Chapter 344： The shadow is approaching

Chapter 346 Shadow approaches

The sky gradually brightened and turned dark blue, and a light white appeared from the horizon.

Felix stood in the crowd, somewhat understanding why Fudge was so jealous of Barty Crouch. He was unsmiling and had an old-fashioned and die-hard style. When Fudge was still struggling with how to deal with these hooded men, Crow Qi has given orders in an orderly manner.

"Take these thugs away," he said sternly: "They will be interrogated until someone tells who is the main messenger of this terrorist activity."

Fudge wiped his sweat. "Crouch... Barty, what you said is too serious... They were just drunk and drunk and had no serious consequences... I would not agree to define it as horror... …If it's not for Muggles, you only need to pay a fine."

"Oh, isn't it? I will focus on the results of the interrogation," Crouch said, his eyes fixed on the hooded men with their masks removed. "Some of them are familiar to me, quite familiar... …"

Fudge cleared his throat, "Okay, let's go back to the ministry to talk about some things—Walsh!" He turned his head and looked around, and Walsh Sidrick walked over quickly.

"I will hand over some people to you, and you will leave to deal with the follow-up...Uh, to appease the work, I will go back to the ministry to solve more difficult problems."

The staff of the Ministry of Magic urgently produced a batch of door keys and left with the people lying on the ground.

Walsh Sidric arranged for the remaining people to put out the fire and appease everyone. Many members of the family separated, and the staff of the Ministry of Magic blessed themselves with a loud voice, making their voices hoarse in the crowd.

There are also claims, complaints, complaints, and all kinds of demands are chaotic. Walsh showed good work quality, took all these things as they were, and then asked them to go back and sort out a list of losses lightly. As for compensation, it is not necessarily true.

"I will definitely not lose, I can only admit that I am unlucky." Sirius said empirically, and Harry wanted to laugh but couldn't smile, so he could only grin in cooperation with him.

"Okay, kids." Mr. Weasley said, "You go back to the tent and sleep for a while. It's not a few hours before dawn. You will have to line up to get the key during the day."

Barty Crouch stayed, and he found Felix.

"I have something to tell you, Mr. Haipu." Crouch said sternly, "Let's find a place to have a good talk. What do you think?"

"Of course," Felix smiled slightly, "It's better to go to my tent, it's intact."

They returned to the tent of the Future World Company. It was very spacious. There were empty boxes stacked in the corner and two magic lights shaped like big fire dragons. Crouch glanced at Krammy and Lupin, and said nothing. .

The two sat down and Felix invited a pot of lemon juice.

"Thank you." Crouch said politely, he couldn't wait to get into the topic, "Mr. Haipu, I want to thank you for stopping the riot in time, without causing more serious consequences."

"More serious consequences?"

"Yeah, more serious consequences," Crouch repeated, staring at Felix with a sharp gaze. "You haven't experienced it, but I know what they are. To be honest, according to the normal process, that numb The Gua family can't survive."

"Normal process..." Felix raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it what I thought?"

"Death Eater." Crouch said indifferently. "It was fun to kill Muggles. I was the director of the Magic Law Enforcement Department and handled quite a few shocking cases. So I ordered my Auror to give a tooth for a tooth. ."

Felix fiddled with the goblet, thinking in his heart, at this moment, the curtain of the tent opened, "Batti, I heard you are here...ha, it really is."

Ludo Bagman said breathlessly, his face sweaty.

He pulled a chair and sat between the two, poured himself a glass of lemon juice, drank it, and let out a long sigh of relief: "It was a day full of twists and turns, those fans—"

"It's a mob, Ludo." Crouch interrupted him and corrected him.

"Uh, well, thug..." Bagman asked, "What are you talking about?"

But this sentence was just an introduction. He immediately opened the chatterbox and looked at Felix with a smile on his face: "It's a pity that I missed a good show. When you showed your power, I was gambling with Roddy. He pressed For a large sum of money, I bet that Bulgaria would score the first goal. As you saw it... I knew that the Bulgarian team couldn't do it a long time ago, so I offered very high odds!"

"There is also little Agatha, she has pressed half of the shares of the eel farm, which is a bit crazy...but, it happened to help me pay off the debt I borrowed from the fairy..."

"No one wants to hear your business," Crouch said impatiently: "We are talking about business, if you can realize that you are also one of the people in charge of the camp."

Ludo Bagman looked at him anxiously, "But, isn’t it over? All the troublemakers have been brought back to the ministry, there is Walsh in the camp, he is doing much better than me..."

Felix smiled and said, "Mr. Bagman, we have just discussed the topic of Death Eaters."

"Death Eater...what? Death Eater..." Bagman's round face began to sweat, "I, I don't understand."

Felix and Crouch ignored him. Felix wanted to know why Crouch approached him, so he continued on the interrupted topic, "Mr. Crouch, you just said that the Death Eaters killed Ma For fun, do you think they did today's farce?"

"I can't think of anyone else," Crouch said word by word: "Only they need to hide their heads, hide their cowardice and despicableness, but reminisce about the glory of the past. After the mysterious man lost power for many years, Remind us in this way that they are doing well."

His toothbrush-like beard trembled, and his eyes popped out, looking very hideous. Felix suspected that if there were Death Eaters standing in front of him, he could bite their throats with his teeth.

Bagman thought of the scene where he was being tried at the end of the war. Crouch now looks the same as before, and he can't help being scared. From this perspective, Fudge's arrangement failed. Bagman did not have the courage to oppose Crouch. He planted the seeds of fear when he was tried, so he has been on good terms with Crouch all these years.

"Barty, maybe, maybe..." He was so frightened that he couldn't speak the whole thing for a long time.

Felix had a similar guess, nodded at the moment and said: "So there is actually one thing missing today, the Dark Mark."

Crouch gave a scornful expression: "They dare not do this."

Before the end of the conversation, Barty Crouch seemed to have stated his real purpose: "Weissengamo has considered accepting you as one of them. In the near future, maybe you can catch up with this trial. We Need to be tough on these scum."

Felix looked at his back and felt weird. Is Crouch looking for a helper in Wizengamore? As far as he knows, Barty Crouch had a hard time before, and there are even rumors that Fudge Plan to kick him out of Wiesengamo.

But in fact, Fudge is not capable of doing this, because the Wizengamo Wizarding Court is a fairly loose organization. Usually, each member has his own job and only get together when there are important things.

Speaking of leaders, Dumbledore is the chief magician of Wisengamao.

……

Not long after Barty Crouch left, he asked for a leave of absence and disappeared in the camp on the grounds that he was unwell, but he did not go far, but appeared in the woods near the camp.

A man in a black cloak stood motionless in the mist.

Barty Crouch's expression also became rigid, as if it had frozen.

The man in the cloak lifted his hood, revealing a young face: "Master."

Barty Crouch’s voice suddenly became hoarse, "I went to see Felix Hap..."

"What!" The man in the cloak-Barty Crouch Jr. said in a deep voice: "Will it be too risky, Master...We underestimated him before, but today we are on the scene, you still pass through my father's I saw..."

Barty Crouch's eyes became blood red in an instant, and his pupils became snake-shaped. He whispered: "Before making a plan, always confirm who the enemy is... It turns out that he can't find me... Not even as sensitive as that kid, Harry Potter!"

"But in case he sees through your disguise—" Barty Crouch Jr. said eagerly.

Barty Crouch, or Voldemort, said slowly: "I am in this state...The biggest advantage is that I can't be killed. Perhaps, you still think about your father?"

"No, my master." Barty Crouch Jr. knelt at his feet and said piously: "I hate him deeply, and I am ashamed of his name. Master, he imprisoned me for more than ten years. , Let me live like a dead person, until the arrival of the master, it liberated me."

This involves a past event. Ten years ago, with the end of the war, guilty people were imprisoned in Azkaban, and Barty Crouch Jr. was accused of torturing the Longbottoms with Bellatrix and others. Crouch denied it at the trial scene, and begged his father who was the judge to believe that he had not enough evidence at the time because the witnesses did not impress little Crouch, and his father was the judge presiding over the trial. There is a lot of hope to escape the crime.

But unfortunately, Barty Crouch is selfless. He has already seen the flaws in the sneaky whereabouts of his son. Combined with vague personal evidence, he finally confirmed that Little Crouch was guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

After that, Barty Crouch made a big mistake. He couldn't refuse his wife's dying request. At the end of her life, she exchanged her son from prison with a compound decoction, and kept using the Imperius Curse to control her at home. Let the house elf Shining take care of him, intending to let him live a whole life like this.

Until Sirius escaped from Azkaban, holding a life-for-life determination to kill Wormtail Peter, Wormtail was terrified, he disappeared for a few months, found Voldemort, and from Bertha Jokin Si heard the news of the Championship and Barty Jr., and they took advantage of the old Barty Crouch’s absence and broke into his house to liberate the Jr. Crouch, and waited until Barty Crouch the old. When Qi came back from get off work, he was attacked by his son and Wormtail and controlled it with the Imperius Curse.

……

Voldemort said in a emotionless voice: "What if I let you kill your father with your own hands?"

"I will be very happy to execute your orders!"

"No hurry," Voldemort let out a chilling laugh, "Barty Crouch is still useful, but he almost got rid of my control in front of that idiot Fudge, and almost broke the big deal, maybe I was hiding in his mind. It was too painful for him inadvertently reduced the effect of the Imperius Curse."

Batti Crouch Jr. pondered: "Will the flaw be seen?"

Voldemort sneered and said: "There is no evidence, or at most some temptations, but he cannot do without him, and things will develop in the direction we expected. The only pity is that I can't maintain this state for too long...I lost the bug. The tail is really inconvenient."

"Master, it's all my fault."

"Okay," Voldemort said, "As planned, we will go back to your house first. I need to rest for a while, and then we will go to Mad Eye Moody. He is not easy to deal with and must set up a trap."

"Master, it’s hard for you to have a body, I can do it by myself...it really can’t, let Xingyan..."

"When will house elves be able to do things for the great Voldemort?" Voldemort said gloomily, "If Barty Crouch is exposed, it's okay. I found a way for him to call the curtain."

"Master?"

"That kid from the Black family gave me inspiration. You don't want to appear in front of the world in an open manner? Just let him apologize with death and prove your innocence."

(End of this chapter)