Chapter Seventy-Three: The New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Not long after Malfoy left, there was another knock on the door, and when Rove opened the door, there was a middle-aged man standing in the doorway.
"Hello, Rove!" The man smiled and put his arm on the young man's shoulder and said, "Long time no see." ”
Rove looked at the other party, and after some careful discernment, he was sure that it was Sirius.
Sirius, two months ago, had only come out of Azkaban not long ago, and his face was thin and haggard, with unkempt, black, long hair.
After a summer of recuperation, his hair is now short, clean and neat, and his cheeks are plump, although that face is still very vicissitudes, but it has become a lot younger.
"Hello, Sirius, please come in." Rove smiled.
Sirius stepped into the carriage, and he looked at Rove with concern in his eyes.
"I heard that Greyback attacked you, you weren't bitten by that brute, were you?"
"Nope." Rove shook his head and said firmly, "It's just a werewolf, and it can't hurt me." ”
Sirius let go of Rove's arm, and he said happily:
"That's good, I'm worried about it...... I tried to see you several times, but the Ministry of Magic refused...... They don't want to reveal where you are. ”
Rove raised an eyebrow and said, "Minister Fudge didn't tell me about it. ”
"Fudge is probably afraid that I will leak the news, and the fact that Peter escaped is enough of a headache for him."
Rove bowed his head slightly, and he turned his head and said, "Sirius, I'll introduce you." ”
"This is Shirley Swinton...... She is Hermione Granger...... And Neville Longbottom, all my friends. ”
"Hello everyone." Sirius nodded to everyone, his smiling gray eyes looking at Shirley and Hermione:
"I've heard Rove say that the two ladies were there when Peter was captured, thank you so much for your heroic ......"
Shirley and Hermione both laughed and said hello.
Sirius looked at the timid Neville again, he stared for a moment, and sighed softly:
"Hello Neville...... You look like your dad, but he's much thinner than you. ”
"Really?" Neville was a little excited, he clenched his hands into fists, full of longing and anticipation, "Mr. Blake, do you know my father well?" ”
"Not only your father, but also your mother, I know it well...... We were classmates at Gryffindor House, and after graduating, we joined the Order of the Phoenix together. ”
Sirius fell into recall:
"Your father has a simple and gentle personality and is very talented. Your mother is also soft-spoken, likes to laugh, and has a temper that is too good to say.
Jaime and I, back then, were like pranks, and a lot of people were tired of seeing us...... Only your parents, instead of being angry, will have some smiling faces. ”
Sirius said this, and suddenly laughed, "Speaking of which, when Alice married your father, many of her peers were very depressed. ”
Neville hummed, turned his head slightly, and wiped his face with his hand.
"My grandma rarely mentioned my parents when they were students, only that they were good people...... It's a hero. ”
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"Of course they are heroes." Sirius put his arm on Neville's shoulder, and he looked at the boy with a sad, sour gaze.
"Neville, if you want to get to know your parents in the future, you can come to me."
Neville nodded vigorously.
Sirius sat in his chair and asked, "Draco Malfoy has just been here?" ”
"Yes." Rove explained the trading process.
"Well done...... It's time for that kid to suffer. Sirius made no secret of his dislike for his nephew.
"He's just like his dad, they're all so nasty, typical Slytherins."
"Forget it." Sirius looked at Rove and said, "I went to Albania this summer. ”
"Looking for Peter Pettigrew?" Rove asked softly.
"Yes, Dumbledore said that guy would go there and look for his master......" Sirius lowered his voice: "Voldemort! ”
Hearing the name, Neville's face was filled with horror.
"Are you going alone?" Rove said curiously.
"I approached Fudge and asked him to get some Aurors for me." Sirius shook his head and said:
"He promised well, but every time he told me that there was a shortage of manpower and told me to wait."
"How can Minister Fudge do that?" Hermione said angrily.
"Back then, when Fudge was the undersecretary of the Department of Magical Calamity, he was known for his procrastination, hesitation, and perfunctory. Now that he has become a minister, he is still the same as always. ”
Sirius sneered, "When it comes to inaction, our valiant minister says it's second, and no one dares to be first." ”
"So, in the end, it was just me and Remus who went to Albania." Sirius shrugged.
Rove and Shirley glanced at each other, both of them were familiar with Lupin, and had learned a lot of magic from him last summer.
"Lupin left Romania?" Rove asked.
"Yes, when he saw the news about me and Peter, he immediately resigned from the Romanian Fire Dragon Sanctuary and returned home."
Sirius looked at the boy and said with a serious expression: "Rov, Rems asked me to apologize to you on his behalf, you found him a job, but he suddenly resigned. ”
"What's this, it's not a big deal." Rove smiled and said unconcernedly, "Did you find anything in Albania?" ”
"We met Peter at a hotel." Sirius's face was gloomy, and he clenched his fists and said:
"I almost caught him at the time, but he was rescued by a mysterious wizard."
Rove thought for a moment and asked, "Isn't he tall, but he wears a hood and can't see his face?" ”
"Have you seen him?" Sirius said excitedly.
"Yes." Rove nodded, and said with a solemn face: "He appeared on the night Gibbon and Greyback attacked.
The man claimed that he had rescued Peter, and that he had offered me a reward. ”
Sirius frowned.
"Do you have any clues?" Rove asked, "Who had a better relationship with Peter when he was a student?" ”
Sirius thought about it carefully and said categorically:
"When I was in school, Peter had no friends other than a few of us, and he was like a tail that followed us all day."
After thinking for a moment, he was puzzled, "If it was the Death Eaters who saved him, I don't quite believe it. ”
"Why do you say that?"
"Those Death Eaters hated Peter as much as I did." Sirius explained:
According to Peter's information, Voldemort went to James's house, but he eventually lost his hand, and the Death Eaters thought Peter was a liar and wanted to ask him for an explanation.
When I was in Azkaban, I heard that many Death Eaters wanted to kill him and avenge Voldemort. ”
It wasn't Peter's friend, it wasn't the Death Eaters who saved Peter...... So who will the mysterious wizard be?
Rove subconsciously stretched out a finger and rubbed his eyebrows, and he muttered to himself:
"It would be nice if he could catch Yoshimoto, he took the bounty, and he must have a connection with that mysterious wizard."
"Let Remus go." Sirius proposed, "He's familiar with Tumbledown Alley, having lived there for many years. ”
"Lupin?" The boy was stunned, "Isn't he going to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts this year?" How can I find Yoshimoto. ”
"Who told you that Remus is a professor of dark arts?"
Sirius raised her thin black eyebrows and proudly announced:
"I'm your new dark arts teacher this year...... Professor Blake! ”
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