Hogwarts Advanced Guide

Chapter 290 Lestrange Forced to Open Business
"What we can foresee is that someone has infiltrated Hogwarts." Dumbledore's face was livid. "The unknown 'guest' tampered with the Goblet of Fire, and also controlled and put an official of the Ministry of Magic under house arrest. Before the investigation is clear, I think the Triwizard Tournament has to be temporarily suspended."

"What? It's impossible. I don't accept it. Do you know how much Durmstrang has prepared for this competition? This is a conspiracy. You and your Ministry of Magic lured us here with false excuses, Dumbledore! This result Durmstrong will never accept! You keep talking about improving the connection of the international wizarding community, restoring good relations in the past, and forgetting past differences—I only now understand what kind of person you are!"

Karkaroff spat slyly at Dumbledore.It was too late to say so, Hagrid grabbed Karkaroff by the front of his fur robe, lifted him up, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

"Apologize!" Hagrid yelled, his thick fists were on Karkaroff's throat, and his feet were hanging in the air, which made everyone present tremble inside - Rita Skeeter's writing was really correct, this fellow Hagrid's pedigree is definitely full of violence and blood!
"Hagrid, stop!" Dumbledore shouted, his eyes twinkling sharply.

Hagrid let go of Karkaroff's hand, which had pinned Karkaroff to the tree, and Karkaroff slid down the trunk and collapsed in a heap beside the roots.Branches and leaves rained down on his head.

"Please escort Harry back to the castle, Hagrid," Dumbledore snapped.

Hagrid gasped heavily, and gave Karkaroff a hard look.

"Perhaps I'd better stay here, Headmaster"

"You accompany Harry back to school, Hagrid," Dumbledore said again, very firmly.

Hagrid and Harry left the field, and a lot of seats were vacated at once - mainly because Hagrid's size was too large.

"I think we need to search our people thoroughly, Karkaroff, this cannot be discussed, this is a premeditated trap." Dumbledore said calmly, his voice was like the cold wind in the winter moon, which was painful.

Karkaroff slumped on the ground, "Dumbledore, I'm going to take my students away, and we're going back to Durmstrang."

"I'm sorry, Igor. No one can leave Hogwarts until everything is known. You can't either." Dumbledore directly rejected Karkaroff's 'request', and at the same time, a strong aura erupted from him, as if to vent his anger.

"Dumbledore, what's the matter?" An elegant female voice came, followed by thunderous footsteps, and Madame Maxime also appeared, holding her wand tightly in her hand. It was a very long and somewhat curved wand, which seemed to fit her figure perfectly.

"There has been an accident here," said Dumbledore calmly.Soon, he roughly told Mrs. Maxim about what happened just now, which inevitably shocked Mrs. Maxime a little.

She cast doubtful eyes on Hera, and Hera nodded silently, and now he can only cooperate with Dumbledore. Fortunately, he had the foresight to modify Little Barty's memory, otherwise...all this would be unimaginable.

Madam Maxim finally nodded to Dumbledore. Compared with the competition, she cared more about the safety of the students, and keeping an enemy who didn't know where to hide was obviously ignoring the safety of all the students.

"Thank you for your cooperation. Hogwarts will definitely investigate this matter as soon as possible." Dumbledore nodded.

Madam Pomfrey stood up, she closed the lid of the medical box, "Albus, Barty is confused, I found traces of the Imperius Curse on his body, my God! How did he insist on such a long distance, when I saw him at the beginning of school, I knew something was wrong with him, and I didn't even notice!" She was already crying.

"Okay, Bobby, this is not your problem. Can you take care of him for me? He looks like he needs to take care of him for a while." Dumbledore said softly, as if he didn't want to disturb the sleeping Mr. Crouch.

"It will probably take a long time. He has been under control for too long. I can't guarantee that he will recover as before." Madam Pomfrey sobbed. She was the school doctor at Hogwarts when Barty Crouch was still studying at Hogwarts. It can be said that she watched Barty grow up.

"Very good." Dumbledore nodded. He turned his head and glanced at all the people present, "Madam Maxime, Professor Karkaroff, I hope you can check it among your students. Snape's office lost the African tree snake skin and sapweed. I reasonably suspect that someone used Polyjuice Potion to pretend to be someone else and sneaked into Hogwarts. Similarly, we will investigate the teachers and students of Hogwarts."

"Of course no problem." Madam Maxime nodded, and Karkaroff just nodded blindly while sitting on the ground, making one wonder if he didn't hear what Dumbledore said at all.

"Well, it's not too early now." Hera laughed dryly. His meaning was quite simple. Anyway, he was 'not afraid of the shadow's slanting'. Little Barty was only a few days away from being exposed. He didn't want to spend the whole night with Dumbledore and the others busy.

Madam Maxim winked at Hera, and said in a serious voice: "Then I'll go back to my carriage first, and I want to tell Furong about the competition. Hera, you—"

"Hera, follow me and don't leave, okay?" Dumbledore interrupted Madam Maxime.

Madam Maxime's complexion became very bad, "Dumbledore, I think Hera is still the professor of Beauxbatons, you have no right to investigate."

"Relax, Madame Maxime, I don't doubt Hera, but there are some things that need his help, and this matter must be done by him." Dumbledore comforted softly, and at the same time slightly raised the knotted elder wand in his hand.

Madam Maxim's pupils dilated a little, and she quickly adjusted her mood, "Hera, help Professor Dumbledore well."

After speaking, she turned around and left the venue directly.

Hera looked at Madam Maxim's back anxiously. God knows how much he wanted to leave with her. Why did Dumbledore deliberately keep him?Did he discover his abnormality?
This shouldn't be!
I should have arranged everything reasonably, how could Dumbledore doubt himself?
Hera followed Dumbledore with a gloomy expression. Snape and Moody didn't say a word, they just stood there silently.

Dumbledore and Mrs. Pomfrey escorted Mr. Crouch all the way to the school hospital. They carried Crouch into the hospital bed inside. Moody seemed very angry, saying that he wanted to check again at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, but he didn't come with him, and Dumbledore didn't stop him.Snape followed him back to the school hospital.

As soon as Madam Pomfrey returned to the school hospital, she hurriedly prepared potions. Mr. Crouch's physical condition was really bad.

"Severus, can I trouble you with something?" Dumbledore sat beside the hospital bed, his brows furrowed tightly. "Would you get me some Polyjuice Potion?"

"You mean?" Snape took half a step forward and lowered his voice.

"Yes, that's what you think." Dumbledore nodded.

Hera looked at the two of them with a puzzled face. He thought that Dumbledore was going to ask the teacher for a crime, but why didn't he seem to respond to him right now?
Snape turned away immediately, and Dumbledore rubbed his temple as if it would ease him.

"Hera, I need to ask you something." Dumbledore said, "This will have certain risks, but I believe you will help me, just like you did before."

Hera suddenly had a bad premonition, but she still had the courage to ask, "What do you need me to do?"

"I need you to pretend to be me and know that I have investigated everything."

"what!!!"

"I'm really worried about leaving Batty and Bobby here. I will announce the news tomorrow morning. The murderer will definitely attack Batty, so..."

"So you plan to use Polyjuice Potion to pretend to be Mr. Crouch, and I will announce the search of Hogwarts for you tomorrow morning?" Hera was very surprised, but she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that Dumbledore believed him now.

"That's right, that's it." Dumbledore seemed a little pleased, "I've been thinking for a long time but I can't think of a suitable candidate. Both Severus and Alastor have courses. Now, it's just you." He patted Hera's shoulder heavily with his palm, and blue light shone in his eyes.

"Well, professor, I don't think I can find a more suitable method than this." Hera said helplessly, and at the same time, he silently blessed little Barty in his heart. When he came to attack Crouch full of joy, but found him lying on the hospital bed suddenly turned into Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard in the world, his expression must be pretty.

It's just that I have worked hard on myself. It seems that the third project still needs to be done by myself, which is too risky.

There were hurried footsteps in the corridor, and Snape came back, still clutching a crystal bottle tightly in his hand.

"Dumbledore, there are not many stocks of Compound Potion. You know, this is not a commonly used potion."

"It's okay, I'm very happy that you have a stock of Polyjuice Potion." Dumbledore said, "Can you brew some more for me? It will take at least three days' supply."

"Dumbledore, this is definitely not a wise choice." Snape's lips moved slightly, but he still handed the potion to Dumbledore. "Hera will mess things up, just like he acted as the headmaster last time. He has no ability at all."

"Severus, be lenient with Herado." Dumbledore chuckled and tore off one of his silver hairs. He took another cup from the table next to him and threw his hair into it.

The potion was split in two, one was added to Dumbledore's hair and the other to Crouch's.

Snape frowned, and raised his doubts before Hera drank the Polyjuice Potion, "So... where are you going to hide him?"

"Ha, I don't think there's anything safer than your office, isn't it? I think you'll take good care of Barty." Dumbledore blinked, whispered to Snape, picked up the Polyjuice Potion and drank it down.

Hera watched as Dumbledore drank the Polyjuice Potion, and she was not idle, and directly drank the potion in front of her.

This is a very magical potion, which can completely change a person into another person, and similarly, its taste is equally terrible.It tasted like overcooked cabbage, and Hera pinched her nose and swallowed the potion in two big gulps.Immediately, his internal organs began to writhe, as if he had swallowed several live snakes just now.

A burning sensation spread rapidly from his stomach to his fingers and toes.Immediately afterwards, there was a terrible melting feeling, as if all his skin was bubbling like hot wax, which made him hunched over and gasped.

He watched as his skin began to age and wrinkle, his knuckles bulged like bolts, his shoulders began to stretch, his leg bones began to lengthen, and it was excruciating pain.

The needle-like pain on his forehead told him that the hair was stretching towards his eyebrows, and as his height swelled, his robes were shortened to reveal his calves, and his body was bound in pain by the cloak that should have fitted him.
Things come and go as fast as they come.All of a sudden, everything stopped.Hera looked at everything in a blur, a little flustered.

"Oh, I forgot such an important thing." Dumbledore - oh no - should call him Mr. Crouch now, took off the half-moon glasses on the bridge of his nose. "Here for you, and my wand."

"Thank you." Hera put on her glasses and was able to see clearly the situation in the medical room. One Mr. Crouch was lying on the hospital bed, while the other Mr. Crouch was sitting beside the bed, his robe was loosely draped over his body.

"That's about it, I think." Mr. Crouch said softly, "Severus, help me take care of Barty, will you?"

"No problem." Snape nodded, he whispered a few spells to Crouch on the hospital bed, and then used the levitation technique to take the invisible Crouch away.

Now there are only Mr. Crouch disguised by Dumbledore and Hera left in the room. He whispered to Hera about various matters, "Hera, after you leave the school hospital, you'd better wake up all the professors, explain the current situation clearly, and tell them that you need to make an announcement at breakfast tomorrow. Also, don't leak the news. The less people who know about this matter, the better."

"No problem, Professor—oh no, Barty." Hera nodded, indicating that she had remembered.

"One more thing, you have to be careful of Crouch's assistant, Richfar Heilig, he is not a simple guy."

(End of this chapter)