Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 398 Two 'Planning Passes'

"Ask? Whatever?" Blake said eagerly.

"First, how did you escape from Azkaban? If you didn't use the dark magic of the Dark Lord, or collude with the dementors like other Death Eaters, how could you have survived from that place alone for 12 years and escaped."

"You should know that the Death Eaters Andonin Dolohov and Bellatrix Lestrange who were imprisoned with you a while ago...have all escaped!" Lupine asked with a serious expression.

"I don't know how I did it," Blake recalled slowly. "However, I can tell you for sure that the dementor riots were not premeditated. They were just trying to drain every drop of sanity and joy from the prisoners there before I escaped."

"As for why I was able to persevere, it was because of the guilt towards James... and knowing that I was innocent. These two thoughts are not good food for the dementors. They couldn't absorb them from my head. That's how I kept my sanity."

"And then... I got the newspaper and found out that Peter was still alive. This rekindled my fighting spirit. I knew I wanted to escape and find Peter...to protect Harry...to end the 12 years of unfinished business...As for how to escape..."

"Trust me, Remus!" Black said hoarsely, "Trust me, I'd rather die that night than betray them."

"What's more, Harry and the others have met me many times, Remus... If I really lost my mind and tried to endanger Harry and the others with the crazy words in those newspapers, I would have acted long ago."

"Trust me! I will definitely give my all to keep Harry from harm."

Lupine met Black's eyes, and put down his wand after a moment.

He smiled weakly and chose to believe Black.

"Then the second question is... why did you gain more than 20 catties when you were wanted? This big belly is not what a fugitive should have. If you dress up a bit, I'm sure even if Fudge shows up here, he won't find you."

After the two embraced like brothers, Lupine smiled very reluctantly, joking as before, and patted the big belly like a Maitreya Buddha exposed through the hole in Black's clothes.

— trembling slightly, trembling constantly.

It is a completely incredible 'miracle'.

Mentioning this, Sirius Black's originally joyful expression suddenly changed.

"Forget it!"

He stared at the front with an extremely complicated expression on his face and let out a loud cry——

——Professor Hagrid (half-blood giant, dragon breeder, motorcycle night crawler, Hogwarts Forbidden Forest keeper)!
"Hagrid is just raising me like a pig!"

"With the high-calorie sticky lactose, those ridiculously hard rock biscuits, and all kinds of sausages that have been tried... plus I am stationed at the school because of the staff of the Ministry of Magic, the fire dragon, and you, as well as Snape... I don't dare to run around much, I don't exercise, and I stay in Hagrid's hut all the time."

Looking at Lupine's suspicious eyes, Black continued helplessly, "Well, maybe it's also because I saw Harry, I was in a good mood and I had a good appetite... I ate more."

"More than a little?" said Lupine, coughing and laughing.

Black felt more and more embarrassed as he spoke, quickly avoided Lupine's eyes, and began to change the subject as he did in school, "Harry really looks like James, doesn't he? And his eyes... really look like Lily... and he can fly Quidditch as well as his father..."

As they talked, Black and Lupine began to laugh uncontrollably. This scene reminded them of their school foursome—Padfoot, Wormtail, Prongs, and Moonface.It's the same all day showing off, playing pranks, looking for fun, joking with each other and laughing.

(They looked back from time to time to see if Hagrid was startled, and Sirius Black even patted his trembling belly, laughing uncontrollably...)
Smiling and laughing, the two slowly stopped.

There is nothing to say to each other.

It has been 12 years, and the four people who used to be high-spirited are now...only the two of them, one in ragged clothes, one in a shabby robe, one is a wanted criminal hiding in hiding, and the other is a werewolf who is about to be kicked out of school...

As for the other betrayals, one is no longer here.

The cold reality, the memories of the past are intertwined in their minds, constantly flowing, surging, agitating...

No one made a sound for a while!

It took a long time, as Lupine was bending over in pain, for Black to remember what time it was.

"You, Remus!...you should have been hiding today..."

"Today is the night of the full moon."

His voice was anxious and hoarse.

"I've been waiting for 12 years, and I don't care about one or two days..."

"It's all right. While I'm still in school..." Lupine waved his hands, straightened up, and said wearily and soberly, "Hurry up and end this matter! Maybe your reputation can be restored... You must seize the time, maybe I won't be able to stay in school tomorrow, or Wormtail will run away again..."

Lupine took out the glass vial again from the pocket of his robes, pulled out the stopper, and swished the vial around Hagrid's nostrils.

The guy was snoring waves, shaking the tabletop.

"Okay, get out of shape quickly! I'll bring Wormtail back later, and you'd better stay in Hagrid's hut and stay still. Although I'm the only one who knows you're an Animagus, there are many Aurors in Hogwarts now. I can't tell which guy might see through your body through some kind of magic. If I catch Peter and you are accidentally killed by them, then what I have done will be meaningless!"

"Don't forget that Snape hated you very much, and he was more than happy to hand over your body to the Ministry of Magic first!"

"That guy?" Black made a mocking voice, "To be honest, I suspect that Dumbledore was foolish enough to recruit this guy into the school..."

"Dumbledore has his own reasons. In a way, it is also because of his great character that I was able to study at Hogwarts when I was a child, but now I can become a professor."

"Sorry!" Blake apologized with a heavy face.

When he was about to say something, Hagrid made a murmuring sound, as if he was about to wake up.

"Hurry up! Hagrid's waking up!" urged Lupine.

Black finally ordered, "If it's too late, don't take any action. I hear Hagrid, Fudge is trying to find a scapegoat..."

"You have to be careful!"

Hagrid closed his eyes and turned his head.

After Black saw it, he didn't have time to say anything more. He glanced at Lupine with great concern, then bent down and lay down on the ground——he was deformed.

The big black dog that was as big as a bear lay on the spot again.

cluck cluck!

Hagrid stretched his waist, and there was a clear sound in his spine and neck.

"—Ah! Ha!"

After a long yawn, he finally saw Lupine standing in the corner.

"Professor Lupine, this is?"

"You fell asleep!" Lupine said quietly.

"what?"

It took Hagrid a while to realize, he turned the back of his head, his face full of confusion, "It must be because I chatted too late with Charlie last night, he gave me a detailed introduction of how some ancient Chinese wizards creatively used the flames of fire dragons to refine potions... This is very interesting!"

Speaking of this, Hagrid became interested again.

But Lupine obviously couldn't cooperate with Hagrid, he turned around, "Hagrid, I'm going back, today is the night of the full moon."

"Oh ah!"

Hagrid suddenly realized, with an indescribable embarrassment on his face.

After seeing Lupin off, Hagrid went back to the hut, and from the cupboard there was a large pile of rock cakes, cheese fudge, and a large pile of large slices of grilled sausage (already cut open) with a strong smoky smell, and placed them in front of Padfoot and Fang.

"Eat!"

Hagrid looked at Fang and Padfoot indifferently, which was very strange.

Yaya is very strange about Sirius' previous big change, he is constantly sniffing his nose, putting his head on Padfoot to check what happened.

Naturally, Padfoot felt a little humiliated by the figure Lupine had seen earlier, and decided to start losing weight.

"You two are not sick, are you? Why don't you have an appetite?"

But obviously Hagrid didn't understand, he sat up and squatted down with a puzzled face, turned Fang Ya over and over again anxiously, hugged him in his arms, and then checked Fang Ya inside and out.

But Yaya obviously thought that Hagrid was playing around with him, and ignored Padfoot, and started sticking out his tongue and yelling at Hagrid's happy barking.

Blake, who turned into Padfoot, stared at him and his mouth twitched. He didn't want to suffer such humiliating treatment.

He hurriedly got down on the ground, buried his head in the dinner plate, and kept swallowing food in big mouthfuls.

Feeling my belly fat sticking tightly to the ground,
Padfoot Black comforted himself in his heart:

Blake, Blake, it's not that I'm so depraved, there's a reason for this,

It was forced by Hagrid.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, after getting out of this situation, I must start losing weight.

OK!Perfect plan!

……

At the same time, in the Gryffindor lounge, McGuffin sat blankly in front of Harry and Ron, waiting for Hermione to finish her Muggle Studies course.

He recalled the scene in the divination exam in his mind, feeling very uneasy.

He felt that things were starting to get out of control more and more.

Even now that he is promoted by the parchment system, has a magical strength far beyond that of his peers, and has a foresight of the original plot, he can't control the biting chill that spreads from his spine to his whole body.

The sense of fear caused his brain to paranoidly recall everything he had experienced since he came to Hogwarts to study, which was different from the plot, and constantly connected them.

All kinds of conspiracies and plots, and illogical and dog-blood plots were imagined over and over in his mind.

Harry and Ron sat next to him, both of them were very excited and curious about the prophecy that Professor Trelawney said earlier, and the unusual outfit she rushed out with McGuffin.

There are not many people in the common room now. (Everyone went out to hang out in the sun to relax. The fire dragon was dragged by the dragon trainers to an open space a little far away from the castle. The professors and everyone agreed that at least a little bit of unblocking should be released now, so that everyone can have a little 'free air'.)
In addition, the three of them hid in the usual corner, and piled Hermione's study books and notes into piles of hills to surround them.

This is less noticeable and allows them to talk about more intimate topics with more peace of mind.

Harry compared the two versions of Professor Trelawney back and forth in his mind, (the one who dragged the McGuffin disheveled and ran wildly... to make an image of himself that looked like a real prophecy)
He really didn't know which Professor Trelawney was more eccentric.

"What the hell happened inside! Why..." Ron complained, asking McGuffin for the Nth time what happened during his exam.

"I promised Professor Trelawney not to tell anyone until I met Professor Dumbledore with her."

McGuffin finally came to his senses and said.

However, the most important thing for McGuffin right now is to obtain the blood of [Nagia] according to the original plan to release the [Blood Curse] on himself.

It's going to rain, even if you have to collect your clothes, let's deal with them one by one!

"Professor Dumbledore!"

Harry asked in surprise, he didn't know how to bring this wizard he respected most again.

Had Professor Trelawney made that prophecy again?Did she know that she was sober this time?

But looking at McGuffin's expression of disbelief, this is not the case!

"Okay, I haven't fed Garen and Sick yet today! Ron, can I feed Scabbers by the way?"

Ron was having a great time on that Marauder's Map, spying on Snape, what Percy and Filch were doing; checking every secret passage in Hogwarts and comparing the ones he knew that Filch hadn't sealed yet.

"Um, good! You just feed it." He agreed without raising his head vaguely.

After finding Scabbers, the guy didn't care much anymore.

McGuffin returned to the dormitory.

To his relief, no one is here now.

After feeding the two little guys, Garen and Sick, he walked towards Scabbers with a plate of cheese.

Maybe it knew something... The mouse started to run wildly in the wooden box set by Ron, twisting and turning. (Ron's defense to prevent Scabbers from escaping again)

"All petrified!" McGuffin suddenly drew out his wand and attacked.

After Banban twisted and froze in a weird position, McGuffin was still not at ease, and tied it into a rice dumpling before putting it in his pocket.

Later, in order to prevent Ron from finding out, he even took out a stack of gold coins and made a deal with Garen, turning the little guy into a spotted image and stuffing it into the original wooden box.

Now it was just... finding a safe place where no one would disturb him, casting that new spell on Scabbers, and then showing him Padfoot, provoking this Wormtail to find his master, to find Voldemort, to find where Nargia was.

In addition, we need to keep an eye on the "Riddle House", which is the first place where Nagia appears in the plot. Although the possibility of McGuffin's life and study in Hogwarts is very narrow, but in case it really appears like the plot, this is the most simple and direct method.

Voldemort's weakness, coupled with Scabbers (Wormtail)'s internal and external cooperation under the immediate control...

Simply perfect!This plan!

After McGuffin made up his mind, he walked out of the dormitory.

(End of this chapter)