Hogwarts Homecoming

The time has come to March, and the event experienced just this past weekend can be called a redemption for Oliver Wood and all the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw at the start of the term, and now Ravenclaw beat Hufflepuff, making last term a loss due to dementor riots The Gryffindor team has another chance to win the championship again.

This wonderful result made almost all the little wizards in Gryffindor immersed in a sea of ​​joy, and even Harry briefly forgot about the accidental death of Peter Pettigrew, which was reported by the Daily Prophet for a long time. Survey progress.

Potions class on Monday afternoon was more enjoyable than usual, probably because Draco Malfoy finally returned to school to start classes, and Snape didn't spend much time torturing Harry's mentality. The two potions classes passed without incident. When the little wizards rushed out of the basement and came to the ground, the sky was still bright.

The evening wind of this season has already got rid of the severe cold of winter, and there are still two or three months before the heat of summer, which is the most comfortable. Walking on the edge of the forest, on the lawn, many young wizards brought their own broomsticks to practice flying skills, hoping to work for their academy in the future.

"Go get your Firebolt and Nimbus, Harry, we can join in!"

When the small group of Gryffindors came out of the foyer and stood on the top step of the marble staircase to see the scene of jubilation on the spring green lawn, Ron said happily.

It's very strange--in the past, when it came to Quidditch, Harry was less energetic than anyone else, but this time, he showed a little interest,

"Hmm - great idea, Ron -"

Harry glanced in the direction of the school gate and said absently,

"You know where I put them, you can go get them down."

Ron didn't realize what was wrong at all, so he readily accepted the proposal. He, Seamus and Neville turned around excitedly and rushed up the stairs. Opportunities are rare.

Pat——

Hermione, who had been racing against time to gain knowledge since she came out of the basement, closed the book with a snap. She glanced at Harry and took a deep breath of the fresh night air.

"Want to talk to me, Harry?"

"Oh!" Harry was a little taken aback. "Well, what do you want to talk about?"

The two of them did not stand at the door stupidly, but walked down the stairs, bypassed the group of flying little wizards on the lawn, and headed towards the lake.

Breeze lingers in the surrounding fields, and the waves on the surface of the vast black lake cover layer by layer. Under the reflection of the setting sun, it looks like a huge golden silk satin wrinkled.

The two of them sat on a raised breakthrough fifty feet away from the lake, and Hermione once again opened the old book full of gazes and read it carefully.

"You've been reading this book recently, what is it about?"

Harry was a little strange, obviously Hermione proposed to chat with him, but he just kept his head buried in the book without saying a word. After thinking about it, he decided to find a topic for himself.

"A Simplified Theory of Ancient Charms" Hermione showed the book cover to Harry. "The content in this book is very profound, especially the notes on it, but I have recently begun to find it interesting—"

Hermione pushed back the fluttering hair in front of her eyes, and said quietly.

"This is the one that Professor Blaine gave you—" Harry immediately realized.

Hermione nodded. She was still concentrating on the gentle writing on the book, her beautiful brows were slightly wrinkled, as if she was trying to think hard, and after a long time, she finally turned to the next page,

"You've been in a bad mood lately, Harry—"

Hermione said straight to the point,

"Are you still thinking about the dark wizard who killed Peter?"

Harry pursed his lips, but didn't answer the question right away.

How should I put it, Hermione's guess isn't wrong, it's just that it's incomplete.

After the unexpected news was published by the Daily Prophet, there was an uproar in the wizarding world and even the Hogwarts campus, which was indifferent to the world.

Everyone is discussing who killed Peter Pettigrew, who turned from a battle hero who is well-known in the magic world overnight to a notorious one that everyone despises.

The most widely accepted answer is that it was one of You-Know-Who's former followers who killed Peter Pettigrew.

After the fall of the mysterious man, most of the dark wizards who were loyal to the mysterious man were imprisoned in Azkaban. Controlled by the curse, there are also a very small number of wizards who hide very deeply and have not been discovered at all for their evil deeds when they followed the mysterious man.

Pettigrew Peter has now 'replaced' Sirius Black as the most trusted minion of the mysterious people. He must know the identities of those people. Therefore, after Pettigrew Peter was arrested, in order to make the punishment lighter, He would most likely betray them and reveal their identities, after all, there were precedents for this.

Taking precautions, it was only natural for those wizards to strike first and kill Peter.

Pettigrew Peter died on the way to Azkaban. This is a great shame for the Ministry of Magic. It completely destroyed the capable image that the Ministry of Magic had so hard to create during the Greyback incident. The Minister of Magic He and other senior officials with real power were furious about this and vowed to find out the murderer within a month.

But wizards who knew something about the Ministry of Magic's past knew that the promise of the Ministry of Magic could not be trusted at all, and there was a high probability that this matter would be an unsolved case.

Barty Crouch got lucky.

He was criticized for throwing Sirius Black into Azkaban by mistake, but he didn't receive much criticism because of this sudden incident. In addition, the "accident" spread, Barty was tough in the Wizengamot Trial Court His performance did not drop much, and he retained his position as the director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, which was one of the reasons why Cornelius Fudge was furious.

Harry and the others have been speculating about who killed Pettigrew Peter for a while. Their first object of suspicion is Lucius Malfoy, and as for the reason. There is no need for any reason to hate Malfoy. The Potions professor is also one of the suspects, otherwise, how to explain that after Pettigrew Peter's tragic death, Snape's face is so much more 'kind' than before?

Hermione probably thinks she regrets not killing Peter Pettigrew herself. It's not a wrong inference

Since Professor Lupine left that night, he has never returned to Hogwarts. It has been privately reported that Professor Lupine can no longer hold the position of professor of their Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

This is not too surprising news. In recent years, no professor has been able to stay in this position for more than a year. However, it is indeed surprising that Professor Lupine suffered misfortune after only staying for half a year. .

The little wizards thought that Professor Brian would take over the position of Professor Lupine urgently as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. After all, he had substituted for Professor Lupine last semester, and he had worked steadily in this position before. for half a year.

But this is just speculation after all. Not long after Greyback and the werewolf gang were wiped out, Professor Brian left Hogwarts and has never returned.

Professor Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts and disappeared again not long after.

Although everything at Hogwarts was like this when they were away, and the teaching and activities were not affected in any way, Harry always felt that something was wrong. He had an illusion that it was just that the two of them were not in Hogwarts, the school It seems to be more than half empty.

But Harry didn't want to tell anyone else, not even Hermione, who'd already had a reputation of being a 'coward' for a while because of the dementor incident last term.

"Yes, it is indeed puzzling, isn't it?"

Harry sighed, and said in a dejected tone,

"Is it the traitor that Malfoy's father asked someone to kill? I kind of miss the taste of Polyjuice Potion, Hermione. I should have kept some spare."

The process of using Polyjuice Potion last time was not friendly to Hermione. Her eyes left the book, and she glanced at Harry angrily, and was about to say something, but the two figures that broke into her sight made her feel shocked. The words on his lips disappeared, and his expression became confused.

"Professor Snape and McGonagall?"

Hermione frowned, staring at the black wizard robe flying, floating across the lawn like a bat, and the compact figure said in wonder,

"They seem to be going to the Forbidden Forest?"