not yet become Voldemort's target.

The fact that Bode was attacked two years earlier than expected must be related to the recent changes in the Ministry of Magic.

Because, considering the changes in both timelines, the only common factor in the attacks he suffered was the change in the Ministry of Magic.

So, in the original timeline, even without Death Eaters, he would still be attacked if the Ministry of Magic underwent major changes.

However, we need to confirm one thing first.

"Your name is Melanie Strau, right?" Ryan asked casually in a relaxed tone, just a second after the real world had passed.

"Yes, how do you know my name?" Strau, who was eagerly awaiting Ryan's magic to save the Longbottoms, blinked in confusion.

Ryan waved his hand, took out a pair of black-rimmed glasses from thin air, put them on, and his hair turned black as well.

His attire had also changed to a blue suit, shorts, and a red bow tie.

"Nothing, I just discovered something more interesting." He adjusted his glasses. The mirror reflected a white light.

"What's wrong with you?—" Strau sensed something was amiss.

Could it be that this magic requires the help of legends from the Muggle world?

What's even stranger is that she inexplicably felt this was a detective's outfit.

But what detective dresses like a seven or eight-year-old child?

Also, what is a detective?

"Edogawa Conan? The Death God Elementary School Student?" Kate, who had played detective Mind Games, exclaimed as the Strau Straw was lost in thought.

"The Bleach? Is that Muggle legend from America?"

"Well, only in the short history of the America does Bleach look like this," Strau pondered.

Ryan casually waved his wand towards the floral curtain. "Mr. and Mrs. Frank have been healed. They will wake up and regain their sanity in an hour."

The focus now is on something else.

As a renowned detective, this is something I need to solve.

"Cough cough, what did you say?" Strau couldn't believe his ears.

She saw Ryan wave his wand.

I didn't see a single beam of magic.

Kate, being very sensible, remained silent.

Ryan's attire hints at the nature of the case.

But who is the victim?

There's also the murderer.

Kate began to carefully observe the entire room.

"Alright, that's because you don't understand the principle that the greatest sound is silent and the greatest form is formless."

Why was Strau, Broderick Bode Bode, hospitalized?

Which department of the Ministry of Magic does he work in?

"He was struck by the backfire of his wand while working, and eventually lost the ability to speak, thinking he was a teapot."

He's a Hit Wizards.

"Wrong! This is a murder case!"

He was murdered on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic — the Hall of Brains of the Department of Mysteries.

He wasn't Hit Wizards, nor did he have any family. He was hired to study the most mysterious organ in the human body—the brain.

And a Chamber of Secrets murder is about to occur here.

"Murder? You must be mistaken?" Strau was so frightened that he took a few steps back.

"Kate, go check the pillow. Use my vision."

"It really is! What is this?" Kate, with her silver-white eyes, tore open the pillow with her hands and pulled out a black button from the cotton.

"This contains a curse that causes people to die without their voice."

Not bad. It seems the recent crackdown has made the killer's methods much more sophisticated.

"That's right, what's Devil's Snare anyway?" Ryan looked at the button with satisfaction.

"Mr. Smith, I didn't put this here. All our equipment is made in your factory." Strau looked at Ryan with a sense of unease.

"Alright, the murderer is an old, decrepit male witch who wears a megaphone-shaped hearing aid."

He visited poor Bode the day before yesterday.

Just give this matter and this button to the dean, and say that I gave the order.

The evidence is in that old man's magic wand.

"Just use a Flashback Charm on his wand." Golden clocks gleamed in Ryan's silver eyes.

Therapist Strau couldn't help but feel a jolt of fear.

It seemed to be able to see through everything.

He was standing right in the room, yet he saw the wand of an old wizard who had been there just a few days earlier, and whose whereabouts he didn't even know.

"Oh right, I almost forgot something."

"What's up?"

"Inform Augusta Longbottom that her son and daughter-in-law are both well." Ryan pulled off his glasses.

The outfit from before has been restored to its original state.

That's it?

Why was Bode attacked?

"And why didn't you just tell Neville?" Kate asked, looking up after the therapist Strau rushed out the door.

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