[HP] Harry and the Platypus go to Gringotts

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This chapter enters the second part.It was August 1996, Harry Breth was going into sixth grade, Ginny was in fifth.In the fifth and sixth books, some plots that have little connection with the main line (such as Bill Fleur's engagement) are going on at the same time.Different from the original work, in this world line Crouch cosplays Umbridge, the official is good at doing things (.) Congratulations to Moody for being re-elected as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for two years.

This article does not refer to the setting of the movie, so the height is Ron>George/Fred, Sirius>Snape.Ginny had heard a lot about Sirius Black for over two years.In Harry's description he was a perfect man - too perfect to be real.When she finally sees the man, she finds that he has almost nothing to do with the legend.At least the dark-haired wizard looked impatient and impatient when he rushed over to help her close the veil of the madwoman's portrait. "Shut up, you horrible old hag, shut up!" he roared, grabbing the veil Ginny had just dropped.

The old lady in the painting suddenly turned pale. "You—you!" She widened her eyes when she saw the man, and yelled sharply, "The prodigal son, the disgrace of the family, the evil son I gave birth to!"

"I told you - shut up!"

Ginny quickly got up from the ground, and with great effort together with him, they finally drew the curtain again.The old lady's scream died away, followed by a reverberation.

"I'm sorry," Ginny whispered, "I forgot there was an umbrella stand over here that people could trip over."

"It's okay." Panting, Sirius pushed back the forehead hair that blocked his eyes - Ginny had been thinking about this for the past few days, and she felt that his long hair and slovenly appearance really looked like a street hippie. "But I do remind you many times, don't wake my dear good mother."

"I'll pay attention next time." She apologized repeatedly, although she was not convinced at all.Actually, what Ginny was thinking was - if you really care as much as you say, why don't you remove the damn umbrella stand yourself?Well, there are more important things right now. "How?" She turned to her father and Harry who had just entered the hall, "How did they decide? Could it be—oh, great!" Ginny found the answer she wanted from her father's smiling face.

"Clarified," Harry nodded, "all allegations are dismissed."

"I didn't expect the Ministry of Magic to have a formal trial for Harry. But with Dumbledore there, nothing can go wrong, and we'll finally bring back good news. I've got to tell your mother right away, she must be very happy. "Speaking, Dad walked towards the kitchen.Sirius also showed joy in the corners of his eyes and brows, and tightly held Harry's hand.But soon, his expression became more dull than before. "Well, that's really good news. But it doesn't matter if you get expelled because of this. I can take you to another country, and neither the Ministry of Magic nor the Death Eaters will find us—"

"No!" Harry resolutely rejected it.Ginny also felt that this proposal was too reckless: "I think it's a bit selfish of you to say that, Sirius." Anyway, she's not under his control, so she doesn't worry about bumping into the godfather, "It's not for Harry. unfair."

"Okay, okay, I see," he said, looking unhappy, "just a passing mention."

"Actually, I am willing. Going to school is not that important to me." Ginny couldn't believe what she heard. She always thought that graduating with honor as an outstanding student was more important to Harry than anything else. "I just don't want you to be imprisoned in Azkaban again."

There was a moment of silence in the hallway.Sirius looked at Harry, a deep line running down the center of the sunken eye socket. "I think you're not as much like your father as I thought you were," he said with obvious indifference, "only adventure is interesting to James."

"Listen to me," she said, leaning towards him, as if trying to grab his arm and then giving up, "I know it's hard for you to be stuck here, but you can't put him down because of something like this." You have exposed yourself. You must be careful not to let anyone outside the Order of the Phoenix find out, this is the most important thing now—you have to take care of yourself."

"Thank you, Harry." Sirius said in a flat voice, "but you are wrong. I have been careful for the past two years, as are all our wanted fugitives."

In their bedroom, when Harry tried to explain to her again the godfather's care for her that night, Ginny didn't want to hear it. "'Empathetic'?" she repeated. "Are you telling me that a man who treats you like this is 'empathetic' and 'understandable'?"

"I can't say, I just like him." Harry paused, slowly lowering his eyelids like a movie actor in a close-up. "I think I love him."

"I think you're being stupid." Ginny said, perhaps intending to make fun of it. "Is it because of some 'love' that he vented his anger and lost his temper at you like this?"

Harry looked instantly hurt. "You don't understand, he is very precious to me." However, when Sirius hid in the room where Buckbeak was kept with two bottles of brandy the next morning, refusing to talk to everyone, he did not seem very precious .

In the evening, it was decided to throw a small party, decorate the dining room with streamers and a table full of food, to celebrate Harry passing the trial without incident and Ron being selected as Gryffindor Quidditch Ball team captain.Lupine, Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and even Professor Moody were there, and now that Sirius could no longer shut himself up in his mother's bedroom with the hippogriff, he also attended.He spent most of the party drinking alone in the corner, and whenever Harry looked over, Sirius immediately smiled back, as if he also thought that his seizure yesterday was stupid, and there was no way to let it go like this, but he didn't Get ready to apologize - he and Harry, between those careful smiles, don't get a good look at each other.

"I thought I made a mistake when the letter arrived, although it is more convincing than last year when our little Ronnie was elected a prefect." Fred sarcastically.Since dropping out with much fanfare, he and George had lobbied Cedric to invest their Triwizard winnings in themselves, and had succeeded, now running a magic trick shop in Diagon Alley and working for the Order of the Phoenix. "After all, who in their right mind would choose Ron as a prefect?" he said.

Mom ignored Fred and kissed Ron hard on the cheek. "Ron, you are amazing! Everyone in the family has been a prefect, and there are two Quidditch team captains, and one of them has both - can you imagine!" Ron's face rose redder than a tomato.Fred and George were retching loudly behind Mom, but she didn't notice and kept wrapping her arms around Ron's neck and kissing him across the face.

"Everyone's been a prefect—what are Fred and me? Next door neighbors?" said George bitterly.But the mother was gone, and she was going to cut up a roast chicken for Ron "to give him a good nutrition." As if the youngest son wasn't tall enough - he was only 16 years old and already taller than the twins by a full year head.

"I'm not a prefect either." Ginny was glad that she was rarely ignored by her mother among her brothers.Like Harry, she sometimes finds her mother's doting impatient, even though they are no longer children.Harry is in sixth form, and she will start preparing for her OWLs.In the middle of the party, an unexpected guest arrives. "Why are you here?" Ginny had a brief relationship with him, and eventually the two agreed that they were more suitable as friends.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not the only Slytherin in this room." Blaise rolled his eyes.

"Mrs. Zabini is okay with that?"

"My mother was going to live in Argentina for a while, and asked me if I wanted to go with me, and I told her that I wanted to stay." He said, "Then she said, since you have chosen sides, at least don't be so stupid as to be wrong. I'll take all the benefits you get—so I'm, like Harry and you, under the protection of the Order from now on. While you're here, I'll be here, too." He noticed Harry suddenly hiss and cover his mouth. The forehead immediately became tense, "Your scar hurts again?"

"That's all right," said Harry vaguely, "since he was resurrected, it happens quite often."

"Did you mention this to Dumbledore at the Ministry?" Ginny asked.

She shook her head: "Since the end of last semester, I have felt that he deliberately avoided me. As soon as the court closed, he left without looking at me."

"Perhaps Dumbledore has concerns about talking to you there." Blaise rationally analyzed, "You think, since little Crouch can replace the Deputy Minister with Polyjuice Potion and come to Hogwarts for a whole year Senior investigator, how many subordinates of mysterious people are hidden in the ministry... By the way, I heard that Ms. Insect Toad is still sticking to her post. After being imprisoned for such a long time, what is her personality like? Has Little Crouch pretended to be so unbearable?" Borrowing the power of Dolores Umbridge's Deputy Minister and Inquisitor, Little Crouch has repeatedly interfered in the teaching of Hogwarts, and successively released Many disgusting education orders even forced Dumbledore out of the school, and he became the principal for a few days.It was during that time that he found the opportunity to use the Portkey to teleport Harry out of Hogwarts so that his master could use her blood to resurrect him.

"It could be worse than that," said Harry gloomily. "Really Umbridge is well and alive, and could raise his hand in the Inquisition and try to get me convicted."

"They officially tried you?! For something as trivial as using magic outside of school - or when you protected Muggles from dementors?" Blaise opened his eyes wide, as if to say he didn't believe it. "The Ministry of Magic is corrupt to such an extent. It seems that they are really determined to silence you so that they can suppress Dumbledore's announcement that the You-Know-Who is back."

"Yeah... there's almost no hope, is there?" She smiled wryly. "Voldemort wouldn't have come back without me."

"Nonsense." Ginny said quickly, "Father's bone, servant's flesh, enemy's blood—look at the Order of the Phoenix. Doesn't he have fewer enemies? You're not the only one who can bring him back to life."

"But only my blood can bring him unprecedented strength. Voldemort said in the graveyard that his story begins and ends with me, so he chose me, even if it takes a lot of extra work, he doesn't care. In the second grade, Riddle felt that the two of us were very similar. We were both orphans, we were both raised by Muggles, and we both wanted to be famous, but in the first few years, we were looked down upon by our classmates in the same school, even our wand core feathers From the same phoenix..."

Ginny didn't know what to say, just saying that you were different couldn't convince Harry.The three of them fell silent for a while, and finally Blaise said, "Let's just let the Order of the Phoenix worry about this for now, this is their job, and we're still students." He intentionally changed the subject, "Why didn't Digory come tonight? "

Talking about Cedric, Harry's face finally brightened a little. "He had his own affairs to attend to, got a job at the Department of International Education, and a new home - he moved out of his parents' house as soon as he graduated and took a Muggle flat in Surrey - He took me to see it on my birthday, and it’s a pretty good place. The transportation is convenient, and the surrounding greenery is also good.”

"He must have moved to Surrey just so he could see you often," said Ginny. "Didn't expect you to be in Grimmauld Place for half the summer."

Blaise's focus was elsewhere. "The title of champion of the Triwizard Tournament is really easy to use. As soon as you graduate and work, you will rush to deliver it to your door."

She nudged Harry. "So, what did he invite you to his residence for? Don't tell me that he just showed you around the nearby transportation facilities and greenery like a real estate agent."

"Well, we bought discs, a room with a view, have you heard of this movie? The apartment has basic electrical appliances, and there is even a home theater equipment left by the previous tenant, but unfortunately it is a bit old, Occasionally jammed - not so coincidental this time, didn't even get to see the famous alder swim sequence, had to find something else to do."

Ginny would bet Ron's head that she had spent the night at Cedric's flat.

The atmosphere of the banquet made Harry and the godfather barely settle their suspicions.Sirius walked over to them hesitantly, and at the same time took out of his pocket a paperback-sized object wrapped in paper. "You take this. The two-way mirror I gave James is yours now," he said to Harry. "I suspect Molly disapproves of it—but I hope you will when you need me." Use it, okay?" Harry agreed.Ginny knew she couldn't use it, she would never lead Sirius out of safety.

"What would I not approve of?" Mom heard her name and looked over with her hips on her hips.

Ginny didn't have much affection for Sirius.In her opinion, apart from the fact that this man may have been very handsome in the past, there is nothing particularly commendable, and he is also a bit of an alcoholic, but she doesn't mind if it's just a cover for a good friend. "Nothing!" Ginny exclaimed, motioning for Harry to shove the package behind the curtain. "I was just telling them Billy was marrying Fleur."

"There's nothing I disapprove of them," said Mom, hushed, annoyed. "I just think their engagement was rushed, that's all!"

"They've known each other for a year," said Ron, beside her, with a dazed face, as if Fleur was standing right in front of her. "Since she came to work at Gringotts."

"It didn't take long! Of course, I can also understand why. It's all because the mysterious man has returned, and everyone is panicked, and there is a feeling of precarity, so all the things that need time to think carefully are done in a hurry Decision. This is how the mysterious man gained power back then, people eloped everywhere—"

"Including you and Daddy," Ginny pointed out.

"Yeah, that's right. Your father and I were made for each other, so what are you waiting for? But Bill and Fleur... well... what do they have in common? Bill is a hard-working, down-to-earth man, Fleur—”

"It's a slob," she snapped, "but Bill isn't so down to earth. He's a spellbreaker, isn't he? He likes a little adventure, a little excitement... that's why he likes the phlegm ( Phlegm)." She had been holding back the joke for a long time, and she was satisfied with everyone's reaction at the moment.Both Sirius and Harry laughed, and even Blaise couldn't help laughing.

"Don't call her that, Ginny," Mom said sternly, but she didn't push her any further. "I'll go into the kitchen. The apple pie should be ready."

"My parents got married shortly after graduation, too," Harry said after she left. "Is it because of the circumstances?" she asked her godfather.

Sirius shrugged noncommittally. "They're like Arthur and Molly, made for each other."

"What about you?" Ginny narrowed her eyes and looked him up and down, "Why didn't you seize the opportunity?"

The apple pie that Mom baked was brought to the table.Sirius cut off a piece, broke it in half, and handed Harry one half. "Can you imagine me being someone's father?" Ginny almost said I can't even imagine you being someone's son, but held back. "Marriage, love, these are none of my business." Sirius said.Things about him came up later that night - after drinking too much whiskey, that is, whining about his situation, which both Harry and Ginny had heard many times.