Kyle had expected Lupin to be waiting for them at three broomsticks, but he had apparently guessed wrong.

Passing by the door of the three broomsticks, Sirius did not stop at all, and walked over.

The three of them walked all the way, passing by the Literati Residence and the Fengya Wizard Costume Store, and then walked along a path for a distance and came to a familiar place.

Screaming shacks.

Lupin was standing beside the overturned fence around the hut and lifted them up one by one.

"Professor Lupin!" Harry waved his hand enthusiastically and ran over, "You don't have to do that, they were upside down when I first came to Hogsmeade, and no one cares about that." ”

"Hello, Harry, I'm glad to see you again." Lupin looked up and said, "But you don't need to call me Professor anymore, just call me Lupin, or like Sirius, Remus or Moonface." ”

"Okay, Professor Lupin." Harry blurted out.

Lupin's expression froze, it was clear that it would be difficult for Harry to change his title in a short period of time...... Forget it, so be it.

He sighed, and instead of dwelling over the issue, he continued to bend down and tidy up the fence at hand.

Harry was tempted to say that no one in Hogsmeade cared what the Screaming Shacks were like, and that they wouldn't even be here.

But before he could say anything, he was interrupted.

Sirius smiled and shook his head, "Keep him busy." Anyway, these things will have to be done in the future. ”

"What do you mean?" Harry still didn't understand why Professor Lupin had bothered to tidy up a place where no one had come.

"Because I bought the screaming shack." Sirius said casually, as if he had bought a butterbeer.

"What did you say?" Harry couldn't help but raise his voice.

"That's what I thought when I was in school, but I didn't have that much gold at the time." Sirius said, "After I graduated, I was delayed by various things, and I didn't have this opportunity until half a year ago. ”

"How much does it cost?" Harry muttered quietly.

"To be honest, it's a lot cheaper than I thought." Sirius said,

"By the time I was in school, it had been abandoned for many years, and the old wizard family who owned it moved to Finland a long time ago."

"Lupin and I made a special trip during the Christmas holidays, and when we found him, he had forgotten that he had an estate in Hogsmeade.

So after learning that I wanted to buy the screaming shack, he agreed without any hesitation and gave him a pretty good discount.

For such a large piece of land, it only cost 5,000 Galleons, how about it, it's a good deal. ”

Sirius looked at Harry with a smile, as if complacent because he had a lot of money left.

Harry pursed his lips, unable to say anything complimentary.

Although he was also considered a rich man, with piles of gold galleons in the vault, five thousand Galleons ...... This figure is still a bit difficult for him to accept.

Mr. Weasley's salary was only eighty Galleons, and the prize money for the Triwizard Tournament was one thousand Galleons, which meant that Sirius spent five championships with a wave of his hand.

However, just as he was about to say something, Kyle next to him nodded earnestly.

"Five thousand Galleons, you did pick up a big bargain."

"yes." Sirius said happily, "I finally didn't run that far in vain. ”

"Kyle, why do you think it's cheap?" Harry asked, speechless.

"That's for sure." Kyle said.

Hogsmeade is arguably the only village full of wizards, and land is very expensive, let alone a place as large as a screaming shack.

After all, in addition to the dilapidated house, the place inside the fence also belongs to the category of screaming shacks, otherwise Lupin would not have bothered to tidy up.

Kyle thought for a moment, then said to Harry in a simpler way, "It's almost ten times the size of a normal shop, and when you convert it, you can buy Duke Honey's candy house for five hundred Galleons, do you still think it's expensive?" ”

Harry shook his head subconsciously.

Although he didn't think it could be counted like that, after all, the locations of the two places were different, but if he thought about it, Hogsmeade was so big, and it didn't seem to be a problem for Kyle to say so.

"What are you going to do when you buy this place?" Harry looked at Sirius and asked curiously, "Do you live, or do you want to open a shop?" ”

"Well, I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"yes." Sirius said, "I just wanted to buy it, but Moonface felt like a waste." ”

"It's not that I think, Bigfoot." Lupin walked over angrily, "That's five thousand Galleons, enough for a normal wizarding family to live for ten years, you can't think of it as an ornament." ”

"How about I leave it to you." Sirius smiled and said, "I won't ask you what you do. ”

"We've talked about this topic many times." Lupin frowned, "I know what you think, but you don't need to be like this, Bigfoot, it's not like I can't find a job at all."

"I've been reading books about dragons lately, and I'll be able to try my luck at the dragon sanctuary in Romania next year."

"Of course, I fully respect your opinion, Moonface." Sirius said with a wandering look in his eyes, "I just bought this place to fulfill my wish when I was a student."

Let's go Harry, let's go in and have a look, and by the way, help clean up the broken furniture inside, and I'll buy a new one in a while.

Oh yes, you can pick a room on the second floor and stay here for the holidays. ”

"Really? May I? Harry asked, his eyes lit up.

He couldn't have imagined that he would one day live in Hogsmeade.

"Absolutely." Sirius said.

Behind the two, Lupin couldn't help but rub his forehead.

He understood Sirius, and he knew why he wanted to buy it, but it was a bit too wasteful to spend five thousand Galleons on a temporary place to live.

12 Grimmauld Place is already good, and best of all, it's safe enough to be protected by the Loyalty Charm.

At this time, Kyle suddenly asked, "Have you really decided to go to Romania?" ”

"That's right." "I've thought about it, and it's a good place for me." ”

"Have you ever thought about a question?" Kyle continued, "Now that Sirius is trying to play the role of a godfather, can you rest assured that Harry will give it to him?" ”

Lupin, who was walking, stopped abruptly, and the expression on his face began to change rapidly with a speed visible to the naked eye.

yes, how did he forget about this stubble.

Sirius must have taken Harry to live with him, there was no doubt about that.

Originally, Lupin didn't think anything, and even took it for granted, Harry's aunt and uncle didn't like him, and it was better to follow Sirius, including Harry himself.

But now reminded by Kyle, a very important question suddenly occurred to him.

The past twelve years had not been entirely unaffected by Sirius, and now it had become more impulsive and irritable than before.

And there is also a sense of revenge consumption, spending lavishly, as if to fill all the gaps of the past twelve years.

Lupin understands this perfectly, having been trapped for twelve years, and it is understandable to be presumptuous now. So he rarely stopped Sirius from buying things that seemed completely useless to him.

Like this screaming shack.

But now it occurred to him that if Harry lived with him for a long time, it would not be affected.

Sirius was nothing, his situation was only temporary, and after a long time, the excitement passed and slowly changed back.

But Harry was still young, and if he developed this habit, it wouldn't be easy to change.

This inevitably left Lupin a little entangled.

He felt that he should stay, whether it was to accompany Sirius or help teach Harry, he should stay here.

However, the little money he saved as a professor was not much, and he could last for a while in a short time, but in the future, he couldn't use Sirius's.

Lupin didn't want that.

(End of chapter)