Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 237: Panic Old Crouch
Little Barty had traces of the Imperius Curse on his body, but this was not a difficult problem for Cohen - once Cohen sucked out the soul of a person, no matter what spell he used, it would be useless.

[Soul Strength: 33]

Cohen moved closer to the unconscious little Barty, and the Dementor's figure gradually emerged from the air, took off its hood, and began to suck the man's soul through the air.

Fortunately, I don't have to suck mouth to mouth like other Dementors...

But what Cohen didn't expect was that when he took the first puff, it seemed that what he sucked away was not Barty's soul, but the Imperius Curse on him.

Little Barty let out a terrified gasp and suddenly opened his eyes, which were almost closed.

The first thing he saw when he looked up was Coin - some bad memories of the Dementors came flooding back to him.

But what puzzled him even more was... why did the Dementors come here?
The old man died? So the Ministry of Magic sent these Dementors to "kiss" him?

No, that's not right...

Barty Sr.'s mind worked quickly - he should be dead in the eyes of the outside world because his mother had exchanged identities with him. Even if Barty Sr. was dead, the Ministry of Magic would not search the Crouch family dungeon.

Then there is only one possibility...

The Dark Lord has risen, killed that foolish old Barty Crouch, and sent the Dementors to rescue the Dark Lord's most loyal servant...

Thinking of this, little Barty couldn't help but reveal a crazy smile on his face.

……

Barty Jr. had a brain orgasm, but Cohen didn't.

From Cohen's perspective, the soul he was about to eat suddenly started laughing like a madman - just like in a horror movie, scaring off Dementors.

"The master asked you to save me, right?" Little Barty asked Cohen in a hoarse voice, not caring at all about Cohen's hooded, terrifying Dementor face.

"That's a pretty accurate guess," Cohen praised.

"Come on, take me away from here - I'm finally free!" Little Batty said excitedly - he felt very happy, and the sweet emotion made Cohen eat a few more bites.

No wonder the Dementors favored high-ranking Death Eaters so much - they didn't produce many souls normally, but as soon as Voldemort was mentioned, their joy was overflowing.

Fully automatic happy brush machine.

But time cannot be wasted, and old Barty should soon discover that the Imperius Curse has disappeared.

Old Batty should be on his way down by now.

"Wait a moment, I'll take you to meet Voldemort right away." Cohen agreed.

Coin was not lying, he did meet Voldemort - but Coin did not say which Voldemort it was.

The fragments of Voldemort that had been digested in Cohen's stomach were also Voldemort!
Little Barty closed his eyes, imagining that he would be free and receive Voldemort's greatest reward -

But the next second, a terrifying suction force from his soul made him open his eyes suddenly.

But it was too late. His soul had already been sucked out of his body by Cohen and swallowed. Now the body of little Batty was a walking corpse.

Cohen opened the lock that bound little Batty, and the next thing to do was to wait for old Batty to come down.

At the same time, old Barty, feeling that the Imperius Curse had lost its effect, hurried down the stairs outside the basement, tapping his slippers.

When he saw such a large Dementor in the cell, he was stunned.

Confusion, fear, anger... many emotions suddenly exploded from old Crouch's mind.

Why had the Dementors entered his house? Why hadn't the spells outside worked?

And...why would the Dementors suddenly break into the basement of his own house in the middle of the night—and their target was someone who should have been dead long ago?
"Call the gods to protect you!"

A falcon-like patronus flew out from the tip of Crouch's wand, but Cohen, who had planned it, would certainly not run away immediately because of the patronus's drive. Cohen grabbed little Barty, who was no longer bound by the chains, and under the threat of the patronus he hated, he planned to take the zombie away together.

Of course, old Crouch couldn't let Cohen take his son away from Crouch Manor - God knows what kind of trouble the news that "Barty Crouch Jr. was found from Crouch Manor by Dementors" would cause him.

So old Barty immediately stopped his attack, waved his wand to close the cell door, lit the tip of his wand, and the light shone on old Crouch's pale face.

"Stop, you can't leave now—" Crouch Sr.'s first reaction was not to check on his son, but to pretend he had no idea why little Barty was in the basement. "He...isn't he dead? Why is he here? Did you bring him here? You should be hunting down Sirius Black, why are you bringing a criminal from over a decade ago?"

No, old man, is there anyone who would wrongly accuse a Dementor like you? !

But Coin didn't say anything—Dementors weren't supposed to talk.

After taking a few deep breaths, Old Crouch realized the Dementor in front of him hadn't attacked him. He wasn't sure if Dementors had the habit of not eating their next meal immediately after, but seeing how Barty Jr. was still in a daze even without the Imperius Curse...

His son had already been "kissed" by this Dementor.

Cohen could clearly feel some "anger" and "sadness" briefly appearing around old Crouch, but it quickly disappeared.

"It seems I've dealt with this prisoner." Old Crouch returned to his usual indifference and calmness. "I don't know why you, Azkaban, allowed two prisoners to escape, but at least this time you made up for your mistakes and helped me find him."

What does "I got rid of this prisoner" mean?
Cohen's assessment of Crouch as "hypocritical" has gone up a notch.

Fortunately, Dementors can't speak, otherwise this person wouldn't be able to lie so brazenly.

It was also a blessing that the Dementors would not die, otherwise old Crouch might have killed Cohen as well.

Fortunately, everything is developing in the direction Cohen expected - what Cohen wanted was for the news of Crouch Jr.'s death to be spread again so that he could explain to Voldemort the fact that Crouch Sr. killed his son.

"Come back with me to the Ministry, and I'll explain everything you've done to the Auror Office," said Crouch Sr. "As for him..."

He looked at his son with cold eyes, as if those "confessions" in the attic were not written by him at all.

"Avada Kedavra!"

A green light flashed, and after more than ten years of torture, Barty Crouch Jr.'s body finally died at the hands of his father.

(End of this chapter)