The first part of the travel was made in entire silence, but the further they go from the island, the greater their mood improves, only then seeing how the suffocating aura of the lone tower has weight on their mind. Even after changing that much, it remains a sight of despair and doom for all. Alex, completely unbothered by the light brize who sent a chill to the others, look at them confusedly. Unnerved by the boy gaze after two minutes, the clumsy Auror bite."What?!"
"Just asking myself why your all not use warming charms if your that cold, I know wizard are dumb in general but you lots seem to have fallen quite low during the time I was there."
They grumbled at his insult but all aim their wand at them, muttering their spells, soon releasing a small sigh of bliss as the warm feeling wash over them and drive the cold away, making Alex shake his head.
After a small blank, the Auror turns at him.
"You say "you lots" don"t you consider yourself as one as well?"
"Truthfully, I don"t, your all lack in common sense, too inbred among yourself to realize that rather than producing stronger heirs by keeping among you or even in the same family, your just hasten your destruction. I wouldn"t be astonished if at least magical Britain vanish from the world in the next century or so."
Of the five Wizard present, all but once seems miffed at this.
"Why are you saying that?"
"Look at the fact, how many children are born from each wizard family? Among them, how many possess a magical might stronger than the once they have from their fifth years? Ask Moody about the quality of Aurors, even since the last war, their numbers dimmed and their quality it averages at best.
Even you Crouch should have seen in during your time as head Aurors. Your department is nothing but full of sheep those past years, too afraid to act or too arrogant to follow your own laws, why? Because your position was ent.i.tled to you from Daddy, without your pureblood dogma, wizard Britain would have crumbled, only to be raised to news height if you have taken the time to listen to the positive change mundane born could bring you.
Your wand is so far in your a.s.s, that you"re unable to see that at the speed mundane technology evolve, in less than ten years, the Oblivators squad sends to wipe out mundane memories of any sight magic, will be spotted. But rather than welcome them you drive them any, feeding other countries and communities with willing people ready to do anything to bury you in the ground.
Face it, Britain is nothing more than a backward s.h.i.thole and laughing stock of the rest of the world, your the last community still lead by pureblood other than vampires!"
"We have great wizards too!"
"Who? Dumbles? He already had a foot in the grave. The only true astonishing thing he had made in his life is to make Britain what it is nowadays." Say he indifferently. The angry Auror became confused at this, while all the others were listening without saying a word.
"Heu? Didn"t you say that Britain is backward?"
"And in your opinion, who"s the culprit? Moldyshort by decimating more old family that he killed new blood or the Great Fumbledore who have so much restricted the knowledge given at Hogwarts in the last fifty years that the only subjects taught at Hogwarts who are recognized internationally are Herbology, runes, Arithmancy. Transfiguration starts to fall short, charms would be in have not the Wisengamot, under the lead of Dumbles, judges that their children must know how to defend themself against dark arts while being completely unaware of says arts.
I don"t caution them, only saying that you need to know them to defend against them. Let"s not talk about rituals, those are the backbones of your societies, the very things practiced by your ancestors but you ban them? I can understand for the more of them, but what of the old ritual of the equinoxes? Those are harmless and would rather help them from infancy, yet, you let the old w.a.n.ker made them forgotten for their equivalent of mundane celebration? Where is your pride as purebloods when your very traditions are trampled on and you all sing the greatness of the greatest fraudster of all time?"
It was at this that Barty spoke, he may not be the head of the DMLE anymore and condemned his own son, but he still is a strict believer of the law.
"What do you mean by a fraudster?"
"Tell me what is his greatest success in his life?"
"Vanquishing Grindelwald..." Start the man but stop when he saw the large grin on the face of the young man.
"Not vanquishing, he only defeats him in a duel but didn"t kill him. Last time I check, he was still alive in Nurmengard, Austria." Say him with a grin becoming larger and larger.
"What?! That monster his still alive?!"
For the second time, Bartimus crouch lost his cool, while all the other face whitens at that news, if that true, Dumbledore will be in breach with few ICW laws and it won"t be pretty for him.
"That why I say your all sheep, he was feeding you s.h.i.t all those years and you were all happily munching on it, licking his hand for more." The Aurors became a little green at the metaphor, but couldn"t deny what he was saying for their biggest shame.
"Well, don"t really concern me anymore either way. Speaking of it, Mr.Crouch, is there something I must know for the tournament?"
The man needs a second to adapt at the abrupt change of subject but nod neither less, keeping the entire discussion somewhere in his is mind.
"The first task will be on the 24 November, before that, a weighting of wand ceremony will be lead under the three Headmaster, the champions, Mr.Ollivenders, and reporters for the Daily Prophet."
"That all? No media coverage for the two other Ministries? The one who thinks the entire event his a moron. It"s supposed to be a show of international unity first but you already ditch the other side?
No wonder why this country sinks deeper and deeper each pa.s.sing years, forsaking international relations with things like this is the best way to have the entire international community on your back. I wouldn"t have helped Britain either during Moldyshort reign of terror with morons holding all the powers, too many ways it intrudes in their territories when they have nothing to gain and all to loses." The last part said at low voice but was hears by all still.
While he wasn"t in the office at that time, Crouch couldn"t help but agree when he sees things under this light. The entire event starts to already turn for the worst and it has been only a few hours since they free him. When he remembers the wave he has raised on the first day of his admission at Hogwarts, Bartimus has a bad feeling about the entire thing but it was too late now.
As for the other, they were too shaken to be able to properly thinks for themselves after this. Unwilling to pa.s.s the rest of the travel in this depressing mood, even if he was the one to bring it, he turned again to the Auror.
"So, what new since I was in the freezer?"
"Hum... Dumbledore, awoken last year? Rumors say he still has a moment when blank all of sudden."
"Yes, having one mind shredded is nasty stuff, if the one who sticks the pieces back together not relly good it could lead to that kind of backlash, still he should be happy, some lost they mind completely, becoming nothing more than vegetable, like those one kissed by Dementor I think, what else?"
"Humm seems that the House Potter has an old betrothal with House Bones." He perks at this.
"Heir or Lord?"
"Heir I think, the kid will need it, he seems to be not that much popular."
"Even till then?"
"Yeah, well, when your constantly beaten by a muggle-born you don"t stop hara.s.sing, it tends to not make you really popular."
"How it will work?"
"What do you mean?" Ask he intrigued, along with the others.
"I did burst his two nuts back then, so... Either they were able to fix them or he will need daddy to knock her up."
"You what?!"
"Yeah, just before I stab that Were of a prof, I did land a rather heavy blow to his lower half, I not even sure if I didn"t burst more than them now that I think about it, I didn"t feel a lot of things when my foot impact, then again, my boots were clad with goblin steel and made of Ironbelly dragon hide so I wouldn"t have felt a lot even I was stabbed in the foot." Say Alex thinking back at the scene.
When he didn"t hear anything, he raises his head, looking at them, only to see astonished faces.
"What?" Shaking its head against, the Auror banish those dark through of his mind.
"Nothing, other than this, I can"t say that there has any earthshattering news, the Potter and the Ministry are still trying to claim their fines, well, Lord Potter was barren for Gringotts until his Heir takes the mantle, so it may explain why the two would be married during their fifth year."
"Why her aunt didn"t marry Lord Potter? It"s not like his wife was still alive, even them, I doubt there would have been that much of contestation."
"Lady Potter is dead?! Since when?! Why the Wisengamot hadn" been notified?!" This trip wasn"t good for Barty"s heart.
"Well, if he has been banned from Gringotts, they don"t have any obligation of averting him and since the Ministry hadn"t had any contact with the island in the last two years, they didn"t really could warn them. She died around that time, they were about to move her to the lower security cell but she dies of froze bite."
This time, no matters the subject, he wasn"t able to make them talk, for they fear that they wouldn"t be able to take anymore. As the first travel, the sea was still calm and they made it to the sh.o.r.e at 5:40 A.M.
"Well it had been a fun ride, but as stated earlier, now that We have landed on British ground, I officially cut all ties with the British Ministry of Magic, my possessions taken from me at the date of the 22 December 1991 will be sent to the goblin nation at Gringotts, should any of them being destroyed, stolen or missing, I will ask and obtain compensation.
Should the Ministry attempt by any means to my life in any way, I will seek the ICW directly for this. As I informed, I will be at the 24 November at Hogwarts for the first task. Until then, goodbye gentleman.
Oh, Auror Tonks, says h.e.l.lo to your mother for me and tells her that I regret that she had to lose a sister. While Bella was crazy, she was still family, after all, don"t stay as a man too long, it doesn"t suit you at all, men prefer clumsy chick, not dude, it just, nope, we don"t. See ya!"
At this, he vanishes along with the sixteen rabbits, leaving the group flabbergasted for the last time, and making a certain clumsy metamorphmagus revert back in shock.