Chapter 279: Barty Crouch
Hogwarts,
Transfiguration Office.
Professor McGonagall stared at Harry and Ron, anger in her eyes.
If corporal punishment of students wasn't illegal, she'd now locked them both up in a closed hut full of Bludgers.
Moody stood in the corner on crutches, admiring Professor McGonagall's trophies in the window.
He found out that the last time Gryffindor won the House Cup was in the 1984-1985 school year, which means it had been nine years since they had won the house.
However, Moody glanced at Harry and Ron, who were captured during the night tour, and was instantly relieved.
With this kind of student here, Gryffindor House wants to get the House Cup, I'm afraid it can only rely on Dumbledore, the headmaster, to cheat for personal gain.
It's not enough to add a few points, you have to add one or two hundred points to make up for the huge gap.
Snape stared at Harry and Ron as well, gloating all over his face, desperately trying to restrain himself from laughing.
"Tell me, why don't you two sleep in the middle of the night and go out for a night tour?" Professor McGonagall finally asked.
Harry and Ron hung their heads, not speaking, each of them racing through their minds to think of a reason for the night trip.
They certainly couldn't name Hagrid, but the other reasons weren't valid.
"Potter and Weasley may have seen Scamander capture Peter Pettigrew and receive the Merlin Medal." Snape said in a strange way:
"They also want to try to capture Barty Crouch so that they can get the Order of Merlin."
"We don't!" Harry pouted.
"And what are you doing?" McGonagall said coldly:
"After Barty Crouch escaped from prison, Professor Dumbledore repeatedly ordered that he should not leave the common room at night, why did you two not sleep in the middle of the night and wander outside?"
Professor McGonagall exclaimed, "You both have to be locked up, and Gryffindor will have to be deducted 100 points, 100 points for each of you!" ”
"A hundred?"
Harry and Snape cried out in unison.
The two looked at each other, and said at the same time:
"It's too much!"
"Too little!"
The two looked at each other again, and Snape sneered first:
"Professor McGonagall, these are extraordinary times, not as good as ever, and I think it's too light to deduct a hundred points per person for a repeat offender like Potter.
At the very least, he must be given a temporary suspension from school. ”
Harry glared at Snape speechlessly, thinking, "It's just a night trip, so let me take a leave of absence, this is too hateful, right?!" ”
Professor McGonagall certainly couldn't have put Harry on leave, and she was about to say something when she heard a loud bang in the distance.
Several people quickly came to the window, looked into the distance, and were dumbfounded:
The Durmstrang magic ship floating on the black lake actually emitted billowing smoke.
Professor McGonagall wanted to see better, so she conjured up several telescopes, one for Harry and Ron, and they saw an even more incredible scene through the telescopes:
Rove appeared on deck, holding down a black dragon and slamming it into Durmstrand's magic ship, which broke in two.
A moment later, he came to the boat with a group of students and threw them into the lake one by one.
Ron swallowed and lost his voice:
"Merlin, Rove wrecked Durmstrong's boat and threw the students into the lake to drown them!"
Several people looked at Ron for a moment.
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Unbeknownst to Rove, he was brain-made up to blame.
At this time, he was hovering in mid-air on a firebolt, watching the magic ship split in two, and he was also shocked by the movement made by his magic clone.
We're here to save people, not to dismantle ships!
Well, this broken ship is burned like this, and it doesn't seem to matter if it is dismantled or not.
Rove flicked his broom and continued to hover in the air, searching for the student.
Speaking of which, he hasn't seen any trace of Karkaroff yet, this Durmstrang principal can't have been buried in the fire, right?
Just when Rove was wondering, he suddenly heard a singing, and then Fawkes fell from the sky, and it circled in mid-air for two and a half circles, the breeze blowing, and the fire burned on its body.
The flames formed a golden vortex, and Dumbledore fell from the vortex and landed on the roof of the second floor of the magic ship.
As the headmaster appeared, he raised his Elder Wand, using it as the center of the circle to send out a circle of ripples that were invisible to the naked eye.
Those black flames quickly drifted away, like fireflies in the summer night sky, dotted with stars, flying into the air.
Seeing this, Rove breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Professor Dumbledore is finally here. ”
At this time, the ponytailed girl sitting behind the young man came over and said in a hurried voice:
"Rove, I want to ...... I've found the wizard who set the fire. ”
Rove's eyes lit up and he said, "Who?" ”
Shirley picked up the Hogwarts map and pointed to a certain place:
Barty...... Crouch! ”
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Standing on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Barty Crouch's face became extremely ugly as he looked across the Black Lake and at the ship that was roaring with fire.
He knew it was Durmstrang's magic ship, and there was a group of students on it!
A young wizard suddenly appeared in the woods not far away, and in a slightly hoarse teasing voice, he asked:
"This fireworks show...... Is it pretty? ”
Barty Crowe was shocked, he didn't expect that there was another person behind him, and immediately turned backwards before raising his wand, and the man had already taken the lead and shouted, "Get rid of your weapon!" ”
Barty Crouch's wand was out of his hand and flew high in the air, popping and landing gently in the grass not far away.
"There are many obstacles!" The man pointed his wand at Crouch, who was pounced on his lost wand and was knocked down on the way.
Crouch lay on the ground panting, staring at the young wizard who had attacked him, and the man laughed briefly and crisply:
"You must be curious, how did I know you were here."
The young wizard took out a piece of parchment from his bosom and patiently explained:
"This map is called the Living Point Map, and it reveals the names of all wizards who appear at Hogwarts."
"On Halloween the year before, Peter Pettigrew infiltrated Hogwarts and stole the map, and after he was killed by Rove Scamander, the owner gave me the map and asked me to find you."
"The master guesses you're going to come to Hogwarts to find Dumbledore." The young wizard snorted and said, "I didn't expect it to come." ”
Barty Crouch's eyes narrowed, he didn't expect that there would be such a map, revealing his whereabouts.
"Okay, now that I'm done answering your question, it's time for you to answer my question."
The young wizard looked at the blackened boats on the lake with obsessive eyes, wisps of black smoke and pure white ashes rising from the fire, and said, "Is this fireworks beautiful? ”
Barty Crouch didn't answer, but asked, "You set the fire?!" ”
"It's me." The corners of the young wizard's mouth curled slightly:
"It's a masterpiece, you can't see such beautiful fireworks in Azkaban, can you?"
Barty Crouch glared at the man and asked, "Why did you set fire to the ship?" ”
"The reason is simple." The young wizard squinted and smiled:
"Igor Karkarov is on the ship, he betrayed his master, of course I want to clean him up."
"Karkaroff was the first traitor to die tonight, but not the absolute last...... Albert, Snape...... They will all be liquidated one by one. ”
Barty Crouch's eyes flashed with anger, and he pursed his lips and said, "There are many students on that ship!" ”
"I know that Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry only admits pure-blood wizards, and it is indeed a pity that a lot of noble pure-bloods will die tonight!"
The young wizard said this, but there was no look of regret on his face, but a joke: Dao
"Who made them students of Karkarov? Traitors are like poisonous weeds, and the students taught by Karkaroff are the roots of weeds, which must be uprooted and exterminated, otherwise they will grow everywhere. ”
Barty Crouch looked at the young wizard with a look of disbelief on his face.
"You...... How did you end up like this?! ”
"What has become? What do you want to say...... Am I cruel, vicious, murderous? The young wizard was amused by Crouch, and he laughed:
"Thirteen years ago, Bella, Rodolphus, and Rabastan kidnapped Longbottom and his wife, torturing them with the Mind Curse until they went insane.
I'm also involved in it, and I've done a lot. ”
Barty Crouch Jr. came out of the grass, skinny, with slump blond hair and dull eyes sunken on his skinny face.
He held a wand in his hand, aimed it at Barty Crouch, who was lying on the ground, and smiled:
"You see, I've always been like this, my dear father, and I'...... But the Death Eaters! ”
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