Chapter 513: Disappearing Crouch

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After an embarrassing silence, Snape narrowed his eyes, moved his thin lips and mocked: "What? In addition to Parseltongue, did you also learn cat language from Fish, Potter?"

"I want to see Professor Dumbledore!" Harry said with a dark face, ignoring Snape's taunting, "It's Mr. Crouch... He showed up... He was in the Forbidden Forest... He asked... …”

"What nonsense!" said Snape, his black eyes sparkling. "What are you talking about?"

Looking at Snape's malicious eyes, Harry knew that Snape would not let him go easily.

Considering that he had overheard the conversation between Karkaroff and Snape before, Harry never thought of telling Snape what Crouch said.

So he could only shout at Snape: "Mr. Crouch! Ministry official! He is ill or something... In the Forbidden Forest, he wants to see Dumbledore! Tell me the password... …”

However, just as Harry expected, Snape ignored his shouting at all, but twisted his thin lips and showed an ugly smile: "The Headmaster is very busy, Potter."

Just when Harry gritted his teeth and wanted to reveal a little bit about Barty Crouch's condition, the stone wall behind Snape opened again, and Dumbledore in a green robe appeared in front of Harry.

"there is a problem?"

Dumbledore looked at Harry and then at Snape and asked.

"Professor!" Harry didn't wait for Snape to speak, took a step across to avoid him, and came to Dumbledore, "Mr. Crouch is here..."

At this moment, another person's voice sounded from the corner next to him, interrupting Harry's words.

"What are you guys doing here, meow? Fish wants to play too!"

(ΦωΦ)

Not long after returning to the dormitory, Cat, who had taken Hermione out for a night out, heard the noise and rushed over.

"Good evening, Professor."

Hermione followed Fish and said hello shrunken.

Although she had gone on night walks with cats many times, Hermione still felt a little guilty when facing professors, especially the principal.

Harry ignored the two of them and continued to say to Dumbledore: "Mr. Crouch is in the Forbidden Forest and wants to talk to you!"

"Lead the way." Dumbledore said to Harry without wasting time.

Harry also breathed a sigh of relief and walked quickly along the corridor to the outside of the castle.

"What's going on, what's going on?"

(ω)

At first glance, he knew that something strange had happened. Maomao quickly took Hermione's hand and asked with gleaming eyes.

Snape stood there with an ugly expression, staring at the backs of several people in a daze for a while, and then followed them.

Harry glanced at Snape who was catching up and said: "After I came back from the Quidditch pitch, I thought I would stop by to see Hagrid..."

As he walked down the marble stairs quickly, he told what happened before. Anyway, everyone here already knew about the Marauder's Map.

"...Then I accidentally discovered Mr. Crouch's name in the Forbidden Forest..." Harry continued to talk about Barty Crouch's strange state after he discovered him.

Dumbledore's expression suddenly became serious.

The know-it-all Hermione couldn't help but said: "He must have been under a confusion curse, right? Did someone attack Mr. Crouch?"

"It's also possible that he's drunk, meow."

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Maomao said seriously.

"There is another possibility," Snape said gloomily, "that he was under the Imperius Curse and has not completely broken free from it."

Everyone couldn't help but speed up their pace.

"Did Mr. Crouch say anything in particular, Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

Harry glanced at Snape again, hesitated, and answered honestly: "Said he wanted to remind you... that he had done something terrible... and mentioned his son... and Bertha. ·Jorkins...and...and Voldemort...it seems that Voldemort has become stronger..."

Dumbledore and Snape's expressions became even grimmer, and they quickened their pace again, and Harry and Hermione had to run to keep up.

"Are you going to fight Voldemort, meow? Are you going to fight Voldemort, meow?"

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Only Fish was very excited. He would have gone to Hagrid's place with Harry just now.

"Where is he now?" Dumbledore did not answer Fish, but continued to ask Harry. At this time, they could already see the outline of Hagrid's hut and Beauxbatons carriage.

"Over there." Harry said, rushing in front of Dumbledore and leading everyone through the trees. He couldn't hear Crouch's voice, but he knew he was on the right track. The place was a little beyond the Beauxbatons carriage...almost right here...

"Mr. Crouch?" Harry shouted.

No one answered.

"They were here just now," Harry said to Dumbledore: "They must be nearby..."

"Lumos." Dumbledore chanted the spell, lit the wand and held it in his hand. Snape and Hermione did the same, and the darkness nearby was quickly dispelled by three white lights.

"My wand!" Harry, who had also wanted to do the same, realized in surprise that his wand seemed to be missing again. "It must have been dropped nearby when I was entangled with Crouch just now!"

"Is this the one?"

(ΦωΦ)つ━

Fish, who had the best eyesight, leaped to a tree and picked up a wand.

"Yes! This is my wand! Thank you, Fish."

Harry hurried forward to take his wand, and then wiped it twice with his robe.

"But Crouch is not here," Snape looked at Harry who also lit up his wand, "Maybe our Mr. Potter is lying again?"

"Harry is not lying, meow." Fish twitched his nose twice and confirmed for Harry: "There is indeed a smell of Crouch here, it should come from that direction."

(ΦωΦ)

The cat pointed to the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

"Harry, where is your Marauder's Map?" Dumbledore suddenly reminded.

"It's gone too..." Harry touched his pocket and replied with a bitter face: "It should have fallen here with the wand before."

After that, he looked at Fish on the side with hope. The Marauder's Map is not only a very useful prop, but also made by Harry's father and godfather. Of course, he didn't want it to disappear.

However, the cat shook his head and said, "Fish didn't see meow either."

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"Severus," Dumbledore said after a moment's silence, "Please escort Harry and Hermione back to the castle and send them directly to Gryffindor Tower."

He looked at Harry and Hermione again and said, "When you two return to the dormitory, stay there and don't go anywhere. Even if you want to send a letter to someone by owl, you can wait until tomorrow morning."

Harry knew that Dumbledore's words were mainly for himself.

"Uh... I know." He nodded, and followed Snape and Hermione obediently to the castle.

"Next, Fish, you come and help find Mr. Crouch's trace."

When facing the cat, Dumbledore finally smiled a little.

"Okay, meow!"

(ΦωΦ)

Fish led Dumbledore and followed Mr. Crouch's scent into the depths of the Forbidden Forest, but they stopped after walking three or four hundred meters.

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore asked curiously.

"No..." Fish twitched his nose, shook his head seriously, and said: "The smell in front is getting weaker and weaker. This should be the way he came here."

As he said that, he turned back to the original place, slightly opened his mouth and sniffed around, and even switched to a cat-like cat-man form.

"Crouch disappeared here."

After a careful investigation, Fish said to Dumbledore confidently.

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