As the man forced him to walk somewhere, Alexander quickly thought about what he should do to remedy his situation.

"So far they shouldn't have any proof that I was the one who murdered that muggle, I wonder if any neighbor saw me running from the place, that could be a problem."

While Alexander thought about what to say when asked about his alibi at the time of the murder.

All the information he had seemed to point to a rather bad ending.

-Son of the Gaunt family, famous for being extremely poor.

-The Gaunt family is recognized for being irrational and often crazy, because to keep their blood pure they were married for generations between cousins.

-The Gaunt family is publicly recognized for their hatred and annoyance of Muggles.

-A few days ago, your uncle and grandfather were jailed for attacking a Muggle and magic ministry officials.

-His mother abandoned him and his whereabouts are unknown.

-You have no idea who your father is.

"Damn, I can't find anything good to say, this is a disaster." Alexander thought as he massaged his eyebrows.

While he was still analyzing the situation and to Alexander's surprise the man was leading him to the house of the old man who murdered.

"Interestingly, it seems that he wants to torment me to plead guilty. Alexander thought.

When they reached the front of the old man's house they stopped at the entrance of the place, the man stood on the stairs at the entrance of the house while looking towards Alexander and said when he saw Alexander look inside.

"Don't bother looking for the old man's body, the professionals have already organized the scene, I must say it was something macabre to see, an old man in a pool of blood with two big holes where his eyes should be."

"You should see the newbie's face, he vomited near where you are when he saw him" said the man while laughing.

When he finishes laughing he stares at Alexander and says "boy, tells me who your parents are and where they are, I want to see the reaction when I tell them that their son just killed a muggle and he will probably have to spend his whole life locked up in a prison. "

As Alexander listened, he looked at the man blindfolded and said the following:

"Sir, I think you should stop pleading guilty just because you think it was me. Ever since you kidnapped and searched me, you don't stop making false accusations against me"

The slightly shocked man laughed and said "wow boy, what a talkative language you have but that will not save you from this situation, just so you know, in this area of ​​the city there is no wizard registered in the ministry, my colleagues from the group are flying over the area and bringing suspicious people they find and also match the description given by the neighbors of the place. "

As the man spoke, he never stopped looking at Alexander, or so Alexander believed because with the blindfold it was strange and confusing to know where he was looking or how he was doing it.

"Do you want to know what the neighbors saw? Everyone agrees that they heard a terrifying scream outside their houses when they managed to look out their windows some claimed to see someone running in the dark, and all claimed that because of his size he looked like a child, very convenient, isn't it, CHILD?

"I will not repeat it to you, tell me who is your father?"

"Also. How old are you, 5? "

Alexander just looked closely at the man while thinking,

"You seem very smart boy, tell me why you murdered the old muggle, that was very stupid, also tell me where is the wand that you used to kill him." The old wizard kept asking

After continuing in silence Alexander sat next to him on the stairs.

"It doesn't seem like a good idea to tell him my origins, I think he still doesn't have solid evidence about me, and how the hell did he even know that I was a wizard."

"The most sensible thing seems to wait for his colleagues to return and see how the situation develops" Alexander continued to think

Then Alexander spoke to the wizard saying "sir, I do not feel any guarantee when speaking with you, therefore I prefer silence, I only have a doubt."

"How did you know that I was a wizard"

The man was silent for a second and laughed as he said "boy, I don't doubt that you are very smart for your age, but you are still very green for me"

"What do you think would be the reaction of a Muggle child if a man touched him late at night on the street without having detected him, and the man was dressed in a wizard hat, in a strange robe and blindfolded?

Hearing this, Alexander was shocked, as he thought there was some kind of magic that could track spells or track people with magic in his body at a certain distance.

Meanwhile, Alexander thought "that was pretty unfortunate, it seems like I'm not used to this wizarding world yet, it seems like they don't have any spells that work to track the magic or whoever was at the scene."

"I wonder if this is because I don't have a wand or something else?"

While Alexander was still thinking, quite a few wizards began to come from heaven.

When Alexander counted over 20 wizards he thought "things are getting too out of control"

But it was only when a person arrived that Alexander had seen before that he couldn't help but frown.

Meanwhile, that person saw the wizard and Alexander sitting and proceeded to approach while saying "Rufus, what are you doing with little Mr. Gaunt here,"

Rufus answered with some amazement "Bob, as you know this boy is a Gaunt, even though I ask him he doesn't want to answer me who he is"

"Maybe it was because a week ago I arrested his grandfather and uncle," growled Bob.

"How curious, it seems that criminal blood ends up being inherited, don't you think the same, Mr. Gaunt?" Rufus said as he turned to look at Alexander with a smile.

"You still haven't told me Rufus what the boy is doing here," Bob said as he frowned.

"I found him running away while trying to take refuge in an abandoned factory Bob, it fits the description given by the neighbors."

As he listened to this Bob stared at Alexander as he kept frowning "Did you find the wand?" I ask.

"Negative" Rufus said

Then Bob turned to Alexander and, looking at him, said, "I hope you remember, my name is Bob Ogden, and it looks like you're in pretty serious trouble. Tell me, where's your mother?"

While this was going on, Alexander kept thinking about what to do, all the options he came up with represented his almost immediate death, or at least his immobilization.

"It seems I can only go with the flow and hope that fate will be benevolent to me."

As Alexander breathed, he said, "Good afternoon, Mr. Bob. I have to inform you that my mother is currently unavailable, as she ran away from home with an unknown destination."

Something astonished said Bob "so your mother abandoned you huh, I did not expect less from a Gaunt"

"So far, boy, are you the only suspect and also match the assassin's descriptions. Do you have anything to say against you?"

Alexander could only remain silent in the face of these statements.

"We will wait for everyone to arrive before making a decision," Bob spoke out loud for all to hear.

After waiting a while more wizards kept coming.

"Very well, since we are all there, the only suspect that we found near the crime scene is this young man, we will proceed to take him to the ministry so that he can have a trial on the acts that occurred tonight"

As Bob spoke, Alexander analyzed the number of wizards and thought, "It seems the ministry takes the murder of muggles very seriously. I wonder if the macabre way he died had anything to do with it."

"I wonder if they judge me as an adult or if I will have some benefits for being a minor?" As Alexander thought, he felt someone grab him by the collar of his shirt and lift him up.

When I looked, he saw Rufus who said to him

"Boy, it is time to go to the ministry, I hope you are prepared, you will probably become famous in England and Ireland, who knows, maybe in the whole world, I can already imagine the headlines of the newspaper the Prophet, you will probably be the smallest child in the history of Wizengamot and the one with the most terrible criminal charges. "

As he listened to this Alexander saw Bob take something out of his shirt pocket and shouted "are we all? I don't want to keep Fawley waiting, who knows what nonsense he has to say, we'll use the portkey, they already know the rules. "

"Rufus, you take care of the boy."

Alexander saw that all the wizard grasped each other's robes forming a connection "I wonder if I can let go before traveling"

While he was thinking this Rufus grabbed him by the neck and said "don't think of doing anything funny boy, I have my eyes on you"

"Curious statement coming from a blindfolded man"

As he thought this, he felt something absorb him and he couldn't help but close his eyes, when the feeling disappeared and he opened his eyes again he was in a totally different place.

He saw a very large space, there were a lot of people going in and out of many doors in that place.

But he noticed that many people looked at him and whispered things as they walked.

This seemed strange to him and he asked Rufus "Sir, why are they looking at me while whispering? I don't think people here know me."

To which a wizard traveling with them replied "boy, the magic minister was furious when he found out that someone had murdered a muggle and in a macabre way, you would not believe his expression when reports indicated that possibly a boy had committed the crime."

"All the magic ministry is aware of the event"

"You are a very unlucky boy because the minister has just been chosen recently."

As they walked down the hall, there were many doors lined up, each with many buttons.

Then I hear Bob say "Rufus, take the boy to the cells while I inform the minister of what we found."

Then Rufus separated from the group and put him in a different door than the other wizards entered.

"Chico, I will take you to a place where you will be locked up while the ministry decides what to do with you."

When Rufus pressed a few buttons on the low elevator, after a while the door opened and there was a man sitting in a chair while reading a newspaper.

They took me to a cell, which, to be honest, looked a lot like my room in the cabin.

When Rufus closed the door with a spell that I did not understand, he said to the man who was sitting, "Take care of the boy who will soon come for him."

The man did not answer anything as he continued to read the newspaper.

As Alexander analyzed the cell, he could only sigh.

He approached the bed and sat down while closing his eyes to analyze what had gone wrong tonight.

Chapter 6: The Ministry of Magic