Harry Potter: I started signing in from Diagon Alley

"Then suddenly one day, Sirius Black betrayed your parents. He joined Voldemort and sold your parents' hiding place."

"You already know the result."

"This is the fact that is not allowed to appear in the newspaper, and it is also the truth about Blake that you can find elsewhere." Eric said word by word, "At the same time, he is your godfather..."

"What are you talking about?" Harry's face suddenly turned pale, and he couldn't help asking...

Chapter 32

9 month 1 day.

In a blink of an eye, it's the day when school starts.

After a holiday, Harry finally met his two good friends Ron and Hermione again at the Leaky Cauldron yesterday.

The Weasleys and Hermione came to Diagon Alley together the day before school started, and they spent the last day before school with Harry.

Originally, Harry was very excited about this matter.

But after learning about the relationship between Black and his parents, Harry was really not in the mood to hear about their holiday experiences and could only manage a few words. Ron and Hermione saw that Harry was worried and didn't talk much. .

The next day, he hurried aboard the Hogwarts Express with the Weasleys and Hermione.

Harry had originally wanted to ask Eric to get in the car with him.

After that conversation, Harry had already considered Eric a friend, even though it had been about things that displeased him.

But to Harry's surprise, Eric's whereabouts were quite elusive, and he didn't even appear in the bar at a fixed time.

When he asked Old Tom where Eric was, he only got an answer that Eric had already left the bar, leaving no message for Harry.

Harry could only comfort himself with a forced smile. Maybe Eric didn't regard him as a friend who could travel together, so he could only forget about it and got into the car with Ron and Hermione.

Every day when school starts, the entire Hogwarts Express will be full of people. They finally found a compartment without too many people. There is currently only one person sitting in the compartment, and all other seats are empty. is empty.

The man was wearing a patched dungaree suit, a hat over his face, and two weather-beaten suitcases on his head.

This scene looked rather weird, but the three of them looked at each other and had no choice but to sit in.

At this time, it had been more than ten days since Harry first met Eric at the Leaky Cauldron.

To this day, Harry's heart still cannot calm down.

The conversation with Eric at the Leaky Cauldron that day seemed like a nightmare that lingered in his heart. Although half a month had passed, Harry still heard Eric's voice from time to time.

Harry's regret had never been stronger.

Given the choice, he'd rather never set foot in the Leaky Cauldron that day.

That way it wouldn't be known that Sirius Black was the one who actually caused the deaths of his parents.

This truth was a bit too shocking for Harry.

For a moment, he didn't know what attitude he should use to face it.

Eric's expression when he told this incident is still engraved in Harry's mind, and together with it, there is also the iconic gentle smile on Eric's face.

Ron, Hermione and Harry sat side by side in the carriage. Harry's mind was empty and he thought of the scene again -

After Harry subconsciously asked back, Eric's mouth kept opening and closing, revealing terrifying facts that he had never imagined.

"Sirius Black betrayed your parents, Harry."

"The Ministry of Magic does not allow any newspapers to publish this news. This is mainly for your safety."

"Blake joined Voldemort and told the Death Eaters where your parents were hiding."

"So that night, Voldemort personally approached your family of three."

"As a result, you also know that in that room, only you survived, and Voldemort also paid the price for it. After that, no one saw him again. That's how it happened."

"Now Black has escaped from prison, and the most direct connection between you and him is probably this matter."

"And in other people's eyes, he's coming for you naturally."

"Of course, this is only what I know. I can't tell you whether this is true or not. Everything can only be judged by yourself..."

"You..." After Eric finished speaking, seeing the indifferent smile on his face, Harry opened his mouth wide, his face was pale, his whole body began to tremble unconsciously, and he was speechless for a long time.

No one wants to hear the cause of death of their own parents under these circumstances.

Especially for Harry, who longed for a family since he was a child.

After that, Harry couldn't remember clearly, he didn't remember how he said goodbye to Eric, and how he returned to the room.

He just remembered that hatred for Black suddenly took over his mind.

Even though they had never met, Harry had only seen pictures of each other in newspapers.

But his mind was suddenly filled with the name Blake, leaving no room for it.

Harry didn't even need to check with anyone else if what Eric was saying was true.

Because just yesterday, when he met the Weasley family and Hermione, in the middle of the night, he heard with his own ears that the Weasleys, who thought they were alone, were discussing Black's affairs.

And the Weasleys once again verified Eric's statement.

Blake, indeed, was his kinslayer.

……

"Harry! Harry!"

On the train, Ron and Hermione looked at each other, and they saw a trace of panic in each other's eyes. Harry's expression at this time looked extremely terrifying in their eyes.

Harry's expression twisted, his eyes were straight ahead, his fists were clenched, his shoulders tensed, deaf to their calls.

Ron thought for a moment before slapping Harry across the face.

"Snapped!"

Harry yelled in pain, and instantly woke up, covered his face, glared at Ron and said, "Why did you hit me?!"

"Harry! What's the matter with you?" Ron cried, his face troubled.

Harry was taken aback for a moment, seeing the same look on Hermione's face next to him, and then realized that he didn't hear what the two were talking at all just now.

"...I'm fine." Harry rubbed his face a few times, slowly lowered his hand, and sat down again.

Hermione said sharply, "What's the matter with you? Tell us."

"Well, it's Blake..."

Harry hesitated for a while, looked at his only two best friends in school, still couldn't hold back, and repeated what he heard about Black from Eric.

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"God..."

Harry poured out beans almost like peas in a bamboo tube, talking about Sirius and what he had overheard from the Weasleys last night.

Ron and Hermione turned equally pale after hearing Harry finish.

Hermione covered her mouth tightly and looked at Harry in disbelief.

"You mean, Black's betrayal more than ten years ago finally led to your parents being killed by a mysterious person?" Ron murmured, "It's so unfair that Dad didn't tell me..."

"Ron!" Hermione interrupted Ron's self-talk, "That's not the point, the point is that they obviously don't want Harry to know about it!"

Ron blushed and didn't know how to respond, so he could only nod silently.

Hermione glared at Ron and asked Harry, "Who else knows about this besides us?"

Harry said: "Everyone who was there at the time knew about it, but I feel that from the beginning to the end, I was the only one who was kept in the dark."

"They all obviously knew about it, but none of them took the initiative to tell me!"

Harry's voice grew sharper with anger.

"...This is wrong, Harry, Eric, he just met you, why did he tell you this?"

Hearing this sentence, Hermione was the first to react and retorted.

Hermione's question turned Harry off.

In fact, Harry hadn't thought about this question, but when Eric talked about it in front of Fudge in the bar, the mental impact on Harry was too great.

Afterwards, Eric has never been unfavorable to him, and the reactions of the people around him even acquiesced to Eric's statement, which made Harry inclined that Eric did not lie to him.

Fudge's attitude and the protection of Harry by the Weasleys and others, on the contrary, verified Eric's statement from the side.

Now that Hermione raised this point, it forced Harry to think about it.

"As you said, Harry, Eric is just a student you met in the Leaky Cauldron, even younger than us, why would he know what happened more than ten years ago?"

Hermione continued.

Ron subconsciously said, "Maybe his parents told him that."

"That's impossible!" Hermione thought for a while and said firmly.

"Why?" Ron wondered.

Hermione took a deep breath and said, "Because his name is Eric Gallagher."

"Then what happened?"

"You two, have you ever heard the name Gallagher before?"

Ron and Harry looked at each other and shook their heads.

"That's right, anyway, as far as I know, there is no well-known family name Gallagher in the wizarding world."

"I have read the "20th Century Wizarding Families Directory" in the school library, and I have no impression of this surname."

"This also means that Eric is either like me, and his parents don't know magic, or he is simply a fake alias."

"Even leaving aside his name and family, the fact that he was able to cast a spell in front of Harry is surprising enough, isn't it?"

"You two think about how you were when you were in the first grade. Don't talk about magic, I'm afraid you can't even hold your wand steadily."

"A person like this, whose origin is unknown, but knows the inside information that the adults are trying to hide, and the fact that Black is your godfather..."

At the end of speaking, Hermione's speech speed involuntarily accelerated, but her voice suddenly stopped at a certain moment, and came to an abrupt end.