Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 809: The Godfather

  Chapter 810 The Godfather

   "Bang", the door was rudely pushed open, a hurried footsteps came from outside the corridor, and a figure entered the hall like the wind, panting looking at the person reading the newspaper and saying: " Did you read the Daily Prophet today? Peter is dead, and that guy is dead."

   "Don't worry, it's not like your character." Blake looked up at his old friend, poured him a glass of butterbeer, motioned him to have something to drink first, and then said, "I just saw it in the newspaper, They say Peter died in Azkaban prison."

   "It's suspicious." Lupin took a deep breath and said, "He couldn't have died so soon in Azkaban prison, you know what I mean."

   "You suspect Peter used some means to get away." Blake frowned, seeming to consider the possibility of this. Twelve years in Azkaban, he knows what's going on in prison and has more say than most.

   The old friend's words are biased. Sirius knows that many wizards go mad and die within a few weeks of being locked up in Azkaban, but Peter... Remus was right. , Peter has a criminal record of playing dead, and twice.

  Why is it not difficult to have a third time?

   "Not only that." Lupin continued after drinking the butterbeer in one breath, "I heard that Mrs. Peter visited him in prison before he died. Later, a few days after Mrs. Peter came back I went crazy and set fire to myself and my whole house."

   "It wasn't reported in the newspapers, and how did she get into Azkaban prison?" Black frowned deeply. He felt more and more that Remus' guess was right, and there was something wrong with this matter. .

   Their old buddy may have actually escaped.

   The two read through the Daily Prophet the day before yesterday, and finally found a report about Mrs. Peter's self-immolation in a small corner.

  The article is not long, probably means:

   Mrs. Peter couldn't accept her son's transformation from a hero to a murderer, and went insane.

   Either way, both things are suspicious.

   Specifically Peter died on the third day his mother visited him and his mother died on the second day.

   "There is a way to determine if Peter is dead." Sirius said suddenly.

   "How?" Lupin asked.

   "Find someone for a divination." Sirius showed a weird smile.

   "You mean Anderson?" Lupin knew immediately what the old friend meant.

   "Yes, I heard that Mr. Anderson's ability to predict is very strong, and he can even easily predict what will happen in the future." Sirius directly turned Phineas into someone, "I plan to invite him with him. Going to the Quidditch World Cup and asking him for help is much better than trying to guess what we're doing here."

  Lupin frowned and asked, "Will he be willing to help?"

  "Yes," said Sirius meaningfully. "That Mr. Anderson charges, but I don't think it's a loss to spend some money to figure it out."

   Sirius doesn't really care about the Black family's property, at least for him, Galleon doesn't understand the importance of Peter's life and death.

  If Peter did escape, this time Sirius would not let him go no matter what.

  Yes, Peter is dead!

  Blake has a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth, then die completely and don't come out.

  Although Albert's actions at the time were the best choice and helped him restore his reputation, it was a pity for Black that he failed to kill Peter himself to avenge James and Lily.

   Now, this opportunity may come.

   "Stop talking about that, Remus, help me clean the house if you have time." Sirius pleaded, "I thought about picking Harry up with me sometime, but I'm alone. I can't even finish the summer."

   "Okay, it just so happens that I have nothing to do lately." Lupin nodded in agreement, he doubted that even if Sirius was given a year to clean it up.

   "Great, then you can come to the Quidditch World Cup with us too!" Sirius suggested.

   "I'm afraid not." Lupin shook his head and refused.

  "Why?" Sirius asked, puzzled,

   "Usually, the World Cup final will be around August 20th, you know, it's almost full moon by then," Lupin explained, "I can't take any chances."

   Sirius was silent, he almost forgot about it.

   "Okay, where are you going to start cleaning?" Lupin asked, patting Blake on the shoulder. "If you want to clean this place completely, don't just stand there and watch."

  The two were busy all afternoon and still couldn't clean out Harry's room. The two found a nest of foxes in the bedroom. In order to eliminate these annoying pests, Sirius used a lot of foxes Killer, messing up the whole room.

  "I feel like I'm turning into a house-elf. Maybe, I should ask Dumbledore to borrow a few house-elves to help with the cleaning, so I can get it done quickly."

   Sirius sat wearily in his chair, eating simple food made by Lupin, and housekeeping was clearly not his strong suit.

   He didn't do that in the end.

   Actually, Sirius hopes that his old friend can move to 12 Grimmauld Place to live with him, so that the two can take care of each other, but Remus rejects his offer.

   "Jaime's son is unbelievably similar to him." Sirius whispered, seemingly lost in memory, "really."

   "Harry is quieter, unlike James, who always likes to be handsome in front of girls, and doesn't talk a lot." Lupin missed his old friend a little bit.

   "But Harry also likes to cause trouble." Sirius laughed happily.

   "Yes," Lupin said, "Harry is brave, but also reckless."

   "I've hardly ever seen a Gryffindor student who wasn't reckless." Blake could barely hide the smile on his lips, "I remember you saying that Harry's Patronus was also a stag."

   "Yeah, stag." Lupin nodded, "was there at a Quidditch match last term."

   "However, Harry doesn't seem to be having a good time these years, and I'm going to find time to visit his Muggle relatives." Sirius's eyebrows flashed with displeasure, "If it weren't for Dumbledore..."

   "Dumbledore has his own considerations," Lupin interrupted, "I'll go with you then."

   "Stop talking about this, talk about your business!" Sirius changed the subject.

   "Me? Still the same, at first I wanted to work for the Ministry of Magic, but was turned down, for reasons you can guess. Finally, through my father's connection, I got a part-time job at the Ministry of Magic, doing It's been half a month." There was a helpless, wry smile on the corner of Lupin's mouth, thanks to my father's house, I didn't have nowhere to live. After that, I've been working part-time, you know, I haven't been working too long, and if anyone finds out I'm..."

  Lupin paused, chuckled, and continued: "Then, I thought if I could open a store myself, I wouldn't have to worry about being discovered, but it didn't happen..."

   The reason is naturally that he did not earn enough money to open a store.

   "And then what?" Sirius found that his old friend had not had a good year.

   "Afterwards, I had fewer and fewer opportunities to work in the wizarding world, so I could only do odd jobs in the alley. When I wasn't working, I worked as a salesperson and sometimes a cleaner in a shop in the Muggle world. , anyway, it's some very piecemeal work, and life is barely enough."

  "We can open a store together," Sirius suddenly suggested: "Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I have to find myself a serious job."

  Lupin was silent, honestly moved.

   Of course he knew that Sirius proposed to open the store for him, at least to have a stable job and not have to work around.

   "We'll talk about this later." Remus was a little moved, but didn't agree immediately, because he didn't know what store to open either.

   In recent days, the Dursleys have been shrouded in fear.

   The incident started a few days ago, one morning after the Dursleys had gone to Kings Cross to pick up Harry Potter.

  Vernon saw that his nephew suddenly took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to him, saying that his godfather asked him to help transfer 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 had no godfather, but his little hope was ruthlessly shattered by Harry,

   "He's my mom and dad's best friend, a convicted murderer, but he escaped from a magical prison a while ago and is willing to keep in touch with me through the owl to find out about my situation."

  To this day, Vernon still hasn't forgotten the look on Harry's face when he said these words.

   What made him even more terrified was that such a murderer actually planned to visit them, which made the Dursleys panic all of a sudden.

  Vernon even wanted to call the police at one point, but he had no choice but to meet the murderer named Blake.

   Because even the police couldn't stop the murderer named Blake from appearing in front of them.

  "When will he arrive."

   asked Vernon, his lips trembling, his face was very pale, and he could tell that the last few days were not going well.

  "It should be soon, the appointed time is eleven o'clock."

  Harry looked up at the clock on the wall, trying desperately to hold back his laughter so that no expression appeared on his face. He did not tell the Dursleys that Sirius was innocent and had been rehabilitated.

   Dudley huddled in the corner of the sofa in great horror, as was Aunt Petunia.

   Actually, Vernon wanted his wife and children to leave and face the notorious murderer Blake himself, but Aunt Petunia didn't agree, not even Dudley, even though they were very Fear of the murderer who is about to visit them.

Unbeknownst to the Dursleys, visiting murderer Sirius Black was dressing up for the encounter, fiddling with his suit in the full-length mirror to make himself look more formal .

   Living in Azkaban for more than ten years has taken away a lot of Blake's things. In the mirror, he is no longer as handsome as he used to be, nor the look of his youth.

   However, since his crime was cleared and his reputation restored, Blake has regained hope, and his body, worn out by Azkaban's ten years in prison, has been rejuvenated.

   "That's it!" Blake looked at himself in the mirror and asked Lupin, who was also wearing an old suit next to him.

   Honestly, Sirius doesn't like this kind of clothes, but Remus thinks it's necessary, and it's a very formal meeting.

   To be honest, Lupin didn't really want to go, it was Sirius' family business after all, and he was just an outsider, but he was worried that his old friend would mess things up and had a lot of dealings with Muggles self, obviously better know how to get along with them.

   After all, this meeting was for Harry, so they had to think more.

  "4 Privet Road, Little Whinging, Surrey!"

  Lupin took out a note Harry had written to them from his suit pocket, read out the address on it, took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, "It's almost time to read, we should go too."

   They did not Apparate directly to 4 Privet Drive, but appeared near Privet Drive to avoid causing trouble for Harry.

  The use of magic in Muggle living areas requires special care. Once magic is used around underage wizards, the Ministry of Magic will think that underage wizards are using magic, and it is very troublesome to explain.

   "This is it." Lupin looked at the number plate of No. 4 Privet Drive, stepped forward and rang the doorbell.

   When the doorbell rang, the Dursley family in the living room huddled in horror, and Harry hurried to open the door.

   After waiting for dozens of seconds, the two heard 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 asking.

   "I'm not too worried about Sirius." Lupin said with a smile.

   Sirius surveyed Harry's circumstances before following Harry into the house, where he saw the Dursleys huddled in the living room, looking terrified.

  Compared to Sirius's face, he was surprised,

   Seeing the legendary murderer entering the living room of the Dursleys was stunned at the moment, because Lupin and Blake were dressed so normal.

  "I'm Sirius Black." Sirius Black took a deep breath and said what he had repeated countless times in his mind: "James and Lily's classmate and friend, Harry Potter's godfather , I think Harry should have told you about me. Next to me is Remus Lupin, a classmate and friend of James and Lily, a professor at Hogwarts."

   Sirius had selectively forgotten about Remus being a former Hogwarts professor, which Harry noticed, but didn't say much.

   "I think I should have made it clear in the letter that I'm here to talk about Harry's support and custody." Sirius knew that the family treated Harry badly, but he still suppressed his anger and irritability. , make yourself as polite as possible.

   "When we adopted him, I heard that you weirdos have nothing to do with him." Penny said, staring closely at Blake.

   "For some reason, Mr. Black was treated as a side of the mysterious... dark forces; locked up in Azkaban - a prison, until the Ministry of Magic found out about this big mistake not long ago," Lupin explained. road. "The error has been rectified, and Mr. Black has been restored to his honour and liberty."

   The Dursleys all stared at Harry, and while the wizard made them terrified, they were even more outraged by being played with.

   "We need your permission for Harry to come and stay for a while each summer." Lupin frowned, he could sense that these Muggles were not being kind to Harry.

   "Didn't you guys want custody, I agreed, but why..." Vernon wanted Harry to get out of here immediately~IndoMTL.com~ so that their family could get back to normal.

   "Harry's mother used an ancient magic to protect him. This magic may have something to do with family, affection or blood." Sirius said impatiently, "This is also when Dumbledore decided to put Harry The reason Lee was sent here."

  "In order to continue this magic, it was necessary to live here for a period of time every year until Harry Potter came of age - after all, you are the last relatives in the world with his blood. ' Lupin added.

   This was the first time Harry had heard of such a thing, and he had actually complained privately about why Dumbledore didn't allow him to live with Sirius.

  Penny said simply: "As long as he's quiet and doesn't do anything weird."

   "I will," Harry assured with a nod.

   "That's great, it looks like we've come to an agreement," Lupin said cheerfully. "Harry, we'll pick you up later."

   "We don't expect you to take care of Harry like your own children, just like a normal family to treat the children of your relatives." Sirius suddenly stared at the Dursleys and threatened, "I don't want to hear something bad, understand?"

  (end of this chapter)