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Violet's Story part 36
Soon enough a week went by without them finding anything out. My father saw me with them one day hearing us discussing the tournament. He them told me that I could not tell Harry what to do. I tried mouthing it and giving hints but the never got it. "Arggg, Harry it's- ooo- it's- er-"
"Would you just tell me? Your father will not find out!"
"Oh yes he will. He'll know some how and I don't want to get into trouble right now."
"Well, as soon as we get this over with we can ask Sirius why he wants to know when we go to Hogsmeade-"
"What? He wants to know that?"
"Yeah, do you know why?"
"I would imagine-"
"Violet, get over here," Severus called. "In a minute-"
"No, now!"
"Sorry, guys tell you later."
"What do you want?" I asked him walking over to the door of the Great Hall. "Look at this. It's getting darker."
"Severus, you idiot. Don't show that here," I whispered loudly pulling his sleeve down. "But, he's-"
"Don't worry, remember we have enough-"
"No, you have enough to worry about. I don't want him getting us, Violet. Do you understand what he will do? You're older now and he'll punish you too, maybe not as bad as the rest of us, but-"
"Look, he's not going to get us as long as we are with my father, you know that. Calm down and go to your classroom." Severus walked away breathing in and out very slowly.
That day Hagrid decided to go on with the unicorns, though I don't know why because they weren't dangerous. They were very beautiful, but I still would not touch them. "Violet, that one was mad because I had caught it's baby. These are just fine."
"There is no way you are getting me to pet those evil creatures."
"Violet, get over here," Hermione yelled. I shook my head, and that was that.
Later that night I decided to stay with my father because I was afraid of telling Harry and then getting into serious trouble. My father had told me what he would do if I told him. I really didn't want to have magic taken away again and made to clean the castle every day for the rest of the year. If was near Harry and watched him struggle I knew for sure that I would let it slip and then the torture would begin.
I stayed up late into the night with my father trying to beat him at chess. We played with his set because I didn't feel like bringing them into the room. He won every time because the pieces didn't trust me. "Look, if you're not going to trust me that I'll just have to take your voice away."
"Won't matter, I still won't move. That's a bad move, you need me, take pawn number three, we don't need him at all."
"Yes, I do, I don't need you know move."
"I'm not moving." My father just laughed as we argued. Finally he said, "You two sound like you and Severus." He was right
Some time around ten at night my father ushered me off to bed. "We have to get up early Violet, the second task is tomorrow and we have to make sure everything is ready."
"Yeah, I know. I still don't see why-"
"We are not going to discuss this again. I've told you. It's unfair to the other champions."
"Yeah, but-"
"No, you can not help him and that's that!"
"All right, good night."
"Good night sweetie."
The next morning, after breakfast, everyone was waiting for the last champion to arrive, Harry. "Where is he?" I kept asking my father. "Violet, I forbid you to say that again. You are giving me a headache."
"Sorry, but I-"
"Don't you say it."
"I know, I know." Finally Harry had arrived. "Where have you been?" Percy and I asked Harry at the same time. "Let him catch his breath you two," Bagman told us. "Harry, Harry?" I asked getting closer to him. "Do you know what you're going to do?"
"Yeah," he said breathing hard. "My side hurts though."
"Oh, here," I said putting my hand on the side that was hurting. I could tell he felt better, but was still tired. "Thanks-"
"Violet, go back up to your father now."
"Good luck," I told Harry and went back to my father. "What did you do?" he asked quietly. "Oh, he had a stitch in his side and I got rid of it."
"Oh-"
"You're not going to punish my for that are you?"
"Of course not. I was just wondering if you," he lowered his voice," cheated.
"Father! I would never!" We both laughed and looked back at the champions.
Harry went slowly into the lake without ever doing anything but chewing something in his mouth. He had gillyweed, which one of the things Severus and I had discussed as something the champions would never think of. We were wrong of course because Harry had thought of it somehow, and stolen it from Severus. Harry finally went under and the race had begun. A little while later, we saw a champion come up, but Fleur was attacked and couldn't go on. It was a long time after that, before we any sign of movement. The first to come up was Cedric who was over an hour. Next came Viktor not to far behind him. Finally Harry came up with both Ron and what looked like Fleur's sister.
Harry and Ron pulled her out of the lake, Harry looking very displeased with himself. I ran over to the edge of the lake to wait for Harry and Ron. "Harry are you okay?" I asked as he came out. "Yeah, I'm fine," he said with a hint of disgust in his voice. I sat down by Harry when Poppy grabbed him and took care of him. I was listening to the conversation my father was having with the head mermaid. Then my father finished and called a conference with the other judges. "Harry, the head mermaid was telling my father what you did down there. I don't know the language that well-"
"You know the language and you didn't tell me that?"
"Harry, you were suppose to figure it our remember, and I would have gotten into trouble. You stayed down there to make sure that everyone was safe?"
"Yeah, I know don't-"
"That was very brave of you. I think my father said that too."
Harry smiled slightly, then Fleur came over. She gave Harry two kisses and Ron one. Hermione and I were about to go off on them until Bagman's voice boomed making us all jump. The champions were awarded their points making Harry and Cedric tied in the lead, followed by Viktor and then Fleur. Ron had went through the next week telling the tale of how they had gotten him to the bottom of the lake. I laughed every time he told it, but it eventually got to be back to the same as it started.
Finally Sirius's replied to the letter came, though it was late due to bad weather. He said to meet him on the last street in Hogsmeade. "I knew he was going to do that," I told them as we walked down to the dungeons for double potions. "I don't want him caught. I have enough you worry about, but he just doesn't seem to realize that, now does he?"
"Violet, stop complaining, he hasn't been caught yet, has he?"
"No, but-"
"Then, why wouldn't you want to see him?"
"I do want to see him, but I not in Azkaban or without a soul!"
When we arrived in the front of the classroom all of the Slytherins were giggling. Pansy through the Witch Weekly at Hermione and told her there was something she would find interesting in there. "That's funny, I haven't gotten mine yet." Hermione looked at me then walked into the classroom. We all read the article about Hermione and Harry. "Ooo, I have enough of this Skeeter woman. I swear she will pay for this... this nonsense."
"Violet, calm down. What i want to know is how she knew." Hermione went on about how she could have over heard her and Viktor. Severus caught us and took points away.
Severus grabbed the magazine and started reading the article aloud, and pausing after every sentence to let the Slytherin laugh. "Severus, I think that's enough," I demanded. "Yes, well, I'll have to separate you four. Weasley stay there, Granger over there, Potter in the front and Violet over there with Mr. Malfoy. Move, now." I slowly got up and walked over to Malfoy, and sat down next to him trying to stay as far away as possible.
"It's funny, Violet, that nothing's been mentioned in here about your love life. Rita Skeeter, no doubt, hates you. She will find out something about you, you know that."
"Nothing that I don't care about," I said coldly. "Everything I want kept secret will stay that way. No one who knows my deepest secrets is going to tell."
"Really? Who would they be?"
"That's enough talking Mr. Malfoy and Violet," Severus told us.
I was waiting for the potion to finish heating in the cauldron when I saw Severus pull out the same potion he pulled out on me. I got up and walked over to Severus. "Severus, how dare you threaten him with that! What if I let it slip to my father that you've threatened-"
"Then I will tell your father that he's been sneaking out at night and stealing from me!"
"No he has not! Severus don't be so foolish. I'm warning you right now, if you even think about threatening him again, you will see the improved version of Veritaserum." Severus didn't say anything more, but put the potion back into his pocket.
I walked back to my seat just as someone knocked on the door. Severus told them to enter, and in came Karkaroff. I sank in my sear because he looked worried and I didn't want to discuss Voldemort right now. By the looks of it, Severus didn't want to either. Karkaroff waited the entire time to talk to Severus, but the first chance I got I tried to get out, but Severus was keen on me taking some of Karkaroff's worry because of what had just happened.
"Violet, look it's more clear-"
"Put that away," both Severus and I shouted. The mark was more clear than before. I was getting very worried. Then Severus saw that Harry had stayed behind. "Harry? What-"
"I was cleaning up the-"
"Come on Harry, let's just go." Harry got his stuff and we ran off. Harry to tell Ron and Hermione. Me to just get away from the two ex-Death Eaters.
Hogsmeade weekend finally came again, and I was actually very happy to see Sirius, and I had a hard time hiding it. First we went shopping for socks because Dobby had saved Harry. What I found extremely weird was that Moody was complaining to Minerva that none of the champions would ever think of using gillyweed in front of Dobby, and he knew that Dobby and Harry were friends. Something wasn't right about that, but it was hard to see what.
There sat Sirius in his dog form at the end of the road waiting for us.Sirius came up to Harry sniffed the bag with the food he was carrying, wagged his tail, and went off. We followed him up the mountain, which was a good work-out, but I was sweating lightly by the time we reached the top. We slipped into the wide crack between two rocks. We went into a dimly lit cave, and saw Buckbeak tied to a large rock over in the corner. Hermione and I went over to him, while Harry and Ron watched Sirius change his form.
Sirius removed the old Daily Prophet from his mouth and yelled, "Chicken." He got up and grabbed the bag from Harry. He pulled out some chicken and started eating after telling Harry thanks. Sirius told us he had been living off rats mostly and smiled at Harry and I. "Sirius, I'm-"
"It's no problem, the food probably would have been frozen by the time it got here any way," he said, but I still wasn't satisfied.
"What are you doing here, Sirius?" Harry asked. Sirius told him that he was here to protect him, and that something fishy was going on. Ron grabbed one of the newspapers and handed it to Harry.
"They're making it sound like he's dying," Harry said, while reading an article about Mr. Crouch. Ron told him that his brother was Crouch's assistant, and said that he was overworking. I kept my mouth shut. Then Hermione started up bout the house-elves. Sirius was only interested in what she said about Mr. Crouch sacking Winky. Harry went on to explain what went on at the Quidditch World Cup. I shook at the mention of the whole ordeal and Ron looked at me weird for it.
Sirius began asking all of these questions, which were good of course. One that was still bothering me was why didn't Crouch show up for the match, and who was the Death Eater that talked to me? It couldn't have been Lucius because I know his voice, and no other Death Eaters were there. Sirius was on to Crouch, and I had an idea that he had something to do with it, but I couldn't really place my finger on it.
Sirius went on to tell us about Crouch. "He didn't give you a fair trial?"
"No-"
"And why not? I guess we'll just have to show him not to mess with anyone of my frie-"
"Violet! Would you calm down and listen!" Sirius yelled over me. "Sorry," I said and remained quiet. When Sirius was going on about how awful it was when Voldemort was in power, I said, "It was really that bad?"
"Yes, it was, Violet," Sirius said in a deep voice. I shook at the thought of all of that, and walked over to Buckbeak again, and started to pet him while crying.
He told us about how Crouch had enforced the law of treating violence with violence and how he almost became Minister of Magic. "Over my dead body," I said after I had stopped crying. Sirius ignored my remark and went on. He told them that Crouch's own son was caught with some Death Eaters that were trying to bring Voldemort back to power. Sirius told them that he didn't know weather Crouch's son was a Death Eater or not, and that he might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Ha," I laughed loudly. They all stared at me. "Sorry, I just think that Crouch's son was a Death Eater, that's all." Sirius then resumed the conversation.
They were all surprised to hear that Crouch put his own son in Azkaban, but he did deserve it. Sirius said Crouch and his wife had paid a visit to his son, buy that's not what I was focused on. "Sirius, did they go inside the cell?"
"I think so, why?" I paused for a moment, but then thought the idea of them switching was ridiculous. "Oh, just wondering..." Then they got into Severus, and how Crouch searched his office. Hermione and Ron got into an argument about why my father trusts Severus. "Come off it Ron. I know Severus, he's my friend and-"
"What?" Sirius asked me. "Well, Severus and I come from the same back ground and-"
"What do you mean you come from the same background?"
"Well, we... nothing, but he's pretty nice once you get to know him. Any way, I trust Severus with my life, and that's that."
Looking very hurt, Sirius continued. He told us that Severus, at school, hung out with a gang of Slytherin who turned out to be Death Eaters. He named them all, just the ones in the gang though. There were more, but I wasn't about to say their names. Harry told Sirius about what Karkaroff had shown both Severus and I. "Oh no, I'm not saying what it was," I told them and I stepped outside. None of them came and got me, but I could here Harry, because he was yelling very loudly, say, "Well, Violet's keeping a lot of secrets from us, you know." Other than that, all was silent.
I walked back in when Sirius was just finishing telling them to call him Snuffles. "I like the name, Sirius," I told him. He smiled. "You wouldn't want to tell me what was on his-"
"No, I'm not going to tell you until I tell Harry and my father. You'll know though, let's just get Harry through this tournament though, okay?"
"Yes, Harry, like I said-"
"I know. Keep you informed about anything weird that goes on."
"What I think that's really weird is that Crouch even bothered to go see his son. Maybe his wife convinced him, but that doesn't sound right. Also, why did Moody come from the bottom stairs when he should have some from the top, where you were Harry?" I asked myself. "What are you talking about?" They all asked me. "I came from the bottom stairs and so did Severus. Moody would have been in the dungeons-"
"No, because I would have seen Moody on the map remember?"
"Yeah. That doesn't make much sense to me. I don't think Moody is Moody, but-"
"What do you mean?" Harry asked. Everyone was listening to me intently. "Nothing, but who could he be, he'd have to be someone who was alive of course, it's not Malfoy, or the others, they wouldn't dare. Who is it?"
"What are you talking about? Who is who?" Sirius asked me. "Moody, who is Moody?"
"He's 'Mad'-"
"No he's not. He's not Moody. I know that for sure. Well, I'll figure it out eventually. Let's go." They all stood there looking at me. "Let's go!" I yelled. Finally they came out the trance and we slipped through the rocks with Snuffles in his dog form.
Violet's Story part 36
Soon enough a week went by without them finding anything out. My father saw me with them one day hearing us discussing the tournament. He them told me that I could not tell Harry what to do. I tried mouthing it and giving hints but the never got it. "Arggg, Harry it's- ooo- it's- er-"
"Would you just tell me? Your father will not find out!"
"Oh yes he will. He'll know some how and I don't want to get into trouble right now."
"Well, as soon as we get this over with we can ask Sirius why he wants to know when we go to Hogsmeade-"
"What? He wants to know that?"
"Yeah, do you know why?"
"I would imagine-"
"Violet, get over here," Severus called. "In a minute-"
"No, now!"
"Sorry, guys tell you later."
"What do you want?" I asked him walking over to the door of the Great Hall. "Look at this. It's getting darker."
"Severus, you idiot. Don't show that here," I whispered loudly pulling his sleeve down. "But, he's-"
"Don't worry, remember we have enough-"
"No, you have enough to worry about. I don't want him getting us, Violet. Do you understand what he will do? You're older now and he'll punish you too, maybe not as bad as the rest of us, but-"
"Look, he's not going to get us as long as we are with my father, you know that. Calm down and go to your classroom." Severus walked away breathing in and out very slowly.
That day Hagrid decided to go on with the unicorns, though I don't know why because they weren't dangerous. They were very beautiful, but I still would not touch them. "Violet, that one was mad because I had caught it's baby. These are just fine."
"There is no way you are getting me to pet those evil creatures."
"Violet, get over here," Hermione yelled. I shook my head, and that was that.
Later that night I decided to stay with my father because I was afraid of telling Harry and then getting into serious trouble. My father had told me what he would do if I told him. I really didn't want to have magic taken away again and made to clean the castle every day for the rest of the year. If was near Harry and watched him struggle I knew for sure that I would let it slip and then the torture would begin.
I stayed up late into the night with my father trying to beat him at chess. We played with his set because I didn't feel like bringing them into the room. He won every time because the pieces didn't trust me. "Look, if you're not going to trust me that I'll just have to take your voice away."
"Won't matter, I still won't move. That's a bad move, you need me, take pawn number three, we don't need him at all."
"Yes, I do, I don't need you know move."
"I'm not moving." My father just laughed as we argued. Finally he said, "You two sound like you and Severus." He was right
Some time around ten at night my father ushered me off to bed. "We have to get up early Violet, the second task is tomorrow and we have to make sure everything is ready."
"Yeah, I know. I still don't see why-"
"We are not going to discuss this again. I've told you. It's unfair to the other champions."
"Yeah, but-"
"No, you can not help him and that's that!"
"All right, good night."
"Good night sweetie."
The next morning, after breakfast, everyone was waiting for the last champion to arrive, Harry. "Where is he?" I kept asking my father. "Violet, I forbid you to say that again. You are giving me a headache."
"Sorry, but I-"
"Don't you say it."
"I know, I know." Finally Harry had arrived. "Where have you been?" Percy and I asked Harry at the same time. "Let him catch his breath you two," Bagman told us. "Harry, Harry?" I asked getting closer to him. "Do you know what you're going to do?"
"Yeah," he said breathing hard. "My side hurts though."
"Oh, here," I said putting my hand on the side that was hurting. I could tell he felt better, but was still tired. "Thanks-"
"Violet, go back up to your father now."
"Good luck," I told Harry and went back to my father. "What did you do?" he asked quietly. "Oh, he had a stitch in his side and I got rid of it."
"Oh-"
"You're not going to punish my for that are you?"
"Of course not. I was just wondering if you," he lowered his voice," cheated.
"Father! I would never!" We both laughed and looked back at the champions.
Harry went slowly into the lake without ever doing anything but chewing something in his mouth. He had gillyweed, which one of the things Severus and I had discussed as something the champions would never think of. We were wrong of course because Harry had thought of it somehow, and stolen it from Severus. Harry finally went under and the race had begun. A little while later, we saw a champion come up, but Fleur was attacked and couldn't go on. It was a long time after that, before we any sign of movement. The first to come up was Cedric who was over an hour. Next came Viktor not to far behind him. Finally Harry came up with both Ron and what looked like Fleur's sister.
Harry and Ron pulled her out of the lake, Harry looking very displeased with himself. I ran over to the edge of the lake to wait for Harry and Ron. "Harry are you okay?" I asked as he came out. "Yeah, I'm fine," he said with a hint of disgust in his voice. I sat down by Harry when Poppy grabbed him and took care of him. I was listening to the conversation my father was having with the head mermaid. Then my father finished and called a conference with the other judges. "Harry, the head mermaid was telling my father what you did down there. I don't know the language that well-"
"You know the language and you didn't tell me that?"
"Harry, you were suppose to figure it our remember, and I would have gotten into trouble. You stayed down there to make sure that everyone was safe?"
"Yeah, I know don't-"
"That was very brave of you. I think my father said that too."
Harry smiled slightly, then Fleur came over. She gave Harry two kisses and Ron one. Hermione and I were about to go off on them until Bagman's voice boomed making us all jump. The champions were awarded their points making Harry and Cedric tied in the lead, followed by Viktor and then Fleur. Ron had went through the next week telling the tale of how they had gotten him to the bottom of the lake. I laughed every time he told it, but it eventually got to be back to the same as it started.
Finally Sirius's replied to the letter came, though it was late due to bad weather. He said to meet him on the last street in Hogsmeade. "I knew he was going to do that," I told them as we walked down to the dungeons for double potions. "I don't want him caught. I have enough you worry about, but he just doesn't seem to realize that, now does he?"
"Violet, stop complaining, he hasn't been caught yet, has he?"
"No, but-"
"Then, why wouldn't you want to see him?"
"I do want to see him, but I not in Azkaban or without a soul!"
When we arrived in the front of the classroom all of the Slytherins were giggling. Pansy through the Witch Weekly at Hermione and told her there was something she would find interesting in there. "That's funny, I haven't gotten mine yet." Hermione looked at me then walked into the classroom. We all read the article about Hermione and Harry. "Ooo, I have enough of this Skeeter woman. I swear she will pay for this... this nonsense."
"Violet, calm down. What i want to know is how she knew." Hermione went on about how she could have over heard her and Viktor. Severus caught us and took points away.
Severus grabbed the magazine and started reading the article aloud, and pausing after every sentence to let the Slytherin laugh. "Severus, I think that's enough," I demanded. "Yes, well, I'll have to separate you four. Weasley stay there, Granger over there, Potter in the front and Violet over there with Mr. Malfoy. Move, now." I slowly got up and walked over to Malfoy, and sat down next to him trying to stay as far away as possible.
"It's funny, Violet, that nothing's been mentioned in here about your love life. Rita Skeeter, no doubt, hates you. She will find out something about you, you know that."
"Nothing that I don't care about," I said coldly. "Everything I want kept secret will stay that way. No one who knows my deepest secrets is going to tell."
"Really? Who would they be?"
"That's enough talking Mr. Malfoy and Violet," Severus told us.
I was waiting for the potion to finish heating in the cauldron when I saw Severus pull out the same potion he pulled out on me. I got up and walked over to Severus. "Severus, how dare you threaten him with that! What if I let it slip to my father that you've threatened-"
"Then I will tell your father that he's been sneaking out at night and stealing from me!"
"No he has not! Severus don't be so foolish. I'm warning you right now, if you even think about threatening him again, you will see the improved version of Veritaserum." Severus didn't say anything more, but put the potion back into his pocket.
I walked back to my seat just as someone knocked on the door. Severus told them to enter, and in came Karkaroff. I sank in my sear because he looked worried and I didn't want to discuss Voldemort right now. By the looks of it, Severus didn't want to either. Karkaroff waited the entire time to talk to Severus, but the first chance I got I tried to get out, but Severus was keen on me taking some of Karkaroff's worry because of what had just happened.
"Violet, look it's more clear-"
"Put that away," both Severus and I shouted. The mark was more clear than before. I was getting very worried. Then Severus saw that Harry had stayed behind. "Harry? What-"
"I was cleaning up the-"
"Come on Harry, let's just go." Harry got his stuff and we ran off. Harry to tell Ron and Hermione. Me to just get away from the two ex-Death Eaters.
Hogsmeade weekend finally came again, and I was actually very happy to see Sirius, and I had a hard time hiding it. First we went shopping for socks because Dobby had saved Harry. What I found extremely weird was that Moody was complaining to Minerva that none of the champions would ever think of using gillyweed in front of Dobby, and he knew that Dobby and Harry were friends. Something wasn't right about that, but it was hard to see what.
There sat Sirius in his dog form at the end of the road waiting for us.Sirius came up to Harry sniffed the bag with the food he was carrying, wagged his tail, and went off. We followed him up the mountain, which was a good work-out, but I was sweating lightly by the time we reached the top. We slipped into the wide crack between two rocks. We went into a dimly lit cave, and saw Buckbeak tied to a large rock over in the corner. Hermione and I went over to him, while Harry and Ron watched Sirius change his form.
Sirius removed the old Daily Prophet from his mouth and yelled, "Chicken." He got up and grabbed the bag from Harry. He pulled out some chicken and started eating after telling Harry thanks. Sirius told us he had been living off rats mostly and smiled at Harry and I. "Sirius, I'm-"
"It's no problem, the food probably would have been frozen by the time it got here any way," he said, but I still wasn't satisfied.
"What are you doing here, Sirius?" Harry asked. Sirius told him that he was here to protect him, and that something fishy was going on. Ron grabbed one of the newspapers and handed it to Harry.
"They're making it sound like he's dying," Harry said, while reading an article about Mr. Crouch. Ron told him that his brother was Crouch's assistant, and said that he was overworking. I kept my mouth shut. Then Hermione started up bout the house-elves. Sirius was only interested in what she said about Mr. Crouch sacking Winky. Harry went on to explain what went on at the Quidditch World Cup. I shook at the mention of the whole ordeal and Ron looked at me weird for it.
Sirius began asking all of these questions, which were good of course. One that was still bothering me was why didn't Crouch show up for the match, and who was the Death Eater that talked to me? It couldn't have been Lucius because I know his voice, and no other Death Eaters were there. Sirius was on to Crouch, and I had an idea that he had something to do with it, but I couldn't really place my finger on it.
Sirius went on to tell us about Crouch. "He didn't give you a fair trial?"
"No-"
"And why not? I guess we'll just have to show him not to mess with anyone of my frie-"
"Violet! Would you calm down and listen!" Sirius yelled over me. "Sorry," I said and remained quiet. When Sirius was going on about how awful it was when Voldemort was in power, I said, "It was really that bad?"
"Yes, it was, Violet," Sirius said in a deep voice. I shook at the thought of all of that, and walked over to Buckbeak again, and started to pet him while crying.
He told us about how Crouch had enforced the law of treating violence with violence and how he almost became Minister of Magic. "Over my dead body," I said after I had stopped crying. Sirius ignored my remark and went on. He told them that Crouch's own son was caught with some Death Eaters that were trying to bring Voldemort back to power. Sirius told them that he didn't know weather Crouch's son was a Death Eater or not, and that he might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Ha," I laughed loudly. They all stared at me. "Sorry, I just think that Crouch's son was a Death Eater, that's all." Sirius then resumed the conversation.
They were all surprised to hear that Crouch put his own son in Azkaban, but he did deserve it. Sirius said Crouch and his wife had paid a visit to his son, buy that's not what I was focused on. "Sirius, did they go inside the cell?"
"I think so, why?" I paused for a moment, but then thought the idea of them switching was ridiculous. "Oh, just wondering..." Then they got into Severus, and how Crouch searched his office. Hermione and Ron got into an argument about why my father trusts Severus. "Come off it Ron. I know Severus, he's my friend and-"
"What?" Sirius asked me. "Well, Severus and I come from the same back ground and-"
"What do you mean you come from the same background?"
"Well, we... nothing, but he's pretty nice once you get to know him. Any way, I trust Severus with my life, and that's that."
Looking very hurt, Sirius continued. He told us that Severus, at school, hung out with a gang of Slytherin who turned out to be Death Eaters. He named them all, just the ones in the gang though. There were more, but I wasn't about to say their names. Harry told Sirius about what Karkaroff had shown both Severus and I. "Oh no, I'm not saying what it was," I told them and I stepped outside. None of them came and got me, but I could here Harry, because he was yelling very loudly, say, "Well, Violet's keeping a lot of secrets from us, you know." Other than that, all was silent.
I walked back in when Sirius was just finishing telling them to call him Snuffles. "I like the name, Sirius," I told him. He smiled. "You wouldn't want to tell me what was on his-"
"No, I'm not going to tell you until I tell Harry and my father. You'll know though, let's just get Harry through this tournament though, okay?"
"Yes, Harry, like I said-"
"I know. Keep you informed about anything weird that goes on."
"What I think that's really weird is that Crouch even bothered to go see his son. Maybe his wife convinced him, but that doesn't sound right. Also, why did Moody come from the bottom stairs when he should have some from the top, where you were Harry?" I asked myself. "What are you talking about?" They all asked me. "I came from the bottom stairs and so did Severus. Moody would have been in the dungeons-"
"No, because I would have seen Moody on the map remember?"
"Yeah. That doesn't make much sense to me. I don't think Moody is Moody, but-"
"What do you mean?" Harry asked. Everyone was listening to me intently. "Nothing, but who could he be, he'd have to be someone who was alive of course, it's not Malfoy, or the others, they wouldn't dare. Who is it?"
"What are you talking about? Who is who?" Sirius asked me. "Moody, who is Moody?"
"He's 'Mad'-"
"No he's not. He's not Moody. I know that for sure. Well, I'll figure it out eventually. Let's go." They all stood there looking at me. "Let's go!" I yelled. Finally they came out the trance and we slipped through the rocks with Snuffles in his dog form.