HP meets at Hogwarts

"What happened to you and the house elves in the kitchen? When I went this afternoon, they all said that you were never welcome again?" Ann was talking, but her eyes were on Hermione.

It was Sunday, after dinner, Ann stopped the trio when they were about to go to the dormitory.

Hermione flashed a look of shame.

"Where's Dobby?" Harry asked.

"I also asked him. He welcomes you to come over, but it doesn't matter what he said alone. Moreover, he didn't say why, saying that he wanted to help Mr. Harry Potter keep it a secret."

After Ann finished speaking, Fanny continued to ask, full of curiosity, "Is it related to the fact that you sneaked into the quiet place behind the village in Hogsmeade yesterday afternoon?"

The faces of the three of them changed suddenly, with panic, especially Harry.

"You followed? What did you see?" Harry said in horror.

Fanny shook her head, "No, I saw the three of you yesterday, and I planned to follow you, but Anne..."

"Ahem..." An suddenly coughed and interrupted Fanny on purpose, and a group of joking and laughing junior students came at the corner of the stairs.

"Let's talk about this in another place..." Ann whispered.

Several people followed Ann into an empty classroom at the small stairs.

"This classroom is very infrequently used, and generally no one will come here at this time. Let me tell you first, we didn't follow you yesterday, and there should not be many people paying attention to the three of you yesterday. Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon, Hogsmoor There are no people on the main road in De Village. Fanny will notice you because you are wearing robes and hoods, and the scarves and gloves of Gryffindor College are obvious. Next time the three of you will do something confidential Be careful, though, that you three will stand out if you suddenly dress up too strangely, especially Harry, who is known to many students at this point in the Triwizard Tournament."

Fanny nodded aside.The three breathed a sigh of relief.

"Actually, we were going to ask Winky something, but Hermione said something else later..." Harry said tactfully.

"She's just preaching about the good treatment of her house-elves! We could have asked more!" snapped Ron, annoyed that the house-elves had kicked them out last night.

"Don't forget that Winky was drunk! They covered her with a tablecloth like she was some disgusting filth! It shouldn't have happened!" argued Hermione.

"Uh... stop arguing, I probably know the situation." An waved her hand to stop the two who wanted to continue the quarrel.

Ann turned to Hermione, persuading her, "Hermione, I know you are thinking about the situation of the house elves, but rushing things will not help you understand them, right? Next time you want to go to the kitchen, you can call me, but Why don't you try not to go this month?"

Hermione nodded.

"Okay! That's all right, we're going back to the dormitory, let's go, Fanny?" Ann got up and was about to leave.

But Hermione stopped Ann, and she glanced at Harry and said, "Ann, after Potions class on Friday, didn't you wonder what Karkaroff wanted to do with Professor Snape? Harry listened to him that afternoon." It's one o'clock."

Ann sat down again and asked, "Really? Can you say that?"

Hermione motioned for Harry to hurry up and say that Harry would like to discuss these issues with Ann, but Ann had always resisted joining the discussion between the three of them.

"Of course!" said Harry, "after class that day, Karkaroff found Snape and lifted up the left sleeve of his robe in front of him, just like this!" He also made a demonstration, "Karkaroff Karlov lowered his voice and asked Snape, did you see it? It was never so obvious! But then, they found me, and I was kicked out...but I didn't see what was on his arm..."

A movie clip flashed through An's mind, and she knew why Karkaroff was looking for Snape.

"Ann! Do you know what that is?" Hermione asked in surprise, staring at Ann's expression, she understood Ann's expression.

Fanny, Ron and Harry immediately looked at Ann curiously.

How did Hermione know?Am I being so obvious?Do you want to answer this question?It happened once in the World Cup, but at this time, wouldn't it be too good?

In an instant, many thoughts flashed through An's mind, but in the end she decided not to speak.

Shaking her head with an unchanged expression, Ann said calmly, "No, I don't know. I'm just curious about Karkaroff looking for Professor Snape... But if there are some secrets between the two of them, I will I think it's better for me to suppress this curiosity."

Except for Hermione, disappointed expressions flashed across the faces of the others, but after Hermione gave Ann a suspicious look, she didn't say anything.

After being glanced at by Hermione, Ann felt a little guilty.

"However, since you have revealed the news to me and satisfied my curiosity, I will also tell you some news in exchange. I think you must have asked Winky last night to get some news about Mr. Crouch, right?"

Harry nodded, and then he quickly took over the conversation. He didn't want to miss Ann's opportunity to analyze Mr. Crouch, "We found that something was wrong with Crouch, oh, that was before the second project, I was looking for clues to the golden egg I found Crouch loitering outside Snape's office door on the Marauder's Map..."

"Are you sure you're seeing the name Barty Crouch?" Ann asked, unaware that she was accentuating the name.

Harry nodded affirmatively, "Yes, I wanted to check it out at the time, but then I got stuck on a staircase, and it was Professor Moody who showed up and saved me in time..."

"Professor Moody?" Ann asked suspiciously.Harry nodded.

"Well, what you said is really weird, but what I can tell you is that Mr. Crouch is a workaholic, he is the kind of person who thinks life is not fun unless he works..."

"Same as Percy... no wonder he likes Crouch..." Ron muttered under his breath, causing Fanny, who was listening eagerly, to glare at him.

"These are all the news I got from Aunt Dinah. She is the deputy director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, so after Mr. Crouch fell ill, she paid close attention to this matter." Ann continued, "But it's still difficult to inquire about this kind of boss. After all, she is still in France. What she knows is that Percy has temporarily become Crouch's mouthpiece. All letters are delivered by Mr. Crouch's owl, but This is very inconsistent with the rules of the Ministry of Magic."

"There was a lot of quarrel in the Ministry of Magic about this matter, but you know that things about the Triwizard Tournament went wrong, and the workload of the Department of International Magical Cooperation was already heavy. He said that he was sick However, in addition to the fact that he did not delay things by handling affairs through letters, the Ministry of Magic had no legitimate reason to investigate him, and Mr. Crouch almost became the Minister of the Ministry of Magic before he became the director of the Cooperation Department. He is from the Legal Department of the Ministry, and he has many people in the Ministry who support him..."

"This will lead to the current situation, but according to intelligence, the "Daily Prophet" also reported that Mr. Crouch has been staying at home, so Harry you said that Mr. Crouch appeared in Hogwarts Things about the castle seem particularly strange."

Ann habitually played with a silver Sickle and said, "Either he has something more important to come to Hogwarts than the work he valued before, or the person shown on the map is not Mr. Crouch..."

"The Marauder's Map can't be wrong..." said Harry firmly.

"Really? Then, there is another possibility. The person shown on the map is another Mr. Crouch..." Ann said.

"You mean his son, Crouch Jr? But he's dead…" said Ron.

Both Ann and Fanny looked at Ron.

"Ah... this is... uh... I saw it in an old newspaper at home!" Ron said eagerly, he didn't want to expose his coldness (Sirius) and told them about it, after all, he and Harry promised not to If one more person knew about the cold, the risk of being caught would be one point higher for Sirius.

"Little Crouch was caught in Azkaban in a capture of Death Eaters many years ago, his father sent him to prison, and he died a year later... At that time, the newspaper This incident was reported on the Internet, and my parents discussed the issue of children's education for a long time at that time!" Ron said confidently.

"In this case... I want to say something, you all know that you can't use Apparition to enter Hogwarts Castle, you can only use the Floo network in the fireplace or broomsticks. But the Floo network is monitored by the Ministry of Magic , and about the broomstick, Professor Dumbledore will definitely know about it. Then, there are more questions, if he comes, how will he get into the castle without telling everyone?" Ann questioned.

"Maybe he has a way of hiding it, like that nasty woman in Skeeter?" said Ron.

Ann shook her head, "No, Crouch and Rita Skeeter are not the same kind of people, and they will not master such a method. A person like him who has been in a high position for a long time will not bother to be like Ritas. Kit used some petty methods to sneak in. He has a simpler and more direct method. If he wants to do a secret thing, it will not be like this. People from the Ministry of Magic and the magic press are staring at him. His address and whereabouts..."

"What the hell is that?" said Ron impatiently.

"It's hard to find the truth about one thing. It's the same as reading a mystery novel. Maybe we have to see the end to know the ending... Now there is not enough information, and there are too many loopholes, so we can only analyze it vaguely." An concluded. , At the end, she said, "Actually, let me remind you, I feel that Professor Moody is a little strange, don't trust him too much."

"Huh? Why? I think Professor Moody is nice…" Harry asked.

"It's just an intuition..." Ann said jokingly, "Maybe it's because the teachers of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts generally seldom have re-election..."

After Ann finished speaking, she stood up, "Okay, we've talked so much, shall we go back to the dormitory first?" After greeting the three of them, Ann and Fanny walked out of the classroom together.

"Ann, I think the three of them must be hiding something, especially what Ron said before, how old were we when we captured the Death Eaters, how could he remember it so clearly?" Fanny said to Ann .

An took the words indifferently, "It's normal for them to have secrets. After all, everyone has secrets that they don't want to tell, and the three of them must have their own considerations if they don't tell them. Listen."

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Daily updates, the fourth part will probably end around 100 chapters, and then enter the fifth part.

The outline of the fifth part is very short, you should think about how to write it when the time comes...