Alice's Travels

Alice tried her best to digest the information Harry gave, but she didn't expect that the real danger was always lurking around her.

"Peter escaped, it's very bad, Harry—" Alice thought for a while before she said, "We have no evidence to prove what you just said, and without capturing Peter, the biggest evidence, Our testimony may not be credible enough."

"But Lupine is here, me, Hermione, Ron, and Snape!" Harry exclaimed violently, "Isn't that enough?"

"Snape won't necessarily prove that he passed out and didn't see Peter at all - that's number one; whether he's willing to prove his innocence for Black - that's number two." Alice said slowly, "and Lupine, you said that they used to be friends, and he never said it when he knew that Black was an Animagus, so there is suspicion of covering up—"

"And you, apart from your dictation, what about the evidence? How to prove that Peter is not dead, how to prove that Scabbers is Peter, and how to prove that Peter is the secret keeper back then?" Alice said looking at Harry's angry expression, "Your testimony can be easily overturned, and the Ministry of Magic will not easily overturn Black's case."

"Alice is right," Hermione said to Harry, her voice hoarse, worried, "Now if Sirius is found, he will be brought to the dementors immediately - no one will listen to him, And our explanation!"

"Then what to do!" said Harry anxiously. "He's my godfather, and I mustn't—"

"Harry—" a deep male voice sounded, and Black woke up.

"Why is this Slytherin here?" he asked, staring at Alice warily.

"This is Alice - she's our friend, and she just saved us from a dementor!" Harry explained hastily.

"Alice...what a nasty name," Black said in a tone of distaste and implied hostility, "you'd better not try to play some little tricks in private Slytherin—"

"No! Sirius, she won't - she's fine!" Harry snapped.

Alice thought she finally understood why Black had attacked her earlier - it was a warning, a stern warning to a malicious Slytherin who approached Harry on purpose.

It's really boring to watch.

"Now is not the time to talk about that," Hermione said, glancing at Sirius, "Snape will probably wake up soon, and by the time he comes and finds Sirius it will be over—"

"Become a dog," Alice said flatly, "become a dog and hide in the Forbidden Forest, just like before—but now Harry will take care of you, just wait until Peter is caught and cleared of his grievances, or you have Is there another place to go? Best to hide now—"

Blake stared at her suspiciously, as if wondering if she was up to something.

Harry looked at Sirius, then at Hermione, and Hermione thought for a while and then said, "Yes, we can only hide now - school will be on holiday soon, do you have somewhere to go?"

Black nodded to Hermione, and Harry's eyes lit up.

"Shh!" Alice suddenly made a silent movement towards them, mouth-shaped to make Blake slip away as a dog, and there were footsteps coming this way.

Harry glanced nervously at Sirius, who immediately turned into a black dog and quickly disappeared into the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

Then the footsteps quickened suddenly, and a figure strode towards them - it was Snape.

Alice exhausted herself and sat down in Black's original position, and got together with Hermione and Harry. The three of them showed a powerless, exhausted, and bitter appearance.

Snape approached, his face was blurred under the shadow, his eyes quickly scanned around, and then looked at the three people sitting on the ground with pale faces.

"Looks like your punishment isn't enough!" Snape said grimly at Alice, turning his gaze to Harry, "Where's Black? Where did he escape to—"

"Professor, we were attacked by a group of dementors! They almost killed us!" Alice spoke first, looking straight at him in a miserable tone and said, "There is no Black at all, it's all dementors of!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Altman!" Snape roared like mad, "I saw him with my own eyes! It was you—you must have helped him escape!"

Alice didn't expect Snape to show such a furious expression, as if there was a huge hatred that couldn't be vented, she could only change to a calm tone and whisper, "It's really a dementor, only a dementor Ghost-"

"Shut up!" Snape interrupted her viciously, yelling frantically, "I know you did it! Say, what did you all do—"

"Only Dementors," Alice repeated quietly, and firmly, "no one has ever seen Blake, no--no-one."

With monstrous anger on Snape's face, he snarled at Alice, "How dare you cover up the truth! How dare you lie in front of your dean! You are already facing suspension, you stupid girl!"

"We can prove it!" Hermione quietly touched Harry with her hand, and began to speak very fast, "Ron's leg was accidentally dropped when we tried to sneak out through the secret passage, and we touched Lu Professor Ping didn't expect him to turn into a werewolf. When you gave him the medicine, you found that he wasn't chasing after him - he was injured and unconscious. Lupine left and the dementor attacked us - and then it became like this , indeed—no Blake!"

Snape's face was already contorted with anger, and he squeezed some good words through his teeth, screaming, "Okay, okay! So what about the dementors - how can you escape from them! "

"A miracle," Alice said quietly, "just happened to know the incantation 'Invoke Guardian' against dementors - and summoned the Patronus in a critical moment."

Snape gave each of them a furious look, turned abruptly and left without a word.

Harry said, as if suddenly relieved, "You did it? That sorts things out—"

"Because Black was not caught," Alice said, "Snape also couldn't produce evidence." However, judging from his angry performance just now, the rift between him and Black may not be as deep as it is. Is it as simple as paraphrasing what Lupine said about conflicts in school days?

"Great." Harry smiled.

Hermione seemed to be hesitating for something, she hesitated for a moment, reached out and pulled out a long and thin gold chain from the neckline of her robe, on which was hung a small glittering hourglass.

"What's this?" Harry asked curiously.

"Time-Turner." Hermione whispered, taking a deep breath.

A light flashed across Alice's eyes for an instant.

Harry looked at Hermione in surprise, "Where did you get it?"

"It was Professor McGonagall, she gave this to me on the first day back at school—" Hermione explained to them, "It took her a lot of letters to the Ministry to get one for me, and she had to prove to them that I Was a model student and would never use it for anything other than academics...Professor McGonagall made me swear not to tell anyone. Just turn it upside down and you can go back for a while, and I've been relying on it for a year took all the classes—"

Harry stared at her motionless, as if he hadn't recovered from his surprise.

"So, how long can we go back?" Alice asked hoarsely, feeling her heart trembling slightly.

"Each turn, time can be turned back an hour." Hermione said.

"You mean - oh, then we can totally go back and catch Peter before he escapes!" Harry exclaimed.

"No! Harry!" Hermione whispered immediately, horrified. "We can't be seen! Peter stayed with us until he ran away - think about it, if you saw one rushing by yourself, you would What will happen?"

"I—I guess I'd think it was the Dark Arts—" said Harry.

"Yes, you are likely to attack yourself! Professor McGonagall told me about the terrible things that happened after wizards tampered with time...Many people killed their past or future selves by mistake!"

Alice wasn't listening to their conversation at all, her mind was completely occupied by the time-turner - she could go back in time!

what does this mean?

Could it be that her time travel is because someone used something similar to this on her?

But why only the soul traveled through, why didn't the body go back to the past together—could it be that she had really...

Who used this on her while she was asleep?

What is the purpose of that person?

Do you want to use her as an experiment or want her to go back in time and change something...

"Okay!" said Harry somewhat disappointedly, "I was just thinking about—"

"That's why I was hesitant to tell you just now," said Hermione seriously. "I thought about catching Peter when he ran away, but by then Lupine had turned into a werewolf and Sirius was following him." He fought - it was too dangerous, and Peter turned into a mouse and went deep in the forest - we didn't have time to catch him!"

"We were all there, and a pack of Dementors, trying to go unnoticed—nearly impossible—"

"And what are you trying to do with it?" Harry asked.

"I was just wondering -" said Hermione, frowning, "could we go back to the time when Peter - Scabbers played dead and escaped - find him and -"

"No!" Before Harry could speak, Alice objected immediately, "That period of time was too long, think about it, Hermione, Peter must have been hiding very secretly, and he must have been kept secret for such a long time. Find out, where are you going to hide? Once someone discovers that there are two you, or is seen by the past you - the consequences are unimaginable, and the future is very likely to change!"

"But—" said Harry.

"Even Blake couldn't catch Peter during that time, how are you going to find him and catch him again? Besides, where are you going to hide until tonight? Not to mention that you might be seen by your past self, in case -Blake got caught because of this?" Alice looked at Hermione's downcast eyes and said, "Hermione, you don't seem to be such an impulsive person—Harry, what do you think?"

Harry finally nodded, at least Sirius was fine now - he had another godfather.