It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 152 The Opened Locket
Peter was tightly tied up, tremblingly looking at the people who surrounded him, those small eyes that were exactly like mice were circling around.

"Little, Sirius, Lu, Lupine." Pettigrew's voice was also high-pitched, and his eyes looked around again. "My friends, my old friends"

With pleasure, excitement, hatred, and impatience already in Black's eyes, he raised his wand.

But Lupine held down his hand, signaling him not to worry.

In front of Harry and the others, they confronted Peter and exposed all his lies.

Finding no way to change the situation with words, and no chance to escape, Peter completely collapsed.

His face was ashen, and he kept begging.

"Sirius, it's me, it's Peter, your friend, you won't...you won't kill me, will you!"

Sirius kicked him aside without hesitation, the disgust in his eyes like looking at a piece of garbage.

With snot and tears streaming down his face, Peter squirmed on the ground like a bug and crawled to Lupin's side to try to arouse his sympathy, but Lupine turned a blind eye to it.

Then he begged Ron and Harry again, hoping that they could help him say a few words, but Ron looked at him with only disgust.

"He slept in my bed and shit on Harry's pillow!"

Sirius couldn't wait any longer, he raised the wand in his hand, and joined Lupine.

Sherlock always felt a little uneasy. He felt that strange sound was getting louder and louder, like a clock was constantly turning in his ear, and he could hear every minute and every second clearly.

"Hurry up and settle the matter quickly, lest you have long nights and dreams." He urged.

Lupine and Sirius no longer hesitated, and together they prepared to wave their wands.

However, just as they were about to say the spell, and Peter's face showed ashes of despair, Harry suddenly said loudly.

"No! You can't kill him!"

Lupine and the others stopped what they were doing, and turned to look at Harry in shock.

"It's your parents' enemy Harry!" growled Sirius. "He's the one who killed your parents! The cringeworthy filth won't let you die. You heard what he just said, His own stinky skin is more important than the lives of your entire family!"

"I see," gasped Harry. "We'll take him to the castle and give him to the dementors. He can go to Azkaban just don't kill him, and if he dies, Then your charges will never be cleared, it’s not worth it, it’s not worth it for such a person.”

Hearing Harry's words, Sherlock had a relieved expression on his face. He was very happy that Harry could think of these things.

The expression on Sirius' face was distorted. He really wanted to kill Peter on the spot, but he had to respect Harry's choice.

Because among these people present, only Harry is the one who has the most authority to make a judgment on Peter's fate.

Seeing the hope of being alive again, Peter hugged Harry's leg in tears of joy, and kept thanking him for his kindness, but Harry shook his hand away with a look of disgust.

At this moment Sherlock stared at Peter.

"Can the petrification spell prevent Animagus from transforming?"

He didn't know where the uneasiness in his heart came from. He could only think of it in his memory. In the original book, a mouse ran away in the end, so he had to make sure of Peter's current state again and again.

Sirius shook his head.

"No, as long as an Animagus learns, this kind of magic can become a wizard's instinct. There is no need for a wand or a spell. As long as you use your brain, you can complete the transformation."

Lupine saw Sherlock's concern.

"Don't worry, Sirius and I will catch him. If Peter dares to transform, we'll kill him, okay? Harry."

Harry nodded, naturally he had no objection to this decision.

Their approach seemed to be perfect, but Sherlock still felt that something was wrong, but couldn't say anything.

"You need to use your brain to complete the transformation?" He raised his wand to Peter, and then uttered a spell under Peter's horrified gaze, "Dizzy."

The red wand hit Peter, and he drooped his head and fell into a coma.

Sherlock nodded in satisfaction.

"That's what makes you feel at ease."

"You're being too cautious, Sherlock," said Lupine, "but being cautious is never a bad thing."

Sirius and Lupine each grabbed Peter's arm and pulled Peter up from the ground.

Hermione's pet Crookshanks showed heroic arrogance and walked at the front of the team with his head held high.

Sirius and Harry just met tonight, chatting about their godfather and godson relationship.

Sherlock didn't go with the main force, he was still listening carefully to the strange sound, looking for where it was.

When he was looking around, he suddenly noticed the bright white full moon in the sky, and he was stunned.

At this moment, Sherlock seemed to finally understand what he was anxious about, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the extremely pale Lupine.

"Remus!"

Hearing Sherlock's rare direct call of Lupin's name, Harry and the others stood on the edge of the Forbidden Forest and were stunned.

Lupine looked at Sherlock strangely.

"What happened?"

Sherlock stared at him, pursed his lips and said.

"When you were in the office, you told me that Snape hasn't brought you the Wolfsbane potion today."

In an instant, Lupine's face became even paler than before!
"I can't go back to the castle!"

Harry and Ron were baffled by this, neither of them knew Lupine's identity as a werewolf yet.

Hermione seemed to have guessed something beforehand, and Sherlock's words made her more sure of her guess.

Sirius also reacted at this time, he looked at the Forbidden Forest behind him, and said anxiously.

"Run to the depths of the Forbidden Forest, the further you go, the better."

However, at this moment, an abrupt voice that did not belong to anyone between them suddenly sounded.

"Don't run away, Lupine, I brought you the medicine."

From the darkness in the direction of Hogwarts Castle, there was a sound of light footsteps. Snape, with greasy hair reflecting in the moonlight, had a playful expression on his face, holding a bottle of potion in one hand, Walked over with a wand in hand.

There was a look of surprise on Lupin's face seeing him.

"How did you know we were here? Thank you, Snape."

But Sherlock was not as optimistic as he was, because Snape looked at Lupine and Sirius with a strange expression.

It was the same gaze that Sirius had when he saw Peter, such ardor and hatred that went against Snape's normal!
He avoided Lupine's hand trying to take the potion, and instead kept aiming his wand at Sirius' chest.

"Compared to delivering you medicine, I think I found a bigger problem." Snape's tone was unusually gloomy. "Two professors from Hogwarts and three Gryffindor students stayed up in the middle of the night to secretly meet the top most wanted criminals from the Ministry of Magic! What do you want to do?"

"Listen Severus, I'll talk about my business later, you give Lupine the medicine first! Give it to him first!"

Black had spotted Lupine standing next to him, something was obviously wrong, he shouted loudly, but Snape was not moved at all.

"It would be better if he turned into a werewolf! When the dementors are coming, they will see the fugitive they want, and then they will see a werewolf who is getting out of control! Guess what they will do?"

There was a happy expression on Snape's face, it was the excitement of getting revenge!

Suddenly, a flashing red light hit him from behind!

Snape's body froze in place immediately, unable to move.

But what attacked him from behind was just a lonely wand hanging in the air. After the spell was cast, the wand twirled slightly, and then returned to Sherlock's hand.

"Hurry up! Lupine is about to transform!" Sirius urged Sherlock to help Lupine who was kneeling on the ground.

Naturally, Sherlock also knew that time was urgent, and Lupine had to drink that bottle of medicine before he turned into a werewolf!

But when he walked towards the petrified Snape, the sound of the clock hands turning became louder and louder!
It's as if some timer is counting down the time, and the pointer on it is about to reach the last moment.

Naturally, Sherlock was not in the mood to worry about this at this time, he walked quickly towards Snape, the second his hand touched Snape's hand.

The sound suddenly stopped.

Not only the sound, but everything around it also stopped!

The leaves blown from the branches by the wind stayed motionless in mid-air, as if they had been frozen.

Sherlock grabbed the potion in Snape's hand, and he could see Snape blinking angrily.

But the others, Sirius supporting Lupin with an eager expression, Lupine kneeling on the ground with a painful face, Harry, Ron and Hermione who opened their mouths looking at the scene in front of them in a daze, all looked like The pause button was pressed.

Sherlock looked around in disbelief.

"what happened?"

The only Snape who could move like him in this scene could only blink hard.

His eyes were also full of confusion, and he didn't understand what happened at all.

At this time, Sherlock realized that the locket he had been carrying around his neck had been opened at some point!
There was a golden watch inlaid in the box, but there was no time scale on the surface, the only solitary pointer, when Sherlock saw it, it suddenly reversed crazily in a counterclockwise direction!
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Not broken, not broken, still in the code, before twelve o'clock.

(End of this chapter)