Chapter 178: A chance encounter with Professor Lupin
"I'm not interested in the person you're looking for, of course, it's all the same, if you need something else, I see that you helped me magically during your school years, and I can give you some help."
"That's it, Mr. Hazard."
After Brie finished speaking, he bypassed Hazard.
"Brie, that'sā" Draco said as he said from Brie's side, but Brie quickly stopped him, "I know it's Voldemort, so I don't want to get involved, of course, Hazard doesn't know yet, maybe you can remind him." ā
Brie didn't want to dwell too much on Tom and Hazard, and he didn't want Hazard to continue to explore.
Draco listened to Brie's words, and he hesitated, he had seen the name Tom Riddle in his father's study, and his father had warned him to stay away from the name and not try to understand him.
"I'll talk to Hazard, but are you sure that cocky guy won't look into it just because it's Voldemort, he's not a native of England, and he doesn't have much fear of Voldemort."
The story of Voldemort is circulated in the British pure-blood family, and it does not have much influence on the wizarding world in the outer world, just like when Grindelwald rebelled, Grindelwald did not invade Britain because of Dumbledore's existence, and British wizards did not have much fear of Grindelwald, even Dumbledore who defeated Grindelwald, they only respected, not afraid, you must know that internationally, Dumbledore's reputation is much stronger than in Britain.
"......" Brie thought about it carefully, and said with a little headache, "Then leave him alone, could it be that he can still kill Voldemort to take revenge?" ā
Brie and Draco sat at the table, watching the food appear and quickly shake off the topic.
A few days later, the cold wind hit and Christmas was getting closer and closer, and the British winter was always so sudden that it cooled down in an instant.
The snow was ethereal, and from a distance, Hogwarts was dressed in silver, and the young wizards were wearing thick cloaks and shuttling through the corridors of Hogwarts Castle, which added life to the deserted castle.
"Oh, a hot cocoa, Brie."
Professor McGonagall, who had just returned from outside the castle, had a hint of anger on her face, but it disappeared when she saw Brie, she couldn't bring the troubles of the Ministry of Magic to the young wizard.
"Professor McGonagall, you're out?"
It was already afternoon, and the cold sun in the distance was slowly setting in the snow, and Professor McGonagall's collar was covered with snowflakes.
"Maybe it's you who need hot cocoa, Professor, I've made an appointment, I'm sorry I can't accompany you."
Brie chuckled softly.
Dating someone?
Professor McGonagall's gaze changed and became serious.
"I think you're only thirteen, Brie, of course, I'm not against love, but you have to control it, a lifelong love will help you......"
"Professor?" Brie listened to Professor McGonagall's words, and became a little stunned, he didn't mean that.
"I'm not in love anymore, although it's with a lovely young lady, but we're just friends, and you misunderstood it in order to study a magic."
"Really?" Professor McGonagall's face was a little shocked, and she smiled wryly, "I hope I'm not mistaken now, and you can't always be immersed in magic." ā
Speaking of this, Professor McGonagall sighed a little when she saw that Brie was already a slender and tall teenager, "In the blink of an eye, it will be a new year, and the little hairy child has gradually grown up, I can't believe it." ā
Professor McGonagall wanted to touch Brie's head, but she didn't need to hook her body anymore, she looked at Brie and said, "Go and do your own thing, I'll go to Dumbledore first, we can't keep the kids in Hogwarts, you should have been let go to Hogsmeade on Halloween, just because Blake, and those Aurors, really, alas......"
Professor McGonagall hurried upstairs, and it looked like her suppressed bad mood had flared up again, and perhaps Dumbledore would be embarrassed for a moment.
Brie can only wish Dumbledore can withstand Professor McGonagall's nagging...
Walking out of Hogwarts, I stepped on the snow in the open air, and soon the two footprints converged and headed in the direction of the Beater Willow, and in the middle of it, one of the smaller footprints changed.
"Yana, I'll carry you away."
Brie picked up Yana, who had turned into a wolf cub in the snow, and said, "Tonight is the full moon, I forgot it." ā
Speaking of which, Brie remembered Lupin, who had asked Peter a few more things in the past few days, and although he didn't have much to do with Voldemort, he did know a lot about the people of Peter's time.
For example, Snape was a scruffy broken kid in school, extremely unsociable, and his long greasy hair was the same as it is now, still from the Muggle world... Half-blood, always bullied in Slytherin, if it weren't for his blood relationship with the Prince family, I am afraid he would have been thrown out long ago.
Moreover...... Snape likes Lily Yinwans, I heard that the two of them are Muggle wizards from the same place, they have known each other since childhood, so it can be said that they are childhood sweethearts?
However, James Potter fell in love with Lily Yinwans, so he often bullied Snape with Blake, and even used the spell Snape invented to hang Snape upside down and expose his pants in public, which was too humiliating.
And because of this incident, Snape angrily said the word mudblood to Lily Yinwans, which made Lily Yinwans, who had always been partial to Snape, drift away from Snape...... In the end, Lily Yin Vance became Lily Potter.
"Poor Snape, that spell is to hang the bell upside down, right, no wonder, I saw the invention of the upside-down bell in the potions notes given by Snape."
Snape shared the spell with Lily, but Lily told Potter about them... The spell has been passed down, and that's how George and Fred got it. ā
Maybe it was Potter or Blake who wrote the mischief magic into a book and left it in Gryffindor.
"It's almost less proportionate than George and Fred."
Brie shook his head, no longer thinking about it, this was a thing of the past, although it seemed that Snape cared, but Brie couldn't do much, after all, Lily Yinwans and James Potter were dead.
And Blake?
"This big black dog has to suffer a bit, no wonder Snape is so insistent on holding him, but I can't swallow it."
"Father pays the debt to the son, but pity Harry, the child of James Potter, and the godson of Siris Brick......"
In the sigh, Brie has already carried Yana to the beating willow, with Brie's affinity, this not evil beating willow obediently let Brie enter the tree hole, the tree hole is messy, but there are obvious traces of people.
"I spent the full moon here last year, but this semester I've been a wolf in my dorm room, and I lied to them that I was practicing Transfiguration."
Yana explained, and then, with a shrug of her nose, immediately stopped Brie as she continued inside.
"Wait Brie, there's something, I feel like there's someone inside?"
"Man, who's going to be here at this time, Lupin?"
Yes, there will be no one but Lupin, but Brie didn't expect that Lupin would choose to spend the full moon here as well.
"It's a werewolf, Brie, I can feel it."
Yana stared at the hollow of the tree, leading to a deeper tunnel.
"I wasn't fully inside, so I didn't know what was going on inside...... Let's take the wolf's fur and go. ā
Brie heard Yana's words, and thought about it, Snape had developed a wolf poison potion, but he didn't know the effect, and if it worked completely, maybe Lupin wouldn't use it for it, so ...... Walk?
Brie didn't want to fight here, to get some people's attention, and not to become a target for the Ministry of Magic, or he would die of annoyance.
"Whew!"
It's too late.
At this time, there was already a roar from inside the cave.
"It seems that our Professor Lupin didn't expect anyone to come here either, so it's around here."
Brie shrugged his shoulders and smiled forcefully, then stared at the dark cavern in front of him, a magic welled up in his hand, and the wind around him was quiet, and with the wind, seeds flew to the ground and took root.
The water from the roots of the tree that had sucked the earth began to seep out, and drop by drop, spreading on the ground, covering it with a layer of frost.
"Brie, I can suppress the werewolves." Yana said suddenly, and she said, "This is the secret of the moon wolf, which can temporarily suppress the bloodline in the werewolf's body. ā
Yana didn't elaborate, and Brie didn't dig deeper, he nodded.
Until a huge wolf's foot stepped out of the darkness, the tip of its high, sharp nose poked out of the darkness, and those blood-red and tyrannical eyes stared at Brie.
"Whew!"
Lupin's werewolf stood upright, his massive fangs covered in saliva, and he shook the tip of his nose and leaped to his feet, rushing at Brie.
"Whew!"
At this moment, Yana raised her head and roared, and a force that Brie couldn't feel enveloped Lupin, Lupin's eyes flashed with a moment of fear, but he was quickly suppressed by the fury brought by the full moon, and continued to rush towards Brie, but this time, his skills became a lot heavier, and it was obvious that Yana's suppression was still very effective.
"Whoosh!"
Brie stepped back on tiptoe, sending Lupin into the air, and the grass on the ground suddenly swelled up and wrapped around Lupin's hind legs and waist like ropes, pulling him back.
Lupin tore with his claws, but then, the frost on the ground spread, spreading along his thighs, freezing Lupin, who was overwhelmed by Yana's bloodline and lost his strength, so he could only let Brie do it.
"Stop."
As Brie thought, the frost stopped on Lupin's knees, and the vines just wrapped around his hands and mouth, sliding around his neck.
"So weak?"
Brie heard that Lupin had been traveling abroad for more than ten years, and thought that Lupin had some strong strength, at least not weaker than Snape, but obviously... Lupin, who has been suppressed by the werewolf blood, has nothing to be wary of.
"Whew!"
Lupin kept shaking his body until an empty bottle fell from him that Brie was interested.
A flying spell, Brie took the bottle and looked at it carefully.
"It's a potion, Snape's."
"It's supposed to be a wolf poison potion, but unfortunately it's obviously ineffective."
Brie looked at Lupin's state and said with some pity: "It's all very precious materials, waste... It's good to tie it up. ā
"Yana, where's the wolf fur?"
"Behind the roots over there."
Brie followed Yana's instructions and took out the wolf fur wrapped in wide leaves behind the roots, and when she opened the leaves, the white wolf fur was very conspicuous.
"Isn't your fur black?"
Brie looked at the little wolf cub in his arms and wondered, "Can it still fade?" ā
"......" Yana lowered the wolf's head and was silent for a long time, until Brie was about to go back, she was ashamed and said: "My hair is white, but it is suppressed by magic, and the hair I have lost has become its original state without my suppression." ā
"Oh, sorry, I see."
Brie put away the wolf fur, and on the other side, Professor Lupin, who had turned into a werewolf, was slowly turning back into a human form, the wolf fur on his body was constantly fading, and under the ragged robes, the skin belonging to a human was revealed.
"You, you, I didn't do anything to you, did I?"
Professor Lupin realized that he was bound by vines, and he was surprised, "What am I?" ā
"Professor?" Why did you wake up at this time?
Brie was ready to leave, but he didn't expect Lupin to wake up at this time, isn't this something for Brie to do, now Lupin is afraid that he will keep an eye on him more closely, and Lupin used to treat him as a special student very strangely.
"The bottle in your hand is mine, Mr. Ode." Professor Lupin saw that there was nothing unusual about Brie, and immediately guessed what was happening, but it was so incredible that a young wizard in the third year could defeat a strong werewolf?
"Well, he fell off you himself, it's a wolf poison potion, right, I know Professor Snape developed it."
Now that he has been exposed in front of Professor Lupin, then Brie has nothing to hide.
"......" Lupin was silent for a moment, and he realized that Brie seemed to know too much.
"You're a great little wizard."
"Thanks for the compliment."
Brie controls the blades of grass and frost that bind Luna, slowly dissipating into brilliance and untying Lupin.
"Thanks, ahem." Lupin coughed a few times, tightened the wizard's robe that had been torn by turning into a werewolf, and explained in a low voice: "The effect of the medicine is not so fast, there will be a buffer for a while, and I still have to stay alone during this time, so as not to be stimulated by the outside world and turn into a werewolf." ā
"But it's already outstanding, and Snape's research on potions is remarkable."
Brie was surprised that Lupin was praising Snape, perhaps he had misheard.
Seeing Brie's expression, Professor Lupin shook his head and sighed, "His targeting is correct, we really couldn't deal with him back then, what Blake and James did was malicious and unfair, but... Forget it, it's all in the past, and you don't know what's going on. ā
Professor Lupin usually said very little, but it seemed that because Brie already knew his secret, he began to say things to Brie that didn't have to be hidden.
"I'm a werewolf thing, I hope you can hide it for a while, Headmaster Dumbledore knows about it, and allows me to teach at Hogwarts, my purpose is to find Blake and stop him from attacking Harry......"
Speaking of Blake, Lupin's brows furrowed, in fact, he didn't believe what Blake did, but the truth was in front of him, and there were too many words from others, so that he could only cautiously say that he believed that he was a sinner, so as to secretly look for a turnaround.
"Yes, I won't tell you about today, but the professor has to promise not to tell me about seeing me today."
"So...... Keep your promises, Oude. ā
"Of course, Professor, since Dumbledore allows it, I'm willing to believe you this time."