HP Polar Night

Chapter 88 1 Corpses

In the middle of the night, shortly after Snape knocked on the door of the principal's office, several professors received a summons from Dumbledore's patron saint and rushed to the principal's office.

"What happened?" Moody was unable to move, and Professor Flitwick arrived one after another.

"A student is missing." Dumbledore said succinctly, he had already learned something from Harry, and the expression on his face was not good at this moment.

Professor McGonagall took a breath: "Who is missing?"

This is what several other professors wanted to know, and several pairs of eyes looked at Dumbledore.

"Agareth Black." Snape on the side said coldly.

Everyone present was familiar with this name, and Moody frowned: "Are you sure it's missing? As far as I know, this student often violates the curfew. Could it be that he didn't return from his night tour?"

Professor McGonagall also knows a lot about Agares' ability to swim at night: "Yes, Black often stays in the laboratory at night."

"I've searched for several places I frequent. The portrait said that I didn't see him coming out at night." Dumbledore said seriously.At the first time, he had already asked the portraits of the castle, but none of them saw Agares.

According to the portrait, the last time they saw Agares was him coming out of the lab and going back to the Slytherin lounge.

If Agares had deliberately used the illusion spell to come out of the lounge and go somewhere else, no one would know.

Dumbledore obviously took this into consideration. He used the headmaster's authority to order the house-elves in the castle to look for Agares, but there was no reply until now, presumably he was no longer in the castle.

"I need to go to the Ministry of Magic and find people in other places with the help of Aurors. House elves cannot leave the castle, so you need to search for places such as the Forbidden Forest, Black Lake, and Hogsmeade village. Find someone After that, notify me immediately."

Several professors have nothing to say.

Dumbledore looked at Harry and Draco who were nervous on the side, and said: "You two go back to the dormitory first, for safety's sake, don't come out again. I promise you, once there is news about Agares, I will tell you as soon as possible . " The two boys had no choice but to nod in Dumbledore's eyes.

Everyone split up, and Harry, who had returned to the Gryffindor lounge, was in no mood to go back to sleep. He sat in front of the fireplace waiting for the news, feeling extremely anxious.

Agares, you must be fine.

Draco who returned to the dormitory was similar. If he hadn't been warned by the dean just now, he must have been unable to help but contact his father for help.

Agares was lying on the cold floor, his hair was already soaked with sweat, his vision was a little blurred, and he only felt a faint fire jumping in front of him.A cold snake was crawling beside him, faintly spitting out snake letters.

For a moment, Agares thought he was dead, and the pain from the depths of his bones made his body twitch uncontrollably. He couldn't hear the sounds around him, couldn't feel the existence of life, even The faint light seemed to be getting further and further away from him.

"Wormtail, help him up."

There was a rustling sound, and then Agareth's upper body was lifted up. Peter pinched his chin and lifted his face, and his gray eyes, which had lost all expression, met the red ones.

The memories in my mind reappeared uncontrollably, and those past pictures were like dynamic portraits turning rapidly: the life of struggling in the Muggle neighborhood when I was young, and receiving the admission notice from Hogwarts On the day of the book, when I walked into Diagon Alley in the wizarding world, getting along with Harry, the establishment of Andumari...

Everything seemed to be replaying in my mind like a revolving lantern.

Agares regained some sanity. He knew that Voldemort was using Legilimency on him, but his body after being tortured by several Cruciatus Curse made him unable to resist at all.

After what seemed like a long time, and what seemed like only an instant, Voldemort stopped Legilimency.

"Interesting, Agareth Black, you are more interesting than I thought."

He heard Voldemort say that.

"Wormtail, take him to the basement."

After that, Agares didn't know, because he had fallen into a deep coma.

In order to avoid panic, the disappearance of Agares was not announced at Hogwarts.Everyone who knew about it was asked to keep it a secret, including Harry's half-knowing roommates.

As the think tank of the trio, Hermione is naturally not within the scope of secrecy.

In addition to finding the whereabouts of Agares, Hermione has become the focus of attention on why Harry can dream of Agares' disappearance, and whether his dream is a prophecy or represents other meanings.

If Agares was brought before Voldemort by someone, as in Harry's dream, then this person must be someone who could sneak into the castle, who would it be?

What was the purpose of this person bringing Agares to Voldemort?

Will Agares be in danger?

Is he still alive?

All of this, they don't know.I can only be like a headless fly, trapped in the castle and worrying, but I can't do anything.

Dumbledore notified Sirius of Agares' disappearance. If Harry's dream was true, then Agares must be with Peter at this moment.This made Sirius continue to search outside day and night, but the wizarding world is too big, there is no direction, no clues, and he has no way to find it.

Harry's memory was also pulled out and put into a Pensieve to be checked repeatedly.

Judging from Dumbledore's expression, he seemed to have learned some clues from it, but he did not find Voldemort's hiding place at the moment.

Four days after Agares disappeared, Hagrid found a body in the Forbidden Forest.

"What Aragog told me... oh, what a pity... he just lay there all alone, turned to stone... If Aragog hadn't said it smelled bad, I wouldn't have thought it was a People..." Hagrid blew his nose on his dirty handkerchief, and pea-sized tears kept oozing from his beetle-black eyes.

It was Dumbledore and Moody who came after hearing the news and were standing in front of the corpse.

"Thank you, Hagrid, let us come here." Dumbledore dismissed him.

Moody walked forward with a cane to check the corpse: "It's Barty Crouch, it seems that he has been dead for a while."

Dumbledore looked sharply.

"I suspect that he was killed on the night that Black disappeared. It is very likely that Black accidentally encountered the murder scene and was taken away by the murderer." Moody said his guess.

"Very likely." Dumbledore pondered, "Let's take Batty back first, and then notify the Ministry of Magic."

"Let me do it." Moody cast a levitation spell on Barty Crouch's body, and brought him back to the castle.

After an examination of Barty Crouch's body, it was determined that he died of a death curse.Who is the murderer, and why did he throw his body in the Forbidden Forest?Where did Crouch go during his disappearance, and how did he appear at Hogwarts?

These questions all plague people who want to find out the truth.

On the sixth day of Agares' disappearance, Dumbledore subdued Moody with a swoon.

"Dumbledore?" Several other professors from Hogwarts were present, and it was Professor McGonagall who asked the question.

"Minerva, don't worry, I will tell you the reason for doing this. Of course, now I need you to go to the tower of Gryffindor and take Harry to the headmaster's office. We will wait for you there."

When Harry followed Professor McGonagall to the principal's office in a daze, he was surprised to see Professor Moody lying on the ground.Dumbledore glanced at him: "Okay, now we can start. Severus, please wake him up, by the way, don't forget to give him a few drops of Veritaserum, we need that."

Snape with a dark face walked over, pulled Moody's upper body roughly, and poured a few drops of transparent liquid into his mouth. "Quick recovery."

Moody's eyes moved slightly, slowly waking up.

"Tell us about yourself, who are you?" Dumbledore asked.

Moody closed his eyes, as if refusing to answer, but the effects of the truth potion overwhelmed him, and he confided unemotionally, "Barty Crouch."

"Crouch?!" Professor Flitwick exclaimed in surprise.Barty Crouch's body is still in the medical wing, why does this person in front of him say he is Crouch?

Dumbledore asked calmly: "Which Crouch are you?" He had already guessed the answer to this question, but at this time he just wanted to let other people present hear the answer with their own ears.

"I'm Barty Crouch Jr., Barty Crouch's son."

"Didn't you die in Azkaban?" Professor McGonagall asked.

The man lying on the ground, still wearing Moody's appearance, replied: "My mother saved me, she knew she was dying, and begged my father to get me out... They came to see me, and my mother and I drank compound soup Potion... I left Azkaban..."

"Is the disappearance of Agareth Black related to you?"

Hearing this question, Harry stared intently at the people on the ground, wanting to hear the answer.

Barty Crouch Jr. said: "Yes, I brought him to the master."

Hiss... Several people gasped.By now, everyone knows who the owner of the population in front of them is, and Agares was brought to Voldemort as expected.

"Why did you take Agares away?"

"Master's order." Barty Jr. didn't say more, obviously he didn't know why Voldemort asked him to bring Agares to him.

"Where is Agares now?"

"I don't know, Wormtail saw from the Daily Prophet that the Aurors were searching for Black, and they left."

"What else does Voldemort ask of you?"

"Take advantage of the Triwizard Tournament and bring him Harry Potter."

"why?"

"Bone and blood potion... the owner can be resurrected... with Harry Potter's blood..."

The author has something to say:

If Barty Jr. had kidnapped Agares without much trouble, he wouldn't have been caught so quickly

You ruined Voldemort's resurrection plan.

Why did Voldemort take Agares away?Isn't this a warning?

In the middle of the night, Calvin is hungry and sleepy, ying ying ying~

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