HP solves the mystery

The busyness of the Ministry of Magic did not affect Godric's Hollow at all, and members of the Order of the Phoenix gathered together to hold a funeral for Lily and Potter.

Petunia took advantage of the gap after the funeral to raise the issue of child support to Dumbledore.

"Principal Dumbledore, I am still a student. It is difficult for me to support myself, let alone take care of a child..." Petunia sighed sadly, looking at the little child who was watching all this with wide eyes and no knowledge of the world. Harry felt his stomach twitching violently, as if he was about to vomit acidic water.

Dumbledore, who was wearing a gray robe, adjusted his glasses and looked at Petunia lovingly with his blue eyes.

Petunia swallowed her saliva and hesitated for a while before speaking, "My sister's husband - James Potter, his family... I mean, there will be relatives willing to raise him, and it's not like the Potter family has no money. Looks like…”

Dumbledore seemed to have expected what she would say. He calmly untied his cuffs and invited the person into the room to talk.

"Penny, my child, can I call you that?" Dumbledore took a sip of the honey water, and after seeing her nod, he finally explained, "Because the heir to the Potter family died, the Potter Manor has activated protective measures. ...The manor will only be reopened when Harry turns 11..."

"And the Potter family's treasury requires keys or blood tokens to open... Those are all in the manor... This is the reason why I gave you the child to raise..."

Penny frowned. If you put it this way, wouldn't it mean that you were guarding the treasure house and not allowed to enter it? Where did the money come from to raise Harry? She has no money...

"Don't worry Petunia, I will let the owl send you some money every month to raise Harry..." Dumbledore smiled and touched his beard and settled on the charter.

Maybe he felt guilty at this moment, but how long could it last? As long as he is worthy of the magical world and himself, he must achieve the greatest benefits with the least casualties, even if that is not what he expected to happen.

Penny thought she had spoken out what was in her heart, but after thinking about it, she let it go. As long as she got the money, as for the matter of Potter Manor, she should go back and ask someone to investigate.

In the center of London, Severus looked at the news criticizing the Death Eaters' crimes in the Wizarding Daily and stroked the kitten in his arms, but his heart was not at peace.

After returning from the Ministry of Magic last time, he came home and found the broken cauldron and instruments in the potion room. He learned that the basilisk had done it when he brought the cat cubs in to play. He took the basilisk and scolded him. And deprived it of snacks for half a month.

After he finished feeding the kitten, he ran to take out the old newspaper and flipped through it. Finally, in the corner of the Muggle newspaper, he found a report about the death of 13 people in a gas explosion.

"Tom, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?" Severus picked up the sleeping cat and rubbed it on its furry belly.

Fu Maomao kicked his legs in confusion. Under someone's increasingly rogue actions, he finally scratched him impatiently with his paws and kept making warning sounds in his mouth.

Voldemort thought angrily in his heart that if he had not obtained the soul stabilizer from him and had to wait until his body grew older, he would have cut out the young man's heart and bones.

The next moment, Voldemort felt that the cat's face was kissed, and sweet shrimp meat was stuffed into his mouth, and most of his anger disappeared.

Severus propped his head up and watched the cat ate leisurely, touching its back with his hands from time to time. The light cast their shadows on the wall, making them look warm and harmonious.

Basilisk watching a cartoon: It's obviously a movie about three people...

Severus' doubts were finally solved, but the Ministry of Magic was not very happy.

Werewolves stuck in the wolfsbane potion wandered around the Ministry of Magic from time to time, causing a lot of trouble for the Aurors, and the cross-border meetings were interrupted several times.

The Ministry of Magic had to transfer some of the guards from Diagon Alley, and just said directly to the werewolves, look, I agreed to your request, let's go.

The Aurors were arresting people conscientiously, causing complaints from ordinary residents. Of course, it is not ruled out that they sent their mortal enemies to Azkaban.

The Daily Prophet was fanning the flames, constantly praising the Ministry of Magic's resolute actions and the Aurors' extremely fast work efficiency, and recounting Dumbledore's victory. In fact, it was putting them on the fire and breaking the already unstable relationship between the three parties. .

Don't forget that there are wizards working in Voldemort's company. Some of them were forced to take leave, some were arrested and tried by Aurors as Death Eaters, and some chose to live in the Ministry of Magic to keep their jobs.

The nobles were all very united. If they were arrested by the Aurors, they would just say that they were under the Imperius Curse or something. Then they would pay some 'bail money' and deal with the last little thing, and the matter would be over.

The Ministry of Magic would not let the situation continue to be chaotic. After collecting a large amount of money, obtaining a tax payment contract from Universal Corporation, and the words of the top management to accept the situation, they finally mercifully released the blockade on the company.

Universal's furloughed employees returned to work, and the stores in Diagon Alley reopened, but the lost popularity could not be replenished. However, the potion shop at the end of the street was so popular that they handed over the improved version of the Wolfsbane potion formula. .

Now as long as you are a wizard, you can completely learn it by brewing the recipe a few times, and the materials required are more than ten times lower than before.

It's just that Damocles Bellby, who invented the Wolfsbane potion, earned much less money.

In any case, after more than a month of busy work, everything has settled and the magical world has finally calmed down, at least on the surface.

Secretly, Regulus sent his men everywhere to search for traces of Voldemort, just because that adult once said that if Nagini died, he would be considered truly dead.

Therefore, the nobles launched a reward, and anyone with clues could receive a reward of 10,000 to 10,000 galleons.

Dumbledore turned a blind eye to their little tricks, but the money for eating sweets increased.

As for Peter, who was supposed to die, he originally hid in the dark sewers. It wasn't until he heard wizards discussing that Sirius was finally imprisoned in Azkaban when he was foraging that he dared to rush towards home.

However, the plan did not change quickly. When he went home, he happened to bump into someone from the Ministry of Magic.

"What? This is my son's finger. Is he really dead..." Mrs. Pediru held the box containing the finger and cried heartbrokenly.

The people from the Ministry of Magic clutched the hats in their hands with a sad expression, "Your son's murderer has been captured in Azkaban. We have applied for your son to receive the Order of Merlin, First Class. We hope you can express your condolences..."

Mrs. Pedillo cried and accepted the medal given to her son. The people from the Ministry of Magic swallowed their breath and left in a hurry.

Peter turned into a mouse and hid behind the curtains. After seeing the people from the Ministry of Magic leaving, he was shocked to realize that he had really become a "dead man". Sirius did not say that he had betrayed James and the others, and no one else Knowing that the original secret keeper was replaced by someone else, then the secret must be rotten in the stomach.

He later found some time to recover his physical form, hugged his mother who was almost fainted from shock, and told her his plan bit by bit.

Pedilu's mother was angry and anxious after hearing this. She hated her son for making a mistake and ended up in his current situation. She also resented that she was unable to let him live a good life. She could only cry helplessly.

"It's all my fault. I didn't teach you well..." Mrs. Pedilu kicked and beat her lost son in her arms. She was afraid of being heard by outsiders but did not dare to speak too loudly, so she could only sob quietly.

Peter remained motionless and allowed his mother to vent her emotions, his little eyes filled with tears. At first, he just wanted to gain money and status, but he didn't expect...

"Peter, do we really have to leave?" Mrs. Pedillo, who had stayed in England for most of her life, reluctantly touched the old furniture in the room and said sadly to the little mouse on the table.

Peter, who turned back into a mouse, nodded. His small green bean-sized eyes stared at the old house nostalgically, but the next moment his eyes became firm, and a better life was waving to him.

Mrs. Pedillo sighed and held the mouse in her hands. She had to give the child a bath, otherwise it would be covered in ashes.

It has been almost two months since Harry was sent to live with his aunt, which also means Christmas is coming.

Petunia agreed to Vernon's proposal on the day before Christmas, and set the wedding date for Easter the following year, which was April 4th.

Harry, a two-year-old child, happened to be a flower girl, so he got a suitable job.

It was a rare snowfall in London. Fu Maomao was lying by the window, staring at the falling snowflakes with open eyes. He had been trapped in this cat's body for two months, how could he get out and contact his men.

Maybe it's true that slicing affects his IQ. He doesn't want to look like a cat now. Who can believe that he is Voldemort? I'm just afraid that I'll be picked up by a wild dog as soon as I step out.

Fu Maomao was thinking about it, and his stomach growled. He jumped out of the window and came to the dining table. He poked the chicken breast several times with his paws, and then chewed it to vent his emotions.

Seeing the strange expression and crazy movements of the cat cub, the basilisk shook its head. The poor cub must be exhausted from staying at home all day long.

[Severus, I want to take Tom out to play. ] The basilisk thought for a while before speaking to someone.

"Play? Where are you going? It's snowing outside. Haierbo, it's okay for you to go out, but Tom is too weak." Severus finished peeling a shrimp and gave it to Fu Maomao, picked up the ribs on the side and ate it.

Fu Maomao heard the conversation between a man and a snake. He was surprised at the beginning and now he is not surprised. He was even more curious about the young man in front of him. He had never heard of such a person before. After he recovered, he asked his subordinates to check it out. check.

He squinted his eyes and ate the shrimp, wondering why he hadn't noticed that shrimp meat was delicious before.

[I'll take him to the Forbidden Forest to play. Bain can help me take care of Tom, and I can also ask them to cut off the unicorn's horn and polish it into a whistle for you. ] Unicorn horns can bring good luck, and it wants to get one for Severus, [Maybe you prefer leg bones? I heard that some people like this tune and get you a pillow. 】

Upon hearing this, Severus turned a little green when he thought of the whistle made from Salazar's finger bones. He had already placed the whistle in the potion room.

"No need, the pillow I have now is just fine." He refused in a dumbfounded voice, saying that he was not lucky enough to bear such a thing, "I can send you there, but I can't take little Tom there, it's too dangerous for him. "

The basilisk looked at him suspiciously, flicked its tail, [Do you think I can't protect it? It's so weak, I don't know how many I can swallow in one mouthful, and aren't there centaurs to help? 】

Severus held his forehead helplessly, because he was afraid that you would swallow it. Coupled with the beasts of the Forbidden Forest and the owls of Hogwarts, a three-month-old kitten would be very dangerous.

Fu Maomao was stunned when he heard this. He didn't even know that the shrimp in his mouth fell on the table. How could this snake go to the Forbidden Forest? Is it the Forbidden Forest he thinks it is? You must know that when he was studying, the Forbidden Forest had not yet been fully explored.

Severus had a quarrel with the basilisk, and when he saw that the cat's shrimp had fallen off, he peeled off another one for him.

Fu Maomao's pointed ears trembled, thinking about the suitcase that the basilisk often packed, and then thinking about the golden crown he hid in Hogwarts, and yawned in distress.

Severus kept his promise and was going to take the basilisk to the Forbidden Forest the next day.

"Tom, stay at home." He called several times in the house before leaving. In the end, he didn't see the little black cat. He thought he was hiding under the bed again, so he didn't think much and took it with him. The basilisk is out.

Although the village of Hogsmeade was sealed off by the Ministry of Magic for a period of time, it has returned to its former glory with the arrival of students, but the money earned is not as much as before.

Severus bought a lot of snacks from Honeydukes and stuffed them into a suitcase that had been casted with a traceless stretching spell, and then used a levitating spell to transport the suitcase to the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest.

The passage of the Shrieking Shack has almost become their exclusive passage. The Basilisk skillfully swam inside, pressed the scar of the Whomping Willow, and quickly jumped into the Forbidden Forest.

Severus waited for the centaur to arrive at his usual place and handed him the things in his hands.

[Hiss, Severus, go back, I've had enough fun and I'll let the stars bring you news. 】The basilisk followed the centaur without looking back, and only the hissing sound of its voice could be heard in the wind.

Stars are falcons raised by the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, which can detect enemy situations and deliver messages.

Severus looked at the basilisk, which was like a wild horse, and felt that its behavior was very abnormal.

Could it be that Haierbo is going to hibernate? he thought to himself.

The centaur Bane, who was running in the Forbidden Forest, was called to a halt by the Basilisk, and he placed the suitcase full of snacks on the ground.

[Bain, open your suitcase quickly, I’ve brought a new boy. 】The basilisk said proudly, pointing the tip of its tail to the ground.

Bain opened the suitcase with hesitation, only to see a black cat sticking out its tongue crawling inside. It looked like it was only three months old and no bigger than his palm.

"Is this Mrs. Norris's child?" Bain hesitantly picked up the kitten and wrapped it in his fur coat. "It looks much cuter."

The basilisk hissed and spat out the letter, and happily told Bain how he had figured out a way to steal the cat cub...

Bain staggered and expressed his deep sympathy for the cat's owner.

Severus sneezed when he got home. He was looking for the kitten everywhere, but it was nowhere to be seen. Finally, he anxiously used his wand to shout, "The kitten is here," but he only found a few cat hairs.

It wasn't until he opened the door to the potion room and saw the empty cabinet and the note with childlike handwriting on the table that he was sure of one thing.

The basilisk took away his potion and secretly took the cat cub to the Forbidden Forest.

Severus made a mental note of this account, and decided to deduct all the money from the Basilisk's coffers!

As for the smuggled cat cub, I can only hope that the Basilisk can take good care of it.