Chapter 518 Crouch's Destruction (5K)

The power of the rain has become weak and is no longer as powerful as it was half an hour ago. As long as it hits the wall or glass, it will stir up bursts of mist.

Several boots stepped through large and small puddles, and their owner's trouser legs and hems were stained by splashing mud.

"Sirius, you can't escape!" Bella waved her wand crazily, and a green Cruciatus Curse shot out from the tip of the wand, running towards Black who had returned to his human form.

He struggled to carry the seriously injured old Batty, his steps were heavy and clumsy. The curse behind him was like gangrene attached to the bones, killing him quickly and steadily.

"Sirius, go away! Leave me alone!" Old Barty groaned angrily, a powerful force surged out of his body, and he used his last strength to forcefully push Sirius away. .

The terrifying green light hit his back, and severe pain immediately erupted in his body. Old Barty collapsed to the ground, hunched over in the puddle. His neatly styled hair was already messy, soaked in sewage, and hanging crookedly like waterweed.

He gritted his teeth tightly, and his facial muscles trembled from excessive exertion. The palms of his hands were like stiff eagle claws, clawing hard at the skirt of his chest to relieve the heartbreaking pain.

"My dear father, where are you going?" A gloomy sound of footsteps came from the front, and Barty Jr. approached step by step with a weird smile, looking at Old Barty and Black with ferocious eyes, "Lester Mrs. Ranch..."

"Little Barty, how many times have I told you to call me Bella." Bella walked over the puddles slowly, staring at Blake with the bright light under her black eye makeup.

"Okay, Bella." Little Barty smiled, then tapped the wand regularly, as if thinking about something.

"Bella said that there were some rats hiding in her territory and asked me to help get rid of them. Who knows, before I did anything, father got out of the sewer by himself." He looked at old Batina With a wrinkled face and gray hair, his tone was mixed with a little ridicule and emotion, "Father, you are old."

"The whole world will surrender to the master's feet, and I will fulfill what you have always expected of me... honor, power, status, the respect of Crouch from the magical world..."

Sirius realized that this was a good time for a sneak attack, and he wanted to take advantage of Barty Jr.'s distraction to make a sudden move. But Bella's eyes were locked on him, as if she had already seen through his intentions.

"Sirius, return the wand to me." Bella bent the wand in her hand and said sarcastically: "It is just like you, stupid and impulsive, and not easy to use."

"Don't even think about it!" Blake faced the desperate situation, still strong and full of courage.

He raised his wand and pointed it back and forth at Bella and Barty Jr. While staring at the other party warily, wary of their sneak attacks, he slowly bent down to drag Old Barty.

"Old Barty, cheer up! I will take you back, I promise Merlin!"

"You should have walked by yourself... It's not worth saving me..." The old man leaned weakly in his arms, his legs shaking uncontrollably and unable to stand upright.

"I will not abandon my partners. Even if I lose the battle, I will not lose my character and bottom line."

"Tsk tsk tsk, personality and bottom line, what wonderful words." Little Barty walked up slowly. He seemed to have too many things to say to Old Barty, "Isn't this the principle that you have always been proud of and adhere to throughout your life? Father?"

"Barty Crouch, my dear father, the most upright Auror in the wizarding world! Now tell me, are you ashamed of your companion's words?"

Sirius looked at everything in front of him with confusion, and his eyes still contained endless anger and hostility towards Barty and Bella.

Originally, he successfully lured Bella away as planned, leaving Fleck and the others to deal with Rodolphus and the snake men he controlled. Everything went well, and Bella fell into the second circle of him and Old Barty.

But no one expected that just when Bella was about to lose, Barty Jr. suddenly appeared. He hit Old Batty hard and the situation was instantly reversed.

"You insidious Death Eater..." Sirius glared at Barty Jr., who shot out a spinning bolt from his wand, completely teasing and humiliating him.

Sirius reluctantly used an armor to protect himself, trying to defend himself. But he had been running for too long, and now he was exhausted. His trembling arms had difficulty controlling the wand accurately.

The curse hit him hard, and he spun around in mid-air several times before finally falling heavily to the ground. The moonlight shattered from the puddles, and scattered water droplets splashed into the sky, shining brightly.

Blake raised his head stubbornly in the cesspool and pointed in the direction where old Barty fell, using his lips to hint: "Drag!"

"Of course I am an insidious Death Eater, and also cunning." Little Barty tilted his upper body back slightly and pointed at himself arrogantly.

Then he turned his finger and pointed at his father who was struggling in the mud: "But if you want to blame, blame old Buddy."

"Oh, maybe you don't know." He seemed to be lost in memories, smiling and calmly narrating: "The great Barty Crouch, the most upright Director of Law in the history of our Ministry of Magic, used Polyjuice Potion Help your son, that is, me, escape from prison.”

The corners of his mouth curled up even more, his heart was excited, and his body even wanted to dance.

Sirius opened his eyes wide and turned his head to look at Old Crouch in disbelief. He originally thought that the old man would deny the accusation, but he didn't expect that the other man just hung his head in shame.

"You...Old Barty, are you the same as Digory? You both want to save your son?" Sirius murmured to himself, unable to conceal the shock in his tone.

"Don't you know that Death Eaters are hopelessly corrupt?"

Old Barty bit his lower lip tightly with his teeth, and he was silent and unable to refute. Suddenly, he raised his head, struggled, and crawled towards his son, as if asking him to kill him.

"Get out of here!" Little Barty's wand shot out a light beam of light, and slammed him heavily on the broken car next to him, "I want you to be alive! Return to the British wizarding world alive, with Sirius's head, and perhaps others."

"I want everyone to know your ugly and hypocritical face, my dear father, they will all die because of you."

After saying that, he slowly raised his wand, and the tip of the wand shone with the green light of the Killing Curse. He wanted Old Barty to slowly~slowly witness the death of Sirius.

Bang!

Just as the fatal green light hit, a rusty car door suddenly blocked Sirius, blocking the fatal blow for him.

Barty looked at Bella in confusion and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Barty, mind your own business. He is my prey." Bella glared at him coldly and picked up her wand from the puddle.

As soon as the walnut wand returned to its owner's hand, it couldn't wait to shoot out shining sparks.

"I know, I know..." Barty grinned and said in a mean tone, "Do you need my help? I am very good at the Cruciatus Curse. Before you kill him with your own hands, let me have some fun."

His eyes lingered on Sirius and Bella, vaguely doubting whether their brother-sister relationship was pure. Or was there something unknown.

"I thought the snake people in your territory were enough for you to torture and play with." Bella said disdainfully.

"A group of weapons without pain, not even as good as Muggles. If I had known earlier, I would have raised some Muggles in advance like Cedric did..." Barty smiled a little sickly.

Just when Bella was about to say something to Sirius, Rodolphus covered his left shoulder where his arm was missing and howled in pain: "Bella... Bella! Save me! Save me!"

"Now I finally know why you don't let me call you Mrs. Lestrange." Little Barty looked at the pursuers behind Rodolphus and felt helpless about his incompetence.

"There is no choice for the marriage of pure-blood wizards." Bella was very calm, then turned around and knocked out the struggling Sirius.

Not long ago, she was Voldemort's most loyal believer, willing to sacrifice her life and loyalty for him. However, when she learned of Voldemort's half-blood identity in Azkaban, she was shaken deep in her heart.

When Roger told the magic world about Regulus's deeds through the Dragon Crystal Magic Mirror and revealed that Voldemort's father was a Muggle, her fragile and sensitive heart became shriveled and weak.

As a crazy pure-blooded person, Bella once fanatically believed in her master. However, she did not lose her basic thinking ability.

She could have pretended to be an ostrich, treating Roger and the Ministry of Magic's propaganda as rumors and choosing to turn a blind eye.

But now, werewolves, vampires and other "filthy" creatures in her eyes have mixed into Voldemort's Death Eaters.

Voldemort's power has indeed increased, but it has also further taken away what Bella values ​​most, further tarnishing the motto of the Black family: always pure.

Her master is a half-blood, which makes her feel physically uncomfortable. At this moment, she even thinks that Rodolphus's panicked face looks more vivid and beautiful than Voldemort.

"All this is Roger Travis' fault!" Bella roared in her heart.

Yes, it was that hateful Travis who subverted her loyalty to Voldemort.

After getting her wand back, Bella cast spells faster and more gracefully. Beams of magic light are like antelopes hanging horns, cleverly avoiding Rodolphus and attacking the pursuers directly.

Bella then glared at him and scolded, "Get behind me..."

"Avada Kedavra!" At this moment, a hateful incantation sounded from behind them.

"Be careful!"

Rodolphus's center of gravity was on his left foot, his upper body rotated, and he desperately pushed his wife away with his only remaining arm.

It was a dazzling green light, which shot out from the dark corner of the street, piercing through space and life. Bella watched this green light of death coming straight at her, and Rodolphus pushed himself away with all his strength...

The raindrops fell, crystal clear, cold, and transparent. The remaining green light in the air mercilessly reflected the complex and distorted expression on Bella's face.

She had never loved this man, and their marriage was just an alliance between two pure-blood families. But Rodolphus loved her deeply...

Rodolphus's already pale face looked even more bloodless at this time, and his pupils were rapidly dilating, losing the sinister and vicious light of the past. His knees hit the ground hard, and his body was out of control, falling sideways into the puddle.

In the last moment of his life, he loosened his wand, turned his wrist, and showed the back of his hand to Bella. It was a diamond ring, a gift they exchanged when they got married.

It was on his ring finger, and he never threw it away. Even though, it only had symbolic meaning.

Everything happened in a flash, from the appearance of the green light to the death of Rodolphus, it was only 1 second. The rain can drip slowly, but they have no time to grieve.

Bella understood that the wizard who shot the killing curse had a deep hatred for her, so that the spell was so powerful and extraordinary.

"Alice Longbottom?" Barty Jr.'s face froze, and his eyes glanced in another direction, "Flake Longbottom? Is it you?"

The madness in Bella's eyes became even more intense, and the corners of her mouth raised up the arc of a crescent moon, cold and sharp.

"Let's go!" She glanced at her husband's body and recited the Apparition without any reluctance.

The next moment, before the spells from the front and back hit them, Bella and Barty Jr. teleported away safely.

"Bella's eyes are so cold." Tonks shuddered uncontrollably and hurried forward to check on Sirius.

"Padfoot, are you okay? Do you know that you almost died?"

Sirius took a deep breath and corrected helplessly: "Call me uncle, or Sirius..."

"Drink the medicine, Padfoot." Tonks did not indulge him, and poured the potion into his mouth a little rudely.

The mouth of the potion bottle directly hit his lips, and was immediately broken by his teeth. Sirius glanced at her. He had not shed any blood in the previous battle, but now she had made up for it.

The wizards present had no sympathy for Rodolphus' death. When he followed Voldemort and slaughtered Muggles and wizards for fun, he should have anticipated his fate today.

"How are the werewolves and vampires?" Fleck looked at his wife and patted her shoulder gently.

Alia came back to her senses and moved her angry eyes away from the corpses. "Only one-third were wiped out, and the rest were rescued by the Dementors."

She looked at the place where Bella had just stood with unsatisfied feelings, and sighed softly: "Just a little bit."

After Sirius drank a whole bottle of potion, his cold body gradually warmed up. He slowly stood up, his eyes fixed on Old Barty who was supported by Mad-Eye not far away.

He looked directly at Old Barty's gloomy face and said word by word: "Crouch, is he telling the truth?" He called him by his last name without any hesitation.

"What happened?" People around looked at them in confusion. Was it because of old Barty that the plan failed?

"He let Barty Crouch Jr., his son, go!"

"Just now..."

"No! Not just now!" Black narrowed his eyes and shot out two sharp cold rays of light, "More than a decade ago, after Barty Jr. was tried, he used Polyjuice Potion to help Barty Jr. escape from prison!"

"His son, the Barty Jr. who committed countless crimes, has never spent a day in jail!"

A strange laugh came from his throat. He was innocent but was imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic for 12 years. However, the son of the Director of the Ministry of Magic's Legal Department, a genuine Death Eater, was able to get away with it through his father's operation.

Mad-Eye Moody immediately stared at old Barty with a stern look, as if he was guarding a prisoner, "Polyjuice Potion, no wonder, it all makes sense!"

"Your wife died of illness the year Barty Jr. was imprisoned... Yes, at that time, news of Barty Jr.'s death also came from Azkaban." He said coldly, "In fact, it was your wife who died in Azkaban. They exchanged identities with Polyjuice Potion."

"And your son Barty Jr. has been hiding in the wizarding world. He even continued to serve the Dark Lord, and his resurrection is also related to Barty Jr.! Right?"

Except for Diggory, everyone else stared at old Crouch with hatred, as if looking at a heinous prisoner. Old Barty trembled and lowered his head, his eyes dull and staring at the ground.

Water drops fell from the windowsills and eaves on both sides of the street, making a dripping sound, as if an aging heart was bleeding.

"He is a father." Diggory couldn't help but murmured.

He joined the Order of the Phoenix and came to the dangerous Death Eater territory just for his son Cedric. He didn't believe that Cedric would become a complete Death Eater.

He must have a reason, for sure!

Diggory's whisper pierced the dull and severe atmosphere, and the eyes of the Longbottoms gradually softened. As parents, they could feel the pain of Crouch and Diggory, and they could understand the sympathy between Amos and old Barty.

"This is not a reason, nor an excuse!" Sirius roared hoarsely like a wolf: "Your kindness has caused irreparable consequences!"

Mad-Eye didn't speak, but he had the same attitude. Tonks was a little embarrassed, not knowing how to treat the former head of the Department of Justice who was respected by the Aurors.

"The plan is temporarily suspended, let's go back first." After a moment of silence, Fleck calmed down and made a decision, "After this rainstorm, the Magical Congress of the United States will be free to fight back. What to do next, or listen to Dumbledore's arrangements."

Others said nothing and acquiesced to Fleck's decision. Mad-Eye carried Crouch in one hand, rode on the broom and flew eastward.

"Oh, this is really big news." On the airship, Bellingrum couldn't help cheering, "That poker-faced Crouch, it turns out that he is not so fair and selfless, he is just pretending!"

"Humph, I knew that a wizard who does not accept the friendship of goblins is definitely not a good wizard."

"Let's go! It's time to set sail!" Roger was in high spirits, and his tone sounded quite cheerful.

He hummed a little tune in a low voice, shook his wand and let the airship fly to Cedric's territory.

"Old friend, how are you doing now?"

Roger was very curious about Cedric's position. After all, he became a Death Eater because he was forced to do so. It was not because of the crazy pure-blood concept or his ardent loyalty to Voldemort.

And in today's Death Eater circle, he is the weakest one in terms of strength and power.