Chapter 3: How Can a Wizard Understand Normal People's Mindset?

Actually.

Crouch Sr doesn't quite understand how Wilson's brain works.

No one could predict what would happen in two years. How could the admission of Harry Potter cause a Minister of Magic to step down?

That's just illogical!

Now Wilson can't really explain to Crouch Sr, that his plan is to steal the Philosopher Stone from goblin bank and use it to frame people!

Thinking about his plans he brought his Quest tab in front of him.

[Normal quest: Get the Hogwarts secret treasure Marauder map (0/1), reward magic skill teleportation, not completed.]

As long as he could learn this skill...

Or if this skill could meet his expectations.

If everything goes properly, he could make the Minister of Magic carry the blame.

"What are your plans for my son's education?"

hearing the question, Wilson glanced at Crouch Sr who was concentrating on driving and habitually raised a topic that should not be asked.

"…"

Seeing Wilson being silent, Crouch Sr became noticeably despondent. "I used Imperius Curse on him when I went out in the morning, he should be more obedient now..."

Their father-son relationship is really sad.

Barty Crouch Jr hated his father very much, he is convinced that Voldemort is his father, which made their father-son relationship even more tense.

A son who hated his father and went down the wrong path.

A father who hated himself for being ruthless and relentless to his son.

Only those who have been with Barty Crouch for a long time know that he is a soft-hearted person.

"I understand," Wilson replied with a flat tone. "We know that your son's survival was paid for by his mother's life. We cannot let a great mother's sacrifice go in vain," he continued.

"I've always been aware of that." Crouch Sr replied.

He clenched the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and the wrinkles on his hands slowly tightened. "That's why I promised to obey your wishes," he said solemnly. "As long as I kill Voldemort, everything will be fine."

Back then.

Barty Crouch was a high-ranking Ministry of Magic official who openly confronted Voldemort and his Death Eaters, sending each Death Eater to Azkaban prison.

Just when Barty Crouch was riding high, his son Barty Crouch Jr was found to be a Death Eater, which plummeted his reputation and dashed Crouch's hopes of becoming Minister of Magic.

To continue the fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters, Barty Crouch personally sent his son to Azkaban prison, solidifying his reputation for being ruthless.

However...

Crouch Jr's mental state was weak. This faithful follower of Voldemort had surprisingly fragile willpower, he almost died after being tortured by Dementors in Azkaban for a year.

At that time, Mrs. Crouch fell seriously ill.

Before Mrs. Crouch died, she begged her husband to secretly perform a switch, She used a polyjuice potion to assume the physical appearance of her son. With the help of Crouch Sr and a little bit of help from the ministry's corrupted officials. She took the place of her son in Azkaban, allowing him to escape and go into hiding.

With his mother's sacrifice, Crouch Jr managed to escape from prison and survive.

To prevent his son from causing trouble, Barty Crouch had to use the Imperius Curse to control his son, and have the house-elf Winky take care and keep a watchful eye on him, to ensure he did not sneak out.

This kind of father-son relationship maintained by the Unforgivable Curse is a great torment for both Barty Crouch and his son.

London suburbs.

The car slowly entered a residential area.

This residential area is not where wizards live, but where a group of ordinary Muggles live, so it occasionally seems lively.

The car finally stopped at an ordinary residential garage.

Barty Crouch opened the car door while casually expressing his doubts: "I don't think it's convenient to live in a Muggle area..."

"But it's safe here," Wilson shook his head slowly and said softly. "You should know our arrangement here. It's hard to say that anyone will be able to find out who we want to hide..."

The house looks very ordinary from the outside.

But, the interior of the house is extraordinary.

The entire house is divided into four parts.

The first area is the living area on the ground floor.

This is where Wilson and Crouch Sr will live in the future. It looks no different from any ordinary family, and indeed there is nothing special about it.

The second area is the trap area on the second floor.

Here are set-up Muggle-repelling and protective charms, making it look like a place where wizards live, and inside are traps of spells and potions set up by wizards.

In general, If some wizard, who is attracted by the Muggle-repelling charm and breaks through the protective charm to invade the second floor, if he wants to survive, it all depends on his experience on Curse-Breaking.

After all, Barty Crouch, who set up the traps, is an experienced and outstanding wizard, and Dumbledore has even praised Barty Crouch's expertise.

The third area is the trap area in the basement.

The entire basement space is big, and Barty Crouch using his wealth, has placed a barrier that probably only wizards of Dumbledore's level can break.

In addition, the entire basement has been arranged as a hidden potion brewing room, with expensive potions and equipment hidden on the surface...

However, this is a fake potion brewing room...

Inside are just some Muggle gadgets like landmines and grenades.

The fourth area is the underground fortress safe house.

The entire underground fortress area is the core part of this house.

Due to the Cold War relations between the two major Muggle powers, there is always the possibility of a devastating crisis, so underground fortresses capable of withstanding nuclear war have emerged.

Inside the fortress is not lacking in supplies.

Tonight.

Crouch Sr will place his son and the house elf in the underground fortress.

As equipment to resist nuclear war, this underground fortress is very sturdy. And it has been turned into a true safe house by Barty Crouch with The Fidelius charm.

The Secret keeper of the safe house is of course Wilson.

In a sense, Crouch Jr, who will be imprisoned in the underground fortress in the future, is a hostage used by Wilson to control Crouch Sr.

To be honest.

It has been seven or eight years since the disappearance of the Dark Lord Voldemort.

Wilson still insisted on implementing such stringent protective measures, even Crouch himself would find their layered defenses excessively complicated. Even if they're against the cunning Voldemort, their precautions seemed overly cautious.

Barty Crouch couldn't decipher what Wilson, this young lad, was truly thinking.

If Wilson was considered timid, then he was proactive and forward-thinking, already considering strategies to counter the potential resurrection of Voldemort. If Wilson was considered bold, then he prioritizes security to an extreme degree, possibly even surpassing the security measures in place at Hogwarts.

Entering the house with Crouch Sr, They could see Crouch Jr and the house-elf Winky had been waiting inside for them for some time.

Once hailed as a respectable wizard, Barty Crouch Jr now bore no resemblance to his once proud self. His hair was disheveled, and there was a stubble on his chin. Due to being controlled by his father with the Imperius Curse, Crouch Jr's eyes were dull, even less spirited than the house elf standing beside him.

He was truly a young man deserving of sympathy...

"In the future, there won't be a need for the Imperius Curse in this base..."

Wilson gazed at Crouch Jr, calmly explaining, "And I believe your son will willingly reside in the underground fortress to stay clear-headed..."