With a "bang", the door was roughly pushed open. A burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the corridor. A figure burst into the hall like the wind. He panted and looked at the people reading the newspaper and said: "Today's "
Have you read the Daily Prophet? Peter is dead, that guy is actually dead."
"Don't worry, this is not like your character." Blake looked up at his old friend, poured him a glass of butterbeer, and motioned for him to drink something to catch his breath before talking, "I just saw it in the newspaper, they said Peter
Died of illness in Azkaban prison."
"This matter is very suspicious." Lupine took a deep breath and said, "There is no way he could die of illness in Azkaban Prison so quickly, you know what I mean."
"You suspect that Peter escaped in some way." Black frowned, seeming to consider the possibility of this. Having been locked up in Azkaban for twelve years, he knew the situation in the prison very well, better than most people.
Have more say.
The old friend's words were biased. As far as Sirius knew, many wizards went mad and died within a few weeks after being imprisoned in Azkaban Prison, but Peter... Remus was right to consider it. Peter had
He has a history of pretending to be dead, twice.
Why is it not difficult to have a third time?
"Not only that." Lupine drank the butterbeer in one gulp and continued after taking a breath, "I heard that Mrs. Peter visited Peter in prison before he died. Later, Mrs. Peter went crazy a few days after he came back.
, set a fire and burned himself and the whole house."
"The newspaper didn't report this matter, and how did she get into Azkaban Prison?" Black frowned deeply. He felt more and more that Remus's guess was correct and there was something wrong with this matter.
Their old buddy might actually have escaped from jail.
The two carefully browsed through the Daily Prophet the day before yesterday, and finally found a report about Mrs. Peter's self-immolation in an inconspicuous corner.
The article is not long, but it probably means:
Mrs. Peter could not accept that her son had turned from a hero to a murderer, and she became insane and insane.
No matter how you look at it, both of these things are suspicious.
In particular, Peter died on the third day after his mother visited him, and his mother died on the second day after visiting him in prison.
"There is a way to determine whether Peter is dead." Sirius said suddenly.
"What can be done?" Lupine asked.
"Find someone to divine." Sirius showed a weird smile.
"You mean Anderson?" Lupine immediately realized what his old friend meant.
"Yes, I heard that Mr. Anderson has a very strong prophecy ability, and can even easily predict what will happen in the future." Sirius directly turned Phineas into someone, "I plan to invite him to go see Quetzalcoat."
When the Diqi World Cup comes, we can ask him for help. It will be much better than us racking our brains and guessing here."
Lupine frowned and asked, "Would he be willing to help?"
"Yes." Sirius said meaningfully, "Mr. Anderson charges a fee, but I think it's not a bad idea to spend some money to figure it out."
Sirius didn't really care about the Black family's property. At least to him, Galen didn't understand the importance of Peter's life and death.
If Peter really escaped, Sirius would not let him go no matter what this time.
Yes, Peter is dead!
There was a cruel smile hanging on the corner of Blake's mouth. Then he should die completely and don't show up again.
Although what Albert did at the time was the best choice and helped restore his reputation, it was a pity for Black that he could not kill Peter with his own hands to avenge James and Lily.
Now, the opportunity may have come.
"Stop talking about this, Remus, if you have time, please help me clean the house together." Sirius begged, "I thought about bringing Harry over to live with me for a while, but I can't even get through it by myself."
I can’t even finish it in the summer.”
"Well, it just so happens that I have nothing to do recently." Lupine nodded in agreement. He doubted that even if Sirius was given a year, he wouldn't be able to clean it up.
"Great, then you can come with us to watch the Quidditch World Cup!" Sirius suggested.
"I'm afraid not." Lu Ping shook his head and refused.
"Why?" Sirius asked puzzledly,
"Normally, the World Cup finals will be around August 20th. You know, it's close to the full moon at that time." Lu Ping explained, "I can't take risks."
Sirius was silent, he almost forgot about it.
"Okay, where are you going to start cleaning?" Lupine patted Black on the shoulder and asked, "If you want to clean this place completely, don't just stand there and watch."
The two of them worked all afternoon, but still could not clean out Harry's room. They found a nest of fox bugs in the bedroom. In order to eliminate these annoying pests, Sirius used a large amount of fox bug killer.
It made the whole room a mess.
"I feel like I'm about to turn into a house elf. Maybe I should ask Dumbledore to borrow some house elves to help with the cleaning, so that it can be done faster."
Sirius sat tiredly on the chair, eating the simple food made by Lupine. Cleaning the room was obviously not his strong point.
He didn't do that in the end.
In fact, Sirius hoped that his old friend could move to No. 12 Grimmauld Place to live with him so that the two could take care of each other, but Remus rejected his offer.
"James' son is so uncannily like him." Sirius whispered, seeming to be lost in memories, "It's really similar."
"Harry is quieter, unlike James who always likes to act cool in front of girls, and doesn't talk incessantly." Lupine missed his old friends a little bit.
"But Harry also likes to cause trouble." Sirius smiled happily.
"Yes," said Lupine, "Harry is brave, but also reckless."
"I have hardly ever seen a Gryffindor student who is not reckless." Black could barely hide the smile on his lips, "I remember you said that Harry's patronus is also a stag."
"Yes, the stag." Lupine nodded and said, "it appeared in the Quidditch match last semester."
"However, Harry doesn't seem to be doing well these past few years. I plan to take time to visit his Muggle relatives." A trace of displeasure flashed across Sirius' brows, "If it weren't for Dumbledore..."
"Dumbledore has his own considerations," Lupine interrupted, "I will go with you then."
"Stop talking about this, let's talk about you!" Sirius changed the topic.
"Me? It's still the same. At first I wanted to work for the Ministry of Magic, but I was rejected. You can probably guess the reason. In the end, relying on my father's relationship, I got a part-time job at the Ministry of Magic and worked for half of it.
"Moon." A helpless smile appeared on the corner of Lu Ping's mouth. Thanks to my father's house, I didn't have a place to live. Later, I kept working. You know, I didn't work for too long. If anyone
Found out that I am..."
Lu Ping paused, chuckled, and continued: "Then, I thought that if I could open a store by myself, I wouldn't have to worry about being discovered, but I didn't succeed..."
The reason is naturally that I didn't make enough money to open a store.
"Then what?" Sirius discovered that his old friend had not been doing well in recent years.
"Later, I had fewer and fewer opportunities to work in the wizarding world, so I could only do odd jobs in the streets. When I didn't have a job, I worked as a salesperson in a store in the Muggle world, and sometimes as a cleaner.
It’s very piecemeal work, and I can barely live a life.”
"We can open a shop together," Sirius suddenly suggested: "Anyway, I don't have anything to do, so I have to find myself a serious job."
Lu Ping fell silent, honestly very touched.
Of course he knew that Sirius proposed opening a store for him, so that he could at least have a stable job and not have to work everywhere.
"We'll talk about it later." Remus was a little moved, but he didn't agree immediately because he didn't know what kind of store to open.
In recent days, the Dursley family has been shrouded in a shadow of fear.
This incident originated a few days ago, one morning after the Dursleys went to King's Cross Station to pick up Harry Potter.
Vernon saw his nephew suddenly take out a letter from his pocket and hand it to him, saying that his godfather asked him to help deliver it. The content of the letter was probably:
A man named Sirius Black claimed to be Harry's godfather and said he would visit them in two days to talk about Harry.
In Vernon's impression, Potter didn't have any godfather, but his little hope was ruthlessly shattered by Harry.
"He is my mother and my father's best friend. He is a convicted murderer. However, he escaped from the magic prison a while ago and is willing to keep in touch with me through owls to understand my situation."
To this day, Vernon still hasn't forgotten the look on Harry's face when he said these words.
What frightened him even more was that such a murderer actually planned to visit them, which suddenly made the Dursleys panic.
Vernon even wanted to call the police for a while, but he had no choice but to meet the murderer named Black.
Because even the police could not prevent the murderer named Black from appearing in front of them.
"When will he arrive?"
Vernon asked with trembling lips. His face was very pale, and it could be seen that he had not been having a good time these days.
"It should be soon. The agreed time is eleven o'clock."
Harry raised his head and looked at the clock on the wall, trying his best to hold back his laughter and keep his face from showing any expression. He did not tell the Dursleys that Sirius was innocent and had restored his reputation.
Dudley huddled in the corner of the sofa in great terror, and Aunt Petunia was equally terrified.
In fact, Vernon had wanted his wife and children to leave and face the notorious murderer Black himself, but Aunt Petunia did not agree, and even Dudley did not leave, even though they were very afraid of the upcoming visit.
Their murderer.
What the Dursleys didn't know was that the murderer Sirius Black, who was about to visit them, was dressing up for this meeting. He was fiddling with his suit in front of the full-length mirror to make himself look more formal.
The more than ten years of life in Azkaban took away many things from Black. He no longer looked as handsome as before in the mirror, nor did he have the energy of his youth.
However, since his charges were cleared and his reputation restored, Black's hope has been rekindled, and his body that was haggard from ten years in Azkaban has regained its vitality.
"That's enough!" Blake looked at himself in the mirror and asked Lupine, who was also wearing an old suit next to him.
To be honest, Sirius didn't like such clothes, but Remus thought it was necessary to wear them this way, as this was a very formal meeting.
To be honest, Lupine didn't want to go. After all, this was Sirius's family matter, and he was just an outsider, but he was worried that his old friend would make a mess of things. He had dealt with Muggles a lot,
Obviously know better how to get along with them.
After all, this meeting was for Harry, so they had to think more about it.
"4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey!"
Lupine took out the note Harry wrote to them from his suit pocket, read out the address on it, then took out his pocket watch and looked at the time and said: "The time difference is gone, we should set off."
They did not apparate directly to No. 4 Privet Drive, but appeared near Privet Drive to avoid causing trouble to Harry.
You need to be particularly careful when using magic in Muggle living areas. Once magic is used around underage wizards, the Ministry of Magic will think that the underage wizard is using magic, and it will be very troublesome to explain.
"This is it." Lu Ping looked at the number plate of No. 4 Privet Drive, stepped forward and rang the doorbell.
After the doorbell rang, the three Dursleys in the living room huddled together in horror, while Harry hurriedly ran to open the door.
After waiting for tens of seconds, the two of them heard the sound of rapid footsteps coming from the door, the door was opened, and Harry's surprised face appeared in front of them.
"Professor Lupin, why are you here?" Harry couldn't help but ask.
"I'm not too worried about Sirius." Lupine said with a smile.
Sirius looked at Harry's living environment, then followed Harry into the house, and saw the Dursleys huddled in the living room. They looked frightened.
Compared to the surprise on Sirius's face,
The Dursley family were shocked when they saw the legendary murderer enter the living room, because Lupine and Black were dressed so normally.
"I am Sirius Black." Sirius Black took a deep breath and said what he had repeated countless times in his heart: "James and Lily's classmate and friend, Harry Potter's godfather, I want to
Harry should have told you about me. The person next to me is Remus Lupin, a classmate and friend of James and Lily, and a professor at Hogwarts."
Sirius selectively forgot that Remus was a former Hogwarts professor. Harry also noticed this, but didn't say much.
"I think I should have made it clear in the letter that I am here to talk about Harry's custody and custody." Sirius knew that this family was not good to Harry, but he still suppressed his anger and irritability and allowed himself to
Be as polite as possible.
"When we adopted him, we heard that you weirdos had nothing to do with him." Penny stared at Black closely and said.
"For some reason, Mr. Black was considered to be on the side of the mysterious... dark forces; he was imprisoned in Azkaban, the prison. It was not until recently that the Ministry of Magic discovered this major mistake." Lupine explained. "
The wrong has been corrected and Mr. Black has been restored to his honor and freedom."
The Dursleys all stared at Harry. Although the wizard made them frightened and uneasy, being played by others made them even more angry.
"We need your permission for Harry to come and stay for a while during the next summer vacation." Lupine frowned and said, he could feel that these Muggles were not friendly to Harry.
"Don't you want custody? I agreed, but why..." Vernon wished Harry could get out immediately, so that their family could return to normal.
"In order to protect him, Harry's mother used an ancient magic. This magic may be related to family, affection or blood." Sirius said impatiently, "This is why Dumbledore decided to send Harry to
Here’s the reason.”
"In order to continue this magic, it is necessary for Harry Potter to live here for a period of time every year until he reaches adulthood - after all, you are the last relatives in this world who have the same blood as him." Lupin
added.
This was the first time Harry had heard of such a thing, and he actually complained privately about why Dumbledore did not allow him to live with Sirius.
Penny said simply: "As long as he stays quiet and doesn't do anything weird."
"I will." Harry nodded and promised.
"That's great, it seems we have reached an agreement." Lupine said happily, "Harry, we will pick you up later."
"We don't expect you to take care of Harry like your own child. You just need to treat the children of your relatives like a normal family." Sirius suddenly stared at the Dursleys and threatened, "I won't