Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 512 Mr. Crouch is crazy

Harry sat with Hagrid for a while before he kicked him out.

Because it is already past nine o'clock and almost ten o'clock, and Hogwarts is about to start a curfew. If Harry goes back later, he will be deducted house points if he is seen by other professors...

Although few people in Gryffindor care about that stuff now.

After coming out of Hagrid's hut, Harry habitually took out the Marauder's Map, intending to see if Rita Skeeter's annoying cow was lurking beside him again.

"I solemnly swear that I will not do good deeds."

Harry tapped the parchment in his hand with his wand, and whispered a spell.Countless ink dots emerged, forming a map on the parchment.

Harry quickly found the location of Hagrid's hut on the map. There were two small black dots inside the house, namely Hagrid and Fang, and three black dots next to the house, one of which marked Harry , and the other two that almost overlapped each other didn't show any names - those were the two remaining snails that Hagrid kept.

Then he checked the nearby black dots again. The large group of black dots not far away should be the students in Beauxbaton's carriage, and the twelve rune horses next to them are less numerous.

Then Harry subconsciously glanced at the direction of the Forbidden Forest on the map. Due to the limitation of the map itself, the Forbidden Forest can only show a small part on the map, but Harry himself just wanted to see Rita. Skeeter was around him.

Within the scope of the Forbidden Forest, the deeper the Forbidden Forest goes, the more black spots there will be. Some of these black spots have names—they are magical creatures like Wuwu and Buckbeak, but most of them are black spots without names. —mostly common animals, but also some magical ones.

Harry also didn't understand the mechanism of the Marauder's Map. The black dots with names were not just human beings or magical animals. Pets like Fang, Hedwig, and Mrs. Norris could also display their names. , and magical animals such as Bowtruckles and Fairies mostly have no names.

At first Harry thought they had no names, but later when Fish introduced friends to him, he discovered that even Bowtruckles had their own names... although most of the names were just weird.

According to the speculation of the twins and Hermione, whether to display the name is probably related to the cognition of the students in the school. For example, Wuwu, most of the students can't see it, but they know its existence from Fisher's mouth. Naturally Just show the name on the map.

So, if one day everyone thinks that "Draco Malfoy" is "Brain Gate", then the name displayed on the map will be "Brain Gate"?

This was the first possibility Harry thought of after hearing this speculation, and every time he unfolded the Marauder's Map, he couldn't help thinking about it...

Shaking his head to put these messy thoughts aside, Harry ignored the black spots deep in the Forbidden Forest, and only searched the edge of the Forbidden Forest near him...

There were only a few scattered black spots nearby. Harry guessed that they were probably animals like mice and hares. Of course, they might also be Bowtruckles that came out to take care of the trees. All of a sudden more.

The reason for this was because of Hagrid's Blast-tailed snails, those irascible guys made all the small animals living nearby run away.

But Harry still found a named...

Was it really Skeeter's cow?
Excitedly, Harry moved closer to the little black dot, only to find that "Barty Crouch" was written in extremely tiny words next to the black dot.

"Mr. Crouch?"

Harry was startled, and after confirming again and again that he was not mistaken, he hesitated for a moment, but still grabbed the map and wand and ran in that direction.

In the Forbidden Forest, Harry really met Mr. Barty Crouch, but his condition seemed to be not very good, the knee of his robe was torn, bloodstained, his face was covered with scars, and his beard was unshaven , pale and haggard...

It looks like it has been wandering outside for many days.

In addition, Mr. Crouch's mental state is not very normal. He seems to regard the tree in front of him as Percy, and he is gesticulating and saying something.

"...Wetherby, after you've done this, send an owl to Dumbledore to confirm the number of students Durmstrang participated in the competition. Karkaroff sent a letter that there were twelve indivual……"

"Mr. Crouch?" Harry leaned over cautiously.

And Crouch didn't seem to hear, and continued to talk to the tree, until Harry came to him, he suddenly grabbed Harry, panting heavily: "Dumbledore! I want... see... ... Dumbledore ..."

But that's what he said, but his hand still held Harry tightly and refused to let go. Even if Harry wanted to go to Dumbledore as he said, he couldn't do it.

But soon, Crouch took the initiative to let go of Harry, and started talking to the trees again. Harry was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran out of the woods, wanting to find Dumbledore, but he hadn't run out of two One step later, Crouch caught him again, and started talking nonsense fragments again, which seemed to involve the Dark Lord, but Harry couldn't connect them at all.

After repeating this several times, Harry finally escaped from Barty Crouch and rushed out of the Forbidden Forest.

He looked back with lingering fear, and found that the other party hadn't chased him out, so Harry stopped hesitating and ran quickly into the castle.

When Harry flew all the way to the castle, out of breath, he suddenly patted his forehead in annoyance... He should have informed Hagrid of the nearest one just now, at least someone could watch Mr. Crouch for him.

But it would be a waste of time to turn back at this time, so he could only continue running to the principal's office.

When Harry rushed to the stone monster on the third floor, he found that he didn't seem to know the password of the principal's office.

"Lemon Snow Treasure?"

Harry recalled the password Dumbledore had used when he brought him to the headmaster's office... but it was several years ago, and it was probably changed.

As a result, as he expected, the stone monster continued to stand there motionless.

"Get out of the way!" Harry yelled at it, "Hurry up! I have something important to ask Professor Dumbledore!"

Apparently, if this was the way to keep Hogwarts' magical caretakers out of the way, Sirius wouldn't have had to worry so much about infiltrating Gryffindor dormitories last year.

Harry continued to try to recall the few times he had visited the headmaster's office...

Well, it seems that most of the time, Fish brought him here.

and so……

"Meow?"

Harry unconsciously meowed.

After calling Harry, he knew that he was stupid. How could he learn how to meow and open the secret door of the principal's office?

Just when he was about to ask Fish or Professor McGonagall for help with a smirk, the stone monster in front of him suddenly moved under Harry's surprised gaze.

It suddenly jumped to the side, revealing the wall behind it, and then, the empty wall cracked from the middle, and opened to the left and right sides, revealing the standing behind the wall...

Professor Snape.

……

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　In the early translations of the People's Literature Publishing House, the password in the principal's office was translated as "iced lemon juice", because the English is Sherbet lemon, and the literal translation is "lemon juice sorbet".

　　When Dumbledore first appeared in the first "Sorcerer's Stone", he shared this snack with Professor McGonagall, but was rejected. At that time, it was translated as "lemon ice cream", Dumbledore said It is a muggle-produced dessert.

　　But in Rowling's interview she explained that it was a hard candy, so the revised translation later became "Lemon Sherbet".

　　……

　　Thank you Qiya for your great reward.

　　
　
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