[HP] Luna, you are in for a big deal

Chapter 31 The Return of the Mysterious Man

A month before the third event, everyone was finally able to take their attention away from Luna and Hermione, because something extraordinary happened.

Barty Crouch of the Ministry of Magic's International Communications Department, who had been ill for several months, suddenly appeared and attacked Durmstrang's warrior Viktor Krum, which made Durmstrang's headmaster Kaka Love is going crazy because Barty Crouch is from the British Ministry of Magic. He was supposed to be the referee of the three wizards competition, and now he attacked the contestants. Karkaroff insisted that it was Hogwarts. people are working in the dark.

Sirius once again invited Harry to Hogsmeade to meet, but Ron was detained by Snape, and Hermione was going to the library to write her thesis, so Harry asked Luna to accompany him to meet Sirius again .

"Why do you have to be accompanied?" Luna asked puzzled.

"Because Sirius thinks that someone wants to harm me, he has been worried since my name was thrown into the Goblet of Fire, so no matter where I go, there must be someone around me." Harry said impatiently, "Otherwise he will reprimand me again." It's been a while."

As soon as he saw Sirius he kept asking Crouch about the attack on Krum.

"I don't think such a weak Crouch can attack Krum." Harry said impatiently.

According to Harry's narration, Barty Crouch was almost insane and weak. He repeated that he wanted to see Dumbledore, so Harry left Krum to watch him, and he Then he ran quickly to find Dumbledore.

"You and Krum go to the forest alone?" Sirius frowned.

"He asked me about Hermione," Harry said impatiently, "I know I shouldn't go to the forest alone with people from other schools, you don't have to repeat this sentence to me, the point is, when I took Deng When Professor Bliddow arrived, Crouch had disappeared, only Krum, who had been stunned, was there."

Sirius thought for a while, "Crouch is gone. You said he was weak, so he shouldn't be far away. Do you have a Marauder's Map to see?"

"I thought about it, but the map is with Professor Moody, who also arrived at the time, and he said he didn't see it."

"You gave Moody the map? Why?" Sirius asked.

Harry seemed to have thought of something, "By the way, there is one more thing I haven't told you. Before my second project, I saw Crouch on the map. He was in Snape's office, and he stayed there After a long time, I was planning to go over there to have a look, but I was almost discovered by Snape, but fortunately Professor Moody helped me out, he said he wanted to borrow the map, and he still hasn’t returned it to me.”

Sirius nodded, "Since there's nothing wrong with him, but if Crouch can't go far, how can he not be seen on the map?"

"Could it be that Professor Moody is lying?" Luna expressed her guess.

"Impossible," Sirius directly denied, "He is a little irritable, but he is absolutely righteous. If he sees Crouch, he will not stop talking. Maybe someone else appeared and took Crouch away. The problem is Harry, don’t be careless, especially Karkaroff and his people, try to stay away from them.”

In the end, Harry just got a lesson and went back angrily.

"You have to know that he also cares about you." Luna said.

"I know," Harry said, frowning, "it's just that I can't live in protection all the time, oh, of course, Sirius is much better for me, at least he tells me everything, like Ron and Hermione Just want to send me to Dumbledore to protect."

But Luna didn't have time to think about where Crouch went. The final exam was coming soon, and she had to study hard, so she spent more time in the library with Hermione. According to Hermione, Harry's state He was relatively stable and actively preparing for the third competition. Sirius would send owls to Harry every day, suggesting spells one after another, so that he could get out of the third competition smoothly.

"He's always been overprotective of Harry," said Hermione.

Luna shook her head, "Oh, Hermione, before you say that, you should also think about yourself, it's not just Mr. Black who overprotects Harry."

"Me? I don't. I'm busy with exams now, and I'm too busy. After all, I don't have the privilege of being a warrior like Harry, so I don't have to take the final exam, right?" Hermione frowned and looked at her hand again. But within a few minutes, she muttered again, "I don't know if Harry practiced the Obstacle Charm today... and the Stunning Charm, he might have encountered an enemy..."

For such Hermione, Luna could only express her speechlessness.

After the Hogwarts final exam, the third competition finally started. Luna only felt that her head was groggy when the exam was over. Only when she saw Mrs. Weasley did she realize what she had to face was coming.

Relatives of the Warriors were invited to watch the game, and Sirius wasn't the only one who came to see Harry. Mrs. Weasley and Bill also came to help him.

For a moment, Luna thought Mrs. Weasley was going to talk to herself, but the next second, the twins appeared, and they greeted Mrs. Weasley exaggeratedly, as if they hadn't seen her for a century.

Harry took the opportunity to pull Luna next to Sirius and asked her to accompany Sirius for a walk around the school.

"Why didn't Professor Lupine come today?" Luna asked.

"He has a mission." Sirius grinned. "It seems that you are afraid that Molly will tell you. I heard Harry say that you like that Fred?"

"Uh..." Luna wondered if everyone already knew about this.

Sirius laughed, "What's the big deal, I remember Harry's parents started being interested in each other when they were in the third grade, but I thought you liked Harry."

Luna had no choice but to shake her head helplessly. She really didn't want to talk about her relationship with someone who was considered an elder. It felt like she was being lectured.

All afternoon, Luna avoided meeting Mrs. Weasley's eyes, because she seemed very stiff to herself, and her attitude towards Hermione was also very unenthusiastic.

"It seems that she is a loyal reader of "Wizard Weekly." Hermione muttered, "I think we need to explain to her."

"Wait, I'm going too?" Luna asked in panic.

Hermione thought for a while, "Anyway, I know that Fred and George didn't tell her anything, so you just tell her that you and them are just on good terms, and that Skeeter intends to tarnish your reputation."

So after the two girls and Mrs. Weasley explained that they were not Harry's girlfriend and would not get involved with other boys, Mrs. Weasley seemed to have a better attitude towards them, but she still stared at the twins and Mrs. Weasley. Luna thing.

"But why didn't Fred and George tell me?"

"I guess..." Luna smiled dryly, "The two of them are probably complaining about your long-windedness."

Fortunately, Mrs. Weasley didn't pursue it further, but she still told Luna not to be with the twins all the time, otherwise Xenophilius would be angry if they led her to spoil her.

The venue for the third game is the Quidditch pitch, where a huge maze has appeared. The warriors need to find the Goblet of Fire in the maze, and the person who touches the Goblet of Fire first will be the final winner.

The maze is covered with fog, and the people in the auditorium can't see what's going on inside the maze at all. The ones who can see it most clearly are the referees who are sitting high above. Barty Crouch is missing, of course, he is still not there. His position Sitting was the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge.

About 10 minutes later, a red light flew out from a corner of the maze, and Hermione, who was sitting next to Luna, started scratching her face again, "It's not Harry, it's not Harry, it's not Harry..."

Carried out by the professors patrolling outside was Fleur Delacour.

"Oh, Hermione, you can open your eyes now, it's not Harry, it's Fleur."

After another 15 minutes, the red light came out again. This time it was Viktor Krum who was carried out. Now there are only two Hogwarts warriors left in the maze.

Ron wasn't interested in the maze for a moment, glad that Hermione cared about Harry completely, and didn't care that Krum was carried out, and was even a little thankful that it wasn't Harry who was carried out.

But then, the waiting was too much. It was maddening not to see the scene inside the maze, because there was no movement in the maze for more than an hour.

Ludo Bagman, the host during the period, asked Moody loudly if he found anything wrong on the field, because he has magic eyes, and he is the only one who can see the inside of the maze among the people outside, but Moody kept saying that there was nothing abnormal , Harry and Cedric are working hard to overcome the troubles in the maze.

It's just that what everyone finally saw was that Harry, Cedric and the Goblet of Fire suddenly appeared in the open space at the same time.

Everyone cheered wildly, everyone thought the game was over, Harry and Cedric both got the trophies, and it was Amos Diggory who first noticed something was wrong!

"Cedric! My son!" Amos Diggory jumped out of his seat and rushed into the clearing in a frenzy, for he saw his son lying on the ground motionless.

Immediately afterwards, everyone realized that something was wrong, Sirius also jumped off the seat, and Luna wanted to follow his example, but the seat seemed to be a little too high, so everyone rushed out of the aisle in a panic, trying to get closer Harry on the field.

Dumbledore was the first to help Harry, who was trembling.

"He's back, Voldemort is back!" These were the first words Harry raised his head to shout, holding the Goblet of Fire in one hand and tightly clutching Cedric's wrist with the other.

"My boy! My boy..." Amos Diggory stumbled beside Harry, and he almost crawled towards Cedric, but the handsome boy couldn't answer him any more.

There were crowds of people around, and Luna struggled to get to Harry's side. Sirius was holding Harry in his arms, and Harry looked seriously injured.

"Blake," Moody squeezed over, "I'll take Potter to my place to check, he might have been under some dark magic, Dumbledore is going to keep the crowd, look at that Goblet of Fire, I suspect it was done hands and feet."

Sirius agreed, and then Harry was taken away by Moody, and it seemed that Harry was still in a daze.

The scene was so chaotic, Dumbledore cast a megaphone spell on himself, and asked the prefects of each house to take their students back to the lounge.

Professor Sprout of Hufflepuff accompanied the Diggory couple and took Cedric's body to another place.

"Molly, can you take these children to the hospital?" said Dumbledore. "We'll take Harry there later."

Dumbledore was referring to Luna, Hermione, and the Weasley children. None of them had any intention of leaving. Mrs. Weasley nodded tremblingly.

The progress of the matter seems to have exceeded everyone's expectations, especially the phrase "Voldemort is back" that Harry yelled out in horror just now, which made everyone terrified.

"What happened..." Hermione's voice was low and trembling.

But apparently none of them in the group could answer her questions.

Cedric's death was a big blow to the twins. They couldn't believe that the boy died like this, and before the game, they were still laughing at him that he must lose.

Waiting is really tormenting. I have been waiting since the beginning of the game. After a bombardment of news, I still have to wait. Everyone is sitting in the hospital, not talking to each other. The most common question is, "Why hasn't Harry come yet?" ?”

But at the end of the day, everyone still couldn't ask Harry anything. He was exhausted when he was taken to the hospital by Dumbledore and Sirius, and he needed to rest.

"What happened?" Mrs. Weasley couldn't wait to ask as soon as she closed the door of Harry's ward. This is what the children have been waiting to know.

"Sirius, can you talk to them?" said Dumbledore, "I'll stay with Harry for a while."

Sirius nodded, looking tired too, but to the Weasleys and Luna, Hermione said, "Okay, let's sit down and talk."

Luna felt that she had heard an unbelievable story. The professor Moody who had been swaying in front of their eyes for a whole year was not really Aristotle Moody, but Barty Crouch who had died long ago. The son of Azkaban, Barty Crouch Jr., is a Death Eater. His mother died in Azkaban instead of him 13 years ago, and he has been under house arrest at home, and was seized by his father The soul curse is in control.Until last year, he gradually became stronger. His elf Winky took him to watch the World Cup match. He was the one who took away Harry's wand, and he was the one who conjured the Dark Mark.Pettigrew found him to continue serving Voldemort, so the two of them attacked the real Moody, and for a year, Barty Crouch Jr. took the Potion of Transfiguration and tricked everyone with his Moody appearance.He was the one who threw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire, Old Mr Crouch either disappeared or was killed by him, and he replaced the Goblet of Fire with a Portkey in the last match, let touch it Harry and Cedric were teleported to where Voldemort was, and Voldemort was resurrected with Harry's blood.

After Sirius finished speaking, no one spoke, and everyone was still in shock. Mrs. Weasley was the first to speak tremblingly, "You mean, the mysterious man is back?"

"Yes." Sirius nodded, closed his eyes and stopped talking.

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