Chapter 242: Suspect Harry
"I once got 12 .l's at Hogwarts..."Barty Jr. didn't pretend to be Moody's tone in front of the cloth, but told an ordinary thing in his own voice.
"But it doesn't matter, because I don't get much attention for it, and of course, I'm grateful for everything I've learned at Hogwarts that got me out of that depressing place!" Little Barty's emotions grew agitated, and he held up his wand, the glow of the Imperius Curse on the wand was slightly dazzling.
"As you might have guessed, yes, it was my mother who rescued me from Azkaban, and the Dementors couldn't use their brains to distinguish between two seriously ill people, and my mother and I swapped identities......"
"I hate him, he hates me, I've been controlled by him for ten years, my father!"
"If it weren't for my mother's life, I'm afraid he wouldn't have continued to cover me with an invisibility cloak so that I wouldn't be discovered by outsiders...... Ahaha, but I still escaped, my master needs me, this is the only motivation for me to live! Brie listened to little Barty's story, and said a little helplessly: "You don't need to share the sad experience with me, everything has passed, and I can't change it." Barty Jr. smiled, not caring that Brie thought he was wasting his time.
"I've been under the Imperius Curse for ten years, I've been tormented by it every moment, I know it inside and out, I've been trying to escape it, and I've succeeded..."
"I know some of its secrets, secrets about the soul." In the cramped office, Barty Jr. put his wand to his head and said slowly: "The Imperius Curse controls the soul and the brain, and people always say that willpower is the only way to resist, but what they don't know is that disrupting the brain is another way to escape. β
"It's dangerous, so I didn't use it, but I was inspired to discover that the human brain and consciousness are separated, the brain is the container, and the consciousness is the ingredient, and you can't cook a delicious soup without one."
"I tried to get the ingredients out, and though I was sucked back after a brief period of darkness, I weakened the effect of the Imperius Curse on me." Barty Jr. stared at Brie closely, not even noticing that his polyjuice potion was about to expire.
"How did you resist the Imperius Curse?" As opposed to a damaging spell, it is a counterspell and a spell that defends against it, and Brie is using a defensive spell.
"I don't think you need to know." Brie hasn't perfected it yet, and if it fails, it won't be a slap in the face, how can you tell little Barty now.
"Uh-huh, that's good, you're still a little defensive, that's good." Barty said to himself, and removed the Imperius Curse from his wand.
He took out Brie's "Foundations of Natural Magic" againβ
"I've studied your book, yes, I don't deny it's incredible, you're definitely a great scholar, but... Maybe you're hiding something? Little Barty stared at Brie suspiciously, he always felt that what he knew about natural magic was not on the same level as what Brie mastered, especially since according to his investigation, Brie's patronus, the use of magic, and the closeness of magical creatures to him were difficult to grasp through this "Fundamentals of Natural Magic".
"All the knowledge is in the book." Brie responds to Barty Jr.
"I haven't hidden my magic, it's just that you're not yet at the point where you comprehend it." This is a very devastating remark, as a gifted wizard, Barty Jr. is very unhappy, but he is not in a position to refute the compilers of natural magic, and he knows nothing about natural magic until he has read this book.
"What you're studying is dangerous!" Barty Jr. threatened.
"You're studying the Unforgivable Curse, not just defending against them, you may be thinking about how to remove their Unforgivable."
"If the Dark Wizards find out, they won't let you goβ" Barty Jr. said in a gloomy tone, with a hoarse roar.
And he also began to show his purpose-
"Join us, why mix with Muggles and half-bloods, you are noble, noble people." Brie had a headache, he felt that he and Barty Jr. were no longer at the same level, or what kind of character was Voldemort?
The only explanation is that Barty Jr. doesn't have enough vision.
"Little Mr. Crouch......" Brie said in a very helpless tone, "when Voldemort rules the English witchcraft world and is ready to take over the Muggle world, come and talk to me about this." Brie patted little Barty on the shoulder and looked at him softly, as if she were looking at a childish little kid.
"Wait!" Little Barty was embarrassed by Brie's actions, and he looked at Brie's back as he was about to leave, as if he had changed back to Moody, and said in a menacing tone, "Don't be afraid to stay away from them just because those wizards in Godric's Valley have helped you!" ββ¦β¦ After leaving, Brie meets Neville around the corner, Neville is obviously waiting for Brie to come out, and in Neville's opinion, Professor Moody's sudden concern is more like a fright, and he is not worried that Brie will face Moody alone, or that he wants to share some of his own suffering with Brie.
"Ode..."
"Neville?" Brie stopped, looking at Neville, who had just reached the height of his neck, still looking innocent and cowardly, and said helplessly, "What are you doing here, I think because of Professor Moody, we were all delayed for dinner." β
"Let's go to the kitchen?" Neville nodded, and quickly followed Brie.
"I, I think Professor Moody is great..."Neville blushed and said with some awkwardness, "he may be for our good, he's not as scary as he seems." Brie nodded when he heard this, he has been at Hogwarts for almost four years, and among the four Defence Against the Dark Arts professors in the four years, regardless of their status, if they are in order, Moody can indeed be far ahead, ranking first, even Lupin, who has been traveling in the field for a long time, can only be second, who let Lupin often take leave.
Perhaps Snape was substitute taught, but he was also very busy at the time, and he didn't give full play to Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and could only finish third at best.
Then came Quirrell, possessed by Voldemort, and then Lockhart; At the very least, Quirrell is reading from the book, and Lockhart directly lost the book and let the little wizard act, which is very praised.
Glancing at Neville, he was holding the book "The Wonders of the Mediterranean Aquatic Plants and Their Properties" tightly in his hand, it seemed that Neville liked the herbal class, but lately Neville had been pursuing the Potions class.
"I want to study potions." Neville continued, and his tone was very firm, and he seemed to have a different feeling than just now, is this growth?
"Ode, you know what, Professor Snape has been helping to treat my parents during the holidays, in the Hippogriff... With the potions, they got better, at least not so painful, and I wondered if I could become a potions master, if I could cure them completely......" Neville cried as he spoke.
"But I can't do anything, I don't have a talent for potions, and even simple potions will blow up the cauldron." Brie's head hurt a little, he didn't know how to persuade a crying boy, but he thought that he had been researching the solution of the Heart Drilling Spell recently, so he said, "Need help?" β
"No, no, thank you Ode, I'm sure I can do it myself." Neville seemed motivated, and before Brie could say that he had studied the Mind Curse, he ran away with a red face.
Standing in front of the fruit portrait at the kitchen door, Brie stared dumbly at Neville running away......
"Did he misunderstand something, I wouldn't have come close to his unusual talent for potions."
"Hey!" Just as Brie was stunned, the Wesley twins suddenly burst out, apparently from the Potions classroom... I just finished Potions class, probably not, Snape obviously went to the headmaster's office just now.
"What are you holding?" The Wesley twins were sneaky and bulging in their arms, exactly the same as when Brie had been asked to pick up the stinky grass in Professor Sprout's greenhouse.
"Hehe, we need the help of the great Lord Ode." Fred grinned and approached Brie. George on the side also came over.
"A little gold galleon is fine." Kim Galleon?
"Didn't you open your own shop in Diagon Alley and go bankrupt?" George and Fred looked at each other and said helplessly: "We are at Hogwarts, the shop is in Diagon Alley, we can't be busy at all, and ...... The profit on this thing is very low, and the little wizards don't have much money. George said earnestly, "That's right, we're going to make a potion, but..."
"The materials are a bit expensive." Fred continued: "If you make it, maybe you can use it too." George and Fred were mysterious and didn't tell Brie what it was.
"How much?" Brie, who has the Philosopher's Stone, is not short of money at all.
"One hundred gold Galleons, we want to use the best materials." Brie nodded, and continued, "You stole Snape's potion?" Seeing Brie expose them, George and Fred laughed, "No, we don't...... Because when we went, there were already people who visited, and Snape was now going to the headmaster's office to complain! β
"And the suspect is...... Harry Potter! β
"Haha!" George and Fred laughed and opened their wizarding robes, only to see a few spare cauldrons belonging to Snape.
"We're stealing the cauldron, the potions are a little difficult, we've blown up several." After saying that, George and Fred took the gold galleon given by Brie and walked away with the crucible.
"Maybe it's not Snape's cauldron..."Brie thought of Neville's frequent running to Snape's office lately, and had some speculation, hoping that Neville wouldn't cry on the spot because the cauldron was stolen, and that Snape wouldn't kick Neville out in disgust because of Neville's crying.