Hogwarts Reading Days

Just finished Christmas, opened a bunch of Christmas presents, and attended a Yule Ball, but Dumbledore was not in a good mood.

Because Barty Crouch was sick a few days ago and didn't come to the Christmas ball.

To be honest, it's not a big deal, it's normal to be sick, not to mention the old Batty who has been working hard for the World Cup for a whole year, it's understandable that he wants to have a quiet Christmas, but...

If you associate this incident with Albert's prediction, this is undoubtedly a bad omen.

A few months ago, Sirius had approached Dumbledore and mentioned that Peter was still alive. Through his memory, he saw that the man who appeared in the prophecy ball was Barty Crouch Jr., the first Dumbledore When I saw him, I recognized him.

Barty Crouch Jr. still alive?

But, why are you still alive?

Since then, Dumbledore has been quietly investigating the matter, with Barty Crouch Sr. being the breaking point in the whole thing, but there's nothing Dumbledore can do about a high-ranking Ministry of Magic official.

Although Dumbledore is not in politics, it doesn't mean he knows nothing about it.He knows better than anyone that some things cannot be overdone.

For example, forcing Barty Crouch Sr. to reveal his secrets, otherwise even if he got the answer, even if the whole matter was related to Barty Crouch Sr., it would still be a big trouble.

However, fortunately, some time ago, old Barty expelled his loyal house-elf for some reason, and that house-elf named Winky was working at Hogwarts at the moment, even though he didn't care much about it. With a large dose of the powerful Veritaserum, secrets could be revealed, but Dumbledore refrained from doing so because it would have been too cruel and could have killed or permanently damaged the house-elf.

The loyalty of the house elves allows them to keep secrets for their masters, even if they are house elves who have been driven out of the house by their masters, their loyalty is still beyond doubt.

But Dumbledore didn't need to be so troublesome if he wanted to know some news, and he didn't even need to get an accurate answer.

He took Winky to the principal's office, told the house elf that old Barty Crouch was ill, and said some of his own guesses, expressing his suspicion that old Barty was under the control of the Imperius Curse, and asked some News about Barty Jr.

Although Dumbledore's words did not make the house-elf named Winky confide the truth to him, Dumbledore didn't really need to get the answer from the house-elf. He only needed to get the answer from the house-elf. The truth of the whole thing can be deduced.

There is no doubt that Albert's prediction is correct. Little Barty is still alive, and the whole incident has something to do with Old Barty. Perhaps, Old Barty used some secret methods to keep Little Barty alive.As for who the person who died in Azkaban Prison was, it was self-evident.

Because not long ago, after Dumbledore learned from Sirius that Peter Pettigrew was still alive, he guessed the specific reason.

It's a pity that the two great mothers saved their son's life with their own lives, but in the end they still failed to save their son's conscience and guide them to the right path.

After finding out the truth, Dumbledore immediately wanted to find Albert, and he needed some verification from the other party.

Albert seemed to know something.

In other words, the other party may know more than himself.

Dumbledore was able to realize that the whole thing was wrong, or he learned the news from the conversation between Albert and Percy at the ball.

The other party seemed to be deliberately implying that Crouch was going to die.

Yes, he meant that Crouch was going to die, and then Percy became an assistant to the Minister of Magic.

Albert is a genius who is good at prophecy. Even if he doesn't know, Dumbledore believes that after a short exchange between the two sides, he can get a lot of useful information.

What's more, Dumbledore was sure that Albert knew that he was too smart.

However, Dumbledore found that their warriors were missing, and even if he used tracking magic, he could not track Albert's location.

It seemed to disappear out of thin air.

where is albert?

Dumbledore didn't know, but someone must know, so...he asked Albert's roommate and friend.

Well, not even his roommates knew.

"Probably home."

"Maybe, I went to spend Christmas vacation with my girlfriend."

These are two speculations by Fred, George and Lee Jordan.

However, the Andersons were not in their original home. At least, Dumbledore made a trip there himself. No one lived in that house at all, at least for several months.

The whole family moved?

Thinking about it, it seems that it is not surprising.

After all, it is someone who can predict the future, especially a powerful prophet. If he really doesn't want you to find him, it will be really hard to find him.

Nicole Flamel is a ready-made example. When Voldemort was peeping at the Sorcerer's Stone a few years ago, he immediately noticed something was wrong, and contacted himself in advance, asking him to use the Fidelity Curse to protect his residence.

Dumbledore, who failed to find Albert, found that he seemed to be a bit unlucky.

According to the original plan, he planned to visit Batty old with Ludo Bagman, and talk about the security measures of the second project by the way, but Ludo Bagman seemed to be in trouble.

When Dumbledore came to visit at the appointed time, Ludo Bagman had already been sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries because of eating horseshoe chocolate mixed with a love potion.

The most embarrassing thing is that after Bagman took the love potion, the person who was thinking about it turned out to be a girl from Hogwarts. The woman who wrote him the letter was obviously a fake, or in other words, the letter from the beginning to the end It's also fake, what is going on with this matter?

Dumbledore quickly guessed the answer, because the next day at Hogwarts, a large number of students who had taken the love potion appeared, which caused a lot of commotion.

It is said that after breakfast, Fred, George and Lee Jordan brought out a bunch of snacks and desserts to share with everyone.It's not the first time they've done this. Sometimes everyone gave Albert a bunch of snacks and desserts that he couldn't finish eating, and they were worried that they would be ruined and wasted, so they would take them out and share them with everyone.

For example, the last time he won the International Wizard Chess Championship and the Magic School Potion Championship, anyway, every time Albert won the championship and became famous, he always received a bunch of gifts, which also contained a large number of desserts and snacks. The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan shared it with everyone.

As for the reason, Dumbledore had already heard about Ludo Bagman's debts.

"During the World Cup, Bagman fooled us with fake gold coins, and he didn't even want to give us back the principal, so we just wanted to play a joke on him, let him work for nothing without getting a galleon. ’” said George to Dumbledore.

They undoubtedly knew that those desserts were probably mixed with love potions.

It's just that they won't admit it, they just say it was a little prank.

Naturally, Dumbledore didn't intend to punish them. After all, no matter who they were hacked, they would be extremely annoyed if they saved a sum of Galleons with great difficulty. A small prank showed that they were already quite restrained.

As for the incident of the group taking the love potion this time, it was purely an accident.

After all, they "don't know" anything, and this is just sharing desserts with everyone according to the usual practice, without any malice.

But this undoubtedly interrupted Dumbledore's original plan and delayed his plan to visit Batty.

As for him going by himself?

No, you can't do that, it's easy to get into trouble.Better to find a decent reason to convince the Ministry of Magic that this was just an accident.

Otherwise, no one knows what will happen there.

In case Crouch dies, he will be very passive.

The Ministry of Magic would not admit that Voldemort was alive, it would just blame him, or other Dark wizards.

As for the people from the Ministry of Magic, go with the Aurors?

This is never a good idea.

To be honest, except for a few trusted friends, Dumbledore is not very willing to trust the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic, especially the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge.

The other party is now becoming more and more obsessed with his status and power, becoming more and more "degenerate", and moving closer to a pure-blood wizard.

He is unreliable, very unreliable.

For Dumbledore, the British Ministry of Magic has never been a help, but a hindrance, a trouble.

There are too many pure-blood wizards who hate Dumbledore and like to hold him back, and most of these people are Death Eaters who escaped unharmed back then. Lido has nothing good to do, he can't overthrow the existing system of the Ministry of Magic.

Therefore, looking for Old Batty with Ludo Bagman is the best way at present, because Dumbledore has already thought about it.

The second project is far more dangerous than the first project, because the warrior needs to enter the Black Lake to rescue the hostages, out of his sight, even Dumbledore has no good way.Therefore, the safety of the warriors can only be taken care of by the murlocs under the Black Lake. Even if the murlocs are willing to help take care of the warriors, there may still be serious problems, such as the warriors being attacked underground in the Black Lake, or accidentally drowned.

They need a safe and reliable plan to ensure that the warriors can be rescued as soon as possible after encountering danger.

As for the plan, Dumbledore has already thought about it.

Dumbledore looked at the plan at hand, and then at the pocket watch on the table. In another hour, it would be the time agreed with Bagman.

Before leaving school, he had to make some arrangements.

At this moment, Dumbledore was waiting for someone in his office.

The other party didn't make him wait too long, when someone knocked on the door of the headmaster's office, and Snape walked in with a sullen face.

No way, the love potion incident actually saved the Gryffindor foursome, and those four nasty guys brought back some unpleasant memories for Snape.

What annoyed Snape even more was that Dumbledore had already defined this incident as an accident, and directly exposed it lightly.

Even though Snape could tell at a glance that the three of them were lying, he even believed that the culprit of all this was Albert Anderson, but...he couldn't send those four bastards to confinement.

"I'll be leaving school by eight o'clock, and I need you to check on Moody, just keep him out of your sight," Dumbledore said to Snape.

"What happened." Snape immediately sensed something was wrong.

"I may have found some clues," said Dumbledore vaguely.

"Clue?" Snape reached out and grabbed his arm, muttered, "It's about who?"

There are not many things that Dumbledore can pay attention to, and Voldemort is definitely one of them.

Dumbledore didn't answer, but continued, "I suspect someone has sneaked into the school, and I need you to help me keep an eye on the professors in the school."

"Including Moody?" Snape asked oddly.

"Of course, I will let Moody watch over you, you can find any reason." Dumbledore said, looking at Snape.

"Is there any point in doing that?" Snape asked, frowning.

"Yes." Dumbledore said, "Two hours after I leave, if there are Voldemort's minions in the school, they will definitely notice something is wrong and inform Voldemort to find him."

"Who do you suspect, Moody?"

"Not yet."

"Well, since you said so." Although Snape was puzzled, he agreed.

After Snape left, about half an hour later, Moody raised his hand and knocked on the office door.

"Albus, what can I do for you?"

"I'm going to leave school later to deal with something." Dumbledore said straight to the point.

"It seems that this matter is very important. I will go back and prepare."

"No, I need you to stay in the school and help me look after Hogwarts." Dumbledore said, "I have always suspected that there are Voldemort's helpers in the school, and I need you to make sure that within two hours after I leave the school , without any professor passing the news to the outside.

"You really don't need help?" Moody repeated.

"Need not."

"Okay." Moody nodded and asked again, "Do you have any suspects?"

"No." Dumbledore shook his head.

"It is true that there is no professor in the school who has the symptoms of the Imperius Curse. Although a more powerful Imperius Curse cannot be ruled out, it is impossible to have no symptoms after a long time." Moody analyzed, "After the exclusion, there are only two remaining. He has a criminal record, and Karkaroff escaped some time ago."

"I'm sure Snape wouldn't betray me, and he didn't have to," Dumbledore said, looking at Moody.

"There are many cunning people in Slytherin, even you may be deceived." Moody sneered, "Albus, you are too soft-hearted and like to give others a chance. I overheard them talking about the Dark Mark With a reaction, God knows if that guy will be ready to return to his master."

Dumbledore said calmly, "If possible, take this opportunity to find out whoever is hiding."

There is no doubt that this is a conspiracy against him, but... a known conspiracy, what's the point?

However, Barty Jr. soon realized the seriousness of the problem.

You may be being targeted.

Moreover, Dumbledore may actually find the Dark Lord's trail, and that is purely to prevent someone from tipping off the news, or uncovering himself hiding in Hogwarts.

Of course, it may also be purely a conspiracy, just trying to lure and catch myself.

What to do now?

After pondering for a moment, Barty Jr. finally gave up on informing Voldemort that he cannot be exposed yet.

With Crouch's magical defense measures, even if trouble is really encountered, the master must have a way to escape alone.

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