struggle

Early the next morning, in her hazy sleep, Ginny suddenly heard Sirius yelling, "Where's Peter? Why is Peter missing?" She woke up suddenly, got up from the bed, and hurriedly put on a coat. He took off his coat and ran towards the attic, just as he saw Sirius gnashing his teeth and staring at the empty attic, roaring loudly.

Arthur and Molly took their wands and searched the room carefully, but finally shook their heads at Sirius.Sirius clenched his fists: "Look, let's look together. Even if he can undo my binding spell, he won't be able to get out of this house without knowing my spell. This despicable guy must have turned into a mouse again, Where are you hiding in?" As he spoke, he turned around abruptly and rushed downstairs.

Arthur and Molly also hurriedly followed. Only Ginny, looking at Harry standing blankly in front of the door with a mixture of sadness and anger on his face, walked up and patted Harry on the shoulder: "Harry , let's go down too."

Harry stared blankly at Ginny, trying to force a smile, but failed in the end: "Ginny, you know? Yesterday, I thought I finally caught the murderer of my parents and I could throw him into Ah Zikaban, but this morning, I found out that he was allowed to escape again. This feeling makes me feel that I have failed, and I can't even look down on a Death Eater, how can I defeat Voldemort?"

Ginny sighed softly, suppressed the guilt in her heart, and stepped forward to hug Harry: "Harry, it's not your fault, you are already very brave. What happened to Peter is not a reason for you to blame yourself. You Your parents have escaped from Voldemort's grasp three times, and you defeated Voldemort as soon as you were born. I believe that you will be able to defeat him in the future."

Harry leaned his head on Ginny's shoulder: "Ginny, thank you, I will not give up. Even if it costs my own life, I will not back down from Voldemort."

Ginny felt Harry's slightly trembling body, and slowly tightened her arms around Harry: "Harry, you will succeed." She understood that she would never be able to be a real Gryffindor , Gryffindor as brave as Harry.When she faces a problem, the first thing she thinks of is always means, not courage.She could only make the most favorable choice under the current situation, but she couldn't take Harry's feelings into account. In fact, she should be the one who should say sorry.

After being silent for a while, Harry raised his head shyly: "I'm sorry, Ginny, I got a little excited."

"No, it's okay, let's go downstairs and see if Mom and Dad have found any clues." Ginny was a little afraid to face Harry's pure green eyes, and after she finished speaking, she turned around and walked towards the stairs. go down.Harry hesitated for a moment, looked back at the empty attic again, and followed.

In the hall, Sirius and the others had obviously searched around, but found nothing, and were sitting on the sofa silently.Sirius panted heavily, with hatred in his eyes: "How could this traitor escape from this house? He couldn't possibly know the spell." He lowered his head and muttered, as if he suddenly thought of something, suddenly Jumped up, "Kreacher! He has always been loyal to my mother, even after she died. He must have thought Voldemort was right, could it be he who let Peter go?"

"He knows the spell?" Molly looked up suspiciously.

"I know, moreover, house elves have their own magic, and they can do many things that even us wizards can't do." Sirius replied hoarsely with disgust in his tone.After finishing speaking, he yelled in the direction of the kitchen: "Kreacher, come out!"

Kreacher's short figure immediately appeared in front of everyone.He lowered his head seemingly respectfully: "Yes, master, Kreacher obeys your orders." Then, he lowered his voice and muttered: "The ungrateful master let the pure-blood traitor that the family hates live in the noble house. How sad the mistress would be if she saw all this at the Blake house."

Sirius, who was in a rage, heard Kreacher's words, and stepped forward to mention him: "Kreacher, answer me honestly, did you let the traitor in the attic go?"

"No, master." Kreacher's tone was respectful, but his eyes were still full of hatred, and he lowered his voice again and muttered to himself, "Traitor, master is a traitor, a traitor who betrayed the Black family and the mistress. Been in Azkaban, disgraced the Black family."

Sirius threw Kreacher to the ground angrily: "Get out, don't let me see you again. Kreacher, get out of here now."

"Yes, master, Kreacher is leaving now." Kreacher bowed, turned around and was about to leave.

"No, you can't let him go." Ginny suddenly remembered the original book, and because of Sirius' words, Kreacher caught the loophole and misinterpreted it as an order to leave the house, and went to Narcissa had been tipped off by the Malfoys, so she cried out immediately.

Everyone looked at her for a moment, and she looked at Sirius: "Kreacher knows everything about us, if you let him go, will he leak things that shouldn't be leaked?"

Sirius nodded and took a deep breath: "Kreacher, I order you to go back to your own room now, and then stay there and not come out."

Kreacher looked at Ginny with some resentment, but he could not disobey Sirius' order: "Kreacher knows, Kreacher will stay in his room and wait for the master's orders." After speaking, he bowed again. He bowed, and then disappeared in front of everyone with a "snap".

The rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay, and their faces were not very good-looking. When Dumbledore came with Fudge, they saw such a scene.After listening to Sirius' narration, Dumbledore's face was also a little dignified, and Fudge looked at Dumbledore angrily: "Professor Dumbledore, what is going on? You said you have arrested The real culprit asked me to come here early in the morning, is it just to hear such a story?"

Hearing the suspicion hidden in Fudge's words that Dumbledore just made up a story to clear Sirius' charges, everyone's faces were a little indignant for a moment, and Sirius even clenched his fists and wanted to rush up, but was caught by Aya. Sera stopped, motioning him to listen to Dumbledore's arrangement.And Dumbledore just glanced at Fudge indifferently, and took out Peter's confession yesterday: "Connelly, this is the confession written by Peter last night. There is a magic contract on it to ensure that it is all written and voluntarily written by him. This alone A confession can prove that everything I said is true and that Sirius is innocent, if you have doubts, you can ask the Wizengamot to compare the handwriting to confirm whether it was written by Peter."

As a result, after taking a look at the parchment that Dumbledore handed over, Fudge was a little embarrassed for a moment.He pretended to cough: "Uh, this confession can indeed explain the problem. Then I will take it back for identification first. If it is confirmed that it is Peter's handwriting, Blake's charges will be clarified. Then I will go first." Said After finishing, he picked up the parchment and quickly left Black's house without stopping any longer.

Sirius cursed in a low voice towards his back: Then he turned to look at Dumbledore: "Professor Dumbledore, what should we do next?"

Dumbledore sat down and rubbed his forehead with some headaches: "I can only wait for the Wizengamot to acquit you before I submit a warrant for Peter to be wanted."

Arthur also sat down dejectedly: "We searched all morning, but we didn't have any clues, and we couldn't even be sure how he escaped from this house. The only possibility, Kreacher, also swore that he didn't do it. But, but It can't be ruled out that he once told someone about the lock spell of the Black Mansion in private, after all, Sirius shouldn't have explicitly prohibited him on this point, right?" He said, he glanced at Sirius questioningly, and Sirius was gloomy face, nodded.

"Then now, we still have to control Kreacher's actions, so that he won't have the opportunity to reveal more secrets, or have any more contact with outsiders." Molly also sat down beside Arthur, frowning and said, "It's just , There are many house elf magics that even we wizards don't know about, and we don't know how to control him effectively? After all, if he has the heart, he may catch the loophole in Sirius' order at any time, thus destroying us action."

Seeing that the four adults were silent for a while, Ginny suddenly stepped forward timidly: "Well, that, can Dobby?" Seeing that everyone looked at her at once, Ginny tried her best to appear a little shy "It's the original house-elf of the Malfoy family that Harry released back then. He is absolutely loyal to Harry. Can you let him come to the Black Mansion? One is to take care of Sirius. After all, it is impossible to rely on Kreacher. Let him monitor Kreacher, and the house elves should be able to completely monitor his behavior against house elves."

"Good idea!" Harry also took a step forward excitedly, "Sirius, Dobby can definitely trust him, and I believe he is definitely qualified for this job."

Seeing the affirmative expressions of the two children, Dumbledore's eyes flashed, and finally nodded: "This is indeed a feasible method. Then I will go back to Hogwarts first, bring Dobby, and then Harry, just It's up to you to tell him what to do."

Seeing Harry nodded, Dumbledore greeted everyone, and then left the Black mansion.Sirius went upstairs with Arthur and Molly, apparently ready to discuss what to do next.Harry sat on the sofa in the hall, waiting for Dumbledore to bring Dobby, while Ginny sat beside him, lowering her eyes to hide the thoughtful look in her eyes.When Dobby arrived, all Kreacher's actions would be supervised. She thought she could finally take this opportunity to find the Slytherin locket away from Kreacher's obstruction.

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