When Neville heard Bellatrix Lestrange utter the Summoning Charm, he instinctively tightened his grip on the Invisibility Cloak, only to remember something else.
Grandmother had told him that the Invisibility Cloaks at home had all been modified, with counter-charms against the Summoning Charm attached to them, able to resist its effects.
Bellatrix Lestrange narrowed her eyes slightly. She swept her gaze around, her eyes like a venomous snake waiting for its chance to strike.
"Were we overthinking it?" Her tone was full of suspicion, and she still held herself on guard, Wand clutched tightly in her hand, ready to attack at the slightest movement.
"Bella..." Barty Crouch Jr. tapped Bellatrix Lestrange's arm with his Wand. "Younger Brother is lying on his older brother's chest. Would they have been..."
There was some hesitation in his voice, as if he were searching for the right description. "Mm... that deeply brotherly?"
He was looking toward the living room, at the unconscious Rodolphus Lestrange and Rabastan Lestrange lying on Rodolphus Lestrange's chest.
Bellatrix Lestrange's voice was full of disgust. "That would only make me sick!"
Tap!
A loud footstep exploded in the quiet corridor. Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. turned at the same time, pointing their Wands toward where the sound had come from.
The moment Neville heard the footstep, his heart lurched, and he knew very clearly that he had been exposed.
Could it be that when Barty Crouch Jr. tapped Bellatrix Lestrange with his Wand... he had actually been using Nonverbal Spellcasting?
Neville remembered what Grandmother had told him. When Barty Crouch Jr. studied at Hogwarts, his O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. results had both been extremely outstanding;
after graduation, Barty Crouch Jr. quickly became a Death Eater, and a core Death Eater at that, highly valued by Voldemort;
from these two points,