Harry returns from Hogwarts Legacy

Chapter 225 James: Old snotty guy, do you deserve to be hung upside down?
The Flamel family's house was not very big. After all, they had to take Nico and the Perenal couple's legs into consideration, so the door was not far from the living room.

Therefore, it was impossible for Dumbledore and Snape, who walked to the door, to not hear the roar in the living room.

Snape's expression suddenly became serious. He always felt that this voice was very familiar, very, very familiar.

Who dares to call him like that in Hogwarts? Could it be...

When he looked up, he saw James Potter with one foot on a chair, writing passionately.

Almost at first glance, Snape confirmed that this was James Potter himself.

The hatred between the two was so fucking great that even if James was burned to ashes by the Fiendfyre and mixed with the soil, Snape could still sift out James' ashes bit by bit from the ashes.

The hatred between the two of them is no longer just a simple campus bullying feud, but also the hatred of having his wife stolen from him.

Snape's childhood sweetheart, the love of his life, the angel who saved him, was snatched away by James Potter...

pain!
It hurts so much!
Snape felt like he couldn't breathe at the thought of this.

but……

Even so, Snape did not go looking for trouble with James right away, but looked around the conference room with hope.

As expected, he was not disappointed. On the other side of James, he found the figure that he had been thinking about day and night.

"Lily?"

He murmured the woman's name.

However, what no one expected was that Snape's first reaction was not to come to the meeting room, but to turn around and leave Mr. Flamel's cabin.

"What's the matter with the old Snotlout?" Sirius asked, holding the teapot.

"Maybe there are big oil stains on his clothes because he forgot to change his clothes." James opened his mouth with the ultimate sarcasm towards Snape.

Fortunately, Snape is not here now, otherwise the defeat of Shenfeng in the battle with Wuying would be inevitable.

At this time, Dumbledore also walked to the table in the living room.

"Can anyone tell me what happened during the time I was away from school?"

Sirius happily recounted everything that had just happened, including Pappy's resurrection and how Harry had used the Desire Gem to try to heal Anne but ended up summoning his parents instead.

After hearing this, Dumbledore shook his head and said with emotion: "Magic is really amazing..."

"Welcome to thirteen years later." After expressing his feelings, Dumbledore said to James and Lily, "I never thought that I would be able to meet you two in this way..."

"In fact, we both met you yesterday." James winked at Dumbledore, "You even advised me to let you be the secret keeper between the two of us..."

After a brief recollection, Dumbledore knew from which day James and Lily traveled to thirteen years later.

He hesitated for a moment, then smiled with relief.

However, James' next sentence was a question of the soul.

"But I've always been curious, who leaked the news about Harry?"

"What is it?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and asked knowingly.

"That's right, about Trelawney's prophecy." James looked at Dumbledore sharply, "I don't think Voldemort has the ability to know everything. Someone must have leaked the news to him... I guess that person is Snotlout, right?"

Dumbledore rubbed his fingers and sighed softly, "Yes, you guessed right. It was indeed Severus who leaked the news..."

James sneered, as if he had expected it.

In fact, he had never hesitated to assume the worst of Snape.

In his opinion, only someone as dark and shady as a snotty creature would secretly tell on others.

Harry was a little surprised. He had just learned that it was Professor Snape who betrayed his parents.

If James and Lily weren't here, he would definitely go find Snape to settle the score.

But the problem was that the person involved was right here, so Harry could only sit here and watch.

"No wonder Professor Snape is always so awkward." Harry said suddenly, "So this is the reason..."

Sirius patted his knees and struck a pose like a famous detective solving a case in the Muggle world.

"Yes, on the one hand, because you look like James, he doesn't like you - he can even say he hates you; on the other hand, he feels guilty for this reason, so he will be a little nicer to you... But I personally think that people like Snotlout don't feel guilty at all, and there are other reasons why he treats you well."

Harry knew why without Sirius saying it.

It was because Snape was secretly thinking about Lily in his heart, so sometimes he would feel guilty and realize that this child was not only James Potter's son, but also Lily Evans' child.

Oh, yes, in Snape's heart, he never recognized Lily Potter, he only recognized Lily Evans.

But this was destined to be something she could only think about in her heart. After all, Lily had already married James, and that was an indisputable fact.

If you want to say whether Snape is pitiful or not, then he really... deserves it.

Just by saying "mudblood" to the girl he loved, it was obvious that he had deserved to be cut off by Lily.

"Oh." James raised his eyebrows. "I hope he will be nicer to Harry out of guilt, but we all know that slimes don't have hearts."

"James!" Lily scolded in a low voice.

After being scolded like this, James immediately turned into a good boy. He even sat in a clever posture. He looked at Lily with bright eyes without moving, with a face full of admiration.

"Sometimes I think that maybe your Animagus should be a dog." Sirius complained mercilessly, "Look at you, I said this a long time ago, right?"

"Oh shut up, Sirius!" James rolled his eyes.

Obviously, as a bad friend, Sirius would never pass up any opportunity to criticize James.

"But what makes me more curious is..." James pondered for a moment and asked, "Why did you accept Snotlout to teach at Hogwarts, Dumbledore? You know, he is a Death Eater who is firmly following Voldemort."

"His name is Severus, James." Dumbledore sighed, "At least he is a professor at Hogwarts now..."

"I'm already giving you face by not taking out my wand and firing a Fuchsia at him, Dumbledore!" James rolled his eyes lazily, "He's the Death Eater who betrayed Lily and me. Do you think I'll have a good attitude towards him?"

What you said makes so much sense that I am speechless... Dumbledore thought about it and realized that it was indeed true, so he stopped correcting James' "slip of the tongue".

Forget it, if it rains, it will rain. If my mother wants to get married, let her do what she wants.

"After hearing Trelawney's prophecy, Severus informed Voldemort immediately, but he didn't know that the child mentioned in the prophecy was Harry." Dumbledore pondered for a moment, organized his words and continued: "When he knew that the child was Harry, he found me, expressed his regret to me, and promised to protect Harry and Lily on the condition that he would be a double agent for me."

James's face darkened, then turned slightly purple.

No, you fucking...

You stinky snot guy, do you need to worry about finding someone to protect my wife?

This dirty, stupid snot, I will personally...

Sirius beside him lowered his head, as if he was trying to hold back his laughter.

In fact, he couldn't laugh at first, but the problem was that James and Lily had already come to this era, which meant that they would not die, so there was nothing wrong with laughing.

He had witnessed a lot of James' embarrassing moments. Sirius also knew that his wife was always stuck with sticky snot.

That Snotlout was indeed a vicious person with evil intentions. If it were Sirius, he would not be able to tolerate it.

"And then?" James asked, suppressing his anger.

"And then?" Dumbledore smiled and said to James, "He passed on a lot of useful information to me, such as when Voldemort would go to Godric's Hollow to look for your family... But Peter betrayed you and Lily to Voldemort, so... you know everything that happened next."

When Sirius was telling all this just now, he did not mention Peter's betrayal to James.

He knew that James always valued feelings and had the complete trust in his friends.

He was afraid that James would not be able to accept the bad news suddenly.

Sure enough, after hearing the news, James's face froze.

He asked uncertainly: "What did you say? Who betrayed me and Lily?"

"It's Peter Pettigrew." Dumbledore didn't have so many taboos and said whatever he wanted to say.

Sure enough, after hearing the name, James fell into a long silence.

"James? Dear?" Lily knew James' character. She reached out and stroked his back, trying to calm her husband's furious heart.

It took James a long time to come back to his senses from the silence.

"Wormtail actually betrayed me..." James raised his head and murmured, "I trusted him so much... Merlin, I even regarded him as my own brother, but why? Why did he do such a thing?!"

"It should be said that according to Peter Pettigrew's confession, he had betrayed you and joined Voldemort a year ago." Dumbledore said, and then added: "When I said a year ago, I meant 1980, not 1993."

"It turns out that he has already betrayed me so early..."

James held his head, his eyes pale, "I have always trusted him wrongly, but why... his Animagus is a mouse, as long as he wants to hide, he will not be harmed at all? Why on earth would he want to surrender to Voldemort?"

"No one knows why, and he told us under the influence of Veritaserum that he was just afraid." Dumbledore shook his head and sighed.

"It's over, and Peter has received the punishment he deserves." Sirius patted James' other shoulder: "Relax, brother - at least you are still alive now, right? Longing for gems - hey, it's really magical."

However, James still had a gloomy expression on his face, and he had not yet come out of the shadow of Peter's betrayal.

"There is much more to it than that, Mr. Potter."

Cassandra suddenly spoke up, gaining the attention of the people at the table.

No one had expected that Cassandra, who had always kept strangers away, would suddenly speak.

James slowly raised his head and looked at Cassandra in confusion.

"Miss Malfoy means..."

"I mean, Peter did much more than that—" Cassandra raised her lips, "You know what? After he betrayed you, he even put the blame on Mr. Black, so Mr. Black spent twelve years in Azkaban, and he turned into a mouse and lived in the Weasley family for twelve years... If Harry hadn't discovered Peter Pettigrew's true face, I'm afraid he would continue to hide, and Mr. Black would continue to be wrongly imprisoned."

James was stunned. He had never expected that his good brother would be wrongly accused and spend so much time in Azkaban.

In the wizarding world, Azkaban's reputation is known to everyone from Ireland to China.

Everyone knows that any good person who is imprisoned in Azkaban will go in as a normal person and come out as a madman.

"Yes." Pappy also said, "Sirius saw Peter Pettigrew who turned into a mouse in the newspaper, so he escaped from Azkaban and wanted to protect Harry from the villain. The Ministry of Magic made a big fuss about this and even sent Dementors to chase and intercept him. Poor Mr. Black had nothing to eat and could only eat mice and giant spiders to fill his stomach..."

"Hey, it's nothing." Sirius raised his head and said indifferently: "This is just a part of life that you need to go through..."

"Sirius……"

Lily covered her face with her hands, tears streaming down her face.

She felt a pain in her heart just thinking about how Sirius lived.

In a sense, Sirius was also one of her adopted children. As a mother, how could she not feel sorry for him?

"Brother."

James reached out and squeezed Sirius' shoulder. He said nothing, but just nodded heavily to Sirius.

Men's friendship is not so sentimental, everything is implied.

"Ah."

A greasy, dragging sound suddenly appeared.

"If this black dog had learned to be smarter and found Dumbledore to explain the truth earlier, he wouldn't have wasted so many years in Azkaban - oh, I forgot that dogs are not very smart..."

How could James bear to hear the old Snotlout slandering his good brother like that?

"Old Snotlout!" He stood up suddenly, took out his wand from his bosom and pointed it at Snape: "Do you want to be hung upside down? If you want, I will fulfill your wish!"

(Ask for monthly ticket)

(I am wrapping up the foreshadowing in the previous chapters, about the "fallen angels" and "Lucifer", so there is less of them today. In fact, the plot has nothing to do with Western mythology. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter - Voldemort contacted the so-called Lucifer, who is actually a character who has already appeared in the book and has been written about in great detail. Guess who it is? There is a prize for guessing correctly~)

(End of this chapter)