Wedge Carved in the Body

In the empty, enclosed ward, only a long-haired woman named Agnes on one of the beds barked occasionally.

Ryan didn't say anything, he just smiled at Kate.

The next second, a hazy dimensional barrier appeared out of thin air and passed through Ryan and Kate's bodies.

This is a narrow yet luxurious alley.

The path winds and twists, but the ground is paved with exquisite bricks and stones carved with various powerful and mysterious creatures.

Even though it was already afternoon, the area was still shrouded in a snow-like mist.

Suddenly, the sea of fog churned.

Two figures, one tall and one short, emerged from the sea of fog.

"You're back? Is there something you can't say there?" The short figure waved his hand dismissively.

The mist above her head dissipated with the wave of her little arms, revealing a fair, porcelain-doll-like round face.

It was Kate.

"Let's go," Ryan said, taking Kate's small hand and stepping out of the fog. "I'll talk as we walk. First, let's talk about why we didn't tell Neville."

He is currently with Harry Potter and his friends, as well as Durmstrang's Krum.

Listen to Krum pour out his grievances.

I don't think it's the right time.

And wouldn't it be better to present this belated birthday gift as a surprise?

When they returned to their house, where only the grandmother and grandson lived, via the Floo Network, they happened to meet their parents, Reparo.

What a blissful and beautiful scene this is.

At this point, Ryan stopped in his tracks.

His other free hand stroked the drooping branches of the oak tree by the roadside, as if stroking the face of an unseen person.

"Alone in a foreign land, a stranger in a strange land—" came from a strange language that Kate couldn't understand, along with Ryan's sigh.

That's why he didn't teach Kate and the others Chinese.

There are some things he doesn't want to share with anyone, some sighs, and some moments of vulnerability.

What are you saying?

"Little rascal, are you alright?" Kate quickly went over and touched Ryan's face with concern.

Ryan shook his head and pulled his hand away from Kate's. "Nothing?"

Let's talk about the Broderick Bode Bode murder case.

Flowing water has no shape, drifting wind leaves no trace, and the reasoning behind any case depends on the heart.

In the few seconds it took me to walk to the Longbottoms' bedside, I 'saw' everything.

All of this stems from humanity's most primal desire—the yearning for immortality.

"Immortality? You mean..."

"Yes, Broderick Bode Bode's research touches on this."

He worked in the Hall of Brains of the Department of Mysteries, where they studied things other than the mundane proteins in the brain.

Instead, it focuses on the pulse frequency waves that flicker between gray and white matter—thought.

The brains wriggling in the boxes in that Hall of Brains all have colorful tentacles, and the wounds left after being entangled by them can only be forgotten by using Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction.

And this is only their most basic achievement.

The most outstanding among them even involve the transference of the mind and personality.

Broderick Bode Bode has focused on this field.

However, he did not realize the extent to which his magic could reach.

But his colleague, the old, decrepit wizard I'm talking about with the horn-shaped hearing aid, is Maven Jackson.

He knew what this could do.

"To infuse one's own thoughts into others, thereby perpetuating one's own personality?"

"Very close."

However, it cannot be described using the term "injection," as that is inaccurate.

It's a transformation.

Make the person under the spell believe that they are the one who cast the spell.

Bode's colleague shares your idea.

His research focuses on stealing memories, not the crude Legilimency, but rather the subtle and unobtrusive process of stealing memories.

He stole Bode's research and made improvements upon it.

He can solidify his personality and all his memories into Wedge Carved in the Body.

Once planted, it requires constant maintenance and adjustment.

This will take a year.

Moreover, the host must not have Occlumency.

Once the wedge has spread, the host's thoughts and personality will take on the appearance of the wedge's owner.

Who is the host?

Was Bode's murder also related to this?

"Bode's murder was inevitable."

Jackson clearly didn't want people to discover that he had taken over someone else's body.

And the host, you might be familiar with his surname— Fudge.

His name is Rufus Fudge.

Cornelius Fudge's nephew.

Born in 1981, currently 12 years old, a first-year student at Hogwarts.

"Shouldn't he be in second grade now?"

He will turn 11 in December, and Hogwarts starts in September, so he will be enrolling this year.

If he had enrolled last year, I would have noticed much earlier.

Jackson had his eye on him, clearly because he was the Minister for Magic's nephew.

But as you and I both know, Fudge stepped down last year.

"Last year?" Kate raised her eyebrows. "By then, he'd become that old devil Jackson?"

"Not yet, but it'll be soon." Ryan snapped his fingers, and the sound of shattering glass flashed by. "Alright, everything's fine now."

Ryan blinked.

There's one more thing he didn't mention.

Like Bode, Rufus Fudge was murdered two years earlier than expected.

Kate hasn't read the Harry Potter novels, so she wouldn't understand the concepts.

The premature deaths of these two individuals were indeed related to adjustments made by the Ministry of Magic.

Despite his advanced age and the fact that he wore a horn-shaped hearing aid all day, Jackson was actually in very good health.

He faked it so that he could die in a plausible way after shifting his thoughts.

However, the emergence of Voldemort and the changes in the Ministry of Magic made him feel threatened, so he set his sights on Rufus Fudge.

A centrist, young, Pure-blood, and from a prominent family.

The rumors of Voldemort's appearance in the original timeline should have affected the Ministry of Magic two years later.

Harry Potter declares Voldemort has been resurrected, and Fudge and Dumbledore are estranged.

Therefore, according to the original timeline, Jackson killed Rufus Fudge after Harry was in his fourth year.

They attacked poor Bode, delivering a fatal gift to Bode during Harry's fifth-year Christmas.

"You solved it?"

"That wedge?" Kate didn't know what Ryan was thinking, but seeing Ryan's snap of his fingers and that unusual sound, combined with his words, she guessed that.

"Um.

But that's not all.

The Ministry of Magic is acting with remarkable speed and efficiency.

We just got back here, less than ten minutes ago, and the Auror are already at the front door of Maven Jackson's house.

However, he readily confessed. "Ryan said, barely suppressing a laugh.

"Wait, does that mean Jackson no longer needs to maintain his wedge?"

Did he think he had everything under control and was just waiting to die?

"That's right, Kate."

However, since Azkaban is now gone, he can only go to the new prison, 'The Cage,' to be cellmates with Cornelius Fudge, Umbridge, and Gilderoy Lockhart. Ryan shrugged.

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