Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

The only thing Sherlock and Moody gained from their trip was this ring.

Moody's face turned sour, he said sullenly.

"This proves that old Batty was actually controlled very early! But we didn't find out until now!"

Sherlock touched the ring on his hand, thinking about the World Cup in the summer vacation.

"If we calculate based on the time when the fight took place at the scene, Crouch was controlled after the World Cup. At that time, his son, Barty Jr., who was hiding at home, was killed by me."

Even if they can infer that Crouch was controlled, the information they have now is very limited.

After searching the small building with no results, Sherlock and Moody returned to Hogwarts together.

There is no curfew in the castle tonight, but students cannot be too unrestrained. By this time, no one is still wandering outside, and most of them have returned to their lounges.

The lights in Dumbledore's office were still bright. He was not dealing with anything else, but had been waiting for news from Sherlock and the others.

However, what he was waiting for was not good news.

After listening to Moody's report, he picked up the ring engraved with the Crouch family crest that Sherlock found and murmured softly.

"The ancestral home of the Crouch family..."

In the end Dumbledore shook his head.

"I don't know about this either. The older the family, the more secretly they build their manors. The specific location of the Crouch family has never been revealed to the outside world."

Sherlock stared at the ring and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"If Crouch still doesn't appear in public, can we infer that he is about to encounter something unexpected?"

Moody's expression looked extremely sad.

"I don't understand if someone among the Death Eaters used the Imperius Curse to control him and wanted him to create chaos in Hogwarts, frame Harry, and kill Sherlock. Then why is the game just over now? A project, only one semester of this school year has passed, and now they want to change their attention and deal with him?"

This issue he noticed was obviously not ignored by Sherlock and Dumbledore.

Dumbledore tapped his fingers on the table.

"There are two possibilities. First, someone on the Death Eaters side knew that we had suspicions about him, so Barty not only did not come to them, but continued to let him stay in Hogwarts, It’s also easy for us to follow the clues and find some other information about them.”

"Second, Barty himself is consciously fighting the Imperius Curse on himself."

Sherlock frowned. As a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, he naturally had the most in-depth research on the three unforgivable curses.

"Resist the Imperius Curse? Professor, with all due respect, there are indeed wizards with extremely strong willpower in history who have been able to lift the Imperius Curse simply by relying on themselves. But Barty Crouch, he really did the same. Ability?"

Dumbledore and Moody looked at each other, and they both shook their heads.

"You haven't really experienced the era when the mysterious man exerted white terror on the wizarding world, Sherlock, so you won't understand how rare it was for Old Barty to make such a clear statement that he was incompatible with the Death Eaters. "

Moody said in a deep voice.

"It can be said that the group interests represented by the mysterious man at that time were beneficial to all pure-blood families. It is precisely because of this that 90% of the pure-blood families in the magic world have moved to their side."

"Among the few remaining pure-blood families with no superficial stance, the Crouch family is the most powerful. At the beginning of the 1970s, Old Barty had already become the deputy director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. , officially became a principal in 1974, and all the violent armed forces of the Ministry of Magic are under his control."

"If he had chosen to turn to the mysterious man at that time, then the Ministry of Magic would have basically lost the capital to resist, and the various benefits promised to him by the mysterious man could completely make him a leader among thousands of people. exist."

"At that time, the mysterious man was not as crazy as he was later. He basically fulfilled every word he said to the outside world, so no one would suspect that he was deceiving him. As long as old Batty agreed, he could get it. A more prominent position.”

"That is, under such a situation, old Barty not only did not express any intention of being moved, but also publicly declared that he would lead the Aurors to launch a force attack on the mysterious forces, and he persisted in doing so for six years. During these six years Because of this, he has been attacked countless times but it has not shaken his faith at all!"

Dumbledore took over his words, clasping his hands and speaking quietly.

"His son will join the ranks of Death Eaters. Perhaps out of guilt for failing to fulfill his father's responsibilities, Barty will bend the law for personal gain and hide little Barty who should have been imprisoned in Azkaban for a lifetime. His safety is guaranteed, but he will never take the initiative to fall to Voldemort, even if death is used to threaten him."

"The only thing that can make him do such a thing is the Imperius Curse, and Barty Crouch's own willpower is definitely likely to compete with the Imperius Curse that controls him. He is not as powerful as you think. It's as bad as you think, Sherlock."

Although Sherlock had gone back in time for a while, the experience during that time really made him not have a good impression of Barty Crouch.

Of course, his level of trust is not as firm as that of Dumbledore and Moody.

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"But regardless of that possibility, Crouch's current state must be in danger." He touched his chin and said, "If he is relying on his own will to resist the Imperius Curse, then it is impossible for the Death Eaters to not After discovering this problem, if they realize that they have no way to exert control over him, the most likely possibility is to kill him and silence him."

Sherlock was quite right.

Now that they can't find old Barty and don't know the Crouch family's ancestral home, there is basically no way to follow up.

They stayed in Dumbledore's office until two o'clock in the morning, but in the end they had no choice but to return.

After Sherlock returned to his office, he did not choose to rest immediately. Instead, he took out a transparent box from his pocket. Inside the box was a beetle that looked ordinary from the outside.

He stared at the beetle quietly for more than ten seconds, and then asked in a calm voice

"Are you going to change back to human form on your own, or do you need me to give you a little help?"