Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 354 The Crouch Family’s Old House

Author: Sissi who listens to stories

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The parchment was a map, with an ink-colored light spot flashing on it. After comparing it with the Floo Network map, Rossi discovered that it was a suburb of Greenwich in southeast London.

"Clues: Escapees from Azkaban. Go to the Crouch family's old house to look for new clues..."

Uh... Crouch's old house?

She didn't know that the Crouch family still had an old house, so the one she visited before was only Barty Crouch's address in London.

Where was Barty Crouch Jr. hiding? No wonder he wasn't found at the time.

As his thoughts were swirling, Mr. Bojin said again: "As for what he wants to do, well... I can't guess, but maybe it has something to do with the basilisk."

"When did he order the materials?"

"The order was placed on November 8th and the goods were picked up on December 10th."

"Do you have anything else to add?"

"By the way, he should have an accomplice."

Mr. Borgin seemed to suddenly remember something, "He picked up the wrong materials at first, but didn't notice. It wasn't until he walked out of Knockturn Alley and met a similarly mysterious man in Patrick Street that he discovered the problem."

Hearing what he said, Rossi understood instantly.

It was indeed the work of a dark wizard! He first gave someone a fake product, and then followed him. If he hadn't found out in the end that the other person was a Death Eater, then maybe it wasn't just a matter of getting the wrong materials, right?

After suppressing his complicated thoughts and asking him a few more questions about Barty Jr. and his accomplices, Rossi turned around and walked out without getting any useful information.

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Biting air blows from the north, and snowflakes fall from the sky.

When Rossi arrived near Crouch's house in the southern suburbs of London, the ground was already covered with a layer of snow.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening, but there was no light in the old-looking house.

Could it be that little Barty isn't here?

Looking at the dark sky and the time, Rossi, who was a little confused, turned around and activated his Animagus form.

In an instant, the surrounding trees grew taller and clearer in her eyes.

In such weather, her snow-white hair almost blended into the world. If she stood still, she might not be able to spot her even if she walked closer.

After staring at the house for a moment, Rossi no longer hesitated, jumped into the yard, and ran towards the main house.

According to the map provided by Mr. Borgin, the container containing chicken blood is hidden in the main room.

Leaving behind a series of plum blossom footprints that were gradually covered by the wind and snow, Rosie jumped up on the window sill and looked into the house.

As she expected, the room was empty.

The fireplace was out, and an oil painting hung above it: a pale woman sitting on a chair holding a cat, and beside her stood a middle-aged man with a serious expression.

"Is it Barty Crouch and his dead wife?" Rossi guessed in his mind.

Just in case, she didn't turn back into her human form and use a spell to open the lock. Instead, she jumped from the window sill and walked around the main house to the back.

She had just noticed that there was a small door for pets under the back door of the house, which was blocked by a cotton curtain.

That was originally supposed to be the place where Mrs. Crouch carried the cat in and out of the painting.

Opening the curtain and entering the house, the space inside is more spacious than when viewed from the window.

At this time, a vague smell of blood entered her nasal cavity.

Is it chicken blood?

With a confused murmur, Rosie followed the scent to a wool felt pad.

The source of the smell is here, is it blood dripping onto the mat? Or...

Before the strange thoughts had finished running through her mind, her feet suddenly became empty and she suddenly fell.

It felt like the floor was suddenly pulled away, and a high, slightly sloped slide was connected below.

After a few seconds, she slid down the "slide" to the bottom.

Underground storage room.

This is the name marked on the game map.

There is only one room here, which is about sixty square meters, and there are all kinds of sundries in it.

Turning his eyes, Rossi's gaze was fixed on the long table next to the wall in front of him. There was a crucible there, and there were many potions and materials in bottles and jars next to it.

A glass bottle filled with dark red liquid was open and the rubber stopper was placed aside.

That is the blood of dragon scale chicken.

Rossi suddenly realized something and changed back into his human form while walking there.

When she stood in front of the long table, her whole body was plunged into darkness.

Immediately afterwards, a dim yellow light lit up in the darkness. Rosie, who was holding a lantern in his left hand, pulled out his wand and pointed at a blank piece of paper on the table with nothing written on it:

"Reveal yourself urgently!"

In an instant, lines of writing appeared on the white paper.

"Helbo's madness potion: a potion made from dragon scale chicken blood as the main material. Sprinkling this potion on the basilisk will cause it to completely lose its mind, but the corresponding combat effectiveness will be greatly increased.

improve."

Completely lost your mind?!

Seeing this, Rossi's spirit became tense.

I picked up the bottle of dragon-scaled chicken blood and took a look. It was obvious that most of the liquid in it had been reduced.

The madness potion has really been made?

With her eyes glazed over, she bowed and turned, and golden mist spurted out from the tip of the staff.

"The footprints appear!"

"Super-sensory tracking!"

As the mantra was chanted, bright golden footprints suddenly flashed in the storage room.

Judging from the size, shape and depth of the footprints, all the footprints belong to only one person.

"Is that Barty Crouch Jr.?"

Looking around with her blue eyes, she placed the tip of her wand against a footprint beside the long table.

"Show up!"

With a soft drink, the golden mist swirled around the room, and finally the appearance of Barty Crouch Jr. appeared on the footprints where the tip of the stick was touching.

I saw him standing in front of the long table, carefully pouring the potion that had just been successfully refined in the crucible into a glass bottle...

In fact, it can be seen from the bottle that has not even been replaced with the cork that the magic potion was successfully refined.

hateful!

Thinking that Grace was once again surrounded by crisis, Rossi hammered the table hard and anxiously.

At this moment, a layer of transparent armor suddenly floated and shattered on the surface of her body. This was actually the iron armor spell attached to the anti-spell suit being triggered and broken.

What?!!

Rosie felt a shiver in her heart, and just as she was about to turn around and stab her wand out, the red light of the disarming spell knocked her away and hit her hard against the wall.

Immediately afterwards, the orange magic rope of the confinement spell was tightly bound to her body.

Only then did she see clearly what was going on there.

Crouch and his son, holding wands, stood where she had stood when she entered the place before, looking at her with amused expressions.

"Who are you? How did you find yourself here?"

Barty Crouch Jr. played with Rosie's pear wand and asked with a chuckle.