Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"So I didn't get hurt." Zoe's tone was cold, and this was the most saddening. Hermione felt that they had become strangers again, "Is that Mr. Crouch's position?" "She asked Shining suddenly, pointing to the place where no one was. "Could you take the liberty to ask, when will Mr. Crouch come to watch the game?"

Shining pulled the tea towel on her body very hard, rubbing the surface of the tea towel into a mess. She was silent for a while, as if thinking about how to answer: "That's the position of the master! Shining only needs to obey the order to occupy the seat for the master. No need to worry about more things, I will do it for the master if he needs it!"

"You are really a conscientious elf." Zoe praised it, and the two big eyes behind Shining's ten short fingers opened in surprise. "Of course Shining is like this. She is responsible for her duties, and the master trusts me very much. , This is Shining's pride!" Although she still didn't dare to look at the scene outside the box, she straightened her back and her tone was softer.

Chapter 21 Chaos

"I also have a few house elves in my house. One of them has been with our house for a long time. Its name is Paluru." Hermione was surprised to watch Zoe start chatting with Shining casually, even though Shining was very hostile to her. She didn't stop talking, "I think the same is true of you, right? I have worked at Crouch's house for generations. To you, Mr. Crouch is like family."

"Home, family?!" Shining shouted, "This is too much! Shining's mother and grandmother work at Mr. Crouch's house, so I also work at Mr. Crouch's house. Mr. Crouch trusts me. Let me do a lot of things, but Shine is not Mr. Crouch's family, of course not!" She tossed her head around, desperately resisting, but her eyes widened as if expecting.

"My elves and I walked very close, and we used to have an appointment to go out on a picnic together with the whole family." Zoe's eyes skipped Shining staring at the empty seat, but she seemed to be talking to Shining "Mother will make the turkey sandwich that I like, and my father will no longer focus on work. We can talk about academic problems and talk about good or bad things that happened in school. I want to punch my father in the face. , Or give him a few more punches and wait for him to apologize before hugging him..."

"What are you talking about?" Hermione looked at her suspiciously. She knew Zoe's family situation and her attitude towards them, knowing that she would never make such an agreement.Zoe leaned in front of her and exhaled quietly in her ear. Hermione gave a sharp voice: "Don't you think this can make it relax? Just use one or two sensational stories." Hermione didn't look like it. Too happy, but didn't say much.

"Is that the conclusion that you and the elf discussed together, miss?" There were some tears in the sparkling eyes. "This is a good wish. Did you do it?" Zoe said naturally: " This is just a thought, but I believe it will be achieved one day."

At this time, the chair on Shining's right suddenly fell backward, and the back of the chair hit the wall of the box, attracting many people's attention: "Why did the chair fall?" Fudge mumbled, he just wanted to stand up. So Xing hurriedly jumped from her chair, "Don't bother you, sir! Xing can come by herself, just hold a chair!" Her voice was sharp and urgent.Fudge just reacted subconsciously. Hearing this, Fudge sat down.

"Is it really okay?" Zoe asked, seemingly concerned, and his gaze floated to the chair: "It's okay, miss! Thank you for your concern." After these conversations, Shine's hostility towards her was reduced a lot, although it was still A little evasive, but at least I can communicate with her normally.It just looked a little nervous, wiping the sweat from his forehead again and again, but because of fear of heights, he could only close his eyes tightly.

Then it felt a soft cloth in its hand, opened its eyes slightly, and found that it was a handkerchief.Zoe smiled and pointed to her forehead, and then made a wiping action: "It's more convenient to use a kerchief than a hand." Hermione has been paying attention to the dynamics here, and she also saw Zoe doing this Somewhat surprised, because she was never someone who would be very enthusiastic about strangers.

"Do you like that house elf very much?" She always felt that after this meeting, Zoe felt like she was shrouded in an impenetrable mist.

"I don't like it." Zoe said decisively: "You usually don't even want to do small talk at home, but now you give Shining a handkerchief!" Zoe turned around and looked calmly: "What does that matter? Well? Whether it’s a human or an elf, the unit is just one. In my opinion, it’s no different. Since it needs a handkerchief and I happen to have it, I just handed it over."

"If you always think like this, you would probably have become a fanatic, instead of avoiding the crowd like you are now..." Hermione stopped her mouth, frowning not knowing what she was thinking. Very strange."

"Hermione." Zoe called Hermione's name with great difficulty. "It's very strange that this sentence comes from your mouth. We obviously haven't communicated with each other in a summer vacation. You even took mine in the early hours of the next morning. The birthday present is delivered." Zoe took a step forward, and Hermione found that she had to raise her head slightly. The girl who was as tall as her is now more than half a head taller. "Look, you don't even know how tall I am now. "Zoe stretched out her hand, and Hermione sensed a trace of pressure for no apparent reason. "Your collar is messed up." She helped tidy up the folds and sat down again.

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The Irish team won this year’s Quidditch World Cup championship with a great advantage. As critics have said, the overall strength of the Irish team is stronger than that of the Bulgarian team. Even if the gap is ultimately due to the Bulgarian star player Wei Kdor Krum won the Golden Snitch and failed to reverse the situation.But the eighteen-year-old Quidditch star has a brilliant future, which everyone can predict.

Zoe walked alone among the cheering crowd, and she separated from Draco and the others when she left the field.There are drunk wizards everywhere, whether it is the wine of victory or the bitter wine of sourness, the air is filled with a strong smell of anxiety and excitement.The fans of the Irish team are celebrating the victory. They are wearing green ornaments that represent Ireland, and the shiny four-leaf clover is shining on their chests. They even ignore the secrecy laws and hold their wands to shoot into the sky like fireworks.

The officials of the Ministry of Magic are in desperation. They must maintain order, but how can these fans who are almost out of control listen to their opinions?The attitude was a little tougher, and he would even be slapped in the dark. There was no one who could chant the curse. Zoe saw an official with fungus on his shoulder being escorted down for treatment.But they still have to bite the bullet, knowing that even if the number is small, there are still a few Muggle rangers here.

Not to mention the aggrieved fans of the defeated Bulgarian team. The two sides often challenged each other. Several duels started immediately under the help of alcohol. Although the scene was not completely out of control under the control of the Ministry of Magic, it did not. To stop those wizards with passion, something more serious will happen sooner or later.

None of this had anything to do with Zoe, even if she brushed past a wizard who started smashing the tent because she lost, even if there were two red-faced wizards on her right in a duel, even if the parade passed by her cheering.She just paid attention to every tent around, paying attention to the signs on it, she was looking for Barty Crouch's tent.

"Excuse me, sir." She grabbed the arm of the Ministry official who hurried past her, and asked impatiently, "Where is Mr. Crouch's tent?"

"It's over there, you can see clearly, behind the brick-red tent, on the right side of the tent with the flamingo tied to it!" Just said it quickly, and the wizard hurriedly started on his way again, but wherever the wizards were gathered together In the event, the Ministry of Magic needs a lot of effort to clean up the mess, not to mention that this is the scene of the World Cup finals, and there is not enough manpower.

And this wizard must assemble more people. Some people drank too much and even started to harass the family of Muggle rangers who lived nearby. They hung them up and paraded, as if they were enjoying some funny tricks. It was completely different from other incidents. Very bad incidents must be dealt with immediately by the Ministry of Magic.

When Zoe walked a few steps forward, he could see the tent belonging to Crouch-a standard tent without any decoration, which seemed very inconsistent with the surrounding strange tents, but it was in harmony with Crouch. The impression of meticulous meticulousness is just right.

She saw that Shining seemed to be dragged by some invisible object, or she was trying to drag something invisible, and she said something in her mouth: "Master Batty, you can't do this. Come back to the tent with Shining, it’s dangerous outside. ......" But its small body has been dragged forward, even though it has been trying to hold the invisible thing, it still moves slowly towards the place where the noise is made.

"Stop, Master Barty, Shining begs you, I don't want to use more intense methods..." But Shining's low begging is obviously useless, and finally it lowers its heart and casts a spell on the invisible thing. It seemed that he suddenly had strength, half forced to pull the thing forward, the thing couldn't break away, and it could only be taken away from the camp.

"Master Batty, Master Batty..." Zoe followed, and she leisurely kept a distance from the elf in front of her. I don't know when it started, the surrounding atmosphere became wrong.Those joyful screams turned into fearful screams. Many people passed her with fear on their faces. There was fire from afar, but it was not a campfire, but caused when the tent burned. s consequence.There were several shadows floating in the air. It was a person, a Muggle suspended in the air.

Many cloaked men with hoods and masks formed a formation. They held up their wands, but Zoe knew that those under the masks must show a twisted happiness, dominating others. This supreme happiness is Like an addictive drug, you can hardly get rid of it once you have tasted it.These so-called decent people who had already left their status as Death Eaters still couldn't bear the longing in their hearts, letting the wild beasts raging in their hearts.

What does all this have to do with her Max?Zoe stopped paying attention to that side for a second, just followed Shining's pace and followed her into the deserted woods.

Chapter 22: A Powerful Monster (Part 1)

Barty Crouch Jr., regardless of his invisibility cloak, he is very weak. Even though his mind is clearer than ever before, he still can’t immediately bring it from a long-term house arrest. Breaking away from the sense of weakness, his father was more cruel than he thought. Even if it was his son who was deprived of consciousness by the Imperius curse, and whose body was weakened due to prolonged illness and imprisonment, he never After relaxing his guard, not only will he take away his excess physical strength as long as he goes out, but he will always be shiningly watching him so that he can't escape, and if there is any change, he will be restrained again.

But Batty is not without a chance. The Imperius Curse is usually accompanied by the carelessness of the caster, forgetting the effect of strengthening the spell, and the resistance and resistance of the caster. The last reason is very likely to happen, because It depends on the firmness of the will of the person being casted. Often Barty would seem to wake up from a deep dream and suddenly find himself appearing somewhere. His mind is sometimes awake and confused, even if he can roughly recall the previous What happened can only be quickly judged according to the situation at the time, so that you can break free from that trance and know that you are not under control.

He has been working hard to break free of his father's shackles, wanting to escape from the home that has imprisoned him for so many years, he firmly believes that the Dark Lord will return, he is willing to give everything, just to chase that powerful and reliable shadow.Fortunately, Shining sympathized with him. It spoke for him, hoping that their father and son would not hate each other so much. It even moved his father to let him go out, even if Mr. Crouch asked it to watch himself, never let himself. Act alone.But he was finally able to get out of the house, and the biggest mistake his father made was to underestimate the degree of his resistance.

"Master Batty...you can't go...if you attack those wizards, what will your father do..." He ignored Shining's pleading and looked at the dazzling fire outside the woods in disgust. Of course he knew those Who is the person? His past colleagues, those wall grasses that the Dark Lord lost their power, just joined their team for enjoyment and destruction. For so many years after the Dark Lord left, there was not even one of them. To find the master they had sworn allegiance to, this group of scum... The hand that Barty constricted under the invisibility cloak tightened the wand, which he stole from the boy sitting in front of him.

"Traitors... are all traitors... only I am the most loyal servant of the Dark Lord. These guys have all forgotten. Our vows when we gathered at the time, how dare they still dress up as Death Eaters and only drink too much? An idiot who insulted Muggles..." Little Batty murmured. He now has a wand in his hand. Why can't he rush to the people and tell them the fate of the traitor with a death curse?He lowered his head, and Jing kept pulling his arm, and it was it that stopped him.

Shining doesn’t care whether his master is a Death Eater or an ambitious person. For its brain that never thinks too much, it just treats them as objects that it should serve. Elves should not think too much. The education received from birth is like this, it pulls Batty, never to prevent him from killing or doing bad things, but because its owner, the young master’s father asked it to do so, so it tried to take him Drag to the woods away from the crowd.

"Let go of me, Shining." Little Batty still has some sense. He wanted to throw Shining away, but was annoyed to find this little elf sticking to him like cowhide glue, "Don't force me, get out Open, elf!" He pointed his wand at Shining, hesitated but didn't immediately start, "Master Barty! Don't do such a thing anymore... Your father took so much effort to hide your existence. !" Shining cried and shouted.

"That's just because of my mother's last wish and his career. Have you ever thought about the mood of my mother waiting for him to come home like a fool? He will always only have work! Work! He was not there when his mother was sick, and I graduated He was not there at the time, in that case, why should he condemn me for becoming a Death Eater! He will never understand the mighty power of the Dark Lord, and he doesn't need any so-called love, just strength and terror can make people succumb! "Little Barty shouted furiously, he wanted to break free from the bondage of the elf.

"I warn you, Shining. I will kill you, I swear I will!" He glared longingly at the distant fire, shouting wildly, his invisibility cloak slid down, his thin, vain body There is a crazy soul hidden in his eyes, his eyes are bright, and the corners of his mouth are happy smiles, "Those damn traitors... they have forgotten the glory of the past, parasites... only I am his most loyal servant. I should remind them..." He suddenly solidified in place.

"Yes, I want them to remember! Let them crawl on the ground for their betrayal, trembling desperately!" He screamed, "Master Batty! Master Batty!" Shining cried, she wanted to do something. Batty fainted so that it could put on his invisibility cloak again and then take him back to the tent. Even if it would later punish itself for attacking Batty, it was absolute to obey the master's order.

But it found that there was a blur in front of her eyes, and her body suddenly lost strength. Shining wanted to grab Barty's robe and prevent herself from slipping to the ground, but couldn't."Who!" Although Little Batty was in madness, Shining's abnormality was not ignored by him. He clearly saw that Shining was knocked unconscious by the spell shot from the other side, and that could not have been an accident.

"I'm relieved to see you so energetic, Batty." The visitor stepped on the leaves on the ground, but didn't make much noise. She slowly emerged from the shadows, not at all because Batty took the magic wand. Pointing at her with a flustered expression.Little Batty's pupils shrank, but his eyes and mouth were wide open, and this face was impossible for him to forget in a lifetime.

When he chased the back of the Dark Lord, he had hoped to be seen by such a powerful wizard, hoping to be loyal to him, because the Dark Lord was aware of his talents since he was a student and invited him to join them. And that changed the little Batty, who had no other meaning to survive except for the merit of excellent grades. The Dark Lord saw him in his eyes. He only had to be talented.Powerful, surly, and arrogantly breaking all established rules, not staying for anyone, and being able to survive alone, this is the first impression of Barty's first impression of the Dark Lord, and it is precisely because of being attracted by such Dark Lord.

Little Batty wants to be dominated by such a person, wants to be guided by this force that cannot be resisted, and he wants to be the son of Voldemort, as if this way the Dark Lord can value him.There are many people who joined him for similar reasons. They are all attracted by this abnormal force and violent stimulation. They seem to be Death Eaters, they can gain the power to dominate others and themselves, and they can become special existences. .Think about it, you will not feel pain for violating ethics and morality. Only those with power can control the balance of power. These bloody things can inspire the cruel nature hidden deep in people's hearts, and finally transform them into pleasure.

But at that time, whether it was many pure-blooded young people who were attracted by the actions of the Dark Lord and Death Eaters, or those pure-blood family members who were forced or crazy obsessed, they couldn't be as pure as the Dark Lord.Of course, they will gain a sense of strength by punishing Muggles and attacking other wizards. They can also indulge in the comfort of "parting" from the weak, thinking that they have become more advanced beings, cleaning the dirty world and bringing A carnival.But without exception, they couldn't see the world in the eyes of the Dark Lord.

Regardless of whether their reason for hurting others is for faith or pleasure, they all treat themselves as human beings who hurt others. There are very few Death Eaters who have no bottom line. Even the cruelest part is to stay in the group. Don't hurt specific people.There are weaknesses and shortcomings visible to the naked eye, which are probably unique to ordinary humans.

For Little Batty, family is his eternal death.He was extremely disappointed with his father, and this disappointment and pain turned into rebellion and hatred. He was attracted by the power and cruelty of the Dark Lord, and he was willing to join his camp and become his servant.But for his mother, Batty is a caring and reliable son. He has always had a very good relationship with his mother. He has become a Death Eater without telling his family, more so as to prevent his mother from suffering and her mother. Feeling worried.

But among them, there is a most special existence.That woman seems to treat everything equally, is a gentle to the extreme, always has a very comfortable smile on her face, so that you can let go of your guards without knowing it, but she will not be without her own opinion. On the contrary, he is a very tough person.Little Batty had some contact with her, knowing that she was not obsessed with pureblood glory or racism. He didn’t know why she joined the Death Eaters’ camp, until he watched her live and use other wizards in various ways. He was tortured to death, but there was still a gentle and considerate look on his face.

Chapter 23 The Powerful Monster (Part 2)

For a moment, Little Batty felt as if time had turned back. He was not staying in this dark wood, but in a laboratory without any frills.At that time he just accidentally broke into this room dedicated to Max.Every Death Eater will be told, if you still want to protect your heart, don't go in and watch it without being mentally prepared.

But because the sound insulation is very good, this always closed door can attract the attention of many curious people, because no one knows what's going on inside.Of course Max will take the initiative to lock the door, but he hasn't played any special spells. You only need an Arahho Cave to open it and you can open it easily.

Little Batty knocked on Max's door because of the order of the Dark Lord, but there was no response from the other side of the room.The Dark Lord’s order is absolute. Little Batty opened the lock with a spell, pushed the door in and planned to tell Max directly that he already had some friendship with Max, after all, they were all students in the same college, although they were of different grades. , But Max never rejects people thousands of miles away, as long as you talk to her, she will respond to you kindly.

Little Barty never felt how dangerous Max was, even though many people said Max was a strange person, because she always locked herself alone and didn't know what she was doing.But when Barty was still in school, Max was already quite famous, and almost everyone liked her, so Barty’s impression of her was limited to this.

But when he opened the door, he saw that the body, heart, stomach, and intestines of the person who had been directly cut open, every organ was still working, and the bound wizard did not die, but his consciousness was already Blurred, all his limbs were tightly bound, but only his mouth was not blocked. He was exhaling hoarsely at this time. Max stood by his side and watched carefully, with some dark stains on his robe feet.

"Recover quickly." She first threw a healing spell on the wizard. This quick treatment method is not suitable for some long-lasting injuries that need to be recovered slowly, but it can be used as a literal meaning. Regain energy quickly.

"What's the matter, Barty?" She just left the wizard there, even though the wizard was constantly moaning and moaning because of pain, she could behave as if an acquaintance came to play at home, naturally and intimately. Say hello to him: "Don't mind, it may be a little dirty. Today I want to observe the internal reaction of the human body under the operation of the Heart Drill." Little Batty retracted because he noticed that there was a solidification on the ground in front of him. Blood.

"Uh, okay. The master is looking for something to do with you, let you go over." At the time, Batty hadn't had the same heart as he is now, and a certain part of his character was still not separated from the innocence of school.Max noticed his gaze avoiding the dying wizard, "What kind of pain do you think a person can bear?" She asked suddenly.

"It... depends on the person. Some people are weak and they are more likely to give in." Little Barty whispered. He smelled the faint smell of blood wafting around, and Max was also very careful to clean, at least not. Even more unpleasant smell, it seems that the surrounding area is also very clean, except for the one that is "work".