Chapter 316 Storm is Coming

Bagman was taken away, and the Aurors also took away Mr. Crouch's body. The Aurors will perform an autopsy on his body at the Ministry of Magic in the hope of obtaining some other intelligence.

Unfortunately, not everyone wants Crouch's body to be autopsied.

You know, Mr. Crouch is an official with a good relationship. His former subordinates and friends jumped out at this time and stopped the autopsy on the grounds that the body could not be desecrated.

In desperation, the Ministry of Magic could only bury Mr. Crouch's body.

Fudge, the then Minister of Magic of the United Kingdom, also appeared at the funeral. He also announced that since Mr. Crouch had no other relatives, the funeral was held by the Ministry of Magic and all the expenses were borne.

He said that this was a reward for an excellent official like Crouch who had served the Ministry of Magic for a lifetime, and that in the future this move would become a routine, be written into the bill, and a foundation would be established to ensure that every Ministry of Magic staff member who had no relatives could have a decent funeral after death.

As soon as this statement came out, there was a burst of applause from all over the country. According to statistics, after the major mainstream media reported this incident, Minister Fudge's vote ratio increased a lot, reaching more than 40%. If nothing unexpected happens, Minister Fudge should be able to be re-elected as minister in the future.

Of course, there are also some tabloids claiming that Fudge is a hypocritical villain. They also used a picture of Fudge wiping tears at Crouch's funeral as the cover and named it Crocodile Tears.

They have discovered the truth to a large extent, but the reality is that their power is too small, and the weak voice was quickly drowned out by the singing and praise of the mainstream media.

At this point, not many people care about how Mr. Crouch died.

Everyone has got what they want.

According to Mike's idea, Fudge's next step should be to quickly make Bagman admit that he killed Crouch, and then execute Bagman to brush up his reputation. As

for whether Bagman is the real murderer, it really doesn't matter at all.

Mike doesn't believe that politicians like Fudge care about boring things like the truth. People like them should only care about one thing.

That is the benefit, a greater and larger benefit!

In this way, Mike can rest assured. No matter whether Bagman is Barty Jr. pretending to be him, as long as he is executed or thrown into Azkaban, Mike can eliminate one option.

Unfortunately, Fudge made a fool of himself again. Instead of doing what Mike thought, he released Bagman on the same day after some basic inquiries.

Bagman did not rush to return to Hogwarts after being released. Instead, he returned to Hogwarts a month later after Mr. Crouch's funeral.

Perhaps he thought that this would make others pay less attention to him, but he obviously underestimated the gossip level of Hogwarts students.

When he appeared in the Hogwarts Hall again, the originally lively hall immediately became silent. Everyone instinctively held their breath and looked at the man in front of them curiously, who still looked energetic.

Bagman obviously didn't care much about the students' gazes. He walked silently through the hall towards the stairs without saying a word. Judging from the direction, he should be going to find Dumbledore.

When Bagman disappeared from everyone's sight, there was a burst of intensive whispers in the hall.

The murder of Mr. Crouch during this period was a big deal for these students. Many people were trying their best to find out or make up the inside story about Bagman and Crouch in order to show off to their classmates.

Originally, the heat of this matter should have cooled down after a month, but the sudden appearance of Bagman, the protagonist, immediately made the students' hearts, which had already cooled down, hot again.

"To be honest, I'm not surprised that Bagman wants to kill Crouch!" Draco said excitedly, "My father told me that they have been enemies for a long time. That was when the You-Know-Who just disappeared. Bagman leaked a piece of information to a Death Eater, and Crouch wanted to use this to put Bagman in Azkaban. It's a pity that Bagman was a Quidditch star at the time, and many people on the jury were his fans, so Crouch's proposal was not passed."

There were not many people present, only Mike, Penelope, Hermione and Ron.

The four did not respond after hearing this, and Ron and Hermione showed disgust on their faces.

Mike shook his head. He came to find Harry, but he was entangled by Draco as soon as he met Hermione and Ron.

Draco was not annoyed when he saw no one answered, and continued:

"There is also Mr. Crouch's son, Barty Crouch Jr., who is also a remarkable man. He got excellent grades in twelve subjects in the Ultimate Wizarding Level Examination! After graduation, he also joined the You-Know-Who and became one of the You-Know-Who's most capable assistants. It's a pity that after the fall of the You-Know-Who, he was imprisoned in Azkaban by his biological father, Mr. Crouch, and eventually died there. My father said that if he hadn't died and been imprisoned in Azkaban, he might have replaced his father by now."

"You mean twelve excellent subjects?"

Hermione exclaimed, and a hint of surprise flashed in Mike and Penelope's eyes.

They all had a very clear understanding of how difficult the Ultimate Wizarding Level Examination was. The knowledge of each of these twelve courses was extremely profound, and it took a lot of effort or extremely outstanding talent to learn well, so most students would only choose a few of the twelve subjects.

But even so, it is extremely difficult to get an "excellent" evaluation in the exams of the subjects they have chosen. Take Potions for example. To get an excellent evaluation at the Ultimate Wizarding Level in Potions, one needs to be able to skillfully make a variety of advanced potions including Felixir, and the success rate must exceed the dividing line drawn by the invigilator. It can

be seen that Barty Jr. was definitely the kind of academic god who dominated all subjects when he was at Hogwarts, and he was very likely to have the help of the time converter, otherwise even if he was a genius, it would be impossible to study twelve ultimate courses at the same time.

Just when everyone was sighing at Barty Jr.'s horror, Ron suddenly said disdainfully:

"What's so great about this!"

As soon as this was said, everyone looked at him, and Draco showed contempt on his face, and directly said sarcastically:

"Weasley family, although I have long known that you are an ignorant and stupid person, you have just broken my expectation of you. I really can't imagine that a person can be so stupid. Don't you even know what the Ultimate Wizarding Level Examination is?"

"Get out of here! Malfoy! You are not welcome here! Why are you sticking here like a dog-skin plaster?"

Looking at Ron with a red face and thick neck, Draco's contempt on his face became even stronger.

He curled his lips, put on a gentle look and said to Mike:

"It seems that it is not up to you to decide whether you welcome me or not? I came here to find Mike, and he should be the one to drive me away!"

Hearing this, Ron hurriedly looked at Mike with expectation, but Mike did not say a word, instead he looked at Ron as if he was a fool.

They had a feud because of Zhou Hong before, why did Ron think he would help him for no reason?

Seeing that Mike was silent and had no intention of driving him away, Draco smiled, and smiled happily.

In contrast, Ron felt very uncomfortable.

His face once again became as red as his hair, and he ran away with an urgent roar.

"Ron!"

Hermione called Ron's name anxiously, but it was useless. Ron ran away without looking back.

The angry Hermione first glared at Draco fiercely and then looked at Mike, as if she wanted to blame Mike for his previous inaction.

At this time, Draco also felt a little uneasy. Now he dared not underestimate Hermione, the mudblood. Rita Skeeter's article described her as a scheming and evil woman. Young Draco naturally believed the report. In addition, there were rumors among classmates that Hermione and Mike had an affair. Draco hurriedly said:

"Oh! Mike, I suddenly remembered that there are some things. I'll leave first!"

After that, he left without looking back, just like Ron before, leaving only Mike and others speechless.

Hermione really didn't like Draco. Even though Draco had fled in a hurry, she still stared at the direction he left.

"Hermione, so where did Harry go?"

Hearing this, Hermione finally turned her head. She glared at Mike and said,

"He started having nightmares again and is now receiving treatment in the principal's office."

"Huh? Didn't he say last time that his headache was gone? Why did he start having nightmares again?"

"I don't know." Hermione looked worried. "This morning he suddenly said that he had a terrible dream last night, and then he went to find Dumbledore!"

Mike nodded and didn't say anything.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the side.

"Hey, guys, what are you talking about?"

Everyone looked over and saw Harry walking towards them as if nothing had happened.

"Harry, what did Dumbledore say? Can he cure your illness?"

Facing Hermione's anxious inquiry, Harry smiled awkwardly and replied,

"It's nothing serious."

"Really?"

Hermione frowned.

"Harry, can you tell us what kind of dream you had?" Mike asked, "You know, we are all worried about you."

Harry lowered his head and remained silent. After a long time, he raised his head and exhaled deeply as if he had made up his mind, and said:

"I dreamed of Voldemort, and Peter Pettigrew, oh, yes, and a big snake! In my dream, Voldemort was torturing Peter Pettigrew with Cruciatus (Harry's voice began to tremble when he said this spell)!"

Hermione and Penelope, the two girls, couldn't help but get nervous when they heard this.

"It's actually nothing big, it's just a dream." Harry smiled and comforted, "Maybe it's just because I dream about what I think about during the day. You know, there have been rumors in the school these days that Mr. Crouch was killed because he exposed Voldemort's return plan. I may have had this dream because I heard it too much."

Hermione nodded when she heard this, and what Harry said did make sense.

But Mike's brows were furrowed. He was the only one among the people present who knew that a piece of Voldemort's soul was still hidden in Harry's soul, and there was a spiritual bridge between him and Voldemort.

This meant that Harry's dream about Voldemort was very likely true.

And if Harry's dream was something that really happened, then it meant that Voldemort really came back.

Seeing that Mike was still worried, Harry smiled.

He was very happy that he had such a group of close friends, and this joy even washed away the fear and worry caused by the nightmare before.

Although Harry was very happy that his friend was worried about him, he still comforted him:

"It's okay, Mike, really. Oh! By the way! Dumbledore told me some information about the third project just now in the office."

Harry paused here, looked around vigilantly, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to them, he leaned over to Mike's ear and whispered:

"The third project will be held on the evening of June 24th. After dinner that day, we will be taken to the Quidditch field. A large maze is being built there, and we will enter the maze at that time. Whoever reaches the end first will be the final champion. But it's not that easy to reach the end. They have placed many dangerous mechanisms and magical creatures in the maze, which will prevent the warriors from reaching the end!" Although he already

knew these things, Mike still thanked Harry, and Harry waved his hands and said that this was just normal help between friends. After that

, the few of them chatted for a while, and Mike and Penelope said goodbye to the two and returned to the Ravenclaw common room.

On the way, Penelope suddenly leaned close to Mike's ear and asked softly:

"What's wrong with Draco today? Why is he trying to please us so suddenly? Obviously, our relationship is not good."

Mike's mouth curled up a faint smile.

"Isn't this obvious?" Mike said, "The Malfoy family is seeking cooperation."

"But... why?" "

Does this need to be said? The Malfoy family must have encountered some trouble."

Penelope nodded and frowned and asked:

"Then do we really want to cooperate with them?"

Mike's smile became even brighter.

"Of course, if there's money to be made, why can't we cooperate?"