Hogwarts Homecoming

There are only two days before the start of the second half of the semester. Most of the teaching staff have returned to work ahead of schedule and started some teaching preparations. The little wizards who went home for Christmas also returned to school sporadically. The castle, which had been deserted for two weeks, gradually became lively again.

Amosta and Remus also returned to school in the early morning of the second day before school started.

Sirius temporarily placed Regulus' body in the family's old house. He ordered Kreacher to take care of Regulus, and returned to Hogwarts with Remus in Lenny's form again.

Perhaps it was the wonderful Christmas holiday that made the little wizards lazy. It was supposed to be breakfast time, but there was no student in the auditorium, only Professor Sprout, who was used to getting up early, and Mrs. There was chatting at the dinner table.

"This scene is really rare in recent years--"

When Amosta and Remus, who entered the castle side by side from the foyer, wished a happy New Year to their two colleagues, Professor Sprout, wearing a wizard hat covered in wet mud, said with a cheerful smile,

"I mean, two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors showed up at the same time."

"I'm afraid it's not me, Pomona—"

Remus, who has been smiling more and more recently, laughed heartily. He looked at Amosta and said,

"To be honest, Amosta, I've been thinking about it recently. I think you really have some secrets to make people stay in the professor's seat of this course for a while. I still like this job."

"It's wise to get away early—"

Amosta shrugged and smiled slightly,

"If I had really kept going, maybe I would have ended up like my predecessor."

"Your predecessor was Gilderoy Lockhart, a swindler. He deserved to be sent to Azkaban. You will not fall into his situation."

Thinking of Gilderoy Lockhart, Professor Sprout shook his head as if to repel annoying flies.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Amosta and Remus went upstairs directly.

Because he also needed to prepare for the second half of the year's teaching, Remus went back to the office alone, while Lenny followed Amosta and continued to walk for a while. After arriving at the student security office, Amosta changed Lenny into Returned to the human body.

The morning time passed in the chat, and while Amosta continued to study the manuscripts related to the blood curse, he chatted with Sirius about various details of sneaking into Azkaban.

"At least we need a boat."

Sitting on the sofa, Sirius crossed his legs and said,

"Since you are unwilling to enter Azkaban through formal means, and I can only identify the approximate direction, this means that we may have to drift on the sea for a long period of time. You must prepare a ship that is strong enough to My ship, Amosta, I don’t know what the reason is, the sea area around the island is shrouded in thunderstorms and typhoons all the year round, it’s a natural barrier, if you don’t have enough preparations, don’t even try to break through.”

"Then how did you get here?"

Amosta stopped the calculation deduction, raised his head and asked with great interest.

"I was in the form of Animagus at the time, and thunderstorms and typhoons didn't affect me that much,"

Reminiscing about the experience of crossing the sea, Sirius expressed his gratitude for the rest of his life after the catastrophe,

"And I was lucky. I accidentally found a large piece of deck that was blown apart by the wind and waves. I guess it might be left by a Muggle ship that accidentally veered off course. Tsk, unlucky guys."

Amosta nodded slightly.

Indeed, what Sirius said must be considered.

That prison is located on the sea far away from the mainland. If a Muggle loses the ship they live in, there is only one way to die. Wizards do have more means to use, but most ordinary wizards may have only Stand still.

In an extreme situation, Amosta could indeed teleport back to the mainland with Sirius, but if he did so, the magic power consumed by such long-distance teleportation would be second. The point is that the long search before would be in vain.

"I'll think about it carefully."

After a little thought, Amosta said, before turning his gaze away, he casually glanced at the surveillance screen on the opposite side, and his soothing brow suddenly wrinkled slightly.

Near the Slytherin common room, Professor Snape was standing at the door of his office talking to a wizard with loose blond hair.

Following Amosta's line of sight, Sirius also found the wizard who shouldn't be at Hogwarts.

"Who is that, the professor at the school?"

"Lucius Malfoy, the current head of the Malfoy family--"

Amosta said with a blank face.

"oh!"

Sirius' exclamation was full of loathing,

"It's this guy. I know him. He is a Death Eater. He publicly advocated his support for Voldemort when he was in school. After graduation, he was appreciated by Voldemort for his unswerving support for the supremacy of pure blood. Voldemort did not fall. At that time, many clues about Muggles being tortured and killed secretly pointed to him, but he was extremely cunning and good at using the power of money, so the Order of the Phoenix couldn't catch him at that time. He came to find Sneaker What are you doing, old colleagues talking about the old days?"

The last sentence, Sirius said very naturally, and he didn't realize what he said until the words came out of his mouth.

Amosta did not go online because of this, and in fact, Sirius was not wrong, Professor Snape did have experience as a Death Eater.

The conversation between Professor Snape and Malfoy on the screen probably has a result. Amosta can see that Professor Snape's expression is somewhat suspicious, but he still seems to agree to some kind of request made by Malfoy. , they stopped talking, and Snape led Malfoy out of the basement, up the stairs on the side of the foyer, and appeared on the third floor.

"Are they here for you?"

Sirius stood up from the sofa vigilantly, and looked at Amosta, who was resting on his upturned knee with his fingers crossed,

"What do you think it is?"

"I'm as confused as you are," Amosta said calmly, "I don't have any friendship with Lucius Malfoy. Strictly speaking, it's a bit of a holiday, but I think he must not be looking for I'm in trouble."

Who has the ability to trouble you?

Sirius was about to say that, but a erratic flash of lightning blasted from Amostar's sleeve and turned him back into Lenny.

After howling a few times in dissatisfaction, the helpless Lenny jumped onto the sofa, cleverly maintaining the posture that a cat should have.

Not surprisingly, there was a knock on the door of the office soon, and after covering up the shady scene, Amosta walked over to open the door.

"I found out from Pomona that you're back at school,"

With his relationship with Amosta, Snape didn't have to hide anything at all, he narrowed his eyes and raised his chin and asked,

"I thought you were home for Christmas, why did that guy show up together?"

"I just met on the train—"

Amosta shrugged indifferently, and said lightly, then he turned his gaze to Lucius Malfoy, who maintained great restraint, with a cold smile on his lips.

"This is Draco's father, Lucius Malfoy—"

Professor Snape stepped aside, and he quickly glanced at the expressions on Amosta and Lucius' eyes, and immediately confirmed what Lucius told him before, that Amosta and him had a little The friendship thing is a lie, but it is clear that the two people do know each other.

When Snape looked away, Lucius also cast a hidden look, and Snape who received the signal fell silent for a moment, then said reluctantly,

"Lucius told me that he has some personal matters and wants to talk to you alone."

What was Lucius Malfoy trying to do, trying to get that notebook from me?

All of a sudden, this thought came to Amosta's mind because he knew that I was unlikely to talk to him, so he wanted to borrow Professor Snape's relationship?

"In that case—"

Amosta nodded,

"Come in, Mr. Malfoy."