Chapter 516
: The Game is in Progress 3
Chapter 516: The Game is in Progress 3
The game hadn't started yet, but a huge streaming camera was set up in the stadium. After playing several advertisements in succession, it began to scroll through the highlights of the preliminaries and semi-finals.
From the audience stands, enthusiastic cheers could be heard from time to time, as people applauded and cheered for their favorite players.
While Harry and others were discussing the performance of the athletes, a quarrel was taking place in the passage behind the top box.
"Master Batty, Master Batty, what are you doing?"
A brown-eyed house elf tugged at the wizard's robe and said anxiously, "The master has been looking for you. Why don't you go home?"
"Go home?" Barty Crouch Jr. said resentfully, "Go back for what? Let him keep me under house arrest for the rest of my life? Or be sent to Azkaban again?"
"Don't, don't say that. The master won't treat you like that." The house-elf pulled him and said, "Go back with Winky, Master Barty! The master loves you very much. He is your father!"
"I don't need a father like him! Get out of here, Winky!" Little Barty said angrily, "Don't get in the way of me doing my job!"
He kicked the elf away and prepared to leave. After taking two steps, his waist suddenly felt tight, as if there was a rope tied to it.
"Flash!" Little Barty turned around and shouted angrily.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Master Batty." Shanshan cried, "Master Batty is a bad boy, Shanshan can't let you leave like this! Shanshan must take Master Batty home! Otherwise, the master will be in trouble!"
The house-elf sobbed and cried very sadly, big tears rolled down his cheeks, and his thin body kept shaking, as if he was about to collapse.
But it always stretched out one hand and tied Barty Crouch Jr. tightly, making it impossible for him to leave. Even Barty's wand flew into her hand.
Little Barty roared, struggled, and growled like a wild beast, but he was unable to break free from Winky's control and was dragged downstairs by the elf.
The huge noise waves in the gymnasium completely covered his voice, and no one noticed the twisting and struggling figure.
"Wait, wait, Winky!"
After walking down two flights of stairs against his will, Batty finally stopped trying to break free. He tried to calm himself down and said in a compromising tone, "Okay, I get it. I'll go back with you! Stop pulling my weight!"
At the end, little Barty finally yelled in frustration.
Shanshan turned around and looked at little Barty, and asked with a mixture of emotion and doubt: "Really? Master Barty is willing to go home?"
"I can go back with you, but there is one condition... no, one request." Batty took a deep breath and said, "Let me finish watching this game, okay?"
Twinkle bit her lip and looked at him pitifully, hesitating.
"You know, Winky, if I go back, I'll definitely be put under house arrest for life by my father... So just this once! Let me watch the World Cup final!"
Little Barty lowered his head and said, "You know how much I love Quidditch... If my mother were still alive, she would definitely not let me live like this. She would give me everything I want!"
Shanshan was shaken. She thought for a while and said, "Then... after watching the game, go home with Shanshan?"
"Okay, I promise you." Little Barty whispered, "But how can I go? I don't have a ticket... and I can't show up in front of others."
Shanshan quickly came up with a solution: "Your invisibility cloak is still in the master's tent, and there is a seat reserved for the master in the top box..."
"But he may not have time to go there, you can take me there to watch the game." Little Batty continued. "Okay... okay." Shanshan bit his finger, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and regarded this as an order from the little master.
Little Barty looked at Shanshan, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "Thank you, Shanshan. I know that you are the one who cares about me the most in my family."
Winky used a flying spell to summon the invisibility cloak from the tent. Then, she mustered up her courage and pushed open the door of the top box with little Barty, who was wearing the invisibility cloak.
When the scene outside came into view, Shanshan covered his eyes in fear. Little Barty felt loose, and the invisible rope disappeared.
The next second, Winky came back to his senses and used the elf's magic to tie up Little Barty again. But this time, Little Barty was not in a hurry to get free, but quickly glanced around the box, then frowned tightly.
There were quite a few people in the box, including Minister of Magic Fudge, some officials, the Malfoy family, and a few red-haired Weasleys.
There was murderous intent in little Barty's eyes, and he felt like casting a killing curse on most people in the box.
But no, these were not his goals.
Lucius Malfoy suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. He turned around and saw the house-elf pushing the door open.
"What? There are tickets even for this kind of thing?" Malfoy said in an unhappy tone.
"My name is Winky, sir." Winky covered his eyes with one hand and said timidly, "My master is Mr. Barty Crouch, the master... the master sent me to the top box to save a seat for him."
Draco Malfoy also looked back at the ugly elf, and thinking of Dobby who had escaped from home, he made an unhappy "tsk" sound and asked arrogantly: "Why did you cover your eyes?"
"Shanshan is afraid of heights..." Shanshan said fearfully, found an empty seat in the back row, and sat down shivering.
For some reason, there were five or six empty seats in the box, so Little Batty also sat down next to Shanshan.
He looked ahead and saw two officials talking in low voices. One of them placed his telescope next to his seat, so Batty reached out, quietly stole the telescope and hid it under his invisibility cloak.
Shanshan covered her eyes because she was afraid of height and didn't notice the theft at all.
Little Batty held up the telescope, adjusted the focus, and scanned the other boxes.
He used the Imperius Charm to learn from the ticket collector at the door that Harry Potter was in the top box, but the stupid ticket collector didn't even pay attention to their box number, so little Barty could only patiently look for it room by room on his own.
Suddenly, Ludo Bagman rushed into the box and asked, "Minister, can we start?"
"You say start, Ludo," said Fudge.
Bagman pointed his wand at his throat and said, "Loud!"
As it approached, a thunderous sound echoed throughout the entire stadium.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome... Please allow me to introduce the mascot of the Bulgarian national team!"
The pro-Bulgarian crowd cheered loudly, and Arthur Weasley in the box leaned out of his seat and exclaimed, "Veela!"
(End of this chapter)