Chapter 172 A difficult night

Chapter 172 A difficult night

Since the third event, the audience in the stands has been in a state of excitement.

Whether it's Hogwarts, Beauxbatons or Durmstrang, everyone is looking forward to it.

There is a great deal of uncertainty about the rules of the third event, to the extent that it renders the scores from the first two events meaningless.

In the maze, anything can happen, and anyone can win the final championship.

But soon, Durmstrang's audience was the first to lose their voice, and Klum was the first to give up.After a while, Furong also came out.Seeing this, the people in Hogwarts became even more excited.

Because no matter who wins in the end, the championship belongs to Hogwarts.

But after a long time, no one came out, and the cheerful atmosphere suddenly became a little tense.

"Why does it take so long? With Ike's ability, it shouldn't be." Stewart said to Terry next to him in confusion while waving the banner.

In fact, this is what most people think.As the first person to enter the maze, and having magical abilities that far exceeded those of other warriors, Ike really shouldn't have waited so long.

"Is it dangerous inside? I saw that the two children who came out earlier fainted." Julianne was very worried and asked Hermione who was sitting next to her.

"It's okay." Hermione replied absentmindedly, looking listless and lack of energy.

"Snapped!"

There was a faint sound, and a figure suddenly appeared at the door of the maze.

"Wait, someone is coming out! He is holding...a trophy in his hand!" Ludo's passionate voice echoed throughout the Quidditch stadium, "Our champion is coming out!"

"Harry Potter! Harry Potter won the Triwizard Tournament!"

The crowd was excited, and they were rushing down from the stands to catch a glimpse of the champion.The judges walked at the front, followed closely by the professors and Aoluo.

When they got closer, they discovered that something was very wrong with Harry. Not only was he disgraced, but there was a long wound on his neck, and his clothes were covered in blood.

"Harry... Harry..."

Hagrid was the first to rush forward, hugging Harry in his arms and calling his name.

"Deng... Dumbledore..." Harry kept murmuring. It took a lot of effort to open his eyes and asked Hagrid, "Where is Professor Dumbledore?"

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore knelt down and got very close to Harry, and heard Harry whisper, "He's back..."

"Voldemort is back!"

Dumbledore looked very calm and asked again: "Where is Ike? Have you seen him?"

"He..." Harry's face suddenly became ferocious, "He surrendered to Voldemort, and he wants to kill me!"

"Who? Who wants to kill whom? What's wrong?" Fudge's voice sounded. He squeezed in with great effort. When he saw Harry, he walked over directly and said, "Kid, you won, you should be happy. Why are you looking like this?" What does it look like?”

"Voldemort is back, sir!" As soon as Harry finished speaking, Fudge shouted as if he was frightened, "Impossible! He...he is already dead, no...impossible..."

"Voldemort is back! Ike has surrendered to him! He wants to kill me!" Harry shouted hysterically, and the crowd around him heard it.

"He's injured! Send him to the hospital quickly!" Fudge shouted, calling for Aoluo to get Harry away quickly.The Aoluos did not dare to disobey, but they were stopped by Dumbledore as soon as they came over.

"He needs to stay here, we haven't figured it out yet..."

"Take him away! Take him away!"

The scene became chaotic, and everyone was talking about the two shocking news that Harry just said.They crowded towards Harry crazily and kept asking all kinds of questions. The chaos made Harry feel dizzy.

"Take him away..."

"Connelly, he..."

In a daze, Dumbledore seemed to have quarreled with Fudge. Just as Harry was about to say something else, he felt himself being grabbed by a strong arm and being dragged out of the crowd.

He looked up and saw that it was Professor Moody. He immediately felt relieved and let Moody take him away with his head down.

He didn't see that after he left, Snape whispered something in Dumbledore's ear...

The stadium did not get better because of Harry's departure, it was still a mess.Dumbledore and Fudge were still arguing loudly, but soon Fudge left angrily with the people from the Ministry of Magic.

"Students of Hogwarts, all go back to the castle!" As soon as Fudge left, Dumbledore shouted to the chaotic crowd. The professors and prefects immediately organized themselves, and the scene suddenly became orderly. It didn't take too long. By the time, the students basically went back.

Only Hermione didn't move, she was still accompanying Julianne who was a little broken.

"Impossible...impossible...little Ike...impossible..."

I don’t know who explained to Julianne what the concept of "surrendering to Voldemort" was. After that, Julianne stayed in her seat, tears streaming down her face.

Hermione didn't know how to persuade her. Even though she had been prepared before, she panicked a little when this scene happened.

"Come on, Julianne, let's get out of here..."

At some point, Mrs. Weasley came over.She gave Hermione a hint, and the two of them helped Juliane up and walked slowly outside the venue.

Bill followed quietly, from a distance.Suddenly, he looked back at the only place with light in the darkness, and then turned back...

On the other side, Harry followed Moody to his office, talking about things in the cemetery as if to vent.He didn't notice that after he said that Voldemort was resurrected, a ferocious look appeared on the face of the man in front of him, and his hand quietly touched the wand.

"Oh!"

Suddenly, the door of the office was blasted open from the outside, which shocked both of them.

"Passed out!"

A stun spell directly hit Moody, and he fell to the ground with a "boom" sound.

"It seems we are not late." Dumbledore said, taking away Moody's wand and flagon.

"Let's go Potter, go to the hospital..." Professor McGonagall said softly, but was directly stopped by Dumbledore.

"He can't leave. He needs to figure out what happened." Dumbledore looked at Professor McGonagall and Snape and said, "Severus, go get your most powerful Veritaserum, and then Go to the kitchen and find a house elf named Winky; Minerva, Hagrid has a black dog, take him to my office and tell him I will be back in a while, and then you can come back here..."

Harry was very confused about Dumbledore's order. He wanted to ask what was going on, but Dumbledore didn't give him a chance to speak. He came to the table and took out a bunch of keys from the drawer.Then the wand was waved, and the accumulated debris in the corner was cleared aside, revealing an iron box underneath.

After several attempts at the rightmost lock, the box finally opened, and Harry screamed.

There was a skinny man in the box!

"Polyjuice Potion, such a simple solution." Dumbledore poured the contents of the flagon on the ground, waved his wand to get the person out of the box, and put a robe on him.

"I overlooked some things, but fortunately the results are not bad." Dumbledore said, "There are some things we can figure out tonight."

"Professor Dumbledore..."

"Harry, wait a moment, okay..."

The two of them sat quietly on the chair, watching helplessly as "Moody" who was unconscious on the ground changed. His scars gradually disappeared, his magic eyes and wooden legs fell off, and he became a completely different person.

At this moment, Professor McGonagall and Snape both came back. After seeing the people on the ground clearly, Snape exclaimed: "Oh my God! Barty Crouch Jr.!"

Dumbledore glanced at Snape, then returned his gaze to Barty Jr.He stretched out his hand and said, "Severus, Veritaserum."

Taking the Veritaserum, Dumbledore ignored the shouts and screams of Winky who followed the two of them. He cast a resuscitation spell and dropped three drops of Veritaserum directly into little Barty's mouth.

Seeing little Barty's eyes open, Dumbledore asked calmly: "Can you hear us?"

"I can hear it." Little Barty replied in a low voice with dull eyes.

"Now tell me, how did you escape from Azkaban, and why are you here?"

"Also, what exactly does Voldemort want you to do..."

Everyone was listening quietly to what little Barty was saying, starting from Azkaban, to the reunion with Voldemort last summer, then to the Quidditch World Cup, and the Triwizard Tournament that lasted throughout the school year, and The last one - Voldemort's resurrection.

Harry sat calmly in the chair and listened to everything, very carefully and seriously, so he discovered that there was no name mentioned in Barty's words.

"Where's Ike? Ike Stride!" Suddenly, Harry asked aloud, "What is his relationship with Voldemort? Why does he call him Teacher Voldemort?"

"Potter!" Snape said directly, trying to stop Harry, but he was a step too late.Just listen to little Barty continue to say: "Ike Strider is the master's favorite student, the little master..."

"Oh my God!" Professor McGonagall covered her mouth with both hands, Snape's face turned pale, and Dumbledore waved his wand to tie up little Barty and gagged him.

"Okay, let's stop here." Dumbledore said, "Minerva, can you stay here while I take Harry upstairs?"

Then he said to Snape: "Severus, please call Madam Pomfrey, we have to send Alastor to the hospital quickly. Then, we have to ask you to find Fudge, he must I want to hear what little Barty has to say.”

Seeing that both of them agreed, Dumbledore looked at Harry and said with a smile: "Harry, let's go..."

After leaving the door, Dumbledore took Harry directly to the principal's office.

"I would like you to go to my office first, where Sirius is waiting for us." Dumbledore explained.

The two came to the door of the principal's office. Dumbledore said the password. After walking in, the first thing he saw was Sirius waiting inside.

"Harry, are you okay? I've heard everything." Sirius ran over immediately and hugged Harry. He looked at the wounds on his body with distress, and carefully helped him to a chair and healed him. , "What's going on, Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore told the story of little Barty exactly as it was. Sirius listened quietly while Harry was a little absent-minded.After a while, there was suddenly no sound in the room. Harry raised his head blankly and saw Dumbledore looking at him.

"Harry, I need to know what happened after you encountered the Portkey in the Maze?"

Sirius saw that Harry was too tired and wanted to refuse for him.Dumbledore thought it was important for Harry to tell the truth.With the help of Phoenix Fox, Harry finally recovered somewhat and began to tell bit by bit what happened in the cemetery.

Voldemort's resurrection, the Death Eaters who obeyed the summons, Ike, the two consecutive duels, and the wonderful change of the wand in the end, and his parents.

Of course, he has not forgotten the stun spell that Ike struck at him at the end.

Several times, Sirius could not bear it any longer, but under Dumbledore's restraint, he remained silent.After Harry finished speaking, Dumbledore rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "Harry, you are very brave tonight. No one will do better than you tonight. You let us treat you." There’s more, higher expectations.”

"Don't go back to the dormitory, go to the campus hospital, take some sleeping potion, and have a good sleep...Sirius, are you willing to accompany him?"

Sirius nodded, standing up and transforming into a big black dog again.Dumbledore also stood up, came to Harry's side, patted his shoulder, and led him towards the school hospital.

When she opened the door, she saw a very anxious Madam Pomfrey, and around her, Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Ron and the twins were all asking questions.On the bed next to her, Hermione was accompanying a kind old woman.The old woman's eyes were red, and she was holding a handkerchief tightly in her hand, while Hermione whispered comfort.

"Harry!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed. The old woman also stood up, but she was a little unsteady and almost fell. Hermione quickly supported her.

"Molly, wait a minute. Harry experienced a terrible thing tonight. He just told me again." Dumbledore stopped in front of Harry. "He needs enough sleep. If you are willing to accompany him, He can stay, but please do not ask him any questions unless he is willing to answer them himself."

After saying that, he looked at Hermione and the old woman aside and said, "Madam, I'm sorry, I can't answer your question..."

"And you can't stay in the castle anymore."

"Sir..." Julianne stumbled forward suddenly, and Hermione quickly held her up so that she didn't fall.Her voice was still crying and a little desperate, "Please, tell me..."

"Sorry." Dumbledore refused directly and turned to Hermione, "Miss Granger, please take Mrs. Julianne to my office. I have to meet with Fudge later, and then I will send her back. .”

After saying that, he nodded to Mrs. Weasley, Harry and others, turned around and left directly.

Julianne looked helpless. Mrs. Weasley came over to comfort her a few more times, left Ron behind, and drove away the twins and Bill. Then she and Hermione helped Julianne to the principal's office.

"Who is that?" Harry asked aloud when only Ron and Sirius were left.

"That's the director of the Ike Orphanage." Ron replied, "Mum and Hermione have been with her all the time. She looks so pitiful..."

"Humph!"

Harry snorted, lay down on the bed, and closed his eyes.Ron was about to say something when he saw Sirius lying down beside the bed. After thinking for a while, he finally said nothing.