Chapter Ninety-Nine: Rat-Spotted

How can it be?

There's a traitor among us?!

Harry and Ron were startled, they didn't know who Sirius was, but they still knew the surname "Black", the oldest pure-blood family, and they had always thought that Sirius was a Slytherin.

"It can't be! How could he be my dad's friend! Didn't the newspapers report on his evil deeds? How could my dad be friends with such an indiscriminate killing of innocent dark wizards. ”

Harry was shocked and panicked.

"It's true, Sirius used to be our best friend. It used to be like this, when we were still at Hogwarts. It's just that none of us could have imagined that he would become like that, and when I heard the news, I thought it was an April Fool's joke. ”

This is, Lupin heard their conversation and walked over from behind, and he reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder.

"Hmph, I know those guys are bad by nature, and those Slytherin pure-blood families are all the same."

Ron, who didn't know how to read the atmosphere, suddenly shouted out with a big mouth.

Lupin's face changed on the spot, and he glared at Ron in annoyance, Sirius was their childhood friend's best friend anyway. Even if he has become bad, as a friend, he would never want someone to slander him behind his back, especially now that he has paid with his life.

Lupin was also quite sad that his confidant and friend who had been in the same boat through thick and thin came to an end, and he was the only one left in the past Gryffindor Foursome who was desolate.

Jaime died at the hands of Voldemort more than a decade earlier, Wormtail was killed by Sirius in the year of Jaime's death, and Sirius is now dead at the hands of a Slytherin junior, leaving him alone to survive.

The "marauders" who used to whizz through Hogwarts vanished, leaving no trace behind.

"Professor Lupin, you're a friend of your father's, you must know, right? What the hell is going on? ”

Seeing Lupin, Harry found his backbone, for Harry, Lupin's generous professor could be counted as one of the few elders he could rely on. His father was very good friends with him, and Professor Lupin took good care of him, so that Harry felt a kindness that he had never felt at his aunt's house.

Hermione also blinked and stared at Lupin with shining eyes, wanting to see what he would say.

"This is not the place to talk, if you want to know more about our past, come to my office after school."

Lupin didn't take it anymore, much to the disappointment of the students around him who had pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.

Harry thought about it, this was a crowded restaurant, and hearing the news of his father's past here would probably affect the others.

"I know, I'll be there after school."

Harry's eagerness to know more about his father's past caused him to lose his attention during the day's lessons, and he was well disciplined by Professors McGonagall and Snape.

"Ah, what a troubled day. Alright, now let's hurry up and go to Professor Lupin's. ”

Harry, who was punished by Professor McGonagall for making a guess in class, finally wiped all the tables clean, and Ron (PS: Let's actually beat Ron to Luoer, and suddenly felt that Ron had become a lot cuter. And Hermione had been waiting impatiently.

"Professor Lupin, here we are."

When Harry and the others arrived at Lupin's office, he had already prepared refreshments and was sitting in a chair waiting for them.

"Tell us, Professor, what's going on."

Lupin rubbed his temples on both sides in some distress, and said in a very heavy tone: "Please sit down, there are snacks on the table, let's talk while eating." I don't know how, Sirius used to be a very trustworthy friend, and you may not know it, but he was also your godfather. Your father Jaime trusted him more than we did, and he entrusted you to Sirius, and he was the best man when James got married. ”

This kind of information from the elders caused Harry to be in a trance, and he had a godfather who was very trusted by his father, who wanted to entrust him to this friend when he knew that he might be unlucky.

"But, but he betrayed everyone, didn't he? He took refuge in the Dark Lord, he must have deceived ......"

Although Harry had never met Sirius, his admiration for his father made him unable to accept that his father had such an evil friend, and he could only make an excuse for himself, that his father had been deceived.

"No, Harry!"

Lupin was so excited that he stood up and pressed Harry's shoulders, "Honestly, I can't believe that Sirius was going to be as bad as it is now. I've always wondered if there was some misunderstanding or something else we didn't understand. ”

"But it's too late, Black is dead, and no one knows what the truth is."

Lupin's summary is helpless. What is the truth, whether it is a vicious murderer according to the Ministry of Magic, or an upright wizard who has been wronged, probably only God knows.

After saying goodbye to the professor, Harry still couldn't calm down when he returned to the dormitory.

"Oh, Merlin! My rat is gone. Spotted, spotted, where have you been? ”

Not long after returning to the dormitory, Harry was lying on the bed and hadn't closed his eyes when Ron's panicked voice resounded throughout the dormitory.

"What's wrong?"

Several of the roommates were startled by the sudden loud voices, and Harry was even more frightened and jumped straight out of bed.

"Spotted, spotted gone!"

Ron was at a loss for what he could say.

"Spotted? Is it the mouse? Alas, I thought something was wrong, isn't it just a mouse all the time, it's gone, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's good to buy another one. ”

"You don't know anything!"

Faced with his roommate's seemingly unintentional words, Ron angrily yelled back.

"No, don't worry. It's okay, my toad is always gone, and it will appear after a while. ”

Neville was clumsy enough to try to comfort Ron, but to no avail.

"My spotted isn't like your toad, it won't disappear on its own."

Ron was worried about his mouse, how could the old rat run out of hair, and how could it run away on its own.

The rat is gone, no one knows if it's still in the castle, and it certainly won't be in Harry's dorm anyway.

"I've looked for everything, but there's nothing under the bed, under the quilt, or inside the clothes."

Several little wizards were busy looking for a long time, but they didn't even see a single mouse hair.

It was a skinny, toe-torn rat blob that magically disappeared from Harry's dorm room.

"Oh my God~"

Ron collapsed to the ground like a doll with a broken thread.

"Don't be sad, Ron."

Harry thought he could understand Ron's feelings, and if Headway was gone, he would be so sad.

Without saying a word, Ron pulled out the bitten sheet from under the bed, spread it out in front of him, and wept as he looked at the holes in the sheet.

On the other side, a small, gray mouse stumbled through the tunnels and fled. From time to time, it also glanced back in an extremely humane manner, and its mung bean-like eyes revealed a look of human fear.

"Aha~ Found it! Wormtail, it turns out that you are here, and I have been chasing for a lot of time. ”

Sephiroth teasingly popped up from the front and blocked the little mouse's escape route.

If it were an ordinary mouse, it would have sped under the opponent's feet in fright. But this mouse, which Sephiroth called "the tail of the worm", actually stopped.

Of course, it only paused for a short second, and the next moment it just turned around and ran.

"Humph! Can you run away? Wouldn't it be a shame to let a little mouse run away in front of you? [Yugadim Leviosa]"

The rat was led by an invisible hand, and although its limbs trembled, it could not change the fact that he was gradually moving away from the ground.

"Alright, Wormtail, let's have a good talk. Sirius is dead, and you'll be glad you have to thank me. ”

Sephiroth said this, poking his wand at the soft belly of the mouse.

There was no response, as if Sephiroth was talking to himself, and did not take his words at all.

"Don't do that, Wormtail. You should know this thing, you made it yourself."

Seeing that the worm's tail was still trying to contain garlic, Sephiroth took out a piece of yellow parchment from his bosom.

Seeing this parchment, the mouse's struggle stopped.

The living point map, which was made by the four of them back then, is best known to them what they are capable of. Ironically, Wormtail is the second "Marauder" planted on this handmade prop.

Sephiroth smirked, and after killing Sirius, Sephiroth knew that once Wormtail knew that Sirius was dead, he would definitely run away.

For the past few days, Sephiroth has been monitoring Wormtail's every move with a map of living spots, and when he comes out of the Gryffindor common room, Sephiroth chases him and finally stops him before he can pull out Hogwarts.

You can't live if you do your own evil!

"Hehe, it's really a genius out of a teenager."

The worm's tail rolled in the air and turned into a humanoid form.

It was a short, bald man with small eyes, very little hair, dull, unkempt patches, with a mouse-like face and a pointed nose.

"Please, please don't point your wand at me. You see, I'm just a poor, timid mouse. ”

Wormtail pleaded as Sephiroth's wand was pointed firmly at him, as if a faint green beam of light would shoot out from the tip of his wand at any moment.

"Wormtail, you're a smart man, far better than the inflexible Potter and Sirius. So they're dead, and you're still alive, and being alive is the greatest victory, isn't it? ”

How could Sephiroth pay attention to his pleas, Wormtail was a very cunning fellow, and if he was careless, he would probably disappear from Sephiroth's eyes in an instant.

"Yes, yes, you're right."

His own life is in the hands of others, and the timid and fearful insect tail naturally does not dare to refute anything.

"Wormtail, look at your poor appearance, how sad it is that you are a wizard and can only hide like a mouse in a dark and damp ditch. But if you do what I say, you will be able to live in the sun again. ”

"You'll agree, right?"

Sephiroth said, lifting the sleeve of his other hand with the hand holding his wand, revealing a black mark.

"Ahh It's it! Ah, of course, of course, you're saying, sir. ”