It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 328 Reversal
This is one of Fudge's hard-core confidantes. After he came to power, he arranged to replace Crouch's position as the current Director of Magical Law Enforcement-Amelia Bones.

"We have indeed made some discoveries, Mr Minister."

Fudge steadyed his breathing and spoke.

"Just tell me the result."

"We investigated several employees in the executive department who had the deepest relationship with Crouch before, and finally found a wizard named Pierce in the Prohibition of Misuse of Magic Office. His memory has been modified."

"Are you sure it has something to do with Crouch?"

"We just tried to restore his memory with an attitude of trying at the beginning, but he behaved very unnaturally later. It seems that he himself is not very willing to tell us the restored memory."

With a gloomy face, Fudge said in a cold voice.

"So what are you looking for me for now?"

Amelia hesitated a little, then she said.

"I said I wanted to ask you if we could take some... er, I mean..."

She also showed such hesitation, the more impatient Fudge became.

"Remember what I said to you before! No matter what means! I want to know everything related to Crouch! As long as it is not discovered by others, do you hear me! No matter what means!"

Amelia then bowed her head and said.

"I understand."

"I'll give you three 10 minutes. After three 10 minutes, I hope that the memory that Pierce hid can become a document and put it on my desk!"

"I will do as you wish."

In fact, it didn't take 10 minutes at all. After 26 minutes, Fudge had an extra detailed information report in his hand.

Seeing this use of absolutely forbidden means to obtain a memory, Fudge's fat face showed a smile of surprise and fear.

Early the next morning.

Almost every wizard in Britain has received today's Daily Prophet.

Because of the major events that have happened one after another recently, even wizards who did not subscribe to the daily newspaper for various reasons before chose to subscribe.

There is no TV, no Internet, no mobile phones, and the only channel for wizards to learn about current events and changes is newspapers.

As soon as today's newspaper was in hand, all wizards who had the habit of reading newspapers during breakfast had already forgotten about the cold bread and sausages in front of them.

They stared straight at the news on the front page, staring at it over and over again.

This is not like news written by some reporter, but more like a circular written by the government.

In the announcement, the official of the Ministry of Magic stated in an extremely stern tone that the former director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the current director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, Barty Crouch, was investigated and used his position to facilitate his own interests and bend the law to cover up his Death Eater. The gangster's son's escape from Azkaban.

The Aurors sent people to Azkaban Island to collect evidence overnight, and found the body of the so-called "Barty Crouch Jr." who died in Azkaban, which was about to turn into bones. It was detected that the dead "Barty Crouch Jr." was actually Barty Crouch's wife, Kath Crouch, who claimed to have died of illness at home.

And in the tomb of Keith Crouch outside, it was just an empty tomb!
After a preliminary judgment, Barty Crouch used the convenience of his position to exchange his wife with his son in prison, so as to deceive the world and rescue his sinful son.

And it can't be ruled out that Barty Crouch has long been in the same boat as his son, and has always been an undercover agent arranged by the Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic. It was only because of the downfall of the mysterious person behind him that he fell silent.

If this is true, then he has recently made a series of voices, exposing that he was kidnapped by Death Eaters and that the mysterious man will return. It is entirely because of his own selfishness that he played tricks to deceive Dumbledore and tried to take the position of Minister of Magic. , in order to secretly rescue the Death Eaters who are still imprisoned in Azkaban.

As soon as today's Daily Prophet was released, the entire British wizarding community seemed to be adding fuel to the fire, and the pot exploded again.

The wizards are not fools, they have been scolding Fudge for so many days, of course it is impossible to just listen to his one-sided words and believe his words now.

More yelling letters were sent to the minister's office, each of which scolded Fudge for turning black and white, even in the current crisis situation, political struggles are still needed, and such loopholes are made up, trying to put Crouch pulled down.

Even in the Ministry of Magic, which has always been relatively stable, some fierce voices began to appear, extremely dissatisfied with Fudge's ability to tell lies with his eyes open.

After all, the era of white terror imposed by Voldemort has not passed long. Everyone still remembers Crouch's contribution to fighting Voldemort. No one believed that he would be an undercover agent, let alone cover up his son.

If he really wanted to cover up, he wouldn't have arrested him himself in the first place.

Just as things were looking increasingly dire for Fudge, with calls for his ouster everywhere, the Wizengamot, a wizarding court, opened a trial over Crouch's charges.

What everyone couldn't believe was that in the trial court, Crouch took advantage of his position on the spot to murder his wife and assist his son who should have been imprisoned for life in Azkaban to escape, and confessed .

The matter has not yet spread to the outside world, and the members of the Wizengamot wizards in red robes at the scene all dropped their jaws in shock.

As the preferred wizard of the Wizengamot, Dumbledore naturally attended the trial.

He stared at the audience, sitting in the middle of the stage, locked by handcuffs and handcuffs, with his head down, Crouch didn't know what expression he had, his eyes were full of exhaustion.

After Crouch admitted his crime, the entire trial court was silent, only Fudge showed a smug smile on his face.

Dumbledore ignored Fudge's smiling face and knocked on the wooden hammer in front of him. He looked at Crouch and asked loudly.

"Barty Crouch, have you ever joined a Death Eater group?"

Crouch raised his head slowly, his face didn't seem to have any expression, it was very calm, and the calm made people feel a sense of vicissitudes.

"No."

"Have you used your position to provide Ministry of Magic information to anyone serving Voldemort's service?"

When Dumbledore uttered that person's name, almost everyone in the trial court turned pale and trembled subconsciously.

Only Crouch remained extremely calm.

"No."

"Have you ever used improper behavior to gain power for yourself and sit in a higher position?"

"No."

After asking these three questions, Dumbledore stood up from his seat, turned and left the trial court, a trace of anger that was trying to suppress rose in those blue pupils that were originally deep and calm. meaning.

He and Crouch, who is sitting on the iron chair now, are very clear.

These last three questions and answers will not appear in tomorrow's newspaper. The only thing that will be reported by the Daily Prophet is Crouch's confession of helping Barty Jr. escape from prison.

(End of this chapter)