Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

"Professor, I have..." Dean was about to think about it, but suddenly closed his mouth.

He remembered the true purpose of this "debriefing": to borrow the Pensieve to view the memories Lupine had given him.

He had not spoken before because he was thinking about how to persuade Dumbledore to lend him the pensieve. Now it seemed like a good opportunity to use the pensieve while Dumbledore was gone.

Looking at Dumbledore's hurried away figure, Dean suddenly realized that this was also one of the tacit understandings between Dumbledore and him: he would not continue to hold Scabbers away; Dumbledore tacitly allowed him to use the pensieve.

Yes, that must be the case!

Seeing that Dumbledore had left and the door to the principal's office had been closed, Dean quickly took out the glass bottle containing Lupin's memory.

After pouring the contents of the bottle into the Pensieve, Dean entered Lupine's memory.

The memory began as a tapestry covering the entire wall - Lupine was very careful to intercept only the memories related to the family tree, leaving everything else untouched.

Dean was watching a silent movie, and the tapestry recording the Black family tree was the movie screen.

The tapestry looked very old, the color was dull, and it seemed that foxes had bitten it in several places.However, the gold thread embroidered on it still shone brightly, and they could clearly see a branching family tree that could be traced back to the Middle Ages.Several large words were embroidered on the top of the tapestry: The noble and oldest Black family is forever pure.

The Black family's genealogy is not very complicated. From the beginning, Dean focused on the small blackened holes on the tapestry, like cigarette burn marks.

Dean was [-]% sure that his ancestor was definitely one of the people who had been removed from the genealogy - for those who were still on the genealogy, there was a clear life story, and none of them could match his father or even his grandfather.

Dean quickly judged from his age that his ancestor should be one of the people who were removed from the family tree in the first three generations.

There were only three such candidates. One was Isla Black, the younger sister of Phineas Nigellus Black. She was removed from the list because she married the Muggle Bob Hitchens.

The other was Phineas Nigellus Black's second son, also named Phineas, who was expelled for supporting Muggle rights.

There was also Marius, the third son of Signus Black, the youngest son of Phineas Nigellus Black. He was a squib, so he was also removed from the list.

Dean believes that the first person to be excluded is Isla Black. According to European blood theory, even if Isla marries a non-Muggle, the descendants born after her marriage will not be considered direct lineage of the Black family. .

The next person to be eliminated was Marius Black, whose age seemed to overlap with that of Dean's grandfather, Leona Shaw, from a genealogical perspective.

But first of all, Leona is obviously not a squib. On the contrary, he should be quite talented in magic, otherwise he would not be valued by Grindelwald; secondly, Grindelwald said that Leona already has Eastern ancestry, so it is even less likely to be Mariel. That's it.

So there is only one answer. Dean's ancestor is Phineas Black, who has the same name as the most unpopular headmaster in the history of Hogwarts and is also his second son.

Leona Xiao was most likely the child of Phineas and an oriental woman after he was expelled.

In Dean's eyes, there seemed to be an illusory double-stranded golden thread connecting Phineas's name, which had turned into a burnt black hole, with another mysterious name, and then a single-stranded vertical golden thread started from their names. Shanglian asked Leona Xiao’s name.

Now that Phineas has been removed from the Black family, Dean thinks that Leona may have taken his mother's surname. In other words, should his great-grandmother's surname be Xiao?

As Dean saw the Black family's genealogy and made a complete inference about his life experience, the system prompted "Link 3, Black family's genealogy" of "Serial mission: Mystery of life experience" was successfully completed.

While gaining 3 skill points, it also gave a very valuable clue, and it was also a side task:

"Side Quest: The Black Family Treasure

As a direct descendant of the Black family, you may have the right to inherit the Black family treasure. After you gain the true recognition of the family, you can enter the Black family's old house and discover the secret of the Black family treasure.

Reward: 5 skill points, inheritance rights to the Black family treasure. "

The system is a bit unkind. It should at least remind him what the Black family's treasures contain, so that he can be motivated.

Dean must admit that as he becomes more powerful, simple skill points no longer have much appeal.

Perhaps the system heard Dean's complaints, and immediately threw out the fourth ring mission of "Mystery of Life Experience":

"Session 4: The last piece of the puzzle

You've almost got enough clues, it's time to figure out the final piece of the puzzle to your biological father's secret.

Reward: 5 skill points, obtain Brian Xiao's strongest skill. "

Dean immediately became energetic when he saw it. Although the system didn't say it clearly, Brian Xiao's strongest skill must be extraordinary!

There is no doubt that the last piece of the puzzle is in the hands of Snape. Dean almost immediately wanted to go to Snape to ask what happened, but before he was about to take action, he felt something was not right and looked at the task again. I found that I almost fell into the trap set by the system again.

In the mission description, the word "almost" seems very interesting. On the surface, it encourages Dean to complete the mission immediately, but in fact, it implies that there is still something missing.

Dean thought about Snape's attitude recently and realized that the time was obviously not yet ripe for Snape to tell him everything about Brian Shaw.

What's the key to getting Snape to confess?Dean was still confused for a moment.

Just when Dean was thinking a lot, he noticed a familiar little shadow flashing past his eyes - it was Ron's pet Scabbers who quietly slipped under the tapestry.

Now Dean is more and more certain that the informer around Lupine is Peter Pettigrew.

It's a pity that Dumbledore almost told him clearly just now that he can't touch Scabbers now.

After exiting the memory of Lupine in the pensieve with a hint of regret, Dean discovered that Dumbledore had not returned.

Dean thought for a moment and decided to leave the principal's office first, lest Dumbledore find out that he had used the Pensieve when he came back.

Although this was an unspoken understanding between the two, it was always awkward to be bumped into in person.

As soon as Dean stood up, the portrait of Phineas next to him immediately screamed: "You brat, you are secretly using the pensieve!"

Dean frowned slightly. It seemed that every time he came to the principal's office, Phineas would always find trouble. At first, he thought Phineas had such an annoying character. Now that he thought about it, maybe Phineas had already guessed his life experience, so he did this deliberately.

Thinking of this, Dean decided not to leave. Maybe Phineas had clues that would make Snape hand over the last piece of the puzzle.