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Chapter 577: Voldemort's New Plot
🕑 Added 2019-08-21 15:59:23 +0000 UTCThings recently have not been going that well.
Ron’s name appeared inexplicably in the Goblet of Fire. All the young wizards' attitudes towards him had changed dramatically. Rita Skeeter's fabrication in The Daily Prophet exacerbated all this. Meeting other students in the corridors was not a pleasant greeting, but an endless mockery.
The scar on Harry's forehead had been hurting all the time. He didn't dare to say it. He did not even tell Evan and Hermione.
Ron's situation there was even worse. The first task of the tournament was actually to face a dragon! This was in fact more like a legalized death sentence to him.
Things for Evan were not going that well either, and he still hadn't figured out what Barty Crouch Jr.’s plot was.
As for Hermione, while busy with her studies, she was distracted by S.P.E.W., juggling more than what most students could handle.
They talked about these things, and Sirius listened patiently without interrupting.
He was just like an elder, listening to everyone telling their troubles.
"Sirius, they must be joking with me, aren't they?!" Ron finally said with hope. "Tell me, please! Tell me I’m not going to have to face a fire dragon!”
"Ron!" Sirius looked at him and said earnestly, "I wanted to tell you about it. The first task is indeed facing a fire dragon. Barty Crouch planned the content of this tournament, and I just learned about it."
"Then I'm definitely doomed!" said Ron, in a desperate tone.
Getting a positive answer from Sirius finally shattered the illusion that he was trying to maintain.
"Don't worry about the fire dragon, we can deal with it!" said Sirius indifferently, "We can talk about this issue later. Before that, there are things I need to warn you about."
"What?!" Everyone looked at Sirius in surprise. There couldn't be anything more terrible than a fire dragon, could it?!
"Karkaroff!" said Sirius. "I spoke to Evan alone before school began, but recent events have made me decide to warn you that he used to be a Death Eater. You all know what Death Eaters are, don’t you?”
“Yes!” said Harry, looking very surprised. “He … what?”
“He was caught, he was in Azkaban with me, but then he got released. Maybe that’s why Dumbledore wanted an Auror at Hogwarts this year … to keep an eye on him. You know, it was Moody who caught Karkaroff and put him into Azkaban in the first place."
Everyone was shocked by this news. They couldn’t believe That Durmstrang’s Headmaster was actually an ex-Death Eater.
This was absolutely shocking news, if Rita Skeeter knew...
"Sirius, what have you discovered recently?" asked Evan.
"Voldemort!" said Sirius, disregarding everyone's expression. "You know, the Aurors have been tracking the traces of vampires recently. They’re very active."
"I didn't see anything about that in the newspaper," said Hermione, "Everything is calm."
"Fudge believes it is necessary to keep it confidential and not allow the Daily Prophet to report anything," said Sirius quickly, "Those vampires have done a lot of things abroad, and there’s Voldemort's shadow behind them."
"Those vampires?!" Evan frowned.
Damn, Caresius had never told him about these things.
As head of the vampire clan, Evan thought that since he was at Hogwarts, the rest of the vampires would stop and hide from the Ministry of Magic.
Besides, Caresius had also said that Voldemort did not believe in them at all.
But now it looked like it was not the case at all. Voldemort and the vampires must have some kind of plan.
"I talked to Dumbledore about this, and we think it might be the statue he took." said Sirius, "The traces of those vampires appear in the ancient relics left by many ancient warlocks. Voldemort may have some plans. They seem to be looking for something!"
"What are you looking for?" asked Evan.
"It’s not clear. We don't know much about the statue of the evil god statue and the remains of ancient warlocks." Sirius sighed and said, "And all these things have happened abroad, even in America, beyond the reach of the Ministry of Magic in inaccessible jungles and deserted ruins.”
No one spoke, and their brains seemed to be struggling to absorb yet another piece of shocking information.
Vampires frequently appeared in the ancient ruins to look for something, for sure, that was definitely not a good phenomenon.
Evan decided to look for an opportunity to talk to Caresius; he did not know what Voldemort was going to do.
Was he going to summon evil spirits? Or was he going to gain more powerful dark power from the statue of the evil god?!
"Well, this is not something you should consider. Let’s continue to talk about Karkaroff," said Sirius.
"Did you just say that he was released?" Harry asked slowly, "Why did they release him? Shouldn't all Death Eaters be imprisoned in Azkaban for life?"
"That’s true. But he made a deal with the Ministry of Magic,” said Sirius bitterly, “He said he had seen the error of his ways, and then he gave names. He put a load of other people into Azkaban in his place. I can tell you that he’s not very popular in there. As far as I know, since he got out, he’s been teaching the Dark Arts to every student who passes through that school of his, so watch out for the Durmstrang champion as well."
"You mean Krum?!" Ron immediately retorted. "That’s impossible, he’s a nice guy."
"Ron, what do we know about him besides his performance in Quidditch?" said Hermione, looking a little alarmed. "Sirius is right. We have to be careful, especially at this time."
Ron still wanted to refute, but in the end he did not say anything, and just hummed a few disgruntled words.
"Okay!" said Harry slowly. "Sirius, are you saying Karkaroff put Ron's name into the Goblet of Fire? Because if he did, he’s really a good actor. Ha seemed furious about it. He wanted to stop Ron from competing.”
“We know he’s a good actor!” said Sirius. “He actually convinced the Ministry of Magic to set him free, didn’t he? And according to our investigation, he appeared in London a few months ago, just when Moody's was attacked."
