For a moment, Rove thought he had misheard, he was stunned for a moment, and asked:

"Who escaped from prison?"

"Barty Crouch." Fudge said.

In an uncertain tone, Rove asked again, "You mean...... Barty Crouch Jr.? ”

"No, it's Barty Crouch Sr." Fudge affirmed, "He escaped from Azkaban. ”

Rove's expression suddenly became very strange, and he looked at Fudge with the eyes that were not funny.

Fudge sighed, he could understand Rove's feelings, and he had the same reaction when he first heard this message.

"Rove, it's really Barty Crouch who has escaped from prison, and I just got the news in the morning, and I went to Azkaban to confirm it myself."

Rove fell silent.

If little Barty escapes from prison, he won't have too many emotional swings, but his father escaped from prison, how to listen to it.

It's not that Rove doubts that Barty Crouch has the ability to escape from prison, but that he doesn't have the need to escape from prison.

Barty Crouch is not a good person, but he is definitely not a bad person, I have to say, he is a strict law-abiding person.

He even complied to the point of being unkind, otherwise he would not have found out that his son was a Death Eater and did not hesitate to imprison him in Azkaban.

Of course, Crouch did break the law later and secretly replaced his son, but it was also his beloved wife, whose last plea before his death forced him to make a change.

Now, Crouch is imprisoned in Azkaban, and Rove still doesn't think he will break the law and escape from Azkaban.

Unless...... He had a reason to cross it.

Of course, there is also the possibility that the whole thing was directed and acted by Fudge, who killed his political rival Crouch and then slandered him for escaping from prison.

But Rove quickly dismissed the idea.

No convict had escaped from Azkaban since it became a prison, and once the first wizard appeared, it was a big scandal for Fudge.

If it is known to the people, it will inevitably shake his prestige.

If he really wanted to kill Crouch, he just let the Dementors do it, and no one knew about it anyway, let alone cared.

So, Crouch probably really escaped from prison, so how did he do it?

Hearing Rove's doubts, Fudge sighed:

"According to the Dementors, they were sure Barty was dead and threw him into the crypt of Azkaban."

"When the Auror office found out about this, they went to Azkaban to examine the body, only to find that the body was gone."

"Doesn't that make sure Barty Crouch is still alive?" Rove asked.

"While searching the North Sea, the Aurors found a Muggle fishing boat, and the owner of the boat rescued Barty and brought him to shore." Fudge explains:

"Barty doesn't have a wand, so he doesn't erase the memories of the owner."

Rove narrowed his eyes, and if he said this, Barty Crouch had used some kind of fake death magic to fool the Dementors.

After a long silence, he asked, "Did Crouch have anything unusual before he escaped?" For example, what have you been exposed to? ”

In the original plane, Sirius suddenly escaped from prison because he saw a picture of Peter Pettigrew in the Daily Prophet, otherwise he would not have escaped from prison at all.

Crouch may have been stimulated in some way.

Fudge said in a deep voice, "He once spoke to the Aurors and said he wanted to see you or Dumbledore. ”

"See me?" Rove raised an eyebrow.

"Yes." Fudge said solemnly, "Brother, you exposed the facts of Barty's crime and personally sent him to Azkaban.

He's likely to come to Hogwarts to get revenge, so be careful! ”

“……”

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Crouch's escape from prison did not cause a frenzy of public opinion, not that the people didn't want to spray Fudge, but that he directly blocked the news.

Peter Pettigrew escaped the year before, leaving Fudge sweating profusely; The disaster of last year's Quidditch World Cup almost brought him down......

If there is another prison break this year, how many days can he, the minister, be able to be a few days?

Therefore, Fudge kept the news strictly under wraps, leaving only the Aurors to hunt down Crouch in secret.

The security of Hogwarts has also increased a lot, after all, Fudge insists that Crouch must have escaped from prison to seek revenge on Rove.

In the name of the outside world, the second project of the Triwizard Tournament is about to start, which is for the sake of protecting the lives of students!

Speaking of life, Harry and Ron now felt that their lives were constantly under threat.

Not the threat from the second project, of course, but from Snape.

Because the two of them were going to steal the potion right under Snape's nose, which was obviously an act of death!

But there is no way, if you want to participate in the competition, you can only take risks.

In Potions class on Monday, Harry and Ron decided to get their hands dirty.

At this time, in the underground classroom, dozens of crucibles were side by side, and the students were concentrating on boiling the endurance potion.

Snape walked back and forth in a cloud of smoke, and he quickly walked up to Harry and asked, "Potter, what are you boiling?" ”

"Potion of stamina, Professor." Harry said.

"Then why is it so thick, I thought you were making porridge for yourself." Snape said.

The Slytherin students all laughed, especially Malfoy, smirkingly.

"Zero, Potter." Snape said viciously, and with a flick of his wand, he emptied Harry's cauldron,

"You write me an article on the correct preparation of this potion, indicate where you are wrong, why you are wrong, hand it in in the next class, do you understand?"

"Understood." Harry said angrily.

When Snape turned to look at Ron's cauldron, Harry suddenly pulled a string of laborious fireworks out of his pocket and quickly lit them with his wand.

The fireworks began to hiss and burst out of the spark, and Harry took aim at the target and threw the fireworks into Malfoy's pot accurately.

Malfoy's potion exploded, and he poured it on the class.

Everyone screamed at the splash of potion, and Malfoy was doused in the face, his nose swollen into a watermelon, and he covered his cheeks with his hands and stumbled.

In the midst of the chaos, Ron pulled out the cloak of invisibility from his backpack, quickly draped it over his body, and ran towards the storage cabinet.

"Quiet! Be quiet! Snape roared, "The students who were splashed with the potion came to me to get the burn ointment. ”

Half of the class scrambled to Snape's desk.

When everyone drank the antidote and the various burns subsided, Ron also successfully got the potion.

Snape walked briskly over to Malfoy's cauldron and scooped out the twisted black ashes of fireworks with a spoon, and the classroom suddenly fell silent.

"As soon as I find out who threw it," Snape said in a low voice, "I'm going to fire that man." ”

Snape stared at Harry, who desperately tried to give a confused look on his face.

Soon the bell rang, and Harry and Ron immediately packed up their textbooks and hurried out of the classroom.

"Snape knows I did it." Harry whispered, "I can see that. ”

"It's okay, he doesn't have any proof that it's you." Ron comforted Harry, "What can he do?" ”

"Snape won't give up, he'll definitely find other ways to torture me." Harry sighed and said, "Did you steal the scuba potion?" ”

"Got it." Ron happily opened his bag and pulled out two bottles of potions, along with small labels with the names of Rove and Hermione.

"I didn't dare to take someone else's, for fear that the potion they brewed wouldn't work, so I took Rove and Hermione's potion."

"Great." Harry was ecstatic, "Now we can easily get through the second project." ”

"I think so too." Ron said proudly: "As long as we are lucky, we may be able to win the top two!" ”

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"

At this time, in the Potions classroom, Snape opened the medicine storage cabinet, and after counting the medicines, he found that two bottles of scuba potions were missing.

He smiled as well.

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(End of chapter)