Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts

There were originally two Defense Against the Dark Arts classes in the afternoon, but because their teacher of the course, Professor Quirrell, passed away unfortunately, the first-year Gryffindor students were all on holiday.

Andre, Harry, Hermione and others came to the principal's office.

The man in front of him was a bit thin, with slightly pale skin sticking tightly to his cheekbones. He was wearing a decent wizard robe. If you ignored his excessively weak body, you could see that his facial features were actually very handsome.

This was naturally Sirius Black. Years of living in Azkaban had caused great damage to his body. It was hard to imagine that he would still be able to swim back to England from an isolated island in the North Sea more than a year later.

"Hi...Harry..." Sirius said to Harry nervously: "I don't know if Dumbledore has ever told you that I am actually your godfather."

Harry nodded excitedly.

This made Sirius relax a lot, and he couldn't help but open his mouth, revealing the big yellow teeth that had not been washed for many years.

"By the way, Sirius, I can call you that." At this time, Harry remembered the broomstick he received in the morning, and asked hurriedly: "Did you give me that Firebolt?"

Sirius smiled and turned around and said: "Of course, that broom was indeed given by me. When Dumbledore told me that you were the youngest Seeker in a century, I thought of your father, James. Mu used to be a very good seeker, so I think your hobbies must be similar."

Harry touched his head sheepishly and said, "That is indeed a great gift and the best gift I have ever received."

"I think you can catch up on old times later," Dumbledore also came over at this time and said, "I have to introduce you to Sirius."

"of course."

Dumbledore pointed at Andre and said: "This Andre Jovanovich Ivanov, the one you should thank the most is him. If this child hadn't discovered the traces of Pettigrew, I think we would No one would have thought that a recipient of the Order of Merlin, First Class, would actually be a Death Eater and an illegal Animagus, not even me. He died 11 years ago."

Then he pointed at Ron and said: "And this is Ron Weasley, Arthur's youngest son. Before Pettigrew was discovered, he stayed by his side."

The twins and Hermione also came, and they both contributed a lot in tracking down Pettigrew. At least in everyone's eyes, the first clue was found on the twins' Marauder's Map.

After Dumbledore finished introducing these young wizards one by one, Sirius nodded gratefully to everyone, and then said: "Yes, who would have thought that Pettigrew, who has always been cowardly, would defect to Voldemort, and I was born in Everyone in the notorious Black family thinks I'm more of a Death Eater than he is."

"We can't choose our origins, Sirius, but we can choose where we stand." Dumbledore's tone was as gentle as ever.

"No matter what, I have to thank you." After thanking you, Sirius turned his eyes to Andre and said, "Andre, can I call you that?"

"Of course, it's my honor. I think the Wizengamot will soon award you with a medal of the Order of Merlin. After all, not everyone has the courage to chase down a Death Eater." Andre Naturally he won't refuse.

However, Sirius was obviously not interested in things like medals. He had never valued bloodline or glory.

Otherwise, he would not have been kicked out of the Black family and would have had to stay at Grandpa Harry's house.

"To be honest, I don't know what you like, so I didn't prepare a gift for you. Maybe during the holidays, I can take you to Blake's old house. There should still be many things passed down by the family from generation to generation. Magic items and books, maybe you can gain something." Sirius then said apologetically.

No one refused this. This was Sirius's repayment. According to Western etiquette, it was polite to accept.

Andre agreed happily. He actually wanted to visit Black's old house. One of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the Slytherin's locket, was still in his house.

After killing the basilisk before, he deliberately put the monster's venom and its two yellow eyes into his space pocket. These are precious magic materials.

And with the basilisk venom, he could destroy Voldemort's Horcrux.

Whether it was the diary that Malfoy would throw to Ginny next year, or the Ravenclaw diadem in the Room of Requirement, he would find a time to destroy it.

Slytherin's locket was naturally part of his plan.

"I heard that Sirius will be our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor next semester. Is this true? Professor Dumbledore." After Sirius and Andre finished talking, Hermione asked about this matter Something that everyone is concerned about.

Dumbledore smiled and nodded, saying: "That's true. I originally wanted Sirius to take over as the professor of this course this year, but as you can see, he is still very weak now. He has to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Magical Injuries for a period of time to recover, so we can only let him take up the post next semester."

"But I heard that the school's Defense Against the Dark Arts class has been cursed, and no one can teach it for two consecutive years." Harry said with some worry.

"Huh," Sirius obviously sneered at this rumor, he said: "Don't believe those boring rumors, Harry, no one can curse a position, these things you said are just coincidences, I was only A Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

Dumbledore knew that Voldemort had indeed cursed this position, but he never cared about it, and even encouraged it by deliberately finding some wizards with problems to serve as teachers of this course.

For example, Professor Gerhardt, who was supposed to take office next year, is a wizard who is only good at forgetting spells and writing. The probability of him not getting into trouble in the 'dangerous' Hogwarts is much lower than the probability of getting into trouble.

So he did not respond directly to Harry's question, but just said: "Okay, you all know each other. I think we can let Sirius return to London first. It will take at least one or two for his body to fully recover." Months."

Although Harry and Sirius were still a little reluctant to leave, they did not continue chatting. They made an appointment to meet in London during the holidays.