Hogwarts Advanced Guide

Chapter 296 Good news, Barty Crouch Jr. died like this?
"Can you hear me?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

Little Barty's eyelids trembled a few times, and he whispered, "I can hear you."

"I wish you would tell us," said Dumbledore softly, "how did you come to be here, how did you escape from Azkaban?"

Little Barty took a deep breath trembling, and then spoke in a flat tone without emotion.

"My mother saved me, she knew she was going to die and begged my father to get me out"

Little Barty confides all his secrets in detail, and for a while, except for the sobbing of Shining, everyone in the room is quiet, and they can't believe their ears.

Barty Crouch, who has always been law-abiding and rigid, would do such a thing! ?

"Stop it, Master Batty, stop it, you will cause trouble for your father!" Only Shining sobbed.

But Little Barty took another deep breath and continued to speak in a flat voice.

"Dementors are blind and they smell a healthy man and a dying man walking into Azkaban walking into Azkaban."

Hera stood quietly aside. Fortunately, little Barty didn't say anything about him. God knows how grateful he was that he had the foresight to modify little Barty's memory.

Soon, the effect of the compound decoction on him also passed, and he returned to his original appearance. At the same time, Barty Jr.'s statement basically came to an end.

"We wanted to send Harry to the Dark Lord in the Triwizard Tournament, but obviously, we failed, my father escaped, and I had to use the Imperius Curse to control Karkaroff, a shameful traitor, but he was caught"

"So how dare you attack Professor Dumbledore?" Hera couldn't help asking, it was really hard for him to imagine how Voldemort was thinking.

Little Barty's eyelids trembled, "The Lord Dark Lord told me that Dumbledore will continue to pretend to be my father, and right now, the fake Dumbledore is the easiest point for us to break through."

"Easiest point to breach?" Dumbledore repeated, and his blue eyes blazed with fury, though his voice remained calm, "Severus, you go check on Barty."

Snape's expression became even uglier, and he quickly rushed out of the office towards his office on the basement floor.

"Tune the tiger away from the mountain?" Professor McGonagall's face was tense, her lips trembling slightly.

"I think so." Dumbledore leaned on the table and let out a long sigh. He probably guessed in his heart—they spent too much time on Barty Jr., and Barty probably already...
Snape came back soon, his face was livid, "Crouch is missing."

Dumbledore's eyes swept over everyone present, his eyes were like the cold wind of winter moon, so that everyone dared not look directly at him.

"We still don't know where that person is lurking, or even how many people are lurking in the dark, but the only thing we know is that Hogwarts is not safe yet." Dumbledore said, and he quickly picked up a bunch of keys on the table.

"But we have another piece of good news, we finally found the real Professor Moody."

"Severus—" Dumbledore turned to Snape—"please go and call Madam Pomfrey to the office on the third floor, we need to put the real Alastor Moody in the ward. Then you go and find Connery Fudge and bring him to this office. He will definitely want to interrogate Crouch himself. You tell him that if he needs me, I will be there in half an hour."

Snape nodded silently and left the room quickly.

Dumbledore leaned against the desk and heaved a long sigh, "Okay, let's meet the real Alastor Moody."

"Harry," Professor McGonagall's face was very bad, her thin lips were tight, "you'd better go back to the bed in the dormitory."

"I think so too, children, this matter is beyond the scope of your meddling." Hera also agreed, he somewhat understood the intention of Voldemort's 'big move' - all to clear Hera, to clean up the suspicion on him thoroughly.

Now, it was difficult for Dumbledore to doubt Hera any more. These people in the office seemed to be the cleanest people in Hogwarts.

"Minerva, are you here to guard little Crouch?" Dumbledore said, and then he winked at Hera, and walked out of the office first. Hera nodded to Professor McGonagall, and quickly followed Dumbledore's pace.

They were both silent the whole way down to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office on the third floor.

Pushing open the door of the office, Dumbledore walked to the box with seven locks placed by the window, took out the bunch of keys obtained from Barty the Jr., buried the first key in the keyhole, and opened the box. Inside was a pile of spell books.Dumbledore closed the box, inserted the second key into the second lock, and opened it again. Inside the box was no longer a spell book, but various broken looking glasses, some parchment and quills, and a silver invisibility cloak.

Of course, this invisibility cloak is nothing compared to Harry's Three Hallows. It is only made of the fur of an invisible beast, and its validity period is only a few decades, or even a few years. It all depends on the rate of loss of magic power on it.

Everyone watched as Dumbledore inserted the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth keys into the lock and opened the chest, each time revealing something different.Finally he put the seventh key in the lock, and lifted the lid.

The bottom of the box is a large pit, like a basement.On the floor about three meters deep lay a person, skinny as a stick, as if asleep.It was the real Mad-Eye Moody, with his wooden legs gone, the Evil Eye hollow under its eyelids, and a few strands of his gray hair missing.

Dumbledore climbed into the box and landed softly beside the sleeping Moody, bending over to look at him.

"Very weak - the Imperius Curse has tormented him for too long," he said. "Of course he's alive, Hera, get a cloak to throw down - he's freezing. Is Poppy coming?"

Hera casually took out a cloak from the closet and threw it into the box, then poked her head outside again, just in time to see Madam Pomfrey hurrying towards with her medicine box on her shoulders.

"Professor, Madam Pomfrey will be here soon."

Dumbledore put the cloak on Moody's body, covered him tightly, and then climbed out of the box, "Hera, I'm glad I made the right choice. No one expected Voldemort to do this. I apologize to you for my negligence."

"Haha, it's nothing, I'm pretty good." Hera laughed. He was really taken aback by Barty Jr. He hadn't contacted Voldemort for a few days, and he didn't expect him to act so excessively. Isn't he worried that Barty Jr. really killed him?

Is he still Voldemort's cub?
This could not help but make him deeply suspicious.

But soon he put this matter behind him, because Professor McGonagall brought a very bad news.

"We told Mr. Fudge that we found that the Death Eaters were responsible for the recent events. He—" Professor McGonagall looked very angry. She trembled all over, and said angrily: "He seemed to feel that his personal safety was also a problem. He must summon a dementor to accompany him into the castle. He brought the dementor into the headmaster's office where Barty Crouch Jr. was—"

"I told him you wouldn't agree, Dumbledore!" Professor McGonagall's tone became heated, "I told him you wouldn't allow dementors to set foot in the castle again but—"

"My dear lady!" Fudge also rushed over, and he roared loudly, and he was also more angry than ever before, "As the Minister of Magic, I have the right to decide whether I want to bring bodyguards, because I want to see a potentially very dangerous—"

But Professor McGonagall's voice overshadowed Fudge's.

"The guy—the guy just came into the office," she screamed, pointing at Fudge, trembling all over, "he threw himself at Crouch and just—just—"

Professor McGonagall desperately searched for words to describe what happened just now, but neither Hera nor Dumbledore knew what the Dementor had done without listening to her finish.

The Dementor must have given Barty Crouch Jr. that fatal kiss, it sucked his soul from Barty Jr.'s mouth - and Barty Jr. is now more than alive.

"According to all accounts, he deserves it!" said Fudge aggressively. "He has caused a very bad thing!"

"But he can't come out to prove it now." Hera said, he was actually very happy to see the scene in front of him, little Barty had 'died' with a secret.

Veritaserum will only guarantee that the user will spit out his secrets in full, but if the questioner does not ask relevant questions, the user will not answer. God knows if Dumbledore or the Ministry of Magic continue to interrogate Little Barty, will they find out the fact that his memory has been modified.

Once Little Barty's memory is confirmed to have been modified, then the Ministry of Magic must have a way to pry out the most authentic memory in his mind.

The Ministry of Magic is not a good man or woman. They will also use the cruelest spells to torture Little Barty, no matter how inhuman it is.

In any case, Barty Jr. is now living as dead as possible, and Hera no longer has to worry about him leaking secrets—he has become the best secret keeper.

"As Hera said, Connery," Dumbledore said, "this series of events is just a by-product of the implementation of Voldemort's comeback plan, and what we have to do is to thwart his plan. We can't let Voldemort restore his body."

Fudge's face turned livid, as if someone had hit him hard in the face.Blinking dazedly, he waited dazedly for Dumbledore, as if he could not quite believe what he had just heard.He stammered, still staring at Dumbledore as if he hadn't seen Hera at all.

"Isn't that just right? We prevented his resurrection, and I've helped you break You-Know-Who's plan, haven't I, Dumbledore?"

"Minerva and Severus have undoubtedly told you," said Dumbledore. "We have heard Barty Crouch Jr.'s confession. Under the influence of Veritaserum, he told us how he was smuggled out of Azkaban, and how Voldemort - having learned from Bertha Jorkins that he was still alive - rescued him from his father. Tell me, there are many secrets about Barty Jr., such as where Voldemort is now?"

"Listen, Dumbledore," said Fudge, and Hera was surprised to see a smile flash across his face, which made him look even more ridiculous. "You can't really believe all this, You-Know-Who—come back? Don't be kidding, stop joking. Needless to say, little Crouch must have thought he was acting on the orders of You-Know-Who—but how can you take a lunatic's words seriously, Dumbledore. You know best what people who come out of Azkaban look like."

"I think you've wiped out the only insider we have, and there's no point in talking about it," said Dumbledore, his eyes swept over Hera, he shook his head towards Hera, and said, "Let's stop with the actions of the Ministry of Magic. I hope you can take away your 'bodyguard' as soon as possible. As I said, I will never allow a dementor to step into Hogwarts unless you want to lose an obedient bodyguard."

Fudge still had that weird smile on his face, and he also looked at Hera, then turned his gaze back to Dumbledore, and said, "Of course it's no problem, the Ministry of Magic respects Hogwarts, and I'll leave with it."

Fudge blushed slightly, he didn't want to anger the old man in front of him, he knew exactly how big the gap between them was.He took several steps back, wanting to leave here.

"Connery," Dumbledore stopped him again, "Voldemort is preparing to make a comeback. If you accept this fact immediately and take necessary measures, we still have a high probability of stopping his plan. The first and most important step is to get Azkaban out of the control of the dementors—"

"Playing the piano!" Fudge shouted loudly, completely ignoring Hera next to him. "Abolish the dementors? I will be kicked out of the office as soon as I make this suggestion! Half of us can sleep soundly at night because we know that there are dementors standing guard in Azkaban!"

"However, everyone knows that once the Dark Lord rises again, your loyal 'prison guard' will be the first one to fall for him!" Hera pointed out this problem mercilessly. He firmly stood by Dumbledore's side. He would never lean towards the weak Ministry of Magic, even if it once brought him quite a lot of Galleons—but he deserved it, didn't he?

"That's right." Dumbledore blinked at Hera, and took a slight step to block Hera, preventing Fudge from arguing with him. "Those guys can't be loyal to you!"

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