Harry Potter: I started signing in from Diagon Alley

"Hermione, what's wrong with you?"

Harry and Ron were listening intently, but when they saw Hermione stop, they couldn't help wondering.

Hermione said nothing and winked at the two of them with a tense face.

Only then did Harry and Ron notice that the male wizard who was sitting opposite them had woken up at some point, with a pair of sharp eyes peeking out from the gap between the top hat and collar that had blocked his sight, staring at him intently. them.

The sound of their discussion caught the other's attention and woke the other up.

After noticing this, neither Harry nor Ron made a sound, and an awkward silence suddenly filled the entire carriage.

"...Don't worry about it, children, I just overheard your discussions."

Perhaps realizing that his gaze was too straightforward, the man sat up straight and took off the hat covering his face, revealing a sharp-edged face with a glimpse of a mustache.

The man squeezed out a forced smile and said.

His voice was a little hoarse, perhaps because he had just woken up, and his whole body revealed an undisguised fatigue.

"I don't think it's a good habit to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, sir...?"

Hermione glanced at the two people next to her, her face looked a little pale, and she took the initiative to speak out.

The age of the other party does not look young, at least not a student.

Appearing on this train, this is not something to be surprised at.

In addition to Hogwarts students, Ministry of Magic staff, teachers, and even wizards living in Hogsmeade occasionally board this train.

It's just that these people usually don't enter the student box.

Of the trio, Hermione was without a doubt the smartest.

It didn't take long for her to realize that the other person hadn't been woken up by the volume of their conversation.

What caught your attention was the content of their conversation.

To be precise, it was when Blake's name was mentioned.

But even the most careless Ron noticed the attitude of the wizard sitting opposite him at that moment.

The look just now was an unquestioning and scrutinizing look, without any trace of trust.

Just because they mentioned Blake's name.

This made all three of them stop talking about Black.

"I'm really sorry... I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your discussion. It's just that you mentioned Black just now. The name reminded me of something."

"And you're Harry, right?"

The strange wizard smiled and said again.

Hearing this, Hermione and Ron turned to look at Harry at the same time, and Harry's expression turned strange.

"I thought, before asking someone's name, you should at least introduce yourself?"

Harry had been in a daze, and Hermione had to say.

"Ah yes, I almost forgot, I am..."

The strange wizard sitting opposite was just about to speak, when suddenly, the door of the compartment was opened.

The person who opened the door walked in leisurely without waiting for the people inside to respond, and a voice that was very familiar to Harry sounded.

"He's Professor Remus Lupine, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year."

Chapter 34 Peter and Lupine with a Headache

"Eric!"

Following Harry's surprised cry, the few people in the carriage didn't know who the person who broke in suddenly was.

It was the Eric in Harry's mouth.

After not seeing each other for a few days, Eric changed his outfit and only carried an inconspicuous suitcase.

He had already put on his school robe, but there was no college emblem on the chest of the school robe, and it looked empty.

Inside is a white shirt and matching tie, and the whole person looks very casual and eclectic.

"Long time no see, Harry."

Eric was not surprised to see the trio and Lupine who looked at him cautiously in this compartment, and said with a smile.

Eric's appearance swept away the dull atmosphere in the carriage just now, and Harry got up in surprise and introduced several people in the carriage to each other.

This is also the first time Eric sees the trio.

Ron has the iconic red hair of the Weasley family, and he doesn't seem to hide his inner thoughts at all.

After Hermione arrived, her eyes had been staring at Eric, her cheeks were at a proper angle under the dim ceiling light of the carriage, her nose was slightly red, and she looked extremely cute.

As for Lupine...

Even if Eric didn't meet Lupine's eyes, he could feel Lupine's vigilance towards him.

Lupine's eyes swept across Eric's body like sharp knives.

How could Eric not understand this look.

Lupine must have known about Eric from Harry.

But Eric didn't have time to pay attention to Lupine's attitude.

He passed Harry and Hermione, who were closest to him, and looked directly at Ron for the first time, to be precise, at Ron's chest.

In the breast pocket of Ron's shirt, at this very moment, there lay a mouse with one finger missing.

Eric knew that the mouse wasn't asleep.

Because what was discussed in the carriage just now was the name Black.

The mouse's fear of the name Black can be said to be deep into the bone marrow.

That mouse is Peter Pedilu, the person who really betrayed Harry Potter's parents, and the real target of Sirius Black who escaped from prison.

Harry's father, James Potter, and Sirius, Peter, and Lupine were very close when they were students.

The four of them are all from Gryffindor College, know each other well, and even help each other practice Animagus transformation by themselves.

This relationship has not changed even after graduation.

And when the war started by Voldemort broke out, all four of them joined the Order of the Phoenix led by Dumbledore and were involved in the front line of the war.

It was in this environment that Harry was born.

However, Sirius, who was the secret keeper of Harry's family's address back then, cleverly gave up the identity of the secret keeper to Peter, thinking that he could use himself as a target to attract the attention of most Death Eaters.

Unexpectedly, Peter turned around and turned to Voldemort, and told the other party the news.

This also led to the death of Harry's parents.

Afterwards, when Sirius chased him down, Peter was so frightened that he couldn't help himself. He used his Animagus to transform into a mouse and escaped. He only left a finger on the scene and hid in the Weasley home, until now.

In a sense, this is also quite ironic.

Peter betrayed his friends and camp, but got nothing. He hid in fear all day long, not even daring to recover his human form. Everyone thought he was dead.

He would have been able to keep hiding if the Weasleys hadn't taken a picture of Peter transformed into a mouse while the Weasleys were on vacation.

And Harry's parents died unexpectedly, and Voldemort also died in that battle.

In the end, Sirius was left, taking the blame for the incident on himself, exiled himself, and willingly confessed and entered Azkaban.

Eric silently opened his mental position, and the world in the car suddenly turned gray in his eyes.

Focusing on Peter Pedilu, a white light flashed, and as expected, such information appeared in Eric's mind.

[Animagus form creature, duration of transformation: 12 years. 】

After staring at it for a while, Eric quietly canceled his mental stance, turned his head, and greeted Harry and the others.

After Eric's reminder, Harry and the others finally realized that Lupine who had been sitting opposite them was actually a professor.

To be fair, they had never seen a professor dressed so poorly.

However, the three of them still maintained their basic respect for the professor, at least they did not show disgust in front of him.

"How did you find out the identity of Professor Lupine?" After introducing each other, Hermione asked first without waiting for others to speak.

She looked at Eric curiously.

Eric smiled and said, "Is there a possibility that this Professor Lupine has his name written on his box?"

"And I just saw a report about the recent new teachers at Hogwarts in the recent Daily Prophet. Among the candidates for the new teachers, there happened to be one named Lupine."

Hermione looked at Lupine's suitcase for the first time. Sure enough, under the handle of the suitcase, there was a line of inconspicuous small characters, which stated Lupine's name.

Only then did Harry and Ron look at Lupine with a sudden realization.

Lupine sat on the chair and said with a smile: "Excellent observation skills, if this is in the academy, I'm afraid I have to give you extra points."

Eric also smiled and said, "Even if you want to do this, professor, you have to wait until I'm officially sorted."

Lupine's smile gradually faded, and he could not have noticed that Eric's school robe did not have the house emblem on the chest, which is the unique symbol of unsorted first-year students.

This also meant that this little wizard who revealed his identity was indeed a first-year freshman.

A first year student could figure out the relationship between Sirius and Harry's parents, but Lupine didn't think it was a coincidence.

Lupine glanced at Eric and said softly, "I also saw your name in the Daily Prophet, Eric."

"For your age, you have done a big thing. They say you almost destroyed Diagon Alley."

Eric put his luggage away, sat down beside Lupin, and said with a smile, "It was just an accident, Professor, compared to Black, what I did is nothing worth mentioning."

"Black..." Lupine grinned. Unexpectedly, Eric would take the initiative to mention Black again, and said with a headache, "He did cause a lot of trouble for everyone..."

"So, Professor!" Ron, who came back to his senses, asked eagerly after seeing the two chatting, "Is what Eric said true? Did Black really kill so many people? He also betrayed Harry's parents?"

Lupine got even more headache when he heard this question.

Chapter 35 Anger