Professor of Pharmacy at Hogwarts

While Cornelius Fudge was circling Dumbledore, Alexis had already gotten all the information from Rufus.

As a "comrade" who had fought against the Death Eaters with the Order of the Phoenix and the Auror Division, Rufus's view of Alexis was not as superficial as Fudge's.

Although Alexis is straightforward and doesn't care much about the situation, he will ridicule those he doesn't like.But as a teammate, Rufus would rather choose Alexis than Fudge.

Having worked with Fudge for some time, Rufus had a thorough understanding of Fudge's character. He didn't dare to leave his back to a face-changing expert.

If it weren't for the fact that Fudge's appearance had nothing to do with that mysterious country in the Far East, Rufus would have doubted whether Fudge was born in a place called Sichuan - he heard from a Muggle friend that people in that place were good at something. A unique skill called "bian-lian".

Alexis is different, at least whether you like him or not is written on his face, and Alexis is strong, well-connected, honest and reliable.

Rufus felt there was nothing wrong with telling Alexis.

A week ago, Minister Fudge happened to encounter Fenrir who was robbing a burger shop on his way to work. After a "hard fight", he captured Fenrir at the cost of a scratched arm.

Fudge happily handed Fenrir to the Auror headquarters and told him to keep an eye on Fenrir. He immediately set off to submit a trial application to the Wizengamot.

The day after Fudge left, Fenrir, who was imprisoned in the small dark room, turned into Umbridge in front of Rufus.

According to Umbridge's account, she came over to take a look before leaving get off work, and then was knocked unconscious by an Auror who was guarding Fenrir.When she woke up, she was tied to a chair.

The whereabouts of the Auror who guarded Fenrir are still unknown. Also disappearing with them are a large number of time turners installed in glass cabinets in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries.

Fudge came back right after.

The Ministry of Magic in various countries has very strict requirements on the use of time turners, because this small hourglass can time travel!

Although there are many time travel restrictions for time turners, any time turner wandering among the people is enough to cause extraordinary impact. 【Note 1】

There is very little magic related to time in the wizarding world, and most people will never even hear about it in their lifetime.

In fact, time magic is very dangerous. Wizards have rarely studied it, and most people who study time magic have realized its dangers - they have almost studied it to death.

Time magic gradually became taboo.

To this day, the only evidence of the existence of time magic is probably the time turner.

The Ministry of Magic has a complete and tedious and lengthy review process for the use of Time Turners, and most of the time, after this process, the use of Time Turners will eventually be dismissed.

Anyway, Alexis has never heard of anyone successfully applying for it.

Those time-turners have been placed in glass cases as exhibits since almost the same time as the British Ministry of Magic was founded.

The time turner can be said to be the most mysterious and top-notch alchemical product in the wizarding world. Even Alexis has never played with it.

However, Alexis heard that Professor McGonagall had a time turner, but given how serious Professor McGonagall was, Alexis could figure it out with her toes, and it was impossible for her to lend it to her. .

Alexis didn’t know much about time turners—in fact, most wizards had never even heard of the name time turner, but just by hearing the name, you knew how many things a time turner could do— —At least Alexis thought of at least a hundred ways to use the time turner the moment she heard Rufus mention it.

The time-turner was stolen, and even a calm man like Rufus couldn't help but panic. He quickly put aside his suspicion of Fudge and stepped up his pursuit of the whereabouts of the time-turner.

The time turner disappeared together with Fenrir and the Auror. It is easy to think that the Auror let Fenrir go, and Fenrir took the time turner along with him.

But after Fenrir left the Ministry of Magic, it was like he disappeared from the world. In the past week, Rufus and his team of Aurors had almost torn through the entire London, but Fenrir was still missing.

In desperation, they had no choice but to come to Dumbledore.

When the search was fruitless, Rufus had doubts about Fudge. After carefully thinking about the whole incident, he felt that Fudge was also very suspicious, but looking at Fudge's anxious and angry look, it didn't look like he was just faking it.

More importantly, after Rufus' search turned out to be fruitless, Fudge uncharacteristically did not give up, and did not shrink his head like an ostrich as usual. When even Rufus himself was discouraged because he had no clues, Fudge behaved even worse. Frustrated and brave, he actively helped to find solutions on the sidelines.

If it is true that Fudge is cooperating with others - Rufus assumes that Fudge has the courage - he should work hard to stop Fenrir. Once Fenrir is caught, as long as he makes a little confession and tells him that this matter is likely to affect the entire wizarding world. Regarding the perception of werewolves, the wizarding world would most likely downgrade werewolves to magical animals, and he would even tell us about the time he wet the bed as a child.

This wouldn't be of any benefit to Fudge - if Fudge was really Fenrir's accomplice.

In the end, out of desperation, Fudge even offered to come to Hogwarts to seek Dumbledore's help, which made Rufus's last doubt about Fudge disappear.

……

When Alexis called him out, Fudge felt a flash of embarrassment on his face, and then he let out a long sigh of relief, and his shoulders slumped.

The delicate and arrogant look on Fudge's face was replaced by deep anxiety. He even canceled the stiff smile on his face, turned his head and walked to the table, pulled up a chair and sat down.

The "cute" Umbridge on the side wanted to step forward to help, but Fudge pushed her away roughly.

"Go away!"

Fudge rubbed his hair irritably, sat opposite Dumbledore, and raised his head to meet Dumbledore.

Looking at those deep and wise eyes, Fudge subconsciously looked away and said anxiously

"Yes, as you can see, Dumbledore, you won and I screwed up."

Then he turned his head sharply and began to look at Dumbledore without hesitation, which surprised Dumbledore a little. He could even see the bloodshot eyes on Fudge's eyes.

"But this is not my business alone, Dumbledore."

"You have to help me!"