Sirius raised his head suddenly and stared at Tom.
"Do you know what you are talking about?" He said in a hoarse voice, "Innocent? Me? Sirius Black? I should be just like my name, extremely dark and an unpardonable evil person.
"
"The Ministry of Magic should have made it very clear that I am the most brutal lackey of the mysterious man who has killed countless Muggles..." Sirius showed a smile that was uglier than crying.
He was no longer too lazy to defend himself. Public opinion was a waste of money, and three people became tigers. At present, the credibility of the Ministry of Magic is still very strong. Under their overwhelming publicity, Dumbledore and Harry Potter both supported it.
Not living, let alone Sirius.
In terms of evidence, Dumbledore and Harry don't have much solid evidence. In terms of popularity, one defeated Grindelwald, and the other defeated Voldemort. Sirius is far inferior to them in both aspects, and his defense is really
Is it useful?
It was useless, no one believed him. As time went by, Sirius himself gave up on the idea of restoring his innocence. If he had not seen Peter Pettigrew still alive in the world, he might have chosen to spend the rest of his life in Azkaban.
As the saying goes, "There is no greater sorrow than death."
As a result, today he heard the adjective "innocent" from a little wizard he had never met before. This surprised him so much.
Innocent? How many years has it been since this adjective became distant from me? Today, someone actually connected the words Sirius and innocent together, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
"Ministry of Magic?" Tom sneered, "Only fools believe what those insects say."
"Have you ever had a heart-to-heart talk with a big ginger cat before? That cat was... raised by my girlfriend, and I heard your story from it. I don't think a person can
Are you bored enough to lie to a cat?"
"That's it!" Sirius suddenly remembered the cat who was quite humane, and felt that everything had a reasonable explanation.
"You can actually understand the cat's words." Sirius felt speechless for a while: How many things did he not know about the little wizard in front of him? How could he give himself a "surprise" every few minutes?
"I got an ancient alchemy pendant by chance, which can help me communicate with various animals."
"Well, ancient alchemy is really magical..."
"No, too much knowledge in the magic world has been lost in inheritance."
After complaining about the inheritance issues in the magic world, the two fell into silence again.
"Since you believe that I am innocent, can you untie the vines on my body?" The tight areas on my body were already numb, and Sirius felt a little uncomfortable.
Tom suddenly suffered from selective deafness and turned a deaf ear to Sirius' appeal: he didn't want to untie Sirius for the time being. This guy had been in Azkaban for so long, his mood was a bit unstable, and his mental state was obviously problematic.
You'd better be more cautious yourself.
To be honest, Tom didn't understand Sirius's behavior very much: after escaping from Azkaban, this guy never considered contacting elders like Dumbledore or old friends like Lupin, and had been fighting alone.
Lone wolf behavior is really puzzling.
Perhaps the long years of imprisonment made him lose trust in other people?
"Why do you keep chasing Peter alone?"
Sirius:......
Faced with Tom's question, Sirius remained silent. He didn't want to think about this question, and he didn't want to answer it, so he chose to remain silent.
"At least talk to your friends from back then - if that doesn't work, there's Dumbledore who knows the truth," Tom winked at Sirius, "A sociable guy like me has a close (female) friend.
It’s impossible for you not to have one, right?”
After enlightening Sirius, Tom turned and left. Seeing his figure disappearing into the bushes, Sirius fell into deep thought: Why not find Lupin and talk to him? Let’s see if this old friend from his student days can still
Can't believe him...
But it was too difficult! Sirius thought hard and couldn't think of a way to convince his old friend. Because in everyone's eyes, he was the scum who betrayed his friends and killed his brothers!
Sirius felt like he was being drowned in despair bit by bit. The more he thought about it, the darker his premise became.
Tom was still a little naive. He didn't consider Sirius's situation. He simply believed that as long as Sirius found his old friends, he would get a lot of help, and then capture Peter Pettigrew alive and clear his grievances. But Sirius now
But the identity of the wanted criminal! Will anyone really believe him?
You have a high school classmate, you and he are very good friends, and you work in the same company after graduation. As a result, after a while, you see the news bulletin saying that he was sent to prison because of the bombing. You may
You feel sad for a while, but life has to go on. But more than ten years later, you see this "old friend" on the news again. The news report said that he escaped from prison, and you are extremely shocked by this.
Now this old friend appears in front of you, saying that he was wrongly accused, and hopes that you can help him catch the real murderer in the school where you worked.
Will you choose to believe him? On one side is the government's real action, and on the other side is just an empty promise from an old friend. Would you believe it? I'm afraid it would be a lie in front of his face, and then turn around and send the crazy fugitive to prison.
Don't force Lupine to do something that you can't do yourself. So it's understandable that Sirius doesn't go to Lupine. It's also acceptable that Lupine backhandedly tied Sirius to the Ministry of Magic.
Sirius stared blankly at the sky, his mind going blank. At this moment, he felt that the vines on his body seemed to be a little loose. It must be that the boy had loosened the vines after distancing himself from him - he was very cautious. He shook
Shaking his body, he freed himself from the vines, and then his eyes caught sight of an item in the bushes: an old piece of parchment.
This piece of parchment looked so familiar that Sirius recognized it almost instantly. In a hurry, he rushed to the edge of the bushes and crawled. To do this, he tripped over the vines wrapped around his feet and fell.
He fell, but he didn't care.
After Sirius picked up the parchment from the bushes, he looked at it carefully for a while. Then he came to a conclusion: This is the Marauder's Map he made back then!
Sirius looked up to the sky and laughed.
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I don’t know if you have drawn the eighth level? I used 40 rounds of entangled fate to draw this little fox~
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Note: Sirius’s surname, Black, means black in English.