I Have a Big Problem with My Hogwarts

Chapter 424: 421. Crouch's Friendship

Peter's charges have been established, which means that Sirius' charges have been cleared.

When something like this happened, the most correct course of action for the magic government would be to publish an apology to Sirius in the newspaper, and compensate him for his reputation and being imprisoned for more than ten years.

But Fudge believed that doing so would make the Ministry of Magic lose its majesty, so he rejected such a proposal.

It just silently revoked Sirius' arrest warrant.

The Daily Prophet reported the results of Peter's trial for the first time, but the Ministry of Magic did not follow up to explain it, but announced that Peter would be kissed by a dementor.

In fact, Peter's original sentence was only life imprisonment, but Fudge thought that if he lived in this world for a day, he was slapping the face of the Ministry of Magic.

So the penalty was increased, Peter was stripped of all honor, and his end was pronounced.

The wizards in the wizarding world are certainly not so satisfied with this result.

The wicked were punished, but the good were not treated fairly, and even a statement of innocence was not published in the Ministry of Magic.

This makes the anti-mainstream public opinion newspapers like "The Quibbler" these days, those who criticize the Ministry of Magic are a bunch of idiots.

Although the Ministry of Magic did not issue an apology to Sirius in the public newspapers, all hunting orders were indeed withdrawn.

Because he got the news that Dumbledore participated in the arrest of Peter's gang of Death Eaters, Sirius wrote a letter to Dumbledore in private, asking if he has been exonerated now .

Dumbledore wrote back to him, saying that the Ministry of Magic was just unwilling to admit his mistake because of face. Internally, all his wanted arrests have been cancelled, including the accusations of murder, street bombing and recent prison escape.

So Sirius made a tentative appearance in Diagon Alley. Not only was he not chased by the Aurors, but the wizard who saw him also applauded him loudly.

This made him completely relieved, and excitedly wrote a letter to Harry Potter, telling him that he could live with him during this summer vacation.

Sirius is so wealthy that he doesn't care about any compensation from the Ministry of Magic, and he doesn't need anyone to apologize.

What makes him happy is that he can now finally recognize Harry as his son in a fair and honest manner.

Of course, the only thing that made him feel a little regretful was that Peter didn't let him catch and kill him himself, but anyway, Harry's parents' revenge was avenged.

The excited Sirius didn't intend to stay in Diagon Alley any longer, he carried his things back to his home.

In any case, this is still his house, and the house bought outside is far from the grandeur of the Black family's ancestral house.

Inside Sirius still wanted to show off his big house to Harry.

However, as soon as he walked into the ancestral house of the Black family, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

There were signs of being rummaged around in a mess, the house elf Kreacher was lying on the ground without a sound, and a big hole was blown out of his mother's portrait, and there was a mess everywhere.

Just when the wizarding world was jubilant about the Death Eaters.

Old John came to the door in person and found the home of Barty Crouch, who had been transferred from the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to the Director of the Department of International Cooperation in Magical Affairs.

Old John is now considered the number one famous figure in the British wizarding world.

His industry is so huge that it spreads all over Europe, and there are even rumors that he has already completed the integration of British businesses, just as he is the helm behind the prosperous Rungard Magic Company.

The Crouch family is also a family of pure-blood wizards with a long history, but their family's focus is on the Ministry of Magic. Although they also have some involvement in business, they are far less concentrated than those of the Malfoy family.

However, the pure-blood families communicated with each other, and he had also heard about the old John's swallowing of Malfoy's property, after all, it also included his Crouch family's property.

Now on the surface, Barty Crouch's wife and son have both passed away a few years ago. It seems that the transfer from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to the Department of International Magical Affairs is flat, but there is a huge difference in power between the two departments. Big, anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has been underestimated.

Old Crouch, who had once been brilliant, and even almost served as the Minister of Magic, has now become a powerless loner.

And it was something else that terrified old Crouch the most.

His son who has been using the Imperius Curse to hide at home has recently disappeared!

Usually, when he was working at the Ministry of Magic, there was a house-elf Winky watching little Crouch, but a few days ago, Winky was crying and saying that little Crouch broke free from the control of the Imperius Curse and ran out of the house.

At that time, the great escape from Azkaban happened, and the old Crouch knew very well that his son who was extremely loyal to Voldemort must have gone to join the Death Eaters.

Just when old Crouch had nothing to do about it, Leon wiped out all the Death Eaters who gathered together in just a dozen days.

Old Crouch was sitting on pins and needles at home these days when the news came out.

If his son was caught, everything would be revealed.

Wizards in the British wizarding world thought he was a fair and honest person, but this impression was about to be destroyed soon.

All his positions will be rolled over, and then he will be imprisoned in Azkaban, and he will face an unknown number of years in prison.

But the Death Eaters trials were over, and he hadn't heard anything about his son.

Old Crouch used his previous relationship with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to investigate, but found that his unfilial son was not among the captured Death Eaters.

Where did little Crouch go?

This question made old Crouch think about insomnia every day.

Until this day, Old John visited Crouch's house with a man covered in a black robe all over his body.

Although Old Crouch and Old John had conflicts before because of the joint company, but now he still invited Old John and the man in black robe who was with him into his home.

Because the man in black robe really gave him a strong sense of familiarity.

Even if the father and son were at odds, after all, the old Crouch and the young Crouch had been father and son together for nearly thirty years.

Just from the height and appearance of the man in black, he can be sure that the person standing beside Old John is his missing son.

As soon as he entered the door, Old John didn't talk nonsense, and directly pulled off the hood of Little Crouch, allowing Old Crouch to see his son's face clearly.

It's just that Crouch's behavior is a bit strange now.

In the previous chapter, the time of Crouch's wife's death was wrong with the original book. Thanks to the reader for pointing it out, it has been corrected.

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