Amelia Bones showed a surprised expression, and the monocle glasses on her face were about to slide down. She took them off and wiped the lenses.

"Dumbledore, if I read it right, neither of them has a master..."

Shanshan stood there blankly until then, she suddenly screamed: "Bu Shanshan belongs to the Crouch family! Shanshan has his own master! His name is Barty Crouch."

"No!" Dobby retorted: "Dear wizards, Mr. Barty Crouch gave Shanshan freedom! Dobby saw it with his own eyes!" Ranshan closed his eyes and shouted, "No! No! No!" Dobby shouted in a louder voice, "Now Shanshan is a free elf like Dobby!" He proudly raised his chest, and saw the wizards around him stunned.

Never seen such an alternative elves, no, some people have seen them in the Future World company, and they turned their heads toward Felix.

Felix said calmly: "Doby once served a large family, and later he was free, and I gave him a job," he emphasized, "just a job."

"I've heard that the 'Future World' company has a group of weird domestic elves." A wizard muttered.

Shanshan was still screaming, and Fudge interrupted her without hesitation, "Little Fairy! Your name is Shanshan? He used to be Barty Crouch's house elf?"

"No, no, no," Shanshan was still shouting. She had already started rolling on the ground, tears and snot pouring out. Dobi tried to pull her up, but she had no doubt failed. He stood in front of Shanshan and waved his slender arms helplessly, "Yes! Her name is Shanshan, my name is Dobi."

"Dumbledore, do you want them to testify? Household elves are not credible"

"I don't think so," Dumbledore said with a smile, "it can be seen from their clothes that their will belong entirely to themselves, and there is no need to worry that they will be bound by a magic contract that cannot be violated."

Fudge stared at the glittering rolling on the ground, "Are you sure? Apart from one extra piece of clothing, she is no different from other house elves."

"Doby, you can talk about what happened that night," Felix said, "only what you see in the old house of Crouch."

"Oh, of course! Dobby is happy!" Dobby quickly said what happened that night. He only mentioned the cold voice and Crouch's abnormal behavior, but most of the people present believed it, at least they almost confirmed that Crouch was indeed controlled, and that the person was not Crouch Jrouch, who was still at Hogwarts at the time.

As Dobby spoke, Shining gradually calmed down and sobbed in a low voice.

"He didn't mention that person." Amelia Bones asked quickly, looking up at the record, looking up.

"Dobby is an outsider, and he has nothing to do with this if it weren't for the purpose of inviteing friends to celebrate Christmas," Felix said, "as for more information" he looked at the elf sitting on the ground and said softly: "Shining, your testimony is useful, at least to prove that Mr. Barty Crouch is not an evil lunatic."

"The master is not a madman!" Shining shouted at the top of her lungs, "He was hit by a terrible magic!"

"So Shanshan? Is it the name? Can you tell me in detail?" Amelia Bones asked. "If there is another hidden truth, I can consider retrialing Barty Crouch."

"Will the master be released?" Shanshan asked excitedly, and she finally stopped going crazy.

"Impossible!" Fudge shouted, "Impossible." He said again, and Ms. Bones glanced at him with a reproach, turned to Shanshan and said, "Acquitition...is unlikely, but we will reconsider his sentence. You must know that he was originally in prison for life."

The glimmer of hope flashed in his eyes, "Gian…Gian is willing to testify."

"A year ago... the master was still at work, and a man suddenly broke in. He subdued me and released Master Barty."

"Who is that person?" Ms. Bones asked sternly.

"It's a man named 'Peter'. He can turn into a mouse. Shin Shan has seen him before!" Shin Shan said sharply, and the wizards present exchanged their eyes. Someone whispered: "Peter, a little dwarf." Shin Shan continued to describe his appearance, "short, obese, a little bald... and a pair of small eyes..." She secretly glanced at Forge and whispered: "It's a bit like this wizard."

Fudge's chest was undulating violently, like an ancient bellows, and it seemed to explode soon.

"Short, fat... and a little bald..." Ms. Bones couldn't help but laugh, and the wand outlined a person in the air, "Is it him?" The portrait in the air was exactly the little dwarf Peter.

"It's him!" Shanshan confirmed, and mentioned an important message, "He was holding an ugly baby and calling that baby the master!"

A loud sniffling sounded in the conference room.

"Are you sure it's a baby?" Ms. Bones asked seriously.

"Yes, yes!" Shanshan stammered, not daring to look at her, "It's a very, very... very ugly baby!"

"When the master came back in the evening, Master Bati obtained a magic wand for a long time. He hid under the invisible cloak and attacked him when the master lifted his clothes." Shining gasped and said in pain: "Oh, Bati, he brought back a bad friend!"

"We know, what after?"

"After, after... the master was controlled and went to work as usual. Shanshan actually felt that there was no problem. Oh my God!" Shanshan let out a cry of sorrow, tears fell like beans, "Shanshan is still taking care of them and cooking for them..."

"It might be a confusion curse," Felix said.

"Later, they accidentally mentioned that they were going to sneak attack someone and wanted to enter the school instead of him and complete a dangerous task."

“What is the mission?”

Shinshi opened her eyes wide. "Shanshi didn't know! When they were discussing things, Shinshi was ordered to return to their own place. Shinshi was an elf who obeyed the orders, and Shinshi was a very obedient elf!"

"Very good, we can guess who it is. Alasto is so unlucky. Keep talking, what else do you know?"

"The man named Peter disappeared and was said to have been arrested. After that, Mr. Barty also left and came back once every ten days. Shanshan was responsible for taking care of the baby, Shanshan..." She suddenly showed a horrified expression, "Shanshan sometimes sees that baby tortures his master! Shanshan is watching from the side! Oh, my God!"

She covered her face, and tears flowed out from her fingers.

"Just go here." Felix said, signaling to Dobby, who nodded and pulled Shining away with a "puff".

The office was shrouded in a silence that was suppressed to the extreme.

"You should let her finish the sentence," Amelia Bones said, looking at Felix with dissatisfaction.

"I've said everything I should say. If you want to hear someone's name or a complete plan, unfortunately, you also heard that she has limited knowledge. In fact, you have had a chance, that is, Peter, the little dwarf... Unfortunately, he was sucked away by the dementor."

Fuji stared at him and said word by word: "She also got the curse."

"I can't pretend that it hasn't happened," Felix said. "It should be a confusion spell. Voldemort seemed to underestimate the house elf, thinking that confusion spell was enough, or that she would be dealt with in the end, which was not worth wasting time. But in short, Shinshi has not been tampered with memory. If there is any objection, St. Mungo's therapist can be arranged for a check-up."

Fuji was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became angry, "It's another plausible evidence! It's all! I don't know what the significance of our discussion today!"

"Connelly," said Dumbledore tiredly, "I raised this issue not to deny something or subvert it, but to remind something. We discussed it privately, but for some reason, you refuse to believe the evidence. You should know how much we lost in the last war. Do you want to go through another unexpected war?"

"I, you are not" Fuji was dumbfounded.

"A key question is, do you know what you are doing, Minister Felix?" Felix said softly.

"What do you mean?" Fuji's face turned into a pig's liver.

"We might as well make an assumption." Felix tilted his head in the direction of Amelia Bones with interest, "and ask Ms. Bones and those present to give a testimony."

Ms. Borns fiddled with her monocles to make herself see Felix better.

"Today we heard two completely opposite views, not giving in to each other, but time will prove who is right. It's just... we need to ask ourselves a question: If the war really happens, do anyone need to be responsible for it?"

"All nonsense!" Fudge shouted, "Do you know what you are saying? Accuse a minister of magic, who instructed you to do this?" He looked at Felix fiercely, his eyes moving between him and Dumbledore.

"As the same thing, Minister Fudge...I know what I'm talking about, but you don't seem to understand what you're doing." Felix said with a smile, "The above is just a hypothesis, a possibility to discuss the future, isn't it?"

"I really don't have the ability to step down or accept punishment for a current magic minister." He said contemptuously. Fudge was about to die of anger. No one had threatened him so blatantly. Yes, he regarded Felix's words as a naked threat.
Chapter completed!