The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Bones looked at Crouch's reaction and was keenly aware of something unusual. To be honest, Dumbledore was just a little rude, but Crouch's reaction was really weird.

There are things in that room that cannot be shown to anyone. Bones immediately found the source of the anomaly.

What could it be? She thought about it in her mind.

At this time Dumbledore had entered the room where the strange noise was coming from. He had already learned Crouch's little secret from Tom before that. Tom's excuse was very convincing to a certain extent: when he was chatting with the dementors, he learned something strange: someone died in Azkaban. This is not a strange thing in itself. Many people have died in Azkaban, but the dementors said that the person who died was not the same person as the person imprisoned.

Although they find it strange, the dementors are too lazy to care about this kind of thing - this is a dispute between wizards, what does it have to do with us? Anyway, the number of people is correct.

Dementors are very Buddhist. They patrol every day, absorb a wave of prisoners' emotions, and at the same time guard the prisoners to prevent them from running out. After Sirius escaped from prison, the main reason why the Dementors were so active in searching was because they could absorb the emotions of passers-by with the tacit approval of the Ministry of Magic when they were out in the field. As for Sirius, he just ran away, no big deal.

This is also the reason why they were angry after being banned from Hogwarts and expelled from Hogsmeade: they had no food, so of course they were angry.

The explanation given by Tom is much more reliable than that he guessed it through stargazing/crystal ball/dreaming. So Dumbledore really believed it. Today he came to Crouch's house just to verify Tom's statement. All his actions just now were designed to paralyze Crouch and make him relax his vigilance.

After hearing the strange noise, Dumbledore made up his mind to search the Crouch house today. He pushed open the door of the room. There was no one inside, but Dumbledore still locked his eyes on the corner of the room for an instant.

The empty room gave Crouch a glimmer of courage. He stood up straight and was about to say something when he saw Dumbledore take out his wand.

"Homenum Revelio!"

In fact, Dumbledore was completely unnecessary. Dumbledore can cast the "Human Appearance" spell silently and without a wand. In front of this spell, the invisibility cloak and invisibility cloak are as if they don't exist - including the Deathly Hallows invisibility cloak, which is invisible to Dumbledore's eyes. Escape.

Dumbledore may be the wizard who is best at using the Humanoid Appearance Charm in the magical world, because he is so familiar with this spell that he has almost formed a conditioned reflex, and has turned his active skills into passive skills, just like his Legilimency. They can be read without a wand and without speaking.

And we have reason to believe that Dumbledore will use "Human Appearance" every time he enters a new environment, because when Dumbledore and Fudge entered Hagrid's cabin, they saw Harry and Harry wearing invisibility cloaks as soon as they entered it. Ron...this is the best evidence.

Even though Dumbledore used this spell like a passive skill, there are very few people in the wizarding world who know this spell. Currently, there are only two people who can stably and quietly see through the Invisibility Cloak: Dumbledore and Moody - Moody did it through the magic eye.

But Dumbledore still pulled out his wand and said the spell.

As if a breeze blew by, a young man with light yellow messy hair appeared in the sight of the three of them.

Old Barty Crouch's face suddenly turned deathly gray.

After Bones saw the young man's face clearly, his expression changed drastically - she knew this man, his name was Barty Crouch Jr., and he was the only son of Barty Sr. next to her.

This man was supposedly sent to Azkaban by his father more than ten years ago and died in prison. How could he appear here? !

Bones looked at Crouch's deathly face and had a bold idea in his mind: Did Crouch have any hands or feet in it?

The young man's expression was dull, and the skin on his face showed an unhealthy paleness due to being at home all year round. Because of this pale skin, the freckles on the man's face became more eye-catching. There was something wrong with his state, because even if Dumbledore and others suddenly appeared in front of him, the man had no reaction.

Dumbledore walked up to the man, observed him for a few seconds, then turned to look at Crouch, and said in a regretful tone: "Barty, I really didn't expect... how long did you use to seize your son?" Soul curse?"

"The Imperius Curse?!" Bones exclaimed and looked at Old Crouch in disbelief. In her impression, Crouch Sr. was an upright and ruthless man. As a result, this image collapsed in a few minutes: he abused his power and used the Imperius Curse to control his son for a long time...

Barty Crouch Sr., how many things do you still have that the head of the department doesn't know?

Crouch had completely given up resistance. Like a criminal who had been exposed by detectives for all his criminal methods, he began to explain his experiences in the past ten years like a bamboo tube.

It turned out that after Crouch Jr. was imprisoned, his mother was heartbroken and finally begged Crouch Sr. before she died to rescue Crouch Jr. from prison. Crouch Sr. agreed because he really loved his wife. So during a visit to prison, Crouch Jr. took Polyjuice Potion containing his mother's hair, and Mrs. Crouch took Polyjuice Potion containing her son's hair.

In this way, the two parties exchanged identities and appearances.

In this way, Crouch Sr. successfully concealed the truth and rescued his child from Azkaban. Mrs. Crouch thus stayed in Azkaban in place of her child. In her endless despair, she did not forget to take Polyjuice Potion regularly, and she did not forget to take it until her death.

Therefore, when she died, she still looked like Crouch Jr., and everyone including Bones thought that the person who died in Azkaban was Crouch Jr.

After Crouch Jr. was brought out, Crouch Sr. announced that his wife had died of illness and held a secret funeral. In fact, if someone dug up Mrs. Crouch's grave, they would find that the chamber was empty.

From then on, little Crouch has been locked up in Crouch's house, living under an invisibility cloak all day long. The house elf Sparkle is responsible for taking care of him, until Dumbledore arrives with the Minister of Magic.

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I bought a batch of things from the community canteen...the price basically doubled.

Cucumbers cost 9 yuan a pound, Lux soap costs 5.5 yuan a piece, noodles cost 11.5 a kilogram, and 24 cans of 330ml Pepsi-Cola cost 88 yuan.