A day at Hogwarts

In the woods, an Auror wanted to wake Winky up, but was stopped by Fudge.

This matter involved Barty Crouch, which was a bit tricky, and Fudge wanted to wait until he came to deal with it.

The Auror wanted to take Winky's wand, and Hermione hurriedly shouted: "Don't touch the wand!"

Everyone looked at her.

Hermione pointed to the Dark Mark in the sky that had not disappeared and said: "I'm worried that there is dark magic on it that will hurt people."

"If Harry sees his wand and takes it away..."

Everyone understood what he meant.

At the moment, this matter must have been done by the Death Eaters, and Harry killed their Dark Lord. They are very likely to retaliate against Harry through some means.

Fudge said: "Stop first, wait for Dumbledore to find Potter."

There may be dark magic on the wand. Since Dumbledore is here, let the big guy go first.

Not long after, Dumbledore brought Harry to the scene.

Dumbledore pointed at the wand in Winky's hand and asked Harry: "Is that your wand?"

Harry immediately replied: "It's my wand, I'm just trying to find it back."

He quickly recognized the tea towel on the house-elf: "Isn't that Winky? We saw her in the box. What happened to her?"

Harry wanted to go over and get his wand back, but Fudge stopped him and told Dumbledore about Hermione's guess.

Dumbledore thought it made sense, so he personally went forward to check the wand in Winky's hand.

Fortunately, there was no dark magic on the wand.

Although it was a false alarm, no one thought it was unnecessary.

If there was a dark mark in the sky and Harry was killed by a trap on the ground, I don't know how he would live.

Fudge asked Harry, "Potter, when did your wand disappear?"

Harry replied, "I fell with Ron in the woods over there just now, and I think it fell at that time."

Scrimgeour arrived later than Harry and the others, and said to Fudge in a deep voice, "Minister, I suggest that we split into two groups, one group follows Potter to the place where he fell, and the other group follows the two footprints to find forward."

Fudge agreed, and the troops split into two groups, and the two groups met at the place where Harry and Ron fell.

Someone cast a spell to illuminate the surroundings, and a problem appeared.

There were traces of Ron and Harry falling on the ground, but there were no tree roots.

"Malfoy!" Hermione exclaimed, "Draco Malfoy, he was standing over there just now."

She pointed to the place where Malfoy had just stood, and an Auror went over to check, and indeed found footprints.

Fudge's face was terribly dark.

Lucius Malfoy's disappearance was vaguely related to the Azkaban prison break, but there was no evidence.

Now the Dark Mark appeared in the sky, and his son appeared in related occasions. Is there any connection between them?

Scrimgeour and Dumbledore repeatedly questioned Harry and his group to confirm that Malfoy did not cast a spell at the time.

Fudge listened on the side and said after listening: "Even if he is not the mastermind, he is related to the mastermind."

"I guess his task is to distract Potter and prevent Potter from finding out that his wand has been taken away."

Scrimgeour nodded. This situation is very likely to happen.

Dumbledore remained silent. Anything is possible now, and conclusions cannot be drawn easily.

Draco is the kind of person who does not make big mistakes but makes small mistakes all the time.

He dared not to steal the wand and put the Dark Mark, but he was asked to help on the grounds of teasing Harry Potter.

The work of encircling the black-robed wizards has been completed, and Barty Crouch was brought here.

Crouch saw Fudge, Scrimgeour and Dumbledore here, and asked calmly: "Minister, what happened here?"

Fudge took a step to the side, showing Crouch the twinkle on the ground.

"Barty," Fudge said in a deep voice, "We found her under the Dark Mark. She was under a Stunning Spell and had Potter's wand in her hand. Potter had been tripped here before and his wand was stolen."

Crouch's mouth twitched and his hands were shaking.

"Minister!" He looked very angry, "Do you mean that I let my house-elf run away to be a thief and then release the Dark Mark?"

Fudge immediately waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, I didn't mean that. I was just explaining the current findings."

"We also found another person's footprints next to the twinkling footprints. She is likely to be held hostage."

Crouch's face looked calmer, but his hands trembled more and twitched a little.

Scrimgeour went over and said, "Relax, Barty, we believe you."

Everyone was not surprised by Crouch's reaction. Anyone who encountered such a thing would be angry. Many people agreed that his house-elf was kidnapped.

But Crouch knew what he was doing and couldn't relax.

He took a few deep breaths and said, "Let Winky wake up."

An Auror removed the spell from Winky, and someone took the wand from her, but for a moment he didn't know whether to return it to Harry or to the leader.

Scrimgeour winked at the Auror, and the Auror handed the wand to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore raised Harry's wand and said to Scrimgeour, "Flashback."

Scrimgeour nodded and cast a spell with his wand against Harry's wand.

"Flashback Pre-Spell!"

A little green light first appeared at the top of Harry's wand, and then a terrifying skeleton with snake tongues emerged from the junction of the two wands, exactly the same as the one above his head.

People around him exclaimed, and Crouch's face turned darker.

The Aurors over there began to interrogate Winky, but all she could do was scream that she knew nothing.

At this moment Hermione stood up: "It's not her. Winky spoke in a high-pitched voice. The voice we just heard reciting the spell was much deeper!"

She was a little nervous. This was the first time she spoke to a Ministry of Magic official like this, and she couldn't help turning her head to look at Ron and the others.

"Yeah, that's a human voice," Ron said.

Fred also said: "We can tell clearly that the voice should be that of a middle-aged man."

Neville also added: "The height, the place where the sound came from is not the height of a house elf, probably..."

He looked around and said, "About as tall as Mr. Crouch."

Crouch suddenly shouted: "You mean I was the one who cast the spell?!"

"Barty," Scrimgeour acted as peacemaker for his son, "Little Longbottom is just giving an example, not accusing you."

Crouch snorted at the two of them, feeling relieved that they didn't suspect him.

At this time Fudge asked Hermione and the others: "Do you still have evidence?"

Then Dumbledore said: "I think we need a Pensieve."

Fudge immediately said: "Yes, let the Aurors check their memories separately!"

Dumbledore said again: "Let me do it. Has anyone brought a bottle?"

He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say it. He wanted to get the students out of the matter first.

Fudge also believed that those children had nothing to do with the matter. Because of the footprints, Winky should have been held hostage by the wizard, so he agreed with Dumbledore to retrieve the memory.

The top priority now is to find the wizard based on the clues.

Crouch became nervous again. If the Auror continued to look for the footprints, he might be able to find the footprints of Winky and the wizard leading directly to the stadium box.

At this time, Frank Longbottom came from the direction of the stadium and said to Scrimgeour: "It's impossible to find those two footprints near the entrance and exit of the stadium. There are too many people and the scene is destroyed."

Scrimgeour sighed helplessly and said, "The wizard may have kidnapped the house elf when he left the field."

Crouch breathed a sigh of relief.

"Minister," Crouch walked over and said to Fudge, "I am fully aware that according to the procedure, Winky must be brought back to the Ministry of Magic for questioning. However, I still ask for your permission to deal with her by me."

"Don't worry, she will be punished for her mistakes." Crouch added coldly.

Fudge looked at Crouch, nodded and said, "No problem."

"I think she is also a victim, so don't be too harsh on her."

Everyone was on edge tonight, as another unexpected incident occurred, and Fudge was worried that Crouch would do something too rough.

Crouch said: "I was so outraged by Winky's behavior tonight that I told her to stay in the tent. I found out she didn't complete my task. And that means - clothes!"

Twinkle was sitting on the ground just now, looking at her master with tears in her eyes, stammering and pleading in a low voice.

When the word "clothes" came out of her mouth, she crawled to Crouch like crazy, hugged her thighs and screamed: "No, Master! No clothes, no clothes!"

Hermione saw this scene not far away and was about to go over and say something when it happened that it was her turn to retrieve the memory just now.

When Dumbledore pulled out the silver memory from her temple, Crouch and Winky didn't know where they were going.

At this time, George and Ginny came over and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Fred and Dumbledore together.

Dumbledore waved his hand and asked the students to leave.

Fred asked George, "Have you met Charles?"

George shook his head and said: "After that thing appeared, many people ran to the stadium. We looked for it for a long time, but we didn't see him."

Ron said nervously: "Do you think that Death Eater will capture Charles?"

Seamus, who had been watching the excitement, said, "I don't know who caught whom yet. He must be fooling around with the Veelas somewhere."

Everyone thought it made sense, and Hermione began to write it down in a notebook.

At this time, a voice sounded: "Sorry, I'm late."

"I went to visit Mr. Smith just now. He seemed to be in good condition."

A smile appeared on Fudge's face and he said to the visitor: "Oh, Mr. Consultant, I'm glad you can show up here."

Dumbledore pulled out the Elder Wand and stared at Grindelwald.

Grindelwald asked what happened, and Fudge seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and told the story in detail.

After hearing this, he said: "Mr. Crouch is so unlucky."

Fudge said: "Yes, his son died in Azkaban, and his wife also died of illness. The two things were very close. It is rare to have a well-raised house elf. Now he is the only one in the family."

Grindelwald had an expression of disbelief on his face.