Chapter 640 What Went Wrong?

"The crimes I committed are enough to keep me in Azkaban for the rest of my life. If I kill another person, the result will not change at all. I have no need to hide it from you." Crouch said angrily.

Moody curled his lips and did not refute.

Ivan knew the whereabouts of Bertha Jorkins very well. After Crouch used the Forgetting Curse to cleanse her memory, she ran to Romania and happened to hit the muzzle of Voldemort's gun. Now her body was cold, and she also provided Voldemort with a lot of information.

However, Ivan naturally would not tell this news because he could not explain the source of the news.

Crouch continued to tell what happened next. After dealing with Bertha Jorkins, everything became calm again, and no one else came to disturb him. This also allowed him to start to deal with more things, such as The upcoming Triwizard Tournament and the World Quidditch Tournament.

"For more than ten years, my son Barty Jr. has been doing very well and has not caused any trouble. Winky begged me to be more tolerant to Barty Jr., and it happened to be the day when the World Quidditch Tournament was held, so I decided to take him to the scene to have a look.”

"His favorite thing before was Quidditch..." Crouch sighed quietly.

"Hey, it seems that this private prisoner is living a pretty good life." Moody said sarcastically, "You also have the courage to take little Barty to a place where so many people gather."

"I made a lot of preparations, booked a private room on the top floor for him, put an invisibility cloak on him to ensure that he would not be noticed, and arranged to keep an eye on him at all times... It's a pity that in the end, Something went wrong!" Crouch explained.

"What's wrong? He ran away?" Moody asked.

"Yes! He disappeared, just disappeared at the Quidditch venue!" A look of panic appeared on Crouch's face.

"Can you tell us more specifically? Mr. Crouch? When did you learn about this news?" Ivan quickly asked, thinking that this is where all the changes may have started.

"Little Barty must have escaped the Imperius Curse and took advantage of the riot in the venue to escape." At this point, Crouch seemed very angry. He believed that this should all be blamed on the incompetent little boy. The elf did not think much of his son.

But under Ivan's repeated questioning, he still revealed more details.

After the riot occurred, as a senior official of the Ministry of Magic, he immediately mobilized people to arrest the dark wizards who were causing trouble, and then led people to the place where the Dark Mark was raised, where he accidentally discovered Winky.

When he saw Winky, Crouch knew that Barty Jr. must have taken the opportunity to escape, but he suspected that his son was nearby at that time.

"So the Dark Mark was released by your son?" Moody raised his stick angrily, "You know this and still plan to put the blame on Harry and Sirius!"

Crouch smiled bitterly and did not refute, but continued, "After everyone left, I went back there again to take away my son, but I searched every inch of the nearby land and couldn't find any I can’t find little Barty…”

Ivan frowned when he heard this. In the original time and space, Crouch should have successfully found Barty Jr. and brought him home.

What went wrong now?

Ivan tried hard to recall the plots in his memory, and suddenly thought that little Barty was accidentally hit by the magic of several wizards in the original time and space and was forced to stay where he was. It was a complete coincidence.

If this hadn't happened, Barty Jr. would have had a high probability of escaping in the chaos, and once he left, he would definitely go find Voldemort.

Then Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew naturally had no need to raid Crouch's mansion, which also explains why Barty Crouch was not controlled by Voldemort's Imperius Curse.

After thinking about all this, Ivan was not happy at all.

It’s no use just knowing where the problem started, the key is how to solve the problem!

Where is Barty Jr. now? His name can't be found on the Marauder's Map. How did he modify the Goblet of Fire...

Each of these problems gave Ivan a headache. I used to think that Barty Jr. was able to do all this by pretending to be his father Crouch, but now it seems that Crouch himself has no problems, which means that he had All my guesses were wrong!

"For the next period of time, I have been looking for the whereabouts of Barty Jr., but I searched the entire competition venue and couldn't find him, so I had to ask someone to help me find out the news about Barty Jr. in England." Crouch said with a tired look.

"Then why don't you simply refuse to be the referee of the Triwizard Tournament and spend more time looking for the whereabouts of your son?" Ivan asked curiously.

"No, you are wrong, Hals. Only by agreeing to this job can he have sufficient reason to shirk it!" Moody said with a sneer. "Right, Barty?"

Crouch nodded shamefully. When he was not in the castle, he always used the reason that the Cooperation Department was busy to deal with Bagman. The Ministry of Magic thought that he was busy dealing with the affairs of the Triwizard Cup.

With this cover, no one will question his whereabouts in a short time.

But what Crouch didn't expect was that no news about Barty Jr. came for several months. Instead, today he saw a note handwritten by Barty Jr. from Ivan and Moody.

"In the past few months, I have been hesitating whether to tell Minister Fudge or Dumbledore about these things..." Crouch's face was full of struggle. He spent countless days and nights between selfishness and morality. Constantly wandering between, almost mentally collapsed.

Thinking of this, Crouch slowly turned his head to look at Ivan and said with emotion. "Speaking of which, I need to thank you, Hals, for helping me make my choice."

"Ha, you're talking lightly, Barty! If we hadn't broken in and figured out all this, would you have surrendered? Don't be kidding!" Moody twitched the corner of his mouth and exposed Crouch without hesitation. Selfish thoughts. "You're just going to keep clinging to hope that your son will be found, aren't you?"

"You know very well that once you expose the matter, you will be imprisoned in Azkaban. Then everyone will know what kind of person you, the former executive director, are... so you hope to find your son and then Go back to your old life!" Moody's words were as sharp as a sharp knife.

"That's enough, Alastor!" Crouch was a little annoyed by Moody's evil tricks, "I did do a wrong thing, but it is the Ministry of Magic's job to judge me. Don't forget, you have already No more Aurors!"

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