"I'm sorry, kid, it's all my fault for causing you trouble... Live well... Don't do bad things again."
Peter opened his eyes suddenly and woke up from his sleep. He stretched out his hands to push aside the sheets and sat up. His forehead was soaked with sweat at some point, and his breathing became a little short.
As soon as he closes his eyes, Peter is transported back to that day when his mother sacrificed herself to help him escape from Azkaban Prison.
Ever since his mother died in Azkaban Prison, self-blame and guilt have been tormenting Peter's heart.
"Live well?" A helpless smile appeared on Peter's lips. Can he really give up everything, stay anonymous, and live well?
too difficult.
It's just too difficult.
In order not to be discovered by others that he was still alive, Peter had to stay away from the magical world and hide himself in the Muggle world.
But how can a wizard live like an ordinary person?
Of course Peter couldn't do it, and he knew he couldn't fit into the Muggle world.
Even Arthur Weasley, the most obsessed with Muggles, couldn't do this.
Therefore, most of the time Peter can only use magic to solve the problems he encounters so that he can live a more decent life.
Using magic in the Muggle world for a long time can easily bring trouble to oneself, and may also attract employees of the Ministry of Magic, so Peter mostly only stays in one place for a few days. Then, he has to carry it around like a traveler.
suitcase and embark on a new journey alone.
Especially after leaving England, the language barrier made communication very difficult and made Peter's life even more difficult. He had to frequently use magic to solve the troubles he encountered.
And everything Peter did was incompatible with being a good person, and he knew that he could not become a good person.
Probably he will disappoint her again.
It was still dark, and the streets outside the window were dark.
After being awakened, Peter had no sleepiness at all. After putting on some decent clothes, he began to pack his suitcase, preparing to leave the hotel with his suitcase like an ordinary traveler when it gets dark.
A familiar crackling sound came from outside the street. Like a mouse whose tail was stepped on, Peter quickly hid the wand under the bed. He quickly transformed into a mouse and crawled under the bed.
A few seconds later, the door to the room was opened without warning.
Three wizards holding wands broke into Peter's room with vigilance. They quickly scanned the empty room, and their eyes fell on the half-packed suitcases on the bed, and they exchanged glances with each other.
"I didn't hear any sound, so it probably wasn't Apparition." A wizard quickly scanned the room and began to check for hiding places in the room, including under the bed.
"It's a man. He just left." One of them glanced at the clothes in the suitcase and said, "Who do you think it could be?"
"I don't know, that guy is really alert. He probably hasn't gone far yet." Another wizard waved his wand towards the suitcase and took it away.
Before the three left, they dispelled the magic that Peter had used on the innkeeper.
"Damn it." Peter waited for a long time before coming out from under the bed. He was not in a hurry to change back. Instead, he observed the area for a while to make sure there were no threats around him, and then took out the wand he had hidden from under the bed.
Then become human again.
This is not the first time Peter has encountered this kind of thing.
If you use magic at will in the Muggle world, you will easily be targeted by the Ministry of Magic. This time, he was unlucky. He did not expect that he would be targeted so quickly.
However, the situation is not too bad. At least, the wand is saved. As long as the wand is still there, he does not have to worry about life problems. Magic can make it easy for him to get everything in the Muggle world.
Before leaving the inn, Peter secretly borrowed some money from the innkeeper to avoid the embarrassing situation of having no money. It is quite unwise to use magic rashly now, especially in such an area with dense Muggle traffic.
I don't want to be targeted by the Ministry of Magic.
So, after Peter borrowed the money, he apparated and left.
In a remote alley somewhere, Peter appeared out of thin air. He smelled the bad smell in the alley, frowned slightly, quickly left the alley, and used borrowed money to pay for himself in a roadside shop.
I bought a sandwich and then walked aimlessly around the city.
Peter actually didn’t know where he was going or what he wanted to do?
Ever since he left England on a Muggle ship, he has been wandering around Europe. Most of the time, Peter just needs to avoid wizards and avoid others discovering that he is still alive.
"It's really embarrassing, like a stray dog. Was Sirius as embarrassed as me when he was running away? No, he must be worse than me. He can only become a stray dog and wander around." Peter ate a sandwich while eating a sandwich.
Reminiscing about the guy who made himself so embarrassed.
He threw the finished sandwich bag into the trash can, then sat on a chair by the park and fell into deep thought.
Why did things become like this?
Peter has asked himself this more than once.
If it weren't for Voldemort, maybe he wouldn't be what he is now, but Peter didn't dare to hate Voldemort, and he didn't have the courage.
Therefore, Peter hates Potter, hates Black, and hates Lupin. He hates them for dragging him into the Order of the Phoenix and hates them for bringing misfortune to him.
In fact, Peter had no intention of joining the Order of the Phoenix in the first place, but because of the relationship between Potter, Black and Lupine, he eventually joined the Order of the Phoenix with them.
Then, all the nightmares started from then on!
After being threatened by Voldemort and forced to choose between family and friends, he embarked on a path of no return.
Peter chose his family and betrayed his friends, if they could be considered friends at all.
Betrayal was not only due to the threat from the Dark Lord, Peter was also seeking revenge on his friends who had brought misfortune and disaster to him.
No, they never considered him a friend.
"Not from the beginning," Peter murmured.
yes!
He has no way out!
Peter also didn't want to live like this. He didn't want to live like a stray dog, worried at any time, worried that Black would come back to kill him, worried that the Death Eaters would come to kill him.
"Albania."
Peter whispered the name of this place. Legend has it that the Dark Lord is hiding in the forests of this country. If he can help the Dark Lord come back, those Death Eaters who want to kill him will have to give up their hatred, accept him again, and seize the opportunity.
The Ministry of Magic who takes away Peter's family property will also be punished.
Also, Black, Lupine and others.
Peter also hated Albert who sent him to Azkaban Prison. When he escaped from prison, he also wanted to seek revenge on Albert.
But Peter gave up in the end. He finally escaped and didn't want to take the risk. In fact, Peter didn't dare to go to Albert for revenge. The last time he was arranged was so miserable that Peter even had feelings for Albert.
There are some shadows in my heart.
That guy is very difficult to mess with, insidious, cunning, and has very terrifying abilities. He is known as Dumbledore in his youth.
Peter suspected that the other party could also use magic skillfully without using a wand.
Once the sneak attack fails, it's really over. And the most embarrassing thing is that Peter doesn't know where Albert's home is. He might be able to find the location of his home if he takes the time, but Peter doesn't dare to take the risk. He doesn't want to die yet. Once he
When the fact that he is still alive is exposed, no one will let him go. Leaving the UK as soon as possible is the best choice.
Perhaps, only when the Dark Lord comes back, everything will be different.
He no longer has to live in such a mess like now.
At that moment, Peter seemed to have made up his mind and embarked on the journey to Albania resolutely.
The road to Albania was not smooth.
During this period, Peter mostly used Muggle tools. Sometimes he even had to use the Imperius Curse to control Muggles, allowing him to leave the country with himself and his wand transformed into a mouse to avoid attracting the attention of wizards.
It took Peter a full week to arrive in Albania by ship from an Italian port.
Albania is a chaotic and poor country. The Muggles there are very poor, the population is pitifully small, and there is no Ministry of Magic. Many dark creatures and dark wizards like to settle in the Albanian forests.
However, this really caused Peter to collapse.
The Albanian forest is neither too big nor too small. It is not easy to find the hidden Dark Lord in such a country. No one knows which forest the Dark Lord is hiding in, so Peter has to search from forest to forest.
Finding someone is not an easy task, especially when the target is the Dark Lord, it is even more difficult to find him.
However, Peter has a rather special way of searching.
Probably because he is an Animagus, Peter is relatively close to other animals, especially rats, and he always has a strange close relationship.
Whenever Peter turns into a mouse, he can communicate with the mice in the forest and inquire about news in the forest. This greatly improves his efficiency in finding the Dark Lord. After all, no one is more efficient than the residents living in the forest.
Understand the situation in the forest.
Peter spent a lot of time, but he didn't find the Dark Lord. Instead, he found a bunch of dark creatures, especially vampires, banshees and trolls, and even some wizards settled here, but he couldn't find any trace of the Dark Lord.
Although Peter was a little disappointed, he also knew that this was a normal thing. If the Dark Lord was looking for him, he would be found, rather than the so-called "legend that the Dark Lord is hiding here."
Peter did not give up easily. He was screening the forests in Albania one by one. It must be said that the forest area in this country is really not that large. At least more than 30% of the land is covered by forests.
Time is slowly wearing away Peter's patience, but for a guy who doesn't know what to do well, this kind of boring thing is undoubtedly very suitable to pass the time, and communicating with mice is actually not too boring.
Every time, you can learn a lot of information about the forest below your feet, and you only need to pay some food.
Moreover, when you stay in Albania, you don't have to worry about wizards, at least there are basically very few wizards here.
He had decided that if he did not find the Dark Lord, he would settle here and stay away from the right and wrong. At least this land would be more suitable for him to live in compared to Britain and even Europe.
Yes, there are many lawless people living here.
"There are not many forests left. Is it really just a legend?" Peter took the map he got from the Muggles. The forests marked on the map were marked with a cross one by one.
Most of the legends actually have some basis for it.
Peter came to the edge of a forest again. The surrounding sky had completely darkened. The dark forest looked a bit ferocious, but it could not scare Peter away. He used to enter the forest quietly at night.
However, Peter was not in a hurry to enter the forest now, because he was hungry and planned to go to a nearby Muggle hotel to eat something to fill his stomach, and he also needed to bring some gifts to his mouse friends.
When Peter entered the hotel disguised as a Muggle with his suitcase, he suddenly heard someone calling him.
"Peter Pettigrew, are you still alive?"
Peter was startled, his heart was beating violently, and countless thoughts came to his mind.
When he turned around, he saw a strange woman.
Peter met Bertha Jorkins, a not very bright woman who worked at the Ministry of Magic.
"Well, I'm still alive and a lot of things have happened."
Peter lowered his eyes, knowing that he had to eliminate the hidden danger. If Bertha Jorkins returned to the Ministry of Magic with the news that she was still alive, God knows what would happen.
Some people may think that Bertha Jorkins is being stupid, but Sirius, Lupine and even other Death Eaters can definitely guess that he is still alive and come to trouble him. This is something that Peter cannot tolerate.
, he must erase Bertha Jorkins' memory of meeting him, or even kill her.
"I heard you..."
"Some things are not suitable to be discussed here." Peter raised his hand and interrupted, "Let's go outside and talk. A lot of things have happened recently."
Bertha Jorkins hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded and followed Peter out of the hotel.
The two walked briskly at night, and Peter began to tell some things that had happened to him.
For example, how he escaped from Azkaban Prison, why he betrayed the Potters, and why he turned into a mouse and hid.
"If it were you, what would you choose? Watch your family being killed or compromise." Peter smiled bitterly.
"So, you betrayed Mr. and Mrs. Potter?" Bertha Jorkins asked.
"No, no. I actually secretly hinted to the Potters and asked them to run away quickly and let the mysterious man escape. Unfortunately, they didn't have time to run away and were blocked, so they died." Peter's face couldn't hide the look on his face.
With bitterness and guilt, he was shaping himself into a less dangerous person, "Later, my mother found out that I was still alive, and she always felt guilty, thinking that what happened back then was all because of her, and that I was forced to do what I did.
Given that choice, she thought she was going to die, so she took a compound potion and died in Azkaban Prison instead of me. She wanted me to live well, so I came here to start a new life."
"Then why didn't you come out to prove that Black was innocent?" Bertha Jorkins continued to ask.
"I would like to, but Sirius wants to kill me, and the Death Eaters also want to kill me. If I stand up, I will be dead." Peter asked, "If it were you, would you do it?"
"After the Potters died, Sirius once hunted me. I tried to explain all this to him, but Sirius just didn't want to believe it. He thought I had killed the Potters, and used powerful magic to try to
Kill me. Later, the collision of our spells blew up the whole street, and I was injured and had to turn into a rat and run away from the sewer."
"As for Black's matter, it's purely because the Ministry of Magic needs to find someone to take the blame. After all, many Muggles have died, and they have to give an explanation. Moreover, when Black was laughing over there, he was caught by the Ministry of Magic without trial.
Throw him directly into Azkaban Prison." Peter couldn't help laughing at himself, "Actually, I didn't expect it to be like this."
"You probably don't know that my mother donated most of the Peter family's wealth to the Ministry of Magic in order to see me in prison."
"real?"
"Of course it's true." Peter stopped and said sarcastically, "otherwise, why do you think Minister of Magic Fudge would allow her to visit me in Azkaban Prison?"
"How could..." Before Bertha Jorkins could finish her words, she saw Peter pointing a magic wand at herself. The next moment, a red light lit up under the night cover, and Bertha Jorkins was just like that.
Peter was defeated by the coma spell and did not pay the price for his stupidity.