94 hp Diagon Alley

The fire in Qi's office also needs effective contact methods.Professor Snape found that Sirius was safe and sound with me. "Yan Bi, the old principal looked at his scorched fingers again, "and helped me solve some minor problems. "

"However, when Professor Snape found out that you and Umbridge hadn't returned from the Forbidden Forest, he became concerned that you still thought Sirius had become a captive of Voldemort. He immediately notified several members of the Order of the Phoenix."

Dumbledore sighed deeply, and continued: "At that time, Alastor Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Cedric Diggory and Lyme Slupin is at the headquarters. Everyone agrees to act immediately to help you. Snape wants Sirius to stay at the headquarters because he is Voldemort's best candidate to blackmail you. At the same time, he also intends to go to the Forbidden Forest Looking for you. But Sirius didn't want to see everyone else looking for you while he stayed at headquarters. So he told Kreacher to tell me what happened when I woke up. They went to magic I recovered shortly after the Ministry, and it was the house-elf who told me where Sirius had gone."

"Are you hurt?" Harry asked in a low voice, looking at one of Dumbledore's fingers with burning eyes.

"I am obviously slower than before." Dumbledore hid his hands in his sleeves, his voice was full of fatigue, "As for Kreacher, it cannot completely betray us. It is not the secret keeper of the Order of the Phoenix, nor can it reveal some Phoenix It is a secret plan of the society. It is bound by magic, which means that Kreacher cannot disobey the direct orders of its master Sirius. And the information it told Narcissa that is very useful to Voldemort is very bad for Sirius. There is no need to think about not allowing him to speak out about such trivial things."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"For example, the person Sirius cares about most in this world is you," said Dumbledore softly, "and the fact that you regard Sirius as his father and brother. Of course Voldemort already knew that Sirius was in the world." The Order of the Phoenix already knew that you knew where he was—but Kreacher's information made him realize that Sirius Black is someone you can risk your life to save."

Harry's lips were cold and woody.

"So...last night when I asked Kreacher if Sirius was home..."

"Malfoy - must have been on Voldemort's instructions - asked him that when you dream of Sirius being tortured and interrogated, he must try not to let Sirius become a stumbling block. So, you want to make sure that Sirius is not At home, Kreacher will say he's not at home—wherever he is, it's a hint to you that Sirius has been taken."

Harry seemed to be out of oxygen, his breathing was rapid and short.

"Kreacher told you all this?" he asked hoarsely.

"He didn't want to tell me," said Dumbledore, "but my Legilimency technique is quite accomplished, and I know when people lie to me, and I advised him—before I go to the Department of Mysteries, Tell me what happened."

"And," Harry whispered, his cold hands clenched into fists on his knees, "and Hermione keeps asking us to treat him well—"

"She's right, Harry," said Dumbledore. "When we chose 12 Grimmauld Place as our headquarters, I reminded Sirius to treat Kreacher with respect and kindness. I also told him Passing Kreacher could be bad for us. But I guess Sirius didn't take my words to heart, or that he always saw Kreacher as a creature with the same emotional sensitivities as humans—"

"Are you blaming—are you—referring to Sirius as—" Harry gasped a little, he couldn't express it precisely, but the anger that had just subsided burned in him again: he couldn't allow Dumbledore defaming Sirius, "Kreacher is a liar - dirty - he deserved it -"

"Kreacher was conjured by wizards, Harry," said Dumbledore, "so he is sympathetic, and his existence is as pitiful as your friend Dobby. He had to obey Sirius' orders, Because Sirius was the last remaining member of the family he served, but he wasn't really loyal to him. No matter what mistakes Kreacher made, it must be admitted that Sirius didn't do anything to improve his lot— —”

"Don't say that about Sirius!" Harry yelled.He stood up again, furious, ready to rush up and give Dumbledore a hard lesson: obviously he didn't know Sirius at all, didn't know how brave he was, didn't know how much he had suffered...

"What about Snape?" Harry retorted. "You haven't mentioned him yet, have you? When I told him that Voldemort had captured Sirius, he just laughed at me as usual—"

"Harry, you know that in front of Dolores Umbridge, Professor Snape had no choice but to pretend to be indifferent to what you said." Dumbledore said calmly, "However, as I As you said, he informed the Order of the Phoenix as quickly as he could about what you said. You did not come back from the Forbidden Forest, and he deduced where you were going. When Professor Umbridge tried to force you to tell the little He was also the one who gave her the fake Veritaserum when Sirius went down."

"Snape didn't continue teaching me Occlumency!" Harry yelled angrily. "He kicked me out of his office!"

"I know that," said Dumbledore heavily. "I have already said that I had made a mistake not teaching you myself, although at the time I was sure that there was nothing more dangerous in my presence than to further expose your mind to Voldemort. -"

"Snape made things worse and my scar always hurt more after his lessons-" Harry recalled Ron's thoughts on the subject, and added, " —how do you know he didn't try to get me to lower my defenses against Voldemort so that it would be easier for Voldemort to invade my—"

"I trust Severus Snape," said Dumbledore simply, "but I've forgotten another mistake of old age—some wounds are too deep to heal easily. I thought Professor Snape would be able to overcome that." How he felt about your father—I was wrong."

Harry kept his mouth shut, as if he didn't want to argue the point with Dumbledore, because he thought it ridiculously naive to think he and Snape were living in peace.

"Harry, I have been working hard to protect you." After a moment of silence, Dumbledore said softly.

"But nobody likes to be kept secret!" Harry retorted, furiously annoyed, "that's how you treated me all last summer—"

Dumbledore closed his eyes and buried his face in his long-fingered hands.Harry watched him.It was an anomaly, but whether it was exhaustion, or pain, or any other emotion, it didn't calm Harry down.On the contrary, the weakness shown by Dumbledore made him feel even more angry.When Harry wanted to get mad at him and yell at him, there was no reason for him not to be strong.

Dumbledore lowered his hands and studied Harry through his half-moon spectacles.

"The time," he said, "is for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago. Please sit down and I will tell you all about it. I just ask for a little patience. Then you can get mad at me - do whatever you want - and I won't stop you after I'm done."

On the other side of Hogwarts Castle, with the orange-red sun in the morning, Gwen lifted her heavy eyelids on the hospital bed in the medical wing.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a fiery red head melon.

George's expression was very rich. He looked both worried and surprised, probably because Gwen was the first to wake up among all the patients.But he pressed his lips tightly again, as if he couldn't help but give Gwen a hard lesson in the next second.

"Don't look at me like that," Gwen's throat felt like it was on fire, but she still joked cautiously, "I followed for your brother and sister."

"You're lying, Gwendoline Ollivander." George called her name with a straight face. "Even if Ginny and Ron weren't here, you would still be happy to follow Harry to make trouble at the Ministry of Magic."

Gwen smiled wryly, "I believe you are too."

"If Bill and I hadn't sent Fred directly to Mommy, of course we would have rescued him." George looked angrier, but after a while he was like a deflated ball, because Madam Pomfrey was carrying a bag full of A tray full of potions came over.

"Very good, you woke up very quickly." Madam Pomfrey's expression was unprecedentedly serious, "You should be lucky, Miss Ollivander, there are only some scary skin injuries—"

"—but she fainted," said George quickly.

"—that's exhaustion." Madam Pomfrey said mercilessly. "If you want to continue to sleep, girl, just drink the medicine."

Gwen shook her head, "I want to help more." Then, with Madam Pomfrey's satisfied expression, she recounted the magic or physical attacks that Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Luna had suffered.Every word she said made George and Fred look worse.

Until Gwen came to a hospital bed at the end, she covered her mouth and exclaimed.

"He's still alive?"

Lying on that bed was Sirius Black who seemed to be half frozen.