In the Hogwarts principal's office, a short middle-aged man stood numbly in the middle of the office, surrounded by a group of people.
"Okay Peter, tell me what exactly happened that year?" Director Bones asked her question.
Peter took a deep, trembling breath, and then spoke in a flat, emotionless tone.
"Because Sirius gave me the identity of the Potters' Secret Keeper for safety reasons, and he claimed to be the Secret Keeper to distract the pursuers. After I became the Secret Keeper, I immediately found the Dark Lord and brought him to me.
I told him the secret about the Potter family, and I could have received an unprecedented reward for it, but the Dark Lord failed. Black has been chasing me since he learned that I betrayed the Potters."
Lupine looked a little excited when he heard this, and he felt like he was going to rush to beat Peter. But Mr. Weasley next to him stopped him. Ryan turned his attention to Professor Snape, and found that although Professor Snape looked calm,
, but his clenched fists and slightly trembling body all showed the anger in his heart now.
At this time, Peter took another deep breath and continued speaking in a flat voice.
"When I was chased into a Muggle street, I couldn't escape, so I had to blow up half of the street and then turned into a mouse and escaped along the blasted sewer. After that, I stayed as a pet in a wizarding family.
To this day.”
After hearing this, Mr. Weasley covered his face in annoyance: "Oh my god, when I picked him up in the garden, I really thought it was just a mouse. I swear I will never mess with these things again."
I brought the things home." Mrs. Weasley next to her patted his back to comfort him.
"Since you took refuge in the mysterious man, why didn't you harm Harry when you lived in the same house with him in the past few years?" Director Bones asked an important point that everyone was concerned about. At this time, the people in the room
I calmed down completely and started listening.
"Because the Dark Lord heard that the situation was very bad after he failed to kill Harry that day, so if I hurt Harry at this time, I would be involved in it. So I could only stay quietly in a wizard's family to gather information.
I will dedicate Harry to the Dark Lord only after I am sure that the Dark Lord has truly made a comeback. After all, my previous mistakes have made many Death Eaters hate me. Only by performing enough meritorious deeds can I protect myself in front of the Dark Lord.
"
"Why did you betray Potter and Lily? They regarded you as their friends." At this time, Lupine finally couldn't help but asked. Bones just frowned at this interruption of her interrogation.
, and didn’t say anything.
"Friends, do you really think I am a friend?" Peter's tone fluctuated at this time. It seemed that this was a great stimulus to him, "Both Potter and Black come from noble pure-blood families. You should study well in school.
I'm the prefect again. I'm the only one who's nothing, just following you like a little follower. You always say that I'm too timid. Even though I try very hard to integrate into the small group, you always ignore me, no matter what I do.
You will just ignore whatever I say."
"But this is not the reason why you made the Potters pay with their lives." Lupine said with some confusion.
"Why not? After graduation, you took me and the Dark Lord's men to fight without asking me. In the first battle, the Dark Lord arrived, and two Aurors fell down with just a wave of his hand. Fortunately, that time
The Dark Lord escaped without continuing to chase us. You seemed very excited after the battle, but I was really scared. I really don’t want to feel that feeling of dying again, so I have to find a way to survive.
Go down."
"Then you choose to become the mysterious man's lackey?" Director Bones asked seriously at this time.
"Then what else can I do? I just want to live, I don't want to die. But Potter and the others have been dragging me to fight on the front line with the Dark Lord. Several times, the Dark Lord has personally appeared to stop our people.
There were heavy casualties, and the well-trained Aurors were vulnerable to the Dark Lord. So after two or three years of struggle, I found the Dark Lord and begged him not to kill me."
"Then what did you do after you took refuge with the mysterious man?" Amelia Bones asked.
"I revealed a lot of valuable information during the one year I took refuge with the Dark Lord, and he praised me." At this point, a twisted smile appeared on Peter's face. "Finally, when I handed over the information about the Potters,
When I told the Dark Lord from my hiding place, he told me that I would be rewarded like never before."
"Just because of this, you killed so many people." Lu Ping roared out of control.
"There is no benefit in rejecting the Dark Lord, but as long as I obey him, I gain unprecedented power. For example, the curse that blew up half the street, I just told him a few names and he gave it to me."
"Don't you know that fighting against the most evil demon in history is to save innocent lives, Peter! This is much more important than strength and life." Lupine seemed to have calmed down a little, and he used a hoarse voice.
Said to Peter.
"You don't understand!" Peter Pettigrew returned to his previous calm tone, "He will kill me, Lupin! I just want to live. Not to mention that he gave me power."
"Okay, now the facts are clear." Director Bones stretched out his hand to stop Lupine who was about to say anything else. "I know you were friends before, but now we still have important things to do."
After saying that, she took the record from Percy's hand, looked at it, and signed her name at the end.
"You're Percy, right? This transcript is well written." Hearing Bones's praise, Percy looked a little excited, smiled and nodded sharply, almost throwing off his glasses.
However, Bones just said it politely, and then said to Professor Dumbledore: "Mr. Principal, the situation is now very clear. Those previous criminal acts were committed by Peter, but he framed them for Sirius.
.I would like to ask you to go to the Ministry of Magic with me to bear witness to the vindication of this case."
"Of course, of course. I'm glad to see that an innocent man will be freed from the bad reputation that has been imposed on him." After that, Dumbledore stood up. "I think we can use the fireplace in the office."
Afterwards, Professor Dumbledore and Director Bones took Peter, who was tied up tightly, to the Ministry of Magic. Before he left, he said to Ryan and Percy: "Thank you for your contribution to this matter. I just want to thank you for your contribution to this matter."
However, this matter cannot be made public until the Ministry of Magic has discussed it, so please keep it a secret for the time being."
Ryan and Percy both nodded quickly in agreement, and Dumbledore left after a burst of green flames. Everyone also left the office separately.
At the door, Ryan met the Weasley family of three. Arthur Weasley took the initiative to extend his hand to shake Ryan's hand and thanked him: "Thank you so much this time. I heard from Percy about your help this time.
Our family owes you a favor."
"You're welcome. After all, your sons and I are friends. Isn't it right for friends to help each other?" Ryan said modestly.