From Azkaban

After all, for others, the torture of being tortured is at most a short-term torture, but for Locke it directly becomes a long-term punishment.

The reason why Cruciatus can be listed as an unforgivable curse, besides its irreversibility, is its horrifying tormenting effect and the incomparable pain.

If it didn't have such a powerful torturous effect, Cruciatus wouldn't be listed as an Unforgivable Curse.

But now, Locke can easily prolong this torture. This method is a bit too scary no matter how you look at it.

"Okay, if you have nothing to do, go out first. It's not good for the children to see too much of this kind of scene."

Locke took a quick look and found that even the most cautious Weasley twins turned pale, obviously frightened. As for the younger Ron and Ginny, Ginny behaved better than her three brothers.

After hearing Locke's words, the Weasleys also reacted and took their four children out of the hall.

After the Weasleys left, Sirius became even more unscrupulous, and kept attacking Peter Pettigrew.

But gradually, even Sirius's expression changed. Looking at Peter Pettigrew, who was still alive after taking dozens of his Cruciatus bullets, Sirius licked his lips which were slightly dry from chanting the spell and turned to look at Locke.

"Sir, may I ask how long he can hold on?"

Locke, who was standing back by the French window, turned around after hearing this and glanced at Peter Pettigrew, who seemed to be exhausted on the ground.

"There's still some time left. If you've vented your anger, don't kill him yet. There are others coming."

Just as Locke said this, two hurried footsteps approached rapidly, and soon, a big bat with a wand in hand rushed into the hall. As soon as it came in, it quickly locked onto its target and rushed towards Peter Pettigrew on the ground with clear steps.

"Heart-breaking and bone-cutting!"

The spell was cast with great decisiveness, the expression was as cold as ten thousand years of ice but could make people feel his anger, the tone was extremely cold, and Snape, whose heart was devoured by rage and hatred, perfectly took over Sirius' baton.

"Severus!"

When they saw Snape, Sirius and Lupin were both surprised, but they immediately realized that he was the person Locke was waiting for.

"So it's you......"

Looking at Snape who shot seven or eight piercing wounds without hesitation, Sirius completely ignored Peter Pettigrew who was twitching violently again. As one of the people who had bullied Snape, he knew why Snape was angry.

When it comes to dark magic, Snape is far from being comparable to Sirius, who only studied with Locke in Azkaban for a period of time. In addition, Snape's emotions are not weaker than Sirius's. Naturally, his Cruciatus Effect is much stronger than Sirius's.

Finally, after taking another seventeen Cruciatus bullets from Snape, Peter Pettigrew ended his sewer-rat life in endless pain. Seeing him die, Snape stopped casting spells, slowly closed his eyes and raised his head. A trace of sadness lingered on his expressionless face.

Watching Snape kill Peter Pettigrew, Locke, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and witnessed the whole process, stepped forward and spoke with a faint smile.

"It's nice to meet you again, Professor. I wonder what answer you will give me this time?"

Hearing Locke's voice, Snape opened his eyes, the sadness on his face disappeared, and he looked at Locke steadily. The two of them stared at each other for nearly ten seconds. Just when everyone present began to frown, thinking that Snape was too offensive, they saw him slowly lower his head towards Locke.

"I accept your invitation, Lord Kazir..."

"Welcome to our team, Mr. Severus Snape. I am Locke Cazier. I promise you that everything will come true. Our ideal is not far away as long as we work hard together."

Locke was very happy to get the answer he wanted. He stretched out his right hand to Snape again, and this time Snape also stretched out his hand and grabbed it.

"Let's work together?"

Snape held Locke's hand and looked at Locke with a smile on his face. He once again truly felt the charm of Locke, that kind of purity, the spirit brought by extreme self-confidence, and the most important thing...sincerity.

These were a little too dazzling to Snape, but they were also things he had never seen in Dumbledore or Voldemort.

In fact, Snape had been considering Locke's invitation since he went back last time. A big reason why he refused was because of Sirius and Lupin, not Dumbledore or anything else.

He and Dumbledore have a cooperative relationship. As for the rest, to be honest, he had actually been persuaded by Locke that day, otherwise he would not have told Locke that he needed to consider it.

The reason why he agreed now was very simple. Locke asked him to deal with Peter Pettigrew personally. He was not a fool and he knew very well that Locke must have used some tricks to allow Peter Pettigrew to hold on until he could arrive.

Now that Sirius was vindicated, although he still had an unshirkable responsibility and although he still hated both Sirius and Lupin, Snape had already convinced himself to accept it.

Volume 1: Chapter 74: Attempt to Cleanse the Wizard

To be honest, today's situation was beyond Locke's expectations. The Weasley family arrived sooner than he expected, and the appearance of Peter Pettigrew was also beyond his expectations.

Because he had never read the original novel, and his knowledge of the Harry Potter world was basically from short videos, he completely forgot about this key character.

Locke took back his hand from Snape and lowered his head slightly to look at Peter Pettigrew, who was lying on the ground with no vital signs and pale all over due to eating too much Cruciatus.

"My lord, I will deal with him right away."

Seeing Locke's gaze, Lucius, who had been silent since following Snape in, took two steps forward and pulled out his wand from his staff.

"Wait a moment"

Reaching out to interrupt Lucius's action, Locke gently took out his wand from his pocket.

"I've always had this idea, and now is a good time to try it out."

Locke's eyes were covered with a silver-white light, and he could clearly see the magic power that was constantly dissipating in Peter Pettigrew's body.

"Let me try and see if I can cleanse the wizard directly."

While there was still magic power in Peter Pettigrew's body, Locke raised his wand and pointed it at his body, chanting silently in his heart.

"Clean and new"

The moment Locke cast the spell, a little light suddenly burst out from the tip of the wand, but it went out before anyone could take a closer look.

"My magic power is a little less, but..."

Locke could feel that his magic power was mobilized the moment he cast the spell, but it soon stopped, and in the end very little magic power was consumed, and Peter Pettigrew's body was still intact.

"No... No, that's not right. Since the magic worked, it proves that my idea is feasible. If it didn't work, it must be because there is something wrong."

Having reached the conclusion, Locke shifted his gaze away from Peter Pettigrew's body, and then as he put away his wand, he thought about it, and a ray of fire instantly swept across Peter Pettigrew's body, making it disappear completely.

When he saw Li Huo, Lucius subconsciously stepped back, and his face became nervous when he realized what was happening.

When Snape saw Peter Pettigrew's body being burned, he had a blank expression on his face, but Sirius and Lupin had complex emotions in their eyes. Finally, Sirius sighed lightly, as if he was relieved, and Lupin closed his eyes.

For Lupin and Sirius at this moment, all the previous grudges have disappeared with the destruction of Peter Pettigrew, and they still need to do truly important things in the future.

"grown ups"

At this moment, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, who had just left the hall with their children, walked into the hall and came to Lucius and others. After seeing Peter Pettigrew disappear, they knew in their hearts that the other was gone.

"I'm back, where are the kids?"

Seeing that the two men did not bring the child in, Locke asked.

“Everyone is waiting outside”

Arthur answered Locke, and upon hearing this, Locke looked at Narcissa beside Lucius.

"Narcissa, please go and make arrangements for the children. From now on, they will study with me and Draco until the start of school."

No one except the Weasley family knew about Locke's arrangement, so when they heard this, everyone present looked at the Weasleys in surprise.

"I will go and make arrangements, sir."

Narcissa suppressed her surprise, bowed slightly to Locke, then turned and walked quickly towards the door.

"professor"

After Narcissa left, Locke turned and looked at Snape, who seemed to be in a trance at the moment.

"grown ups"

Hearing Locke calling him, Snape, whose eyes had been slightly distracted, quickly regained his attention and looked at Locke.

"Have you been busy lately?"

Snape didn't expect Locke to ask this question. After thinking for a second, he chose to tell the truth.

“I basically have nothing to do before school starts.”

"Is that so? If you have nothing else to do, you can stay at Malfoy Manor before school starts like the other children. As I said before, the main reason I asked you to come here is to ask Professor you for advice on potions."

"It's a good opportunity for the children to study together, so that when school starts, they should be able to make some progress in potions."

Snape couldn't refuse Locke's arrangement, and of course he didn't intend to refuse.

"Ok"

"But sir, I have a request, and I hope you can fulfill it."

Snape lowered his head slightly when he spoke, and Locke became interested when he heard what he said.

"What do you think"

At this moment, everyone else present also looked at Snape curiously, wondering what kind of request this potion master was going to make to Locke.

Under the gaze of everyone, Snape spoke slowly.

"Sir, if possible, I would like you to bring Harry Potter here to teach together."

Snape's words were shocking. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Weasley, who didn't know his relationship with Harry, were confused and didn't know why he made this request.

Sirius and Lupin, who knew his relationship with Harry's mother, were surprised, but then they quickly reacted and bowed to Locke.

"Sir, Severus' request is also my request." Lupin spoke first, his tone extremely sincere.

As one of the four, Lupin's relationship with Harry's father goes without saying. Plus, now that he has found hope in Locke to solve his own werewolf problem, he is no longer so negative, so he is willing to give his friend's orphan some help to the best of his ability.

"Me too, sir. You don't know yet, but Harley is actually my goddaughter. It's just that I, as a godfather, have been too irresponsible and owe her too much. But no matter what, Harley is my only relative, so sir, I beg you to give her a chance."

Sirius clenched his fists nervously after he finished speaking. As one of the people who came out of Azkaban with Locke, he knew Locke's temper very well. He seemed easy-going, but that was actually just an appearance.

In addition, Sirius also understood that the actions of the three of them had gone too far. Whoever Locke wanted to teach was his business, and others had no right to say anything.

But this was for Harry, Sirius was willing to give it a try, and he was ready to be rejected and punished, he would accept it whether he could succeed or not.

Snape, Lupin and Sirius had basically the same idea. They were all prepared to be rejected and punished.

After all, as they said, they were making a request to Locke, and since it was a request, it could naturally be rejected.

"Teach Harley?"

Looking at the three people who lowered their heads and waited for his answer, Locke couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this Harley was different from Harry. Once the genders were switched, Snape really dared to take action when something happened.

Volume 1: Chapter 75: Going with the Flow, the Initial Arrangement of the Muggle World

"........................"

Following the actions of the three people, the atmosphere in the hall turned into a depressing silence. Lucius and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley could not control their nervousness at this moment.

The three of them carefully looked at Locke, whose expression was calm and showed no emotion or information, and they were all worried for Snape and the other two.

As time passed second by second, sweat gradually appeared on Sirius and Lupin's foreheads, and Snape became more and more nervous.

Just when Lucius and the Weasleys who were watching felt that there was a high probability that the three of them had no hope, and Sirius and Lupin were ready to accept punishment, Locke spoke.

"Can"

The two words "brief" sounded so sweet to the ears of Sirius and the other two who were waiting, and instantly lifted their hearts that had sunk to the bottom.

“Thank you for your generosity!”

Taking in the excitement on the three people's faces, Locke smiled slightly.

In fact, teaching Harry was a good idea for Locke. Not to mention that Harry had good talent, the fact that she was the lifeblood of Sirius and Snape was enough.

Now we can add Lupin to the list, which means that all three generals under Locke are concerned about her.

At the same time, she also has the title of savior, which has a high reputation among ordinary wizards. If handled well, it can allow Locke to occupy a righteous position.

Being able to occupy the righteous position will be helpful for his future career and for recruiting talents in the early stage.

So to sum up, teaching Harley and bringing Harley into his team is a completely profitable thing for Locke.

Locke hadn't thought about this before, but Snape's request reminded him.

The depressing atmosphere in the hall instantly dissipated as Locke spoke. The three onlookers smiled when they saw this and thought that Locke was really magnanimous.

"Then sir, I will go and fetch Harley now."

Compared to Sirius and Lupin who were still excited, Snape was ready to cut the Gordian knot and bring the people over immediately. Only then would things be truly stable.

"We'll come too. Severus, don't try to run away!"

Hearing Snape's words, Sirius glared and looked at Snape with displeasure.

"Don't worry, take this first, and the two of you too."

Locke raised his hand and three rings flew in front of Snape and the Weasleys.

After giving out the rings, Locke briefly explained how to use them. He also told the three people that the three rings had actually been made long ago and were waiting for them to take them.

The reason why Locke said this was just to let the three of them know that he valued them very much.

Of course Locke did not lie. He had prepared the three rings long ago, right after his first conversation with the Weasley family.