"I think even if I neglected to teach, what I have been instilling in him has always been the correct ideas. In the end, he went to another path and was his own choice. This is no one who blamed me. He might blame me and thought it was all my fault. This is also the place where his thoughts are naive, but he just wants what he lost and never wants to get."

"But I always owe it to Kath."

"When I was young, I was busy with work. Even when the child was just born, I didn't spend even a day with her at home. We didn't have wedding anniversary, candlelight dinner, and romantic memories, but she still had no complaints."

"When I was promoted to the Director of the Executive Division, she was in danger when I made a public statement of protest against Voldemort. The inhuman thugs tried countless times to threaten me to compromise by kidnapping her, and several times they had succeeded,"

"But she never surrendered, nor did she speak weakly to me, even once."

By the time he said this, Crouch had already grabbed his hair in pain.

"At the most dangerous time, the Death Eater's wand was already on her head, and she just smiled and said to me, "Let me work hard and take good care of Little Barty, and don't be sad about her death."

"I love her, so I feel even more sorry for her. So I can't refuse this last wish before her death, even if it betrays what I have always insisted on."

"I went to Azkaban as she said, in the name of visiting prison, and then turned her into little Bati in prison, and turned little Bati into her, and completed the replacement, and personally sent my wife to death and rescued my son who had already gone astray."

"But even if Batty comes out, his loyalty to Voldemort has not been reduced. He treats the man as his own father. After coming out of Azkaban, he is determined to find him again. I have no other way, so I can only use the Soul-Snatching Spell to keep him at home and let the house elf take care of him."

"It is Kath's last wish to take care of him. I can only rely on Voldemort's complete return. Little Batty will eventually accept this reality in the future."

"However, the end of the matter proved that I was still wrong."

His expression had become numb. In the office, Dumbledore, Sherlock and Moody did not bother him, and just listened quietly to him about the old man who almost became the Minister of Magic and told his past.

"Batty's loyalty to Voldemort cannot be erased. His willpower is extremely tenacious, but the more he goes back, the more he disguised himself, making me think he has really come out of his past self. Then, in order to relax, I asked the house elf to secretly take him to see this Quidditch World Cup."

"What happened afterwards."

Cockrage raised his head and turned his gaze to Sherlock. The eyes were complicated, including hatred, thanksgiving, uneasiness, and relief.

"You should know everything about that time. Professor Forrest should have told you everything he did. Batty little followed this opportunity to reconnect with Voldemort's people, but in the end he was discovered. Forrest killed him, and at the scene that day, he also told me the news."

"I should thank you for not telling this on the spot, at least I have saved my reputation whether I actually have or not." He said to Sherlock decadently.

Everyone present tightened their breaths slightly, and they knew that Crouch was about to talk about the key to the problem now.

"After the end of the World Cup, after I got home, several uninvited guests came to my house. I know all of them, all of whom were wizards who had done things under Voldemort and later used relationships and bribes to get rid of themselves. The most notorious of them was Gargson."

"They told me that Batty was not dead, and was with them now. He really missed his dad and wanted to meet me."

"Of course such a clumsy lie can't deceive me. I already know in my heart that Forrest didn't lie to me. He really killed Batty with his own hands."

"I tried to get in touch with them first, and then send messages to the Ministry of Magic to wait for reinforcements, but they didn't give me such a chance at all. They directly controlled me and used the Soul-Snatching Curse."

"After the end of the Quidditch World Cup, all the mes you see are me who have been taken away by souls."

Dumbledore asked softly as he spoke.

"Is Harry's name the Goblet of Fire they control you tossed?"

Crouch shook his head.

"Not me, after Gargson took my soul, they were just asking me to plan something from beginning to end." He looked at Sherlock again, "kill Forrest and take his body back."

"That day, I summoned the fire dragon in the forbidden forest. I was the one who attacked Forrest. But after the failure of that operation, I had already begun to fight against the soul-taking on my body. Gargson and the others also noticed that something was wrong with me. Just when I was barely able to control me, I asked me to hand over all my work to Percy, and then I would find a way to control me in private."

Sherlock couldn't help frowning, and Crouch's words were completely different from what he had guessed before.

"From the beginning to the end, you just did that thing?"

Crouch said calmly.

"I'm willing to accept Dumbledore's soul-absorbing thoughts, or drink the real-time spitting agent and re-saying everything."

Dumbledore shook his head.

"There is no need to do this, we believe what you say."

Moody's hoarse voice also rang.

"They separated the two things."

Sherlock and Dumbledore's eyes turned to him.

"The mysterious man was handed over to different people to kill Sherlock and deal with Harry. Butty, who was taken away by the soul, was responsible for Sherlock, and Harry..." He paused intentionally at this point, "I think it is the person we have always suspected."

Dumbledore and Sherlock were naturally tacit about who the person he was talking about, but when he could not use tough measures, the existing evidence could not accuse him at all.

Dumbledore looked at Crouch again.

"I wonder, during the time when you were taken away, have you ever seen Voldemort now?"

Crouch drank all the hot cocoa in the cup and shook his head and said.

"No, the only people who have been in contact with me are Gargson and the others, but from their words, I can be sure that Voldemort is planning a comeback!"
Chapter completed!