Chapter 591 Public Lounge at Midnight

When Fish and Hermione returned to the Gryffindor common room after playing outside, Harry, Ron and Neville were still working on their homework.

This is normal, because only fifth grade students have the heaviest academic workload.

Seamus and Dean were nowhere to be seen, and I don't know if they had finished it or if they chose to go back to the dormitory to continue their homework.

"You haven't finished your homework yet, meow?"

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Maomao greeted the three of them with a bit of schadenfreude.

Ron raised his head: "Fish, Hermione! Help us!"

Among the three, he had the most homework left... After knowing that his brothers would buy him a new broomstick, his mind kept wandering and he couldn't calm down to do his homework.

Harry, on the other hand, was troubled by the weird dream at night and the pain in his scar, so his homework completion was not very high.

As for Neville's reason, it's more funny... He is actually one of the few boys who completed all his homework early, but he forgot the Defense Against the Dark Arts homework, if Seamus hadn't reminded him before going to bed. , Neville thought he had finished all his homework.

Although the reason is ridiculous, it is indeed something Neville can do.

"It's not good to copy homework, meow."

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Fish righteously rejected Ron's request for help.

The reason for rejection is also very simple...

He himself was being watched by Professor McGonagall and Hermione and was not allowed to copy his homework. How could he lend his homework to others to copy!

"Who told you to put your homework to the end?" Hermione began to lecture habitually.

The expression on Ron's face fell instantly. He would have never asked them for help if he had known better. He didn't copy his homework and had to be read over by Hermione...

Big loss.

Neville's lips trembled slightly, trying to defend himself, but under Hermione's overwhelming momentum, he swallowed his words of defense.

"Meow?"

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While the three Harrys were being lectured by Hermione with grimaces, Fish shrugged his nose and looked around.

"What's the matter, Fish?"

Harry asked quickly. He was actually not that curious, he simply wanted to interrupt Hermione's murmurings.

"Little..." Maomao glanced at Neville and changed his words: "Did you get a cold, meow? Fish can smell his scent...even though it's very faint."

Harry and the others were shocked. After looking around, they began to exchange glances silently.

Only Neville, who was out of the situation, looked confused: "Who is the cold?"

"Uh... it's a dog that used to live in the Forbidden Forest." Harry replied half-seriously: "Maybe someone met him in the Forbidden Forest and brought the smell back?"

Neville had no doubts. After all, the name Cold was indeed very similar to the name a dog would give, so he nodded and continued to write his homework.

Fish originally wanted to say something, but Hermione gave him a subtle nudge with her elbow, and then he obediently shut his mouth.

"Forget it, I see how pitiful you are," Hermione shook her head helplessly and said, "Let me help you, but I won't lend you my homework for copying."

Originally, she was too lazy to care about these guys who deserved it, but the current situation was that Neville had to be sent away before they could continue the discussion.

Neville had the least amount of homework left, and this semester's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was all about theory, so Hermione quickly helped him finish the paper assigned by Umbridge.

As soon as Neville left, Hermione immediately pulled out her wand and cast a soundproofing spell.

"What's going on? Sirius is here?" she asked urgently.

"No..." Harry and Ron looked confused, shook their heads and said, "We have never seen him at all."

The three of them all turned their attention to Fei Xu.

"Fish doesn't know either!"

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Maomao also had a confused look on his face, "Fish just smelled Sirius's scent... Meow that wasn't there before Hermione and I left."

"Fireplace!" Harry suddenly remembered that Sirius came to chat with him through the fireplace last semester. He suddenly looked at the fire nearby and guessed: "He should have taken a look through the fireplace and found the lounge. There were too many people there so I left.”

"But...this is wrong..."

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Fish scratched his head and questioned: "Didn't Minerva say that the Floo Network is being monitored by the Ministry of Magic, so he can't use the fireplace to come to Sirius's house? On the other hand, he can't use the fireplace at home to come, right?"

Then he came closer to the fireplace and sniffed. He changed the shape of a cat's nose and a cat's mouth, and opened his mouth to feel it. Then he said uncertainly: "But...it seems that the smell around here is indeed stronger." A little bit thicker..."

Because of the charcoal fire, the smell left by Sirius was too much covered up, so Fish couldn't determine the specific situation.

"We'll find out after we wait here," Hermione said. "If Sirius really came through the floo network to find Harry, then he should come over again... You two, give me Go back and do your homework! Feishu and I are here!”

Seeing that Harry and Ron seemed to want to stay by the fireplace, Hermione snapped without hesitation.

Ron was very persuaded and ran back to catch up on his homework, but Harry turned back three times every step of the way, and it took him a while to get back to his position to do his homework. He also raised his head to look at the fireplace from time to time.

Twenty minutes later, a man's head suddenly appeared in the fire in the common room.

"Sirius!" Harry, who had been paying attention to this place, immediately dropped the quill in his hand and rushed over.

"Ah... Good evening..." Sirius, who emerged from the firelight, responded a little dazedly.

To be honest, he was startled. After all, he just poked his head out of the fireplace and saw a pair of big green eyes staring at him. No matter who it was, his heart would tighten, not to mention that the owner of the big eyes had beaten him up...

"Why can you use the Floo Network!"

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Before Harry and his godfather could reminisce about the past, Fish started to yell in dissatisfaction.

"During the summer vacation, Fish wanted to use the fireplace to go home but was rejected! Isn't it said that the Ministry of Magic would find out?!"

"Ah... this..." Sirius explained fluently after a little panic: "Because I only came to see it for a few seconds every hour before, and I didn't really go through the fireplace, so the Ministry of Magic wouldn't find out."

"What about now?"

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Fish was unyielding.

"I didn't come here now, I just stretched my head to see if I was in the wrong place, which wouldn't attract the attention of the Ministry of Magic." Sirius replied with a smile, looking confident.

"Is that really the case?" Hermione looked at him suspiciously, and then said: "I will confirm with Professor McGonagall later."

The expression on Sirius's face froze for a moment, and then before anyone else could react, he returned to his indifferent look and continued to smile and said: "Of course no problem, Hermione, you are such a careful girl."

Hermione was also deceived by his appearance, nodded and said nothing more.

But this couldn't be hidden from the cat with excellent eyesight. Fish pointed at the head in the fire and said firmly: "You are lying, meow!"

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Recommendation ticket monthly ticket

Today is Mother's Day. I wish all mothers, including cat mothers and dog mothers, a happy holiday.

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In the original book, this conflicted with the previous statement. At first, I thought there might be some means to hide from the Ministry of Magic's surveillance... For example, the excuse I let Sirius use here.

But after careful consideration, I think it is Sirius who is taking risks. According to his personality, this kind of reckless adventure is more likely.

Personally, I don't like Sirius very much. His adventurous spirit is too strong, so strong that he doesn't know the seriousness. In the original book, he encouraged Harry to take risks with him more than once... This is not what a godfather should do.

And here, the Floo network is used. If it is really discovered by the Ministry of Magic, it will not be just him who is unlucky, but the entire Order of the Phoenix may suffer.

Even if the Ministry of Magic couldn't enter the Black family home because of the Secret Keeper, Hogwarts on the other side couldn't escape, and Dumbledore, who was already being picked on by the Ministry of Magic, would definitely be implicated.

Sirius had never considered these issues, and he even wanted to meet Harry in Hogsmeade later. After Harry refused because he was worried about his safety, he not only didn't appreciate it, but was very disappointed with Harry...

Just like Mrs. Weasley said, Sirius treated Harry more as a substitute for James Potter than his own godson.