When Lin Ze came out of Crouch's office, he bumped into Fudge in the corridor.
Fudge had obviously lost weight, and the collar of his shirt was hanging loosely. When he saw Lin Ze, a smile appeared on his face, and that smile looked little better than crying.
"Team Leader Lin, long time no see."
"Mr. Fudge, you don't look very good."
"Hey, don't mention it. Recently, the case of Malfoy has made everyone in the department uneasy."
Fudge looked around, took half a step closer and lowered his voice, "Wizengamot's group of people are clearly dragging her, Lucius has stuffed Galleon behind her, I don't even dare to think about it."
Lin Ze looked at his sad face and knew very well.
The biggest problem with Fudge is that he is a loser, but now the little friendship between him and Malfoy is no longer enough for him to take sides. Both sides of the Malfoy case are equally matched, so he simply brushes himself off first and even prefers to bet on both sides.
"Mr. Fudge, I have a question." Lin Ze said in a casual voice, "Are you familiar with the judges who speak for Malfoy in Wizengamot?"
Fudge was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses. Most of the sadness on his face disappeared, and he changed into an expression that Lin Ze was very familiar with. It was the kind of expression that a person who has been immersed in official circles for half his life would have when he smells an opportunity.
"Familiar, so familiar, one of them is my distant cousin."
"Find some time later and give me a copy of their addresses and places they frequent."
"This..." Fudge rolled his eyes, "Team Leader Lin This is going to..."
"It's nothing, I just feel that the program is too slow if it goes on like this."
Lin Ze didn't say anything more, patted Fudge on the shoulder and left.
Behind him, Fudge stood on the same spot, his expression changing several times uncertainly, but in the end he turned around and walked back to his office, walking much faster than before.
Lin Ze returned to Group Three's office and called Ben over.
"Help me check to see if the batch of sealed evidence in the Ministry of Magic underground warehouse is still there, which are the boxes of the Malfoy case."
Ben opened the record book and searched for it for a long time, his face became a little strange. "It was picked up three days ago. The person who signed the bill of lading was the administrative liaison officer of Wizengamot."
"Where's the stuff?"
"It said it was transferred to Wizengamot's own evidence storage room."
"One more thing." Ben flipped through the notebook again.
"Caractacus·Burke came to the ministry to find you two days ago and said that he wanted to talk to you about some situations."
Lin Ze nodded and wrote down this matter.
In the evening of that day, Lin Ze went to Knockturn Alley.
Borgin and Burkes The store was closed. Lin Ze went around to the back alley and knocked on the back door. After a while, Caractacus finally opened the door a crack and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was him.
"Mr. Lin, you are finally here."
The store was much messier than last time. The shelves had been turned over and some worthless odds and ends were scattered on the floor.
Caractacus led Lin Ze into the small room at the back, took out an account book from under the counter and pushed it in front of Lin Ze.
"Someone broke in and rummaged through it the night before yesterday. Most of them were transaction records of Dark Magic items related to Malfoy family."
"Did you report Ministry of Magic?"
Caractacus smiled bitterly, "Who should I report it to? I recognized the people who rummaged through my things. They are people from Wizengamot Administrative Office. They have come here to collect protection fees before. I reported it to Auror Office. If I turn around, I have to enter Azkaban."
Lin Ze opened the account book and looked at a few pages. He found that the dealings between the Burke Family and Malfoy family were deeper than what he had originally discovered. In addition to contraband transactions, several large amounts of funds were transferred to several shell companies through Gringotts, around the time of the collapse of Voldemort.
"I'll take these with me."
"You take it away, it will be a disaster if I keep it."
Lin Ze put the account books into Undetectable Extension Box, and when he went out, he looked back and said, "Be careful these days."
"Of course, Mr. Lin." Caractacus nodded repeatedly, Lin Ze walked out with his front feet, and heard the sound of the door latch falling with his back feet.
Lin Ze learned from Ben that Lucius Malfoy now lives in the manor of Wiltshire.
Lin Ze found a deserted alley corner, activated space magic and stepped over it.
The large iron gate of the Malfoy Manor is much more elegant than the old house of Black. The black wrought iron gate is wrapped with gold lines, and there is a malachite sculpture on the top of each doorpost.
The manor's defensive spell is very strong, but Lin Ze has no intention of knocking on the door.
He took out his wand and waved his right hand while the defensive spells of the manor were being crushed layer by layer. The iron door of the manor also made a dull creaking sound. Finally, the entire door detached from the doorpost and fell inwards.
It hit the slate floor, causing the malachite sculpture on the porch to sway.
The porch of the main building of the manor was lit with lights, and footsteps could be heard from inside. Four or five people in black robes rushed out of the porch, the first one holding a wand in his hand.
"Who-"
Lin Ze didn't wait for him to finish speaking and directly raised his hand and fired "Stunning Spell".
"Stupefy"
The four people softened at the same time, as if they had no bones.
Lin Ze walked to the door of the main building on the stone pavement, raised his legs and kicked open the double oak door.
Lucius Malfoy stood in the center of the Entrance Hall, wearing a dark green velvet nightgown and holding a glass of red wine in his hand. The expression on his face slowly changed from shock to a vigilant calmness.
"Mr. Lin, breaking into someone else's house late at night is not in line with Ministry of Magic's business procedures."
"Sorry, I may have disturbed Mr. Malfoy's leisure time. I am very sorry for this."
Lucius's fingers tightened slightly on the wine glass.
"What do you want to do?"
Lin Ze took two steps forward, the vertical pupils in his eyes slowly emerged, glowing with a dark golden luster under the dim light, and the corner of his mouth curled up into a slight smile.
"Let me... talk to you."
"With all due respect, Mr. Lin, your behavior is not like someone who came to talk to me about something. Do you really think that I, Malfoy family, only relied on Galleon to gain a foothold in Wizarding World?" Lucius became a little angry.
"Oh? It seems that Mr. Malfoy doesn't welcome me very much. How about I let you pull out the wand first and give you three spells to teach this arrogant and arrogant junior in front of you?" Lin Ze said word by word, and slowly walked towards Lucius. He slowly spread his hands to indicate that he was not holding the wand in his hand.
"Arrogant! Ignorant!" A flash of caution flashed across Lucius's eyes, but along with it was a sense of humiliation. Reason told him not to do anything to this young man, but Pure-blood's pride forced him to pull out his wand.
"Cruciatus Curse"
Raise your hand and it's Unforgivable Curses.
It's just that there was no feedback at all when this spell fell on Lin Ze. Lin Ze even scratched the itch with his hand.
Lucius's pupils shrank, but the wand in his hand did not stop.
"Avada Kedavra"
A ray of green light shot towards Lin Ze at an extremely fast speed, passing directly through Lin Ze's body, but the smile on Lin Ze's face did not diminish at all.