HP: By the lake of Snake Garden, flowers bloom on the other side

Before looking for Rita Skeeter, Lycoris decided to have a chat with the man and his external brain.

Harry's external brain, Hermione, is also very unhappy with the Ministry of Magic - unhappy with the Ministry's mouthpiece, the Daily Prophet, and unhappy with the Ministry's minion, Dolores Umbridge.

The Daily Prophet that I subscribe to either contains meaningless current affairs news or all kinds of scapegoating after something goes wrong.

Tuesday's Daily Prophet said Sirius Black was a Death Eater spy, and she didn't believe it at all.

As for the article saying that because Sirius Black had escaped once before, this large-scale prison break from Azkaban was led by him and he should be responsible for it.

Hermione was even less convinced.

To Hermione, this was simply a joke.

She could think of three reasons for the mass escape of prisoners from Azkaban.

Either there is a problem at the top of the Ministry of Magic, or some wizard is a Death Eater and deliberately let the prisoners go.

As Harry said, the Malfoy family is the Death Eaters. The Malfoy family has a good relationship with the Ministry of Magic, so it makes sense that the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Magic are hiding Death Eaters.

Either the guards were traitors and took the initiative to release the prisoners they were guarding.

Dementors are magical creatures, and it seems that ordinary wizards cannot understand their thoughts.

Or maybe the prisoners suddenly learned some advanced magic and escaped from Azkaban by themselves.

The possibility of this happening is very small.

Otherwise, it would be impossible that after all the prisoners were imprisoned in Azkaban, only one Sirius Black escaped after so many years.

Why don't others come out?

Don't you want to?

The Death Eaters are so loyal to their master, the You-Know-Who. Don't they want to escape and join their master?

There is no way out, right?

Besides that, what could possibly go wrong with the Azkaban breakout?

Hermione felt that it was Minister of Magic Fudge who was shirking his responsibilities and was not doing anything as a minister.

There was another thing that affected Hermione's judgment - Harry said Sirius Black was his godfather, and Hermione felt that he should not be a bad person.

She still remembered that the last time Peter Pettigrew attacked Harry, he tried his best to protect Harry.

Hermione saw with her own eyes that Sirius bit Peter Pettigrew to death.

Someone who is willing to sacrifice his life to protect Harry should not be a bad person.

Thursday.

Gryffindor table.

Lycoris walked over, and wherever she went, there was silence.

"Can I talk to you two, Potter and Hermione? What time are you free today?" Lycoris nodded gracefully to Potter and Hermione, and continued, "It's a very important matter."

"Harry, you can't go!" Ron grabbed Harry's sleeve and shook his head at him.

Ron bent down and whispered in Harry's ear, "She's from Slytherin, and her boyfriend is Malfoy. You've been suspended because of Malfoy, who knows if she and Malfoy planned something to hurt you on purpose?"

"Is there something you want to talk to Harry and me about?" When Hermione heard Lycoris say "Potter and Hermione", she knew she was talking to Harry.

"There are too many people here, so it's not appropriate to talk." Licorice glanced around, and many Gryffindor students turned their heads away, but their ears were perked up.

The students of Gryffindor looked like they were listening to gossip. It really was true that every house had its own gossipers.

"I see." Hermione turned to look at Harry. "What did you say?"

"I have time tonight." Harry thought for a moment and continued, "Where should we meet?"

Harry needs to learn Occlumency and Legilimency on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so he only has time on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

Today is Thursday, and now I am suspended and don't need Quidditch training.

"Harry! Are you crazy? How could you agree to her?" Ron said anxiously, "You can't meet her in private."

Lycoris Snape is Malfoy's girlfriend. What if she does something to Harry for Malfoy?

"It's okay." Harry glanced at Lycoris and found that her expression did not change after hearing Ron's words. She comforted Ron, "Hermione and I are together, and she is alone."

Is that a matter between two people?