To suddenly be told that someone they had just been discussing was dead frightened even Hermione, despite her strong dislike of Bagman.
"Young Creevey, you're not making this up, are you?" Harry asked with a frown. "How could Mr. Crouch suddenly be dead?"
"I don't know either." Dennis Creevey shook his head repeatedly to show that he was not lying. "Some people from Ilvermorny just found him at the edge of the Forbidden Forest."
"The edge of the Forbidden Forest?" Harry was taken aback again, and for no particular reason, he thought of that Dark Wizard whose name he could not remember and his gang.
"Let's hurry over and take a look, or they might stop us from going out soon." Although a dead person was hardly a pleasant sight, that accursed Gryffindor curiosity still made Ron unable to resist wanting to go and look.
Of course, there was another reason: he did not really want to believe it either. Had April first not long since passed, he would even have suspected that this was a nasty April Fools' joke.
Hermione and Neville quickly nodded too. Although they had no desire at all to see a dead person, someone had actually died at Hogwarts, and an important Ministry of Magic official at that. They had to take an interest in it, no matter what.
They quickly got up and climbed out through the hole.
When Harry and the others ran out of the castle, they did not need to work out which direction to go to know where it had happened. A large crowd had already gathered around the spot.
Harry and the others approached and saw that Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and several headmasters from the other schools were all there. Bagman and Umbridge, the two people the Ministry of