Chapter 475
Newspaper
Chapter 475 Newspaper
It was already hot in June, but Professor Trelawney still lit the fireplace and even drew the curtains. The room in the tower was stuffy, hot and full of smoke.
Professor Trelawney sat in front of the huge crystal ball, her face still looking as if she had not woken up yet.
"Oh, Vader, dear, I never worry about your exams."
She pointed to the crystal ball and said with a smile, "Look inside and tell me what you can see?"
While Vader was observing the crystal ball, Professor Trelawney stood up and poured herself a glass of gin, took a sip, and squinted her eyes in intoxication.
"It's indeed an imported famous wine. It's really intoxicating. These house-elves are quite good at shopping. It's just too expensive..."
Professor Trelawney opened her eyes and asked drunkenly, "Wade, what do you see?"
After a moment, Vader looked up and said, "I saw an oval-shaped stadium... It was very huge, and there were a lot of people... It seemed like a grand competition was being held."
"The competition?" Professor Trelawney put down her wine glass, wrote a few lines on the parchment, and asked, "Then what? What else did you see? Did you see the result of the competition?"
"I saw people in red with their fists raised in the air ... but I also saw people in green cheering," Vedder said.
"Raise your fist? That means you caught the Snitch? But cheering..."
Professor Trelawney asked thoughtfully, "Did you see the ending scene? Who won at the end?"
"The man in green," Vader said affirmatively.
"The man in green..."
Professor Trelawney muttered, her eyes slightly lit up, as if she had thought of something, and said absentmindedly: "Well, dear, the exam is over, you can go back."
"Okay, bye, Professor."
Wade stood up and left, but before he went down the trapdoor, he saw Professor Trelawney hurriedly taking out her piggy bank from the cabinet, pouring all the coins onto the table, and happily counting them.
Wade thought he could almost hear the sound of the abacus beads moving in her mind, and he couldn't help but smile. He was actually a little envious of Professor Trelawney's simple happiness.
As he walked down the stairs, he remembered what he had actually seen in the crystal ball -
A curled up snake-faced baby.
An adult wizard holding a baby, he has a pair of cold eyes.
The tall Dementor was holding a person in his hand and leaning over as if to kiss him.
At the end, there was a long, seemingly endless corridor with closed doors on both sides.
His eyes quickly swept down the corridor, finally stopping in front of a locked door with a shell-like symbol on it.
The swirling white mist in the crystal ball briefly showed Wade several images. He didn't understand what was going on except the last image. The previous ones seemed to be what future wars would look like.
Vader took a deep breath, finding it hard to believe that he had ignored Voldemort for so long. Because the real Wormtail was dead, he subconsciously believed that the man would not be a threat in the short term.
Especially the man holding the baby...
Vader frowned, his mind reeling from memories of his past life retrieved from the Pensieve.
The movies I have watched before actually cannot provide much reference, because the people in this world actually look quite different from those actors.
However, by comparing their age, temperament and appearance, Wade gradually locked on a person.
He walked quickly to the library, threw his bag on a chair, and went into the newspaper area.
Madam Pince was sorting books. Seeing Wade's hurried figure, she said quickly, "It's almost closing time, Gray!"
"I know! I just need to look up a piece of information!"
Vader's voice came through the bookshelves. Madam Pince frowned at first because he spoke so loudly, but then she remembered that there were no other students in the library at the moment, so she shook her head and didn't chase him out.
Wade waved his wand, and several old newspapers flew down from the shelf and spread out in front of him. He searched one by one and finally found the picture he wanted in one of the newspapers.
A boy who looked only seventeen or eighteen years old was dragged away by a Dementor. In the picture, he was struggling hard, opening his mouth and letting out a silent scream, with fear written all over his face.
The newspaper also had two smaller illustrations, one of several other prisoners being tried, and the other of a man with a cold, hateful look on his face. The text below the illustration said he was Barty Crouch, the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, who was in charge of the trial.
Vader's gaze turned upward again.
The boy with a face as pale as paper was Barty Crouch Jr. He looked very similar to his father, but younger and thinner.
If he was taller, his features more mature, and he replaced the panic on his face with his father's expression, he would be exactly the same man that Vader saw in the crystal ball.
Vader didn't understand, how could he have forgotten the destructive power of this man?
Of course, Barty Crouch Jr. was originally at the back of his plan, because this man was supposed to have been controlled by his father with the Imperius Curse and was as harmless as a hamster.
It wasn't until Wormtail Peter escaped and the Death Eaters caused trouble at the Quidditch World Cup that Barty Crouch Jr. finally found an opportunity to break free from his father's control and show his true fangs.
Moreover, as the Director of the Department of Magical Exchange and Cooperation, Barty Crouch is a powerful figure. He has also gained a high reputation for his tenacious resistance against the Death Eaters. He is far from being someone that an ordinary student can approach or "slander".
In Wade's plan, he would let the fake Peter reveal the fact that Barty Crouch Jr. was still alive before the World Cup, and then the two of them would be sent away together by Barty Crouch or the Dementors.
In this way, "Peter" will die legitimately, Barty Jr., Voldemort's fanatical fan, can disappear completely, and Voldemort's resurrection may be delayed for a few years.
It would be best to delay it until Wade graduates from school. In this way, his knowledge, magic power, and training level can reach a higher level, and he can move freely away from school, and his flexibility and adaptability can be greatly improved.
It’s a pity... because of his momentary negligence, the development of events seems to have slipped in the direction of the original world line.
Wade felt annoyed for a moment, then used the Copying Charm to copy the newspaper, folded the copied parchment and put it in his pocket. He said hello to Madam Pince, turned around and left the library, heading towards the principal's office.
Dumbledore needed to know what he saw in the crystal ball, and if he was lucky, Barty Crouch Jr. was still under his father's control, then he could raid the Crouch home with Dumbledore and capture Barty Crouch Jr.
Although that person worked diligently as a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for a year in the original book, who knows what he will do this time? In terms of ability, he is much stronger than other Death Eaters, and even more threatening than Voldemort in some aspects.
Among the many Death Eaters, there is no one as brave, resourceful, patient, good at acting, and extremely loyal as Barty Crouch Jr. Most of the Death Eaters are either going crazy in Azkaban, or they use clever words to escape punishment and enjoy a comfortable life, and they don't want their "master" to come back even more than ordinary wizards.
But now that he had seen Barty Crouch Jr. holding the baby Voldemort in his crystal ball, it might be too late to stop it...
Wade was so absorbed in his thoughts that he accidentally missed the entrance to the headmaster's office. It was not until he stepped onto the stairs to the Ravenclaw tower that he realized he had passed it.
So he went back and tapped the stone monster and said, "Mint Hard Candy."
The monster jumped aside, and Wade stepped onto the spiral staircase that could automatically rise, and soon arrived at the door of the office. He knocked on the brass door knocker, and then heard Dumbledore's voice: "Come in."
Wade walked into the room. Dumbledore was sitting by the window reading a letter. He smiled when he saw Wade: "I was just looking for you, Wade. Newt is back. Let Mabel get ready. We will try to treat her Obscurus starting next week."
"Mr. Scamander?" Wade was stunned, then asked in surprise: "Does he have a treatment plan?"
"Yes. Although we haven't met for a while, he has been thinking about this matter!"
Dumbledore pulled out a piece of letter paper from his hand and motioned for Wade to take a look.
On the slightly yellowed parchment, Scamander wrote in delicate strokes about the treatment methods and magic used by the Obscure. It was obvious that he had been thinking about this matter for a long time.
But in the end, Scamander still cautiously stated that all this was just his speculation and it was uncertain whether it could proceed smoothly.
"It's great to have a solution." Wade smiled relaxedly, "I have some gold powder I got from the organization. Even if it fails temporarily, it can prevent Mabel's condition from getting worse so quickly."
"That's right." Dumbledore smiled. "We must always have hope and believe that there will always be a solution to this problem. By the way, Wade, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"I……"
Wade was about to speak when he suddenly forgot why he came. He stuttered, and then the idea slowly emerged from his mind.
"Mr. Bode from the Department of Mysteries ordered a humanoid puppet for me. He said it was for conducting dangerous magical experiments."
Vader said: "I have completed the main body of the puppet, but I still want to ask for your opinion on this matter."
"Broderick Bode?" Dumbledore smiled. "He is a dedicated and sincere man. He was originally in Ravenclaw College and has no other hobbies except studying magic. There is no need to worry that he will use the puppet to do anything beyond the line."
"I can rest assured that."
Wade smiled and stood up to say goodbye to the principal. He was so happy that Maybelle would get rid of the Obscurus that he didn't realize it was wrong until he put his hand in his pocket accidentally.
Wade took out the newspaper and saw the pale face of Barty Crouch Jr. on it, and slapped his forehead helplessly.
——Does this guy have some kind of "presence -10" buff? Why does he always forget to mention it?
Although Wade complained in his heart, he didn't really think so. He just felt that he was distracted by Scamander's affairs and suddenly forgot his purpose.
For example, sometimes, when he was too focused on studying magic, he would forget whether he had eaten; or when he was halfway through writing a paper, an idea about alchemy suddenly popped up in his mind, and he would forget about his paper and turn to alchemy.
Wade held the newspaper in his hand and walked towards the principal's office again.
"Mint hard candy!"
The stone monster hopped lazily aside and Vader stepped onto the stairs.
Dumbledore looked at Vader who had returned with some surprise and asked, "Anything else, Vader?"
"Well, I forgot to mention..."
Wade glanced at the photos of past Hogwarts headmasters on the wall and asked apprehensively, "Mr. Nick Flamel invited me to visit his estate in July, but I don't know the exact address and time... Should I send him another letter to ask?"
"Nick's address is a secret. Only a few people in the world know it, so he himself will not forget it."
Dumbledore comforted him, "Don't worry, Flamel will arrange everything. Maybe you will receive a letter from him in two days."
Wade knew this in his heart, but he still felt much more at ease after hearing Dumbledore say this.
Afterwards, he felt a little embarrassed when he thought about how he had bothered the principal with such a trivial matter, so he said goodbye in a hurry and left.
The spiral staircase took Vader downstairs. He watched the door close again, stared at it thoughtfully for a while, then reached out and patted the stone monster's head.
"Compared to stone lions, gargoyles are really much uglier..."
Vader muttered, snapping the parchment in his hands.
He subconsciously thought it was his homework, stuffed it into his pocket without paying much attention, and returned to the Ravenclaw common room.
There were few people in the lounge because the semester exams were finally over and they could go to Hogsmeade tomorrow. The students who had been studying late at night for several days in a row couldn't help but go back to the dormitory to rest early. Only a thin figure was still curled up on the sofa reading a book.
"Luna?" Wade saw the person and walked over to ask with some concern: "Why didn't you go back to the dormitory to rest?"
Could it be that this unsociable girl was bullied by her roommates again?
Luna took off her oddly shaped glasses and said, "The dormitory is full of harassment flies, which makes it impossible for me to read. And it's easier to spot night elves when it's late at night and everyone is asleep."
"...What elf?" Wade asked subconsciously.
"Night elves." Luna repeated seriously: "They like to fly under the oak trees at night, and sometimes they fly into people's dreams."
"Oh... so that's how it is." Wade realized a little slowly that this was probably some magical creature that only Luna believed in.
He was about to say good night and go back to the dormitory when he heard the girl say, "Did you know that the newspaper in your pocket is about to fall out?"
"newspaper?"
Wade was stunned for a moment, then slowly pulled out the newspaper and looked at the man in the picture with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
(End of this chapter)