Chapter 256
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 256
The disappearance of Crouch was finally revealed a few days later.
On the cover of the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter published a provocative article with her usual style title——
"Shocked! The staff of the Ministry of Magic are missing one after another, and even the director is inevitable! Does the Ministry of Magic still have the ability to protect the safety of the masses?"
Not even Fudge, the Minister of Magic, had tried everything he could to try to keep things down.
If the outside world knew that the director-level senior official of the Ministry of Magic was missing, the impact of the Quidditch World Cup riots that he managed to settle would be brought up again by the masses.He mobilized a large number of human resources of the Ministry of Magic, but could not find any clues.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, Crouch often took frequent vacations on the grounds of being unwell, and the entire Ministry of Magic hadn't seen him for several months.
He sent letters by owl to give remote instructions to his personal assistant, Percy Weasley, about Ministry affairs.Percy, who was fascinated by the desire for power, didn't have any doubts. Instead, he took this as Crouch's respect for him and gave him a chance to hone himself. Therefore, Crouch's disappearance has never been discovered.
When Dumbledore saw the news, he was also puzzled.
Behind Crouch's incident, it is extremely difficult——
He is obviously a workaholic. After the Quidditch World Cup dismissed the house elves, his physical condition suddenly deteriorated very obviously. He worked less and less, and handed over more and more things to the young and inexperienced Percy Weasley.
According to Harry, Crouch came all the way to Hogwarts because he had something important to ask him, and he had already started to speak incoherently and lost his mind, but he still remembered to tell himself.
When he really saw himself, he didn't remember anything, he only remembered to go to Hogwarts after sleeping.No matter how you look at it, this thing seems weird.
Dumbledore very much doubted that his memory had been altered, but—
With his attainments in memory magic, he was unable to see any clues when he made eye contact with Crouch. Crouch's memory was coherent, without gaps, and without any abruptness or incongruity.Although it is a bit arrogant to say so, Dumbledore does not believe that there is really someone in this world who can modify a person's memory to such an extent that it is so seamless that he can't see any flaws at all.
You must know that "deciphering and restoring memory magic" and "seeing the flaws in memory magic" are two different things.
If someone can modify the memory to the point where he can't decipher and extract the real memory, this is not impossible. For example, Slughorn in the original book can do it.
But if you want to make the modified memory so that he can't see any problems, it's really hard for him to believe it.Even Grindelwald and Voldemort, who are famous all over the world, can't do it.
Originally, he planned to force Crouch to stay at Hogwarts to recuperate, so that he would have more time to observe and investigate. He also specially arranged for Ms. Pomfrey to take care of him. Unexpectedly, after only a few hours, Crouch disappeared mysteriously, and Ms. Pomfrey was cast by a rather powerful Forgetting Curse, and she didn't remember anything.
He watched Crouch enter the school hospital with his own eyes, and he didn't forget to cast his most powerful defensive magic and warning magic on the surroundings of the school hospital, including the entrance gate and every window.Even if Voldemort in his heyday came in person, it would be impossible to take Crouch away without alarming him.
As a result, neither the warning magic nor the defensive magic was triggered.Crouch disappeared from the school hospital just like that, as if his whole body had evaporated into air without leaving any traces.
Ms. Pomfrey was unable to tell him any useful information, and even because of her mentally damaged relationship, she took a long vacation to recuperate, so as to avoid sequelae such as becoming confused and forgetful after falling.
The Hogwarts campus hospital cannot operate without a licensed therapist, so Dumbledore has been running around for a while, and finally persuaded a retired therapist to temporarily take the position of Ms. Pomfrey.
During this period, Dumbledore also tried to investigate the mystery of Crouch's disappearance, but neither portraits, armor, statues, or ghosts could give any useful information.
The most amazing thing is that apparition cannot be cast within the scope of Hogwarts, and the use of the floo network in the furnace in the castle requires his authority as the headmaster.How Crouch disappeared from Hogwarts without anyone noticing, Dumbledore really has no clue.
The only thing he can be sure of is that Crouch was definitely not kidnapped.No one could break the magic outside the school hospital without alarming him, he could be sure of that.
Crouch left the school hospital by himself, because those magics only prevent the outside but not the inside, and cannot warn or stop people or things coming out of the school hospital.Only that could explain why his vigilance magic wasn't triggered.And the Forgetting Curse cast by Ms. Pomfrey was precisely made by Crouch. (Preventing the outside but not the inside is to avoid the situation where Pomfrey needs to leave the school hospital)
As for why Crouch did this, where did he go after leaving the school hospital, how did he leave or disappear from Hogwarts Castle in the end, and what purpose did he and Harry say to see him, these were the biggest questions in Dumbledore's mind.
Therefore, although Dumbledore knew that Crouch had last appeared at Hogwarts, before he solved the mystery of Crouch's disappearance, he did not intend to announce it to the media to excuse Fudge.Anyway, to put it bluntly, Fudge is also responsible for Crouch's affairs. On the surface, Fudge and Crouch are harmonious colleagues, but in fact, no one knows the dirty things that Fudge secretly suppressed Crouch.
This time, let Fudge take the blame.
And when it comes to Fudge, he's no fool.He was very responsible at the beginning, and he did his best to send many people from the Ministry of Magic to find Crouch's whereabouts, but as time passed, he also began to feel tired, why should he be blamed?The Ministry of Magic is so big, is it necessary to bring him out for every missing employee?
of course not.
Fudge pulls out his trick—
Shake the pot.
In other words, find someone unlucky to take the blame.
Crouch's personal assistant, Percy Weasley, was the one.
Not only was he suspended for investigation, he was also arrested as the prime suspect.
Now, the media is full of voices questioning the Weasley family, and suspecting that Arthur Weasley has already started a layout for power and profit in order to fulfill his illusory ideal of peaceful coexistence with Muggles.Percy, as his best son, was exactly his pawn in the Ministry of Magic. Now that Crouch's disappearance was exposed, it was just a proof of an accidental leak of news in his plan.
All of a sudden, the reputation of the Weasley family changed from an obscure family to a thorn in everyone's eyes.Families who have always been friends with them, such as the Prewett family, the Longbottom family, and the Diggory family, also began to draw a clear line with them, keeping them at a respectful distance, fearing that they would be affected by this public opinion turmoil.
Although it was Fudge's own idea to throw the pot away, it was beyond his expectation that the public opinion would be so fierce.All of this is naturally fueled by someone behind the scenes.
That person is naturally the protagonist of this book, the second young master of the Malfoy family, Sherin Malfoy.
After Barnabas Guffey, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, hooked up with Schelling through the Slug Club of his former nobleman Horace Slughorn, the Daily Prophet also completely fell to Schelling's camp.Coupled with the influence of the Medieval Wizarding Union in the media world, Schelling can make public opinion develop in the direction he wants with just one word, reverse black and white, manipulate public opinion, and incite public opinion.
Perhaps because Schelling owed Dumbledore a kindness, he didn't want to break up with him directly, but this didn't mean that the conflict of positions between Schelling and him would disappear invisible.The two of them, from beginning to end, did not belong to the same camp——
In this world, there can only be one White Demon King.
Schelling couldn't deal with Dumbledore himself, so couldn't he take down his members of the Order of the Phoenix?
This time, even with Dumbledore's protection, the Weasley family would be hurt, and the family's small savings would shrink by half.As for social fame and the like, huh, huh.
(End of this chapter)
The disappearance of Crouch was finally revealed a few days later.
On the cover of the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter published a provocative article with her usual style title——
"Shocked! The staff of the Ministry of Magic are missing one after another, and even the director is inevitable! Does the Ministry of Magic still have the ability to protect the safety of the masses?"
Not even Fudge, the Minister of Magic, had tried everything he could to try to keep things down.
If the outside world knew that the director-level senior official of the Ministry of Magic was missing, the impact of the Quidditch World Cup riots that he managed to settle would be brought up again by the masses.He mobilized a large number of human resources of the Ministry of Magic, but could not find any clues.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, Crouch often took frequent vacations on the grounds of being unwell, and the entire Ministry of Magic hadn't seen him for several months.
He sent letters by owl to give remote instructions to his personal assistant, Percy Weasley, about Ministry affairs.Percy, who was fascinated by the desire for power, didn't have any doubts. Instead, he took this as Crouch's respect for him and gave him a chance to hone himself. Therefore, Crouch's disappearance has never been discovered.
When Dumbledore saw the news, he was also puzzled.
Behind Crouch's incident, it is extremely difficult——
He is obviously a workaholic. After the Quidditch World Cup dismissed the house elves, his physical condition suddenly deteriorated very obviously. He worked less and less, and handed over more and more things to the young and inexperienced Percy Weasley.
According to Harry, Crouch came all the way to Hogwarts because he had something important to ask him, and he had already started to speak incoherently and lost his mind, but he still remembered to tell himself.
When he really saw himself, he didn't remember anything, he only remembered to go to Hogwarts after sleeping.No matter how you look at it, this thing seems weird.
Dumbledore very much doubted that his memory had been altered, but—
With his attainments in memory magic, he was unable to see any clues when he made eye contact with Crouch. Crouch's memory was coherent, without gaps, and without any abruptness or incongruity.Although it is a bit arrogant to say so, Dumbledore does not believe that there is really someone in this world who can modify a person's memory to such an extent that it is so seamless that he can't see any flaws at all.
You must know that "deciphering and restoring memory magic" and "seeing the flaws in memory magic" are two different things.
If someone can modify the memory to the point where he can't decipher and extract the real memory, this is not impossible. For example, Slughorn in the original book can do it.
But if you want to make the modified memory so that he can't see any problems, it's really hard for him to believe it.Even Grindelwald and Voldemort, who are famous all over the world, can't do it.
Originally, he planned to force Crouch to stay at Hogwarts to recuperate, so that he would have more time to observe and investigate. He also specially arranged for Ms. Pomfrey to take care of him. Unexpectedly, after only a few hours, Crouch disappeared mysteriously, and Ms. Pomfrey was cast by a rather powerful Forgetting Curse, and she didn't remember anything.
He watched Crouch enter the school hospital with his own eyes, and he didn't forget to cast his most powerful defensive magic and warning magic on the surroundings of the school hospital, including the entrance gate and every window.Even if Voldemort in his heyday came in person, it would be impossible to take Crouch away without alarming him.
As a result, neither the warning magic nor the defensive magic was triggered.Crouch disappeared from the school hospital just like that, as if his whole body had evaporated into air without leaving any traces.
Ms. Pomfrey was unable to tell him any useful information, and even because of her mentally damaged relationship, she took a long vacation to recuperate, so as to avoid sequelae such as becoming confused and forgetful after falling.
The Hogwarts campus hospital cannot operate without a licensed therapist, so Dumbledore has been running around for a while, and finally persuaded a retired therapist to temporarily take the position of Ms. Pomfrey.
During this period, Dumbledore also tried to investigate the mystery of Crouch's disappearance, but neither portraits, armor, statues, or ghosts could give any useful information.
The most amazing thing is that apparition cannot be cast within the scope of Hogwarts, and the use of the floo network in the furnace in the castle requires his authority as the headmaster.How Crouch disappeared from Hogwarts without anyone noticing, Dumbledore really has no clue.
The only thing he can be sure of is that Crouch was definitely not kidnapped.No one could break the magic outside the school hospital without alarming him, he could be sure of that.
Crouch left the school hospital by himself, because those magics only prevent the outside but not the inside, and cannot warn or stop people or things coming out of the school hospital.Only that could explain why his vigilance magic wasn't triggered.And the Forgetting Curse cast by Ms. Pomfrey was precisely made by Crouch. (Preventing the outside but not the inside is to avoid the situation where Pomfrey needs to leave the school hospital)
As for why Crouch did this, where did he go after leaving the school hospital, how did he leave or disappear from Hogwarts Castle in the end, and what purpose did he and Harry say to see him, these were the biggest questions in Dumbledore's mind.
Therefore, although Dumbledore knew that Crouch had last appeared at Hogwarts, before he solved the mystery of Crouch's disappearance, he did not intend to announce it to the media to excuse Fudge.Anyway, to put it bluntly, Fudge is also responsible for Crouch's affairs. On the surface, Fudge and Crouch are harmonious colleagues, but in fact, no one knows the dirty things that Fudge secretly suppressed Crouch.
This time, let Fudge take the blame.
And when it comes to Fudge, he's no fool.He was very responsible at the beginning, and he did his best to send many people from the Ministry of Magic to find Crouch's whereabouts, but as time passed, he also began to feel tired, why should he be blamed?The Ministry of Magic is so big, is it necessary to bring him out for every missing employee?
of course not.
Fudge pulls out his trick—
Shake the pot.
In other words, find someone unlucky to take the blame.
Crouch's personal assistant, Percy Weasley, was the one.
Not only was he suspended for investigation, he was also arrested as the prime suspect.
Now, the media is full of voices questioning the Weasley family, and suspecting that Arthur Weasley has already started a layout for power and profit in order to fulfill his illusory ideal of peaceful coexistence with Muggles.Percy, as his best son, was exactly his pawn in the Ministry of Magic. Now that Crouch's disappearance was exposed, it was just a proof of an accidental leak of news in his plan.
All of a sudden, the reputation of the Weasley family changed from an obscure family to a thorn in everyone's eyes.Families who have always been friends with them, such as the Prewett family, the Longbottom family, and the Diggory family, also began to draw a clear line with them, keeping them at a respectful distance, fearing that they would be affected by this public opinion turmoil.
Although it was Fudge's own idea to throw the pot away, it was beyond his expectation that the public opinion would be so fierce.All of this is naturally fueled by someone behind the scenes.
That person is naturally the protagonist of this book, the second young master of the Malfoy family, Sherin Malfoy.
After Barnabas Guffey, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, hooked up with Schelling through the Slug Club of his former nobleman Horace Slughorn, the Daily Prophet also completely fell to Schelling's camp.Coupled with the influence of the Medieval Wizarding Union in the media world, Schelling can make public opinion develop in the direction he wants with just one word, reverse black and white, manipulate public opinion, and incite public opinion.
Perhaps because Schelling owed Dumbledore a kindness, he didn't want to break up with him directly, but this didn't mean that the conflict of positions between Schelling and him would disappear invisible.The two of them, from beginning to end, did not belong to the same camp——
In this world, there can only be one White Demon King.
Schelling couldn't deal with Dumbledore himself, so couldn't he take down his members of the Order of the Phoenix?
This time, even with Dumbledore's protection, the Weasley family would be hurt, and the family's small savings would shrink by half.As for social fame and the like, huh, huh.
(End of this chapter)
