Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 301 No such person found?!

"Law Enforcement Division, Wisengamo Trial Files, Date: 1981... uh, just to be safe, let's include 1982 as well. Judge: Barty Crouch, key search keywords: Death Eater, Ludo Bagman..."

The dark, silent room was illuminated only by a few occasional streaks of magical light, revealing glimpses of rows of enormous bookshelves and folders crammed almost to capacity on them.

Among the rows of bookshelves stood a dark figure. A faint magical glow illuminated his exposed chin, while the rest of his body was completely concealed by a cloak. His hands moved rapidly, seemingly performing some precise operation, while he muttered keywords to himself, like a professional hacker who had broken into a server and was expertly cracking computer information…

But in reality, these were all actions Avada added himself; he simply thought they were cool. There wasn't a computer in front of him to directly search for keywords, but rather a mountain of papers that he had to flip through page by page by hand…

That's right, he went straight into the Ministry of Magic's archives.

To be precise, it's the archives of the Legal Enforcement Division.

A day earlier, after Miranda Goshak told him about the past between Bagman and Crouch, he hesitated for a while about who might know the inside story and who to ask about it... After thinking about it for a long time, he realized that he could go directly to the archives to check the information as if he were in an empty room.

Anyway, Northridge University, which has absorbed two Ministers of Magic, has a detailed map of the Ministry of Magic. With a little research, he can find the location of the archives, and then he can use the Instantaneous Strike Charm to sneak in. All the detection and alarm magic around him will be basically useless to him...

"However, the Ministry of Magic's guarding of the data is far too lax."

As he rapidly flipped through the files in front of him using Glorious Hands, he silently grumbled to himself, "Such an important place as the archives, and there's not even a single guard... I think I understand how Voldemort so easily infiltrated the Department of Mysteries back then."

"The Death Eater trial files after the First Wizarding War... Ha, it was in 1982. Luckily, I kept that in mind."

"Let me see... Lucius, Bellatrix, Barty Jr., Yaxley, Avery... Found it, Ludo Bagman's trial file!"

"The judge is Barty Crouch, and the charge is... suspected collusion with Death Eaters, providing them with intelligence, specifically involving a Death Eater named... August Lukewood."

"Confessions and evidence... According to Bagman, he didn't know Lukwood was a Death Eater. In fact, Lukwood was a friend of Bagman's father, and he persuaded Bagman to give him some information in return, promising to find him a job at the Ministry of Magic..."

"Barty Crouch tried his best to convict Bagman and send him to Azkaban during the trial, but failed due to insufficient evidence and strong protests from many wizards on the jury... He was probably in a killing frenzy at the time, wanting to throw anyone sitting in the dock into Azkaban... Ultimately, the charges against Ludo Bagman were dropped."

"In fact, he was a very famous Quidditch player at the time, which was one of the reasons the charges were dropped. Even during the trial, a witch on the jury stood up and congratulated Bagman on his excellent performance in the previous game...outrageous."

Avada rubbed his forehead, gaining a deeper understanding of the chaos that followed the mass arrests and trials years ago. He then continued reviewing the case files: "It looks like this was just a fairly normal trial. Ludo Bagman might hold a grudge against Crouch over this, but it shouldn't have escalated to the point of causing a death... Any other information?"

"By the way! The Death Eater involved, August Lukwood... If this murder is still a conspiracy by the ultrapure-blood faction, then it's most likely related to members of the Death Eaters!"

Following the footnotes, Avada quickly retrieved the trial file of the Death Eater named August Lukewood: "Originally an employee of the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic, he was secretly recruited by Voldemort into becoming a Death Eater. His crime was leaking a large amount of classified Ministry information to the Death Eaters. He was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban, and the presiding judge was still Barty Crouch... Nothing special, is there?"

"Let's look through it again carefully and see if we can find more information about Lukewood... Hopefully it's here, otherwise I might have to go to the Auror's office archives..."

"Hmm, found it—'The Arrest Files of August Lukwood'..."

After searching through the documents again, Avada finally pulled one out from a thick stack of parchment and began to read. It contained a record of Lukwood's entire journey from being targeted to being controlled by the Aurors, including the specific actions of the Auror squad, Lukwood's reactions, and the complete dialogue and actions that took place at the time...

"Based on the intelligence provided by Mr. Igor Karkaroff, Director of the Enforcement Division, Barty Crouch, has decided to classify August Lukewood, a member of the Department of Mysteries, as a suspected Death Eater and has authorized the Aurors to arrest him immediately..."

"Wait, Igor Karkarov?!"

Just a glance at the first line of text was enough to strike Avada like a bolt of lightning, nearly causing him to drop the document: "Lukewood's identity was provided by Karkaroff?!"

"Oh, right, I remember Karkaroff was originally a Death Eater, and he was caught by Crouch immediately... The reason he was able to escape unscathed was that he revealed the identities of many infiltrated Death Eaters to Barty Crouch, in exchange for the Ministry of Magic giving him a break... This included Bagman's friend Lukwood?!"

"Bagman, Crouch, Karkaroff... these three referees from the Triwizard Tournament are all connected on Lukwood's part!"

Even with his wooden body, Avada couldn't help but feel his heart pounding – he had a premonition that Ludo Bagman's cause of death was hidden in this clue called "Lukewood"!

"Don't rush, let's take a look at Karkarov's trial files first. Maybe there's some important information we haven't discovered yet..."

He subconsciously took a deep breath, then suppressed his excitement and carefully searched through the files with the utmost seriousness and calmness, paying attention to the name "Igor Karkarov" everywhere, hoping to obtain some useful information again.

However, after three extremely thorough searches...

"……No?!"

Avada was momentarily stunned: "There are no records of Karkaroff's arrest and trial?!"

"So, according to the Ministry of Magic's records, Karkaroff has never had any contact with the Department of Law Enforcement or the Aurors?! Then how did he get captured by Crouch? And why did he divulge so many Death Eater names?!"

"This isn't just my wild guess; it's clearly written in the original work—Karkaroff was originally a captured Death Eater, but he avoided imprisonment by making a deal with Crouch using the information he possessed!"

"And now... Karkarov's name hasn't even appeared in the files of the Legal Enforcement Division?!"

(End of this chapter)