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Chapter 712: The End of the Event
🕑 Added 2020-02-09 19:34:01 +0000 UTCThe next thing everyone knew was that Barty Crouch Jr. pretended to be his father and put Ron's name into the Goblet of Fire, while Caresius as Moody attracted everyone's attention and helped Ron through the tournament in Hogwarts.
Later, he sensed that something was wrong, and perhaps the betrayer Durand, who had given his people to Voldemort, hurried back and cheated Barty Crouch Jr.
"Your father escaped later!" Dumbledore asked. "What happened?"
"Yes, my master told me that the vampires were unreliable. They had their own ideas. In order to complete the master's plan, I personally went to Hogwarts and exchanged the identity with the vampire leader Caresius, who deliberately let my father go when he went back!" said Barty Crouch Jr. "He was lying to my master, he thought it would work, but he didn't know the master's real plan. After my father escaped, my master guessed that he was heading for Hogwarts. My father was going to tell Dumbledore everything and confess. He was going to admit that he had smuggled me from Azkaban.
My master informed me that my father had escaped and told me to stop him at all costs. I just waited and watched by the forbidden forest for a long time. I knew he would definitely come from there.
For a week I waited for my father to arrive at Hogwarts. Finally, one night, I met him there. I was going to see if I had the opportunity to take Harry Potter directly. My master was in a hurry, and I had to hurry up. I hid the Portkey under the lake, and so I could leave as soon as I caught him...
Usually in the castle, Dumbledore looked after the boy very tightly, and I didn't have a chance to do it at all. There was also Evan Mason, and I could feel that child was beginning to doubt me!" Barty Crouch continued in a flat tone. "The child is very smart and strong. I have never seen such a young wizard. He is a big trouble. I almost lost to him in the forest that night. Fortunately, my father ran into the forest at a critical moment, and I ran after him..."
"What have you done to him?"
"I killed my father!" Barty Crouch Jr. suddenly had a weird, cruel smile.
"Noooo!!!" wailed Winky, "Master Barty, what is you saying?"
"You killed your father..." Dumbledore said, in the same soft voice. "What did you do with the body?"
"I carried it into the forest and covered it with the Invisibility Cloak. And by the way I used the Imperius Curse to control Viktor Krum. I told Dumbledore I would go to the Forbidden Forest to look for my father, but when he was gone, I Transfigured my father’s body. He became a bone. Then wearing the Invisibility Cloak, I buried it in front of Hagrid's cabin."
There was a moment of silence, except for Winky’s continued sobs.
Crouch Jr. took Voldemort as an object of worship. Voldemort killed his father, so he also killed his father without mercy, which probably made him feel like Voldemort.
Next, he talked about controlling Krum to attack Ron under the lake and taking Harry away.
Finally, Dumbledore stood up. He stared down at Barty Crouch for a moment with disgust on his face.
"Things are clear!" said Dumbledore calmly, turning to look at Evan and Harry. "I will say it again; the two of you have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you today. The courage you showed when fighting Voldemort and the Death Eaters is equal to those wizards who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers… and you have now given us all that we have a right to expect. Well, after so many unfortunate things, I think you should go to the school hospital, take some Sleeping Potion, and have a good sleep… Sirius, would you like to stay with them?"
Sirius nodded and stood up.
"Professor, I have something else to tell you about the vampires..." said Evan to Dumbledore.
Caresius and his people would be the next focus, which would help to figure out what Voldemort knew.
Evan was going to discuss that with Dumbledore. Cedric hadn't returned yet. What Caresius would do to him was also very worrying.
"All right!" Dumbledore hesitated. "Evan, you can wait for me here for a while. Sirius and I will take Harry and Moody to the school hospital first. Then we will go to my office to talk alone about the vampires. Severus, would you please stay here and keep watch over Barty Crouch Jr.?"
Snape nodded, looking gloomily at Barty Crouch on the chair.
Dumbledore, Sirius, and Harry left, with the real Moody and the sobbing Winky, and only Evan and Snape remained in the room.
There was a weird silence, neither of them continued to speak.
Snape didn't look very good; the Dark Mark on his arm kept hurting.
Dumbledore would surely return him to Voldemort as an undercover, and Evan wasn't sure what Snape would do.
Anyway, Voldemort seemed determined to kill him...
Evan felt the need to warn Snape to be careful.
"After Voldemort's resurrection, he immediately summoned the Death Eaters!" Evan suddenly said, paying attention to the change in Snape's expression. "Compared with the best gathering thirteen years ago, this time there were many people absent. They were either dead or imprisoned in Azkaban."
"Quiet, Mr. Know-It-All!" Snape said. "I'm not interested in hearing that story again."
Evan didn't seem to hear Snape's words and continued, "Besides, three others didn't go. The first one was Barty Crouch Jr., who couldn’t get out of Hogwarts after sending me and Harry away. The other one should be Karkaroff..."
"He fled, shortly after the resurrection of the Dark Lord!" Snape turned to look at Evan, staring at him coldly.
"Unsurprisingly, he couldn’t stay in Hogwarts when he felt the Dark Mark burn upon his arm!" said Evan simply. "He betrayed too many people that year to wish to meet them. Voldemort seemed to have expected that. At this point, he must have a way to find him. As for the last person...”
"Mason, just be quiet for a while! I know the Dark Lord better than you do. I know what he's thinking!" Snape said, no longer as calm as before, he left Barty Crouch Jr., and walked over to Evan, "I don't need you to remind me, I know what to do..."
Just then, the door of the office suddenly opened.
A Dementor floated in and rushed towards Barty Crouch Jr. tied to the chair!
