Everyday players at Hogwarts

"Who is Sirius? Is he famous?"

"Sirius escaped from prison!"

"Get out of jail so soon?"

"Why is the Daily Prophet so slow?"

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After Sirius lit up the image, the little wizards around him whispered.

"Peter Pettigrew is not dead?"

"Is he Ron's rat?" Harry understood instantly.

"What?" Ron gradually calmed down. He knew from Harry that Sirius was innocent, not to mention that even Professor McGonagall did not regard him as an enemy. But Ron still held Scabbers closer to him, looking scared. "What could my rat have to do with anything?"

"It's not a rat," Black suddenly said hoarsely.

"What do you mean? Of course it's a rat—"

"No, it's not," Black retorted vehemently, which made him look even more like a madman, "He's a wizard."

"Is he an Animagus? - Peter Pettigrew." Professor McGonagall asked doubtfully.

"I'm sorry, James and I lied to you. We -" Sirius spat in disgust, "the three of us are all Animagus, unregistered."

"This is impossible. Banban has been with us for almost 11 years!"

"Percy gave it to me!" Ron retorted fiercely. Scabbers screamed like a pig and scratched Ron's face and neck, trying to escape.

"Give him to me quickly! The Weasley boy!" Black roared, shaking the wand again, and the fingertips holding the wand were about to turn white.

The surrounding students were whispering, and the faces of Ron, Draco, and Harry were uncertain.

"Show some respect to our little brother!"

"He is the nemesis of the poachers of magical creatures! Defeat Ron Weasley, one of the Three Musketeers of the Mysterious Man!" No need to think about it, this must be Fred and George.

"Okay, okay! Ron Weasley, can you give him to me?" Sirius looked at Harry, who was like James, and Professor McGonagall who had already taken out his wand, and he tried his best to control it. He was in a bad temper, but his sunken eyes were still fixed on Scabbers, who lay close beneath Ron's hands.

"Weasley, your rat—no, Scabbers, can you check it out for me?"

"It won't do him any harm." Professor McGonagall finally spoke, "And students, please step back and stay away from this area."

The surrounding students gradually retreated, leaving Draco, Harry, Ron, and Sirius behind.

"Slytherin?" Sirius narrowed his eyes, "You little devil of the Malfoy family, you don't want to do anything bad, do you?"

"That's enough! Sirius Black, if you were Harry's godfather, I would definitely——, please keep your mouth clean and don't slander my friend!" Ron's ears turned red, and Draco's eyes became slightly moist.

"godfather?"

"Sirius is Harry Potter's godfather!"

.......

Ron's words made the surrounding people start whispering.

"Mr. Black, do your business! Mr. Malfoy is a friend of Weasley and Potter. I don't think what you are worried about will happen." Professor McGonagall's tone became slightly colder, but her eyes when looking at Black remained the same. Full of concern.

"Business? He is Slytherin's bad blood!"

"Jen——, no Harry, since when did you become friends with Slytherin, just like your mother." Sirius seemed to regard Harry as his dead friend in a trance.

But he was immediately brought back to reality, which made him a little angry, and he began to speak sarcastically of Lily's behavior that he regarded as a betrayal of Gryffindor.

Lily Evans is seen by others as a good friend and someone worthy of respect.

But to Sirius, who regarded James as his life, she was a nuisance.

"What's your tone?" Harry couldn't help but get angry.

The other students around him looked at him in surprise. In their opinion, Sirius must be crazy.

During the period of peace after Voldemort's death, Slytherin's reputation was no longer what it was in Sirius's time - less like a classmate and more like an enemy.

Although Snape's partiality and Slytherin's bad atmosphere made them very unsociable, in the eyes of most students in other houses, they were just annoying classmates at best.

At this time, even McGonagall was freed from her feelings of pity for Sirius. She couldn't help but start to recall Snape's madness not long ago, and her own behavior in that era.

She suddenly realized that at that time, she paid too much attention to the world outside school - because of Voldemort.

This led to bad atmosphere entering Slytherin, creating a hostile atmosphere at the time.

Sirius looked around, but there were no flowers or applause as expected.

In their day, every time he was in a bad mood and made fun of Slytherin, he always received adoring looks from others.

He didn't dare to look at Harry, that familiar face with an angry expression.

For the first time, he realized that, ah, so much time had passed.

"I'm sorry, Harry, I just-"

"Okay, I've given you so much time, Peter Pettigrew!" Sirius showed an apologetic look on his face at first, but in the next sentence he smoothly switched to a selective expression.

"Okay, don't hurt it. It's a very old mouse and can't stand the trouble." Ron was keenly aware of something wrong with the atmosphere, and carefully placed Banban on the ground.

At the same time, Professor McGonagall's shot of petrification kept Scabbers on the ground and prevented him from escaping.

Sirius's crazy expression just now returned to calmness. No, it was more like happiness. He seemed to be asking someone who was not present. "together?"

No one answered, so he smiled again, as if he heard something, "Count to three. One...two...three!"

Sirius' wand glowed with a bluish-white light.

Scabbers on the ground hung in mid-air, its little black body twisting wildly... Ron yelled... The mouse fell down and landed on the floor.

Another blinding flash, and then... nothing.

"No! That's not true!" growled Sirius, dropping his wand and standing still.

Sirius's spell interrupted Professor McGonagall's, and Scabbers on the ground suddenly "came alive" and got into Ron's pocket.

"Poor, pitiful." Ron said as he kept stroking Scabbers with his hand.

"Sirius, you have a lot to say to Harry now. Do you want to go to my office?" Professor McGonagall's eyes were red and she deliberately changed the subject and said to Sirius.

"No, no, Harry must hate me now." Sirius said disappointedly.

"No, no, you just stayed in Azkaban for a long time." Harry suddenly said loudly, followed closely by Ron, "Yeah, isn't Scabbers okay? Draco's reputation is not good to begin with. .”

Draco looked at his two friends and smiled helplessly, "Yes."