With extraordinary comprehension, I built a floating city at Hogwarts.

As expected, only old Crouch and Bagman were waiting inside.

Crouch looked depressed, his face was sallow, and his skin was wrinkled and withered. He seemed to be in a bad mood, and Percy's intelligence was correct in this respect.

If he knew what his assistant had done, Levin felt his expression would be ten times worse.

In comparison, Bagman's demeanor was much better.

He was all smiles, his face glowing with health, showing none of the disheveled state he appeared to be in when chased by demons for debts, as depicted in the original story.

Clearly, with Jaina protecting him, this guy is doing quite well.

“Hello, Mr. Green, welcome,” Bagman said to Levin with his usual enthusiasm. “I called you here today to discuss the selection method for the key props in the next match.”

"We all know that in the next game, we need to select an important person from each of the warriors, have them knocked unconscious and sent to the bottom of Black Lake as hostages for the warriors to search for."

"To avoid the three principals leaking details, this issue will be handled by the three of us, with Mr. Crouch as the main person in charge, and he will arrange the specific implementation steps."

Bagman added an extra explanation, then said with a troubled expression, "We still have some disagreements about how to choose the hostages for each Warrior. I think it would be better to just ask the Warriors themselves, but Mr. Crouch has a different opinion."

Levin looked at Crouch, the withered old man saying in a stiff tone, "How can that be? If you ask directly, the Warriors definitely won't reveal the truth, afraid that people will find out who their most important person is... I know kids this age best."

He snorted coldly and said in a firm tone, "In order to achieve the desired practical effect, we cannot let them have their way. We must use Legilimency to find truly important people as hostages without their knowledge. Only in this way can we truly test their abilities in an emergency."

"That's my opinion, what do you say?"

After saying that, he looked at Levin with a malicious gaze.

Before the boy could speak, old Crouch added, "I know that you have a good relationship with some of these six warriors. You wouldn't object to Legilimency on them because of personal reasons, would you?"

He cast a deeply suspicious look at Levin, as if to say, "Stop making excuses, I know that's what you're thinking."

This stubborn old man is suspicious of everyone and presumes guilt, no wonder he fabricated Sirius Black's wrongful conviction.

Levin shook his head dismissively at this.

"Ha, although my opinion is the same as Bagman's, I think you certainly won't care about my opinion."

He paused, then looked at Crouch with a meaningful gaze:

"To be frank, I don't really care whether you ask me proactively or use Legilimency, but I want to remind you that if you insist on using Legilimency, then you must be prepared for failure."

"Failure? With these little wizards?"

Upon hearing this, Crouch couldn't help but let out a disdainful sneer.

“It’s not that I look down on them, but young wizards of this age, including you, cannot possibly withstand our Legilimency experts—you know nothing about power.”

After saying that, he stood up and opened the door.

"In short, I've made my decision. All your opinions are rejected. Ignorant brats shouldn't interfere in such matters—Percy, let's go."

“Yes, Mr. Crouch.”

Percy Weasley bowed respectfully to Crouch outside the door, then followed him out as if he were not the one who had just made a deal with Levin.

Only Levin and Bagman remained in the classroom.

“I’m sorry, Levin, I can’t convince him on this matter.” After everyone had walked away, Bagman immediately approached Levin and said rather apologetically, “Crouch is just too stubborn sometimes, I can’t do anything with him.”

He was trying to show his loyalty, after all, he had always promised Levin that he would stand by his side, but he failed to convince Crouch.

“It’s alright, Ludo, it’s not your fault.” Levin crossed his arms and sneered, “He’ll get what he deserves.”

"Ah, that's good."

Bagman nodded happily, then a knowing smile appeared on his face: "By the way, Levin, speaking of which, your good partner, Miss Cirira Rayanlen, she went to Albania to capture a fugitive, she should be back soon. But... um..."

At this point, his words suddenly became ambiguous, as if he were carefully choosing his words.

Levin immediately sensed something was wrong and anxiously asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen to her?"

"No, no, don't worry, Miss Ray Anlen is unharmed," Bagman quickly clarified. "It's just that during the mission, the methods were a little too harsh, and quite a few people were killed."

Seeing Levin's puzzled look, Bagman explained, "To be specific, Miss Leanne got into a fight with the criminal during the arrest and had to fight back in self-defense, but she used means far beyond what was necessary... Although it was a self-defense response within the legal scope, the Ministry of Magic's opinion of her is not very good now."

As he spoke, Bagman sighed, as if he felt sorry for the situation.

"This has certainly damaged her reputation. Now, within the Ministry of Magic, including the Aurors and the Strikers, many people refer to her as the 'murderous dark wizard' when they talk about her."

Upon hearing this, Levin narrowed his eyes.

"I understand, Bagman. Thank you for letting me know. See you later."

After saying that, he waved and left the classroom.

Upon returning to the tower, Levin wrote directly to Jaina, who provided a detailed explanation.

Bagman is right, Cerira did indeed use some excessive methods.

During the pursuit, she was highly skilled and daring. Relying on her superb magic and numerous methods, she would often deliberately create deadly threats to the fugitives, putting herself in perilous situations, and then, "forced by circumstances," use extreme measures to kill the fugitives on the spot.

People won't care if this is done once or twice.

But if she uses it too much, others will know she's doing it on purpose.

Regarding the rumors, Jaina mentioned that most of them were spread by veteran Aurors... or by old-school Aurors who support the existing model.

Initially, not many of the younger generation of Aurors cared much about Jaina's actions.

The conflicts between the old-style Aurors and Jaina's faction have become almost public.

Cirira once crushed the veteran Moody three times in a row in a duel, forcing him to retire and giving the old-style Aurors a hard time. She was regarded by them as a role model for the new generation of Aurors.

They did this in order to dethrone this benchmark.

Gianna said she would handle the matter, but since it wasn't time to close the net yet, it might be necessary to make things difficult for Ciri for a while.

"Hmph, let you be smug for a few more days." Levin snorted coldly, ultimately agreeing with Jaina's approach.

However, he also decided that he would comfort Shirella properly when she returned.

After all, she was taking the blame for some of her actions.

In fact, after hearing that Ciri had "indiscriminately killed" fugitives, Levin roughly guessed what the girl was thinking.

)

Before leaving, she asked Levin for some soul stones, indicating that she had already planned to do this.

The souls of these dead fugitives will eventually become material for Levin.

As for why Cirira did this, Levin speculated that part of the reason was that she knew Levin needed to replenish his soul.

But another part is to satisfy one's own simple sense of justice.

After all, Ciri was quite disgusted by the Ministry of Magic's lenient sentencing mentality and the Muggle-discriminatory atmosphere of this era.

Out of sheer anger, she even personally tortured and killed several prisoners she considered deserving of death.

This time, Levin estimated that the unfortunate fugitives she "accidentally killed" were those who, in her eyes, were heinous criminals, but whose crimes, once captured and brought back to the Ministry of Magic, did not warrant death.

This time, however, she did heed Levin's advice and did not choose to torture him, but instead gave him a swift death.

What else can Levin say about her behavior?

Of course, you should fully support your own woman.

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Chapter 366 Barnett, the Legilimency Master

Sure enough, Barty Crouch Sr. returned to Hogwarts the next day.

This time, it wasn't Percy Weasley accompanying him, but Tonks, who was in charge of security.

In addition, there was a man in his fifties, wearing glasses, who looked like a scholar.

Through the castle windows, they saw Levin urging Hermione and Fleur to cast spells in the water by the lake, while Harry Potter practiced the Bubble Charm nearby.

“Now I’m going to secretly use Legilimency on the three men next to Levin Green with Mr. Barnet and see who they treasure the most.”

After Crouch finished explaining, he impatiently waved to Tonks beside him.

“There is no danger at Hogwarts, so you don’t need to stay with us anymore.”

However, Tonks shook his head and insisted, "Mr. Crouch, protecting you is my duty. Please don't make things difficult for me."

He paused, then added, "Moreover, using Legilimency on others in private is a hostile act, and I can't guarantee that doing so won't lead to unforeseen consequences."

"What kind of accidents can happen to a young person who knows nothing?"

Crouch grumbled, then looked at the scholar-looking man beside him and introduced him to Tonks, “This is Mr. Maxwell Barnett, a collaborator with our Ministry of Magic, a renowned Legilimency and Occlumency master, author of ‘The Occlumency Guide’. With him involved, no one in 707 will ever find out.”

Maxwell Barnett adjusted his glasses and nodded to Tonks at the opportune moment.

However, Tonks still refused to back down.

Crouch stared at Tonks for a long time, but seeing that she was not going to back down, he could only snort coldly and said nothing more, and took the lead.

Tonks narrowed his eyes, glancing at Crouch and Barnet ahead, and as he followed them, he thought to himself, "You have no idea what kind of Legilimency prevention training Levin put them through. To get Hermione's thoughts, you'd probably have to exhaust your magic and still not be able to do it."

Soon, they arrived at the edge of Black Lake, behind a tree about several dozen meters away from where Levin and the others were.

"Is this distance enough?" Crouch asked in a low voice.

“That’s enough, it’ll be done soon,” Barnett’s polite voice rang out.

Tonks crossed his arms and leaned against a large tree beside him, watching their movements with a smile.

Crouch glanced casually at the young wizards by the lake. With a Legilimency master in hand, dealing with a few young wizards who hadn't even graduated yet would be no problem at all.

Maxwell Barnett casually tossed his hair, drew his wand, and pointed it at the three of them.

"Let's start with this boy."

Barnett rubbed his hands together, seemingly excited, an attitude that made Tonks frown.

At that moment, Levin, standing by the lake, suddenly and subtly glanced in the direction of Crouch and the others.

As Barnett picked up his wand, preparing to cast Legilimency, the turbulent mental energy surging before the spell was immediately detected by Levin's psychic abilities.

Levin had already learned of the Legilimency master's supposedly secret actions.

However, he didn't react at all, just watched coldly.