Chapter 422: Harry and Ron: We've Defeated Black!
As the two sides confronted each other, Ron suddenly pulled Harry aside, drew his wand and pointed it at Sirius, shouting loudly.
"Harry, you get out of here, put on the cloak of invisibility, I'll hold them back!"
Then, Ron looked at Ivan angrily and scolded.
"I mistrusted you, Ivan! I didn't expect you to be in the same league as Blake and trick us here! β
"As I said before, I'm here to correct a misunderstanding!" Ivan reluctantly explained.
"Misunderstanding? There is no misunderstanding! Blake killed my parents! And you... My best friend actually brought me to him! Harry was completely out of control, completely giving up on his plans to escape, anger engulfing his heart.
It seemed to Harry now like a repetition of the original scene...
"I didn't! Harry, things aren't what you thought they wereβ" Sirius hurriedly took a few steps closer and spoke to explain.
Harry struck out suddenly, waving his wand.
"Except for your weapons!"
A red light flew out from the tip of the wand, and Sirius was about to bless himself with an iron armor spell on his backhand, but he was afraid of hurting Harry and causing a greater misunderstanding, and the red light had already hit him at the moment of hesitation.
Sirius took a few painful steps back, and the wand in his hand came out, whirling in mid-air before landing on Harry's hand.
The moment he caught his wand, Harry was stunned, and he felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity as he looked at Sirius, who had easily disarmed his weapon.
"You've defeated him, Harry!" Ron said in shock.
He didn't expect that the rumored ferocious Black would be defeated by Harry, but then there was an unconcealable excitement that they had defeated one great enemy, and now they just needed to deal with the other!
Thinking of this, Ron turned to look at Ivan and shouted loudly.
"Except for your weapons!"
The red beam rushed towards Ivan not far away.
But Ivan didn't mean to be beaten, and immediately activated the effect of the protective ring, and the beam of light returned the same way after colliding with the magic barrier, and slammed into Ron's body at a faster speed.
Ron was knocked out of the way, falling into a pile of rotting wood on the side, and couldn't get up for a long time...
"Ron!" When Harry saw Ron's tragic situation, he immediately panicked, and waved his wand to cast a spell to attack Ivan, and then he was also ejected.
Both wands fell into Ivan's hands.
Seeing that the scene was becoming more and more chaotic, Hermione next to her finally couldn't help but scream. "Enough! Stop fighting! β
"Hermione, come here, stay away from them!" Harry struggled to get up from the ground and said anxiously to Hermione.
"Don't be stupid, Ivan would have done it a long time ago if he wanted to kill us! We can't beat him combined," Hermione shouted hysterically.
Although she didn't know why Ivan was involved with Sirius, she was very aware of the contrast in strength between the two sides.
If Ivan colluded with Sirius and brought them to this remote place to kill Harry, there would be no need to explain at all, just do it!
Also, Hermione felt that Ivan had no reason to murder Harry...
"That's right! You should calm down and think about it, until now Sirius and I have not attacked you, but you did it first, isn't that obvious enough? Ivan looked at Harry and the others and shrugged.
Ron, who crawled out of the rubble, opened his mouth to retort that he had just been attacked. He quickly choked up, because he remembered that Ivan had just bounced off the spell he had cast, and in a sense, Ivan had not attacked him.
Harry was even more completely confused, he looked at Sirius, the other party did not rush up to kill him, and his eyes still had a little excitement of reunion after a long absence.
"Ivan, what the hell is going on...", Hermione asked first.
She wanted to believe Ivan, but she was also puzzled, there were too many things to ask.
"I was about to explain to you... If you didn't interrupt me. Ivan said helplessly, and then explained to the three of them.
"You may have known about the events of the year, so I won't repeat them, but one thing that needs to be corrected is that it wasn't Sirius who betrayed Harry's father in the first place, and the person who caused Harry's parents to be killed... It's another friend of Harry's father, Peter Pettigrew! β
"Peter Pettigrew? The hero who went after Blake alone and was killed? Harry couldn't help but interrupt Ivan again, roaring in retort.
"Malfoy told me everything, and I checked with Professor McGonagall to confirm the authenticity, and she told me that Blake had betrayed my father!
And there were many, many witnesses, and a whole street of Muggles told similar testimonies. Pettigrew intercepted Blake, crying and calling out my parents' names, and then the two of them fought, and Peter Pettigrew was killed instantly! β
Harry kept remembering, tears welling up in his eyes, and he looked at Sirius almost with hatred.
In addition to the Muggles, Hagrid was also a witness, and he had gained a lot of confidence from Hagrid, who said that he had seen Sirius appear near the Sanctuary, which was why Harry was so adamant.
After all, Hagrid doesn't deceive himself.
Looking at Harry's hateful gaze, Sirius was in pain, but he still forced his spirit to explain.
"No, that's not the case, Peter Pettigrew and I have temporarily changed identities, and he will be the secretian! For the sake of secrecy, only me, your father, and Peter know about it... That's why the misunderstanding was caused! β
"Three people? Now that my father and Peter Pettigrew are dead, who can prove it? Harry was skeptical, he didn't think there would be such a coincidence.
"You're wrong, Peter is not dead!" Sirius said word by word, then turned his head and stared at the mouse in Ivan's hand with a cannibalistic look, and spoke again.
"We've got him now!"
Harry and the others also focused on Spotted's body, the gray-black rat had gone limp, motionless as if dead.
Ron suddenly understood what Sirius was trying to say, and shouted in disbelief.
"You're not going to say I'm Peter, are you? That's impossible! It's just a pet and I've had it for years...
We even ate together, bathed together, and even went to the toilet with me, no one knows Spotted better than me, it can't be a wizard becoming, it's ridiculous! β