Chapter 386: The Truth Is Revealed!

The sky gradually darkened, and the Hogwarts students, who had been excited for a day, fell asleep tiredly.

Well, except for a small cat walking around the castle.

At the same time, a big black dog appeared near the Whomping Willow.

Sirius sniffed around carefully and confirmed that there were no other creatures in the Forbidden Forest nearby. Then he ran to the Whomping Willow quickly, and before its branches hit him, he rushed to the trunk and slapped a knot on it with his claws.

The dancing branches fell down as if they had been drained of strength, and the Whomping Willow quickly returned to silence. Sirius calmly found the tunnel hidden next to the Whomping Willow and got in.

During the day, Lupin had already left a mark for Sirius on a tree on the edge of the Forbidden Forest in their special way as robbers. Although there was no other information except that mark, Sirius still came here tacitly.

The big black dog was moving fast in the tunnel, but he suddenly stopped after only walking about one-third of the way.

Because Sirius found that Lupin's smell suddenly began to fade, he sniffed carefully nearby with his nose twitching, and then turned around and walked back.

After a while, Sirius found a note left by Lupin in a corner of the tunnel, which was also written in the robbers' code.

The content of the note was very simple. Lupin asked him to meet him at the Shrieking Shack after the next full moon night.

It was not that Lupin did not want to ask Sirius for the truth of the matter as soon as possible. The main reason was that in addition to monitoring Harry with the Marauder's Map, Snape also kept a close eye on Lupin's whereabouts.

Lupin even found that when he left school during Easter to track down clues, Snape seemed to have used his network of connections to confirm his movements.

If Snape found out that he was in contact with Sirius, he would definitely not have the patience to listen to Black's explanation. He would immediately hand Sirius and himself over to the Dementors as criminals. The matter of Peter Pettigrew was just Black's one-sided statement. When they wanted to defend themselves, they would not be able to find evidence, so he had no choice but to be careful.

Although Sirius was also very anxious, as a criminal who had not yet gotten rid of suspicion, he could only follow Lupin's arrangements.

So in the anxious waiting of the two, less than a month passed quickly, and Lupin ushered in his least favorite full moon night.

After drinking the wolfsbane potion sent by Snape, he walked out of the castle alone and came to the outskirts of the forbidden forest. After using a branch to pierce the knot of the Whomping Willow, he got into the tunnel under it...

Another difficult night passed, and Lupin regained his human form with a pale face. Like the previous times, he lay weakly on the bed in the Shrieking Shack.

He didn't know when Sirius would come in. If this was really a scam, he would have no ability to resist Sirius coming in at this time...

But Lupin decided to take a gamble.

After lying on the bed nervously waiting for a while, Lupin finally couldn't resist the weakness of his body and gradually fell asleep.

Until the morning, when Dobby brought breakfast to Lupin, Sirius didn't show up...

From this point of view, Lupin seemed to have made the right bet.

In fact, the anxious Sirius Black wanted to find Lupin as soon as possible to explain the situation, but he also knew that Lupin would be very weak after the transformation, so he waited until the morning to approach the Whomping Willow and planned to find Lupin.

As a result, he happened to see Dobby who came to deliver food, and then he quickly pretended to be a wild dog passing by, wandered around the Whomping Willow for a while, and then walked away without attracting Dobby's attention.

After realizing that an elf would deliver food to Lupin, Sirius could only suppress his anxiety and wait until Dobby finished delivering dinner and left before going into the tunnel.

"Long time no see, Moony."

The unshaven Sirius appeared in the Shrieking Shack and greeted Lupin who was still eating.

Lupin put down the food in his hand, looked at Sirius's chin which was rounder than his own, and fell into silence...

"Padfoot, you..." After a long time, he hesitated and said, "You seem to be doing well recently?"

Sirius Black: "..."

"Ahem..." Lupin also realized that there was something wrong with his speech, and quickly cleared his throat, quickly took out his wand and pointed it at Black, and said, "Then, Padfoot, tell me everything that happened at the beginning."

Although it was basically certain that Sirius did not lie from his performance just now, Lupin still cautiously wanted to confirm it again, and by the way, asked about the details that he could not figure out.

Sirius, who was pointed at by the wand, didn't take it seriously at all. He sat cross-legged on the ground, raised his head, looked at Lupin sitting on the bed with regret, and let out a long sigh.

"We changed the secret keeper..."

Sirius spoke bitterly about his stupid decision at the time.

While Sirius was explaining the whole thing to Lupin, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley were staying in their dormitories, picking out all the homework that had to be completed today and piling them all on a corner of the table.

Harry looked around furtively, made sure there was no one else in the dormitory, and quickly called out: "Ron, help me block it."

Ron immediately stood behind Harry in cooperation and blocked Harry with his body, so that even if someone suddenly broke in at this time, they wouldn't be able to see what he was doing.

Harry, who was blocked by him, held his wand and tapped it lightly on the parchment.

"I solemnly swear that I will do no evil."

Harry lowered his voice and recited a spell, and black ink lines and dots quickly drew a map on the blank parchment.

He quickly adjusted the position of the map to be near the Whomping Willow, and found that there was nothing special, so he put the Marauder's Map on his lap, and then started doing homework with Ron.

The Shrieking Shack was too far away from Hogwarts and beyond the scope of the Marauder's Map, so during the two days of the full moon, Harry could only monitor the situation near the Whomping Willow and some of the secret passages.

But after such a long time, there is nothing strange about Lupine, and even Ron no longer doubts him very much.

Harry is still monitoring Lupine, not only because he is unwilling to lose Black's clues, but also...

got used to.

Harry focused mainly on his homework, only occasionally glancing at the Marauder's Map on his lap.

"Ron, lend me your Herbology homework for reference."

After finishing the Transfiguration homework in his hand, Harry handed it to Ron and whispered to Ron that this was a reference flow method that worked for both of them, which could roughly double the efficiency...

It was Miss Know-It-All who looked down upon this and once gave them some advice. Unfortunately, Harry and Ron didn't take it seriously, and Hermione didn't bother to care.

"Wait a minute," Ron replied without raising his head, and the quill in his hand quickly scratched the paper, "I'm still a little bit close."

Harry, who was fine for the time being, turned his attention back to the Marauder's Map. There were several small black dots flying quickly near the Whomping Willow. Judging from the speed, they should be flying creatures such as owls or thestrals.

Just when he was about to look away, a black dot suddenly appeared in the secret passage at the edge of the map.

Did Lupine recover so early this time?

Harry frowned slightly. If he remembered correctly, Lupine had to lie down in the Shrieking Shack for two or three days after every full moon.

Out of curiosity, Harry lowered his body and squinted his eyes to take a closer look at the small black dot. His name was written in tiny fonts next to the black dot——

Sirius Black.

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A book friend drew a picture of a cat that thrives every year. He also drew a picture of a cat with the same style before... The style of the first two pictures in the Easter egg chapter I posted this morning is very similar...

I don’t know when he will gradually understand the truth about cats like the British painter...(ω)

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Thanks to Mercury's Masked Superman for the tip.