It turned out that Ye Ting’s guess was quite accurate.

Fudge did bring Blake a newspaper during his visit to Azkaban, but now that newspaper has disappeared with Black’s escape, but Dumbledore has found a copy of the same as a reference.

It was a “Daily Prophet”, and after Ye Ting reversed his side, one of the news immediately caught his attention:

Ministry of Magic staff won the award, and Arthur Weasley, Director of the Ministry’s Department for the Prohibition of Muggle Items, received the Daily Prophet’s annual award, the Garleon Award. An elated Mr. Weasley told the Daily Prophet: “We will spend the money on summer travel to Egypt.” Our eldest son, Bill, was working in Egypt to break spells for Gringotts Magic Bank. “The Weasleys will be in Egypt for a month. Returned before the start of Hogwarts school. The Weasleys currently have five children attending school there.

Ye Ting also saw a photo, in which nine members of the Weasley family stood in front of the pyramid, all waving vigorously, and their faces couldn’t help but show smiles. Mrs. Weasley was small and fat, while the balding Mr. Weasley was tall, and their six sons and one daughter all had fiery red hair (though not visible in this black-and-white photograph). Ron is standing in the middle of this photo, tall and thin, his pet pet Spotty standing on his shoulder, his arm around his sister Ginny.

However, although news about Ron was found in the newspapers, it was also mentioned that he would attend Hogwarts. But Dumbledore still couldn’t figure out why Black made the choice to escape from prison because of this? And chased all the way to Hogwarts.

Faced with this question, Ye Ting pretended to ponder for a short while, and suddenly as if she had discovered something, she let out a soft “huh”.

“I noticed a little, Professor.” He turned to Dumbledore with a surprised expression on his face, “Did you find out?” This rat on Ron’s shoulder, you look at his front paws.

The front paw of this rat lost a finger.

Dumbledore gasped, and Ye Ting dared to swear that he had never seen such a gaffe on Dumbledore’s face.

“I have a bold idea.” Ye Ting put on a serious expression and said to Dumbledore, “I still remember what you mentioned in my memory. James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin, all four of them have been best friends while at Hogwarts and call themselves “Marauders”. I guess they all probably have the abilities of Animagus. Or rather, the four of them secretly studied Animagus together – with the possible exception of Professor Lupin, who was a werewolf himself. ”

“Ah, you actually found this.” Dumbledore interjected, “I’m sorry for a werewolf to be a professor, but he’s a good candidate, isn’t he?” ”

“Oh yes, that’s obvious, isn’t it? Professor Snape had invited me to help him refine the wolf poison potion, and he had been hinting at it among his students, oh yes, even Miss Granger had discovered the truth, but we wouldn’t tell it. Ye Ting winked at Dumbledore and continued, “We can guess that the Animagus of Peter Pettigrew is a mouse. That’s why he was able to escape everyone’s search in suspended animation for up to 12 years. And Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban through the abilities of Animagus. And sneaked into Hogwarts again and again. You know, Dementors have never been interested in animals. ”

“Yes, yes, so that everything can be explained.” Phineas in the frame also showed a happy expression, “Presumably it was through this newspaper that Blake discovered the trace of Peter Pettigrew, and because of this, he risked escaping from Azkaban.” He is in order to hunt Peter Pettigrew to avenge James Potter. I knew that my great-grandson must be innocent. ”

“But that’s all just our guess, isn’t it?” Dumbledore calmly reminded him.

“Yes, yes, but it’s easy to verify, isn’t it?” Phineas said happily.

“Of course.” Ye Ting nodded easily, “We can go and ask Professor Lupin.” If my guess is correct, I’m sure Professor Lupin will be happy to tell us the truth, after all, he doesn’t want to see his friends for many years suffer in vain. ”

According to Ye Ting’s prompt, Dumbledore soon discovered something.

Dumbledore learned from Ron that the rat in the Daily Prophet photo was his pet Spot, but according to Ron, his rat spot disappeared a few days ago, and some blood and a few cat hairs were shed on his bed, and now he is tracking down the culprit who killed Spotty through cat hair.

In addition, Dumbledore also discovered a fatal fact – Spotted had been in the Weasleys for twelve years, and seemed to have been sick since last summer, and Ron had also bought some rat strength pills for Spotted in Diagon Alley. You know, the average mouse doesn’t live for twelve years, and when it starts to languish, it is after the news of Black’s escape from prison appeared.

On the other hand, Professor Lupin also got good news from there – at least for Phineas – Lupin suddenly showed a sad expression after listening to Ye Ting’s conjecture and seeing the newspaper, and then he confessed a secret for many years in front of Ye Ting and Dumbledore.

“I was very young when I was bitten by a werewolf. My parents tried everything, but it didn’t work out at the time. The potion that Professor Snape had given me had only recently been discovered. You know, this medicine made me safe. However, before discovering wolf poison, I turned into a full-fledged wolf once a month. I couldn’t have come to Hogwarts, and other parents couldn’t have wanted their children to touch me.

“But then Dumbledore became the headmaster, and he provided me with a defense,” Lupin sighed and cast a grateful look at Dumbledore, “Hogwarts planted a beating willow for me, and another secret passage under the tree to the Screaming Shack, where I have to go every month to transform. ”

“Turning into a werewolf is very painful. I was going to bite and stay away from the crowd, so I just bit myself and scratched myself. However, at that time, I was happier than before, except for my deformation. For the first time, I had friends, three good friends. Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and, of course, James Potter. ”



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