Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 117 It’s time to show your loyalty
"Merlin's beard!"

Ron let out an exclamation.

And it was precisely because of his performance that everyone woke up and began to care about Bourne, who was wrapped in armor.

"I'm very good."

Facing the questions from Hagrid, Harry and other young wizards, Bourne answered generously.

Because his head was wrapped in armor, his voice sounded a little muffled.

In fact, Byrne added in his mind: "Actually, we can still be a little better."

Bourne's eyes were originally brown, but after putting on the gray-black mask, they faintly exuded a dark golden light. His pupils were like needlepoints, like burning flames, burning into the hearts of those who looked at them, weighing the weight of their souls.

The gray eye shadow around his pupils seemed to be a living thing, like the thick fog on the river in the dark night. The embankment disappeared, the light faded, and there was only a boat, a river and a long thick fog in the whole world.

Careful Hermione looked at Bourne and seemed to see something in the mist of his eye shadow, but the vision flashed and disappeared.

There's a cool head out there looking out through the fog. There is also a beast among them, it is majestic and terrifying, but it is chained, angry and roaring in the thick fog. Toughness, loneliness, ferocity, fanaticism...these are all contained in Bourne's eyes.

"This is..." Harry wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start.

And at this moment, no one knew where Bourne moved, and the armor on his body immediately faded away like mercury falling on the ground. In an instant, this fearsome armor turned back into a ring.

"I'll call it 'Dragon Ring'." Bourne seemed a little happy and named this magical alchemy ring in public.
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"Nice! Nice!"

While running on all fours, Peter Peddigrew screamed with excitement in his heart.

"Yes! Yes!"

"I knew that Hogwarts was a geomantic treasure." He thought proudly: "Merlin will never starve to death. As long as you have hands and feet, you can not only find food in Hogwarts, but you can always find it." Some treasures!”

If someone happened to pass by, they might immediately become curious about him.

Because as the saying goes: When a mouse pulls a wooden wedge, its big head is behind.

But at this time, this illegal Animagus disguised as a mouse violated common sense. He did not drag things with his teeth like a normal mouse, but rolled up a small leather bag with his sensitive tail. Because Running wildly on the grass that has become somewhat mottled by the melting snow.

The bag contained all the trophies he had worked so hard to "pick up".

In fact, if you have to ask why he said "trophies" instead of "stolen loot," he can even make some reasonable remarks.

Of course, it is unlikely that he would say nonsense such as "The country has its own national conditions here" or "Aren't the things on display in museums all trophies?"

Because he has never studied Muggle history - you know, when he was in school, he only listened carefully to the history of magic seven times in seven years - all of which were the key lessons set aside by Professor Binns before the exam.

In those few classes, he couldn't help but listen carefully. However, it was not just because he had to pass the exam, but mainly because besides him, the other three people in the "Predator" team usually caught up on their sleep in the History of Magic class.

Peter feels a little sad when he thinks about it now, but in order to integrate into that excellent small group, he had to make some contributions at that time.

Take a look at the Predator configuration:

Its leader is undoubtedly James Potter, the only son of the Potter family who is both rich and a Hogwarts Quidditch star.

Potter's deputy is the eldest son of the Black family, who is richer and more distinguished than the Potters. His ancestors even had a Hogwarts headmaster.

Although the other Remus Lupine has a poorer family background and was discovered by his companions to be a werewolf, his father is at least a first-class scholar in biological defense against dark magic, and Remus's own academic performance is even better. He was so awesome that he was later selected as the prefect of Gryffindor by Professor McGonagall...

Except for becoming an Animagus, Peter was lucky enough to keep up with the other three companions. Otherwise, he is, quite literally, the weakest link in the Predator squad.

Take the History of Magic exam as an example. Even if he was the only one who listened attentively to Professor Binns's key lessons at the end of each semester, after everyone reviewed them in a targeted manner, his grades were at the bottom of the group.

But even so, Peter actually enjoyed his identity as a "predator" when he was a student.

First, he is indeed a bit ambitious: James and Sirius were the most dazzling twins in Gryffindor and even Hogwarts at that time.

Second, there is Remus Lupine in the small team. He is a kind and gentle man. When James and Sirius tease or ridicule Peter, Lupine will always stand up to defend him.

To be honest, compared to James, who was in good condition at the grave, and Sirius, who was trapped in the North Sea and was enlightened, Remus Lupine's situation was indeed pretty good.

In the era of Voldemort's rise, the ambitious Peter quickly defected to the rising Dark Lord. At the critical moment, he even delivered a sharp stab in the back to the two former young and old friends. The only friend he didn't betray was Remus Lupine, the only good guy among the "Marauders".

Of course, this is also related to the fact that his father died of illness and his identity as a werewolf, so Lupine could only wander around in poverty after leaving school.

And the last and most important reason why Peter sharpened his head and wanted to become a member of the "Predators" was actually because of the hidden internal benefits of this small group.

Predators, as the name suggests, are not bad guys, but they are definitely not good either.

They were just as mischievous as the Weasley twins, except that the things these people did were much more egregious than George and Fred.

Although there was no such thing as "campus bullying" in those days, it was somewhat unrealistic for this small team headed by James and Sirius to have a proper "double office" configuration to prevent them from bullying.

Even Professor Snape, who is now full of fear among Hogwarts students, was often targeted by "predators" when he was in school.

Just like Malfoy to Harry Potter, Snape and James Potter never got along. They used fists in the lower grade and magic spells in the upper grade. The two of them had been fighting each other for seven years in school.

Snape was once obsessed with powerful black magic. It is difficult to say that it was not because it was a bit difficult to deal with three on one (Lupine actually didn't hurt Snape much, and Peter's force value was equivalent to half of James or Sirius). , so it is necessary to use some "technology and hard work" to win back the victory.

When he was in school, Peter liked to follow James and Sirius to bully his classmates, and he also enjoyed the feeling of being a fox and a tiger. He was once fascinated by the ridiculous vanity and delusion of bullying the weak and putting himself above others.

However, he called it "honor", and along with the honor were some material rewards.

James and Sirius, the two of them played pranks and bullied their classmates just for fun, and were not interested in money at all.

The combined pocket money given by the adults in their families might be more than the total pocket money of all the other little wizards.

But Peter was different. Although he claimed to be from a pure-blood wizard family, compared with James and Sirius, he was like "mules and horses" and "Rome". There was no comparison at all. Therefore, some little wizards who are worried that they are being targeted by "predators" will secretly give Peter their pocket money and ask this guy to put in a good word for them.

Peter usually accepted the order.

When he was in lower grade, he would sometimes even use his status as a "predator" to snatch snacks from other little wizards.

If anyone dares to say "no"...

But I really responded to the fat translator's line: "I don't even pay for restaurants in the city, but I still have to pay for a few of your rotten watermelons?"

He would encourage James and Sirius to play pranks on those classmates in the form of a small group of "predators" that were "just a bit excessive in form, but not too malicious toward that person in itself."

In fact, James and Sirius are not bad people in essence. In the future, they dare to challenge Voldemort, who has done many evil things, which shows that they also have conscience and courage worthy of recognition. Logically speaking, Peter's behavior would definitely violate their moral bottom line.

However, Peter may not have come from a distinguished family, but he was indeed a full-blooded Englishman (although the surname Pedtigrew was actually a Scottish surname). He is really as cunning as a mouse when it comes to making small moves behind his back.

During the seven years at school, Peter tried to do all these bad things on a special day: the night of the full moon every month.

Because Lupine was going to turn into a werewolf that night, so even during the day, James and Sirius were busy helping their friend make necessary preparations. If they didn't care about this, things would always go wrong. Peter.

Coupled with a little luck, Peter's bad behavior was not discovered by the other "predators", and he received seven years of hidden benefits.

Peter is also very open-minded about the things that he "robbed" from other classmates: Can things obtained by his own skills be called "stolen items"? Those are the legitimate "trophies" of Peter Pettigrew.

And today, in order to continue to survive, he had to take the risk and extend his sinful claws to Hagrid.

He has been worried recently that if he doesn't take some action, he may really be raised to death by Ron.

In this way, it's not that Ron lacks care for his pet. The main reason is that compared to his previous "owner" Percy, Ron is undoubtedly a little careless and has always forgotten to feed him recently.

This also resulted in Peter having to find food on his own. As a result, he first almost ate himself to death by eating some snacks from a certain little wizard whose teeth and appetites were a bit unbelievable. Later, he snatched the "pepper horn" bought by Harry and Ron and sprayed sparks from his butt. , almost took off on the spot...

He didn't dare go to the big kitchen at Hogwarts to find food. Because when he was in school, Sirius once got mad and wanted to give laxatives to all the students in Slytherin House, so he ordered Peter Pettigrew to sneak into the big kitchen of Hogwarts to give the medicine.

As we all know, the biggest rule in a place like the kitchen is to keep it clean, and the house elves at Hogwarts are very concerned about food safety.

And Peter Pettigrew's Animagus form, by coincidence, is exactly a mouse.

It is conceivable that he received a "warm" welcome from the house elves that day.

The house elves used the high-end technology of apparation to chase and intercept a mouse. In the process of eradicating rats, they used pans, steel wool, and bristle brushes, but some of the more "brutal" house elves directly used "terrible" household magic on him.

In the end, Peter struggled to escape from the Hogwarts kitchen, and then lay in the school's infirmary for a full week before he fully recovered.

For reference, George Weasley was bitten by a vampire before, and Madam Pomfrey healed the little wizard's injury in just one night.

One can imagine how seriously Peter was injured that time. Moreover, he did not dare to tell the truth about the injury. He could only say that he accidentally blew himself up while playing with Libre in the toilet and making fireworks.

Because of this incident, Peter was full of fear of the big kitchen at Hogwarts, so he couldn't go there to find food to satisfy his hunger.

So, he could only think of another way, and the way he came up with was to go to Hagrid's house to steal things.

The small team of "Marauders" had a good relationship with Hagrid - or to be more precise, Hagrid was friendly to every Gryffindor little lion - and they had visited Hagrid's hut several times.

He had little knowledge, and James and Sirius, two wealthy young men, had no sense of money at all. However, Lupine later told them that Hagrid might be an "invisible rich man" in Hogwarts.

The things used in Hagrid's home may not look very impressive, but many of them are made of precious magical animal materials.

For example, the duster he used was made from a unicorn tail. A unicorn tail hair on the market costs 10 galleons.

Another example is the dirty pillow towel used by Hagrid, which was seriously woven from the silk of the Acromantula.

Although the price of Acromantula's silk is difficult to evaluate, if the venom of this 5X magical animal is sold in a potion material store for only 560 galleons per pint (about 100ml), then it can only be said that the merchant who sells the material is really We are clearing inventory.

As usual, Peter Pettigrew kept this in mind. To this day, this precious memory has become his life-saving straw.

After following him for several days, he finally got to the day when Hagrid went out.

He quickly ran to Hagrid's hut with the Potions homework that a senior student had left in the common room - a bottle of water of life and death with an acceptable concentration - that he "accidentally" picked up not long ago.

After observing Yaya at the window for a while, he cautiously turned into a mouse, climbed onto the roof and followed the flue into Hagrid's hut, secretly put the potion into the Napoleon Mastiff's food, and knocked the Napoleon Mastiff over. Big dog.

Up to this point, everything was going smoothly for Peter. Unexpectedly, Bourne happened to take a walk nearby today, and then the previous scene happened.

Thanks to Peter's quick reaction, the moment he saw the lion transformed by the transfiguration spell, he turned into a mouse again and escaped through the flue.

"Zhushu, I am so lucky today."

If he hadn't been speechless, Peter would have been humming a ditty with joy at this time.

This guy ran with the wind and got into the castle in a flash. He planned to hide the things first, wait for an opportunity to leave Hogwarts through a secret passage in two days, and then find a way to sell them.

And just when he was thinking about whether to attack directly in Hogsmeade or simply work harder and find a way to go to Knockturn Alley in London overnight, a slender rope suddenly poked out from behind the full armor of the two knights who were quarreling. , sprang out like a spiritual snake, and tied up the big mouse in one fell swoop.

Peter screamed in fright, but the magic rope was directed by the caster to hit his rat face twice.

Then, except for the part that tied Peter, the rest of the rope began to bend, forming independent words-

"It's time to show your loyalty, my servant."

As if a flash of lightning flashed through Peter's mind, he shouted in fright: "Of course, my great master, I will always be absolutely loyal to you."

However, as a mouse, he can now make a series of squeaks from his mouth...

(End of this chapter)