Chapter 293 Crouch’s Follow-Up Observations

"The Crouch family is a pure-blood family with a very long history. Although their number is thin in Barty's generation, their network of connections in the magical world is still very wide!"

Moody's voice was serious.

"Unlike other pure-blood families, when Barty Crouch was in power, he did not join the mysterious man's strength, and clearly expressed his rejection of Death Eaters. This gave him a high reputation in the wizarding world. Even if a scandal like his son's happened later, the Crouch family's reputation would still be made up for by his righteous actions in killing relatives."

"In the Ministry of Magic, he is currently being suppressed by Fudge. On the surface, he has been transferred from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to the Department of International Magical Cooperation. However, in fact, the functions and supervisory powers of these two departments are very different. But this is strictly just Fudge’s suppression, he still has a high reputation within the ministry.”

"This can be seen from the fact that Amelia Bones has not been able to take substantial control of the Executive Department in her own hands since she took over his position. Scrimgeour and the others still only believe in his words. .”

Moody's persuasion did not make Sherlock stick to his idea.

What he said is indeed correct. Crouch's strength is actually not that strong.

After all, not all wizards become more powerful as they get older. Years of worrying about government affairs have made a senior official of the Ministry of Magic like Crouch worse than a random professor from Hogwarts.

But the strength is not strong, and the Crouch family and his own connections cannot be underestimated. Sherlock cannot guarantee whether he will leave any hidden dangers after questioning the old man.

If it turns out that Crouch is fine and what he did is publicized, then Sherlock will most likely become a street rat in the wizarding world. Even Dumbledore may not be able to keep him. reputation.

Moody's words were entirely for his consideration.

Sherlock let out a long sigh and said helplessly.

"Then we clearly know that he is suspected, why should we let him out of Hogwarts like this?"

After all, Moody was experienced. He just thought for a moment and came up with a solution.

"We can't keep an eye on him 24 hours a day. Even if he is at Hogwarts all the time, we can't do this. But he is alone and will be in the Ministry of Magic most of the day. During this time, we can Let Kingsley and Tonks help keep an eye on him. Their recent tasks are not heavy and they have a lot of free time."

This was considered the best way. Kingsley was experienced and Tonks was a disguisemagus. The two of them worked together much better than Moody watching Crouch alone in the castle.

After discussing Crouch's matter, Moody left. He also wanted to go to the Ministry of Magic to contact Kingsley and Tonks.

On the other hand, after Harry returned to the Gryffindor lounge, he naturally received the warmest welcome from all the Gryffindor students.

George and Fred went to the kitchen to get a bunch of food and held a small banquet in the common room.

This banquet was much more comfortable for Harry than the previous night when he was elected as the Hogwarts Warrior.

They also asked Harry to open the golden egg in public, and everyone in Gryffindor would help him solve the mystery of the second project.

But after the golden egg was opened, it would only let out a terrifying scream. George and the others made a bunch of unreliable guesses, which obviously couldn't provide any help to Harry.

While Harry and the others were making a fuss, Hermione was more interested in the food the Weasley twins got from the kitchen. She specifically asked George where the kitchen was.

"It's very convenient. In the corridor at the entrance to the Hufflepuff lounge, there is a picture of fruit hanging on the wall. You only need to scratch the pear on it, and a door handle will appear for you to enter. ....."

When he said this, George suddenly became alert, and he looked Hermione up and down.

"Why do you ask this? Hermione, you want to lead the house elves to go on strike again, right? Are you going to give up those leaflets and other things and mobilize them to rebel?"

There was a burst of laughter from people around.

Hermione said calmly.

"I'm not that naive now, but I've read too many theories in books, and I want to actually understand their lives and thoughts. Don't worry, even if I want the house elves to go on strike, the first person they want to defeat will definitely be it's me."

Fred, who heard her say this, looked satisfied.

"You've become much more mature than before, Hermione."

Hermione didn't take his compliment seriously. After she learned about the entrance to the kitchen, she stepped aside and said nothing more.

During the banquet, George and the two also showed everyone their new prank props. Poor Neville was used as an experiment and accidentally ate a cookie and was turned into a canary.

After all, the celebration was short-lived. The next day, they returned to their daily routine of class.

Hagrid was still teaching them how to cultivate those disgusting-looking blast-ended snails.

While Trelawney was still predicting Harry's misfortune and death all day long, Silk taught Hermione their poker divination methods in the arithmetic class.

The defense class in the fourth grade is not very easy either, because in the fifth grade next year, they will take the wizard level exam, and the learning tasks assigned to them by Sherlock are much heavier than those in the third grade.

But Hermione still took some time to look for Shuyuan www. zhaoshuyuan.com specially found Sherlock.

Hot black tea and a plate full of cookies are Sherlock's standard fare when receiving students.

"I've read a lot of books during this time, Professor." Hermione said with a confused look on her face. "A lot of them are about social structure, and then the relationship between people, about class, and what kind of social relationships can be realistic. Achieve equality for all. There are all kinds of isms, anarchic, social, etc., but the more I read, the more I feel like I don’t understand anything.”

"Is there real equality in this world? If there is, why do some books say that wherever there are people, there will be classes, and the existence of classes means inequality?"

"If even humans themselves cannot achieve true equality, what about other species? So the ultimate goal of pursuing equality is to eliminate classes? How to eliminate classes among wizards? How to resolve the contradictions in the magic world? face?"

Hermione's series of questions made Sherlock look at her weirdly.

Compared to a normal fifteen-year-old girl, Hermione's thoughts on these things are already much ahead of her peers.