Chapter 217 Uncovering the Identity
Barty Crouch was actually controlled at home by someone using the Imperius Curse!
According to Percy, when Mr. Crouch was found by the people in the Cooperation Department, he kept repeating Dumbledore's name.
He was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused, and was gradually getting rid of the control of the Imperius Curse.
This incident alarmed the entire Ministry of Magic, and Aurors were dispatched to escort the stumbling Mr. Crouch to Hogwarts.
"Wetherby, your cauldron... Dumbledore..."
Crouch was still unconscious. He stared at the Pensieve in the principal's office and kept muttering to himself, treating it as a large crucible:
"This crucible obviously does not meet the standards, Weatherby, please take care of it, thank you."
His eyes had completely bulged out, his body was covered with scars, his hair and beard were tangled together, and he looked a mess.
He doesn't look like a stern director at all, but more like a tramp or a madman:
"Excuse me, I was in a hurry to pick up my wife and son at the door, he got twelve o's, he was great."
Fudge, who came hurriedly with a frown, made a surprised sound:
"He's crazy! His wife and son are clearly already-"
Dumbledore, with a serious expression, quickly used several spells on Crouch.
Crouch seemed to wake up a little, and a little light appeared in his eyes.
He leaped up and hugged Dumbledore's lower body tightly. Even several Aurors were unable to pull his arms away.
"I...I am guilty...I want to find Dumbledore..."
Dumbledore finally got out of the bear hug and panted hard, trying to calm him down:
"Speak slowly and calm down, Barty."
But Mr. Crouch was terrified, his eyes were full of red bloodshot, and he said intermittently:
"Dumbledore...I made a terrible mistake...Bertha was killed...my son and Voldemort...and Pettigrew...they wanted to kill Harry Potter..."
Everyone gasped, and a feeling of panic spread in the principal's office.
"Nonsense! Nonsense!" Fudge was horrified. "He is insane. We have known for a long time that Voldemort is gone -"
But Crouch continued to babble on, seemingly not hearing Fudge's words at all:
"Petiger and Voldemort...took my son away...controlled me...I did something stupid...I exchanged my wife and son..."
Dumbledore carefully discerned the meaning of his words, and then he asked:
"Where is your son? What are they going to do?"
Crouch responded with difficulty:
"Hogwarts—he's right here—get Harry Potter—"
"And Jade Jane—I hear it now and then when I'm awake—she'll be his servant—"
Dumbledore's expression suddenly changed!
Everyone in the principal's office watched as his face turned ashen, with anger almost bursting out of his eyes.
Only Fudge was still shouting:
"Nonsense, fake! You don't believe what he said? There are only a few Death Eaters at most, they can't do anything -"
......
Jian Yu and Harry were soon called to the principal's office.
The two people looked at each other.
Jian Yu, who had done nothing wrong, felt confused.
Apart from the fight that broke out among a group of people over the dance partner issue, she didn't do anything fancy, did she?
Besides, she wasn't even there during the fight... including the Polyjuice Potion incident!
But she didn't expect that as soon as she entered the principal's office, she would be questioned by Fudge:
"Tell me, what are you students doing?"
This confused her even more.
I was sitting in the dormitory and a pot fell from the sky?
"I don't understand what you are asking?"
But her reply seemed to make Fudge even more angry:
"There's a Death Eater in the school - he must have crossed paths with you -"
Dumbledore stopped him from questioning:
"Cornelly, students cannot know this. You must send Aurors to search and find Barty Crouch to crush Voldemort's conspiracy—"
But Fudge interrupted him impatiently, as if it was disgusting to follow Dumbledore's advice:
"You heard him, she's going to be his servant! There must be a connection between her and the Death Eaters -"
"And Harry Potter, he must be able to sense who has ill intentions towards him -"
It seemed that he could not accept the fact that Voldemort had become so powerful that his words gradually went too far:
"They're pretending not to know - I think we need some truth serum, and this doesn't require a gentle one -"
Dumbledore looked at him coldly, barely able to suppress his anger. He could only keep reminding himself that the person standing in front of him was the Minister of Magic, so that he could control the urge to throw him out of the window.
"Cornelly Fudge!"
Under his pressure and shouting, Fudge seemed to sober up a little. Realizing what he was saying, he shut up awkwardly and tried to explain:
"Albus, we must find Barty Crouch, since he is hiding among the teachers and students in the school - making them tell the truth is the fastest way -"
"It is impossible for my child to have any contact with the Death Eaters." Dumbledore glared at him, "But since you want to investigate the teachers and students in the school, why don't we talk to Alastor, the former Auror of the Ministry of Magic. You should be familiar with him."
Fudge frowned and muttered something:
"What do you want to see him for?"
But Jian Yu, who had a cauldron dropped from the sky for no apparent reason, understood something. She remembered the enemy-revealing mirror in Moody's office, which could identify who the real enemy was.
As expected, Dumbledore continued:
"Although he is recovering from illness, he is familiar with all the teachers and students in the school, and he has a way to help us - with some props."
But what they didn't expect was that when they opened the office door, what they saw was not Moody, but a man with light blond hair, pale skin and thin body!
That was exactly the target they were looking for.
Barty Crouch Jr.!
......
What they didn't know was that little Batty had already fallen into great anxiety.
In order not to reveal his identity, he took Harry away without anyone noticing.
He followed the Dark Lord's orders, attacked Moody, locked him in a box, and lurked in Hogwarts as the Professor of Defense Against the Dark World.
In order to exchange the trophy for a portkey in the Triwizard Tournament, Harry, who was most needed to resurrect the Dark Lord, was teleported away.
But his plan collapsed before it was halfway implemented.
Because his Polyjuice Potion is running out!
That day, as usual, he sneaked into Snape's private storage room and opened the drawer containing the African brush snake skin -
But found it was empty!
This couldn't help but make him startled!
He suddenly realized that his disguise might be exposed!
Perhaps Snape had already discovered his theft and cleared out all the Boomslang skins!
Little Barty was sweating profusely as he kept cursing at his unlucky self.
But good fortune never comes alone, and when he had to take leave on the pretext of being sick because his Polyjuice Potion ran out—
Dumbledore and a group of people from the Ministry of Magic broke into the door of his office!
And his father was among them!
It's all over now! His father had broken free from the Imperius Curse!
Little Batty was horrified when he realized that his identity had been exposed.
But fortunately, his clever brain allowed him to make a quick decision -
He must act in advance and send away Harry Potter, whom the Dark Lord needs, and Jade Jane, a Death Eater reserve he has his eyes on, immediately!
"There is always a loophole - I never thought I would end up like this because of Polyjuice Potion."
Faced with the warnings from the Aurors and Fudge to "put down your wands and surrender", he seemed calm and even had the leisure to lament his own failure.
Dumbledore stared at him and asked calmly:
"Where did the real Moody go?"
But Little Barty did not answer. Instead, he took the tea set on the table and made a gesture of pouring tea:
"I have a lot to say... What are you worried about? I won't resist so many people. Why don't we sit down and have a cup of tea and talk slowly."
He began to serve tea to everyone present, even though no one dared to drink the tea he gave.
An Auror carefully sealed the tea and the cup as evidence that needed to be examined, but Dumbledore drank the tea calmly.
"And my favorite students, Harry, Jade—"
He held two teacups in front of them.
Jian Yu didn't take it. She stared at him warily.
"Yes, very vigilant. It's a pity——"
The next second——
The teacup fell directly into Jian Yu and Harry's arms!
The two people disappeared from the spot in an instant!
Everyone was stunned by this sudden change. Dumbledore quickly cast a spell to control Barty Jr. who wanted to escape.
"It's an illegal Portkey!"
"Where did you send them?"
Facing all kinds of questions, little Batty just stared at his unconscious father and laughed. After a while, he smiled and said:
"My master's, of course."
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