[HP DEHA] utility room

In the past few days, whenever Harry was free, he ran to Professor Lupine's office.Most of the time there was no one, but this time he finally got an answer when he knocked on the door.

"Come in." The person inside issued an invitation.

When Harry excitedly opened the door and came in, Lupine and Snape were sitting at the round table talking. When they saw Harry, Lupine still wanted to buy him tea, while Snape looked cautious and reserved.

Snape left the room after telling Lupine to drink.

"Professor Lupine, I want to ask you something." Harry cut to the point, "Professor, when the dementors came around that day, a dog turned into a man and helped me drive them away, and then he ran towards the Forbidden Forest. Who is that man? Did you see him that day?"

Harry felt that this man must be related to him, but he couldn't remember what the man looked like, only vaguely remembered that he was very thin.

Lupine shook his head, "Harry, you better not know."

He paused, "But when the incident happened that day, I saw the whole process from the window here. He appeared to save you."

After that, Professor Lu Ping refused to say more, but explained that the school would investigate.

At the appointed time, Harry sneaked into the secret passage between the lounge again.

When he arrived, the torches on the road were extinguished, the stone walls were cold, and the surroundings were as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.On the wall in the middle of the dark passage, there is a piece of parchment with a certain person's unique handwriting on it.

"Potter, I can't come tonight, you go back."

The joy in Harry's heart was shattered, he clutched the note tightly and lowered his head helplessly.

He specially finished his homework early today, and now he suddenly doesn't have to see Draco, and he doesn't know what to do before turning off the lights.

——It seems that I can only play chess with Ron for a while or catch up on potions.

Meanwhile Draco was sitting in his living room with Lucius pacing in front of him.

The flames of the fireplace are reflected on the gorgeous furniture, hanging pictures, and crystal lamps, making the whole room look very luxurious.

"Draco, how's school going?" Lucius asked.

"Father, I finished reading all the books you gave me last time. I also got high marks in the homework of every class." Draco said obediently.

Lucius nodded in relief, and asked again: "Have you and your friends not caused any trouble at school recently?"

"No father."

"Have you paid attention to that Potter recently?"

"...No, Father." Draco's eyes flickered uncomfortably.

"You used to keep mentioning him every time you came back, why didn't you mention him recently?" Lucius chuckled.

"Father, that scar is very annoying. Now I dislike him. Let alone mention it, I just don't want to look at it." Draco lied and turned his head to pretend to be disdainful.

"That's not good, Draco. What did I tell you before? Everyone likes him, you have to act like you don't hate him so much."

"Okay father, I see."

The father and son chatted for a while, and Lucius pushed Draco to send him back to school with a new hardcover.After Draco left, he picked up a small book he had read in front of him and flipped through it casually, but suddenly frowned.

After the old book was naturally spread out, the pages on the left and right sides were intact, and there were ragged scraps of paper in the middle where there should have been paper.

—someone tore this page out of the book.

Bullshit.

But Draco used to do this kind of thing when he was a child, the books he read were always torn to pieces, and when he had had enough, he would put the missing pages back.

Thinking of this, Lucius's anger that had just surged up immediately subsided, and he casually threw it on the table and asked the house elf to move the books to the study together.

The next day was the weekend, and during breakfast, Hermione smiled and asked Harry in a low voice, "You look much better, have you reconciled with Malfoy, haven't you?"

Unprepared, Harry almost spit out the hot milk he had just swallowed.

"Hermione!" Harry swallowed his milk and made a hushed gesture telling her to stop.

Hermione nodded to Harry with an expression of "I knew it", "If you ignore him again, people all over the world will probably see that the two of you are reconciled."

Harry was a little surprised, he looked around - Ron was eating non-stop, and the people around him didn't cast any strange glances at him.

Then he turned to look at the Slytherin table.

Draco was sitting at the table, apparently having finished his breakfast.He lazily rested his chin on one hand and looked gently at Harry's back.Seeing Harry turn to look at him, his mouth curled up in a happy arc, his eyes narrowed, and his eyebrows were raised to tease Harry.

Harry was a little surprised, and Hermione suppressed a smile when she saw this detail and turned to concern Ron.

—Draco, this is a public place, come on!

Harry glared at Draco.

Draco glanced around, blinking at him.

--Leave me alone.

Harry almost forgot that this person was Malfoy, who could play capricious anytime and anywhere.

After being stared at by Draco for a few more seconds, Harry felt a little red in the face.He frowned and signaled Draco to stop looking at him like that.But in Draco's eyes, Harry seemed to be acting like a baby to him, and every time Harry did this, he couldn't help but look forward to pushing Harry down.

Draco glanced in the direction of the North Tower with a smirk, and signaled Harry to see you at the Observatory later.

Harry remembered that he still had the Hincklepunk papers in his schoolbag, and he had planned to go to the library to do his homework that day.So he took out his textbook, shook it and told the other party that he had something to do.

Draco shook his head, said "I don't care" to Harry with his eyes, then waved goodbye to his close friends and walked out of the restaurant.

here we go again.Harry pursed his lips. It looked like the paper would be delayed for another two days.

It was very cloudy, and there was a lot of white mist in the morning. Looking down from the tower, you can see the whole Hogwarts shrouded in white mist, which is very beautiful.

Standing on the observatory, Draco flipped through his new book: Most Poisonous Magic.

Harry gradually approached Draco, his back gave Harry a sense of peace of mind and the urge to hug him.

"Potter, you're here." Draco turned and leaned on the armrest.

"Yeah, what's the matter with looking for me so early?"

"Yesterday, my father's owl came unexpectedly," Draco explained. "He asked me to go back immediately at night, so I didn't keep the appointment."

——Father, that scar is very annoying, and now I am very disgusted with him, not to mention mentioning it, but I just don't want to look at it again.

Draco remembered the lie he told yesterday, with a displeased look on his face.

Thinking of Lucius Malfoy's fierce look, Harry nodded sympathetically, "No wonder you left in such a hurry."

"What did you suddenly want to tell me yesterday?" Draco asked earnestly, closing the book.

Harry raised his eyes and thought for a while, "Draco, do you remember what happened by the lake a few days ago? After I met a dementor, a dog turned into a human and helped me drive away the dementor, you After he came, he turned into a dog and ran away again."

Draco rolled his eyes a few times, "I was about to go back to the castle at that time, and suddenly saw a white flash of light on your side, and then I saw the dementors circling around you."

He paused, "The appearance is very familiar, but I can't see him clearly when he walks too fast."

"Kind of like Sirius."

Harry suddenly remembered the way Sirius laughed maniacally in the wanted poster.

Very similar.

Harry's heart suddenly felt heavy. He didn't think Sirius was the kind of person who would harm his parents.

At this moment, a white shadow streaked across the sky, it saw Harry, and circled to the observatory.

Hedwig?

The white owl hooted submissively, threw a letter at Harry, begged a few pets, and flew away satisfied.

"Why is there a letter at this time?" Harry opened the envelope and opened the rolled letter paper.

Draco leaned over curiously.

The content is only one sentence: come to my office at eight o'clock tonight, there is something you have the right to know. PS: Remember, bring your invisibility cloak.

The two exchanged glances, and Harry hurriedly looked at the signature on the bottom line of the parchment.

—— R.J. Lupine

……

……

At night, Harry arrived as promised, and Draco insisted on coming with him, and the two rushed to the door of Lupin's office with the invisibility cloak on.

The door was opened a small crack, and a dim light of fire came through the crack, and someone was talking inside.

"Remus, Severus is already waiting outside the castle, let's go too." Dumbledore said softly.

The door was opened and Dumbledore came out, followed by Lupine, looking around the doorway.

Through the cloak, Harry lightly stepped on Lupine's foot. Lupine looked around and seemed to be finally relieved. He pretended to be nonchalant and made a gesture to follow Harry in Harry's direction. Lead the way.

Harry and Draco followed behind him.

"Silly Potter, have you always done this before?"

"Yeah! You just know!"

"cool!"

Draco was excited about wearing the Invisibility Cloak for the first time, and Harry had to repeat the silence gesture to tell him not to be so excited.

The two hurriedly followed Dumbledore and Lupin out of the castle, and after meeting Snape, the group hurried towards the Forbidden Forest.

When they reached the Whomping Willow, Dumbledore's wand pointed at the bottom knot of the Whomping Willow, and the Whomping Willow temporarily stopped moving after the sound of the blow.Lu Ping deliberately walked at the back, and waited until the hem of his clothes was pulled a few times before he lowered his head and whispered to the "air" around him.

"Harry, the secret passage under the Whomping Willow leads to the Shrieking House outside the school. You follow me until you find a quiet place in the attic at the end. No matter what happens in the house, don't make a sound, remember. Are you staying?"

Harry under the cloak nodded and replied in a low voice, "Remember the professor."

They followed the three professors forward lightly, and walked into the attic through this secret passage.

Dust had accumulated on the floor of the attic for many years, and imprints could be seen if you stepped on it, but fortunately, there were so many footprints in the room that nothing could be seen. Harry and Draco slipped into the room where the professors walked in.There was a bed in the corner of the room, and Harry and Draco walked to the corner behind the bed at the same time, squatting down quietly.

The room was bright now, with a row of stools leaning against the wall opposite the bed, and the wooden floor was creaking as three professors paced the room.Soon, there was a sound of heavy footsteps getting closer, and Hagrid squeezed through the door carrying two tied men. He roughly tied the two men to two chairs.

Those two people seemed to have been fed the potion of losing their souls, their expressions were dull and they did not resist.

"Professor, I brought him." Hagrid said seriously.

Dumbledore waved him to sit down, when two strange faces, a man and a woman in neat clothes, also entered the room.

"Everyone is here, let's start." Dumbledore said calmly.

They sat in a semicircle around the prisoner.

One of the two strange men and women took out a camera and the other took out a quill and parchment to start recording.

Snape stared at the two people who were tied to the stool, with killing intent in his eyes.

"Severus, we can begin." Dumbledore waved his hand, indicating that Snape could act.

Snape's hands were shaking.He took out a small vial from his waist, squeezed Sirius' mouth open while opening the stopper, and dropped a few drops of white stuff into it.

"Sirius, do you know us?" Dumbledore approached Sirius.

Sirius nodded, "You are Professor Dumbledore, and you are Snape the Snotty."

After exchanging glances with Snape, Dumbledore continued to ask: "Did you betray James and Lily Potter back then?"

"No, it's not me!" Sirius shook his head angrily, "When I used the Loyalty Curse, I advised them to temporarily change the secret keeper, thinking that this would make them safer, but I didn't expect that person to directly inform Voldemort and marry him. Woe to me!"

"Tell me who that man is!" Snape growled.

"Peter Pettigrew!"

Dumbledore's expression froze, and he pointed to the bound man next to Sirius, "Is that him?"

When Sirius saw Peter Pettigrew's face, he was mad with hatred, and he shouted: "It's him! It's him! It's the traitor who betrayed us, set the blame, feigned death and turned into a mouse and escaped!"

Then Snape fed Pettigrew the same thing with trembling hands. Dumbledore asked him his name and if he knew anyone present. After getting a clear answer, Dumbledore asked again: "Peter, 13 years ago Did you betray James and Lily Potter?"

There was a sudden smug gleam in Peter's eyes.

"It was me! It was I who persuaded them to change their minds and let me be the secret keeper! It was I who made Sirius bear the crime after the incident was revealed!"

"Why do this?"

"In this way, the Dark Lord will appreciate my talent and promote me!"

Then Peter Pettigrew cried and laughed about how Voldemort had failed, that the Death Eaters hated him, and that he had to turn into a mouse and spent 12 years lurking in the Weasleys' house.

"...One day! One day! I will bring the Dark Lord back, and use my father's bones and the blood of my enemy to reshape him into a physical body! Hehehehe!"

This answer made everyone present gasp.Dumbledore clapped his hands to signal them, "Has everyone understood who the murderer is? Let's stop here today."

Snape's face was contorted to a very pervasive level, as if he was going to cramp Peter Pettigrew's bones in a second.

"It was him...! He killed Lily!" Snape gritted his teeth, the wand in his hand had already started to spark.

Dumbledore pulled him away. "The Ministry of Magic has its own judgment."

The man and the woman packed up their things and stood up. The woman extracted a wisp of her memory with a magic wand and put it into a vial.The tearful Hagrid untied the prisoner and carried them out together. Dumbledore and Snape also walked out of the room.

When they were all gone, Lupine took a roll of old parchment from his bosom and laid it on the old bed.

"Harry, I requisitioned your Marauder's Map a few days ago, and I'm returning it to you now." Lupine lowered his voice, "If you are sad, don't rush back with us."

After the sound of footsteps in the room disappeared completely, the two of them came out from under the invisibility cloak.

Harry didn't speak for a long time, he just sat quietly against the corner, his eyes filled with various emotions.Draco had a serious expression on his face too.He held Harry by the shoulder and patted him, not knowing what to say for a moment.

If Draco hadn't pressed it just now, Harry might have rushed out a few times.

After the room was quiet for a long time, Harry finally uttered a sentence faintly: "They used to be friends..."

The person in front of him made Draco's heart ache, and he took Harry into his arms and patted his back to comfort him.

Harry suddenly felt that Draco was needed very much, put his arms around Draco's neck and hugged him tightly, buried his head in his sleeves and wept secretly.

This position was maintained for a long time, Draco ruffled Harry's hair, and told him in a low voice: "It's okay, Peter Pettigrew will be taken to Azkaban tonight, and he will never come out again."

Harry moved his head on his arm, telling Draco he was listening.

"Draco..." Harry looked up.

Draco's forehead was pressed against his, and Harry's eyes were filled with tears, and there were a few tear stains on his face, and even the glasses were stained with water.

"……never mind."

He took off Harry's glasses and tried to wipe them clean.Harry's vision was blurry, and only Draco's gentle silhouette could be seen clearly in the room.

Suddenly Harry moved closer to Draco, and his kiss landed on Draco's lips.

Draco's heart was beating wildly, and his mind went blank for a moment, without any reaction.Worried about the other party, Draco tried to keep himself sober and restrained.

Harry kept asking for kisses, and they fell on Draco's lips one by one, softly, tenderly, needily.Then he wanted a response, tongue against Draco's lips, jaws, he wanted to open them.

The breathing of the two of them gradually heated up.

Draco let Harry ask for it, hugging him, comforting him, running his hands through his hair and ruffling his hair.

After a while Harry stopped, buried his head on Draco's shoulder, and there was no movement, and after a while the fabric was soaked.Draco ran his hands through Harry's hair, stroking his back.

After another moment Draco felt his body sink, Harry's breathing was even, and his whole weight was on top of him.Draco sighed, whispered a cleaning spell across the room, and placed Harry gently across the old bed beside him.

Harry woke up several times during the night in a daze.He had many bad dreams. In the dream, there was a woman crying, there was a wicked laugh, and there was Avada Kedavra.There was Sirius, there was Mad Pettigrew, there was Voldemort.

Whenever he wakes up, he can feel someone hugging him from behind.The man's forehead rested on the back of his head, and his even breath gently brushed against his back.

This feeling was so familiar and warm that Harry forgot about the last nightmare and continued to sleep peacefully.

The next day Harry was groggy and didn't fully wake up until near noon, and Draco had been sitting by his bed watching him for a long time.

"How long have I been asleep?" Harry dazedly tried to get up and touch his glasses.

Draco was amused by him, holding Harry's round glasses far away from him.Harry sat up, wondering if it was enough, and threw himself on Draco.

Seeing that Harry was going to get angry, Draco gloated and handed him the glasses.

"It's almost noon, it's time to eat something."

After Harry put on his glasses, the whole world suddenly became clear.He saw the arrangement of the attic and remembered what happened last night.

"...We slept here yesterday?" Harry's ears turned red.

Draco folded his arms and smiled, "Yeah, you fell asleep suddenly, do you remember what you did before you fell asleep?"

Harry squinted his eyes and thought about it and still couldn't remember what Draco was referring to. Draco shook his head and "tsk" a few times.

Anyway, sleeping with Draco was something that made Harry quite embarrassed at the moment, and Harry bowed his head speechlessly for a while.

He suddenly remembered the scene of interrogating the prisoner at night.

"Draco, they took Peter Pettigrew away!" Harry said excitedly.

"Yeah, silly Potter, I thought you couldn't remember." Draco laughed.

"I want to see him tortured with my own eyes!" Harry clenched his fists.

Draco patted him on the shoulder, "Okay Potter, we'll go back now, in time for lunch."

"...?"

"Then you should be able to see what today's new newspaper says."