Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

In short, Fudge and Dumbledore are under a lot of pressure, and the situation is very bad!

As for Professor Lupine, he is currently the only werewolf caught by the Ministry of Magic. Many wizards called for him to be imprisoned in Azkaban immediately. Many people even suggested that he should be sentenced to death with the kiss of a dementor. to deal with him.

Seeing this passage, Hermione paled.

She thought of what Professor Lupine once said, that those who have been kissed by a dementor will live like walking dead from now on, and their souls will also be lost forever!

If this was the end of Professor Lupine, Hermione couldn't imagine it.

Just when she was about to tell Ivan about this, there was another strong vibration in the castle, like an earthquake, and even the walls were trembling.

A few seconds after the shock, a loud and strange echo came up from below, and it sounded like...

"What's that sound?" Hermione raised her head and asked worriedly.

"It's the roaring letter! Since this morning, the owls have been flying to the school with a steady stream of roaring letters from the parents of the students. It's really terrible!" Madam Pomfrey said, "Every professor has a share, but most of them It was addressed to the principal."

"A yelling letter to the headmaster?!" Hermione didn't seem to respond, "Where is Professor Dumbledore?"

"Who knows?! He hasn't come back since he left last night." Madam Pomfrey said worriedly, "The matter of the werewolf and Professor Lupin must have kept him busy! Although he himself is not in Hogwarts Ci, but these letters are still being sent in a steady stream, almost filling up the entire auditorium!"

Madam Pomfrey had just finished speaking when Harry walked into the ward.

He looked like he was in a bad state, depressed and in a trance, with two big shadows under his eyes.

"Good morning, Ivan! Good morning, Hermione!" Harry said weakly.

"Good morning, Harry! You look very bad!" Hermione looked anxiously into his face.

"It's really not very good. If you were in the auditorium just now and saw that scene, you would probably be as bad as me." Harry sat down on the chair next to Ivan's hospital bed and said disappointedly, "Mal Foo and Snape's plot worked, and at breakfast hundreds of owls burst into the Great Hall with howling letters, all of them blaming Dumbledore and Professor Lupine! You didn't see Malfoy and the others Slytherins look disgusting!"

"But everyone except them believes in Professor Lupine, he is innocent!"

"It's no use, no one wants to believe us, the adults are all listening to that guy Ron talking nonsense, he accused Professor Lupine of assaulting the students." Harry said angrily, "I really want to beat him up, come to him until you wake up."

"Harry, there must be some misunderstanding!" Hermione said worriedly, "Ron is..."

Hermione stopped. When Ivan came back last night, he told himself the conversation he had with Dumbledore. She knew that Ron was acting so abnormally last night because of the Imperius Curse.

It was about the plans between Alvin, Dumbledore, and Sirius Black, and Hermione wasn't sure if she could talk about it.

Chapter 138 The Plan Begins

"Don't excuse that guy, Hermione!" Harry said loudly, feeling a pang of anger burning in his chest, "I've seen it through, just like Sirius Black back then, he was my father's best My friend, he is still my godfather, but who would have thought that he betrayed my parents to Voldemort in the end?! Ron is like Black, I always thought he was my best friend, but he betrayed last night I betrayed Professor Lupine!"

Harry was shaking all over from being so excited.

In his opinion, Ron's behavior last night was exactly what Blake had done to his parents 12 years ago.

He betrayed himself to Snape and Lucius Malfoy, to Professor Lupine!

This behavior is completely unforgivable!

"Harry, Black didn't betray your parents, he..."

Before Hermione finished speaking, Harry abruptly interrupted him. He said violently, "You don't know, Hermione! Yesterday morning, Professor Lupine told me everything. Twelve years ago, It was Black who betrayed my parents to Voldemort, and he killed..."

"Peter Pettigrew!" Ivan whispered.

"That's right, it's him!" Harry was stunned for a moment, he turned his head to look at Ivan, and continued, "Peter was my father's best friend during his lifetime, and he went to Black to avenge my parents, but he's not that mean The villain's opponent."

"He's not as noble as you imagined." Ivan said slowly, "He didn't avenge your parents either. In fact, Peter Pettigrew didn't die."

"What did you say?!" Harry looked up suspiciously.

He didn't understand what Ivan meant, how could Pettigrew Peter not be dead!

"Listen to me, Harry!" Ivan looked up and looked around. Madam Pomfrey returned to her office. There were only three of them in the ward. He said in a low voice, "Yesterday afternoon, Hermione and I Met Sirius Black in Hogsmeade..."

Ivan told Harry the truth about the incident between Black and Peter.

Now that Dumbledore had been told about this, there was no need to continue to hide it from Harry.

Just be careful not to be known by Ron.According to Dumbledore's expectations, while catching Peter Pettigrew, he would also save Ron and help him resist the Imperius Curse. No matter how you look at it, Harry's assistance is inseparable from this matter.

"Peter Pettigrew is still alive, and he is Ron's Mouse Scabbers!" Hearing Ivan's words, Harry couldn't believe it.

This was really unbelievable, completely different from what he heard from Professor Lupine.

"That's right!" Ivan lowered his voice again, "And it was he who controlled Ron, which is the main reason why Ron was so abnormal last night and why he accused Professor Lupine!"

"What!" Harry immediately stood up and said eagerly, "I see. No wonder I've been feeling that something is wrong with Ron recently. Remember, he was controlled by Tom Riddle last year, and he must be controlled by Peter now." That's why he betrayed Professor Lupine, we have to save him."

Harry was a little skeptical about what Ivan and Hermione said.But after hearing that Ron was being controlled, he instantly believed it.

Deep down, Harry never believed that Ron would betray him.

Now it's clear that Peter Pettigrew is the coolest culprit.He killed his parents, he framed Sirius Black to spend the 12 years in Azkaban, and now he framed Professor Lupine again, by controlling his best friend.

This was simply unforgivable, new and old hatred added together, Harry had never hated someone so much as he wanted to, and there was unprecedented hatred flowing from all over his body.He has to catch Peter Pettigrew, he wants to avenge his parents, he wants to clean up the grievances for Black, and he wants to save Ron.

"Wait a minute!" Ivan hurriedly stopped Harry, "We can't just rush over like this, it is easy to have an accident, let Peter take the opportunity to escape, I talked to Professor Dumbledore last night, we are catching Pettigrew At the same time as Peter, he also had to help Ron resist the Imperius Curse. If he didn't wake up himself, this black magic would have an impact on his soul!"

"What can we do to save Ron?" said Harry eagerly.

"If it's just to unravel the Imperius Curse, there are many ways." Ivan thought for a while and continued, "But if you want the cursed person to wake up, there is only one way, and that is his own willpower Be strong enough."

"Willpower is strong enough?!" Harry repeated, with a puzzled expression, "What should I do?"

"I don't know exactly how to do it." Ivan sighed, "Maybe, before catching Peter Pettigrew, we can try to say something to Ron. At that time, it depends on Ron's own choice." , Choose us or Peter Pettigrew! I believe he can wake up on his own. When the basilisk was about to attack Ginny last year, Ron broke free from Tom Riddle's control."

"Ivan, will Dumbledore help us?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"Maybe, yes!" Ivan muttered in a low voice.

In fact, he couldn't figure out what the principal was thinking at all, and he wasn't sure what the other party meant by "Leave the rest to me!" he said last night.

Does this mean that Dumbledore will secretly protect them?This seems to be Dumbledore's style. In Harry's first year, in order to give Harry enough exercise, he turned a blind eye to Quirrell's abnormal behavior, but watched the three of Harry silently behind his back. Performance.

Dumbledore is not currently at Hogwarts, perhaps on purpose to paralyze Peter Pettigrew.

"Dumbledore will definitely come out to help us at critical moments. Before that, Black and I already have a plan." Ivan looked at Harry and Hermione, "Now, we just need to make sure that both Ron and Peter In the common room."

"Ron was still in bed when I left this morning," said Harry. "Remember, it's the first day of the Christmas holidays and everyone else has gone home for the holidays, and it's just the four of us in Gryffindor Tower." exist."

The next time was tense waiting, and the three of them discussed the details of tonight's plan again.

Madam Pomfrey checked Ivan and Hermione's health, and did not allow them to leave until it was almost lunch time.

Chapter 139 An Unpleasant Lunch

Alvin, Harry, and Hermione left the school hospital. When they rushed to the auditorium, they found that the long tables usually used by the four colleges had been moved to the wall, and there was only one table in the middle of the room for 20 people. There is a square table for people to eat, and people who are going to stay in school for Christmas this year are sitting around the table.

Ivan didn't see Dumbledore, his place was empty.

Besides him, Professor McGonagall, Snape, Professor Flitwick, and Hagrid were there, as was Filch the janitor.

Filch had shed his usual brown coat and was wearing a very old and rather dated tuxedo.Next to Professor Flitwick were two extremely nervous first-years, both Ravenclaws; to Snape's left, a sullen-faced sixth-year Slytherin.

And Ron, who sat alone at the end of the table, no one wanted to come near him.

Harry hesitated, and walked over to Ron, his face full of concern.

Ivan hurriedly grabbed Harry, he couldn't just pass by.Because of what happened to Professor Lupine last night, Harry reacted normally now, probably because he hated Ron very much.

If you approach rashly, it is easy to startle the snake.

Peter Pettigrew is a cunning opponent who has to be careful.

The three of them looked at each other, away from Ron, and sat down next to Hagrid.

Apart from the weird smile on Snape's mouth, the atmosphere at the table was very low and depressing, without any cheerful atmosphere of coming Christmas. Everyone was eating their lunch in silence, and no one spoke.

"Ivan, Hermione, how are you two doing?" Hagrid asked sadly.

"Don't worry, Madam Pomfrey said we don't have any problems, we just need to..." Before Ivan finished speaking, he saw three owls flying into the auditorium.

With three red envelopes in their mouths, they flew straight to Dumbledore's empty seat.

"Enough is enough. It's these roaring letters again. They've been ringing all morning!"

Professor McGonagall stood up, looking furiously at the three Howler letters that had been owled onto the dining table, the corners of which were burning.

She pulled out her wand and flicked it at Howler.

Three blue flames shot out from the slowly burning red envelope, turning the envelope into ashes in an instant without making any sound.

"Unbelievable, unbelievable!" Professor Flitwick said uneasily in a sharp voice, "Are these people crazy?! They actually sent Dumbledore a shouting letter. I haven't seen such madness for many years. things."

"Stupid owls, and equally stupid howler letters!" Snape sneered.

"I noticed that all these shouting letters were sent by students from your academy, Severus?!" Professor McGonagall said with a pursed mouth.

"Thank you for reminding me, I didn't realize this before!" Snape showed a cold smile, "However, I can understand the reason why the parents of the students did this. In my opinion, the principal's actions this time are indeed worthwhile." Not appropriate, who would have thought that the school professor would be a werewolf? And who would have thought that this tamed werewolf would attack his own students? With this lesson learned, I believe that when the principal hires personnel in the future, he will definitely Be very, very careful!"

"Professor Lupine is innocent!" Harry looked at Snape angrily, and couldn't help shouting, "He didn't hurt anyone, he..."

"Quiet, Potter! Five points deducted from Gryffindor!" Snape turned his head to look at Harry, and said with a sneer, "I don't want to know what kind of relationship you have with that werewolf, but I have to remind you, Watch your tone of voice, don't yell at me like an uneducated werewolf cub!"

Harry sat down angrily, forcing himself not to look at Snape.

"Don't worry, Harry! With Dumbledore around, Professor Lupine will be fine." Hagrid comforted in a low voice, looking a little less confident, "It's really bad, I can't remember which three owls are the first owls of the day. There are a few of them, and they are flying over continuously with roaring letters."

"Is this the whole morning?" Ivan asked in surprise.

"That's right, you and Hermione didn't come during breakfast, and you didn't see that scene, in front of everyone in the school, more than 400 Howler letters exploded at the same time!"

"I already told them!" Harry asked feebly, "Hagrid, is there any news about Dumbledore or Professor Lupine?"

"There is indeed bad news." Hagrid said hesitantly, "I just heard that the Ministry is planning to imprison Professor Lupine directly in Azkaban!"

"There hasn't been a trial yet, how could they do that!" Harry glanced at Ron, and then quickly moved his eyes back. He said in a low voice, "Ron's accusations are obviously absurd, and Professor Lupine will be proven is innocent."

"I know, that guy Lucius Malfoy is behind it!" Hagrid replied angrily, "It's not that I don't believe in Lupine, but if it were me, I would rather die than be imprisoned again." Azkaban."

"Is it scary in there, Hagrid?" Hermione asked cautiously.

"You can't imagine that I stayed there for a few days 50 years ago when I was wrongly controlled by a monster in the secret room and killed a student." Hagrid said calmly. I thought I was going crazy. I kept thinking about horrible things, the day I was expelled from Hogwarts, the day my father died..."

"Is it because of the dementors?!"

"That's right, you've all seen these monsters this year, but I'm afraid you haven't seen thousands of dementors together, that terrifying feeling..." Hagrid closed his eyes, with painful memories on his face, "Ah Zkaban prison was built on a deserted island far off the coast, and that island was full of dementors. Just stay there, and after a while you don't know who you are, and you don't know that there is no way to live. What do you mean. I remember, I used to wish I could die in sleep, and when they let me out, I felt like I was alive again, and I remembered everything, and it was the most wonderful feeling in the world.Remember Hold on, the dementors won't let me go."

"But you're not guilty?!" said Hermione.

"Crime?!" Hagrid snorted angrily, "Do you think they value this? They don't care, they've already got five hundred people with them, and they can suck the happiness of these people completely , they don't care who is guilty and who is not."

Hearing Hagrid's words, Harry felt that his gastric juices had turned into water, and his blood instantly turned cold.

"Don't worry!" Seeing Harry and Hermione's expressions, Ivan said hurriedly, "Professor Lupine will not be imprisoned in Azkaban, as long as tonight, we can prove his innocence of."

Harry didn't speak, he was still thinking about Azkaban.

It occurred to him that Sirius Black had been locked up there for twelve years, and it must have felt bad.

Chapter 140 Sybill Trelawney

Just as Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid were discussing Azkaban, the door of the hall was opened again.

In came Professor Trelawney, gliding towards us as if on wheels.

She wore a green dress embellished with tinsel, which made her look even more like a shiny oversized dragonfly.

"Good afternoon, everyone!" said Professor Trelawney, in her faintest, most distant voice, "I've been looking at my crystal ball from the tower, and to my surprise I see myself throwing I took a lunch alone to join your dinner. Who am I, how can I refuse the urging of fate? I walked out of my building immediately, and I sincerely ask you to forgive me for being late..."

No one spoke, and everyone looked at her in surprise.

Ivan noticed that Professor McGonagall's mouth was tightly pursed, and his face became even uglier.

Professor Trelawney didn't sit down directly, she turned half a circle around the dining table, bringing invisible pressure to everyone, she stood behind Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ivan for a long time, The big eyes have been looking all over the table.

Suddenly, she let out a low scream!

"What's the matter, Professor?" the first-year student in front of her asked uneasily.

"Dear child, you can't believe it, I saw it..." She only stared at Ivan, with an expression as if he was dead.

"Sit down, Sybil!" Professor McGonagall interrupted her suddenly, "Those owls and howling letters are enough to upset people, there is no need for you to add extra pressure to everyone!"

"I can't sit down, Minerva!" Professor Trelawney said in a panicked tone as if she had just noticed Professor McGonagall, "I can't do this, if I sit down, there will be thirteen people at the table! There is nothing more unlucky than thirteen! Never forget that if thirteen people eat together, the first person to stand up after the meal will be the first to die!"

"We're willing to take the risk, Sybil," said Professor McGonagall impatiently. "Sit down, for the sake of the Christmas holidays!"