[HP] The Order of the Phoenix Family

As the number of visits to Hagrid's cabin increased, Hermione was not as afraid of Buckbeak as she was at the beginning, and Buckbeak became closer to her.She even reached out and stroked the hippogriff's beak when Hagrid finished feeding.

"It's great of you to come, Hermione..." Hagrid sniffed at the way the Hippogriff flapped its wings, "but I'm afraid it's useless, those people were all killed by Lucius. ? Malfoy bought it off, it's just—”

"Can't give up!" Hermione interrupted him. "Since they put Buckbeak on trial, there is still a chance, Hagrid!"

"Well, I hope so, but—"

Suddenly there was a series of shattering sounds in the room, followed by Fang's barking, and Hagrid muttered "Oh no", and walked past Hermione to the door.

"Yaya! What's wrong with you again?" He flung open the door. "I told you not to jump on the stove—"

But the big hound wasn't on the stove.It was lying on its stomach among the broken china, milk and flour, barking angrily, with a pool of blood around it and—

Hermione screamed.

"It's all right, Hermione." Hagrid said hurriedly, picking up the bleeding mouse with his tail ready to throw it out, "It's just a nasty mouse, it must have sneaked in to eat—"

"It's Scabbers!" Hermione grabbed his wrist, though her strength wasn't strong enough to stop Hagrid from doing anything. "Yeah - I can't believe it! It's Scabbers, it's Scabbers..."

"Scabbets?" said Hagrid blankly, as the mouse flailed its limbs a few last times and died completely. "Ron's mouse? You mean Crookshanks—"

"Crookshanks didn't!" Hermione's voice was so high that only bats could hear her, she clenched her fists and she was almost furious, "He claimed that Crookshanks ate his rats! But Crookshanks didn't! Scabbers Here it is! It must have run away and...then..."

Panting, she threw the schoolbag full of materials onto the chair with a heavy bang, and then began to search the room for boxes, muttering that Ron must apologize.Hagrid called her twice and she didn't seem to hear, and the half-giant grimaced, threw the mouse back into its place, and crouched down in front of Fang.The creature under the big dog's front paws finally became obedient, and picked it up by gnashing its teeth on the back of its neck.

"Hagrid, do you mind if I borrow this box?" Hermione asked. "I'll make it bigger and give it back."

"No problem, Hermione, you don't have to return it, I was going to throw it away too." Hagrid said, patted Fang Ya's cheek, and the little black dog fell into his palm from between the loose teeth, rubbing blood onto his palm .It seems that the dead mouse is its masterpiece.

"Good boy, he can catch mice at such a young age." He praised, "But don't be so reckless next time, I don't have so many milk jugs for you to smash."

The puppy whined softly twice.

"Have you got another dog, Hagrid?" Hermione asked casually, squatting down next to him, using the Levitation Charm to put the dead rat into the box.

"I picked it up in the Forbidden Forest two days ago. I guess it was raised by a student. Maybe it was scared by Black and ran out." Hagrid gently touched the puppy's back with his other hand, and the puppy shook. Tail, "I just want to ask you to help me write a notice to take back. Of course, if no one claims it, I don't mind raising one more..."

"No problem, I'll write when I get back!" Hermione closed the lid of the box and stood up, ignoring the schoolbag still left on the chair, and ran out of Hagrid's hut.

She rushed to the edge of the steps in front of the auditorium before stopping to breathe, clutching her chest with one hand and holding the box tightly with the other, thinking about where to find Harry and Ron.But the sprint took Hermione's anger down a bit, and it occurred to her that although Scabbers had been fine when Ron was holding up the bloody sheet and yelling at her, he was definitely dead now - and very fast. awful.Recalling Ron's furious appearance when he wronged Crookshanks, Hermione wanted to bring the dead mouse to him to prove Crookshanks' innocence, but she also hesitated to point out Ron's mistakes when he was too sad. It had the opposite effect and made him even angrier.

[She just thinks that other people's pets don't matter! 】

What Ron had said to Lavender replayed in her mind in due course, and it stung her again.She didn't!Ron did wrong Crookshanks, didn't he?It was he who was indiscriminate, relying only on a pool of blood and a few cat hairs... But to be honest, even though she didn't admit it, Hermione had always felt that Crookshanks ate Scabbers before.

Maybe make Scabbers' corpse look better?Hermione stopped, but she wasn't sure what spell to use, and really, there was a dead mouse in the box, and she didn't want to touch it at all.

"Hermione?" Professor Lupine came from the other side of the corridor, carrying the water tank containing Grindylow, "Are you okay?"

"Good afternoon, Professor Lupine," said Hermione hastily, "Um, I..." Could she ask Professor Lupine for help on this?

"I'm about to take this Grindylow and set her free." Seeing that something was wrong with her, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor stopped, "I also plan to go to the Forbidden Forest to try my luck, maybe I can find a red hat or two, but I don't want to Run into a Dementor...or Black."

Hermione nodded as she listened, facing the professor's gentle and encouraging look, she gritted her teeth and made up her mind. "Professor Lupine, this box contains Scabbers, Ron's pet mouse, which I just found out was killed by Hagrid's dog."

"Oh, my God," said the professor sympathetically, "don't know what to tell him, do you?"

"Yes," said Hermione nervously, "I was thinking maybe you could do me a favor and show me how to make it look better..."

The more she talked, the more she felt that she was bubbling stupidly, but to her gratitude, Professor Lupine immediately agreed and took her back to the office with the water tank.It was only when Hermione put the box on the desk that blood seeped through the cracks in the box, staining her hands.She immediately raised her hand away, almost screaming and jumping away, Professor Lupine thoughtfully conjured a handkerchief for her, and sealed the leak.

"Well, let's take a look at the poor little thing..."

The lid of the box was opened, and the next moment, the office became silent.Hermione wiped off the blood, looked up in confusion, and found that Professor Lupine was frozen in the position of opening the lid, staring at the dead mouse in the box.She had never seen anyone's face turn into such a terrifying gray-white color, as if they would faint in the next second.

Is Professor Lupine afraid of dead rats?She wondered, but Professor Lupine knew it was a dead rat before he opened it.And it's just a dead mouse, Professor Lupine is indeed afraid of some things that normal people are not afraid of, but she has already guessed that he is afraid of the full moon because...

"Hermione," the person being named shuddered, Professor Lupine sounded like a ghost—a ghost in a Muggle horror story, those pearly white ghosts in the castle are much more alive than he is at the moment, "you said Did Hagrid's dog kill the mouse? Fang?"

"Well, this," Hermione's tongue stuttered, "it's not Fang. It's not his dog to be exact, it's a black dog he picked up two days ago—"

Professor Lupine looked at her so sharply that Hermione forgot what she was about to say.

"A black dog."

"Ah, yes..." She whispered at a loss, Professor Lupine seemed to be a different person, exuding an almost inhuman madness from the inside out, "... a puppy, with his Almost as big as a hand."

The person opposite her blinked, and the tide-like madness subsided a little, "Puppy?"

"Yes."

"But black?"

"Yes, the whole body is black, I didn't look too carefully." Hermione finally couldn't help it, "What's the matter, Professor Lupine?"

"I don't—I might be mistaken, no..." Lupine glanced at the disgusting rat corpse again, and stood up with a clatter, "No, I didn't. But no... there must be something— Stay here, Hermione. I know you've got a lot of questions, so please hold on, okay?"

He sounded like he was drowning in air, what choice did Hermione have?She sat there obediently, clutching a dirty handkerchief, and watched curiously as Professor Lupine sprinkled a handful of Floo powder into the stove.The fire turned green, and Professor Lupine glanced back, as if thinking that the female student or the dead mouse on the table would run away, before leaning his upper body into the fire.He returned to the table in about a minute, pressed his fingers on the edge of the box containing the dead mice, and then a figure appeared in the fire—it was Principal Dumbledore.Hermione opened her mouth wide, closed it quickly, and jumped up from her seat.

"Good afternoon, Hermione." Dumbledore said kindly, and then turned to Professor Lupine, "Remus, you said there was something important about Sirius Black?"

What?Hermione took another look at the mouse in the box, what does Black have to do with it?

"Yes," said Lupine breathlessly, "actually I want to ask... Is there any way to restore an Animagus who died in Animagi form to human form?"

Dumbledore walked to the table and looked at the bloody dead rat, while Hermione gasped, and immediately ran through the brief situation of the seven Animagus of this century in her mind.No rats, she was sure there weren't.

"You mean to say it's an Animagus, Remus?"

"Yes, sir," Lupine replied, "I'm not mistaken... This is one of the three illegal Animagus I know of, Peter Pedilou."

"What?" Hermione yelled, and the eyes of the two adults turned to her, her cheeks warmed up, "I'm sorry, but didn't Pedilou die 12 years ago? Killed by—by Black."

"I thought the same way before I saw this..." Professor Lupine's face trembled strangely, "But I have seen the transformation of the three of them countless times, James, Sirius and Peter... They were all in the fifth grade. Learned Animaggi Transfiguration, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, sir, but it's definitely Pediru."

Dumbledore nodded slowly, "We'll be sure of that soon."

Hermione's mind suddenly became chaotic like a large group of trolls running wildly. The James that Professor Lupine was talking about was Harry's father?Is it possible that three [-]th graders learn Animaggi Transfiguration?Black can also turn into animals, and Pediru, whom he killed, was alive until recently as a pet for Percy and Ron!It was so crazy, she almost suspected that Professor Lupine had lost his mind...or she was mistaken, Banban had been eaten by Crookshanks long ago, she just mistaken a mouse that looked very similar, it was an Anima Gus...

"I suggest you don't look, Hermione." Dumbledore reminded, she recovered and found that the dead mouse had been moved to the ground in the middle of the office, apparently the headmaster was about to restore it.Its neck was almost bitten off, and its body was covered with scars. Obviously, it fought hard before it died. If it turned into a human corpse... Hermione quickly turned her back, but she couldn't hold back her curiosity. After all, it was unbelievable that the pet that the Weasley family had kept for many years was a human being, and Dumbledore actually accepted Professor Lupine's statement just like that.

Thinking wildly, Hermione heard the sound of chanting a spell, the pulsation of magic in the air, and a slight rustling sound, as if something was scraping the ground and stretching.After another few seconds of silence, Professor Lupine said, "This is Peter."

"We were all wrong," said Dumbledore.

Hermione turned her head subconsciously, and just saw a pale hand on the ground, then hurriedly turned back to face the wall, her heart beating so fast that her ribs were smashed.It's true, it was Pedilu who was killed, my God, my God, my God, she ran so far holding a dead body!She felt like she was going to throw up.

"Are you all right, Hermione?" Professor Lupine came to her side, standing where he could keep out the dead rats—the dead people, but Hermione felt that her fright was nothing compared to his.

"I'm fine, Professor." She swallowed. "But what's going on? Did Pedillo really—before today?"

As she said that, she couldn't help but glanced behind Professor Lupine again. Fortunately, Principal Dumbledore had conjured up a body bag to wrap the dead man.The headmaster looked stern, and Hermione could imagine that this matter was of great importance, and Black was the most notorious Death Eater...

"I don't know." Professor Lupine said in a tense voice, cold sweat rolled down his temples, and he seemed to have a nervous breakdown at any moment, "but this means that the truth of Black's case may be completely different from what we have learned before. "

"Could you tell us the details of how you found that mouse, Hermione?" Dumbledore asked, putting a hand on Lupine's shoulder to help him calm down, "I need your explanation too, Remus. "

Professor Lupine hesitated, and Hermione's mind turned sharply, and she suddenly remembered the dog that killed Scabbers.Black is also an Animagus, plus Professor Lupine's appearance when he questioned the black dog, could it be... But wouldn't Black really kill people in this way?Even if he had been wronged before... and what about the Muggles?

"Pedilo was bitten to death by a dog. At present, our conclusion can only go so far." Principal Dumbledore said, as if he had heard some guarantee, Lupine nodded.

"Hermione?"

Hermione nodded and began to narrate: "At about three o'clock, I went to Hagrid with the documents - I have been helping him prepare Buckbeak's case..."