94 hp Diagon Alley

I will walk with you quietly..."

"To the castle," said Snape maliciously, "I don't think we have to go that far. All I'm going to do is, as soon as I get out of that willow tree, call those dementors. They'll be very happy to see you , Blake, happy to give you a little kiss..."

What color remained in Blake's face was now gone. "You—you must hear me out," he said hoarsely, "that rat—look at that rat..."

But Snape seemed to have lost his mind. "Come on, all of you," he said.He flicked his fingers, and the ends of the straps that bound Lupin flew into his hands. "I'll drag the werewolf. Maybe the dementor will kiss him too..."

Without thinking, Harry strode across the room in three big strides, standing in front of them. "Listen to them, I need to know the truth!"

"Get out of the way, Potter, you've had enough trouble," Snape growled, "if I hadn't been here to save you..."

"Professor Lupine has had a hundred chances to kill me this year," said Harry. "I've been alone with him many times, learning from him how to fight dementors. If he's one of Black's, then Why didn't he end me when

"Don't ask me about the mentality of a werewolf," Snape hissed dangerously in a low voice, "Get out of the way, Potter. Like father, like son. I just saved your life. You should kneel down Thank you for me! If he kills you, you deserve it! You're going to die like your daddy, too arrogant to believe I've seen Blake wrong - now get out of the way or I'll Just force you to get out of the way. Get out of the way, Potter!"

Gwen hid behind the door and saw Harry's angry expression and raised wand - not just him, Hermione and Ron also raised their wands.She jumped out from behind the door subconsciously and kicked Snape in the socket of the knee.

"Sorry, Professor." Then he tugged on Snape's robes, which was almost on his knees, in an extremely indecent gesture, narrowly dodging the disarming spells of the three of them.However, Professor Snape was thrown straight into the wooden door by her pull, and then slid to the floor again, a thread of blood oozing from under his hair.

Gwen nearly cried when she attacked Hogwarts' scariest Potions professor at the end of her fourth year.Although the original intention was not to want Harry and the others to be deducted points for attacking Snape, but now the head Slytherin was knocked unconscious by himself.

Not knowing how long he could faint, Gwen nimbly pulled his wand out of his hand.

"You shouldn't do this," Gwen didn't dare to look at the black figure lying on the ground, "Don't you want to live well in Hogwarts for the next few years?"

"Oh, we're in big trouble..." Lupine broke free.Blake bent down quickly to untie him.

"Gwen, why are you here?" Harry's eyes widened, as did Ron and Hermione.

The person involved was also stunned, "Didn't you guys call me here?" At this moment, she suddenly remembered that there were two dangerous people beside her, and quickly swept Snape on the ground in front of Harry, then pointed at the opposite side with her wand. adult men.

"I...I warn you, I still don't know what happened, but Harry is willing to listen to your explanation. If there is something wrong, we four wizards have a chance of winning if we beat you two." Gwen herself felt that she had no momentum to speak of.

"Thank you, Harry," Lupine said.

"I haven't said I believe you," Harry retorted.

"Then it's high time we gave you some evidence," said Blake. "You, boy, give me Peter. Now."

Ron held Scabbers closer to his chest.

"Don't touch it," he said feebly. "Are you going to say that you escaped from Azkaban only to do something to Scabbers? I mean..." He looked at Harry and Hermione for support. "Well, even if Peter Pettigrew turns into a mouse—there are thousands of them in the world—and he's in Azkaban, how's he going to know which mouse he's looking for?"

Only then did Gwen realize that the legendary hero Peter Petim was actually an unregistered Animagus.

Blake reached inside his robes with a bird-clawed hand and produced a crumpled piece of paper.He smoothed the paper and showed it to everyone.It was a photo of the Ron family, which was posted on the Internet last summer, and Ron had Scabbers on his shoulders.

"That's Peter, on the front page of the newspaper... on the boy's shoulder, I recognized him immediately, how many times have I seen him transform. The commentary under the photo said that the boy will go back to Hogwarts to go to school ...to where Harry is..."

"My God," Lupine said softly, looking at Scabbers, then at the photograph in the newspaper, then at Scabbers, "his front paws..."

"So what?" Ron said recklessly.

"It's missing a toe," said Black. "Just before he transformed, I drove him to nowhere, and he yelled all over the street that I had betrayed James and Lily. And then, before I could curse him, He just blew up the whole street with the wand he hid behind his back, killing everyone within twenty feet of him, and fled into the gutter with the rest of the rats..."

"You hear that, Ron," said Lupine, "the biggest piece of Peter's remains ever found was his finger."

"Well, Scabbers might have fought some other rat or something! He's been in our house for years.."

"Twelve years, haven't you" said Lupine, "you never wondered how it lived so long?"

"He doesn't look too good, though, does he," said Lupine, "I guess he's been losing weight since I heard Black's gone..."

"It's from that crazy cat!" said Ron.Nodding to Crookshanks, who was still purring contentedly in bed.

Only then did Gwen realize that Hermione's cat was also there, and beside her lay a big, snow-white cat, Gouzi.

What a goddamn heartless little thing, your master is standing in front of you, you haven't seen each other for a month, and you only care about that little ginger she-cat?

"The cat isn't mad," Black said hoarsely, reaching out his bony hand to stroke Crookshanks' hairy head. "He was the smartest cat I've ever met. He knew what Peter was right away. When he met me, he knew I wasn't a dog. It took him a while to believe me. Finally, I Find a way to communicate with it, tell it what I want, so it has been helping me..."

Then his bird-claw-like hand was bitten viciously by the dog.

"...As for this stupid cat," Black withdrew his hand in disgust, "it's obviously not that smart, it just keeps following Crookshanks—is that what you call it—and still has a lot of hostility towards me."

Well done, dog.thought Gwen.Even if your rival is a dog—or a dangerous fugitive, you should fight him like a man.

"But Peter got wind of what was going on and ran away...Crookshanks told me Peter left blood on the sheets...I think he bit himself...pretending he was dead, that's gone. It worked once."

These words cleared Harry's mind, "Why did he play dead?" he said angrily, "Because he knew you would kill him, just like you killed my parents!"

"Harry," said Luhu hurriedly, "don't you understand? We always thought that Black betrayed your parents, and Peter went after Black - but the opposite happened, you know Peter betrayed your mother and father , Sirius followed Peter—”

"That's not true!" cried Harry. "Blake's their secret keeper! That's what he said before you came. He said he killed them!"

Gwen felt that there was too much information tonight, and she was at a loss.What secret keeper, what betrayal, who killed Harry's parents.At this moment, she felt Snape move on the ground, and immediately knelt down and said to him.

"Professor, please believe me, I'm really sorry." She gave Snape's sallow face the most sincere look, whether he heard it or not, "but Harry and, uh, Sirius were arguing about who killed His parents. I promise to help you up after hearing this." Then she unceremoniously cast a binding spell on the professor who had just opened his eyes and opened his mouth - who might cast wand magic at any moment.

On the other side, Black shook his head slowly, and his sunken eyes suddenly lit up. "Harry... I kind of killed them," he said hoarsely. "I convinced Lily and James to swap me for Peter at the last moment, and persuade them to use him as a secret keeper instead of me... I'm to blame, I know... the night they died, I went to see Peter to make sure he was safe, but by the time I got to his hiding place, he was gone. But there was no sign of a struggle. I didn't feel right. I just When I got to where your parents lived. When I saw their house, it was destroyed, and I saw their dead bodies - I knew Peter must have done something bad. And realized how big a mistake I had made. "He couldn't go on, and he turned around.

Lupine said in a steely voice, "Stop talking about these things. There's sure to be a way to prove what really happened in the past. Ron, give me the rat."

Ron hesitated, then he finally handed Scabbers over, and Lupine took it.Scabbers started screaming and writhing, and his little black eyes bulged out. "get ready