Chapter Ninety-Eight: Adults Are Not Fairy Tales
The second trial was uneventful.
Crouch was still a little worried beforehand, worried that Sirius would have a seizure on the spot and make him unable to get off the stage.
But it didn't.
Nine years in prison also wore out a lot of the rebelliousness in Sirius's temperament.
Generally speaking, the transformation of Animagus is closely related to the character's personality.
Sirius's Animagus transforms into a big dog, loyal and reliable, but also loves to be a dog, he is actually not a particularly wild person, especially when he doesn't bark, he looks good, a bit of aristocratic elegance.
Of course, Sirius must have a grudge, so Kane specially arranged for Sirius to watch an edited movie.
Sirius's expression was complicated after reading it, and even the corners of his eyes were moist.
Peter's accusations are basically faithful to the facts, and those distortions are due to the fact that Peter has become more and more sensitive, and has taken some unintentional words as cynicism.
Through this movie, Sirius realized the bastard side of himself.
In fact, Jaime was as bad as Harry's cousin Dudley. It's just that Dudley is stupid and gimmicky, and Jaime has a shrewdness similar to Tom Riddle. is very good at pretending to be well-behaved in front of people and division commanders. He's a slick, mischievous, and even bad kid.
Some of those pranks were extremely excessive, and they were already typical bullying, but it was the 70s, and the place where the incident happened was the wizarding world of a closed society.
Bullies inflict pain and humiliation on others, and they have no heart or lungs. And the bitter master, with poor academic performance, ugliness, eccentricities, and can't behave, is so unpleasant, the professors' compassion is limited, and it is self-evident who will favor when something happens.
This is also the reason why Peter Pettigrew and Jaime are so-called friends, and they can't hide from it, either join or be rectified.
Then, Lily Potter, who likes the showy bad boy, naturally has a disgraceful side, or rather, no one has ever been young and immature.
Lily's maternal love for Harry is commendable, but that doesn't mean she's perfect, a representative of truth, goodness and beauty, and a combination of good morals.
On the other hand, Harry's aunt Penny is mean and partial, but there is no love or hate for no reason.
Lily is well-behaved and beautiful, she has been a child favored by her parents since she was a child, and after attending Hogwarts, she mingles with wizards all day long, so she will naturally be affected, and she can perform magic and feel superior.
During the rebellious period, she was attracted to James, who was a little bad and had a sweet mouth, and that stinky fart mentality was also revealed from time to time, so Penny was not all jealous of her sister.
And Harry, because of his wizarding blood, can't control his magic power, often causes all kinds of accidents, and he doesn't want to see them, and he brings accidents and troubles to people from time to time like a mildew star, which is naturally unpleasant.
The Codesleys gave Harry at least the basics of his upbringing, including tutoring and negative lessons.
What if you don't have that?
Tom Riddle, Kane thinks, is a good example.
Growing up open-minded in a jungle-like environment, he was slapped in the face by reality since he was a child and groped on his own, learning to plunder, disguise, bully, weakness and wrongdoing, like a beast.
Children, teenagers, young adults, adults, every stage has problems of one kind or another, family problems, social problems, the grievances of Sirius and Peter Pettigrew, are part of this kind of problem.
Peter has a grudge against Jaime and Sirius, and he has no grudge against Lupin, but he is by no means good. Even the three of them once alienated Lupin.
When he was young, he was high-spirited and willing to stick a knife in his brother's ribs, and Jaime and his family practiced Animagus so that they could be by Lupin's side when he became a werewolf.
But these friendships, as they graduated from Hogwarts and entered society, and with the trend of victory and defeat in wizarding wars that came from time to time, they were constantly affected, or tested.
Lupin is a werewolf and is seen as a creature of darkness, which is a potential nuisance. Lupin himself did not want to burden his good friends and alienate him.
James, Sirius, and Peter also made their choices. All three of them are members of the Order of the Phoenix, and they have to take into account the feelings of the other members of the team, and they themselves can't guarantee that Lupin will be okay after he becomes a werewolf, so how can they convince others to treat Lupin the way they do?
Moreover, at that time when the war was going on, the opposing sides were stained with blood and red eyes, and it was normal for people to not tolerate Lupin's identity. Dumbledore also chose to remain silent for the sake of the overall situation.
Alienated, gradually more alienated. For Lupin, his friendship with Jaime and others was stuck in the stage when school life was predominant, and although time had faded slightly, he had no better memories, so he always maintained the warmth of friendship.
For the three Jaimes, Lupin is just a part of life, they have experienced a lot of things, there is comradeship, and love and so on.
Lupin, a sworn friend of writing and a classmate, gradually lost his intersection, and even the common language was missing, and goodbye could only tear up the campus years.
That's how people come close, or they get separated.
Now, nine years later, Sirius feels this change in thinking after each of them embarks on the path of life, and their friendship is thin.
First Lupin, then Peter, and then look at yourself...... It can be said that except for the dead Jaime who was put to an end and the image was fixed at that moment, everyone else had their own difficulties, and they couldn't go back to the past.
As Dumbledore said to Harry at the Soul Train station: Don't have mercy on the dead, have mercy on the living.
The dead have rested, but the living have to go through, and life is unsatisfactory......
The years have refined people's hearts, and after many years, the former teenagers have matured.
What is maturity? Maturity is to understand that life is a mess, and there is no way to sort everything out smoothly, and to distinguish between right and wrong.
Sirius finally made a compromise decision, dealing with one part of the matter against his will, and ensuring that the other part of the matter went smoothly.
For example, inheriting the Black family's estate.
His mother, Walburga Black, died in '85, a month before the Shafiq family turned themselves in for trial.
This witch who married her cousin is the kind of pure-blood supporter who fools herself before Voldemort flickers.
Voldemort should have given Volburga a certificate of merit if he had some ability to govern, or a chance to posthumously seal him. This kind of conscious and willing to invest 'progressives' should be framed!
It's a pity that Voldemort didn't even manage his own name, and Volburga's investment was naturally wasted, and later he was counterattacked by the Ministry of Magic under the banner of justice.
Walburga was awakened, and the last remaining legacy of the Black family was left to Sirius, not his cousin, who was still in prison.
But the inheritance alone was not enough for Sirius to get what belonged to him.
He accepted the proposal offered by the MONOCULUS Chamber of Commerce's litigators.
A show to restore his reputation, the plan is very considerate of him, including reporting and interviews, all the trips are done, and the drama is not too much, and it will be over after enduring.
Laugh at the grudge. The prodigal son did not change his money. There are successors to the Black family......
The big newspapers and tabloids are overwhelming. It's the 90s, the media isn't as shameless and frantic as it was later, and the masses are mostly honest people who are easy to be fooled and are willing to believe something.
The reputation was restored, the Ministry of Magic was not easy to make things difficult, and with the assistance of a special affairs handler, the inheritance went smoothly.
Mainly real estate, 12 Grimmauld Place, and a small estate in Northampton, the latter is not a secret place.
Both of these places are dilapidated and uninhabitable, and No. 12 Grimmauld Place is at least hidden, but Northampton Manor is dilapidated and wants to inherit it, so it has to pay a fine and arrears to the Muggle authorities.
If you want to repair it, even if it's a simple one, you have to invest thousands of gold gallons in both places.
Sirius retrieved all the items from the Black family's vault from Gringotts and threw them to the business assistants sent by the MONOCULUS Chamber of Commerce.
"Together with those two properties, please come up with the best way to deal with it. ”
"Okay, Mr. Black, this is one of the specialties of the Chamber of Commerce, and it won't be long before there will be a team of professionals to do a full evaluation and calculation. ”