Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

Nydia returned to the Hog's Head Bar after making a large circle in Hogsmeade. After the party crowd receded, the place returned to its original deserted appearance. There were only a few customers scattered in the corner of the bar, and the bar owner was standing there. Wiping glasses behind the counter.

Sirius was no longer in his original seat. Nydia glanced around the bar again, but didn't see him. It seemed that he had left.

"Did you leave something behind? Little girl!"

The bar owner suddenly asked Nidia and he walked out of the shadows of the room.

"professor……!"

Nydia was startled the moment she saw the bar owner's face clearly. She thought the person who appeared in front of her was Dumbledore. They both had a pair of blue eyes, and their sharp gaze seemed to be able to see through people's hearts. But this person is not Dumbledore. Although they look somewhat similar, their temperaments are completely different.

"Professor?" the bar owner said mockingly, "There is no professor you are looking for here!"

After saying that, the bar owner started wiping the glass in his hand again and ignored Nidia.

"Sorry, I recognized the wrong person, please don't take it to heart!"

Although the bar owner stopped talking to her, Nidia still saluted him politely, then turned around and left the Pig Head Bar.

At the entrance of the Dewes and Bans store, Draco opened the store door and walked out. Behind him were Crabbe and Goyle. He was telling them how to use care tools to maintain a broomstick. .

The two original batsmen of the Slytherin Quidditch team had graduated and left the school. Istel Carrow chose Crabbe and Goyle to fill the vacancies as substitute batters. Draco did not quite understand this decision. , Crabbe and Goyle may indeed be good at hitting objects, but their flying skills are not to be praised. To be honest, it is not easy for the flying broom to bear the weight of the two of them. Something happened.

"You two should control your weight! Weight will affect the speed of flight. If you can't keep up with the speed of the bludgers, how can you hit them away!" Draco said.

Seeing Crabbe and Goyle nodding in understanding, Draco shook his head helplessly. The only help he could give them was persuasion, and they could only rely on their own efforts for the rest.

At this moment, an extremely familiar figure ran quickly in front of him, and Draco stared at the back in confusion for a long time.

"...Where are we going in such a hurry...!" Draco murmured to himself.

"What are you talking about?" Crabbe asked Draco in confusion. He didn't understand what Draco was saying because the words before and after him didn't connect at all.

"Nothing." Draco put the package in Crabbe's hand, "You can take these back first! I will go back to school later."

After saying that, Draco followed in the direction that Nydia had just run away without looking back.

Because she was eager to confirm whether Sirius was still in Hogsmeade, Nydia rushed into the cave without having time to carefully check if anyone was following her. Her sudden intrusion threw the little boy who was changing clothes into the cave. Sirius was startled.

"If you had come one step earlier, this situation would have been a little embarrassing!" Sirius breathed a sigh of relief. He had already changed back to his original appearance. He had just finished changing his clothes when Nydia came in.

"You can't blame me, there's no door that can be knocked on in this cave!" Nydia looked at Sirius who had already changed his clothes, "Are you planning to go back?"

"So you came here specifically to supervise whether I went back obediently?" Sirius asked.

"I have to make sure you leave safely before I can rest assured." Seeing that Sirius was indeed planning to leave, Nidia breathed a sigh of relief.

"Do you think I like walking around in women's clothes?" Sirius said as he put the changed women's clothes into a bag.

"Who knows! Maybe the free air outside will make you dizzy!" Nidia shrugged.

"It is indeed very attractive, but..." Sirius suddenly stopped talking and looked at the hole warily. The wand was already held in his hand without knowing when.

Nidia also turned to look at the entrance of the cave, and a figure walked in from the entrance.

"What is going on!" Draco looked at Nydia and then at Sirius with a puzzled face, "Why are you here! Aren't you afraid of being captured back to Azkaban!"

"It turns out it's you!" Sirius breathed a sigh of relief and put away his wand again, "I was about to leave, but the girl was afraid that I wouldn't leave as promised, so she came to supervise me."

"Promise?" Draco looked at Nydia in confusion.

Nydia simply explained the reason to Draco, telling him that Sirius was here for that party.

"So it's over, right? How is the situation? How many people gathered?" Draco asked Nydia curiously.

"Including them, there are about thirty people together!" Before Nydia could speak, Sirius answered first. He looked very excited, "To be honest, this is far beyond my expectation. I thought it would only be There are more than a dozen people, and it looks like I have to think hard about where there is such a big venue to accommodate so many of you."

"Thirty people!" Draco was also surprised, "There are actually so many people."

"This shows that there are still many people in the school who support Harry, right? Although there are also a few annoying people among them!" The annoying person that Sirius was referring to was Zachary Smith.

Draco ignored Sirius's words, but said to Nydia with a serious face, "There are too many people, you must not participate."

"What are you talking about? How could she not participate?" Sirius answered first again. "She's called Gryffindor!"

"So is it stipulated that Gryffindor must participate? She has the right to choose whether to go or not!" Draco said angrily.

"That's right, she has the right to choose, so you shouldn't make decisions for her!" Sirius said equally unceremoniously.

"Stop talking, I will go and make it clear to Harry tonight and tell him that I will not join this after-school group." Nidia said.

If Dumbledore hadn't said what he said to her, she would definitely have chosen to participate. She didn't care about being punished if Umbridge found out, but now that Dumbledore is keeping a low profile and being an outsider, then She couldn't take the risk.

"What are you talking about! Why do you have to listen to him so much!" Sirius looked at Nydia in disbelief, his expression looking very disappointed.

"I didn't make this decision because of Draco's words," Nydia said. "Don't you realize? This is no longer an after-school group. This is simply a campus version of the Order of the Phoenix! Magic! The Ministry has already suppressed the Order of the Phoenix so much, how can it tolerate another campus version of the Order!"

"Are you afraid of the Ministry of Magic!?" Sirius asked.

"No, I'm not afraid of the Ministry of Magic, I just don't want to cause unnecessary trouble!" Nidia replied.

Sirius looked at Nydia, then at Draco, and finally shook his head helplessly.

"It's up to you! I'm going back. It would be terrible if anyone comes back and finds that I'm not here!" Sirius's words were full of disappointed emotions. He had already apparated away without even saying goodbye. .

"I didn't know you had been in contact with him!" Draco said, looking at Nydia.

"He is still wanted, so Dumbledore doesn't allow him to move around. He doesn't even have anyone to talk to, so I occasionally chat with him at night. In the Gryffindor common room, he flies to Lufen sticks his head through the fireplace so that if someone appears he can disappear quickly," Nydia explained to Draco.

"But this is still dangerous. What if people know that you have been in contact with a fugitive?" Draco said with a frown. "Can't you do less to worry me?"

"Sorry..." Nydia lowered her head and said. She knew that what she did was really nonsense, and it was a very dangerous thing for herself and Sirius.

"...Let's go, go back..." Draco didn't want to quarrel with Nydia, and he suppressed his dissatisfaction after a moment of silence.

The two of them walked in the direction of the school one after the other. No one said a word along the way.