Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Ha...you...you are a werewolf...this joke is not very funny..."

Ron's voice was shaking.

His focus seemed extremely strange, but everyone present could see that he was just... changing the subject abruptly and not wanting to face the truth.

"It seems that some people cannot accept the cruel reality for the time being..."

Anriel said softly, turning his head to Peter:

"Show me then...Wormtail?"

Peter whimpered but made no move to resist.

Under Ron's gaze, which was a mixture of sadness and fear, Peter began to shrink, and his tearful rat eyes turned into real "rat eyes".

"No..." Ron murmured in pain.

Harry clenched and unclenched his fists at his sides, his jaw muscles bulged, and he looked angry and full of hatred as he stared at the big gray rat that Peter had transformed into.

As if to coincide with Harry's clenched fist, the stairs outside the door made an untimely creaking sound.

It made Harry look more like...Sirius now.

Anriel looked at Harry like this and asked with interest:

"Harry, do you have anything to say?"

After hearing this, Harry clenched his hands even tighter, with a painful and tangled expression on his face:

"He...he should die...but not by us..."

His voice was very low and not very clear.

Anriel had the same expression Malfoy had in the second film version when he heard that Goyle could read.

I was in awe of my younger brother.

Put yourself in Harry's shoes...

If Wormtail hadn't betrayed him, Harry would have a happy family, a father and a mother who loved him, and a mentally normal godfather who was willing to give everything for him...

Anriel looked at the unconscious Sirius and curled his lips.

That’s right, “sane.”

Twelve years in Azkaban had completely turned Sirius into a madman.

The problem is not with Azkaban. There are always some strong-willed prisoners who can withstand the environment of Azkaban.

The problem is that Sirius has an active, lively and unrestrained soul.

Twelve years of not being free was enough to drive him completely crazy...

The only thing he could say was "normal" was when it came to Harry...

Let’s not talk about Sirius for now and get back to Harry.

If this happened to Anriel, Anriel would have skinned Peter alive, or he didn't bring a knife with him...

"Hermione, what do you think?"

Anriel asked the last person left in the room.

Hermione was silent for a moment, then opened her mouth and uttered one word:

"Azkaban."

These two children are still "too kind".

The current situation is that if Sirius woke up, he would definitely support killing Wormtail on the spot, and the same goes for Lupin.

Ron didn't want to accept the truth and abstained from voting.

Harry and Hermione did not support killing Peter.

The decision falls on...

No.

The decision-making power has always been in Anriel's hands. He just had a sudden thought and wanted to hear other people's opinions.

"Well, now that you've said that..."

Anriel jumped from the windowsill to the floor, patted his robe and said:

"Then let him live for now... Keep him in Azkaban and hand him over to those idiots in the Ministry of Magic."

Then he turned to Harry:

"By the way, Harry, do you still have your Invisibility Cloak on?"

......

Harry started and reached quickly for his robe pocket.

"No, it's not here!"

It seems that even if Anriel does not take the initiative to intervene at important nodes, what is supposed to happen will still happen.

Anriel turned toward the wooden door.

"Severus, what do you think of what I'm doing?"

The wooden door didn't move.

Just when Harry looked puzzled and wanted to ask something...

The door opened silently.

There is no one outside the door.

Harry was even more confused - even though the truth was about to hit him in the face.

Severus Snape lifted the Invisibility Cloak from his body and appeared in the Shrieking Shack.

He did not answer Anriel's words immediately, but instead stared at the unconscious Sirius with hatred.

As if he had cut Sirius into pieces with his eyes, he turned around and looked back at Anriel.

"No problem at all."

He spoke slowly, but surprisingly there was no trace of hesitation in his voice.

"If Blake is indeed an innocent man... I think we don't want to see him continue to suffer... The real murderer should get the punishment he deserves, right?"

Snape was actually speaking for Sirius!

Is this something Snape could say?

......

Haha, this... is true.

Snape's hatred for Sirius was no less than Sirius' hatred for Wormtail.

But the biggest difference between him and Sirius in handling this matter...

That is, Snape knew who had the final say in this room.

Why didn't Anriel directly ask Snape's opinion instead of asking the people around him?

He had known Snape was there—

Because he had already made the decision for Snape and didn't give him the chance to choose...

Snape saw this.

Unlike Sirius -

Snape did not choose to be blinded by hatred.

Snape did not choose to refute Anriel in person, turning a deaf ear to his words and going against him...

Because he knew that people like Anriel had limited patience...

"Your answer surprises me."

Anriel raised his hand and touched his chin.

He snapped his fingers.

With a shrill scream, Wormtail was forcibly transformed from a mouse back into human form, and then tied up like a dumpling with several magic chains.

Then, Anriel looked at Snape:

"Excuse me, Professor, you could carry this mouse for me."

He glanced at the unconscious Sirius and added:

"If I let you take Sirius back to the castle, I'm afraid I'll lose a witness."

Snape nodded undeniably. If he was really asked to take Sirius back to the castle, then it would not be a question of whether he could control the journey.

"Also, Mr. Moony Face... I think it's best if you don't come back to the castle with us. Let's talk it over in this room first, okay?"

Lupin shrugged helplessly.

"I think this is great. I think it's good enough that I've stayed here for a full year... During the week when Professor Snape was substituting for me, Hermione was definitely not the only one who figured out that I'm a werewolf... The senior Ravenclaw students... probably figured it out, right?"

He smiled carefreely:

"Ha... maybe this will be my last transformation at Hogwarts."