[HP] Leader's Exclusive Rose

You are my last concern in this world.

It never occurred to Rosalind that the stray dog ​​she had fed many times was Sirius Black - although Hermione had told her that his Animagus form was a black dog.

They followed him back to the dim but cool cave, and they first saw Buckbeak chained at the end of the cave, with his rope wrapped around a large rock.Cedric and Rosalind joined the Triangle in bowing deeply to it, and the hippogriff eyed them haughtily for a moment, before finally bending its scaly front legs and bowing to them too.

At this moment, the black dog also transformed into Harry's godfather.

Sirius was wearing a tattered gray robe—the prison uniform he wore when he was imprisoned in Azkaban, and his unkempt and tangled hair made him even more emaciated.

"Hello, kind little girl." He first bent slightly towards Rosalind in a very gentlemanly way: "Thank you for giving me food so many times, especially today's chicken legs, which are delicious."

"No, you're welcome—" Rosalind was a little at a loss, she turned to look at Cedric beside her, and continued, "I'm just, a little surprised."

"Harry mentioned you in his letter to me—Miss Shen, you are a very good Hufflepuff student." Then he turned to the boy with brown-blond hair: "This is Mr. Diggory Bar?"

"Hi, I'm Cedric Diggory." The young man reported his name in an unassuming manner. Sirius took Harry's backpack and found out the chicken that he asked his godson to buy for him: "Morning Knowing that there will be so many people coming today, I will tidy up the place first~”

Harry was very worried about him hiding here, if he was found or caught, it would be troublesome.

But Sirius didn't take it seriously - the only ones who knew about his Animagus and Dumbledore were the five of them and Dumbledore. Ron nudged Harry and handed him the Daily Prophet.There were two copies of the paper, one with the headline: What's wrong with Barty Crouch's illness;

Cedric had read those two papers, Barty Crouch hadn't been seen since November, he hadn't even been to the second leg of the Triwizard Tournament, the house seemed unoccupied, but St Mungo's Neither the Magical Injury Hospital nor the Ministry of Magic revealed any more information.

They discussed it - from Barty Crouch himself to the Quidditch World Cup to the Dark Mark and his house-elf Winky who had expelled him.

Sirius didn't have a good attitude towards Crouch, and he whispered to the five people in front of him the thing that almost killed him-that Crouch ordered him to be sent to Azkaban, and even spared his death. Judgment - He was once head of the Ministry of Magic's Law Enforcement Division.

Then he told them something more dramatic:

Barty Crouch sent his own son into Azkaban himself - because he was with a group of Death Eaters who escaped from Azkaban with smooth words.

"But that's his own son!" Rosalind felt that her world view had been severely damaged: "Is his son a Death Eater?"

"I don't know." Sirius shook his head, and then stuffed bread into his mouth: "I was in there when he was locked in. I only found out about these things after I escaped. The boy was indeed arrested when he was arrested. With Death Eaters, I'd bet my life on that - but maybe he just shouldn't be in that place at that time, like that house-elf."

"Has Crouch excused his son?" Hermione asked quietly.

Sirius let out a sneer: "Crouch excused his son? Hermione, I thought you understood his nature just now! Everything that threatens his reputation must be thrown aside by him. All his Dedicated his life to the cause of being Minister for Magic. You saw him fire a loyal house-elf for linking him to the Dark Mark again - you can't see that What kind of a man is he? Crouch's paternal love was at best to put his son on trial, which, according to various accounts, actually gave Crouch an excuse to show how much he hated the Boy...and he sent his son to Azkaban."

"He gave his son to the dementors?" Cedric felt a little unbelievable.

"Exactly," said Sirius, now that he was far from amused, "I saw the dementors bring him in, and I watched them through the bars of the cell door. Just 19. They put him in a cell next to me. In the evening, he screamed at his mother. But after a few days, he was silent.. They all ended up silent.. Only occasionally screaming in my sleep..."

For a time, the depressed expression in Sirius' eyes became particularly solemn, as if the blinds behind his eyes were suddenly closed.

Harry pushed his glasses: "So, he's still in Azkaban?".

"Not anymore," said Sirius flatly, "he wasn't there anymore. A year after they brought him in, he died."

Ron felt his face twitch a little: "Is he dead?"

"He was not the only one who died." Sirius closed his eyes, as if recalling some painful experience, "There, most people went crazy, and many people finally went on a hunger strike. They lost the will to live. Wishes. You can tell when a person dies, because the dementors can feel it, and they get excited when they do. The boy was sick when he came. Crouch is an important official of the Ministry of Magic. He and his wife were allowed to see their dying son. That was the last time I saw Barty Crouch walking past my cell, half-armed, half-supporting his wife. Apparently, his wife died soon —too much grief. Emaciated and dead like the boy. Crouch didn't come to claim his son's body, the dementors buried him outside the fort. I watched them do it."

Sirius tossed aside the bread he had raised to his mouth, grabbed the bottle of pumpkin juice and drank it down in one gulp.

"So, just when poor Crouch thought he was done, he lost it all." Wiping his lips with the back of his hand, he continued, "A hero just now, confident enough to become Minister of Magic...In the blink of an eye, The son died, the wife died, the family's reputation was tarnished, and, I heard after his escape, his prestige in the public mind declined dramatically. After the boy's death, people began to sympathize with his son more, and asked Doubt: Why would a kid from a good family take such a bad path? Concluded that his father never cared much about him. And so Cornelius Fudge got the top spot, Crouch He was transferred to the Department of International Magical Cooperation."

Then there was a long silence.Cedric remembered the way Crouch's eyes popped out when he looked down at his disobedient house-elf in the woods on the day of the Quidditch World Cup.

No wonder Crouch reacted so violently when Winky was caught under the Dark Mark.It must have reminded him of his own son, of the scandalous past, and of his discredited experience at the Ministry.

Harry spoke to him again about Snape and Karkaroff, but Hermione interrupted to say that Dumbledore trusted Snape.

Returning to Hogwarts in the cave where Sirius lived, Rosalind still felt sobbing: "Are power and glory really that important?"

Cedric also sighed subtly: "Perhaps for Crouch, that is the most important thing."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." The girl took the arm of the person next to her: "Let's go to the cafeteria to pack some food and send it to Sirius? I really can't believe that he can eat mice for Harry. "

"Well, let's go now, it will be dinner time later." Cedric nodded, so with Dobby's help, the two of them sent a bunch of food to "Cold" - it was Sirius Tell them their pronouns in front of outsiders.

Hermione has been getting a lot of nasty letters lately - thanks to Rita Skeeter's coverage, she's pretty much the center of Hogwarts opinion.To make things even more nerve-wracking, she had hurt her hands with the pus of undiluted babo tubers spurted from a letter.

Her hands were still bandaged when she mentioned the incident to Rosalind, and she swore she would settle the score with Rita Skeeter.

Hagrid had also returned to his position as Professor of Care of Magical Creatures, and now he was waiting for his classmates outside the cabin, with some open cardboard boxes at their feet that they had never seen before.

Ezel's heart sank when he saw the cardboard box—couldn't another brood of snails hatch?

But when they got closer and looked into the box, they found that there were many hairy black guys with long noses and flat front paws like shovels, which were very strange.They looked up and blinked at the class, seemingly bewildered by the attention.

"These are snuffers," said Hagrid and the other students, "you can usually see them in mines. They like shiny things...here, look."

A sniff suddenly jumped up, trying to bite off Levia's bracelet.Levya screamed in fright, quickly clutched her wrist and took a step back, almost knocking Lizzie down.

"Very useful little treasure hunters," Hagrid said happily to the students, "we can have a good time with them today. See there?" He pointed to the large piece of newly opened land: " I buried a few gold coins. Whoever picks Xixiu digs up the most gold coins will be rewarded. Take off all valuables on your body, then pick a Xixiu, get ready, and let them go. "

After hearing this, Rosalind hurriedly took off the ruby ​​ring from her hand and put it in her pocket. She didn't want to be snatched away by Xixiu.

Cedric took off his own watch and put it in his pocket, then he picked out a Niffler.It put its long nose close to his ear and sniffed vigorously—this little thing is quite affectionate with people.

It was really the most fun care of magical animals class they had ever had: Nixie crawled in and out of the field, as if in water, each hurried to the classmate who let them go side, spit gold coins into their hands.Ezel had a lot to gain, and his Nixie was soon full of gold coins on his lap.

In the end he was rewarded with a large slice of chocolate cake from Hagrid.

Kunchy even wanted to get a Niffler, but Hagrid told him that Niffler would tear down his home.