HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

Dumbledore nonchalantly fooled Fudge with the reason that Snape, as a potions master, would know more about some magical plants.The Minister of Magic vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't seem to find anything wrong.

So the topic was easily shifted back to the fate of the dementors.

In the headmaster's room, even the previous headmasters of Hogwarts began to doze off in Fudge's long and uninteresting official voice. Fawkes stood on his shelf and used his sharp beak to slowly comb his body. Flaming feathers.Dumbledore sat behind his desk, listening calmly to Fudge's repeated reasons for not being able to remove the dementors, interjecting from time to time.

The students had already fallen asleep, and the coolness of the late night spread on the ancient walls of the castle little by little. Only sporadic lights showed that the school that had stood for thousands of years had not completely fallen asleep.

Suddenly, a hasty knock on the door broke the deadlock in the principal's office.

"Headmaster Dumbledore!" It was Filch.

The castle warden, who liked to scare the students with all kinds of punishments, stood panting at the door: "Professor Snape caught Black!"

In an instant, the two people in the room stood up at the same time.

Dumbledore suddenly thought of Snape's strange emotion when he left the castle before - combined with the current news, that emotion did not seem abnormal at all.It must be that the Potions Professor got the whereabouts of Sirius Black from somewhere——

No, not right.Dumbledore's footsteps when he walked to the door of the principal's office suddenly stopped. No one in the castle should know Black's whereabouts, so how did Severus know where he was?

His gaze paused for a moment on the bright moonlight shining on his robes through the window of the castle—if it was Remus...it's a full moon today, and Remus needs to drink the wolfsbane potion...

Thousands of thoughts turned in his mind for a moment, and Dumbledore continued to follow Filch who was leading the way without any exception.

"Argus, did you see Professor Lupine tonight?" he asked.

Filch was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why Dumbledore suddenly asked about Professor Lupine's whereabouts.

He recalled: "Yes, Professor Lupine came out of the castle when I closed the door today - he looked very anxious."

"Thank you," said Dumbledore.

When Dumbledore arrived in the foyer, Snape was standing by a pillar with his arms folded, and Black, who was all dirty and disheveled, was firmly bound and thrown on the ground, looking still awake.There were three other children - besides the Harry and Granger he'd seen before under the Whomping Willow, the Weasley boy was lying unconscious on an apparently improvised stretcher. .

The Potions Master seemed to be leaning against the pillar before, but he straightened up quickly when several people appeared.He looked a bit embarrassed at this moment, his greasy hair was messy and tangled, reflecting a dark crimson in the dim candlelight in the castle.But the man didn't care about the wounds on his body at all, he looked extremely happy.

"Good evening, Professor Dumbledore, good evening, Mr Minister." He greeted in a tone of implied pleasure, "Gentlemen, I think I have the honor to introduce to you this— The Dark Lord's right-hand man, Mr. Sirius Black."

"Oh!"

Ignoring Fudge, Snape moved closer to Dumbledore. "Sir, you must be wondering who I met when I captured Black—" he said almost triumphantly—like a little boy who has finally found a reason why the more favored child is not as good as himself.

"Who is it?" asked Fudge. "Snape, if you have information about Black's associates—"

"Connelly, I think our first priority is to get the children to the hospital wing." Dumbledore said calmly, interrupting the two of them.He glanced nonchalantly at Snape, who was keenly aware of what he meant and scowled in displeasure: "I don't think they look very well."

As he spoke, he floated the stretcher and Blake with his wand, and walked up the stairs first.

Dumbledore could hear Fudge pressing Snape.Snape, who was stopped by him, was obviously not as excited as before, but he could still hear the elation.

"Potter! The famous Boy Who Lived Potter and his friends—isn't it a surprise that he tried to help Black escape?" The enemy hates it—"

"Maybe they just don't know who Black is—" said Fudge excitedly, "Snape—oh, how about making Severus seem a little closer—I think you'd like to give me a detailed account of what you saw ?”

"Of course." Snape said in a low voice.He raised his eyes and glanced at Dumbledore, who had already stepped forward, and then turned his attention to Fudge, who was full of curiosity about his words.

Since Dumbledore cryptically asked him not to tell anything about Lupin, Snape didn't mention giving Lupine the wolfsbane potion—he knew what Dumbledore thought, and Lupine was a werewolf. His identity meant that the Ministry of Magic would not treat him completely as a human being. Once he said that he saw Lupine and Black together, the werewolf would definitely be judged as Black's accomplice.And their Mr. Principal still kindly wanted to give that despicable dark creature a chance to defend himself face to face.

Snape thought for a while, and said that because of Dumbledore's reminder, he went to check the condition of the Whomping Willow, and found a secret passage that had been opened. . . . . .

Hearing that Snape cooperatively dismissed Lupine from this matter, Dumbledore, who was walking in front, eased the tense corner of his mouth—it wasn't that he didn't realize that Remus Lupine probably knew something But he didn't tell himself, even as Snape said, the werewolf was Black's helper from the beginning.But if Lupine is innocent, once he tells the Ministry of Magic that Lupine and Black are involved, then his identity as a werewolf will make him never clear his grievances.

He delivered several unconscious children to Madam Pomfrey, and locked Blake on the top floor of the Astronomy Tower.

After confirming that Black was tied tightly with the rope, Fudge had no intention of continuing to stay on the windy and cool Astronomy Tower, and he quickly took away the person who showed that he wanted to watch Black until he received the kiss he deserved. Snape intending to leave Dumbledore in the tower who 'wanted to ask Black alone'.

Snape didn't want Dumbledore to have a 'single talk' with Black at all, even though in his mind the fact that Black killed——was absolutely irrefutable, but Dumbledore's attitude always made him feel that things might change.

Fudge took Snape away half-persuasively and half-persuadingly.When the Potions Professor left, he turned his head and took a last look at Dumbledore standing in the dark room, looking down at the unconscious Black in front of him.

Nothing to worry about, he thought, the evidence was clear—Dumbledore couldn't possibly believe Black's illogical rebuttal—

He left with Fudge, who kept asking questions.

The author has something to say:

Quietly speaking, I actually wanted to stop updating, and then I suddenly looked back at my update time——

Oh, my codewords actually have a menstrual cycle. Every time around NO.20, I have to stop changing for seven days to half a month (that is, my aunt and the previous week). This is the first time I found that endocrine is so obvious in my life. performance hhhhh

So I happily coded another chapter to share this with you [After all, there is no reason to write if there is no update]

In addition, I am stupid and double open (in order to stimulate my desire for code words), and I am still a professor of colleagues, original cp, pure love

The title of the book is "HP: Silent Dawn", you can also poke it in from my column, and if you are interested, please collect it~

At present, there is only one chapter there, and it is released to test the water, mainly to ensure the update here (I always code a book and I occasionally change the flavor of 23333), so don’t worry about the update here, there is no special situation I can't be fooled