Harry Potter and the Legend of the Temple

"You mean Twinkle?"

Fudge tilted his head, with a look of doubt in his eyes. For this old rival in the past and now an old partner, he still had a certain understanding of the Crouch family.

"Why did you bring Winky here? Are you saying that Winky used this wand to release it?" Fudge's face gradually turned horrified, "The mysterious man's Dark Mark, how did she know about this magic?"

"That's not important, Connelly." Barty Crouch stared at the tea towel. "What's important is that it appeared at the scene. This tea towel is the evidence, isn't it?"

"Of course, of course..." Fudge was still immersed in Crouch's words. "But, is it possible that it's not it? The mysterious person uses house elves to perform magic. This is incredible."

"Even if it's not her, it still has something to do with her." Moody analyzed, "Tonks, you just saw two other wizards present, right?"

"Yes, Mr. Moody." Tonks replied. She also admired this Auror who had become famous more than ten years ago, although Moody looked a little scary.

"When I arrived, the two people disappeared all of a sudden using space magic like phantom."

"So there is a possibility that the house elf is an accomplice of those two guys." Moody turned to Barty Crouch, "If you don't mind, Crouch, we'd better ask the matter clearly."

"It makes sense." Barty Crouch waved his wand and then nodded around. After a while, a house elf apparated and appeared.

The elf Twinkle has woken up from a coma, but it looks a little weak, as if it hasn't woken up, and its mental state is sluggish.

"Master..Master..My name is Twinkle..What orders do you have?"

Her tone was trembling, obviously frightened by the sight of so many people watching it at the same time.

Then, its eyes turned to the Dark Mark suspended in the sky, and its expression became even more horrified.

"Winky, let me ask you, does this Dark Mark have anything to do with you?" Mr. Crouch's tone was extremely stern, and he yelled at Winky like this.

"I didn't, I don't know how to do it." Twinkle replied tremblingly, "Twinkle doesn't know, Twinkle fainted at the time."

"We found this at the scene, elf." Digory, who was in charge of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic, was also at the scene. He held the tea towel and raised it in front of Winky. "And this wand, you know what you're doing with it. What did it do? Where did you learn this spell?"

"I don't know sir! Winky has never been to a place like this." Winky was already incoherent, "Winky doesn't know how to use a wand..."

"Amos, do you suspect that I am teaching it to use the Dark Mark?" Crouch looked at Amos Diggory with his cold eyes, making the latter twitch inwardly.

There was silence.

"Of course not, Mr. Crouch." Amos Diggory looked a little embarrassed.

"I hope you don't forget that I have been fighting against black magic throughout my long career. There is a lot of evidence that I have always hated black magic." Barty Crouch reminded loudly.

"Mr. Crouch, I have never doubted you." Diggory hurriedly explained, "But who taught it?"

"Maybe it's someone else. Don't forget what kind of person Crouch's son was before."

"Don't mention that bastard to me, Moody!" Barty Crouch was really angry this time, "He got what he deserved, that's it."

Obviously Crouch didn't want to continue this topic. He turned to look at Twinkle and said, "Twinkle, have you seen anyone, or someone you should meet."

Twinkle's eyes widened. It looked at Barty Crouch for a while, then shook its head:

"No, sir, absolutely not."

"You are lying." Digory pointed to its head, "The evidence is conclusive. The tea towel you are wearing is here. I will find a way to make you tell it all."

"Amos, I know what your function is." Mr. Crouch suddenly interrupted Mr. Diggory, "But this is my house elf, and I hope you will let me handle it."

No one in the Ministry of Magic could refuse Mr. Crouch, including Amos Diggory, because his prestige in the Ministry was very high, even more than that of Cornelius Fudge.

Amos stepped aside, and Crouch took it as acquiescence.

"Master...Master...please." Shining cried sadly, knowing what he was about to face.

"I was very shocked by Twinkle's behavior today." Crouch said with a straight face, expressionless, "She did not obey my orders, appeared at the scene of the accident at will, and even deliberately ran away after the accident."

"That means it wants clothes."

"No! Master! That's not the case!" Twinkle grabbed Crouch's trousers, "Twinkle doesn't want any clothes, no!"

House elves are extremely servile representatives of wizards. Giving the elves intimate clothes means that the wizards liberate the elves, but at the same time, this is the dark fate that the elves have to face.

Not all elves have Dobby's awareness, or in other words, Dobby is an outlier among the elves. If a house elf is abandoned by its master and becomes free, it will be more painful for them than death. thing.

"Don't touch me, filthy thing!" Crouch threw the tea towel on Winky and kicked the elf away.

"I don't need an elf who disobeys orders." Crouch said coldly, "An elf who doesn't know how to protect his master's reputation is a waste."

No one came out to stop Crouch's actions. Even Tonks could only silently swallow what he wanted to say.

Crouch's reputation was well-known in the Ministry of Magic, and no one here would go against Crouch for an abandoned house elf.

No one now cares whether the Dark Mark was set by Winky or not. Crouch placed all the blame on the house elf, and no one could say anything else.

What happened tonight was destined to be no longer peaceful days in the future. The Dark Mark was suspended in the sky. Not only the senior officials of the Ministry of Magic, but also almost all the wizards in the camp saw this situation.

As for the coming days, the Ministry of Magic will conduct a public relations campaign on this incident to ease the public's panic.

"Mr. Crouch, can I take it away?" When several people were about to leave this place, Tonks pointed at the house elf who was kneeling on the ground with helpless eyes and asked Crouch. Rauch.

"Whatever you want, but you have to be careful. You never know when it will disobey your orders." Barty Crouch shook his hand indifferently.

Tonks walked up to Winky and extended a friendly hand to the elf.

"Let's go, I'll take you to meet your friend."