manynovel Chapter 216 Crouch and Son
Chapter 216 Crouch and Son
The gray-green skeleton was still hanging there brightly in the sky, and the snake was swimming around in the dark sky.
"What the hell is that?" Ron asked in disgust, looking at the hideous skeletons and wriggling snake shadows in the sky.
Harry looked up at the mark, felt a pain in the scar on his forehead, and gritted his teeth to cover it.
"Stupefy!" A red beam hit them.
Sophia and Arthur immediately countered with their wands, parrying the attack and shielding the children.
"Stop it, it's us, me and my children!" Arthur seemed to see who was coming, and he trotted over to stop them from continuing to attack.
"Who is Mark?" The leader, who looked much older than Arthur and wore a black top hat, questioned them while pointing at them with his wand.
"Crouch, they didn't..." Arthur stood in front of them and explained to the man.
"Shut up!" the man yelled at Arthur, looking past Harry to Sophia behind him, "It's you, Chambers."
Sophia frowned: "Why, did the old Mr. Crouch see me summon the mark?"
Jiang Li noticed that Sophia called this man Old Crouch, and the man who conjured the Dark Mark just now, Sophia seemed to call him Crouch, what is the relationship between the two.
"You are the only Death Eater here, it's not you, could it be these children?" Old Crouch stared at Sophia fiercely, "I just said, people like you can't be trusted at all, Dumbledore must bail you out!"
Sophia snorted coldly: "It's because of people like you that Sirius spent 14 years in prison for Peter Pettigrew 14 years ago."
"You! I'm going to take you back to the Ministry of Magic today!" Old Crouch was obviously taken aback by Sophia's contemptuous tone.
"No, I just saw a man conjuring the mark." Harry looked up at the ugly mark.
Jiang Li then continued: "Yes, it's a man, I just heard Miss Chambers call him Crouch."
Hearing what she said, Crouch's originally fierce expression suddenly became stunned, and he stared blankly at the mark.
Jiang Li looked at old Crouch, his gaze was full of inquiry: "Uncle Arthur also called you Mr. Crouch just now, are you and that Crouch related?"
Old Crouch's face turned pale, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and finally squeezed out a few words: "I don't know him!"
He came over angrily and left in disgrace.
Sophia looked at the puzzled expression on Jiang Li's face, and whispered a secret into her ear.
"The Death Eater just now, Barty Crouch Jr., is the son of Barty Crouch Sr."
"Draco, let's go. If Lucius and Sissy can't find you, they should be in a hurry." Sophia straightened the clothes that were a little messy from the fight just now, and then held Draco's wrist.
Draco looked at Jiang Li: "Li..."
He still has a lot of questions to ask her, the most important thing is to tell her about Peter's escape from prison.
Jiang Li waved to him and mouthed to him: "See you at school."
Draco frowned and nodded. Anyway, school will start in two days, and he followed Sophia to use Apparition to leave.
"You just said that Sophia called the man who turned the Dark Mark Crouch?" Arthur asked Jiang Li with a frown.
"Yes, Harry and I both heard it." Jiang Li nudged Harry lightly with his elbow.
Harry received her hint and said to Arthur: "I heard that too, Malfoy's godmother called him Crouch."
"That's not right." Arthur continued as he led them away from this spooky wasteland, "Old Barty's son is indeed a Death Eater, but he's already dead!"
Jiang Li frowned and shook his head: "I'm sure I heard correctly, she really called Crouch."
"Can you tell me about Crouch and his son, Uncle Arthur?" Jiang Li asked Arthur.
"Of course, although I don't know much, I learned some things from the newspapers of the year." Arthur immediately agreed to her.
"Old Batty was originally the Minister of Magic Enforcement, the most promising person to become the Minister of Magic, but it was revealed that his son Batty Jr. was a Death Eater, and his popularity plummeted. Missed."
"Later, Barty Jr. was caught in Azkaban and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died a few years ago because he couldn't stand the torture of the dementors. He has been dead for many years." The matter was summed up, and he took out the water bottle from Ron's backpack and took a big gulp.
"Could it be that he wasn't the one who died at that time, and someone else took his form and died for him?" A possibility popped into Jiang Li's mind.
Arthur smiled disapprovingly: "How is this possible? He is imprisoned, Voldemort is dead, and the other Death Eaters are all imprisoned. No one can replace him from Azkaban."
"What if it's old Barty Crouch?" Jiang Li asked, kicking the stones under his feet.
"Why do you think so? Old Barty hated Voldemort and the Death Eaters the most. He was trusted by wizards and gained high prestige because he dared to openly confront Voldemort." Arthur smiled, he did not I believe old Batty, who is as jealous as a hater, would do such a thing.
Jiang Li saw that Arthur was sure that Old Barty was not the one who did this, and she didn't refute him anymore, but she herself firmly believed that it was Old Barty, and after ruling out all the impossible, the remaining one, no matter how absurd it was, must be the truth .
She pondered for a while, and then asked another question: "I noticed what Sophia said just now, was he the one who sentenced Sirius in that old case?"
Speaking of Sirius, Harry, who was on his way with his head down, suddenly raised his head to look at Arthur.
"Yes, he really missed that matter." Arthur also shook his head, expressing his extreme disapproval of old Batty's sloppy approach back then.
"In his mind, Black is arrogant, acting perversely, and comes from a pure-blood family, who just happened to be at the scene of the crime that day, while Peter Pettigrew, timid and cautious in doing things, no one would have thought that he would kill someone , and there was a severed finger of Peter left at the scene, old Batty preconceived, based on his impression of the two of them, he believed that Sirius killed Peter and convicted him." Arthur took another sip of water .
Harry clenched his fists. His godfather's miserable 14-year prison sentence was only caused by one person's subjective impressions.
Jiang Li sighed. She felt that it was not only because of this, but also because old Crouch was eager to introduce a murderer to consolidate his political achievements in order to become a minister.