So Much for Constant Vigilance

Tonight was the night he was doing as his master had asked. It had taken him a while to figure out how to trap the veteran auror. Last time it was the old auror that incarcerated him and he was not planning on letting it happen again. The man was always rambling about 'Constant Vigilance' and watched his food like a hawk. So Barty Crouch Junior was planning on using a polyjuice potion to disguise himself as one of his auror colleagues, a not so smart trainee under Moody's supervision.

So now he was waiting for the old auror to show up for a mentoring session he was supposed to have with the trainee. After a few minutes waiting Moody showed up, trying to ambush the Death Eater from behind. Perhaps it would have worked if Barty hadn't put up monitoring wards. With delicate things like this surprises would be rather unwelcome.

''Good day senior auror Moody.'' Barty said as he pointed his wand at the approaching auror. The man seemed surprised at being detected by the trainee, this particular trainee was one of the worst in the batch to Alastor. ''Good day mister Anderson, well done on noticing me this time.'' The older man grumbled as he limped closer to Barty. ''You have remembered your lesson on constant vigilance this time around.'' With a thump the man sat down on the bench Barty had sat moments ago.

''What are you going to teach me today, sir?'' Barty queried. ''We are going to have a lesson on wand safety this time,'' Moody said as he looked at the Death Eater sternly like he was trying to see through the polyjuice potion. Not that the old auror knew he was polyjuiced. Barty smiled and sat down on the other end of the bench. ''I noticed you put away your wand in your sleeve, my guess is you have a wand holster on your lower arm,'' Moody said while pointing at Barty's arm. ''What do you do when someone renders you unable to reach it from there?'' he continued.

Barty pretended to think hard for a while and shrugged. ''Hope my partner has my back and stuns the one that is attacking me,'' he said dumbly. This made Alastor frown and for the next hour or so it went back and forth with questions and dumb answers. Meanwhile Barty mentally noted the behaviour of the auror. He was to master them if he wanted to pose as Moody for the coming school year.

After a while Barty had enough and suggested the two went to get something to eat as midday had passed while they played questionnaire. Now was the time for Barty's planning to come into play ''Sir how about we use my prepared lunch, if there is one thing I learned it is that food can't be trusted when prepared by strangers,'' he said innocently. Lucky him the trainee wasn't seen as one of the brightest. The comment made the old auror puff up with pride as his pupil finally picked up something useful in his eyes. Conveniently he forgot his own rule as this trainee couldn't in any way be capable of using poison or any other nasty things with the food.

So the two indulged themselves in the sandwitches Barty had prepared. His own sandwich without the tomatoes he had soaked in a strong sleeping draught. When the potion hit the old aurors system it was too late and the only thing he could see was the smug smile on the face of Barty Crouch Junior.

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This fiction was written for the Easter Egg Hunt and Prompt of the day from The Golden Snitch forum.

For this fiction I used the prompts:

Egg Hunt Clue: I wonder whatever happened to young Barty Crouch? I think he went to Azkaban, but rumours have spread that he was in Hogwarts as a mad-eyed professor. I'd like to read about how he managed to overcome a world-renowned Auror.

Prompt of the Day: (food) tomato

Word count: 598

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Also a short thanks to my beta Grulnork!