Chapter 338 The Sudden Holiday

In the expectation of all the teachers and students of the school, or most of the teachers and students, the Easter holiday has finally arrived.

This suddenly made William feel at a loss - he had originally planned to go to France, but now the holiday benefits were suddenly cut off, and he had no precise arrangements for a while.

It may be long or short, stay in school, it is a bit of a waste of this rare vacation, but go out and play, there is no plan.

Headache.

‘If that doesn’t work, ask Adams. If not, ask Singed. He is the most proficient alchemy professor in the school. ’

With this thought in mind, William left the office directly.

"That's it, yes, a genius idea!"

Adams's voice could be heard clearly in the corridor, and his office was also mixed with the exclamations and cheers of some little wizards.

As William approached quickly, a smell that smelled sweet like osmanthus cake became stronger and stronger - although it is almost impossible for such magical cakes to appear in Hogwarts, William still thought of it.

‘It’s strange that their herbalists have such a wide range of research? ’

The door to Adams' office was open, and William could see clearly what was going on inside when he approached the door.

Seven or eight little wizards were standing inside, holding different plates in their hands. William didn't recognize more than half of the pastries placed inside, and on one of the desserts, the sweet-scented osmanthus pickled in honey looked particularly appetizing.

It's Adams' Herbal Food Club in action - if you're lucky, you can eat a lot of delicious food, but if everyone is trying new products, you'll have to ask for luck.

"William."

Adams, who was grading over there, stood up and said, "Let's grade together?"

"certainly."

After happily scoring various fresh foods, as the club activities came to an end, William began to ask about Adams's holiday arrangements.

If he had any travel plans, he wanted to take advantage of them.

Intense teaching and writing papers are not without any cost - plus the training required to maintain strength and the redevelopment of some magic that has been mastered, he no longer has much free time to study interesting things in the magical world.

Besides, when it comes to travel, there are two types: the bastard and the planner. He usually works hard enough, so it’s understandable that he would be a bastard when traveling.

"I'm afraid it won't work. There is a large-scale herbalist exchange event this Easter. I'm afraid I can't turn it down." Adams shook his head. "As you know, after Easter is the best time for replanting herbs. Easter is another big holiday and I really can’t get away from it.”

I remembered…

Smuggling is also rampant before Easter. Many seeds of illegal drugs take advantage of this last golden time to leave the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic of various countries. If it is later, they will not be sold at high prices.

But anyway, just hanging around, William went to find Singed again.

But the alchemy professor who was a daily salty fish rarely became diligent, and the reason was quite outrageous.

The days around Easter are said to be the most lucky time for alchemy, and many famous works in history were produced during this period.

Therefore, Singed has made up his mind to work hard for the entire Easter holiday. In his words - 'If you want to rest, you have plenty of time, but if the most fortunate time of Easter is wasted, why don't I What about brewing potions that can't work miracles like Professor Snape? ’

…

Former pharmacist William was offended.

But he still had to grit his teeth and accept this evaluation - compared to the money-burning alchemy, the upper limit of potion products was actually lower.

After all, Singed kept a small bottle of Felixir on his desk when he was working, which was used as fuel when inspiration broke out. This was very convincing.

The highest achievement of alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone, has really appeared. The ability to turn stone into gold is not bad, but when it comes to making elixirs of immortality, even if William becomes a master of potions, he can only say that he has the capital to try it - how can this be compared? !

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"Hello, Robbers Detective Agency, I'm Blake."

Sirius forced himself to calm down and face the business that suddenly came to his door.

The Easter vacation at Hogwarts was coming soon, and he couldn't wait to go to King's Cross station to pick up Harry immediately. He even sent out the letter, just waiting for Harry's response.

'The decoration style is so bad... A person like this can catch four cheaters in one day? ’

The two teammates who came over to give the commission in plain clothes looked at each other and became suspicious of the intelligence they had obtained earlier. Although they took over relevant business every time, they could handle four suspects in one day and obtain reliable evidence. No matter how you look at it, it should be one It takes a team to make it happen.

But the small firm in front of them didn't look like there was a second employee - if they weren't sure that the informant wouldn't lie about this, they must have thought that they had been deceived.

"We've heard your name, Detective Black."

Watching his teammates remain silent, John could only speak first.

This kind of title was very useful to Sirius, but when he got a little proud, he thought of other places - God, it's been almost a month since he opened the store here, and he only made two kinds of business.

The first is to find a cat, the second is to find a cheater.

Just like that disgusting Wormtail who is good at communicating with rats, he has countless assistants in London.

Even with the restrictions of the Secrecy Act, it is not that difficult to crack the secrets of Muggle society - and this does not include the little tricks that the Black family has developed for generations to wander around the boundaries of the Secrecy Act.

But this still doesn't change the fact that he is now only famous for two aspects.

So the question is, did these two people lose the same cat, or...

As Sirius looked at him, John felt something was wrong all over his body. He used to look at others with a scrutinizing gaze, but now it was his turn to be scrutinized. It was really...

"It's like this, Mr. Black, we are the only lucky ones in this village..."

He persuaded himself to cheer up and speak according to the formula he had made up before.

"My good brother and I... we were still in middle school at that time..." He nudged the colleague next to him, signaling for him to cooperate, "We will never forget that day, the school just had a holiday..."

There was a sniffling sound from the colleague next door.

'That's it! ’

He was ecstatic in his heart, but his expression remained unchanged, "Yes, that day, it was snowing heavily, but the bus refused to take us to the entrance of the village. When we walked two miles and arrived at the entrance of the village, we found that the whole village was quiet. It’s scary.”

"There was no smoke, no fire, and no weapons were drawn out—" John tried to pretend to be broken. "The hens were still crowing, and the pigs were humming with hunger, but no one responded."

"Everyone seemed to have disappeared suddenly. Mom, Dad, Uncle Gil, Uncle Maren... They were supposed to be joking with us while drinking..."

“…”

After a moment of silence, he lay on his teammate's back and began sobbing like a normal survivor.

"OK OK…"

A big hand pressed on John's head, "Let me tell you..."

"We immediately called the police, and then there was a week-long investigation. They searched every corner and asked seven or eight surrounding villages, but found nothing..."

"We have been posting missing persons notices over the years...but there is no news...just as the investigation results said, they disappeared, no body, no blood, no murderer, not even resistance, and suddenly they all disappeared …”

Across the table, Sirius had changed from being careless in front of him to being extremely energetic - he didn't quite understand the joys and sorrows of people, not to mention that the two clients in front of him didn't look very sad either.

Although there are many things worth criticizing, judging from the newspapers at the time provided by the two and the information revealed by sporadic tabloids over the years, this incident definitely happened.

Although it happened more than ten years ago, he finally received a quite important case in his hands.

This is a good thing.

Although he has been diligent enough recently and has earned a lot of Muggle currency, there is nothing much to say after all - when he left Hogwarts, he said he wanted to do something big, but now he is really embarrassed about it. Mentioned it to his godson.

It's not that he is cold-hearted, but that in the past month of searching for cheaters, he has seen countless people telling lies. Compared with the acting skills of those people, the two clients in front of him...

If this case wasn't interesting enough, Sirius would even want to investigate what these two people were doing.

"Okay, let's leave it like this for now. After the Easter holidays, I will seize the time to investigate this matter."

"After the Easter holidays?"

John was anxious - how long will it take for this to happen?

He also thought that Sirius would get out quickly if he couldn't find out.

As for finding it out - that's impossible, it hasn't been found after all these years, how could a detective possibly find it!

"Yes, detectives are human too."

Sirius nodded, "The entrustment fee plus the preliminary investigation funds will be a generous one hundred pounds. The remaining four hundred pounds will be paid after the completion of the matter."

He had done some research before doing business. Although the magic world was very strict about exchanges, if the conditions were met, five pounds could be exchanged for one galleons.

He had inquired about Lupine's weekly salary, which was twenty galleons a week. He estimated that this matter would take a month to resolve - he couldn't earn less than Lupine, right?

Although it is certainly impossible to convert all this money into galleons, at least it can be compared.

"Five hundred pounds?"

The two looked at Sirius, and all the words "Why don't you grab it" came to mind.

"Yes, if there are no objections, we can sign the contract."

Sirius had a sincere smile on his face - although he hadn't yet figured out what these two guys with poor acting skills were doing, he believed that the other party would definitely be willing to spend the money.

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"After shopping around for a day, I still haven't found a suitable partner - is this great vacation wasted like this?"

In the office, William yawned and considered the day's gains.

Hagrid asked about it - he wanted to spend the holidays with Centaur. As winter turned to spring and the season of recovery came, the Centaur guy became a little radical.

Although he sincerely invited William to come with him, William couldn't help but think of the famous paper he heard in Azkaban.

In order to prevent possible conflicts, he resolutely refused Hagrid's invitation.

Not even Professor Taylor. She could have at least had a family dinner, but Aphra started to lose her teeth. Although this is a normal phenomenon, the little girl obviously thinks it's a bit ugly. She doesn't even want to see Professor Taylor at the moment...

In the words of Professor Taylor, "She has been drinking soup for two days and is still hiding in her room!"

‘Is it too inhumane to hand out a bunch of papers to students on Easter? If that doesn’t work, I’ll just lie down in the office until school starts. ’

"Dong dong dong."

There was a knock on the office door.

After careful verification, Harry appeared.

"Professor, Sirius invited me to spend Easter with him. He has prepared everything." Harry handed over the letter hesitantly.

What's there to ask about this kind of thing?

Don't you want to go?

William glanced at Harry curiously, his eyes full of confusion.

"But Professor McGonagall doesn't approve it..."

Harry felt a little aggrieved - when Professor McGonagall was investigating the students staying at the school, he did not sign up for the first time, but then he was called to the office by Professor McGonagall.

Although the professor made a lot of sense, he still only listened to one sentence - that is, due to formalities, Sirius's custody of him has not been renewed, so he cannot board the Hogwarts Express.

'That makes no sense, Professor McGonagall is not such a rigid person...'

William listened, but did not comment on this - he knew that Harry was protected by a spell at his aunt's house, and if he was with Sirius, this protective power would definitely not be effective.

But Sirius has been cleared...

Besides, using rules to block things like this seems more like a last resort—could this be Dumbledore’s opinion?

He also thought that the Dark Lord might show his fangs in the next short period of time?

Harry looked at William with expectant eyes. Among the professors he could rely on, William was the only one who could disagree with Professor McGonagall - Hagrid supported the school unconditionally, and Professor Lupin was also a Gryffindor…

"All I can say is try your best..."

William couldn't be sure. If it was Dumbledore's opinion, he would definitely support it - after all, Voldemort will be resurrected next year, and it is really not a wise choice to leave the protection this year.

——

"Is it the principal's opinion?"

"okay…"

"Can we make a compromise and let Harry live next door to his aunt's house?"

"That is, I mean, let Blake buy the house next door to Aunt Harry's house and rent it there."

"You can afford a Black Firebolt, and a Muggle house... shouldn't be a lot of pressure, right?"

"To be honest, he seems to be born to break the rules. With the invisibility cloak, it is too easy for him to sneak out of the school. Blake is definitely someone who dares to meet him outside the school - rather than taking that risk, I think it is better to take the risk. It’s better to have some control.”

"Yes, I kind of want to see them enjoy this holiday."

"Huh? In principle, it's okay, but I have to go too?"

"For safety reasons?"

"All right…"