THE POTTER TWINS AND THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT
CHAPTER 23
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"Hey, Hazey, can you hear me?" Hazel opened her eyes slowly.
Sirius was holding his hand.
"I..." She took her glasses from the side, and placed them on. She saw Harry sitting up on the bed, next to them. "Can I have that?" She pointed to a pumpkin juice.
Madam Pomfrey gave her the bottle.
"What happened?" Professor Dumbledore asked her, "What happened over there, Ms Potter?"
"She is ill!" Madam Pomfrey stood in front of her.
"It's okay...I can!" Hazel sat up, and reached for another bottle.
"Voldemort is back." Hazel said, as Ron and a few others gasped.
Dumbledore was now joined by Professor McGonagall, and Professor Moody. Snape was standing by the door.
'The Dark Lord got his body back? He's returned?' Professor Moody came up, right in the middle of their beds.
'And the Death Eaters came … and then we duelled …' 'You duelled with the Dark Lord?'
'Got away … my wand … did something funny … I saw my mum and dad … they came out of his wand …'
"You saw The Dark Lord?" Professor Moody was flinching.
"Are you okay?" Harry stared at her. "Are you okay, Professor?"
"So you saw my master?" Professor Moody was looking as if he had gone mad. He was shaking Hazel by the shoulders now.
"ALASTOR!" Professor McGonagall was shouting at him, "ARE YOU IN YOUR SENSES?!"
She pushed him off, on the side, as Moody was flinching terribly.
"So you saw the Death Eaters?" He was looking at her, with his electric eye buzzing with full power. "Did he forgive them?"
"Alastor!" Professor McGonagall took her wand out, and it was pointed right in front of his face.
"He is not Alastor!" Dumbledore said calmly.
"WHAT!?" Everyone in the room stared at the headmaster.
The flinching had stopped. The appearance was changing. Professor Moody was transferring. Now Sirius and Lupin also had their wands out.
"Stupefy!" Sirius blasted the man, who stood in the place of Alastor Moody.
"Just wait for Sirius Black to do something like that!" Snape said sleekly.
Professor McGonagall stopped the cat fight that was about to break between Sirius and Snape, and bewitched a chair from out of nowhere. The chair Mad eye Moody into the chair, wrapped him in to chains. Professor Dumbledore helped McGonagall to tie the man up.
"Who are you?" Everyone was crowded around the man,
Hazel tried to get and see, but Madam Pomfrey pushed on the bed,
"Not well enough," She said firmly.
"But.."
"No buts!"
She looked at Harry, and let out an exasperated sigh.
"Hey, It's your fault I can't see either!" Harry said,
She threw a pillow to his head.
"Well, what do you think of that!"
"Hurts you too, doesn't it?" He laughed.
"Who are you?"
"Barty Crouch, Barty Crouch Jr." It was Sirius who spoke, "Well, isn't it Barty Crouch Jr, Mommy's dear boy!"
Everyone looked at Sirius in surprise. Snape recognized the man as well.
"How do you know?" McGonagall asked curiously.
"He is one of them, this is not Black!" Suddenly Snape pounded on Sirius and placed his wand on his neck.
"Hey, Get your hands off me, Snevillious!" Sirius pushed him back.
"That's Sirius Black alright!" Professor McGongall said, as The Potter twins hopped out of the bed.
"How do you know him then?" Snape snarled at him.
"Well, let;s just say we were Azkaban mates."
"Friends?"
"Just acquaintances," Sirius said smoothly.
Barty Crouch Jr, wouldn't say anything, as Dumbledore told Snape to get Veritaserum. Professor Dumbledore forced the Potion in his mouth, as Remus held up his head by the hair.
"I would like you to tell us," said Dumbledore softly, "how you came to be here. How did you escape ..."
He was interrupted by Sirius, who said, "I know all that, get to the important part, what happened at the Quidditch world cup!"
""It was carefully planned. My father led me and Winky up to the Top Box early in the day. Winky was to say that she was saving a seat for my father. I was to sit there, invisible. When everyone had left the box, we would emerge. Winky would appear to be alone. Nobody would ever know. "But Winky didn't know that I was growing stronger. I was starting to fight my father's Imperius Curse. There were times when I was almost myself again. There were brief periods when I seemed outside his control. It happened, there, in the Top Box. It was like waking from a deep sleep. I found myself out in public, in the middle of the match, and I saw, in front of me, a wand sticking out of a boy's pocket. I had not been allowed a wand since before Azkaban. I stole it. Winky didn't know. Winky is frightened of heights. She had her face hidden."
"Hey, That was my wand!" Harry said in the middle.
"So you took the wand," said Dumbledore, "and what did you do with it?" "We went back to the tent," said Crouch. "Then we heard them. We heard the Death Eaters. The ones who had never been to Azkaban. The ones who had never suffered for my master. They had turned their backs on him. They were not enslaved, as I was. They were free to seek him, but they did not. They were merely making sport of Muggles. The sound of their voices awoke me. My mind was clearer than it had been in years. I was angry. I had the wand."
He paused for a second, and then continued on.
"I wanted to attack them for their disloyalty to my master. My father had left the tent; he had gone to free the Muggles. Winky was afraid to see me so angry. She used her own brand of magic to bind me to her. She pulled me from the tent, pulled me into the forest, away from the Death Eaters. I tried to hold her back. I wanted to return to the campsite. I wanted to show those Death Eaters what loyalty to the Dark Lord meant, and to punish them for their lack of it. I used the stolen wand to cast the Dark Mark into the sky."
He went on, about Bertha Jorkins, and Voldemort.
"I killed my father." He said, "For my Master, I killed him."
A wave of chill ran through Hazel's spine, as the words continue to repeat in her mind.
"And tonight ...I offered to carry the Triwizard Cup into the maze before dinner," whispered Barty Crouch. "Turned it into a Portkey. My master's plan worked. He is returned to power and I will be honored by him beyond the dreams of wizards."