Death Is a Glorious Instant; If One Lives On in Cowardly Survival, This Life Becomes Far Too Long!

"We came from among wizards, and we are prepared to give our lives for the future of wizardkind. Our lives are like phoenixes born from fire—spreading, burning, growing, until the fuel is spent and nothing but ashes remains."

"Burning devotion is our life, our beginning and our end. We will not yield to the Death Eaters, nor will we ever bow to any enemy of wizardkind, even in death!"

Barty Crouch Sr. spoke calmly as dozens of Disarming Charms shot from his wand like machine-gun fire.

McNair casually knocked aside Barty Crouch Sr.'s spells and sneered. "Your subordinates do not seem to think so. They bought you a chance to live!"

The Ministry of Magic employees in the Ministry's grand hall, whether clerks or Aurors, did not retreat before the Death Eaters' Killing Curses. Instead, they continued to buy Barty Crouch Sr. more chances to survive.

Watching this scene, Barty Crouch Sr. sighed softly and said flatly, "They are my subordinates, and they are also my children. Like I once was, they are flames that have yet to burn white-hot. They are still young, but my own flame has already grown hoarse. I do not have much time left."

A sharp gleam flashed through Barty Crouch Sr.'s eyes, causing McNair to instinctively raise his wand and brace himself.

McNair could sense that Barty Crouch Sr. seemed prepared to take him down with him!

"You cannot escape your identity as a Death Eater, just as you cannot leave here unscathed. Raise your wand. We will indeed remain here, and we are destined to fight to the death, because I 'choose' to do so. Death is a glorious instant; if one lives on in cowardly survival... this life becomes far too long!"

Barty Crouch Sr. spoke in an indifferent tone as one