Chapter 512 Mr. Crouch Is Crazy

Harry sat with Hagrid for a while before being driven out by him.

Because it was almost 10 o'clock, Hogwarts was about to start curfew. If Harry went back later, he would lose points from the house if he was seen by other professors...

Although few people in Gryffindor care about that thing now.

After coming out of Hagrid's hut, Harry habitually took out the Marauder's Map, intending to see if Rita Skeeter, the annoying cow, was lurking around him again.

"I solemnly swear that I will do no good."

Harry tapped the parchment in his hand with his wand and chanted a spell softly. Countless ink lines and dots emerged, forming a map on the parchment.

Harry quickly found the location of Hagrid's hut on the map. There were two small black dots in the hut, namely Hagrid and Fang, and three black dots next to the hut. One of the black dots was marked with Harry's name, and the other two were almost overlapping but did not show any name - they were the two remaining blasting-tailed skrewts raised by Hagrid.

Then he checked the nearby black spots. The large group of black spots not far away should be the students in Beauxbatons' carriage, and the smaller number next to them were the twelve rune horses.

Then Harry subconsciously glanced at the Forbidden Forest on the map. Due to the limitations of the map itself, the Forbidden Forest could only show a small part on the map, but Harry just wanted to see if Rita Skeeter was around him.

Within the Forbidden Forest, the deeper you go into the Forbidden Forest, the more black spots there are. Some of them have names - they are magical creatures like Wuwu and Buckbeak, but there are more black spots without names - most of them are ordinary animals, but there are also some magical animals.

Harry also doesn't understand the mechanism of the Marauder's Map. The black spots with names are not just humans or magical animals. Pets like Fang, Hedwig, and Mrs. Norris can also show their names, while magical animals like Bowtruckle and Fairy are mostly nameless.

At first, Harry thought they had no names, but when Fish introduced him to his friends, he found that even Bowtruckles had their own names... although most of the names were very strange.

According to the twins and Hermione's speculation, whether to display a name is probably related to the students' cognition in the school. For example, Wuwu, most students can't see it, but they know its existence from Fish's mouth, so naturally the name will appear on the map.

So, if one day everyone thinks that "Draco Malfoy" is "Forehead", then the name displayed on the map will be "Forehead"?

This is the first possibility that Harry thought of after hearing this speculation, and every time he unfolded the Marauder's Map, he couldn't help but think about it...

Shaking his head and throwing these messy thoughts aside, Harry ignored the black spots deep in the Forbidden Forest and only searched at the edge of the Forbidden Forest near him...

There were only a few scattered black spots nearby. Harry guessed that they were mostly animals such as mice and rabbits. Of course, they could also be Bowtruckles that came out to take care of the trees. And strangely, the black spots suddenly increased a little further away.

The reason for this situation was the blasting-tailed skrewts raised by Hagrid. Those irritable guys made the small animals that originally lived nearby run away.

However, Harry still found a name among the scattered black dots...

Is it really Skeeter's cow?

Harry excitedly approached the black dot, but found that it was written in very small words next to the black dot - "Barty Crouch".

"Mr. Crouch?"

Harry was startled, and after confirming that he was not mistaken, he hesitated for a moment, but still ran in that direction with the map and wand.

In the Forbidden Forest, Harry really met Mr. Barty Crouch, but his condition did not seem to be very good. The knees of his robe were torn and bloodstained, his face was covered with scars, his beard was untidy, and his face was gray and haggard...

It seemed that he had been wandering outside for many days.

In addition, Mr. Crouch's mental state was not very normal. He seemed to mistake a tree in front of him for Percy and was gesturing and saying something.

"...Wetherby, after you finish this, send an owl to Dumbledore to confirm the number of students from Durmstrang participating in the tournament. Karkaroff sent a message saying there are twelve..."

"Mr. Crouch?" Harry approached cautiously.

But Crouch seemed not to hear and continued to talk to the tree until Harry walked up to him. He suddenly grabbed Harry and gasped: "Dumbledore! I want to... see... Dumbledore..."

But he said so, but his hand still held Harry tightly and refused to let go. Harry wanted to find Dumbledore as he said, but he couldn't do it.

But soon, Crouch took the initiative to let go of Harry and started talking to the tree again. Harry was stunned for a moment and hurriedly ran out of the woods to find Dumbledore. As a result, he was caught by Crouch before he ran two steps, and he started talking some fragmented nonsense again, which seemed to involve the Dark Lord, but Harry couldn't connect them at all.

After repeating this several times, Harry finally escaped from Barty Crouch and rushed out of the Forbidden Forest.

He glanced back with lingering fear, and found that the other party had not chased him out. Harry no longer hesitated and ran quickly into the castle.

When Harry flew all the way to the castle, he was out of breath and suddenly slapped his forehead in annoyance... He should have informed Hagrid nearby, at least there was someone who could watch Mr. Crouch for him.

But it would be a waste of time to turn back at this time, so he could only continue running to the principal's office.

When Harry rushed to the stone monster on the third floor, he found that he didn't seem to know the password to the principal's office.

"Lemon Olaf?"

Harry recalled the password Dumbledore used when he brought him to the principal's office...but it was several years ago, and it had probably been changed.

The result was not what he expected, the stone monster continued to stand there motionless.

"Get out of the way!" Harry shouted at it: "Hurry up! I have something important to see Professor Dumbledore!"

Obviously, if this method could get the magical guards of Hogwarts out of the way, Sirius wouldn't have had to spend so much time trying to sneak into the Gryffindor dormitory last year.

Harry continued to try to recall the several times he came to the principal's office...

Well, it seems that most of the time, Fish brings him here.

so……

"Meow?"

Harry subconsciously learned a meow.

After calling Harry, he knew that he was stupid. How could he imitate a cat's meow and open the secret door of the principal's office?

Just when he was sneering and wanted to find Fish or Professor McGonagall for help, the stone monster in front of him suddenly moved under Harry's surprised gaze.

It suddenly jumped to the side, revealing the wall behind it. Then, the empty wall cracked from the middle and opened to the left and right, revealing... standing behind the wall...

Professor Snape.

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In the early translation by the People's Literature Publishing House, the password in the principal's office was translated as "Ice Lemon Juice", because the English is Sherbet lemon, and the literal translation is "Lemon Sorbet".

When Dumbledore first appeared in the first "Philosopher's Stone", he shared this snack with Professor McGonagall, but was rejected. At that time, it was translated as "lemon ice cream," Dumbledore said. It is a Muggle-produced dessert.

But in Rowling's interview, she explained that it was a hard candy, so the later revised translation became "Lemon Olaf."

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