Besides Hermione, the Young Wizards present also had mixed feelings. After being taught by Lockhart for nearly a year, few of them had failed to develop an overwhelming fondness for him.
If not for the irrefutable evidence, no one would have believed that the gentle, refined Professor Lockhart could be such a despicable, shameless man.
This experience had certainly given many Young Wizards a profound lesson in the treachery of the human heart.
Lockhart was escorted away.
Bones continued the proceedings.
"The next defendant is the former head coach of England's Quidditch team, Aio Yorks."
Yorks was led to the defendant's seat in a daze. He had never imagined that one moment he would be living it up, drinking and carousing, and the next he would become a criminal.
After all, he had learned all his corrupt practices from his predecessors in the coaching position.
Why was he the one being put on trial?
Yorks raised his head and looked at Shawn in the center of the judges' seats, as though everything had suddenly become clear.
He was just about to curse him at the top of his lungs.
"Shawn! It was you..."
Bones struck her gavel first and began questioning him.
Bang! Bang!
"Aio Yorks, you have been accused of nepotism, molesting players, embezzlement, and neglecting training during your tenure as head coach.
"Furthermore, during the qualifiers for the last Quidditch World Cup, you colluded with another country's national team to fix a match and ran a betting pool, reaping enormous profits while preventing the England National Team from qualifying.
"Do you plead guilty?"
Bones's tone was stern. Yorks choked repeatedly with guilt, opening his mouth to argue.
But he had already undergone repeated questioning during his detention. This assembly was merely where he would be formally convicted.
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