Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

The Christmas vacation is not completely over yet, but Nidia has returned to school early. It’s not that she doesn’t want to stay in Field Manor, it’s just that she doesn’t want her presence to hinder the development of her father and Olivia’s relationship, because she discovered As long as she was around, her father seemed to keep a distance from Olivia, intentionally or unintentionally.

Along the way to the empty castle and the empty common room, Nidia met no one else except the almost headless Nico. Of course, strictly speaking Nico was not a human being, he was a ghost.

Standing in front of the dormitory door, Nidia had already heard the sobbing coming from the dormitory. She gently opened the dormitory door and saw Hermione curled up on the head of her bed, burying her head in her arms. between.

"What's wrong with you?" Nydia stepped forward and asked Hermione softly.

"Why are you back, Nidia?" Hermione was startled by Nidia's sudden appearance and stopped crying, "Shouldn't there be a few more days before the vacation?"

"For some reasons, I think it would be better for me to stay at school now." Nydia looked at Hermione worriedly, "What happened? Why are you crying alone in the dormitory? Where are Harry and Ron?"

According to past circumstances, Hermione should have stayed with Harry and Ron during the holidays, but now she was hiding alone in the bedroom crying.

"Harry and Ron must both hate me now, but I did this for Harry's safety." Hermione started sobbing again.

"What did you do, why do they hate you?" Nydia patted Hermione's back, hoping it would make her feel better.

"I told Professor McGonagall about Harry receiving the Firebolt. Apparently Professor McGonagall agreed with my idea, so she took the Firebolt away," Hermione said.

"What firebolt?"

Nydia was surprised that the Firebolt was taken away by Professor McGonagall, and Hermione thought Nydia was confused about the status of the Firebolt, so she explained to Nydia.

"Harry received a Firebolt from an unknown source for Christmas without any signature. I think this is too suspicious. Because you know that broomstick is not cheap at all." Hermione sniffed and continued, " Who would give Harry such an expensive broom for no reason? And it happened to appear just when Harry needed to buy a broomstick. This was too coincidental. I suspected that this was probably Sirius's trick. He might have used it on the broom. Once Harry took off on the Firebolt, he would be thrown off his broom or something else, so I told Professor McGonagall about it. But Harry and Ron didn't think so. Seems more willing to take the risk and trust that the broom is okay.”

"What about the Firebolt now? Professor McGonagall took it away, can I get it back?" Nydia asked nervously.

"Professor McGonagall said that she will conduct a thorough inspection of the broom. She may take it apart or something. If it is confirmed that there is no jinx attached to it, it will be returned."

"What are you taking apart?" Nitya felt a twinge of pain. Those were the Firebolts she exchanged for her small vault.

"Ron had the same reaction as you when he heard this." Hermione looked at Nydia and said with some frustration.

"That was a Firebolt, and Hermione was taken apart just like that." Nydia felt unbelievable.

"So you also want to blame me?" Hermione said with a hint of anger in her tone, "I don't think I did anything wrong. What if it was really sent by Sirius? Otherwise, why didn't I leave any signature? Who would be so sneaky about giving Christmas gifts?”

"I don't mean to blame you. I know you are doing it for Harry's good. I just feel a little pity. That's a Firebolt." Nydia lowered her head and sighed.

Hermione's guess was indeed correct. The Firebolt was indeed entrusted to her by Sirius, but there was no curse. Sometimes Nydia was really surprised by Hermione's acumen.

"Nydia, I know you think Sirius is innocent, but there is no evidence to support your point of view. We cannot use Harry's safety as insurance." Hermione hoped that Nydia could really understand her conscience. Hard work.

"I understand your thinking." Nidia nodded perfunctorily. Hermione should not be able to understand her current dumbfounding mood. How can she tell others that there is no problem with the broom over there? We can only hope that Professor McGonagall can return the Firebolt quickly, and hope that their inspection will not have any impact on the Firebolt.

Early the next morning, Nydia sneaked into the Shrieking Shack through the passage of the Whomping Willow. She felt that only Sirius could understand her depressed mood.

"Look." Nydia poured out all the coins in her pocket and placed them in front of Sirius. There were scattered silver Sickles and copper Knuts, and the number of gold Galleons mixed in the middle was less than ten.

"What does this mean? I am a wanted criminal now. No store will sell me anything with money. No need, no need." Sirius' eyes flickered, deliberately pretending not to understand what Nydia meant, and asked Nidia repeatedly. Tia waved her hands.

"You must have thought very well. I want you to see how much money I have left. For that expensive Firebolt, do you know how much it costs?" Nidia said angrily, "A total of five hundred gold plus "Long"

Sirius also had a surprised expression on his face. He looked at Nitya and said, "It seems that Ward treats you well, and he gave you plenty of pocket money."

After hearing what Sirius said, Nydia was so angry that she almost wanted to hit him in the face with something.

Seeing Nidia's angry look, Sirius chuckled, then put on a serious expression and said to Nidia, "Thank you very much for everything you have done, Nidia, I know what I owe It's not just the few hundred galleons you've got, you've helped me a lot."

Sirius's sudden thanks made Nydia a little uncomfortable for a moment, "Don't be too happy yet. Although the Firebolt has been delivered to Harry, it has now been taken away by Professor McGonagall."

"What is the situation and why was it taken away by Professor McGonagall?"

Nydia told Sirius the details of the incident, and he was indeed as sad and depressed about the Firebolt as he had guessed.

"You really can't blame them. They are so cautious because they are worried about Harry's safety. When they find out that the broom is safe, they will return it to Harry intact." Nidia said, "By the way, I have something for you."

Nydia opened her stretch bag and took out the list of Death Eaters, then took out her wand and pointed at the list and read, "Copy in pairs."

The list changed from one to two. She folded the original one and put it back into the stretch bag, and then handed the copied one to Sirius. "This is what I promised you. And there is another thing." Nidia took out another gift box from the stretch bag. "Merry Christmas"

Sirius took the gift from Nydia with some surprise.

"Open it and take a look." Nitya had a smile on her face like she was watching a show.

Sirius opened the gift, and when he saw what was inside, his smiling expression froze. He took the gift out of the gift box, and it turned out to be a dog collar.

"How about you take this with you when you become Padfoot, so others won't think you are a stray dog." Nydia chose this gift with some mischief in mind. In order to take revenge on Sirius, The matter of emptying one's own coffers.

Originally, Nidia thought that Sirius would be a little angry or depressed when he saw this collar, but what Nidia didn't expect was that not only did Sirius not have any angry emotions, but instead there was a trace of tears in the corners of his excited eyes. The result left Nitya a bit overwhelmed.

"James once said that he would give me a collar next Christmas," Sirius laughed dryly. "I don't know if he will really give it because after that there will be no next time." "

"Sorry, I didn't know I shouldn't have made such a joke." Nidia said apologetically.

"No, you don't have to say sorry. I'm very happy to receive it. It's like a gift that was long overdue." Sirius looked at Nydia with a smile. "By the way, I have something for you too."

"Give me"

"Yes, I realized after you left last time that I asked you to help me buy a Christmas gift for my godson, but I forgot that I should also prepare a Christmas gift for you. But since it is a gift for you, I must I can't ask you to buy it yourself, it's too inappropriate, but you also know that I am penniless and still wanted, so I can't prepare a decent gift for you." Sirius said a little. Embarrassedly, he took out a small piece of wood from his pocket and handed it to Nidia, "This is the only thing I can give you now. I carved it myself."

Nydia took over the small piece of wood, which was in the shape of a puppy. It felt very much like Sirius's Padfoot after his transformation. "Did you carve this according to your own appearance?"

"It looks very similar, right, but it's not." Sirius said, "I had carved a similar one before and gave it to a friend. This was before I learned the Animagus."

"Thank you, I like it very much. I believe your friend must also like it when he receives this." Nydia looked at Sirius with a smile.

Sirius looked at Nydia, stunned for a moment before he said, "Maybe she was smiling like you are now."