Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

"Fluorescence"

Nidia lit her wand and looked around the house. It was in a mess everywhere, everything was covered with a layer of dust, the wallpaper was peeling off in pieces, and the windows were boarded up. From the remaining glass, Judging from the fragments, it seemed that someone had smashed it, and all the furniture was in tatters, as if it had been torn apart by some animal.

There was a row of footprints on the ground, left by a big black dog. Nidia followed the footprints and passed a rickety staircase to the door of a room.

A cat meowed "meow", but it did not come from Yi Wan who was next to Nitya, but came from inside the room.

Is there a cat here besides the big black dog? Nidia opened the door curiously. The smile on her face, which she originally wanted to surprise the big black dog, froze when she saw the scene in the room clearly. A tall The man's figure appeared in front of Nidia. He was in ragged clothes, with dirty hair hanging down to his elbows. His waxy white skin stretched out the outline of his bones, and his sunken eye sockets made him look like a skeleton.

Nydia had seen this face before, on the wanted poster in Diagon Alley, on the Daily Prophet, he was Sirius Black

Nydia immediately stepped back nervously, clenched the wand in her hand and pointed it at Sirius Black. Sirius was obviously surprised by Nydia's sudden appearance, with a surprised expression on his face.

"Meow!" a cat meowed, and a big ginger cat jumped out from the side and stood in front of Sirius.

"Crookshanks" Nydia was surprised to find that the cat was actually Hermione's pet Crookshanks.

Iwan stepped forward and also gave a warning cry to Crookshanks. Crookshanks took a few steps back, but still stood in front of Sirius and did not move away.

"Calm down, Nydia, I am not your enemy" Sirius raised his hands in front of his chest and said to Nydia in a hoarse voice.

"How do you know my name" They have never met, why would Sirius know who he is?

"I heard your friends call you that, Nydia, if I heard you right." Sirius said cautiously.

"How come my friend? How could you hear my friend calling me?" Suddenly Nidia realized something. She looked around and saw no sign of the big black dog, but the footprints of the big black dog she followed all the way. After entering the room, it turned into human footprints, "You are the big black dog, you are the Animagus"

"Yes, it's me. Listen, Nydia, put your wand down. I'm not your enemy." Sirius persuaded Nydia.

"Are you really here at Hogwarts? Are you really a Death Eater? Are you here to take revenge and kill Harry?" Nydia looked at Sirius with some horror, and tightened her hand holding the wand. How many points? Is that list really wrong as my father said?

"Kill Harry, no, no, no. I am indeed here for revenge, but it's not Harry." Sirius said a little excitedly. His thin and swaying body made him look a little crazy. "He is James' only son. I How could it be possible to kill him, he is "

"Your godson" Nidia said what he wanted to say for him.

"You know" Sirius looked at Nydia in surprise, and then he began to become a little nervous, his eyes kept rolling, and he was pacing back and forth, "You know, you know that I am Harry's godfather, haha profit"

"He doesn't know." Nydia pointed at Sirius with her wand and said in warning, "Don't stop walking back and forth. I know more spells than you think."

Sirius stopped moving. He stood there and muttered to himself, "He doesn't know yet. He doesn't know yet." I couldn't tell whether he was more thankful or more disappointed in his tone.

"Yeah, Harry doesn't know. How sad he would be if he knew that the person who betrayed his parents was actually his godfather." Nydia felt a little disappointed. Originally, she thought Sirius might have been wronged, but he Now that he is sneaking around the school, doesn't this just confirm the rumor that he is here to kill Harry for revenge?

"No, it's not like that. I wasn't the one who betrayed James and Lily." Sirius roared excitedly.

"Shattered to pieces" A low table beside Sirius was blown to pieces by the spell.

"If you do this again, this spell will be used on you next time." Nidia warned.

"Calm down, Nydia, we have dealt with you several times. If I want to hurt you, there are many opportunities, right?" Sirius' tone calmed down, "Things are not as betrayal as you heard. It’s not me who belongs to James and Lily. Of course, I am also responsible for this. It was me who persuaded them to change the secret keeper at the last moment.”

"Who is that?" Nydia looked at Sirius suspiciously.

"Peter is Peter," Sirius said through gritted teeth, "I have been waiting for twelve years for him to pay for his shameless behavior."

"Peter Pettigrew" Nydia had seen the name, it was on the list.

"Yes, that's him, you know him." Sirius thought for a moment, "Yes, you must have heard that I killed him and also killed a large group of Muggles, right? Everyone thinks so, everyone They all believed his tricks.”

Nydia shook her head, "Unfortunately, I have not heard of this. I just happened to see his name on a list of Death Eaters."

"How come such a list of Death Eaters exists and why is it in your hands?" Sirius looked at Nydia in surprise.

"It's not important. It's none of your business. Go on and talk about your business."

"Nitya, I've tried to tell you this many times because I need someone to help me, but it's so long that I don't know where to start."

"Why do you think I will help you, and why should I believe what you say?" When Sirius said the name of Peter Pettigrew, Nydia's inner thoughts began to waver again. She wanted to hear from Sirius Make things clear.

"Because you are a kind girl and you helped me. It is not easy to find food while avoiding those dementors." Sirius looked at Nydia with some gratitude. "More importantly, you are also very kind." A Gryffindor student, and he's in Gryffindor, so you can help me."

"You also said you weren't here to find Harry." Nydia's newly relaxed heart became wary again.

"No, it's not Harry, it's Peter Pettigrew."

"Didn't you kill him? Are you fooling me?"

"I didn't kill him, even though I wanted to, but he ran away. He cunningly cut off one of his fingers and ran away. He was also an Animagus. He hid among the rats. Down the sewer."

"Mouse" Nidia looked at Sirius in confusion, and then looked at Crookshanks, "Scabbers, so Crookshanks has been chasing Scabbers." Nidia remembered Ron saying that Scabbers was staying at their house. It has been around for a long time. It used to be Percy's pet. A normal mouse cannot live for so many years. It seems reasonable to connect it like this.

"He is the smartest cat I have ever seen. He recognized me at a glance, and of course Peter. It took me a long time for him to trust me." Then Sirius turned his eyes to Yiwan , "Your cat is also very special. I even doubted that it was not a cat."

"Wait, how did you know that Scabbers is Peter? How did you know that he was in school? You were imprisoned in Azkaban, weren't you? How did you find out this?"

Sirius reached into his robe with his claw-like hands, took out a crumpled piece of paper, unfolded it, smoothed it and showed it to Nydia. It was a photo of Ron's family going to Egypt during their holiday. In the photo, Ron's shoulders Just standing there was Banban.

"This was brought by Minister of Magic Fudge when he came to Azkaban for inspection. The text under the photo said that this boy will go to Hogwarts, so I know he is here." Sirius said excitedly.

"You can recognize it just from a photo. Mice all look the same." Could it be that Animagus can see each other? Nidia boldly guessed.

"I've seen him transform so many times, and look at his fingers, he's missing one of his fingers." Sirius said, pointing to Scabbers in the photo.

Nidia had never looked closely at Banban, but from the photos it seemed that Banban was indeed missing one of her claws. And he just said that Peter Pettigrew cut off one of his fingers when he escaped and rejoined it.

"How can I believe that everything you said is true? Maybe it's all just a story you made up." Although everything he said so far seemed to be true, Nidia still couldn't believe it easily.

Sirius seemed a little frustrated. He scratched his hands in his already very dirty hair. Nidia looked at him helplessly, and then sighed. If he had evidence to prove that what he said was true, , and he won't stay in Azkaban for twelve years.

Perhaps influenced by that list, Nidia finally chose to trust her instincts and put down the wand in her hand.

"So your only chance to clear yourself now is to capture Spotted Pettigrew. Only by proving to everyone that he is not dead will your story be true."

Sirius looked at Nydia who had put down her wand with some surprise, "You believe me?"

"Don't make me regret my decision, or I will blow you up before the Dementors come to you." Nydia took out her wand again to warn Sirius.

"I promise I won't let you have the chance to do this." Nydia saw a smile on Sirius' face for the first time. "But I don't need any chance to clear my name. I am also responsible for this matter. I just need to avenge James and make the traitor pay the price."

"But this is very important to Harry. You are his godfather. He will not want a godfather who betrayed his parents." If Harry knew that he still had a godfather, he would feel happy.

"Harry, I have seen him. He looks like James, but his eyes are like Lily." Sirius fell into memories of the past.

"Tonight is the Halloween dinner. Everyone will go to the restaurant for the dinner. Ron will not bring Scabbers there." Nydia looked at Crookshanks, who had been protecting Sirius, "Crookshanks will bring If you find their dormitory, the password is "Jixing Gaozhao."

Sirius looked at Nydia, speechless for a long time, as if he didn't expect that his chance would come so soon, and then he became a little excited. "Twelve years later, I can finally deal with this traitor with my own hands."

"Dumbledore is in the castle. Be careful when you enter the castle." Nydia's words were concerned about Sirius, but she was also warning Sirius not to do anything detrimental to Harry. , she still had reservations about the authenticity of what Sirius said.

"Don't worry, I know all the secret passages in the castle." Sirius said with some pride.