【HP】I don’t want to fall in love, I just want to mess around

"Ginny said you saw Scabbers! Is this true or false? Did you see it right? Scabbers was not eaten by a cat?"

Ron was extremely excited and asked Esther several questions in succession.

Esther said to him with great certainty: "I'm absolutely right. If you don't believe me, you can ask Hagrid. I met that pet Scabbers in Hagrid's hut."

"Great! Scabbers was not eaten! Where is it now? Is it still in Hagrid's hut?" Hermione was very excited. She looked like she was about to cry.

Although she never admitted that it was Crookshanks who ate Banban, in fact, Banban’s whereabouts were unknown for so many days, she was a little unsure, so sometimes she thought that maybe Crookshanks really ate Banban, so I have always felt guilty.

And now she can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Esther's expression was not as relaxed and happy as theirs. She sighed: "Let's find a place to talk about it, because things are more complicated now."

Her expression made Harry and the others have some bad suspicions. Ron asked Esther with trembling lips: "Did something go wrong with Scabbers again? He was in an accident or died, right?"

Esther shook her head: "It's more complicated than that."

The three of them looked at each other, and finally Harry said first: "Can't you say no here? There aren't many people here."

Esther objected: "No, there are many people here, and what I am going to say later is very important. There must be no leakage, and there must be no chance of it happening."

Perhaps her tone was too serious, and Harry and the three of them were also worried. They couldn't imagine anything more serious than Scabbers' death. "

"Then... let's go to the abandoned bathroom on the second floor?"

Hermione followed suit.

Esther still shook her head: "It won't work there. Where Myrtle is, there is still a possibility of leaks. We have the Room of Requirement, which is safer."

They walked towards the House of Hope.

On the way, Ron said uneasily: "What happened? Could it be that Scabbers broke into the Forbidden Forest and killed a unicorn?"

His original intention was to make a joke and relieve the tense atmosphere.

Harry was about to laugh, but Esther turned her head and said to them very seriously: "It would be okay if this were the case. Although it is bizarre, but..."

Before she finished speaking, her delicate eyebrows were furrowed, looking worried.

At this time, they all realized the seriousness of the matter, and the atmosphere quickly became silent.

When they arrived at the Room of Requirement, Esther paced back and forth while imagining the need for a spacious, quiet room.

Soon, the door to the Room of Requirement appeared, and they entered one by one.

Four people sit around a table.

"Ace, can you tell me what happened now?"

Hermione took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself to look at Esther.

Facing three pairs of anxious and curious eyes, Esther took out the fire point map and placed it on the table.

"Harry, do you remember that I borrowed the Marauder's Map from you some time ago?"

she spoke.

Harry nodded: "Of course. You said you took it for research and wanted to make a few copies. Is there something wrong with the Marauder's Map?"

Esther said: "There's nothing wrong with the Marauder's Map, but I saw a name on it that shouldn't be there."

"Who?" Hermione asked alertly, "Sirius Black?"

"No." Esther denied her guess: "It's a more unexpected name than Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew."

"What?" Harry's eyes widened in disbelief: "Did you see it wrong? Peter Pettigrew had died a long time ago. He died... and was killed by Sirius Black! This matter was investigated by the Ministry of Magic. The conclusion we came to later!”

"I'm sure I saw it right." Esther said with certainty: "Because I saw this name more than once. This name mostly appears at night. He will wander around the castle and occasionally outside the castle. Haunted on lawns and other places.”

"But he is already dead! Is there someone whose name is similar to his?"

Ron didn't believe it either, after all, things like resurrection from the dead sounded nonsense.

Esther still said firmly: "I have checked and there is no student in our school with the same name as him, not even a pet."

"Then this is too strange." Hermione frowned: "Can the Marauder's Map show the ghost's name?"

"No, it only shows the names of living people."

"Even if Peter Pettigrew came back from the dead, what does that have to do with Scabbers?" Ron asked with some confusion.

Esther took a deep breath and continued: "This question is the key point. After I discovered Peter Pettigrew's name, I observed it for several days, and finally went to the place where his name was shown on the map during the day. It's Hagrid's hut."

"So that's where you only found Scabbers, right?"

Hermione looked a little pale and said that she had vaguely guessed something.

Esther looked at Hermione and nodded: "Yes, I showed the location of Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map and found Scabbers."

"What does this mean? You wouldn't suspect that Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew, would you? How is this possible? It's just a mouse!"

Ron found it very ridiculous: "And he has been in our house for 12 years! There has never been anything abnormal!"

"Yes, after 12 years, would an ordinary mouse have such a long lifespan?" Esther looked at Ron specifically: "Besides, 12 years ago happened to be the time when the Dark Lord attacked Harry's family."

One sentence made Harry shudder.

He picked up the Marauder's Map and wanted to find traces of Peter Pettigrew on it, but Esther answered him: "It's useless. He disappeared after escaping from Hagrid's hut. I think he ran away." Into the Forbidden Forest."

"Animagus!"

Hermione shouted suddenly, and then murmured nervously: "If that's the case, then everything will make sense. There are so many doubts in front of us, and I didn't even notice it..."

"What do you understand?" Ron still didn't want to believe it: "Even if there is something wrong with Scabbers, it doesn't make sense. Why didn't Peter Pettigrew die back then? Why did he turn into a mouse and hide in my house? Even if he I was almost killed by Sirius Black and was so frightened that I had a psychological shadow. Fortunately, I survived and kept hiding. But then Sirius Black was captured and sent to Azkaban, the Dark Lord also died, and no one who could threaten him was gone. , why does he keep pretending to be a mouse?"

Esther took a deep breath and expressed her point of view: "So, I suspect that things back then were much more complicated than we imagined."

As she spoke, she looked at Harry again and continued word by word: "And I think there was someone else who betrayed Harry's parents."