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

Harry felt that his own thoughts had begun to become confused. He could understand every word Esther said, but when they were put together, he couldn't understand what they meant.

"What do you mean?" Ron asked before Harry could.

He also widened his eyes, looking overly surprised.

Esther looked at them and said, "Before I answer this question, I think I need to let you know what kind of person Sirius Black is."

"Is there any conflict between who he is and what a vicious murderer he is?"

Harry felt his throat was a little dry, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "I don't want to know who Sirius Black is, I just want to know what you mean when you say there was someone else who betrayed my parents?"

Esther said: "Don't be anxious, just listen to me slowly."

It's about his parents, how could Harry not be in a hurry? He wanted to say something else, but Hermione grabbed his shoulder: "Harry! Listen to Ess first!"

Ron also put his hand on Harry's other shoulder and comforted: "It's okay Harry."

Harry calmed down a little under the comfort of his friends. He took a deep breath and said to Esther: "Go ahead."

"I wrote to my parents and asked them. They are in the same grade as Harry's parents, so they know Sirius Black well. He is from the Black family. Generations of his family have been supporters of pure blood, and the whole family is Slytherin. , but he is the only exception, because he was sorted into Gryffindor on the day of sorting."

My mother said that after Sirius Black was sorted into Gryffindor, his relationship with his family suddenly dropped to a freezing point, even though he had a bad relationship with his family before that. His mother always acted like he was a disgrace to the Black family every time she mentioned him to anyone.

He has a very good relationship with Harry, your father and several other Gryffindors in school. They often act together, but he has a very average relationship with his younger brothers and cousins ​​in Slytherin. He hates his decadent and crazy family, and also hates everything they pursue, including the idea of ​​pure blood and the Dark Lord.

Therefore, he later joined the Order of the Phoenix and fought against the Dark Lord with your parents, and even severed ties with his family and became completely strangers. "

Esther tried her best to briefly describe the first half of Sirius's life, and then glanced at the three of them one by one: "How could such a person suddenly betray his friends and become a subordinate of the Dark Lord he hates most?"

"That's not necessarily true!" Harry didn't think this could mean anything: "What if he was just pretending from the beginning? You said it yourself. With so many people in his family following Voldemort, he couldn't tell for sure. He doesn't hate Voldemort as much as he shows on the outside."

Esther answered him: "Why do you think 11-year-old Sirius Black is pretending? At that time, the Dark Lord had not yet become a hero? Is it possible that he has foresight and knows what will happen more than ten years later?"

Harry opened his mouth, not knowing how to reply.

"Then we might as well make a bold assumption. What if it was not Sirius Black who betrayed your parents, but Peter Pettigrew who seemed to become a hero?"

Ron's expression was distorted, and he retorted: "Impossible! You may not know that the place where Harry's parents lived was protected by the Loyalty Curse. Sirius Black was the secret keeper, and he was the only one who reported on the Dark Lord. Only then can we find Harry's parents."

Harry also nodded: "This is what I personally heard from Professor McGonagall and others, and it will never be wrong."

"But the biggest problem now is that Peter Pettigrew, who was originally determined to be dead, is most likely not dead. So how likely is it that the truth believed by the Ministry of Magic back then is true?"

Esther was tired from talking, and she wanted to drink some water to moisten her throat. Unfortunately, the Room of Requirement couldn't conjure food, and of course it couldn't conjure drinks.

Harry and Ron looked at each other and saw their own confused and helpless expressions in each other's eyes.

"I..." Harry didn't know what to say: "I don't know, this is all too messy, just say what you want to say."

Then Esther continued: "If Sirius Black secretly exchanges the identity of the Secret Keeper with Peter Pettigrew, and then Peter Pettigrew informs the Dark Lord, leading to the death of your parents. But because the Secret Keeper on the surface is still Sirius Black, so everyone naturally thinks that Sirius Black betrayed your parents.

Since your parents are dead and Peter Pettigrew faked his death to escape, he could not be freed from his crime and was imprisoned in Azkaban.

One day after this, Sirius Black accidentally discovered that Peter Pettigrew, who had betrayed them, was not dead. So under the influence of hatred, he escaped from Azkaban and followed the real betrayer all the way to Hogwart. tz.

Because he did not come to kill Harry at all, he did not harm any students, but always tried his best to sneak into the Gryffindor common room, where there were betrayers he wanted to catch.

The first time he tried to enter the Gryffindor lounge while all the students were having dinner in the auditorium, but unfortunately he failed; the second time he finally knew the password, fumbled his way into Gryffindor, and found the place where the betrayer should be. He was there, but unfortunately, the betrayer had already escaped first, and he missed it, so after a student discovered him, he had no choice but to escape first. "

At this point, Esther looked at Ron: "Does this explain why Sirius Black attacked you in the first place and then left immediately after you woke up?"

"His target from the beginning was not Harry, but you, or rather the mouse beside you, Scabbers."

Ron's face turned pale, and he stammered: "Well... Scabbers was indeed... gone at that time, but..."

"But...there's no evidence for this?" Harry also felt that what Esther said was somewhat reasonable, but he still couldn't believe it.

"So I went to seek confirmation later." Esther pointed to the Marauder's Map: "I found Scabbers at the location where Peter Pettigrew appeared. This is the evidence."

"There's another piece of evidence!" Hermione, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Professor McGonagall and the others said that Peter Pettigrew was brutally murdered. Only one of his fingers was found at the scene, and Scabbers was also missing a toe! Don’t you think it’s too much of a coincidence?”

"But it's really possible that this is just a coincidence." Ron's face had turned as white as possible, and even the red hair showed horror and disbelief: "Sirius Black is in Azkaban." , and how do you know Banban is by my side?"

Just as Esther was about to answer, Harry grabbed Ron's robe tremblingly: "It's possible Ron, do you still remember that before Sirius Black escaped from prison, your family won a lottery and traveled to Egypt? When it was published in the newspaper, were you holding Banban at that time?"

Ron suddenly covered his face and fell on the table, looking deeply shocked.

"This is all so magical!"

he howled.