Chapter 137: Evidence against corrupt officials
Harry opened the various gates installed outside the prison before he opened the last iron gate filled with runic arrays and entered the cell.
"Hello Rita." He said with a smile and the woman sleeping on the floor glared at him weakly. He could see that the lack of food, water and proper bed was showing his effects as the reporter was not cursing him with her surprisingly foul mouth.
"What do you want?" she asked weakly and he smirked.
"Information." He said maintaining the smirk and he could practically hear her grinding her teeth in frustration.
"You won't get anything from me."
"Very well then." He said with a shrug "I'll come back after a few days then we'll see if you're willing to give some information for better accommodations."
He turned around and started walking away, waiting for her to call him back and just as he was about to cross the iron gates he heard her frustrated growl before she spoke.
"Wait… Please. Wait." She begged and he turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
Unlike what his activities might suggest, he was not a fan of torturing people. Even while experimenting on them, he made sure to numb their senses so that they won't feel much pain.
So torturing Rita Skeeter by leaving her in a dark cell where she couldn't even see her own hands and by not giving her enough food and water rubbed him the wrong way.
But this woman had been particularly vicious and uncaring with her writing, not thinking about how much problems her articles could cause other people so he did not felt that guilty about doing this to her.
Well, he had also told her that he would give her better accommodation and better food if she just
gave him some information.
Information like the location of all the death eater's homes.
Evidence of corruption from the top level leaders in the Ministry like Cornelius Fudge, Dolores Umbridge, etc.
And any other information that might be helpful to him in the future.
If she had cooperated with him then she would have never suffered in the first place.
"Are you ready to give me what I want?" he asked and she hesitantly nodded.
He knew that he was essentially taking away her hard work but just as he had said previously, she was a vicious woman so he didn't felt to guilty about taking advantage from her hard work.
"Yes. I'll give you what you want." She said as she stood up on shaky legs "But can I get some food and water first?" she begged.
And after looking at the desperation on her face, almost gave in to her request.
Almost
"No." He said while shaking his head "Information first. Food later. And don't try to lie to me, I'll know." He said as a warning and she meekly nodded.
"What do you want to know?" she asked.
"I want to know everything about Cornelius Fudge that you could tell me." He said "I know that he does not like you because of the article you wrote about him in Daily Prophet some years ago. But he has still not taken any action against you so that must mean that you have some secret that he doesn't want to get out."
"Plus, he's a corrupt official so there's no way that you could have missed the chance to dig up some dirt on him."
"So I want to know everything that you know about him. If you can provide me with evidence of his crimes or corruption then that would be even better." He said "Do this and I'll give you enough food and water to last you a week."
"Only a week?" she shouted with energy that he didn't she had.
"Do you have any idea how hard I've worked to gather evidence on that scumbag so that he would not take any actions against me. Do you?" she said bitterly and he could almost hear the cracks in her voice.
He hoped she won't start crying all of a sudden.
That would just make him pity her even more and make the whole experience rather unpleasant.
"No. And I frankly don't care. You can either take it or leave. It's your decision." He said in a cold voice, hoping that she would not start crying.
And thankfully, she didn't.
It didn't take long after that for him to get a few memories of Cornelius being bribed by other people and making backroom deals with people that clearly showed him using his power as a minster for his own gains.
After that was done, he carefully stored those memories in his MP Pro and left the cell before closing each and every door carefully and apparated away from the underground prison he had created especially for people with animagus abilities
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"Why are you looking so happy Aunty?" Susan Bones asked as her aunt read the Daily Prophet with a smile on her face.
Her aunt was usually a rather serious person so seeing her smile all of a sudden must mean that there must be some really good news in the newspaper.
At her question, her aunt looked at her with a smile and passed the newspaper to her and as soon as she read the newspaper, she instantly understood everything.
In the front page of the newspaper was the moving image of Minister Fudge speaking to the reporters from behind a large podium and the top of newspaper, the heading written in large bold letters read:- Corrupt Auror discharged from duty.
The article then told her about how John Dawlish was found to be knee deep in corrupting yesterday after they conducted a search on the man and how he was now being fired from his duty as an Auror.
It also said a bit more crap about how Minister Fudge was very disheartened to see such a capable man fall to corruption.
Even without reading it any further, she could tell that Cornelius Fudge had bribed the Daily Prophet to write this article so that he won't be seen in bad light by the people.
Her aunt had told her exactly what kind of person he was and being so corrupt himself, all of his statements sounded hypocritical.
But that was not why her aunt was so happy.
Indeed, in the lower half of the newspaper was another smaller heading with the words:- Minister Fudge increases the funding of the Auror office.
Of course, with the public baying for blood, he had to be seen doing something and this time, it meant that he would have to give more funding to the aurors so that was not particularly surprising.
Still, this was good news for her Aunt.
Cornelius had always been afraid of the amount of support that her Aunt and Rufus Scrimgeour got in the Ministry.
That was why he had decreased the funding of the auror office so that they won't have enough men to plan a coup even though any sane man could tell you that neither Amelia Bones nor Rufus Scrimgeour would ever do such a thing.
After reading the whole article, she gave the newspaper back to her aunt and went back to eating her breakfast.
All the while thinking about her genius, elusive classmate who had started this whole event and whose involvement had gotten an Auror kicked out of the office and had gained her Aunt the funds that her office needed.
Author's Note:- Here we see some positive change in the wizarding world because of Harry's indirect interference.
All actions have consequences whether we see it with our own eyes or not. And despite the fact that Harry didn't cared all that much about the pure blood society, his effects will also benefit the light side from time to time.
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