Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 174
The audience in the stands has been in a state of excitement since the third project.

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

The rules of the third event have a lot of uncertainty, in a way, it makes the scores of the first two games 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 voices, and Krum was the first to give up.After a while, Furong also came out.Seeing this, the people of Hogwarts became even more excited.

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

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

"Why is it so long? With Ike's ability, it shouldn't be." Stuart said to Terry next to him doubtfully while waving the banner.

In fact, this is what most people think.As the first person to walk into the maze, Ike, who possesses magical abilities far superior to other warriors, really shouldn't have dragged on for so long.

"Is it dangerous inside? I see that the two children who came out before have fainted." Julian was very worried, and asked Hermione who was sitting next to her.

"It's okay." Hermione replied somewhat absent-mindedly, looking listless and uninspired.

"Snapped!"

Faintly, there was a crisp sound, and a figure suddenly appeared at the entrance of the maze.

"Wait, someone has come out! He's holding...a trophy!" Ludo's passionate voice resounded throughout the Quidditch pitch, "Our champion has come out!"

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

The crowd was boiling, and they crowded and ran down from the stands, wanting to catch a glimpse of the champion.The judges walked in the front, followed by the professors and the Aurors.

When they got closer, they realized that something was wrong with Harry. He was ashamed and said nothing, there was a long wound on his neck, and blood was all over his clothes.

"Harry... Harry..."

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

"Dun... Dumbledore..." Harry kept murmuring, opening his eyes with great effort, and asked Hagrid, "Where is Professor Dumbledore?"

"What's the matter?" Dumbledore knelt down and got very close to Harry, when Harry whispered, "He's back..."

"Voldemort is back!"

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

"He..." Harry's face suddenly turned a little grim, "He has taken refuge in Voldemort, and he wants to kill me!"

"Who? Who is going to kill whom? What's the matter?" Fudge's voice sounded, he squeezed in with great effort, walked over directly after seeing Harry, and said, "Son, you won, you should be happier. look?"

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

"Voldemort is back! Ike has joined him! He's going to kill me!" Harry shouted hysterically, and the crowd around heard him.

"He's injured! Take him to the hospital!" Fudge yelled, beckoning Ao Luo to get Harry away quickly.The Aurors did not dare to disobey, but they were stopped by Dumbledore as soon as they came.

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

"Take him! Take him!"

The scene became chaotic, and everyone was talking about the two shocking news that Harry just said.They frantically hugged Harry, asking all kinds of questions continuously, making Harry feel dizzy for a while.

"Take him away..."

"Connelly, he..."

In a trance, Dumbledore seemed to be arguing with Fudge, and just as Harry was about to say something more, he felt himself being grabbed by a strong arm and being dragged out of the crowd.

Looking up, it was Professor Moody. He felt relieved, and let Moody take him away with a sullen head.

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

The stadium wasn't any better because of Harry's departure, it was still messy.Dumbledore and Fudge were still arguing loudly, but soon Fudge angrily took the Ministry of Magic away.

"Hogwarts students, 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 immediately became orderly. It didn't take too long After a while, the students basically went back.

Only Hermione didn't move, and she was still with Julian who was a little broken.

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

I don't know who explained to Julian what the concept of "taking refuge in Voldemort" was. After that, Julian just sat in her seat and couldn't stop crying.

Hermione didn't know how to persuade her, even though she had prepared before, but when this scene happened, she panicked.

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

At some point, Mrs. Weasley came over.She flirted with Hermione, and the two helped Julian up together, and walked slowly to the outside of the arena.

Bill followed quietly, far away.Suddenly, he looked back at the only place with light in the darkness, and turned back again...

On the other side, Harry followed Moody to his office, talking about things in the cemetery as if venting.He didn't notice that after he said that Voldemort was resurrected, the man in front of him had a grim expression on his face, 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 hit Moody directly, and he fell to the ground with a bang.

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

"Let's go Potter, go to the hospital..." Professor McGonagall said softly, but was stopped directly 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 Get a house-elf named Winky in the kitchen; Minerva, there's a black dog at Hagrid's, take him to my office, tell him I'll be back in a minute, and then you come back here..."

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

After a few tries on the rightmost lock, the chest finally opened, and Harry screamed.

In the box, there was actually a scrawny person!
"Compound Potion, what a simple solution." Dumbledore poured all 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 result is not bad." Dumbledore said, "There are some things we can figure out tonight."

"Professor Dumbledore..."

"Harry, wait a minute, okay..."

The two of them sat quietly on the chairs, watching "Moody" who had passed out on the ground change, the scars gradually disappeared, the magic eyes and wooden legs fell off, and he became a completely different person.

At this moment, both Professor McGonagall and Snape 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.Holding out his hand, he said, "Severus, Veritaserum."

After receiving the Veritaserum, Dumbledore ignored the yelling of Shining who followed the two, cast a recovery spell, and directly dropped three drops of Veritaserum into Little Barty's mouth.

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

"I can hear you." Little Batty replied in a low voice with his eyes blank.

"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 quietly listening to Barty Jr., starting from Azkaban, to the reunion with Voldemort last summer, then the Quidditch World Cup, and the Triwizard Tournament throughout the entire school year, and The last of the last - the resurrection of Voldemort.

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

"Where is Ike? Ike Strider!" Suddenly, Harry asked, "What is his relationship with Voldemort, and why does he call Mr. Voldemort?"

"Potter!" Snape said directly, trying to stop Harry, but he was a step too late.I heard little Batty go on to say: "Ike Stride, is the master's favorite student, the little master..."

"Oh my God!" Professor McGonagall covered his mouth with his hands, Snape's face was ashen, and Dumbledore directly waved his wand to tie up little Barty and gag him.

"Okay, let's go 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, I have to trouble you to get Fudge back, he must I want to hear what Barty Jr. has to say."

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

After going out, Dumbledore took Harry directly to the principal's office.

"I want you to go to my office first, Sirius is waiting for us there." Dumbledore explained.

The two came to the door of the principal's office, Dumbledore gave the password, and after walking in, he saw Sirius waiting inside at first sight.

"Harry, are you okay? I've heard about it." Sirius ran over and hugged Harry at the first time, looked at the wounds on his body with distress, and carefully helped him onto the chair. , "What's going on, Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore told the story of Barty Jr., Sirius listened quietly, and Harry was a little absent-minded.After a while, there was a sudden silence in the room, and Harry looked up blankly, only to see Dumbledore looking at him.

"Harry, I need to know what happened to you after you hit the Portkey in the maze?"

Sirius was so tired of seeing Harry that he wanted to say no for him.Dumbledore thought it was important for Harry to speak up.With the help of Phoenix Fox, Harry finally recovered a bit, and began to tell little by little what happened in the cemetery.

The resurrection of Voldemort, the Death Eaters who obeyed the call, Ike, the two consecutive duels, and the magical change of the wand at the end, and his parents.

Of course, he didn't forget the stun spell that Ike hit him at the end.

Several times, Sirius couldn't help it, but under Dumbledore's restraint, he finally didn't make a sound.After Harry finished speaking, Dumbledore rubbed his forehead and said wearily: "Harry, you are very brave tonight, no one will do better than you tonight, you let us treat you There are more, higher expectations."

"Don't go back to the dormitory, go to the school hospital, take some sleeping pills, and have a good sleep... Sirius, would you like to accompany him?"

Sirius nodded, stood up and became a big black dog again.Dumbledore also stood up, came to Harry's side and patted him on the shoulder, leading him to the school hospital.

Pushing open the door, one could see Madam Pomfrey who was in a state of distress at a glance, and around her, Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Ron and the twins were all asking about something in one go.On the next bed, Hermione was accompanied by a kind old lady.The old woman's eyes were red, and a handkerchief was tightly clutched in her hand, while Hermione comforted her in a low voice.

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

"Molly, wait a minute, Harry went through a terrible thing tonight, and he just told me it again." Dumbledore stopped in front of Harry, "He needs enough sleep, if you are willing to accompany him He can stay, but please don't ask him any questions unless he is willing to answer."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Hermione and the old lady at the side, and said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry, I can't answer your question like you..."

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

"Sir..." Julian staggered forward suddenly, and Hermione hurriedly held her back, so that she didn't fall.Her voice was still crying, a little desperate, "Please, tell me..."

"Sorry." Dumbledore refused directly, and turned to Hermione, "Miss Granger, please take Mrs. Julian to my office, I will go to see Fudge later, and then I will send her back .”

After finishing speaking, he nodded at Mrs. Weasley, Harry and others, turned around and left directly.

Julian was helpless, and Mrs. Weasley came over to comfort her, left Ron behind, and drove the twins and Bill away, and then she and Hermione helped Julian to the principal's office.

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

"That's the Head of the Ike Welfare Institute," Ron replied, "Mum and Hermione have been with her, she looks so pitiful..."

"Humph!"

Harry snorted coldly, lay down directly on the bed, and then closed his eyes.Ron was about to say something, saw Sirius lying down beside the bed, thought for a while, but finally didn't speak.

(End of this chapter)