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

Chapter 329
And so it is.

The entire process of the trial court was almost reported on the Daily Prophet the next day.

The reason why almost two words were added is that the last three questions and answers Dumbledore asked Crouch before leaving the scene were not mentioned in the report.

An entire page was devoted to Crouch's plea to taking advantage of his position to help his son escape from prison and to murder his wife.

The magic photo accompanying the picture was Crouch's extremely calm face when he pleaded guilty.

Even with the magic potion applied, in the photo that should have moved, Crouch was as motionless as a wooden man, without blinking his eyes.

After this report came out, the British magic world, which was already boiling, completely exploded this time.

No one would doubt the authenticity of the Wizengamot. There were many people watching the trial yesterday. Whether Crouch pleaded guilty or was tortured to extract a confession, everyone could tell.

The wind direction of public opinion has reversed 180 degrees today.

As bad as those wizards who scolded Fudge yesterday were, today their spit on Crouch is ten times worse.

Even in the trial, or in the report of the Daily Prophet, Crouch has always only admitted his guilt of helping Barty Jr. to escape from prison, and did not admit that Fudge used the Ministry of Magic's announcement to accuse him of collaborating with his son , the crime of undercovering the Ministry of Magic and serving the mysterious man.

But the wizard people have naturally imposed these on him.

People forgot that he was the most powerful in Voldemort before, and all the contributions he made to the wizarding world, but used the greatest malice to blame him for the imaginary crimes.

In just less than two days, Crouch's reputation was completely stink.

His previous statements in the Daily Prophet about the Death Eaters and You-Know-Who being reemerging had also been taken by others as a lie in order to bring down Fudge and take the position of Minister of Magic.

The most ingenious thing about Fudge is that in such a situation, he restrained himself and only pointed the finger at Crouch. Regarding Dumbledore's previous speeches of support, he classified them all as "Dumbledore has been Crouch's Blinding".

In this way, those wizards who trust this pillar of the wizarding world will not be divided, and some will even mutter behind their backs that Dumbledore is indeed old and his brain is not working well, and he will be killed. A villain like Crouch deceives.

Even Sherlock, who hadn't attracted much attention before, has continued to decline in his reputation in the magic world.

It is understandable that Dumbledore was deceived by Crouch. Sherlock is so young, and he is still helping a "Death Eater" to speak, which makes people doubt his position.

Someone has even written to the Ministry of Magic asking for an investigation into Sherlock. Perhaps the reason why Dumbledore was so easily deceived was the result of Crouch and Sherlock acting together in front of Dumbledore. .

But of course Fudge now is not in the mood to touch Dumbledore's brow. Sherlock is the official professor of Hogwarts, and he can't stretch his hand too far.

Fudge, who has completed a beautiful reversal of the situation, is most concerned about arresting Barty Jr. who escaped from prison a few years ago and hid him, so as to completely prove Crouch's charges .

But when Crouch faced the interrogation, there was only one answer from the beginning to the end.

Barty Jr. had been killed by Sherlock on the night of the turmoil at the end of the World Cup.

This answer is simply ridiculous.

Even the few Aurors who used to be Crouch's subordinates, who were interested in interrogating him and wanted to help him now, felt that Crouch was out of line.

He had previously said in the Daily Prophet that Sherlock had saved him from the Death Eaters, and now he said Sherlock had killed his son.

Kill his son and save him?
Are you not afraid of being retaliated after saving people?

Nobody with a little brain would do that.

But because Crouch has a special status after all, not only is he the director of the Ministry of Magic, but the Crouch family is also one of the oldest pure-blood families.

Even Fudge didn't dare to use any special methods against him, even if Crouch himself asked him to drink Veritaserum before answering all the interrogations.

Things can only be stalemate for the time being.

Because of the most critical person, Barty Jr. was not arrested and brought to justice, and Crouch has not been sentenced to be imprisoned in Azkaban, but is temporarily detained in the detention room of the Ministry of Magic.

But Fudge's purpose had been fully achieved.

He punctured Crouch's "lie", confirmed that the mysterious man's coming back was "nonsense", and the most important thing was that he successfully "protected" his minister's throne.

Fudge was in a great mood, feeling that everything was so perfect.

His only concern was Dumbledore's response.

In that trial court, he could see the anger of the centenarian.

But in fact, Dumbledore, who had already returned to Hogwarts, had no time to take care of these outside matters.

Of course, he didn't want to give up on Crouch, ignore the Fudge government's inaction, or even drag it down, but as the end of this semester was approaching, he had more important things to deal with.

On the open space of the Hogwarts Quidditch Stadium, during the noisy months from the outside world, a labyrinth with a vast area and complex terrain rose up.

This is obviously the content of the third project, and these, one month before the start of the game, Bagman has already told all the Warriors in advance.

Although Hogwarts was also influenced by the outside world during this period and paid great attention to the Crouch incident, but as the final competition project approached, the students' discussions returned to the competition itself.

Everyone wants to know which school warrior can win the final trophy, and there is a grand prize of [-] Galleons.

In the third week after the Crouch incident, on the third day before the start of the third event, Harry had a dream in a daze during the divination class.

Just when Trelawney let everyone observe the floating nebula in the crystal ball, the scar on Harry's forehead suddenly ached.

His whole figure seemed to have completely changed his perspective, appearing in a dark room.

"The good news is one after another. Very good, really good"

A hoarse, ugly, and indifferent voice sounded from Harry's own position, as if the person who spoke was himself!
(End of this chapter)