themonasnovels Chapter 451 Banban is Peter? !
Chapter 451 Banban is Peter? !
Chapter 451 Banban is Peter? !
Dumbledore sat on the chair, frowning.
The tips of his two slender fingers touched together habitually, and his chin rested on the fingertips.
Blue eyes stared at the ceiling of the room through half-moon lenses, as if lost in thought.
In front of him, there was a mirror with a blurry picture... William, Hermione, and Annie, who were crowded together, were trying to grab the mirror.
This is a pair of double-sided mirrors.A Christmas present from Dumbledore to Anne when William was in first grade.
William cheated many times but failed to cheat, and one of them was given to Dumbledore by Annie.
William is so sour.
"Interesting inference, Hermione." Dumbledore finally recovered and looked at the double-sided mirror.
"So, you think Black is an illegal Animagus who keeps appearing as a black dog?"
"Professor, that's not an inference, but a fact." Hermione said firmly, confident in her own judgment.
"Yes, I trust your judgment." Dumbledore approved.
"Those details that are not noticed by people are not only a hindrance, but a clue.
Hermione, you have always been excellent in this regard.
But some more direct evidence is needed. These details alone are not enough to convince our Secretary Fudge to believe your words.
He is not as capable of reasoning as you are, and can see the truth hidden under the details. "
"Then what?" Hermione said urgently, "Unless we can catch Black..."
"Hermione, you ignored someone." William on the side reminded: "Professor Lupine was Black's best friend back then, so he must know something."
"That's right." Dumbledore sighed, grabbed a handful of floo powder, and threw it into the distant fireplace.
Emerald green flames lit up, and soon a head appeared in the flames.
"Remus, I'm sorry to delay your recovery. But I have some things that I need to ask you urgently."
"If it's convenient, please come here, if it's not convenient...please come here too!"
"Uh..." Lupine hesitated for a few seconds before replying, "Oh, yes."
A moment later, the flames in the fireplace surged, and there was a crackling sound, and Professor Lupine walked in wrapped in a small torn robe.
"What's the matter, Headmaster?" Lupine asked suspiciously. "What happened?"
"How are you?" Dumbledore motioned for Lupine to sit down.
"It's just a little weak. The potion that Professor Snape made made me have diarrhea." Professor Lupine sat down on the chair. "Other than that, everything is fine."
"I'll remind Severus."
Lupine smiled gratefully, glanced over the table, saw the double-sided mirror, and the three of William in the mirror.
"Professor, is there anything urgent?" he asked again.
"There were some. Just now, Miss Granger told me something interesting.
She said... Black was an illegal Animagus.
I want to ask, Remus, do you know about this...? "
Dumbledore's piercing eyes stared at Lupine like a hawk.
Professor Lupine's face immediately became pale, as if it had been covered with a layer of frost.
Needless to say, just look at the professor's face, and you will know the answer.
Lupine lowered his head, as if he had made a mistake and tried to cover it up, but he was still a child who was discovered.
He clenched the handle of the chair tightly, his fingers were pale, and he said in a trembling voice, "Professor Dumbledore, I'm... sorry.
I know about it, but I just kept it a secret..."
"Remus, you shouldn't have apologized to me!" Dumbledore said with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
"You should apologize to Anne, William and Hermione, the three of them, who lived for a summer with a black dog.
I don't think Hermione and Anne could handle a Death Eater other than William. "
"Sorry, I really didn't know this was going to happen," Lupine blamed himself.
"Why didn't you say it?" Dumbledore asked calmly.
Lupine was pale, and there was self-loathing in his voice.
"In the past six months, I have been fighting with myself, not sure whether to speak out. But I still didn't say it.
why?
Because I am too cowardly.
Telling you means that I have failed your trust when I was a student; it means admitting that I have led others and people like me to go out at night.
Your trust is extremely important to me.
You accepted me as a boy, and I couldn't get a job anywhere as an adult because I was..."
Lupine stopped and glanced at his glasses.
"William and Hermione already knew you were a werewolf, and they kept it a secret for you," said Dumbledore.
Lupine stared in the double-sided mirror in astonishment, feeling ashamed.
"Later, I convinced myself that Sirius managed to sneak into the school by using the magic he learned from Voldemort.
Has nothing to do with him being an illegal Animagus..."
Dumbledore squinted, tapping his fingers on the table in a strange rhythm.
"Of the four of you, besides Black, has anyone else learned Animagus?"
"The three of them have learned it!" Lupine said painfully, clutching his head.
"After they found out that I was a werewolf, they didn't alienate me. Instead, they spent nearly three years and secretly learned Animagus in the fifth grade.
The first to learn was James, who has always been very talented in transfiguration, even Professor McGonagall admired it.
Then came Blake.
Peter needed great assistance from Black and James, and he gradually became proficient. "
"What can they become?" Annie asked curiously.
"James is a stag, so he's called Prong; Blake is a... big black dog, we call him Padfoot.
And Peter is a mouse, nicknamed Wormtail.
On full moon nights, it was James and Black who kept me in check.
Peter was small enough to easily press the Whomping Willow's scar, allowing us to enter the Shrieking Shack from the passageway..."
Wait...Peter Pettigrew's Animagus is a mouse?
William's heartbeat accelerated suddenly, as if a beat had been missed.
He thought of Tom's little mole in a flash.
After the diary and the two incidents of selling Snape's women's clothing, William basically concluded that the ghost was by Ron's side.
I know him very well, even to the point where I understand Ron's inner thoughts.
Such people are rare, and William once thought that only Harry was the only one who qualified.
Now suddenly I have a new idea.
Because Scabbers is weird.
Crookshanks never attacked other animals, but only watched Scabbers.
When William entered the school, Scabbers was Percy's pet. Four years later, he was still alive and kicking, and it was after Black escaped from prison that he began to lose his spirits.
Ordinary mice live for two or three years at most.
Even Blake can become Anne's pet black, why can't the ghost be Peter?
Real rats can't be ghosts, but illegal Animagus can be!
In terms of understanding Ron and being able to control him without anyone noticing, who else could easily do it except Scabbers?
William was also taken aback by his own thought.
Peter died 13 years ago, what does it mean if it was really him?
Eliminate the impossible, and what remains, however improbable, must be fact.
William pushed the non-existent black-rimmed glasses on his face.
New machine words dig one Mohe more!
After thinking for a long time, William finally raised his head and interrupted Professor Lupine.
3 minutes later,
Dumbledore grabbed another handful of floo powder.
"Minerva, please bring Mr. Ron Weasley at once! And his mouse, Scabbers!"
Dumbledore's voice became extremely serious.
He repeated: "Remember, be careful! Scabbers may be dead... Pettigrew Peter!"
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(End of this chapter)