[HP]Blue Soul

Chapter 115 The Red Express in the Rain

"Come back soon, and when we meet, say, with a great gift (Remus wants me to say so). Sirius Black."

Touberg received Sirius' owl the day after the Quidditch World Cup.When he received this note, Qiubai was packing his luggage for Hogwarts.Unlike Harry, who still had a week's vacation, Qiubai and Severus had to rush back to Hogwarts in advance.

"A letter from Sirius," Qiubai said to Severus, and she put the note aside. "It seems that there is a reason why he didn't go to the Quidditch World Cup. He was delayed by something with Remus. What else?" If there is a big gift, what kind of gift can there be?"

Severus sneered, "It's a gift not to make trouble."

"Anyway, we'll find out when he comes back." Qiubai stuffed the three dresses into the box, "I don't know if the dress I bought for Harry will fit. Mrs. Weasley is so enthusiastic. She was going to help Harry bought it."

"Your Transfiguration is enough." Severus checked the potion materials he needed to bring to Hogwarts, which were needed in class, and if they were missing, they had to be made up as soon as possible.

"That's right." Qiubai closed the box in a good mood. "Let's go to Hogwarts again tonight. We'll finish what we said earlier this afternoon. I'll ask Ludo Barty for Barty Crouch's address." German asked."

After returning from the place where the Quidditch World Cup was held, Qiubai remembered this and sent a letter to Ludo Bagman.The content is that if Ludo can provide Barty Crouch's address, she can only ask Ludo for the principal.Ludo replied quickly, and happily attached what Qiubai wanted.

Through Apparation, Chomber and Severus arrived at Barty Crouch's house.The Crouch family also belonged to 28 pure-blood families. As one of the oldest pure-blood wizarding families in the UK, the Crouch family's manor was a bit less luxurious and more quaint and serious than Malfoy Manor.

Old Batty was drinking tea in the yard, probably because the tea was not brewed well, so he spit it out after taking a sip.His usual serious expression seemed to be cracked, which looked a little funny.Without Winky, a house-elf, his life was obviously much harder, and his otherwise unruly short gray hair was a mess.

Putting the cup heavily on the table, Old Barty picked up the tea towel on his lap and wiped the tea stains on his beard. When he saw the tea towel, he recalled unpleasant memories, and threw the tea towel on the table angrily. .Then, he saw Severus and Qiubai outside the yard.

"What are you guys doing here?" Old Barty frowned, and he cleared the table with a spell. "How do you know this place?"

Qiubai didn't answer, just said: "Barty Crouch Jr."

Old Barty's chair made a long sound on the floor, his face stiffened: "He's dead! Damn Death Eater." He glared at Severus, as if it would give him some support.

"You know he's not dead, he was in the woods last night, and he was the one who released the Dark Mark." Qiubai said with certainty.

"He died in Azkaban." Old Batty roared angrily.

"Azkaban isn't unbreakable." Severus raised his chin in a Lucius-like arc, "Like some Polyjuice Potion?"

Old Batty's footsteps were unsteady, he took a few steps back in shock, his eyes widened, "You...you..."

Qiubai took a few steps forward. Although she was a little shorter than old Batty, her aura overwhelmed old Batty.Old Batty was propped on the table with one hand, and all the strength in his body seemed to have been lost.Qiubai said: "Mr. Crouch, we can all understand the love for a son, but I have to tell you that he is now with Voldemort."

"The mysterious man is dead... more than ten years ago, he was killed by the savior Harry Potter that night." Old Batty said in a trembling voice, and then he covered his forehead again, "No... no ……Mystery man……"

Old Batty looked pained, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.He seemed to be in great pain, his eyes were bloodshot, and he cried out in pain, "Mysterious man! Mysterious man!"

Severus took two steps forward, walked up to old Batty, grabbed his shoulders, and looked into old Batty's eyes.Old Batty's expression was constantly struggling between pain and calm.A few minutes later, Severus retreated to Qiubai's side, and the old Barty sat down on the chair, panting heavily, and the bulging veins around his temples kept shaking.

"As expected," Severus said, "They traded Mrs. Crouch for Barty Jr."

Old Batty suddenly covered his eyes and burst into tears.Qiubai frowned, "Why let the innocent Mrs. Crouch? It's terrible."

"Mrs. Crouch herself requested..." Severus said.

"Grace is sick." Old Batty's voice came dully. He tried his best to restrain his grief, and said resolutely with a broken can, "She is dying, she begged my son Rescued, she said it was the last thing I could do for her. I couldn't refuse, we went to Azkaban to see him together, let them drink the polyjuice potion with each other's hair, and they exchanged looks."

"Mrs. Crouch took Polyjuice Potion until she died?" Qiubai said.

"Yes..." Old Batty said, "but I can't even take out her body," he said hoarsely, "because I had already held a secret funeral for her when the exchange was successful, and the tomb was empty. Can't fill it either."

"Then why did you let Little Barty stay here? He doesn't look right." Qiubai asked.

"A kind of potion that can make people lose their strength, and he can't even walk out of the room door. I asked Shiny to take care of him, but she has been disobeying my orders!" Old Batty gritted his teeth, "Mysterious man...mysterious man I found this place before, and he used the Imperius Curse to control me to facilitate the holding of the Triwizard Tournament, and later modified my memory. I just remembered this."

"You didn't find the problem?" Qiubai said, she was very puzzled, "Did little Barty take the opportunity to escape?"

"The mysterious man asked him to stay here for a while, and got news from the Ministry of Magic from me. He pretended that he was still bound by the potion. But I found out. I thought it was Winky who reduced the potion privately. I punished Winky. I switched to using the Imperius Curse to control him and made him wear the Invisibility Cloak from morning to night." Batty Sr. said bitterly, "Then he begged me to take him to the Quidditch World Cup, and I relented, damn it His heart softened, he liked Quidditch since he was a child. He said that Grace saved him because he wanted him to be free, not to be imprisoned for life."

Old Batty's tears dripped on the ground through his fingers, and he kept shouting "It's over", "It's over"...

"It's not over, as long as Voldemort is not dead, it's not over." Qiubai patted the table and said loudly, "We don't need to expose you, as long as you can cooperate with us."

Old Batty let go of his hands, his eyes were covered with red threads, and his face looked haggard like a dead man, "How... how do you cooperate?"

"You know, the Triwizard Tournament is Voldemort's conspiracy. His ultimate goal is to resurrect and...kill Harry Potter. He will definitely send someone into Hogwarts, it may be someone else, or it may be the minibus Ti...I hope you can stand with us in the united front." Qiubai said.

"Yes... I'll go to Hogwarts..." Old Barty murmured, "Find him, and then what? The Mysterious Man will fail, won't he keep coming back? He...he's already Out of human form."

Old Barty shivered as if remembering something terrible.

"Just leave it to us. I won't bring Voldemort back to life." Qiubai said, "Our mission is to make him disappear forever."

"Can I trust you guys?" Barty Sr. said.

"We don't need your belief," Severus said grimly.

"See you at Hogwarts, Mr. Crouch, then."

Qiubai pulled Severus out of the range of the manor, and then used Apparition to return to his own manor. Severus asked, "Do you really think it will be little Barty?"

"There are not many people who Voldemort can use now, especially Barty Jr., who is thought to be dead by others, is the most suitable for infiltrating Hogwarts. Old Barty is definitely easier to find than us as a father, plus Mr. Moody , we can grasp their dynamics as soon as possible. Only by controlling all these can we respond in a timely manner." Qiubai replied.

"But I think they will sneak in with people from the Ministry of Magic when the Triwizard Tournament begins." Qiubai continued, "What we have to consider for the time being is going back to Hogwarts."

"You're going to King's Cross again on school day?" Severus said.

"Yes." Qiubai shrugged, "Not only Harry, but also Daniel and Tammy, who happened to be with them. Then I will take the Hogwarts Express to school. I haven't been in Hogwarts yet." I don’t know what it feels like to be fast.”

September [-]st came quickly.Qiubai returned to Godric's Hollow from the fireplace in the head Slytherin's office, and then went to London from Godric's Hollow.It was raining heavily in London, and Qiubai put a waterproof cover on his body in time, but his clothes were still wet.

Pulling out a coin from his pocket, Qiubai used the Expansion Charm and the Transfiguration Charm to transform it into an umbrella before rushing into King's Cross Station.King's Cross was busy again, drenched with people coming and going, but no Muggle could see the people disappearing between platforms 9 and 10.

It wasn't too early for Qiubai to come. On the 9th platform, he saw Tammy's family and Daniel's family like headless flies.Daniel's wife is a bespectacled, brown-haired woman who looks intellectual.

Qiubai patted Daniel on the shoulder, "Can't find the platform?"

"Xia... Shire!" Daniel exclaimed in surprise, "We couldn't find this so-called platform nine and three-quarters at all." Daniel took Gwendoline's ticket to Qiubai.

"Come here." Qiubai brought the two families to the pillar between platforms 9 and 10. "How about a team of two? Go through this wall, don't stop, just don't be afraid."

"But this is the wall." Daniel's voice was dry.

"As long as you believe it, then it is not a wall." Qiubai said with a smile, "Is there anyone willing to try it?"

Gwendolyn raised her hand high, "Me me!" She also had a cart with an owl cage on it.She straightened the cart and pulled Erendil's sleeve again, "You come with me."

Elendil glanced at Tammy and the others before finally making up his mind and nodding, "Let's go together." He also aligned the cart against the wall, pursing his lips as if he was about to go to the battlefield.

"Don't be afraid, just take a run-up and just rush over." Qiubai patted Gwendoline's head, and the soft hair with a warm temperature immediately ironed Qiubai's heart.

Gwendolyn was very brave, and she quickly disappeared into the middle of the wall with Elendil.Qiubai said to the rest of the people: "The two youngest have passed away, you grown-ups are not less courageous than them, are you?"

Before Daniel could recover from the scene he just saw, he wiped his eyes, "Really, really disappeared."

"Let's go." Tamira stopped Sinclair and Vincent, "We'll wait for you over there." After she finished speaking to Daniel and his wife, her husband and eldest son disappeared into the wall.

"Are you ready?" Qiubai said to Daniel.

"I... I... I take a deep breath." Daniel took his wife's hand, "Come on, let's rush in!"

By the time they were all through the wall, the Hogwarts Express had just pulled into the platform.There were students and parents of students of all ages on the platform, but Qiubai couldn't see the eye-catching red-haired family.Leaving space for the two farewell families, Qiubai started looking around.

The Hogwarts Express was belching billows of smoke, making people on the platform look like dark ghosts.There are many hooting owls in the smoke, mixed with the high-pitched hooting of kittens.Chombal struggled through the crowd, and finally saw the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione near the ticket gate.

"I might see you all soon," one of the boys said with a smile as he hugged Ginny good-bye.Qiubai remembered that the boy, Charlie Weasley, Weasley's second son, had been injured on the night of the Quidditch World Cup.

"Why?" Fred asked eagerly.

"You'll know," said Charlie, "and don't ever tell Percy that I mentioned it... You know, it's 'Top Secret Information until the Ministry of Magic sees fit.'"

"Ah, I wish I could go back to Hogwarts this year," said Bill Weasley, the eldest Weasley son.His hair was tied back long, and he looked very trendy. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the train with a melancholy expression.

"Why?" George asked impatiently.

"You guys are going to have a really fun year," Bill said, eyes gleaming. "I might take time off to watch part of..."

"Part of what?" Ron asked.

But at this moment, the whistle blew, and Mrs. Weasley said loudly: "Hurry up, the car is about to leave, you all get in the car."

Qiubai didn't go with them, and chose to get on the next carriage, and she heard Hermione's voice vaguely, "Thank you for letting us stay, Mrs. Weasley." Harry seemed to have said something, but Qiubai didn't hear it, her ears were already filled with all kinds of chattering noises.

She went all the way until she reached the front of the car, where there was a teacher's compartment.There was no one in the carriage. After all, most teachers would prefer to travel by Apparating or Floo powder.Pulling up the window of the carriage, Qiubai clearly heard the loud hiss of the pistons of the engine, and the train moved on.Qiubai stuck his head out of the window and waved goodbye to Daniel and the others.

She also saw Mrs. Weasley, and they Apparated away before the train could turn the corner.When the vehicle lost the cover of the canopy on the platform, the dense raindrops began to crackle on the glass windows.Qiubai quickly closed the window, and soon the window was covered with a layer of rain and fog.

It was difficult for Qiubai to see the scenery outside, she curled her lips, she could only experience the Hogwarts Express for the first time by herself alone.Looking at the empty seat opposite in the carriage, he was stunned for 2 minutes, but Qiubai still couldn't wait any longer.

She got up and cast a disillusionment spell on herself, then slipped out of the box softly.There was still the sound of seniors fighting in the corridor, but it was quickly stopped by the patrolling prefects of each college.Qiubai quietly passed by the prefect who was about to deduct points, and finally stopped by an open box door.

Gwendoline and Elendil were chatting with several other children, and of course it was Gwendoline who was talking more. Her lively and cheerful personality easily blended in with other children.

Qiubai smiled and closed their half-closed windows, leaving the exclaimed children to continue walking behind.Then she saw the familiar platinum-blonde hair, Draco standing hesitantly walking up and down the corridor, not far from him was an open box door.

Qiubai could already hear the voices of both George and Fred.They still discuss the mysteries of their mother and brothers. "Bagman would love to tell us what happened at Hogwarts, remember, at the World Cup? But my own mother won't. Don't know—"

Draco pursed his lips, turned around and left, he shrank into another box, and closed the box door with a bang.Qiubai closed the door of Harry's box, and then easily opened Draco's box, Draco was the only one in it.

"Who!" Draco said alertly.

"It's me." Qiubai sat across from Draco, slowly showing his figure, "Why didn't you sit with Goyle and Crabbe today?"

"I have to go with them?" Draco raised his voice bravado, and his pointed chin, which was exactly the same as Lucius's, also raised, "You...how are you on the Hogwarts Express?"

"I've never sat before, so I'll give it a try." Qiubai shrugged, "I saw you wandering in front of Harry's box just now, why didn't you go in?"

"Go in and be ridiculed by them?" Draco looked towards the car window, "I won't go alone, they are too many."

"You will be ridiculed when you are an enemy, but not when you are a friend," Qiubai said.

"Friend?" Draco sneered, "The time to choose has long passed. He rejected me and chose the pure-blood traitor."

"You mean the Weasleys? Why?"

"They like to hang out with mud... Muggles, what are they not pure-blood traitors?"

"Ah, Lucius told you that? But... I remember that the Malfoy family used to be with Muggles too."

"impossible!"

"Hey, don't worry. There are also many half-blood wizards in the Malfoy family tree, but your father didn't tell you. Before the "Secrecy Act" was enacted, the Malfoy family even had Muggles and Muggle-borns. Example of intermarriage."

"Impossible! Impossible!"

"The most important thing for the Malfoy family is profit, Draco. As the sole heir of the Malfoy family, you should learn to find the path that is most beneficial to you."

Qiubai's words were like a heavy hammer, which shattered Draco's three views for more than ten years.He began to be silent, facing the window stubbornly, his face was as pale as a piece of paper.

"I'll go first..."

Qiubai stepped out of the box and closed the door for Draco, she sighed.She didn't have to say this to Draco, but Draco's desire for a true friend made her say it.Draco wasn't broken to the bone, and the hand of friendship he had extended to Harry had been genuine.

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Ahhhhhhhhhh, I'm also writing an article on the first day of the new year! !I posted it after I finished writing. I don’t know if there are any bugs, but if there are, you should not see it, hehehe!Happy New Year wow everyone! ! ! !Hope you all have a great new year