In the auditorium, four house tables were stacked on top of each other, and the floor was covered with hundreds of purple sleeping bags. There was no sound at all, and everyone seemed to be asleep.

At Percy's suggestion, Evan slipped into a sleeping bag near the door.

The enchanted ceiling is like the sky outside, full of stars. Through the faint starlight, Aven saw a slender white paper crane quietly flying from the corner of the wall, and it circled in the sky for a while, landing accurately in front of him.

The paper crane made a slight noise, turning into a small silver-white note with Hermione's delicate handwriting, "What did you do, why did you delay for so long?"

The handwriting is slightly sloppy, and the girl's concern can be seen.

Evan thought for a moment, pulled his wand from his sleeping bag, and tapped it lightly on the note, the black handwriting on it dissipated like smoke and regrouped into new words.

"I went to look for Crook Mountain, and I found it in the grass next to the Forbidden Forest!

Then he tapped his wand on the note again, and the note quickly folded, turning into a paper crane along the original crease, and flying back to Hermione.

"Good thing you found it, but you shouldn't run out of the castle, it's too dangerous, Blake might still be hiding in the school, you could run into him at any moment. ”

"Don't worry, I just heard Dumbledore and Snape talking, they searched the entire castle and found no sign of him, Dumbledore thinks he's gone. ”

"But how did he do it, he couldn't just sneak into the castle and leave quietly! The castle was filled with all kinds of magic to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, he certainly wasn't invisible or flew in, maybe some kind of transfiguration, like the polyjuice decoction we took last semester or"

Seeing the note sent back by Hermione, Evan felt that he couldn't continue to talk about this topic, otherwise, with the other party's intelligence, I am afraid that it would not be long before he guessed that Blake was an Animagus.

When you are not ready, it is not appropriate to let Blake be exposed early.

"Let's not talk about this, it's almost midnight, why don't you sleep so late?"

Seeing Evan's question, Hermione's face turned a rare red, but fortunately, it was dark in the auditorium, so she didn't have to worry about being discovered.

She couldn't tell Evan that she was waiting for him to come back, it was so embarrassing!, she hesitated for a moment, and tapped the note lightly with her wand.

"I'm worried, Harry keeps saying he's seen the dog again, the ominous one that represents a sign of death, but that's obviously ridiculous! And you, you haven't come back, in case something happens"

"It's not a big deal, you forget, Harry and I went into the Chamber of Secrets last semester, and we defeated the basilisk and Voldemort as students. ”

"That's why I'm worried, I'm afraid you're going to go to Blake alone. Promise me, Aven, to stop doing dangerous things, okay?"

Seeing Hermione's handwriting, Evan had a strange feeling, although the other party's words were very vague, but he could feel the other party's fragile heart hidden under the strong exterior, Hermione was especially like an ordinary weak girl at this time, and people couldn't help but care.

He didn't know how to answer, and a "good" word weighed as much as ten thousand pounds.

Whether it was the current situation or the imminent return of Voldemort, Evan had a dangerous and difficult path ahead of him, and he couldn't do nothing, which could have been worse.

Evan sighed, and when he looked up and saw that no one was paying attention to him, he decided to do something

In the dark, Hermione was nervously waiting for Aven's reply, and Harry and Ron beside her let out a slight snoring.

Looking at the stars on the ceiling, her mind unconsciously recalled the scene last year, when the Gryffindor common room basilisk pounced on them, and Evan desperately held himself in his arms, his back to the basilisk.

The image recurred in Hermione's mind, and she thought she would never forget it for the rest of her life.

Suddenly, she felt something approaching her. Hermione looked up and was surprised to see that Aven's sleeping bag was quietly rolling towards her.

Evan rolled over to Hermione, his hand reaching out to pat the other's sleeping bag, perhaps reassuring Hermione.

Unexpectedly, his hand met another small, soft, cold hand in the dark.

In the next second, Evan found that his hand was being held and clenched tightly.

The small hand on the other side was trembling slightly, but it never seemed to let go

At the same moment, in the secret passage leading to the screaming shack under the beating willow, Lupin cautiously moved forward, and with the intermittent faint fluorescence of his wand, he looked at the familiar and unfamiliar scene around him with heavy attention.

He never imagined that he would ever have a chance to come back here, to the secret passage he had walked so many times.

It was as if it were yesterday, and he felt like he had gone back to the best days of his life when he was attending Hogwarts more than twenty years ago.

Before coming to Hogwarts, Lupin had never had any friends.

When he was four years old, his father offended the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and out of revenge, the werewolf attacked him, and since then, he has also become a werewolf.

Because of this identity, everyone avoided him, no matter where he went, he was greeted with white eyes and discrimination, Lupin remembered that he once asked his father why this was, but his father didn't say anything, just hugged himself and cried silently.

At that moment, Lupin secretly swore that no matter what happened to him in the future, he would never cry again.

Before the age of eleven, his life was gray and colorless.

Lupin had thought that he would not be able to go to Hogwarts like the other children, and that other parents would not want their children to get close to a werewolf, but Dumbledore gave him hope.

Dumbledore ordered a beating willow to be planted in the school grounds to cover the passage to Hogsmeade's screaming shack.

Whenever the moon is full, he goes there to transform.

This was to ensure the safety of the other students, as he was very brutal after his transformation, and the villagers of Hogsmeade heard the noise and screams and thought it was the sound of some ferocious ghost. Dumbledore encouraged people to spread such rumors, so that people could stay away from the screaming shack and keep everyone safe.

Lupin remembers those days when he was afraid that his classmates would know who he was, and he hid the secret from everyone.

Every full moon night, he would make up with his classmates to go home to visit his sick mother or other reasons.

Then he came here alone, a brutal monster in the screaming hut, wandering, destroying, and roaring inside the hut.

Despite his efforts to cover it up, several classmates quickly guessed the truth of the matter.

At that time, Lupin felt that he was definitely finished, that he would be kicked out of Hogwarts and return to that colorless life.

But James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black accepted him and became his first friends. They even went to learn Animagus for this, and after the fifth grade, they would come and accompany them every full moon night.

They traveled all over Hogwarts, and under the influence of his friends, Lupin felt that he was no longer as cruel as he had been after transforming into a werewolf.

If it were possible, how he wished that time would have stood still in that moment.