"Good thing Neville isn't like that." Catherine looked out the window and said to herself, "I remember the first time I met him, I asked him, 'What would you do if your grandmother was killed by a mysterious man?' Neville's answer was to rush up and fight the mystery man, and he proved to be brave! ”

A warm smile appeared on the red-haired girl's face, but Lupin's face was instantly covered with frost.

"I suddenly said that there was something I didn't do, and I had to go back first! Rest well, Catherine! Lupin said absentmindedly and hurried away.

Catherine looked back at him, her face also gloomy, and she called Dobby and whispered a few words to him, but Dobby did not return to report to her until near noon on Sunday.

"As soon as Mr. Lupin left here, he went straight to Hogsmeade, and then to Peter. At Mr. Pediru's house, he talked with Mrs. Pediru for an afternoon, stayed there for another night, and did not leave until this morning after breakfast, and went to a dozen places to inquire about something. Dobby spread out a map of England on Catherine's quilt, which had already been crossed by him with a dozen red crosses, "Mr. Lupin has just returned to Hogwarts and is now in the Headmaster's office. ”

Catherine studied the map carefully for a while, then suddenly pointed to the fork where the ink had not completely dried, and asked, "Didn't this family die 13 years ago?" Can you help me find out what's going on? ”

Dobby leaves immediately, but soon returns.

"The family that lived here was indeed killed by a mysterious person 13 years ago, and now the niece of the original owner lives here, and it is said that she was at the scene at the time of the crime, but she was not yet seven years old at the time."

"What did she see?"

She was playing outside with her cousin, and when she saw the dark mark on the roof of her uncle's house, her cousin told her to go home with the portkey immediately, but she didn't do so. Instead, she secretly followed, and when she arrived, her cousin was hit by a green light, and while she was stunned, two wizards rushed over, and one was caught off guard and died directly, and the other was so frightened that she knelt down to the murderer, and then she remembered her cousin's words and went home with the portkey. ”

"Does she remember the man who knelt?"

"I didn't ask, but I saw Mr. Lupin show her a few pictures, and then she pointed to one of them and exclaimed, 'It's this guy.' Definitely this guy! Presumably Mr. Lupin already knew who that man was. ”

Catherine pondered for a moment before she said to Dobby, "Help me prepare lunch!" ”

"Yes!" Dobby replied and left, and as soon as Catherine saw him gone, she immediately put away the map in her hand.

After lunch, Ron visits, and he first thanks Catherine Patrickie for the things she sent, then asks about her health, and conveys Molly's thanks. Then he relayed Harry and Hermione's greetings, and then he didn't know what to say.

Catherine asked him about the situation outside the medical wing, and finally she noticed that the pet mouse that Ron was nervously holding in his hand was more oily than before. Now the spots are a little miserable, the hair is falling out a little, and the spirit is very sluggish.

Catherine couldn't help but be concerned, and Ron immediately complained. It turns out that since returning from Africa, Spotted's condition has gotten worse, and Hermione's pet cat, Crookshan, is somehow not. This year, he actually targeted the poor rat even harder, so Ron had to carry it with him now to avoid being miserably clutched by the cat.

"Maybe it's going to die?" Catherine comforted, "After all, it's hard for ordinary house mice or garden rats like this to survive for more than three years, and I remember when I first entered school, Spotted was your pet." ”

"Actually, Spotted has a long life, and it's been in my house for years! It was originally Percy's pet, and it didn't become mine until he became a superior and his mother bought him an owl. Ron gently smoothed the pet's coat, and it was clear that the rat still had a lot of weight in the heart of a teenager who was often ignored by his family because of his mediocrity.

But when Catherine heard the word "longevity," she began to take a serious look at Spotted, only to notice that it was missing a toe on its front paw, and her eyes narrowed.

"Does it have any other specialties besides longevity?" Catherine suddenly asked curiously, "It has some wounds on its body, it should be very brave!" ”

"This ......," Ron hesitated for a moment, before finally reluctantly, "I don't know, it's been so lazy, eating, sleeping, sleeping, and eating, maybe it was a brave mouse before it came to my house, after all, that's what it was like since Percy started raising it." ”

"That's it!" Catherine was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked Dobby to bring Tracey's pet house that had been vacant for a long time, "You should know that my pet brings good luck, so Professor Snape doesn't allow me to take it with me for my final exam!" ”

Ron nodded, not understanding why Catherine was saying this.

"In the first grade, I put Tracey in the birdcage, and then she had a long trouble, so in the second grade, I bought her a pet house with a lot of space."

Ron nodded again, he had seen the half-bed-sized, well-equipped pet house when the SG group had borrowed Catherine's dorm for meetings several times last year, and he had even secretly mocked Slytherin extravagance in his heart.

But Tracey didn't want to pay attention to the "big cage" because others couldn't see her, so except for one time when she was locked up for the final exam of the second grade, the pet house was just a decoration in the way, so I decided to give it away during the summer vacation, but I never found a suitable partner. ”

Ron ignored the meaning of Catherine's words and opened his mouth in shock.

"Since Crookshank Hill has been harassing Spotted, you can use it." Catherine pointed her wand at Dobby's pet house she had just moved into, and cast a few spells on it, "I've added a cat-banishing spell to it, so as long as Spotted is inside, you don't have to be afraid of Crook Hill anymore, but you'd better remember to lock the door so it doesn't escape." ”

"Catherine! This-this-this is too precious! I can't take it! Ron said in a panic that although he had always felt inferior because of his family's poverty, he also understood what it meant to be useless.

"It's okay! Think of it as waste! Catherine said indifferently, "After all, a pet house is supposed to be used by pets, but Tracey doesn't like cramped places at all, and even spills her anger on it when she's in a bad mood, and if it weren't for Dobby's careful maintenance, it would have become a pile of ruins." ”

"But—but......" Ron was about to say something, but Catherine interrupted him.

"Actually, you don't want it, I can understand it, after all, it's been used by Tracey, and it's a little old?" Catherine asked, somewhat embarrassed.

"Nope! That's definitely not what I meant! Ron blushed and shook his head.

"So, you agree!" Catherine said happily, and then ordered Dobby to move the pet house to Ron's dormitory, and the house-elf was so fast that before the red-haired boy could object, he had already disappeared from the hospital room with his things.

Ron saw that the matter was a foregone conclusion, and hurriedly got up to thank him, and finally he was embarrassed to continue to stay, after all, the usual clothes he was wearing now were bought by Catherine, and now even the pet house was given by the red-haired girl, he could already imagine how unbearable it would be for others to know these things.

On Sunday afternoon, Madam Pomfrey gave Catherine a full body examination to make sure she was fit enough for the rest of the course before she was allowed to be discharged, but she was still required to come back every day when she got up and report on the previous day.

Leaving the medical wing, Catherine immediately went to Snape's office, although she didn't want this time to pass, but some things couldn't bypass him at all, but as soon as she saw the familiar stone door, the red-haired girl's mood couldn't help but become more and more complicated, and her pace stopped.

Since the two parted on the night of school, Catherine thought that Snape would avoid her for a while, but every time she woke up, she could always smell the scent of moonlight, but when she opened her eyes, she could not find the black figure.

To be honest, Catherine would rather the two never get along, than expect to be like the past week, even if they haven't met once, they can still clearly feel each other's existence.

This completely disturbed Catherine's calm heart, and she was extremely reluctant to be in this situation, but at the same time she was somehow desperate to maintain the status quo, and she was particularly resistant to Snape's actions, but she was desperate to meet him again.

This chaotic state of mind disturbs her life all the time, and the constant reproduction of memories interrupts her rhythm all the time, even if she uses brain occlusion, she can't get out of this mental dilemma, she can only find a way to solve the problem at the root.

Thinking of this, Catherine closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and when she opened them again, her face was already calm, and she walked to Snape's office as usual, and Andrew saw this to help her open the door.

"Poppy agreed to you being discharged?" Snape glanced up at the visitor, and continued to look down at his homework.

"Madam Pomfrey thinks I'll be able to handle the rest of the lesson, just wake up every day and report back on the day before." Catherine found that Snape's mental state was not good, the little flesh on his face that had been cultivated for the past two years had completely disappeared, and a thick dark shadow appeared under his eyes.

"Is the schedule arranged?" Snape asked, without looking up. (To be continued......)