Hogwarts Advanced Guide

Chapter 254
But if Hera could find another subordinate for Voldemort, the situation would be quite different.

Hera's eyes narrowed, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She continued to smooth Hermione's messy hair with her hands, but it was a pity that she couldn't make them stay on her head docilely.

In just a few breaths, the situation in the open space changed again.

Mr. Crouch watched Diggory put his house-elf at his feet, and he did not move or speak.The other officials of the Ministry of Magic stared at Mr. Crouch.For several seconds, Crouch stood motionless, as if frozen, his pale face staring intently at Winky on the ground with fire-breathing eyes.Then, he seemed to come back to himself.

"It's—impossible—impossible," he said in pauses, "impossible—"

He walked quickly around Mr Diggory and strode towards the place where Winky had been discovered.

"It's no use, Mr. Crouch," cried Mr. Diggory after him, "there's no one else there."

But Mr. Crouch didn't seem to want to heed his words.They heard him walking up and down and rustling the leaves as he parted the bushes in search.

"It's kind of embarrassing," said Mr. Diggory sternly, looking down at Winky's delirious figure. "Barty Crouch's house-elf...I mean..."

"No, there's nothing embarrassing about it, everything is based on evidence." Hera said loudly for Mr. Diggory.

"Stop talking nonsense, Amos." Arthur whispered, "Do you think it was really a house-elf who did it? The Dark Mark is a wizard's symbol, and you need a wand."

"Yes." Mr. Diggory seemed to feel that the atmosphere was still too lively, and he added: "She has a wand."

"What?" The wizards present couldn't help exclaiming in a low voice.

"Here, you see." Mr. Diggory held up a wand and handed it to Mr. Weasley. "She is holding it in her hand. This first violates the third rule of the "Rules for the Use of Wands: No non-human creature can carry or use a wand."

Mr. Crouch came back empty-handed, still frighteningly white, with twitching hands and a toothbrush moustache.

"My house-elf has been stunned," said Mr. Crouch, still slurring his words, his lips barely moving.

"Aha, do you think we'll believe it?" Hera didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement. He knew that Crouch must have found the 'invisible man', but he couldn't take the initiative to reveal the existence of that person—that must be a big trouble.

"Been cast with a stun spell?" Hera looked down at Shining in surprise, and asked in an extremely incredible voice. "I think all it takes is a simple spell to know if she did it or not."

"You mean flashback?" said Mr. Diggory. "If you have no objection, Mr. Crouch, I think we should first hear how she defends herself."

Mr. Crouch made no response, as if he had not heard Mr. Diggory, and Mr. Diggory took his silence for acquiescence.He raised his wand, pointed at Winky and said, "Resuscitate quickly!"

It's just that Hera's movements were faster, and he uttered the spell before Mr. Digory: "Flash back to the previous spell!"

Everyone gasped, and saw a horrific, snake-breathing skeleton emerge from where the two wands met, but it was just the shadow of the green skeleton above their heads, which seemed to be made of thick gray loathing: a magical ghost.

"I think there's no need to explain it anymore, it's just this house elf who did it—" Hera directly pinned the fault on Winky, so that no one would care whether there was a non-existent person in the bush.

"That's my wand!" Harry recognized when the green light from the skeleton shooting into the clearing fell on the wand.

Everyone in the clearing turned to look at him, including Hera.

"Did you just find out now?" Hera complained in her heart.

"Excuse me, what did you say?" asked Mr. Diggory in disbelief.

"That's my wand," said Harry, "I lost it."

"You lost it?" Mr. Diggory repeated suspiciously. "Are you confessing? You lost your wand when you conjured the Mark?"

Snapped!
Hera slapped her forehead with one hand. Sure enough, the decline of the Ministry of Magic is not without reason. As far as Mr. Diggory's IQ is concerned, he probably picked a random student from Hogwarts. Even Neville knows how ridiculous this is!
He was questioning Harry Potter!

In fact, it's not just Hera who thinks this way, everyone else has this idea in their minds.

"Amos, think about who you are talking to." Mr. Weasley looked very angry, "Could it be that Harry Potter will turn into the Dark Mark?"

"Oh, of course not," muttered Mr. Diggory vaguely, "I'm sorry I'm out of breath."

Luckily Harry didn't care, he just wanted his wand back.

The atmosphere became solidified again.

At the same time, Hera stood up and put Hermione in the chair.

"I don't know, can I leave? My friend is still waiting for me, we just got separated accidentally."

"Of course, Mr. Lestrange, I think the matter is already clear, and it has nothing to do with you." The witch in the woolen shirt was probably one of the few sensible people present, and she naturally gave Hera a position—enough for him to leave the encirclement of the Aurors.

"Thank you, ma'am." Hera nodded slightly, waved to Hermione and the others, and quickly left the open space, disappearing into the darkness.

"He must have gone to find Penelope, right?" Harry carefully observed Hermione's face, seeing that she hadn't changed, he let out a long sigh of relief.

In fact, Hera was not in a hurry to find Penello, believing that she could take care of herself.

He just circled around and returned to the grass near the clearing, silently chanted the silent spell and the illusion spell to himself, and searched the grass lightly.

After about ten minutes, loud crying and crying came from the open space, and Hera finally found the invisible man she was looking for.

He seemed to have been knocked down by the Stunning Spell, and Hera just silently put away the Invisibility Cloak on his body—even though it was not as good as the one inherited by the Potter family, it was still expensive.

Holding the wizard's cloak, Hera whispered softly: "Apparition!"

(End of this chapter)