A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 218 Doubt

Later, Dobby returned to report the results to Felix—

"Mr. Haip, the woman surnamed Skeeter has agreed, and, in the process, the silver-white bird on my head..."

"I see, Dobby, this is the test I told you about, and it works better than I thought."

……

In the evening, Felix walked into the auditorium happily.

'Well, which college table to choose today? ’ he thought divergently, this is one of his pleasures, he can always hear a lot of new things during the meal, ‘Just Ravenclaw, the Kitty Hawks have been very low-key these days. '

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Slytherin players walking into the auditorium with broomsticks, talking and laughing, and he knew in his heart that the Quidditch season was about to start.

Felix took aim at a small group of Ravenclaws, and was about to sit next to them, while the fat, freckled boy was talking loudly and animatedly.

"—recently learned Kabbah, yes, a webbed aquatic creature—like a monkey with scales—Professor Lupine is very good—"

Felix subconsciously glanced at the teacher's seat, and as expected saw a slightly tired figure.

"Professor Lupine?" Felix changed direction, sat next to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and greeted him friendly.

"Professor Hype," Lupine responded equally mildly, "forgive me, but I'm not recovering from a cold." He fiddled with the scarf around his neck.

"October is indeed the flu season, and I remember last year as well." Felix smiled, and he added some pastrami and potatoes to his plate, "Madame Pomfrey has been very busy recently."

Lupine showed a look of reminiscence, "She is indeed a responsible school doctor. She helped me a lot when I was in school."

Felix obviously misunderstood, he thought that Lupine was referring to the fight with the students of Slytherin House during school, and Snape must be involved in it, so he kept his mouth shut and started talking about other topics.

"You should have received the dueling course schedule, Professor Lupine?"

"Miss Granger gave it to me last week." Lupine said thoughtfully: "I saw the content of the withdrawal spell, which happens to be used against Grindylow..."

Felix asked: "The kind of green water ghosts with horns? I remember there are a group of them in the Black Lake, but they should be tamed by the mermaid."

"Indeed," Lupine said, reaching for a plate of sauces in the distance. "It's more convenient for my teaching, oh, thanks—" he said.

"You're welcome," Felix said, pushing him the sauce, and their arms touched.

He lowered his gaze, and that strange feeling reappeared.From the first time they met and shook hands, he felt that the hair on Lupin's hands was very lush and much harder than normal.

Unaware, Lupine continued: "Grindylow's fingers are very strong, but fragile, and the trick to getting rid of them is to keep them from grabbing you."

"The strongest and the weakest?" Felix said with great interest: "It's somewhat similar to Professor Flitwick's point of view, he also believes that wizards are the strongest when they attack, but at the same time they expose their weaknesses. Therefore, when casting a spell, it should be as fast and concise as possible, and leave room for it..."

Lupine smiled and said: "Professor Flitwick is indeed experienced, and his fighting championship has a high gold content."

"Speaking of..." Felix said slowly, "Flitwick wanted to enter the Ministry of Magic when he was young, but he was rejected because of his bloodline."

Lupine stopped and listened quietly.

"...Of course, the reasons cannot be so straightforward, but everyone knows the virtues of the Ministry of Magic. Professor Lupine, what do you think of the discrimination in the Ministry of Magic?"

Lupine smiled and said: "This kind of argument is not new. As early as when I was in school, some people have always criticized the Ministry of Magic for being rigid in thinking and doing nothing, but more than ten years have passed, and it has not changed much."

"Perhaps it's time for a change in the Ministry of Magic?"

"It's hard," Lupine thought for a while, "unless a minister with courage is replaced. As for Fudge, he is a politician, a coward," he said bluntly, "living step by step every day. He has exhausted all his courage."

Felix was surprised by his attitude towards Fudge, and he didn't know where this disgust came from. You must know that Fudge's moderate tone is still very marketable.

At least the wizarding populace was less likely to want a minister who interfered too much in their lives - except during war.

Then the two chatted about Sirius Black.

"Miss Granger once asked me a question, but I couldn't answer it." Felix said: "What she asked was why Black had stayed in Azkaban for more than ten years, but suddenly chose Prison escape. You know, once caught, what awaits him is likely to be a dementor's kiss."

"Professor Lupine, you should know him well, do you have any guesses?"

Lupine frowned. Felix's words struck at his long-standing secret confusion. Some unrealistic fantasy was about to stir again in his heart. This kind of thought made him ruminate on the past happy times in the dead of night, But it also scarred his tired heart.

'Lupine, oh Lupine, what are you expecting!Have years of nomadic life completely muddled your mind? '

But on the surface, he just said indifferently: "Since Black's betrayal, I can no longer understand his thoughts."

"It's a pity," Felix said softly, "Harry and the others asked me about Black's secret, and they were worried that they would meet Black one day."

Lupine couldn't help repeating his point: "Hogwarts is safe."

……

Back in the office, Felix thought about his conversation with Lupine. On a piece of parchment, he wrote 'Remus Lupine', then 'Sirius Black', between the two names Connect a line, put a question mark, and then fall into thinking.

He knew very little information about Blake, except for the huge contrast between boyhood and adulthood, nothing more practical.

And Lupine... Felix always felt awkward.

Dumbledore trusts him, and he has seen him in the memory fragments of Frank and Alice, which shows that Lupine is almost a member of the Order of the Phoenix;
But Snape made no secret of his malice towards him. In Felix's view, the reason why Snape refrained from chanting the curse was because of the existence of Dumbledore.

Felix checked the records of the year, and Snape and James Potter had the most conflicts, followed by Black, but the number of disputes between Lupine and Peter Pedillo was actually pitifully small.

Is it hate house and black?
But Snape had a good impression of Peter Pedilou, at least he was called 'Peter' instead of the surname 'Pedilou'.Based on Felix's understanding of his own dean, this is already very rare.

If Lupine were dead, Snape certainly wouldn't have called him 'Remus' instead.

Felix began to write about his doubts about Lupine——

'Gentle-natured, Snape hated him extremely;'

'He has extraordinary abilities and is loved by little wizards, but he was once poor;'

'Weak and easily overwhelmed by a cold, is it because Madam Pomfrey's potion has no effect? '

'The hair on the arms is different from ordinary people;'

'An unnatural dislike for Minister of Magic Fudge;'

Felix heavily marked the name 'Fudge'. This minister has only been in office for a few years. Apart from cover-ups, he has presided over only a handful of policies, and counting each of them will not take too much time.

It didn't take him long to think of Belby's complaints to the Ministry of Magic last year—

"Look at the recent newspapers! What are the arguments of 'the Gospel of Werewolves' and 'Werewolf Registration Amendment Act'? Only registered and supervised werewolves have the right to purchase wolfbane potion. The Ministry of Magic is using me The potion to recover the scattered werewolves..."

(End of this chapter)