OBS Chapter 95 Solving the Problem-Raising Person
Chapter 95 Solving the Problem-Raising Person
Chapter 95 Solving the Problem-Raising Person
Crouch's face was so dark it looked like it could drip water.
His sharp gaze swept over his men, then over the row of somewhat glaring wands on the table, finally settling on Lynch's calm and expressionless face.
Noticing his gaze, Lin Qi even nodded slightly to him, as if the silent surrender had never happened.
"A bunch of useless trash!" Crouch's voice was icy cold, filled with undisguised anger. "Who gave you permission to have tea here?!"
Get out! Immediately! Stand by outside!
The Aurors were overjoyed and dared not linger. They hurriedly put down their teacups, not daring to look at Lin Qi again, and prepared to leave the stone house.
"Gentlemen, you have forgotten your wands."
Lin Qi's calm voice rang out in the stone house, stopping several Aurors who were trying to slip out.
He stood up, waved his hand forward, and the wands on the table flew up and returned to their respective owners' hands.
The Aurors instinctively gripped the wands that had fallen into their hands. They glanced at their commander's gloomy face and felt even more eager to escape the room.
"Thank you...Professor Lynch..." said an older Auror.
Then they slunk out the door.
Dumbledore then said gently to Professor McGonagall, "Professor McGonagall, could you please keep an eye on things outside and make sure our guests aren't neglected?"
Professor McGonagall gave Dumbledore a deep look, then glared at Lynch with her sharp, penetrating eyes before rising without a word and walking out with steady steps, thoughtfully closing the stone house door behind her.
Only Dumbledore, Lynch, and Crouch remained in the room, and the crackling sound of burning firewood in the fireplace was exceptionally clear.
Crouch then truly turned his gaze to Lynch, carefully examining the wizard before him.
Too young!
Crouch's heart was stirred once again.
The face in front of me looks like it's only in its twenties, or even younger.
How old was he ten years ago?
A teenager became the "Mist Hangman," feared by dark wizards throughout the British wizarding world.
This completely overturned his understanding!
But he quickly suppressed his shock.
While the living legend before us is certainly astonishing, the more pressing issue at hand is resolving our own immediate problems.
Fortunately, he managed to clear his mind during the distance from the principal's office to the Forbidden Forest Stone House.
He turned to Dumbledore, his voice regaining its directorial calm: "Dumbledore, what you just told me—that 'truth'—is truly astonishing."
He deliberately avoided that name. "The Ministry of Magic won't accept this truth, and the International Confederation of Wizards certainly won't! Cornelius Fudge, and those African wizarding representatives blocking the Ministry of Magic's entrance, they need a reason that sounds real, reliable, and can calm things down! An explanation for the deaths of those six wizards! Not the names of legendary Dark Lords who have already been declared dead!"
He emphasized “truth and reliability” and “calming things down”, his eyes fixed intently on Dumbledore.
Upon hearing Crouch's words, Lynch glanced at Dumbledore and realized that he had already revealed Voldemort's existence to the Director of Magic in front of him.
This means that Dumbledore believes this person is trustworthy, at least in the matter of fighting Voldemort...
He remembered the reason he had refused Reggie's offer to recruit this man—what was hidden behind him.
Lynch narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Barty Crouch standing in front of him again.
Ultimately, he came to the same conclusion as before—this person is untrustworthy!
However, it seems that Dumbledore has already decided to bring him onto the chariot.
The head of the Department of Law Enforcement is arguably one of the most influential figures in the Ministry of Magic, and their impact is indeed not to be underestimated.
This might affect the progress of the plan...:
After a moment's thought, Lynch's cool voice rang out in the room: "Chief Crouch, what you need is not to provide them with any 'explanation'."
Crouch and Dumbledore both looked at him.
Lynch continued, "What you need is to put this matter behind you. Or... to put it another way, you need to make sure nobody cares about it."
"This whole thing started with the six wizards who died in the Forbidden Forest."
"I did some investigation myself afterward, and those six wizards were hardly good people. They had a long history of fraud, intentional injury, poaching, and even premeditated murder... they were notorious for their bad deeds."
"I don't think any of those so-called compatriots who, after their deaths, went to other countries' Ministries of Magic under the guise of seeking justice, could be innocent people."
Crouch frowned. "You mean...?"
Lin Qi smiled warmly: "When a person is a liar, everything he says sounds like a lie, and everything he does seems like he's plotting something sinister."
Crouch's pupils contracted slightly as he stared intently at Lynch; he was smitten.
As the head of the Department of Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, he was not the kind of person who rigidly adhered to the law.
On the contrary, he has long held the power to interpret the law.
When there are no provisions in the law that are favorable to him, he will take the initiative to propose and pass provisions that are favorable to him.
Just like before, he defied public opinion and established an emergency law that allowed Death Eaters to be thrown into Azkaban without trial.
Although this law was later used as a political stain on his record, he never regretted introducing it.
On the contrary, he regarded it as his masterpiece.
This emergency law truly propelled his reputation to its peak.
If it weren't for that damned, rebellious son...
With that thought in mind, he made up his mind.
Crouch stared at Lynch without blinking: "Professor Lynch, would you be so kind as to lend me the results of your investigation?"
He extended an olive branch requesting cooperation. The Ministry of Magic also investigated the information of the six wizards afterward, but it was far less detailed than Lynch had described.
Clearly, the executioner in front of him possessed an intelligence network far more powerful than the Ministry of Magic, which allowed him to obtain detailed information about several wizards thousands of miles away while sitting at Hogwarts.
Lynch's smile widened as he accepted Crouch's offer: "The 'background reports' on those six wizards, along with detailed information on the wizards currently in the Ministry of Magic, will be delivered to you at noon. Where would you like them sent? Your residence?"
"No!" Crouch immediately rejected the suggestion. "Just send it to my office!"
"Okay, the information you need will be delivered to your office by public owl before noon today."
While Lynch and Crouch finalized this clandestine deal, Dumbledore stood silently to the side, not uttering a single word.