From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 299: Bankrupt Professor Black
No matter how reluctant Harry was and no matter how unwilling Snape was, they had to say goodbye to Lily Potter.

Because one of them has to teach and the other has to attend classes.

"I can let them study on their own. The final exams are less than a week away!" Snape pleaded.

"But my son is still in your class, Severus?" Lily's eyes smiled. This smart woman basically knew everything. She knew the reason why she met Snape in the spiritual world, that he had completely broken with the Dark Lord, and of course how much he loved her and how much he hated his son and husband.

Snape struggled for a while, then spoke again: "I can approve a leave note for him."

In order to stay with his beloved, Snape could actually endure living in the same room with the person he hated second most (if James was resurrected, Harry's ranking in his heart would drop one more place).

Lily simply smiled and shook her head, defeating Snape, and the Potions Professor stopped talking and stepped aside in silence.

"Harry." The mother called her son, "I know you are very happy about the reunion, but you have to understand that you are still a student, and the third grade is a very critical year, so you have to promise me that you will study hard, okay?"

"Of course! I promise you! I will do well in the exam!" A man's desire to win and show off should never be underestimated, even if he is a boy. Harry, who lost his mother for more than ten years, can't wait to show off in front of his mother to prove that he has lived well in the past few years.

"Good boy, come here." Lily held her son in her arms again and kissed his forehead affectionately.

Harry's face turned red and he felt dizzy, with a strange silly smile on his face.

One after the other, they left Ivy's Room of Requirement with Snape.

Sirius, who stood aside and watched the whole process, frowned all the time and looked at Lily with a scrutinizing look: "Don't you think that Snotlout is too much, Lily?"

Lily stopped Sirius from continuing to speak with a gentle but firm look: "Don't say that about Severus, Padfoot. He saved Harry once with his own life, and I am grateful to him. But... that's all, Harry is by my side."

Hearing this, Sirius felt relieved. He stuck his head out of the Room of Requirement to check whether the teacher and student had gone far.

Then he turned back to Lily and said, "I heard that resurrection from the dead is a very painful thing, so I won't disturb your rest. But I still want to say, welcome back, Lily."

"Thank you, Padfoot." Lily still smiled gently.

"Before you leave, Sirius, I have something to remind you of." Ivy stopped Professor Black who was about to leave. "The Potters will need a place to live after their resurrection. They can't always stay in my Room of Requirement. The house in Godric's Hollow is obviously not suitable for them, and No. 12 Grimmauld Place also needs to consider your brother. In short, you'd better make plans early."

Just the look on Sirius's face told you that he hadn't even considered the question before.

However, he quickly comforted Lily: "That is indeed a very big problem! But don't worry, Lily, I will be responsible for dealing with Regulus. Even if I don't deal with him, the Black family's gold is enough to help you buy another house."

"I heard from Harry that you paid for our resurrection? We already owe you too much, Padfoot. We can't accept your kindness anymore." Lily shook her head apologetically.

"No, no! Don't say that." Sirius' face was full of sincerity, "I owe you! If it weren't for my joking suggestion, Harry wouldn't have lost his parents! Besides, I have lived in the Potter family for so many years. I am James' half brother, so of course I have to take care of your affairs! It's settled! I'll go and take care of the house issue now!"

He hurried out of the Room of Requirement and into the principal's office.

"Dumbledore!" Sirius' voice came through the door connecting to the headmaster's office, "I want to resign!"

"What?" Professor McGonagall, standing in the headmaster's office, was horrified. She had thought that she would no longer have to worry about the selection of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year, but Sirius gave her a blow in the last few days before the end of the semester.

"Professor McGonagall?" Sirius also saw McGonagall who came to report on her work, and the atmosphere became a little awkward for a moment.

After a moment, Dumbledore asked, "May I ask why?"

"Oh." Sirius tried to make his tone sound casual, "Because I need money, gold."

He then explained, "Although the price of the resurrection spell is indeed fair, the expenses of three people are still too much for the Black family's coffers, not to mention that I have to buy a new house for Harry and his family. So I can't continue to work at Hogwarts."

Lily, who was sitting across from Ivy, made a few mouth shapes that roughly meant, "Doesn't he know that sound can come in?"

With Sirius' impetuous personality, he would definitely not care about such things. Moreover, although the entrance to the Room of Requirement is connected to Dumbledore's office, it is more like a spatial magic, so it is understandable that he would think that the two spaces are not connected.

So Ivy spread his hands, expressing helplessness.

Professor Black in the principal's office was still talking about his grand plan: "I'm going to go back and look through the documents in the vault to see what other companies are listed in it. If I can find one or two that haven't gone bankrupt yet, I might be able to get dividends again with those equity documents. In short, if I want to pay off my debt to Ivy with this job as a professor, I'm afraid I'll have to work until my next life."

Well, it seems that this year the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor could not escape Voldemort's curse. The Black family, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is always pure and the most noble, went bankrupt at the hands of Sirius.

"Okay, Sirius. It seems that I can only agree to your resignation." Professor McGonagall sighed, "I will contact the Daily Prophet in a moment. But... is the resurrection spell you mentioned true?"

"Your favorite student is sitting behind the door, Minerva." Dumbledore said calmly, "You can go and see her later, but please keep this matter a secret. Now that Voldemort has not been completely eliminated, resurrecting the Potters is actually a very dangerous thing. It's best for them not to show up in public... Oh, by the way, I have to inform you of another thing. The Order of the Phoenix has been officially reorganized. Do you want to fight alongside us again, Minerva?"

Professor McGonagall's arrogant voice came through the door: "It's too late for you to ask these questions now, Albus! Especially after telling me so much! Yes, I want to join, or more accurately, return."

"Voldemort and his lackeys won't be able to get away with it for much longer!" Sirius' voice was very excited. "Our team is growing stronger and stronger! James will join us tomorrow, and my brother will join us later! Don't worry, that kid has always been a courageous guy! Although I misjudged him before, I believe he will join us!"

Lily, who was sitting in the Room of Requirement, listened to all the conversations that took place in the principal's office. There was no happy or excited expression on her face, only some hidden worry.

After hearing Sirius in the headmaster's office completely leave, Lily asked: "Harry won't get involved in these things, right?"

"I don't think it depends on us or Harry's own will. Voldemort, who firmly believes in the prophecy, will find a way to target him." Ivy shook his head, but then he comforted her, "Sirius and Snape have given Harry a lot of training. Even in the most dangerous situation, I believe he has the power to protect himself, not to mention your magic to protect him, madam."

"I'm not afraid of anything, except that Harry might get hurt..." Lily shook her head sadly. She found it hard to accept even just imagining the danger Harry might suffer in the future.

This situation seemed very strange to Ivy. He always thought that Lily was a courageous mother, but the way she behaved now did not match Ivy's perception.

This certainly doesn't mean that Ivy knows this woman very well, but her abnormal behavior is obvious to all. She is now like a sick mother who will do anything for her son. Maybe the long-term death has affected her? Ivy dare not make a rash judgment, but he thinks it is necessary to pay close attention, especially to compare with several other people who are about to be resurrected.

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Thanks to the generosity and unspeakable concern of the Dumbledore brothers, the second person to be resurrected was Harry's father, James Potter.

After dinner that day, people who knew about this matter once again came to Ivy's Room of Requirement from all over Hogwarts.

There is no need to elaborate on the resurrection process. The only thing that Ivy didn't expect was that Sirius had been carrying James' bones with him all the time.

The first thing James did after climbing out of the alchemical cauldron was to hug his family who were guarding him, which of course included his good brother Sirius.

"I can't believe I'm resurrected!" James' eyes swept over everyone in front of him. He stared at his wife's red hair, his son's emerald eyes, and Sirius's face that had become too old due to imprisonment.

"Look who this is?" James couldn't help but joked, "Sirius, you are too old!"

"James." Sirius patted his back vigorously. "I can't believe I can see you again! But you look the same as you did more than ten years ago. You haven't changed at all."

"Dad!" Harry stared at his father's face excitedly and couldn't help comparing himself to him. Every time he found a similarity, he was very happy.

"How are you doing in school?" James asked with a smile, "Our meeting in the spirit world was too brief, I still have a lot to say to you!"

"I guess you must have joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team? You were a great flyer when you were a kid!" James asked questions like a machine gun, "What position did you play? I was a chaser back then, and many girls in school liked me, but I only liked your mother!"

"I'm a seeker!" Harry said proudly. "I joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team in my first year! I'm the youngest member of the house team in a century! Sirius even bought me several brooms!"

"Oh my God! I knew you would be a Quidditch star!" James beamed. "Remember, Lily? I always had messy hair when I was at school, and you said I did it on purpose to look like I had just stepped off a broomstick because I thought it would look cool, so I messed my hair up, and I looked silly when I played with the Snitch..."

"And now our son is a Seeker! From a baby to a fine young man! It's amazing!" James leaned forward to kiss his wife, but Lily reached out to smooth down Harry's hair, avoiding the kiss without leaving a trace.

Perhaps it was because the Potions professor was standing right next to them that the two of them behaved so abnormally.

James didn't take his wife's actions seriously and continued to ask Harry questions: "How good are your dueling skills? Have you met any reliable Defense Against the Dark Arts professors? Ever since Voldemort cursed that position, students at Hogwarts have to rely on private dueling to improve their skills."

"Sirius taught me how to duel!" Harry looked at his godfather. "He is the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year. Last year it was Lupin!"

"Really?" James laughed out loud. "Only a respectable man like Dumbledore would not care about other people's opinions and appoint him as a professor at Hogwarts... Seriously..."

James leaned over and whispered something in Harry's ear.

Harry answered loudly and nonchalantly: "The whole world knows that Lupin is a werewolf! Ivy not only has the magic to revive people, but he even cured Lupin's werewolf curse! Now he is conducting political activities for the legal rights and magic of werewolves! To be honest, he looks so handsome when he turns into a wolf!"

"My owl couldn't find Lupin. He has been active in werewolf communities across Europe over the past year, persuading those who have suffered from lycanthropy like him to come to Hogwarts for treatment." Sirius explained why Lupin did not appear here.

The lively chat continued for a while, until the Potters, who had just been resurrected, showed signs of fatigue. Harry and Sirius looked at them with worry.

"Mr. Doom is right." Lily smiled at her son, trying to comfort the worry between his brows. "We have just been resurrected. We just need to rest..."

"I've packed up the house!" Sirius said quickly, "We can move in today. Number 12, Grimmauld Place. It's more than enough space for all of us!"

"What about Harry..." Lily asked again, obviously very worried.

"I still have to take the final exam!" Harry assured his mother, "I will definitely get a high score!"

After calming down his excitement, Sirius looked at Ivy seriously: "You are my benefactor, Ivy, and you will always be."

Ivy smiled and shook his head: "Don't say that, you paid, we're even."

"Thank you, Ivy." The Potters all followed Sirius in thanking him.

"Okay, Mr. Potter, you and Mrs. Potter both need to rest, so forget the extra polite words." Ivy stopped the endless polite words and began to order them to leave. Casting the resurrection spell was also a burden for him. He needed a full long rest to recover from this abnormal state.

"Since Sirius has made all the arrangements, let my Phoenix take you there." Ivy suggested. He didn't like receiving guests in his private territory all the time. "Sirius, is your fireplace not extinguished?"

"Ever since he heard that Regulus would be back, Kreacher has been cleaning the house every day, so the fireplace must be burning brightly now!" Sirius was indeed worried that using Floo Powder would cause extra harm to the already unhealthy Potter couple. Now that Ivy had proposed to use the Phoenix to give them a ride, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

Sirius took two steps forward and whispered to Ivy: "I will definitely fulfill the promise I made to you this morning! The Potter family used to produce shampoo. Although James doesn't care much about the family business, we can definitely make use of the deeds and equity certificates in the Black family's vault. Your investment will definitely not be wasted!"

After careful calculations, Sirius had discovered that if he turned all the contents of the vault into cash, he would indeed be able to pay off the cost of resurrecting the three people, but he would have to starve with the Potters for a while.

Having been a rich young man for so long, how could Sirius endure this!

So he came up with a smart decision. He planned to set up a new company, and the 30,000 gold Galleons originally intended to pay Ivy would become the original equity of the company. He would use the reputation and resources of the Black family to do business in the wizarding world, pay off all the gold Galleons owed, and maintain his current affluent living environment.

James Potter was his first partner. Actually, he had originally planned to recruit Lupin and his people into the partnership, but the owl couldn't find him, so he had to give up for the time being.

Ivy was not going to comment on this, because he remembered very clearly the last time Sirius used his brain - Peter Pettigrew became the Potters' secret keeper.

However, thirty thousand gold galleons was nothing to him, and he was not worried that people like Sirius and James would default on their debts. If they really failed in their business, it would be easier to tie them all to Ivy's chariot. And the one who was most valuable to Ivy was obviously Lily Potter, who could use the magic of love.

　There are still five thousand left. I can do it! Give me strength!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)