A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 346 The Shadow Approaches
The sky grew brighter, turning a deep blue, with a tinge of white emerging from the horizon.

Standing in the crowd, Felix understood why Fudge was so afraid of Barty Crouch. He was unsmiling, with an old-fashioned rigid and rigid style. When Fudge was still struggling with how to deal with these hooded men, Crouch Qi has given orders in an orderly manner.

"Take these thugs away," he said sternly. "They will be interrogated until someone can tell who is responsible for this terror."

Fudge wiped his sweat, "Crouch...Barty, what you said is too serious...They were just drunk and drunk, and there were no serious consequences...I would not agree to define it as horror... …If it weren't for the Muggles involved, it would only need a small fine."

"Oh, really? I'll focus on the results of the interrogation," Crouch said, his eyes fixed on the hooded men who had removed their masks. "Some of them look familiar to me, quite familiar... ..."

Fudge cleared his throat. "Okay, we'll talk about something when we get back to the Ministry—Walsh!" He turned to look, and Walsh Cedric came quickly.

"I will hand over some of the people to you, and you will stay to deal with the follow-up...uh, appeasement work, and I will go back to the Ministry to solve more difficult troubles."

The staff of the Ministry of Magic urgently made a batch of portkeys and left with the people lying on the ground.

Walsh Cedric arranged for the remaining men to put out the fire and calm the crowd.Many family members were separated, and the staff of the Ministry of Magic blessed themselves with a loud voice, shouting in the crowd until they became hoarse.

There are also claims, complaints, and complaints, all kinds of appeals are chaotic.Walsh showed a good quality of work, accepted all the orders, and then lightly asked them to go back and sort out a list of losses. As for whether to pay or not, it is not certain.

"I definitely won't lose, I can only admit that I am unlucky." Sirius said with experience, Harry wanted to laugh but couldn't, so he could only grin coordinatingly.

"Okay, children." Mr. Weasley said: "Go back to the tent and sleep for a while, it's only a few hours before dawn, and you will have to queue up for the door keys during the day."

Barty Crouch stayed, and he found Felix.

"I have something to say to you, Mr. Haip." Crouch said with a straight face, "Let's find a place to talk, what do you think?"

"Of course," Felix smiled, "it's better to go to my tent, where it's intact."

They returned to the tent of Future World Company, which was very spacious, with empty boxes piled up in the corner, and two big magic lamps in the shape of fire dragons. Crouch glanced at Clemie and Lupine, but said nothing .

The two sat down and Felix called for a jug of lemonade.

"Thank you." Crouch said politely, he couldn't wait to get to the point, "Mr. Haip, I want to thank you for stopping the riot in time without causing more serious consequences."

"More serious consequences?"

"Yeah, more serious consequences," Crouch repeated, looking at Felix with sharp eyes, "You haven't experienced it, but I know what kind of goods they are, to be honest, according to the normal process, that nuisance The Gua family cannot survive."

"Normal process..." Felix raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it what I thought?"

"Death Eaters," Crouch said indifferently, "killing Muggles for fun. Back then, I was the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and handled quite a few shocking cases. So I ordered my Aurors to fight back. .”

Felix was fiddling with the goblet, thinking in his heart, at this moment, the curtain of the tent was lifted, "Barty, I heard that you are here... Ha, that's true."

Ludo Bagman said breathlessly, sweat dripping down his face.

He pulled a chair and sat between the two, poured himself a glass of lemon juice, drank it down, and let out a long sigh of relief: "It's really a day full of twists and turns, those fans—"

"It's the thugs, Ludo," Crouch interrupted, correcting him.

"Uh, well, mob..." Bagman asked, "What are you talking about?"

But this sentence was just an introduction, and he immediately opened the conversation, looking at Felix with a smile on his face: "It's a pity that I missed the good show. When you showed your power, I was settling the bet with Rody. I paid a lot of money to bet that Bulgaria would score the first goal, and you saw it... I have already seen that the Bulgaria team is not good, so I offered very high odds!"

"And little Agatha, she bought half of the shares in the eel farm, she's a bit crazy... But, she happened to help me repay the debt I borrowed from the goblin..."

"No one wants to hear about your business," Crouch said impatiently. "We're talking about business, if you realize you're one of the camp leaders."

Ludo Bagman looked at him anxiously, "But, isn't it over? All the troublemakers have been brought back to the Ministry. There is Walsh in the camp. He has done a lot better than me..."

Felix smiled and said, "Mr. Bagman, we were just discussing the topic of Death Eaters."

"Death Eater...what? Death Eaters..." Bagman's round face began to sweat, "I, I don't quite understand."

Neither Felix nor Crouch paid any attention to him, and Felix wanted to know why Crouch came after him, so he resumed the interrupted topic, "Mr. Just for fun, don’t you think they did today’s farce?”

"I can't think of anyone else," Crouch said word by word: "Only they need to hide their heads and hide their inner cowardice and despicableness, but recall the past glory. After the mysterious man lost power for many years, It's a way to remind us that they're doing well."

His toothbrush-like beard trembled, and his eyeballs protruded, making him look very hideous.Felix doubted that if there were Death Eaters standing in front of him, he could bite their throats open with his teeth.

Bagman thought of the scene where he was judged at the end of the war. Crouch's expression was the same as that of the past, and he couldn't help being afraid.From this point of view, Fudge's arrangement was a failure. Bagman didn't have the courage to oppose Crouch. He planted the seeds of fear when he was tried that year, so he has been on good terms with Crouch all these years.

"Barty, maybe, maybe..." He was so frightened that he muttered for a long time but couldn't say a complete sentence.

Felix had a similar guess, nodded at this moment and said: "So there is actually one thing missing today, the Dark Mark."

Crouch showed a contemptuous expression: "They don't dare to do that."

Before the conversation ended, Barty Crouch seemed to express his real purpose: "The Wizengamot has considered accepting you as one of them. Just in the near future, maybe you can catch up with this trial. We Need to get tough on this scum.”

Felix looked at his back and felt weird. Was Crouch looking for help in the Wizengamot? As far as he knew, Barty Crouch had a bad life before, and there were even rumors that Fudge To kick him out of the Wizengamot.

But in fact, Fudge is not capable of doing this, because the Wizengamot Wizarding Court is a rather loose organization, usually each member has his own job, and they only get together when there are important matters.

When it comes to leaders, Dumbledore is the chief wizard of the Wizengamot.

……

Not long after Barty Crouch left, he asked for leave and disappeared into the camp on the grounds that he was not feeling well, but he did not go far, but appeared in the woods near the camp.

A man in a black robe and cloak stood motionless in the mist.

Barty Crouch's expression also became stiff, as if frozen.

The cloaked man lifted his hood, revealing a young face: "Master."

Barty Crouch's voice suddenly became hoarse and harsh, "I went to see Felix Hemp..."

"What!" the man in the cloak—Barty Crouch Jr. said in a deep voice: "Would it be too risky, master... We underestimated him before, but we are here today, and you still see through my father's Eyes see..."

Barty Crouch's eyes instantly turned blood red, and his pupils became snake-shaped. He said softly: "Before making a plan, you must always confirm who the enemy is...It turns out that he can't find me... Not even as sensitive as that kid, Harry Potter!"

"But in case he sees through your disguise—" said Barty Crouch Jr. eagerly.

Barty Crouch, or Voldemort, said slowly: "I am in this state... the biggest advantage is that I cannot be killed. Perhaps, you still have old feelings for your father?"

"No, my master." Barty Crouch Jr. knelt down at his feet and said reverently, "I hate him to the bone and am ashamed of his name. Master, he has imprisoned me for more than ten years , let me live like a dead person, until the arrival of the master, I was liberated."

This involves a past event.More than ten years ago, with the end of the war, the guilty were imprisoned in Azkaban, and Barty Crouch Jr. was accused of torturing the Longbottoms into madness with Bellatrix and others. Crouch denied it at the trial scene, and implored his father, who was the judge, to believe him—the evidence at the time was not sufficient, because the witnesses did not have a deep impression on Crouch Jr., and his father was the judge presiding over the trial. There is a good chance of getting away with the crime.

But it is a pity that Barty Crouch is unselfish. He has already seen the flaws in his son's sneaky whereabouts. After combining the vague witnesses, he finally confirmed that Crouch Jr. was guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

After that, Barty Crouch made a big mistake. He couldn't refuse his wife's request before she died. At the end of her life, he used Polyjuice Potion to change his son out of prison and kept him at home with the Imperius Curse. Let Winky, the house-elf, take care of him, and plan to let him live his whole life in a daze like this.

Until Sirius escaped from Azkaban, with the determination to kill Wormtail Peter with one life for another, Wormtail was terrified, he disappeared for several months, found Voldemort, and obtained from Bertha Jokin They learned the news about the competition and Barty Jr. from the mouth of Si, they took advantage of the old Barty Crouch's absence, broke into his house, liberated the little Crouch, and waited until the old Barty Crouch When Qi came back from work, he was attacked by his son and Wormtail, and controlled him with the Imperius Curse.

……

Voldemort said in an emotionless voice, "What if I asked you to kill your own father?"

"I will carry out your orders with great pleasure!"

"No hurry," Voldemort let out a chilling laugh, "Barty Crouch is still useful, but he almost got out of my control in front of that idiot Fudge, and almost ruined the big thing, maybe I hid in his heart It was too painful for him and inadvertently diminished the Imperius Curse."

Barty Crouch Jr. thought: "Will it be seen?"

Voldemort sneered and said: "There is no evidence, at most it is some temptation, but the Tournament cannot do without him, and things will develop in the direction we expected. The only pity is that I can't maintain this state for too long...lost the worm The tail is really inconvenient."

"Master, it's all my fault."

"Okay," Voldemort said, "as planned, we'll go back to your house first, I need to rest for a while, then we'll go find Mad-Eye Moody, he's not easy to deal with, we have to set a trap."

"Master, it's not easy for you to have a physical body. I can do it by myself... If it's not possible, let Shining..."

"When will the house-elf be able to do things for the great Voldemort?" Voldemort said gloomily, "It doesn't matter if Barty Crouch is exposed, I have found a way for him to call it a day."

"Owner?"

"The kid from the Black family gave me inspiration. You don't want to appear in front of the world openly? Just let him apologize with death and prove your innocence."

(End of this chapter)