Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 252 Remus Lupine

Ron and Hermione froze like Harry in front of the Boggart-turned-Sirius.

Ron: [What is Harry afraid of?Worried that Sirius' innocence was all a lie? 】

Hermione: [Oops, how can I let Professor Lupine see it!What if he knew that Sirius was not dead? 】

As early as the trial that foreshadowed the confrontation between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, news of Sirius' death spread throughout the wizarding world, still as an innocent person.

But today, the scene that happened in the office is a little hard to explain.

As the person involved, Harry's mind became extremely confused. He couldn't think of Hermione in the long run, and even Ron couldn't compare to him—he still exposed his inner fear—in case all this was fake What if Sirius wasn't innocent?
After all, he had never seen the other party with his own eyes, and he still had an unattainable fantasy in his heart—hoping that he could use this to leave the Dursleys and never have to go back to be angry.

At this time, Lupine suddenly stood in front of Harry and shouted at Sirius: "You are dead, I am very sorry about this, but please don't disturb the living, go back quickly-funny funny!"

Sirius acted as if he suddenly stepped on something slippery and fell hard, then he stood up quickly, pretending that nothing happened, the expression on his face was extremely embarrassing.

If he hadn't seen this scene with his own eyes, Harry didn't think anyone could bring the Boggart to life like this.

Then, the Boggart suddenly changed again and was spinning around. Before the three of them could see it clearly, Lupine was already prepared to shout—"Funny, funny!"

He cast the Funny Charm again, and the Boggart was thrown back into the box immediately, only to be silent after two bangs.

Harry fell to the floor as if he had lost all strength, sweating continuously, Hermione and Ron hurried over.

"I'm fine," Harry gasped, like he'd just run a marathon.He looked up at Lupine who had his back to the three of them: "Professor, you...do you know Sirius?"

Hermione and Ron looked over in surprise, and found that Professor Lupine's back had aged a lot in an instant, and he couldn't conceal that gray temperament.

"We did know each other when we were in school." He said in a low tone: "He, me, James, and Peter Pettigrew. We often hang out together. Later, he thought about helping me find a job or something— But you should know what happened after that.”

Harry's heart became tingling, he really couldn't understand what Pettigrew Peter did, and he was also unwilling to be reconciled to Sirius' inexplicable pain.

But Sirius is obviously still alive——

Harry suddenly noticed that Hermione pinched himself so hard on the inside of her invisible arm that she almost cried out in pain.

"Oh, that's right." Lupine said as if he had regained his senses: "You go back and rest first, today's class is over here, remember to review carefully, and don't forget to eat chocolate—do you have any more? You can take some from me, I have prepared a lot in advance."

When the three of them left with a bag full of chocolates, Harry rubbed his arms and asked, "Why did you pinch me so hard just now?"

Hermione stared, exactly like Professor McGonagall.

"Did you just want to tell Professor Lupine that Sirius is not dead?" She asked, "Did you forget that Professor Highmore asked us to keep it a secret?"

"Is there?" Ron asked confusedly: "I really don't remember, did Professor Haimer say that? I only know that the matter of transforming into a devil must be kept secret."

"Even if you don't have one, you can't talk nonsense." Hermione said angrily, "Who knows where Sirius is hiding now, did Professor Highmore tell you?"

Harry shook his head in frustration. Since they discovered the traces of Sirius at Hogwarts, Professor Highmore never revealed any information related to Sirius to him, and seemed to have forgotten it long ago.

"But why doesn't Professor Lupine know?" Ron said confusedly: "He said he was a friend of Sirius, and he seemed to have a good relationship with Professor Highmore—I mean, he even promised Highmore Professor Mo helps us tutor the Patronus—but why doesn't he hear anything from Professor Highmore, is it because Professor Highmore doesn't trust him? Do you think so?"

Harry obviously didn't think so, it was the first time he had seen a professor who had such a good relationship with Professor Highmore - of course Snape wasn't counted, at most it was blood feud.

"Actually." Hermione said hesitantly, "I seem to know part of the reason."

The two looked at her eagerly, but Hermione didn't want to continue talking: "This matter is very important, I must do more evidence, and I can't say it casually—especially in this critical period."

"When will we have to wait?" Ron asked dissatisfied.

Hermione said cautiously: "Perhaps, just wait until the next ancient magic class."

Ron quickly took out the timetable and looked at it, and found that there was just a class tomorrow—he suddenly panicked, but after remembering that he had finished his homework, he regained his composure and said with a sigh of relief: "You plan to Tell us?"

"Not this section." Hermione said mysteriously, "We have to wait a little longer."

"Look at her, Harry." Ron turned his head and sarcastically said, "Hermione is going to have her own little secret again, are you ready to become a doormat again——Harry—where's Harry? ?”

The two turned their heads and looked around in the crowd. After such a short time, Harry ran away without a trace.

"professor?"

"Oh, it's Harry, why are you back?"

"I'm here." Harry stood at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, his expression very tangled.

Lupine, looking less heavy than before, smiled and waved, "Have you all eaten up the chocolate? If you want some more, I might make some hot chocolate—would you like a cup?"

In the next ten seconds or so, Harry saw with his own eyes that Professor Lupine skillfully concocted two cups of steaming hot chocolate with magic.

"I'm used to drinking something warm." Lupine said: "For physical reasons, I must take a good rest - so, what do you want to say? Of course, if not, just finish this glass You can leave after the hot chocolate, it doesn't matter what—”

"Yes, Professor." Harry said courageously, "I wonder, Sirius, when he was at school—"

Just saying this half of the sentence, Harry felt that the atmosphere was not right, it was weird, but he believed that it was definitely not because Professor Lupine was angry or something, but because he hesitated to speak.

Lupine's face was blocked by the glass, and from the rising mist came his inquiry: "What do you want to know?"

"The more the better," Harry said decisively.

After all, he still hadn't seen the later Sirius, and never thought that this incident would bring him so much fear—what if Sirius wasn't what he imagined?
Or, what if we never see each other again?

According to his understanding, Sirius is still in a very dangerous state and may encounter danger at any time - for example, a person who has been reported dead should not appear in public.

Especially at this critical time when the relationship between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic is so fraught.

"You really gave me a problem." Lupine said with a wry smile: "But how much do you know? The story about Sirius is a bit complicated, and it's hard to tell clearly in a while--you asked Have you ever had a question about Toby?"

"Not yet." Harry asked puzzledly: "I only know that they should know each other, but I don't know the specific things."

"That's the problem," Lupine said. "Some people just can't be avoided, even in another person's story—and, unfortunately, it didn't happen just once."

Harry didn't understand, why did he say it was unfortunate?
"But this has nothing to do with Professor Highmore—"

"I seem to hear my name being called - can you tell me why? Do you have to think of me when you summon your Patronus? That would be an honor."

Toby walked in with a smile, and he looked left and right: "Why are you alone? Where are Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger? Don't tell me that you are detained - I know exactly what happened. Well, Remus, you must feel that you have to teach Harry the Patronus Charm. It's not necessary, but it's worth trying, how is he doing?"

"Not bad." Lupine helped Harry cover up that "little" mistake, and he said gently, "Why are you here? Don't worry about letting me teach them? Or do you want to show off your patron saint? "

Harry's eyes lit up all of a sudden, but Toby just waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it'll be bad if you're too popular."

Both Harry and Lupine were speechless at Toby's "confidence".

"So, what are you talking about?" Toby asked, looking at them.

"We—" Harry was about to speak, but was interrupted by Lupine immediately: "It's nothing, just some past events, talking about his father—"

"Come on," interrupted Toby, "you can tell from the way you look, you must be talking about Sirius—there's nothing you can't say—"

"I don't think so." Lupine said this resolutely, but he still couldn't cover up Toby's next words: "I can only say that the mysterious man—no, it should be Grindelwald, he won Better than me, otherwise, I would have been the one who put Black in jail."

Harry stood there for a few seconds.

"Huh?" His eyes widened.

"We are mortal enemies." Toby looked into Harry's eyes and said, "A mortal enemy who hates very, very deeply, has thought of killing each other--as for now, it seems that my ability is better, he is dead , but I'm still alive."

Harry heard it in a daze—he only understood one meaning, that is, Professor Highmore seemed to be secretly reminding him not to tell the news that Sirius was still alive, and it wasn't time to be honest with Lupin, Whatever the reason.

But the relationship between sworn enemies—is this true or false?

"It seems that you need time to calm down." Toby walked over and pulled Harry up and said, "Let's go, either go to the school hospital to lie down for a while, or play a game of wizard chess with your friends-by the way, your homework Have you finished writing, there is still class tomorrow, but don't let me find out that you have learned to be lazy."

After Harry left, Toby looked at the helpless Lupine.

"He will always know." Toby said indifferently: "I'm more curious about his expression when he knows the grievance between James and Severus-it's really exciting, but Severus Les himself will definitely not say it, so who else do you think is the most likely?"

"It won't be me anyway," said Lupine, staring straight at Toby.

"I didn't intend to inform." Toby said with wide eyes. "That would be meaningless, and Severus would definitely hate me too—although it's about the same now."

"Although I'd like to hear you continue to say these unnutritious words." Lupine looked like seeing off the guests: "But it's not too late, do you have anything else to do?"

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm looking for you?" Toby looked around and said, "Reminiscing about the old days? I can't see it-well, it's about induction."

"What?" Lupine froze.

"Induction training." Toby said with emphasis: "Do you still remember the divination I did at your house before school started?"

"Of course I remember." Lupine's expression became a little strange: "Before that, I never knew that you had the talent of divination. But the result later—didn't you say that the prophecy would only happen on the full moon?" Is it time?"

In that divination, it was shown that Lupine was attacked after turning into a werewolf. Although it was not known who the murderer would be, the time was well determined-it could only be a full moon.

"Yes." Toby said seriously, "I have some questions for you."

Lupine was still frowning.

"Have you found anyone suspicious recently?" Toby continued to ask.

Lupine thought carefully for a while: "No."

"Then do you feel being watched?"

"Neither, I've had a good time at Hogwarts—wait a minute, does that count as orientation? Doesn't sound like it."

"Just treat it as a follow-up study-the next question, since when did you like hot chocolate?"

"It should be considered recently. The professor's salary allows me to pay more fees-but does this have anything to do with the elegance you said?"

"No." Toby smiled and said, "It's just a little curious."

Lupine looked a little annoyed.

"If you don't mind," he said, "I have classes to attend."

"Don't worry." Toby said, slowly lowering his tone: "The last question—are you really unable to remember what happened after you turned into a werewolf?"

Lupine was silent for a moment.

"Only those that make me feel pain." He said in a low tone.

"Physically?" Toby continued to ask, "Like scratches or something?"

"No." Lupine shook his head and said, "It's not enough, it has to be painful enough - for example, it's scary, this happened many times when I was in school, and I've been regretting that I shouldn't be with you on the full moon. They're wandering around, and there's danger at any moment—any more questions? Your next subject is werewolves? It's also about ancient magic?"

He seemed to gradually understand Toby's intentions.

"If it is related to ancient magic, there is no doubt that this is the only possibility." Toby handed over an envelope and said, "But this has nothing to do with my next subject, but a subject that is about to be forgotten. Event, let’s see, this time it’s for real, there won’t be any Christmas presents or anything like that.”

Unknowingly, Lupine opened the envelope, and inside was an invitation letter.

[Hogwarts Teacher Appreciation Meeting - Remus Lupine. 】

(End of this chapter)