[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

November 11, 21:8 pm

"Sirius, don't read the letter, change your clothes quickly. Hagrid finally agreed to take us to the Forbidden Forest to see werewolves (1), we can't be late the first time." James put the robe on his body, While muttering to Sirius, he saw Sirius put down the letter, but instead of getting up to change his clothes, he stared blankly at Remus's empty four-poster bed.

"What's wrong with you?" James waved his hand in front of Sirius.

"Don't make trouble." Sirius patted James' paw with a rare serious expression, "Today Remus asked for leave to go home again."

"He asks for leave at least once a month, aren't you used to it?" James asked suspiciously.

"The problem is not the leave, but the day when he asked for leave. Every time he asked for leave, although he used various reasons, he always chose it on the night of the full moon. Don't you think it's strange?"

James didn't pay much attention at first, but when he heard Sirius' last words, he suddenly covered his mouth and opened his eyes wide: "You don't mean to say... No way... Remus, he... impossible."

"Why is it impossible? You see, his most common excuse is to go home to see his sick mother, but if he really went to visit the sick, why would he make it look like he went to fight a wild beast every time he came back?"

"You're right." James' expression became serious, "No wonder, ever since Hagrid mentioned werewolves that day, he's been a little bit out of sorts."

"Anyway, on the night of the next full moon, I must find out whether Remus is a werewolf." Sirius said.

At this moment, "What werewolf?" came out suddenly, and Sirius and James were so frightened that their hearts stopped.After a closer look, it turned out to be Peter!

"Oh, Peter, when did you come back? Why didn't you make any noise at all." Sirius said, patting his chest, and exchanged a puzzled look with James again.

It's not that they don't trust Peter, it's just that Peter is so timid... But Remus said that he believed in Peter.

James hesitated again and again, and finally decided to tell the truth: "That...Peter, Sirius and I speculated that Remus...he might be a werewolf."

"Werewolves? Are there really werewolves in the wizarding world?" Peter's reaction was unusually calm, which made Sirius and James stunned.

"Of course there is." Sirius said, who reacted first, "Oh, by the way, I forgot Peter, you didn't grow up in the wizarding world, and it's normal not to know werewolves."

"But... what does this have to do with Remus?"

James lowered his voice, and repeated the inferences that Sirius just said: "You see, he often takes leave to go home to see his sick mother, but every time he comes back, his face will be filled with several wounds, and his face is also pale. He will be pale for several days. Where is he going to visit a doctor? He is obviously sick. The most important thing is that every time he visits a doctor, he chooses the night of the full moon. Do you think this is too much of a coincidence?"

James and Sirius observed Peter carefully, only to see him say something calmly: "Well, it's indeed an unusual coincidence."

This really made James and Sirius look at Peter with admiration.Maybe, he really wasn't as weak as they thought?

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April 11

Lynn:

How did Malfoy think of researching wolf's poison/potion?

SB

April 11

Sirius:

I don't know why Malfoy suddenly thought of researching wolf's poison/potion, I asked Snape, and he said he didn't know either.Snape's original words were: "Miss Malfoy always thinks about what happens once, and I'm used to it."

I really don't know whether to sympathize with Snape or Malfoy.

LB

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Peter Pedillo was not interested in libraries, never had been.But this Saturday, he walked into the library for the first time, and an hour later, he slumped on his seat, feeling tired and unloved.

Peter lost his father since he was a child, and he was dependent on his mother for life. Before he was 11 years old, he never thought that those strange things that occasionally happened around him were magic. At the age of 11, when he received the admission letter that changed his fate, he learned from his mother that she was a Squib, the so-called person with wizard blood but low magic power.

She tried her best to get rid of the shadow brought by the wizarding world, but because of her son, she still had to return to the world that expelled her.

From an early age, Peter was mediocre in Muggle primary schools.No matter which course it is, the grades are mediocre.But he didn't want to be mediocre in the wizarding world, even if it was for his mother, he wanted to stand out.He wanted to recover from that world what they had done to his mother.

He looks forward to his chance to show his talents.

On the first day of school, he came to the platform early, sat in an empty box, and began to think about the future.

Not long after, the door of the box was opened, and two senior students came in, a man and a woman.The girl saw him and screamed.

The look in her eyes made Peter uncomfortable, and it seemed to Peter that she looked at him as if she were looking at a rag.

The boy with long blond hair frowned and said, "Student, you went to the wrong place."

His condescending and disdainful look made Peter a little panicked: "Walk...wrong place?"

"Yes, this is the exclusive box (2) for our Slytherin pure-blood family, and you..." He looked at Peter's Muggle clothes, and the sarcasm in his eyes became even worse, "You have no right to stay here."

"I... I don't know... I'm leaving now," Peter said hastily.

However, when Peter had already stepped out of the box, the boy said again: "Wait, you just left? You messed up our place and didn't even say sorry?"

Peter felt his face burn, and he thought, He's wearing clean clothes, he hasn't soiled the box at all!

But he still said "I'm sorry", it's not wise to offend senior students at the beginning of school.

Peter stood in the aisle with his luggage.The man and the woman closed the door of the box, and during the process of closing the door, Peter heard the girl say, "It's bad luck, the place is full of Mudblood's muddy smell now, I need to use the air-cleaning spell to purify the place well."

This is different from what he imagined, so different, what about the opportunity to show off his talents?

Peter took the suitcase and searched for a seat from box to box miserably. Now almost all the boxes are full.He thought to himself: I'm really unlucky, I just found a box at random, and then I took up his exclusive box.They want to book that box, why don't they post a note outside the box to remind others?

Finally, he found a box with one empty seat, and the students sitting in it seemed to be around his age.One of the brown-haired boys offered to help him move the suitcase to the overhead rack.

He looked very thin, but his strength was not small.Peter thought.

Peter didn't know it at the time, but later, this boy named Remus Lupine became one of his best friends at Hogwarts.

Before Peter came, the group of children were discussing the topic of sorting.After Peter had introduced himself, they asked him where he wanted to be assigned.

At that time, Peter had no concept of sorting, so he asked cautiously, "Is there any difference where you are sorted?"

"Of course it's different," said a girl with the same brown hair. "Although my father has been reluctant to tell me how to divide it, the adults say that Gryffindor values ​​courage, Ravenclaw values ​​wisdom, and Slytherin He likes shrewd and ambitious people, while Hufflepuff only needs to be diligent enough, which can be regarded as filling the gap for the other three houses."

"Slytherin, then," said Peter.He doesn't think he has great wisdom or great courage, but he knows enough to judge the situation, knows how to act according to people's eyes, and has enough ambition.As for diligence, what kind of specialty is this?Even the girl said that Hufflepuff was filling in for the other three houses, and he didn't want to go there.

But as soon as Peter finished speaking, several people in the box shook their heads in surprise or helplessness.Peter looked at everyone suspiciously, and then Remus said: "Uh, Pediru, I think your clothes should be from the Muggle world, right? That... Slytherin is different from other houses, except Shrewd and ambitious, pedigree is also very important. Students whose parents have no magic power, it does not accept."

"How could this be?!" Peter exclaimed sadly.Thinking of the behavior and words of the male and female seniors just now, he became more and more worried about his future in the wizarding world.Could it be that not only could he not get rid of the fate of a small person, but he would also be reduced to a second-class citizen?

Remus said very understandingly: "Don't worry so much. Since they let us come here, there will always be a college that will accept us. If you really can't think of where you will go, you might as well go with the flow." Naturally."

Remus's voice was very peaceful, which had a calming effect, so Peter stopped thinking about the sorting, but chatted with everyone about entertainment in the wizarding world.

Soon, everyone arrived at the school.So far, Remus was the friendliest peer to Peter, so Peter decided to hang out with him before he couldn't find a bigger backer.

On the train, Jones, who introduced the characteristics of the house to Peter, was assigned to Hufflepuff, which she called "filling the gap", and Remus was assigned to Gryffindor, so Peter thought: Or I might as well go to Gryffindor. Lanffindor.

"Peter Pedillo," Professor McGonagall called, and Peter stepped forward to put his hat on.

However, the hat seemed to be in a daze on his head, and he didn't speak for a long time, and Peter began to feel uneasy.After a long time, he finally heard the Sorting Hat's whisper: "Well, it's difficult, very difficult. To be honest, I haven't encountered such a difficult case for a long time. Your ambition and shrewdness are very suitable for Slytherin, but the wizard The blood is too thin, which is not a welcome trait in Slytherin. Besides, you don't seem to want to go to Slytherin yourself?"

Of course not.Peter thought to himself.In the process of waiting just now, he had already discovered that the senior couple who were on the train before were now sitting on the long table in Slytherin, and it seemed that their status was not low.He didn't want to get close to those two people at all, so he asked the sorting hat, "Can you sort me into Gryffindor?"

"This...you don't seem to have enough courage..." The Sorting Hat sighed helplessly.

Well, Gryffindor can't be Hufflepuff, Peter thought with some regret.Unexpectedly, the Sorting Hat could see through Peter's thoughts, and it said very unhappy: "Oh, boy, don't think that Hufflepuff is so easy to get ahead. To be honest, among the four houses, the first one I want to exclude is Hufflepuff. That’s Hufflepuff. If it’s possible to cultivate courage and wisdom through acquired abilities, if you don’t have what Hufflepuff requires from birth, it’s really hard to acquire them later in life.”

Peter is about to cry, neither this nor that, what on earth is the Sorting Hat going to do? !What he is most worried about right now is that the Sorting Hat won't let him go even in one house, so he can only take the train back in despair.No, he doesn't want to do this, he still wants to honor his mother!

Fortunately, the Sorting Hat is not that cruel. It struggled for a while, and finally made up its mind and said: "Well, although you don't have enough courage now, I can see that you worship courage in your heart. I hope you In that place, you will get what you want. You go - Gryffindor!"

The Sorting Hat announces its final decision.Peter breathed a sigh of relief. He took off his hat and saw people applauding and waving to him on the long table of Gryffindor. He ran over happily and sat here with his only acquaintance - Rhyme Beside.

Peter thought that he and Remus were really destined, not only were they assigned to the same college, but they were also in the same dormitory.

This is a four-person dormitory, and the other two roommates are named James Potter and Sirius Black, and they look very familiar.So, during the first days of school, there were two groups in the dormitory, one for James and Sirius, and one for Peter and Remus.

In all fairness, there are quite a few benefits to getting along with Remus, some homework is copied, and some people also guide the group practice, but after a long time, it is a bit boring-compared to the brilliance of James and Sirius, Remus is almost It is the representative of the dull gourd, so Peter can't help but feel that he has chosen the wrong person to follow. If he follows him, he may only be a small person for the rest of his life.

But Peter couldn't squeeze into the circle of James and Sirius, they were closer to Remus than to Peter.Perhaps, Peter thought, it was because Remus studied better than him.However, Peter knew that he was so talented that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach the level of the three of them.

So Peter could only hang out with Remus, because in the entire academy, only Remus was willing to cover him.

The turning point came one day at the end of November.

That day, Peter was detained by the professor because he did not complete the homework of Defense Against the Dark Arts.When he returned to the dormitory so sleepy that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he found that James and Sirius were discussing something seriously, and a few words floated into his ears: full moon... Remus... ...werewolves...

"What werewolf?" he asked dazedly.

Then James tells Peter their guess.

"...Every time he goes to visit a doctor, he chooses the night of the full moon. Do you think this is too much of a coincidence?"

"Well, it's indeed an unusual coincidence." Peter nodded in agreement with James, but he had no idea what he was talking about.

As a result of this discussion, James and Sirius agreed to find out whether Remus was a werewolf on the night of the next full moon, and of course Peter did not object.

Now that James and Sirius had made this decision, Peter took the time to go to the library to check the information on werewolves.It's just that if you don't check, you don't know. If you check, you will be shocked. How the fuck was he "ignorant and fearless" before!

That was a werewolf, a bloodthirsty werewolf, a terrifying monster that would turn into a werewolf if bitten on a full moon night.What the hell are James and Sirius thinking?Aren't they afraid that if they expose Remus' identity, they will be bitten to death by Remus?

So there is the scene where Peter collapses in the library at the beginning.Too tired to love, really tired to love, Peter thought desperately.

Peter never dared to be alone with Remus after that.

Reason told him that it was the Remus who had been with him for a year, the Remus who borrowed his homework, helped him with homework, stood up to defend him when he was bullied by Slytherin, but emotionally, He just couldn't help being afraid of him.It was unfortunate, because he had acted so calmly in front of James and Sirius that night, and he was too embarrassed to show this fear after knowing the truth.

Peter knew that James and Sirius didn't like weaklings.

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(1) According to the information in Pottermore, the werewolf in the Forbidden Forest is not a normal bitten werewolf, but the product of two werewolf mating/mating during the full moon.This non-mainstream werewolf has high intelligence, but it is no more aggressive than normal wolves, and it does not single out humans to attack.So it's not particularly dangerous to see them even on a full moon night.The groundskeepers and teachers know this.

(2) I know that there is no such thing as an exclusive box in the original book, but it is indeed very suitable for people in the Snake Academy to install 13.

The author has something to say: I really racked my brains thinking about Peter's sorting process.

I saw a saying before: the sorting hat considers not just "what kind of person" but "what kind of person you want to be".I humbly think this statement makes sense.

My setting is: The children born of the combination of Squibs and Muggles are generally regarded as "mudbloods" by pure-bloods, but for the part of Salazar Slytherin's thoughts in the Sorting Hat's mind, Said, can be regarded as "second-class mixed blood."It's not that this kind of little wizard can't be assigned to Slytherin, it's just that you have to be extra cautious when assigning.