Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Tell Krum not to pester Hermione anymore, otherwise she won't dare to go to the library to read alone at night.

Although Ivan is no longer worried that Hermione and Krum will spark, but the troubles really need to be resolved as soon as possible.

He followed Krum in the direction of the Forbidden Forest, past Hagrid's cabin and the brightly lit Beauxbatons carriage.

Krum didn't want the conversation to be overheard, and distanced himself from Harry, Ron, and Hermione behind him.

"Strange, what did Krum suddenly ask Ivan to say?" Harry looked at the backs of the two people until they were completely obscured by the bushes and completely disappeared from his eyes, then he said slowly, "Krum looks a little strange." So happy..."

"He invited me to be a guest at his house during the summer vacation!" Hermione said, "I'm not sure if it has something to do with it."

"What?" Ron looked at Hermione in surprise.

"In the library on Wednesday night, he invited me. To be honest, I was very surprised at the time. He said those words to me suddenly..." Hermione blushed slightly, paused, and quickly added, "But I rejected it on the spot!"

"Hermione, Krum invited you to visit?!" Ron said in surprise, "And you refused?!"

"Yes, otherwise, what should I do?" Hermione frowned at Ron.

"If it were me, I wouldn't refuse Krum's invitation. Think about it, how many people dream of visiting Krum's house during the summer vacation. He is a famous international Quidditch player!" Luo En said to himself, "You should promise him, Hermione, and ask him if he can bring friends along, so you can take us with you."

"I just regard him as an ordinary friend, that's all. Besides, Ivan doesn't like me to get in touch with him too much. However, he seems to blame Ivan for my rejection of him..."

"Krum must be angry!" Ron interrupted Hermione, "It's just a guest, you came to my house last year!"

"That's different, Ron!" Harry said, grasping the key point of the matter, "Hermione should really reject Krum, she is Ivan's girlfriend, how can she visit someone else's house during the summer vacation."

Ron still looked puzzled. Harry thought for a while, probably thinking about what to say so that Ron could understand.

"Ron, Krum is Ivan's opponent, and he also likes Hermione."

Hermione blushed as if on fire hearing Harry speak so bluntly, and could almost feel the heat radiating from her body.

Ron also understood what Krum meant by inviting Hermione to be a guest, so he didn't continue to express his opinion.

Yes, Hermione is Ivan's girlfriend now.

Ron suddenly remembered the night after the Yule Ball, when they came back to announce it.

Maybe because he was too familiar with it, he kept ignoring this fact.

Krum obviously liked Hermione, and it wasn't as simple as simply wanting to invite her to play.

Ron looked at Hermione, who was blushing strangely, as if he had just met her.

At the same time, Harry's thoughts were equally complicated, and Krum's performance suddenly touched his heartstrings.

He couldn't help but think, if Qiu Zhang was his girlfriend, what would he do when he encountered such a thing? !

It's a pity that Qiu's current boyfriend is Cedric Diggory. They have confirmed their relationship, right? !

Harry is not Krum, he won't just go to Cedric...

Just when he was about to say something, there was a strange movement in the bushes behind Hermione.

Harry, who had some experience with things hidden in the forest, instinctively grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her towards him.

Chapter 669 Mr. Crouch is crazy

"Harry, what's going on?"

Harry made a silent movement, staring at the place where there was movement just now.

He reached into his robes, fumbling for his wand, he was sure someone was there!

Someone is following them, who could it be? !

There was a moment of silence in the woods, which seemed extraordinarily eerie, only the sound of the night wind blowing.

"My God, look at that!" Ron exclaimed suddenly, pointing to an opposite direction.

Harry and Hermione hurried back to see a man suddenly stumbling out from behind a tall oak tree.

The atmosphere was so tense that Harry, Ron, and Hermione didn't recognize it for a while...

Then they realized it was Mr. Crouch.

He looked like he had been adrift for many days, his robes were torn at the knees and bloodstained, his face was bruised, unshaven, gray and haggard, his neat hair and beard needed washing and trimming.

His appearance was strange, but the strangest thing was his behavior.

Mr. Crouch seemed to be talking to someone whom only he could see.

He kept muttering and gesticulating.

As soon as Harry saw him, he thought of an old tramp he had met once when he and the Dursleys were out shopping.

The man was talking like crazy into the air, Aunt Petunia grabbed Dudley's hand and pulled him across the road to avoid the madman, and Uncle Vernon took advantage of it and babbled endlessly to the whole family. How to deal with beggars and vagabonds.

"Oh my God, it's Mr. Crouch, what's going on?" Hermione panicked.

"He seems crazy!" Ron looked at him in the same horror.

"Be careful!" Harry yelled, pointing his wand at Crouch.

He didn't have time to think about why the voice he just heard came from the opposite direction from Crouch, but he just felt inexplicably dangerous.

He hesitated for a moment, then walked slowly towards Mr. Crouch.

Mr. Crouch didn't look at him, but kept talking to a nearby tree.

"Wetherby, after you finish this, send an owl to Dumbledore to confirm the number of Durmstrang students participating in the Tournament. Karkaroff sent a message saying that there are twelve... ..."

"Mr. Crouch?!" said Harry cautiously.

"And then send an owl to Madame Maxime. She may also increase the number of students. Now that Karkaroff's number has increased to twelve, let's do it, Wetherby, will you? Will you? OK……"

Mr. Crouch's eyes popped out, and he stood there, staring straight at the tree, muttering silently.

Then, he staggered a few steps to the side and fell to his knees with a plop.

"Mr. Crouch!"

"Mr. Crouch, are you all right?" Harry called.

Crouch's eyeballs rolled up, looking at the three of them with terrifying eyes.

"Guys, we'd better go get someone!" said Ron, looking at Crouch in horror.

"Dumbledore!" gasped Mr. Crouch, pounced upon him, grabbed Harry by the robes, and drew him towards him, but his eyes were fixed directly above Harry's head, "I want, I want to see Deng, Dumbledore..."

"Okay!" said Harry, "as soon as you get up, Mr. Crouch, and we'll find..."

"I did something stupid..." gasped Crouch, who looked completely insane, his eyes bulging and rolling, saliva dripping down his chin, "Must tell Dumbledore , must tell him!"

Mr. Crouch rolled his eyes and stared at Harry.

"You, who are you?" He whispered, with vigilance in his tone, "I seem to have seen you somewhere?"

"I'm a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," said Harry, looking over at Hermione and Ron.

"Mr. Crouch, this is Harry Potter, and I am..." Hermione came to support Crouch.

"Harry Potter!" Crouch asked softly, "You are that child, this is Hogwarts, you are Dumbledore's man, go and remind him..."

Crouch pulled him closer, and Harry tried to let go of Crouch's grip on his robes, but his grip was too tight.

"Give, warn Dumbledore, tell him..."

"If you let me go, I'll go find Dumbledore," said Harry. "Let me go, Mr. Crouch, and I'll go find him!"

"Thank you, Wetherby. I'd like a cup of tea after you've done that. My wife and son are coming soon, and we're going to the concert with Mr. and Mrs. Fudge tonight."

Crouch let go of Harry and Hermione suddenly, and started talking again to a tree.

He seemed to forget them all at once, and passed into a strange state of madness.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at each other uneasily, in astonishment, and there was only heavy breathing in the woods.

"Yes, my son has recently passed the Twelve Ordinary Wizarding Ranks with satisfactory grades. Thank you, yes, very proud of him indeed. Well, if you would send that memo from the Minister of Magic of Andorra Give it to me, and I'll probably have time to draft a reply..."

"He's crazy!" said Ron, looking down at Crouch.

Crouch was still babbling at the tree, as if deciding it was Percy or someone else.

"That's right!" Harry quickly made up his mind, "You wait for him here, I'll go back and call Dumbledore!"

Harry was about to get up to leave, but his movement seemed to irritate Mr. Crouch, causing him to change his posture abruptly.

He grabbed Harry's knees and dragged him to the ground again.

"Don't leave me, Harry Potter!" he whispered, his eyes popping out again, "I escaped, their guards suddenly let go, I took the opportunity to escape, I must remind, I must tell... I need to see Dumbledore, it's me, it's my fault, it's all my fault, my son... it's all my fault, tell Dumbledore, Harry Potter, the Dark Lord is getting stronger! Hurry up, Harry Potter..."

"Dark Lord?!" Harry froze for a moment, "As long as you let me go, I'll go find Dumbledore, Mr. Crouch!"

With the help of Ron and Hermione, he broke away from Crouch with all his might.

"You keep him here," said Harry quickly, "and I'll bring Dumbledore back."

"You'd better hurry up!" Ron yelled. "We won't last long."

Ron looked at Crouch uneasily, and he went mad again.

Harry ran quickly out of the forest and across the dark field.

It was completely dark, and there was no one on the ground.

Professor Moody, who was standing by the lake, was no longer there. Harry didn't think about it, and ran towards the castle with all his might.

Chapter 670 The upcoming battle

Ron and Hermione stood beside Mr. Crouch, and the woods became even darker.

They had to get their wands out, and two faint fluorescent lights flickered in the dark.

"How could Mr. Crouch suddenly go crazy!" Hermione said uneasily, "This is really abnormal. Percy clearly said that he was very sick and rested at home, unable to work. He looks like he has suffered something. Cruel torture."

"Could it be Percy who did it!" Ron joked, his voice trembling. "He might have thought that killing Mr. Crouch would get him the position of Director of the International Department of Magical Cooperation."

Hermione shot him a hard look. "This is serious because he just mentioned the Dark Lord!"

There was a moment of silence, perhaps because of the name, the cold wind that blew past became more piercing.

Even Mr. Crouch paused, and the darkness in the woods deepened.

"We should call Ivan over, he and Krum are not far away!" Hermione said suddenly.

"You don't want to leave, do you?" Ron said hesitantly, looking around tremblingly, "Don't leave me here alone!"

"I have a bad premonition. I was punished for imprisonment in the Forbidden Forest with Harry in my first year. Hagrid told us!" Hermione said, raising her wand suddenly, and using the fastest speed, "If you are in the forest When there is trouble inside, it emits red sparks!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a beam of strong light emerged from the end of the wand and slowly rose towards the sky.

With a plop, Hermione fell down just as the sparks came out...

"Hermione, don't, don't be kidding me!" Ron said tremblingly, hearing something behind him.

He turned around hastily and saw...

……

Ivan followed Krum to a quiet open space, some distance away from the stables of Beauxbaton's steed.

Although Ivan thinks there is nothing to talk about with him, there are still some things that need to be explained.

Krum stopped under the shade of the tree, turned and looked at Ivan.

He stared at Ai Wen covetously, and Ai Wen realized that the other party was really tall enough.

"I want to know!" Krum said sullenly. "What's going on with you and Hermione?"

"I think you should have figured it out, she is my girlfriend!" Ivan said softly, "Also, her name is Hermione, not Hermione!"

Hearing Aiwen's words, Krum's face turned red all of a sudden.

"I'll make Hermione like me." He said bluntly, his face becoming more gloomy.

"Obviously, that's your freedom. But I hope you'd better stay away from Hermione, and don't harass her in the future." Ivan said calmly, watching Krum, "What you do in the library, It made her unable to sit still and read a book, and it was very impolite."

Seeing Krum's angry look, Ivan suddenly felt very boring.

Talking about this kind of topic with Krum is actually meaningless.

Speaking of which, it's really boring. Why don't you go to Hagrid to hear about the current situation of the snails.