In the evening, Professor Dumbledore took Phoenix and Hermione and took him to London in a horse-drawn carriage. Phoenix led her down the narrow hallway.

"If that's what you say, then I'm going to take a good look. ”

"What do you think?" Hermione followed him to a small door.

"Memories can be reproduced. Luckily, there is such an instrument here. He opened the door, and there was an eerie blue light flashing inside. The furnishings of the room are simple, with a stone basin on the table in the middle, which is also the only source of light in the room.

"Now, think back to the beginning and the outcome of things. Phoenix put his wand against the side of her forehead, "Then, don't turn me down." A thin silver thread was pulled out by his wand, and his hand shook and landed in the meditation basin.

"Okay, ladies first. Hermione watched in amazement as the basin appeared, where they were chasing Ron who was being pulled by a black dog last night.

Screaming shack last night.

"Peter Pettigrew is dead. Harry said, "He killed him twelve years ago. He pointed at Blake, whose face contorted spasmodically.

"I was trying to kill him," he growled, a mouthful of yellow teeth showing out again, "but Peter had the upper hand. ”

"There were witnesses who saw Peter Pettigrew dead," he said, "and the witnesses in a street did not see what they thought they saw." Blake said furiously, staring at Spotted as he struggled in Ron's hands.

"Everyone thinks Sirius killed Peter. Lupin nodded, "I believed that way myself, until tonight when I looked at that map." Because the map never lies—Peter is alive. Ron is holding him, Harry. ”

("Oh yes, you don't know.") Fred and George gave Harry a map of Hogwarts with the names of the people in the castle," Hermione explained. ）

"But Professor Lupin - Speckled can't be Peter Pettigrew - this can't be true—"

"Why can't it be true?" said Lupin calmly, as if they were in class, and Hermione had just discovered a problem in the process of experimenting with Grindillo.

"Because if Peter Pettigrew had been Animagus, people would have known. We learned about the Animagus in Professor McGonagall's class. I looked it up when I finished my homework - the Ministry of Magic supervised wizards and witches who could turn into animals, there were records of what animals they had become, and their marks and things - and I looked up Professor McGonagall's records, there were only seven Animagus this century, and Peter Pettigrew's name wasn't on that list. ”

"You're right again, Hermione!" "But the Ministry of Magic never knew that there were three unregistered Animagus at Hogwarts. ”

There was a loud cracking sound behind Lupin, and the bedroom door opened on its own. All five of them looked at the door. Lupin walked over and looked over to the landing of the staircase.

"No one. ”

"This place is haunted!" Ron said.

"No," said Luhu, still looking at the door in bewilderment, "this screaming hut has never been haunted—the screams and howls that the villagers often hear are from me. ”

He brushed the gray hair from his eyes, thought about it for a moment, and then said, "This is where it all began—after I became a werewolf." If I hadn't been bitten, none of this would have happened. If I weren't so reckless. ”

He appeared sober and tired.

"In those days, my transfiguration was - it was terrible. Turning into a werewolf is very painful. When I want to bite, I stay away from the crowd, so I bite myself and scratch myself. The noises and screams that the villagers heard thought they were hearing the voices of particularly ferocious ghosts. Dumbledore encouraged people to spread such rumors - even now, despite the fact that the house had not heard of it for many years, the villagers were afraid to approach it. ”

"But. At that time, I was happier than before, except for the transformation. I had friends for the first time, three good friends. Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and your father, Harry. Jimmy. ”

"Well, it's impossible for my three friends not to notice that I'm missing once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them that my mom was sick and that I had to go home to see her - I was especially worried that they would ignore me if they found out I was a werewolf. But, Hermione, they, just like you, have learned the truth. ”

"And they didn't ignore me at all. Instead, they did something for me so that I could not only endure the pain of metamorphosis, but also make the metamorphosis the happiest time of my life. They learned the Animagus. ”

"Is my dad too?" asked Harry in surprise.

"Yes, it does. "It took them almost three years to do that." Your dad and Sirius here are the smartest students in the school. Luckily for them, the Animagus Transfiguration could go berserk - that's why the Ministry of Magic keeps an eye on those who want to do so. Peter needs a lot of help from Sirius and James. Eventually, in our fifth grade, they learned to shapeshift. Each of them can transform into a different animal at will. ”

Lupin's face stiffened, and his voice tinged with self-loathing. "I've been battling with myself for a year, and I've been undecided whether to tell Dumbledore that Sirius is Animagus. But I didn't say. Because I'm too cowardly. Telling him meant that I had betrayed his trust when I was a student, and for me. Dumbledore's trust was extremely important. When I was a child, he accepted me into school, and as an adult, I hit a wall everywhere because I couldn't find a paid job because I was a werewolf, but he gave me a job. In this way, I convinced myself that Sirius had infiltrated the school using the evil spells he had learned from Voldemort, and that his becoming an Animagus had nothing to do with it. So, in a sense, Snape has always been right about me. ”

"Snape?" said Blake, in a hoarse voice, looking at Lupin without looking at Blob for the first time in a few minutes, "What does Snape have to do with this?"

"He's here, Sirius," said Luhu heavily, "and he's teaching here, too." ”

"Professor Snape was with us at school. He had vehemently opposed the appointment of me as a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. He kept telling Dumbledore that I couldn't be trusted. He had his reasons—you see, Sirius had played a joke on him and nearly killed him, and that joke had something to do with me—" Blake made a mocking voice.

"He deserves it," he sneered, "sneaking around wondering what we're going to do—he hopes to get us expelled—"

"Severus was particularly interested in where I went each month," Lupin told Harry, Ron, and Hermione, "and we were in the same grade, you know. We-oh-oh don't like each other very much. He especially disliked James. ”

"Anyway, Snape saw me walk through the field with Madam Pomfrey one evening, and she led me to the Beater Willow to transfigure. Sirius told Severus: "Just touch the knots on the trunk with a long stick and you can follow me into the hollow of the tree," Sirius thought it would be funny. Well, of course Snape tried—if he walked to the house, he'd be met with a werewolf through and through—but your father, when he heard what Sirius had done, followed Snape and pulled him back, risking his own life but, Snape saw me, at the end of the tunnel. Dumbledore wouldn't tell anyone, but from then on, he knew what I was—"

"No wonder Snape doesn't like you," Harry said slowly, "because he thought you were joking in too?"

"Yes. A grim voice on the wall behind Lupin said.

Severus Snape pulled off the Cloak of Invisibility, his wand pointed straight at Lupin.

This is the end of the memory, and since Hermione is extracting the memory for the first time, the cause and effect are blurry or only the sight has no sound. Phoenix stood on the edge of the wall and pulled the rope lightly—the wall was still sturdy just a moment ago, and a window was pulled open.

"Actually, we knocked Professor Snape unconscious," Hermione said succinctly, referring to what was happening next, "the rat - turn back into the prototype." Peter admits that he was the secret keeper of Harry's parents for the last period of time, and that he betrayed them to the mystery man. Although he then took advantage of the confusion of Professor Lupin's transformation into a werewolf and fled-"

"But in the end, Professor Dumbledore had us use the time turner to go back in time - we saved Sirius, Black, and Buckbeak. Hermione said gleefully.

"yes, not only saved an innocent life. Phoenix looked out the window, the carriage was making a big dive, they didn't feel any discomfort, they saw tall and low buildings, they were already in London.

"But Draco is going to be disappointed again. ”

"I don't know, how did you become friends?" asked Hermione, confused.

"If you were in my place, you would probably do the same. He's one of the few who isn't so bad in purebloods, and I'm in a circle that's crueler than you think. "Phoenix's gaze is deep and inscrutable.

"What do you mean?"

"When you grow up, you'll understand. ”

"Ha, how old are you, sir?" Hermione laughed.

"Five out of twenty. Phoenix gentlemanly helped her out of the car. Professor Dumbledore had already greeted some wizards again, and it was clear that after all these years, the fact that he had defeated Grindelwald was still surrounded by people.

Looking at the enthusiastic crowd, Phoenix was not happy. Although my father did not say it explicitly, asking him to add extra protection undoubtedly means that the situation has become tense and even imminent. Now that Peter is on the run, if he goes to find Voldemort - he can only hope that Peter will escape far away, otherwise the already bad situation will become even more difficult to manage.