Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 490 Chaos ([-])

"Stop the game, Bagman! Hurry up and announce the stop of the game! Tell all the staff present to maintain order and let people evacuate in an orderly manner... Those who can use [Apparition] to leave first... Let them go first. Those who have families and cannot leave stay where they are, waiting for the Aurors..."

"Tell them our Aurors are hunting for the Death Eaters..."

"Tell them all is well!"

Barty Crouch reappeared out of nowhere, shouting orders to Bagman.

"Wetherby! Come on, go find Fudge... go back to the Ministry... let him send the Aurors back."

"What are you doing, don't just stand there... Percy Weatherby! Quickly!"

"Oh... oh, Mr. Crouch... yes, no problem!"

Percy was in a daze at first, but when he heard that he was calling himself, he immediately trembled with excitement, and disappeared on the court with a wave of his wand.

"Harry Potter...you come with me! You're not safe here!"

Barty Crouch threw off the representatives of the Bulgarian and Irish Ministry of Magic who were approaching him, came up to Harry, grabbed his wrist, and tried to pull him away.

"No, he has to stay here, I will protect him."

"Who are you?...Oh, who are you!"

"Mr. Crouch, let's maintain order first! Harry's safety - I will take care of it. Professor Dumbledore and Fudge have entrusted this matter to me..."

Black coldly shook off Crouch's hand extended to Harry.

"No...he must be under the Ministry of Magic..."

Before Crouch could finish his words, the surrounding representatives of foreign wizards surrounded him, asking what happened.

In particular, the representatives of the Ministry of Magic of Ireland and Bulgaria were full of anger. The Bulgarian Minister of Magic yelled at Crouch, saying that the game should continue.

"It's a disgrace! How can that kind of prank stop the game from continuing? Barty Crouch... We in the Ministry of Magic in Bulgaria don't know what Fudge and you are up to... But you must give a clear and serious explanation! Krum will be able to catch the golden snitch to win the game in the next moment, but you prevent it all. Are you doing something private with that old vulture in Ireland!"

The Bulgarian Minister of Magic, who had been pretending not to speak English, directly lashed out at Crouch.

When the representative of the Ministry of Magic of Ireland heard these words, he raised his fist and punched Bulgaria.

Soon, the whole box was thrown into chaos.

While not wand-wielding, the chaos was enough for Barty Crutch to drink a jug of.

He couldn't care less about pulling Harry.

"Armor protection!"

Black waved his wand, and after casting several spells for Harry's body protection in a row, he pulled a few people to hide in the vacant seats on the side, and sat down again.

Harry finally asked, "What's going on? Bu... Padfoot!"

"What is that thing!" He looked to the sky.

"The Dark Mark! The symbol of the Death Eaters!"

"Whenever the Dark Lord and his disciples kill someone, the Dark Mark will be displayed in the air." Blake pointed to the area around the stadium, "...the fear that this thing brings far exceeds its symbolic meaning...I haven't seen this thing 13 years ago."

Harry looked down at the stadium audience,—wizards were running around in a panic, like mice in a maze, all kinds of people...

Some wizards waved their wands and disappeared into the stadium; wizards with families, especially children, could only protect these little wizards and ran along the aisle in a panic in the crowd;
The Quidditch players on the pitch were also stunned. Krum and Lynch finally gave up on chasing the Snitch. They stopped above the pitch, looking at the out-of-control scene around the pitch and the Dark Mark in the sky, at a loss;
Musta was doing his best to keep both players off the top of the pitch so they wouldn't be targeted, but many Quidditch players thought it was a prank.They thought the incident would end easily and the game would start again, and these people refused to leave the pitch;

The war between the veela and the leprechauns stopped, and the two sides fled towards the exit of the Quidditch field in a hurry. They seemed to be more afraid of the Dark Mark than the wizards, and the two completely different sharp voices almost cut through everything;
And the staff of the department that originally organized the two parties on the court, after receiving the order, hurried back to the court corridor and began to work hard to maintain the order of the audience's exit... Unfortunately, as before, they were still weak and could not play a big role, and they were immediately swept away by the crowd.

"Bligh... Padfoot!" Hermione asked in a low voice after she calmed down, "Why don't we leave here! It doesn't look safe here."

"This is the safest place now. No one dares to act rashly among hundreds of thousands of wizards... Harry is the safest place here."

"The Dark Mark just now is only used to scare others and cause confusion...these dark wizards can wait for an opportunity. Like I said just now... people think that mark is too scary, and I suspect..."

Black stared at Crouch and said, "I don't know what this guy is up to? It doesn't matter whether Crouch is specifically causing trouble for Cornelius Fudge...Anyway, it's better for Harry to stay with most people to be safer."

"That's right!" Bill nodded. He waved his wand to slowly extend the wall of the box upwards, making it enough to block the view below, and then said, "Actually, at this time, Crouch, who is the highest position here, should maintain order in the stadium, let hundreds of thousands of wizards stay in their seats, and let the game continue... He shouldn't spread panic. This is not like the legendary Barty Crouch who never compromised on black magic!"

"Or... it could be because... he wanted to make things difficult for Fudge. I heard from the goblins at Gringotts last week that... Barty Cratchit and Fudge were in a heated battle for the right to be the Minister of Magic," Bill said.

"It's possible that he specifically caused this confusion. If I'm not mistaken, he was probably trying to control you, Harry..." Charlie interjected.

"Control me?" Harry asked in shock.

"Well, yes, power struggles... They see you as some kind of treasure, some kind of treasure that can expand their own political influence... These political animals are not much better than Death Eaters!" Sirius Black said extremely contemptuously.

"So Harry, it's better for you to stay here, and besides, didn't Percy go to the Ministry of Magic for help?" Charlie said in a muffled voice. He swung his wand and bounced the shoes that had been smashed by the Bulgarian and Irish 'Great Melee'.

Ron looked up at the trembling Dark Mark in the sky, and suddenly asked, "Isn't the Dark Mark only cast by Death Eaters?"

"It should be like this. This is the magic that the Dark Lord taught the Death Eaters." Hermione said
"But... I remember those Death Eaters were all caught?"

"Not all Death Eaters are in prison Ron! Not all..." Bill said, looking at the group of pure-blood wizards gathered at the back of the crowd.

DeLS Malfoy hid behind his mother with an uneasy expression. His expression was nervous, frightened...and a little at a loss, which was completely different from her usual expression of being proud of a pure-blood wizard.

Most of the small group of pure-blood wizards had already disappeared on the field through [apparition].Only wizard families with young wizards remained, and most of them showed more panic than other wizards.

Especially Lucius Malfoy, he was completely unable to maintain his usual aristocratic demeanor of a pure-blood wizard, his face was so pale that he had no blood.

"Is it the mark that LS Malfoy and the others put out? My dad told us that the Malfoy family has a good relationship with the You-Know-Who..." Ron asked.

"no, I can not!"

Black vetoed this speculation, shaking his head slowly and said, "Lucius Malfoy, who escaped from the Wizengamot court...wouldn't have the guts to provoke the Ministry of Magic on this occasion. He's not that kind of person...only a die-hard believer of You-Know-Who would do that!"

"True, but... what's the point of doing that? Could it be Voldemort—" said Harry.Everyone shivered - the Weasleys, like most of the wizarding world, had avoided uttering Voldemort's name, even Ron.

"Um, I'm sorry," Harry quickly apologized, "Could it be that the mysterious man has really returned... Is this his announcement? And Fudge... what happened to the Ministry of Magic? Mr. Weasley, Dumbledore and the others..."

"I'm a little worried about McGuffin!" Harry hadn't finished.

After a few puffs, Percy brought Mr. Weasley... and more than [-] Aurors suddenly descended from the sky, and then Fudge and a wizard with a head like a lion also [apparated] in the box.

Then more Aurors appeared on the field.

With the appearance of the Aurors and Fudge, under their command... the Quidditch field gradually began to restore calm.

Almost surrounded by five or six extremely tall Aurors, Harry walked slowly down the purple carpeted stairs.

Mr. Weasley asked Black about the specific situation.

Fudge comforted the wizards and other representatives of the Ministry of Magic.

Soon, they went outside the stadium and merged into the crowd in the tide. People looked at Harry and them in amazement.

This kind of personal guard, treated like a big star...had made Harry and Hermione extremely embarrassed, and they lowered their heads to avoid the eyes of dozens or hundreds of pairs.

Ron enjoyed the 'highlights' situation very much.

They just walked slowly, 'very peculiarly' through the crowd... along the lantern-lit passage back to the Weasley family's camp tent.

When Harry returned to the tent, he saw several more Aurors patrolling around.

They even brought all the forest in front of them to life, and let them move away by themselves, creating an open space, and the other tents around them were also moved to other camps.

There are many magical flames and [Luminescent Curse] illuminating the open space, making it as bright as day, and even an ant can see it.

This battle finally frightened Ron.

His jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Mr. Weasley's face was gloomy, and he said vaguely that it was not safe here now, and everyone, including Ginny and Hermione, had to spend the night in a tent with them.

This made Harry feel even more that things were developing towards the worst possibility he had foreseen.

"Dad, what the hell is going on!" Ron begged Mr. Weasley to answer himself many times.

Mr. Weasley finally agreed to say something after being threatened by the twins and repeatedly questioned by Bill and Charlie.

"Well, I can only tell you one thing..."

"The Ministry of Magic has been invaded!"

"What!" they cried almost simultaneously.

"Where is McGuffin! How is he!" Harry hurriedly asked about Albert's condition.

"Yes, wasn't McGuffin dragged to the Ministry of Magic by Ms. Hopkirk? How is he?" Hermione also reacted, and she asked hastily.

Mr. Weasley faltered and refused to answer clearly, making Harry feel as if his heart was being strangled by a pair of huge iron hands.

The room fell silent for a moment, only the 'cat smell' wafting in the room, and there were some loud arguments from outside, which sounded like the voices of Fudge and Crouch, and Black interrupted the argument from time to time.

A few minutes later, Sirius Black came back from the outside, and he said to Mr. Weasley angrily, "Fudge said he wanted Harry to stay here. He also refused to reveal the whereabouts of Professor Dumbledore... what he said...he was in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Magic. What happened? Arthur? What happened in the Ministry of Magic?"

"I can't tell you, Padfoot!" Mr. Weasley looked out extremely nervously. Seeing that Fudge hadn't come in, he closed the tent before whispering, "Professor Dumbledore is fine! I can only tell you that the Ministry of Magic has been invaded...McGuffin, MacGuffin Albert will be fine! Fudge issued a gag order tonight."

"Also... Black, Bill, Charlie, you stay here and look after Harry. Tomorrow, the Portkey will be delivered to let us return to the Burrow. Be careful. Too many things happened today and tonight! Merlin...it's unimaginable that these things will happen!"

Mr. Weasley muttered in confusion, "Oh, yes...you're going to need this."

With a wave of his magic wand, three purple-blue sleeping bags appeared on the ground, and then hurriedly left the room as if fleeing from a few people's problems.

Immediately afterwards, everyone argued about what had just happened.

About the Ministry of Magic, who had released the Dark Lord's Mark... George and Ron were arguing.

Ron always thought it was done by Malfoy's pure-blood wizards, while George and Fred thought it was probably related to the dark wizards who attacked the Ministry of Magic.

There is also a serious disagreement between Charlie and Bill regarding the possibility of the team at the end of the game winning. (Harry suspects that the two of them deliberately changed the subject to lighten the atmosphere.)
Finally Ginny fell asleep at the little table, spilling a cup of hot cocoa on the floor.

At this time, everyone realized that it was getting late. Seeing this, Black and Bill immediately asked everyone to stop arguing and go to sleep.

Sirius said he would keep the vigil here himself.

Harry gave Ron and Hermione a look, and the three of them immediately slowed down and stayed with Black in the living room full of suspicious 'cat smell'.

(End of this chapter)