Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

"If he was a hero... why did he hide as a mouse?" Harry asked puzzledly: "Hide in Ron's house... as a child's pet?"

"So that's the scary part, Harry," said Fred significantly.

"Remember?" George looked at him and asked, "When we heard about that last year..."

"Professor Quirrell is a puppet of the You-Know-Who... Little Ronnie's pet is a 'hero' who was blown to death..." Fred smiled sarcastically: "It seems that we have never known this world."

He looked at his other brothers - Banban's former and current masters all had very ugly expressions and were unable to say a word.

They looked like they were going to throw up.

The book did not record the events of the Fidelius Charm and the Secret-Keeper, so Harry was relatively calm, but more confused.

"I just remembered that I actually saw a picture of that guy." Harry said to his friends: "Remus hung the picture on the wall. Peter Pettigrew, Remus and my dad were all friends when we were in school."

"There must have been a lot of stories between them..." Hermione said, "There's a reason why Peter Pettigrew pretended to be dead despite his reputation as a hero."

"Yeah... but he didn't hurt me, right? We have always lived in the same dormitory, and Banban has never done anything bad except being greedy and lazy."

Harry looked into everyone's eyes, seeking approval: "I think he might not be a bad guy. He just fears revenge from the Death Eaters, so he has been hiding... Uh, isn't that right?"

Everyone looked at him as if he was some naive idiot.

"If he's just timid..." Fred shook his head and said, "He can definitely ask Dumbledore for help... But he always looks like a mouse at school, which means he's not afraid of others..."

"...that's Dumbledore, isn't it?" said Ron in a low voice.

Fred nodded.

Harry opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Just at this moment, the curtain opened, and Wade appeared with Peter Pettigrew, and there was another person beside them.

"Remus!" Harry immediately went over to him, "Why are you here at school?"

Lupin forced a smile and patted his head.

The awakened memories tore at his heart from time to time. When he saw Harry's face, he remembered his best friend who was killed because he trusted his friend.

Lupin took a deep breath, suppressed the bitterness in his eyes, and said, "Wade knew that I was one of the parties involved, so he came to me through the secret passage... Let's take Peter with us to see Dumbledore."

As soon as the calm and reliable adult wizard appeared, he naturally took the final say. This time Percy did not say anything, and everyone left the umbrella house and walked towards the headmaster's tower.

"You guys!"

When they met Professor McGonagall on the way, she strode over and said angrily, "I heard that you made a mud puddle outside the Gryffindor common room. The Fat Lady told me..."

Before she could finish her words, she saw Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, and immediately gasped and froze.

"Merlin..." Professor McGonagall said in shock, "What's going on?"

"As you can see, Professor." Lupin said as calmly as possible, "Peter Pettigrew is not dead. Everything that happened back then was just a lie... We need to see Dumbledore now."

"Of course... of course..." Professor McGonagall took a while to get her brain working. She said stiffly, "Come with me..."

As she spoke, she kept looking at Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, rubbing her eyes as if she thought she was hallucinating.

The students they met along the way looked at them in surprise. Someone secretly asked the Weasley brothers what had happened, but neither of them answered.

Soon, we arrived at the principal's office.

Chapter 151 Lupin Takes the Blame

The group entered the principal's office.

Dumbledore was sitting behind a desk writing a letter. When everyone came in one after another, he immediately noticed the unconscious Peter Pettigrew.

The white-bearded headmaster strode over. He looked carefully at the gray-faced Peter, then at Lupin and the others.

"If I am not mistaken... this is Mr. Pettigrew?" asked Dumbledore.

"Yes, sir," said Lupin.

They stared at each other.

Wade felt that at this moment, Dumbledore should have understood what had happened.

The principal didn't say it directly. He conjured up enough chairs and said, "Sit down and let me hear your story."

Everyone looked at each other.

The Weasley twins were winking at Wade - they didn't want to reveal the secret of the Marauder's Map, and they were thinking all the way about how to make the story plausible while concealing this fact.

But Lupin spoke first.

"When I was in school, James and I drew a map showing the names of everyone in the school..."

The Weasley twins stared at him with wide eyes in surprise.

"You...you are the maker of the map?"

"Yes." Lupin smiled at them: "I am Moon Face, this is the nickname my friends gave me when I was in school. By the way..."

He looked at Harry. "James is Prongs, Sirius is Padfoot. And Peter..."

Lupin's eyes moved to Peter Pettigrew and he said with disgust: "He is Wormtail. Because his Animagus is a rat."

Harry looked from Peter to Lupin, intrigued by the stories of his father's school days, but knew that now was not the time to press the issue.

He sat next to Lupin, like a child leaning against his father, looking quiet and well-behaved.

Dumbledore's eyes passed over Harry intentionally or unintentionally, but he said nothing.

Then Lupin continued to tell the story - before coming here, he had already learned the general situation from Wade. Now he told the story slowly, and every word had a convincing power.

Since Wade didn't want to be the first to take the blame, Lupin took on most of the responsibility.

In his story, Wade saw from the map that the name "Peter Pettigrew" frequently appeared in Harry and Ron's dormitory. Knowing that there was no such student in the same grade of Gryffindor, he mentioned it to Lupin when they were communicating in the Friends' Book.

Fred and George looked at each other.

Lupin made it seem as if he had given Wade the Marauder's Map, and the fact that the two of them had stolen the Marauder's Map from Filch's office and used it to sneak out of school was also covered up.

——This is a good person!

Fred said with his eyes.

George nodded vigorously. Even though they hadn't said much yet, their favorable impression of Lupin was already through the roof.

They had never met such a desirable adult.

Lupin naturally would not forget the name of his "old friend", and he immediately realized that there was something wrong.

Unable to enter the school, Lupin asked Wade to capture Peter Pettigrew, and Wade asked the Weasley twins for help...

"Why don't you look for me?" Harry asked puzzledly: "Ron and I are in the same dormitory, it should be more convenient!"

"Because you spend every day together, he is very familiar with you." Wade made up an excuse: "If you accidentally reveal your intentions, he might hold you hostage in return."

Harry blinked. "But Fred and George were exposed in the end!"

George coughed and said, "Wade probably thinks...even if we catch Ron's rat and bully him, he will just think that he is unlucky. He won't think that he has been exposed, right?"

Everyone actually thought it was very reasonable!

These two brothers are used to being naughty and mischievous, but I didn't expect that they could provide convenience at a time like this.

Percy wanted to say something several times, but held back because of the presence of the professors, and his ears turned red from holding it in.

Professor McGonagall was furious.

"Remus!"

She glared at Lupin angrily and said sternly:

"I thought you would be more stable now that you are an adult, but you are even more reckless than James when he was young! Tell me, what were you thinking when you asked a few kids to catch Peter?"

"If…if Peter was…they could get hurt, maybe even die!"

Wade and the Weasley twins both dodged unconsciously.

"I'm sorry." Lupin bowed his head and apologized, and took up the pot without hesitation: "I was overwhelmed and didn't think too much about it..."

Professor McGonagall's expression softened a little and she sighed.

"I can understand your feelings, James and Lily... Alas... But, no matter what... you shouldn't let the children take risks. Even if nothing happened, I have to say that it is absolutely wrong for you to do this..."

"Yes." Lupin said sincerely: "I should contact you or Dumbledore... but I am afraid that if I delay for a second, he will disappear completely..."

Professor McGonagall looked compassionate. She shook her head and said nothing more.

The "children" who escaped the disaster were as quiet as quails.

Lupin continued his story.

Weed followed his instructions, captured Peter Pettigrew, and brought him to Hogsmeade through a secret passage.

Professor McGonagall was so angry that she was gasping for breath again. If Lupin had not graduated, she would probably deduct 200 points from her own house.

——Lupin interrogated Peter and confirmed that he was the betrayer. Sirius was completely framed by Peter.

traitor?

Harry had a bad feeling in his heart. He stared at Lupin closely, his heart beating violently.

——Who did Peter betray?

But Lupin had no intention of explaining in detail, and he returned to the school with Wade and Peter Pettigrew to ask Dumbledore to deal with the follow-up.

"So... the secret-keeper back then was..." Professor McGonagall asked in disbelief.

"It's Peter." Lupin showed a painful look: "Sirius exchanged the secret keeper at the last minute... He thought it would be safer..."

Professor McGonagall wanted to say something, but when she saw Harry looking confused beside her, she held back.

Children should not be allowed to bear hatred too early.

"Are you sure that Peter is telling the truth?" Dumbledore asked. "You know, he has been lying for more than ten years... How can you prove that he is not making up stories now?"

"I'm sorry, sir," Lupin said ashamedly, "I used Veritaserum..."

It is illegal to use truth serum casually, but the people present could understand Lupin's feelings and did not question it.