Hogwarts Homecoming

"Perhaps I met him somewhere—"

Remus smiled, looking a bit disappointed, he finally looked away, looked at Amosta and said, "So, you didn't get anything last night?"

"Obviously so—"

Amosta lifted himself up, walked to the fireplace, took down the boiling hot teapot and made himself a cup of tea, and said to Remus with his back turned,

"I've checked all the secret passages that Filch didn't know about, and I didn't find any clues related to Black. I've sealed the secret passage below the Whomping Willow."

Regarding this result, Remus didn't know whether he should be happy or disappointed. In short, when he left, he looked devastated, and reminded Amosta that he will transform again in a few days. At that time, please After helping to substitute for the class, Mosta walked out of the office.

Amosta held the teacup, and Lenny, who was drooping his ears, said nothing.

After a while, Sirius asked Amosta to change him back to his original form, and asked sullenly,

"So you already know that Remus is a werewolf?"

"Since Dumbledore recruited him to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, he would definitely not hide it from the school board and the Ministry of Magic. Now the professors in the school also taught him back then. They had already heard about Remus being a werewolf. know, and as for me"

Amosta took a sip of tea and smiled,

"I've known Remus before he became a colleague."

Sirius seemed interested, and Amostar spoke to him briefly,

"--You must know the underground world deep in Knockturn Alley. In recent years, Remus has been wandering there in order to get enough to eat. Of course, he has not done many illegal and criminal things. Every When Yue transforms, he will go to the forest or the wilderness to survive those days alone. After the transformation is over, he will get some herbs from the forest and sell them. However, he doesn't seem to be very good at this. Most of the time, His things don't sell for a few bucks--"

Seeing that Sirius listened very carefully, Amosta thought for a while and said,

"In the early years, I mean when Voldemort just fell, the wizarding world had a deep prejudice against werewolves. At that time, Remus was also forced to hang out with Greyback for a while, but he obviously couldn't understand Greyback. Cruel way of doing things. Grinding foreign skills. Well, that's about it."

"Before, I mean when we graduated from Hogwarts just now,"

said Sirius with a dark face,

"Remus's life is not very satisfactory. He is unwilling to accept my help. Among James' relatives, there are some people who own property. He wants to introduce Remus to work there, but Remus is afraid of bringing James Trouble, also refused to agree."

Sirius took a deep breath, and shook these unpleasant memories out of his mind, and then, with strange eyes, looked at the young wizard leaning against the fireplace,

"I suddenly noticed something, Bryan."

uh-huh--

Amostar nasally voiced the question.

"You are a graduate of Slytherin. It's rare. A wizard who graduated from that academy has the guts to call Voldemort by his name?"

said Sirius in a sarcastic tone,

"In those years, Slytherin was almost a Death Eater reserve. Many Slytherins we knew became the backbone of Death Eaters directly after graduation, of course, including the snot-nosed Snape, and your relationship with him Not bad, did he tell you about his glorious past?"

"I don't see how you have the right to mock Severus Snape, Black."

Amostar said coldly,

"It is true that Professor Snape may have gone the wrong way when he was young, but he has been helping Dumbledore all these years, hoping to make up for the mistakes he made when he was young and ignorant, and you, Black, in your stupid suggestion What did you do after the deaths of the Potters? To put it mildly, entering Azkaban on your own initiative is an apology. To put it bluntly, you just hoped to avoid the condemnation of your conscience through this method.

In my opinion, Snape is more courageous than you, Black, if you are really responsible, why don't you take the initiative to take the responsibility of raising Harry, as far as I know, you seem to be his godfather ? "

"I did want to do that!"

Sirius stood up with a bang, his cheeks flushed from feeling humiliated,

"The night the Potters were killed, I wanted to raise Harry, but Hagrid said that Dumbledore was going to place Harry with his aunt!"

"As you wish, is it not?"

Amosta sneered and said,

"Compared to such a long-term responsibility of raising a child, it is obviously more in line with your ability to take revenge as soon as your head is hot."

He couldn't fight, he couldn't quarrel, he couldn't even slam the door and leave, Sirius was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but Amosta's immediate words made him look stunned again, and fell into a long silence.

"During the last summer vacation, because of some things, I visited Harry's uncle and aunt's house. In private, he told me that before he came to Hogwarts to study, he had been living in the locker under the stairs. The Potters are obviously very happy to see Harry grow up in such an 'enjoyable' environment, right?"

The room was silent, and the quarrel came to an end.

Throughout the morning, Sirius lay motionless on the sofa, even in the face of Crookshanks' curious teasing. It seemed that he was indeed hit by Amostar's sharp words.

"Do you have any plans for the Christmas break, Amostar?"

After two classes in the morning, before lunch, Professor McGonagall walked out of his office and went upstairs and knocked on the door of Amosta's office.

"Well, I'm planning to go back to my orphanage, Professor, what advice do you have for-"

He is an orphan?

Hearing the word "orphanage", Lenny on the sofa raised his head and looked at Amosta Bryan who was standing at the door talking in astonishment, suddenly recalling it.

"That's right, Amostar,"

Professor McGonagall held the parchment in his hand, a little embarrassed,

"Here's the list of kids who applied for detention during the Christmas break, and considering Blake's still at large, so-"

Amosta blinked, "Where are all those people?"

"Mr. Potter must be one,"

Professor McGonagall sighed, "The kid has nowhere to go. Then, Granger and Weasley stayed with him!"

Malfoy in Slytherin and two little followers are not going home for Christmas this year. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw also have a few senior students who are preparing for the NEWT exam. Gryffindor It was a trio, and Neville Longbottom was also forced to stay at school this year because of his missing wand.

"Speaking of Neville's wand—"

Amosta suddenly came back to his senses, he took out his wand from his pocket and showed it to Professor McGonagall,

"I found it by accident while walking in the yard yesterday."

"Oh, thank goodness!"

Professor McGonagall immediately said happily,

"I persuaded Longbottom for a while, and even offered to write a letter to Augusta for him, but he just didn't dare to go back. Now, Mr. Longbottom can finally go back for Christmas. Well, as for the holiday care The child's matter, since you have arrangements."

Professor McGonagall hesitated, "I'll ask Remus, he probably doesn't have any extra travel plans."

Black, who blamed himself for Harry's situation, received another psychological blow.

Amosta finished his lunch in the office. Taking advantage of the break before class, he planned to go to the Gryffindor lounge to return Mr. Longbottom's wand to him, and get back his spare wand along the way.

The 'cute' little Lenny obviously wanted to go with him, but was mercilessly rejected,

"Help me keep little Lenny out of harm's way, Crookshanks"

After giving this order, Amosta locked the door with a click, and disappeared from the sight of the two unhappy cats.