Harry Potter’s Natural Villain
Chapter 256 Veritaserum Used
Not long after, the incident about Mr. Crouch should come to an end. The last answer Dumbledore could give was to strengthen the management of the Hogwarts campus. He reported to the Ministry of Magic as the principal of Hogwarts. Upon request, a group of Aurors were transferred to Hogwarts to ensure the order and safety of the campus before the start of the third game.
In the end, Mrs. Maxim and Karkaroff reluctantly accepted this compromise, and what is even more puzzling is that even so, Mr. Crouch still called the disease as if he was guilty of conscience, and disappeared from people's sight.
At least among some insiders.
"Oh! They are slander, and there is no evidence. The principals of those two schools are trying to find an excuse to trip Dumbledore!" Percy was talking loudly with his friends in the auditorium.Defending his immediate superiors and roots of power.
"I personally visited Mr. Crouch at his house. He was really weak and lying in bed. To be honest, if he wasn't for office work, he would have gone to St. Mungo's Hospital for recuperation long ago."
"What's more, how could he travel all the way from his home to attack a Triwizard player? Is there any need for him to do this?" Percy shook his head and said half-truth.
According to common sense, Percy’s second half of the statement is not a problem, because any criminal's criminal behavior requires motives, but he lied in the front for the truth and credibility of what he said.
He has never been to Crouch’s house. As the relationship between the boss and the subordinates, it seems that the two have not been intimate enough to invite them home as guests. These are just his meaningless vanity at work, as if this can make others noble Looked at him like a glance.
The other students at the table nodded in agreement and followed. As students of Hogwarts, they were also more inclined to think that this was a conspiracy by Durmstrang, maybe it was Krum and Krum. Karkaroff played a bitter trick.
Otherwise, Krum accidentally broke his head and remembered it wrong.
As for when Percy was chattering at one end of the long table, at the other end of the long table, the Gryffindor trio was also discussing quietly.
"Harry, this is something to be suspicious and wary of." Hermione handed the empty bowl back to the long table, shook her long index finger, and said seriously to Harry.
"I believe that one person will have hallucinations, but it is impossible for both of them to have hallucinations, unless someone uses magic on you, which is even worse."
"Of course I believe that you two will not lie, and the probability of you being hallucinated by magic is also very low. I believe Dumbledore must be able to see if you were awake at the time." Hermione said confidently.
"I only believe in Harry." Ron refused.
"Some of Wiktor’s words are not credible. I asked him alone. He said that he did not see the face of the attacker because he was attacked by someone behind him. In his opinion, there was only Mr. Crouch."
When he heard the first half of the sentence, Ron's face was a little ugly, and his focus went to Hermione and the Quidditch star to be alone.
"But we can't be sure, can't we?" Hermione knocked on the table, her clever and agile eyes dazzlingly bright.
"The culprit may be someone else. After you left, maybe someone else appeared on the scene, for example?"
"You mean...Professor Moody, do you suspect him?" Harry's face was a little ugly, and the lightning-shaped scar was twisted with frowning.
"Of course, he also has suspicions, but the main point I want to express is not that he has suspicions, but that we can't confine our eyes to one place." Hermione said categorically.
Without the annoying Rita Skeeter, Hermione has more energy and patience to analyze these things. If she follows the original trajectory, she will be overwhelmed by Rita Skeeter’s reports and be jealous of her. Female students will retaliate against her.
So she had to devote herself to fighting back against that nasty woman, and she had no time to pay attention to these things.
As for now, although she and Krum still have some lace news, it is limited to this, and it has not had a huge impact on her life.
"Come here now." Hermione glanced around and found that the other students were all gone. "We have to go for a lunch break," she temporarily stopped her analysis. "It was Snape's in the afternoon. Potions class." She added.
"Longbottom! Please use your pig-like brain to remember what I said!" In a blink of an eye, it was time for class. After Snape explained the operation method and let the students of the two institutes start practicing, Neville's desk There was a great situation.
This success made Snape speak badly at him, and his waxy face was full of grumpy emotions.
At this moment, a thick flame suddenly rose up in the cauldron in front of him, constantly twisting his coquettish posture, and in a blink of an eye the fire was about to spread to the ceiling, constantly emitting scorching heat towards the surroundings. High temperature air waves.
The students who were staying around Neville took a few steps back at this time. Neville’s round face was constantly sweating, and his legs were trembling, but they still wanted to do their best to save themselves. Wrong, want to cast a spell with a magic wand.
"Enough!" Snape snapped away the wand he was about to cast, then waved it very quickly, chanting a spell very quickly with syllables that everyone could not distinguish, light blue light from the flames As soon as the center passed through, the fire suddenly died down, and the surrounding air dropped several degrees.
"I will carefully consider suggesting to Dumbledore that Longbottom be banned from conducting potions experiments. This is for the safety of all the students." Snape rudely threw Neville's wand to the ground.Then he walked quickly back to the podium, his dark eyes looked straight ahead, and said in a high-sounding voice.
Neville picked up his wand slowly, his expression unclear.
"Hermione! He ran out of Veritaserum!" Harry eagerly stretched out his hand, showing something, and shouted toward Hermione who was sitting beside him.
He was obviously absent-minded, and he hadn't heard what Snape was saying.
He heard the crisp sound of glass collision, his eyes followed the direction of the sound, and when he bent down, he found a small crystal bottle on the ground. This should be Snape rushing to Neville. Falling out of the robe.
Harry remembered what this crystal bottle looked like, the same bottle that Snape used last time he threatened him.
It was full of clear and transparent medicine last time, but now it is empty.
Hermione seemed to be taken aback by the situation in front of her, looking at Harry's hand, the empty crystal bottle.