Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

But then he discovered that there were a few more cabins on the mountain at some point.

This was something that had never happened before in his memory—where did people live on the mountain near the school?

There is snow piled up here for half of the year, which is neither suitable for living nor growing things, and only summer and early autumn can be used for people to play. What is this wooden house built for?

Out of caution, Peter had to figure out what was going on here.

He moved closer to the cabin, only to find a sign nearby, with the words "Welcome to Hogsmeade Ski Resort" painted on it.

Ski_slpe? What is it?

Fortunately, he doesn't need to think about it for a long time, because the location inside has its explanation - Hogsmeade Ski Resort, which provides lake fishing, mountain hiking, bicycle rental, golf, alpine skiing services, is your best vacation best choice.

Seeing these project cards, Peter's brain began to calculate quickly.

Although I still don't quite understand what skiing is, it sounds like this is a place for entertainment.And because it is newly built, there is no one here yet, and it looks safe.

Of course, what attracted him most was the food here.

In order to provide food and accommodation for tourists, this ski resort has built a food warehouse at a higher place, using the natural low temperature here to preserve some non-perishable food.

If two or three kilograms of food were eaten by rats in this warehouse every month, no one should be suspicious.

After receiving this information, Peter Pettigrew decided to settle down here, at least until the summer.

He jumped into the food warehouse and began to look at the things inside—in addition to pumpkins, onions, and potatoes, there were also a lot of bacon, salted fish, cheese, and ham.

Although wizards have embalming spells, they seem to be cast differently by different wizards, so villages tend to use shelf-stable foods.

...It looks like I won't be hungry anymore.Peter thought happily.

As for the mousetraps in the corner, Peter Pettigrew naturally scoffed at them—there was cheese hanging on them. Doesn’t anyone really think that mice like cheese these days?No way no way?

If this flimsy mousetrap could catch a single mouse, the mice in the world would have been extinct by now.

However, just as he was happily slipping out of the food warehouse along the wall, he suddenly jumped up, and the whole mouse lay on the wooden floor.

He lowered his head in astonishment, only to find that his limbs were firmly stuck to the ground by a yellow jelly. No matter how hard he pulled, he could only pull out a very elastic yellow thread.

What's worse, due to his struggle, not only his limbs were stuck to this strange mass, but even his belly and a few whiskers were stuck to it, and now he couldn't move even more.

"Oh, newcomer, why did you accidentally get stuck on that thing." A little thing came to Peter's side.

Peter raised his head with difficulty, and found that it was a big black mouse. "Help me!" he called to the black mouse, "I can't move."

The black mouse blinked: "Sorry, I can't do it. If I go to help you, I will be glued to that thing too. We have tried several times before, but Kou

Qi, Jerry, Jeff, and Barry were glued to a board and all died. "

Peter felt unlucky when he heard that: "Then can you find some fellow clansmen to help me dig out the board under me and move it outside? Just move it to the tree."

Although he didn't need a magic wand to perform the Animagus transfiguration, it also required some specific gestures and movements. If he just stuck to this piece of yellow glue, he wouldn't be able to do anything.

qI, no, this floor is too thick, we will spend too much time... The boss said, don't get close to these boards, anyone who dares to get close will die himself, don't hurt us all. The big black mouse refused Peter's request, "but... I can help you. "

Seeing the big black mouse showing its front teeth, an ominous omen surged in Peter's heart: "How can I help?"

"Bite your throat from behind, and give you a pleasure." The front teeth of the big black mouse were shining, "Otherwise, we would not be able to bear to see you starve to death here.

"No! I think I can do another rescue!" Peter shouted.

"Don't struggle, it's very decisive... But my front teeth are very big, you have to bear with me, Jerry was the one who executed the torture, because he struggled too violently, so he bleed a lot in the end, I will try to do better this time ..."

Seeing the big black mouse suddenly showing a ferocious face and gradually approaching him, Peter screamed in fright.

—Ordinary people may not know a little knowledge-that is, rats actually eat the same kind of corpses, and they especially like to eat hearts. During the epidemic in the United States, because restaurants were closed, rats on the streets of New York killed each other because there was no food in the trash can.

But outsiders don't know this, so Peter, who has been proficient in being a mouse for many years, can't know it?In addition, he is a "outside gopher" here, and there is no other reason to kill him.

The mouse knew it, so it was normal for the black mouse to have a strange heart.

He didn't die at the hands of Voldemort or Black, but instead of dying at the mouth of a black mouse for some inexplicable reason?

No matter what, come and save yourself!

As if hearing Peter's inner voice, the sound of several people walking and talking suddenly came from outside the warehouse.

"...Don't worry, Gildero, I'm here to watch, nothing will happen ooo the mouse is no big deal, I used mouse glue to kill a lot a few days ago, and one of the glue boards was glued four times. It's just a big rat!"

"Thank you, Horace, rich Muggles have high requirements for food. Although house elves are good at cooking, the ingredients must not be neglected... By the way, who is the idea of ​​buying mouse glue from Muggles? out? I like it."

Lockhart bent down and stared at the gray mouse still struggling on the glue, with a kind smile on his face.

The person next to him didn't understand, so he said, "My idea, what's the matter? You can buy a dozen for half a pound, and you can manage it for two months. It's very cheap."

"I mean very good, if there is a stronger glue, we can use it to catch goblins."

While talking, Lockhart took out a wire cage from his pocket and threw Peter into it.

"Are you..." Horace asked strangely.

Although the rat's limbs are still immobile, just to be cautious, Lockhart still cast a strong spell on the rat cage: "Take it home as dog food, and occasionally let the dog at home see the blood, otherwise it will go crazy. gone."

Horace shrugged: "Whatever you want, there is no shortage of old people around the food warehouse.

Chapter 220 Two Old Friends Encounter

As Lockhart thought, Sirius Black was indeed crazy.

Because he tried all the tricks and finally entered the Gryffindor tower, he found that Peter Pettigrew was not there.

In fact, when he entered Hogwarts Castle and found that Crookshanks did not come to greet him as agreed, he felt something was wrong.

Of course he didn't know because it was because after Crookshanks "killed" Ron's mouse, Hermione cried and stuffed it into the cage so that it couldn't get out, thinking it might have happened What happened.

But the plan has been carried out so far, he can't give up halfway, so he can only bite the bullet and come to the Gryffindor Tower.

Fortunately, the password Crookshanks gave him was genuine. Although Sir Cadogan had never seen this strange man, he had the password, so he let him in.

In the common room, Black still failed to see Crookshanks, which also prevented him from knowing the location of Ron's bedroom.

He had to go outside the dormitory and shine his wand on the door numbers of those dormitories, trying to find Ron's name from the middle.

After passing through more than 20 dormitories, Blake finally found Harry and Ron's dormitory, and holding up his wand, he crept in.

However, after cutting Ron's veil with the Cutting Curse, he failed to find Peter.

He rummaged around disbelievingly, but he couldn't find even a mouse hair, let alone Peter's mouse.

Because of the urgency and disappointment, Black rummaged a little more

, so that Ron woke up.

When Ron saw the face of a strange man, as well as the hideous complexion because of his anger, he naturally screamed in fright.

Seeing that everyone around him was woken up by Ron, Black knew that his trip had failed. In order to avoid being arrested immediately, he had to escape from the public room and head for the secret passage of Honeydukes.

Just at the corner, because he couldn't hold his feet, he even knocked over Remus Lupine who came to check the situation at the corner.

Neither of them had thought that they would meet again in this place and in this form.

Because of his own selfishness and fear, Lupine never reported to Dumbledore that Black would turn into a dog.

But he was always worried that this would lead to Black's success, so he used the alarm system that Lockhart left in the office-the portrait monitoring the entrance and exit of the pipeline.

So just after Ron screamed, Lupine got the news immediately, and bumped into Sirius while going upstairs.

Black couldn't care less. After finding out who he had knocked over, he still didn't hesitate, and continued to rush down the stairs.

But the phrase "Mang Zhang is in the way" suddenly came from behind, but made Blake slam down the stairs heavily.

"Go away, Remus! I don't want to kill you!" Black cursed and got up.

Lupine raised his wand tremblingly, aimed at Black: "I'm afraid it's not for us to decide, traitor!"

ShisaaiYe Huangqiao flooded the sword to death √Stewed, cut, and condemned. p>

Lupine froze for a moment, but Sirius took the opportunity to pull out his wand.

Lupine was shocked suddenly: "fainted out

But before he could recite the stun spell, he felt a huge force coming from under his feet, and then his whole body seemed to be picked up by a giant monster, and he was hung upside down from the ceiling.

It was Fuchsia, the one they used... Lupine finally remembered the silent spell as he was being hung upside down.

Unfortunately, it was too late. By the time he regained his mobility and put himself down, Blake had already escaped.

Lupine was panting heavily, as if he couldn't make up his mind whether to pursue it or to go to Gryffindor Tower to have a look.

But the sudden voice above his head helped him relieve this worry: "Remus? Just now... did you meet someone? My students said that Black broke into their dormitory."

"...I'm afraid that's the case, Professor McGonagall." Lupine raised his head and said to the head popping out of the stairs on the fifth floor.

"What?!" McGonagall was taken aback, "How dare he... how could he?"

"Are any students injured? Where's Harry?" Lupine asked hastily, and at the same time, his heart was also aroused by Lao Ji.

If Harry really died because of his own selfish reasons, then he would really have to live in guilt and remorse for the rest of his life.

"No, no students were injured."

Professor McGonagall's answer made Lupine's high heart fall back to the ground again. He heaved a sigh of relief, and the words that Black shouted before he left began to appear in his mind.

Lupine finally made up his mind - I want to see the headmaster!

After throwing Lupine away, Black stepped into the secret passage in a panic, and

Not caring about trying to hide anything, he immediately disapparated after walking out of the school and returned to Hogsmeade.

Although he felt sorry for Lockhart, he no longer planned to return the wand. He wanted to run away before Dumbledore and Lupine came after him, and then search for Peter Pettigrew again.

Before fleeing, of course, he would take the key to the vault and the key to his house at 12 Grimmauld Place, which he had buried in the dirt under the bushes next to the Shrieking Shack.

He sprinted toward the bushes next to the Shrieking Shack, and bent over to dig out the hidden key.

As a result, just as he was digging, a wand suddenly appeared from the air and pointed at his back.

"Dizzy!" cried Gilderoy Lockhart.

— A red light flashed, and Sirius Black fell in front of the bushes, suddenly unconscious.

"Sure enough... I'm still better at shady people."

Lockhart smiled self-deprecatingly after seeing himself smacking a famous wizard again

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tender.

Then he yelled to his room: "Dobby! Help me carry this guy in!"

When Sirius woke up in a daze, a familiar voice entered his brain along with his consciousness.

"What would you like to drink, Headmaster? Coffee? Elderberry tea? Wine? Iced lemonade?"

(Ah... that Ministry of Magic official who likes to put on airs, then, the "principal" in his mouth is...)

"You seem to have given me four choices, but in fact I have no choice, Gildero - an old but powerful voice sounded.

(Oops, it really is Dumbledore!)

"Are you talking about the drink, or these two people?" Lockhart asked back.

"It's all." Dumbledore looked calm, "Iced lemon juice, thank you

Chapter 220 Three Statements

Seeing Black wake up, Dumbledore's expression gradually became serious.

"Let go of him, Gilderoy, believe me, he can't escape again." Lockhart obediently let go of his restraining spell: ""Of course, with you here, I believe that no one can escape. not drop. "

Black, who was beginning to realize what had happened, looked up at Dumbledore, only to meet his gaze.

Dumbledore also stared straight at Black's face, and the two of them stared like this for a while, and finally Black turned his gaze away, announcing the failure of the confrontation.

"" It's surprising...I actually smell guilt. Dumbledore said softly, "So, Sirius, don't you have anything to say to me?"

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"What can I say, don't you all know?" Blake said mockingly.

Dumbledore shook his head: "On the contrary, thanks to Tojidro, I have been so busy this year that I rarely have time to pay attention to the school... Having said that, no matter what I can ask from others, it is better to ask the person concerned Comes better, don't you agree.

Sirius Black raised his head in pain—disappointment at the brink of failure, resentment towards himself, and hatred for Peter were all intertwined at this moment, making him want to tear himself apart.