"Wait here, the Emperor will see and speak with you soon," Sir Barty Crouch instructs kindly to the boy. "I would also wish to apologise for my part in the role I was made to play in the fate of your parents. I wish I could say it was because I was young and stupid, but really, it was due to some want to prove myself worthy of I don’t know what. Your grandmother and great-uncle prayed on that, especially when they had been secretly dealing with both sides to get what they wanted, and having sole control over you, especially after learning what your father and mother were willing to do in order to protect you and the line that was now falls to you to restore, and my own father’s participation in it. I wish I could go back in time and walked away."