Chapter 430 Banban Is Really a Rat

Under the Whomping Willow was a narrow tunnel that continued to extend forward. Kyle had been walking forward for a long time, but he still didn't see Harry and the others in front of him.

"Are they running so fast?" Kyle couldn't help but speed up again.

After walking for about ten minutes, the tunnel began to tilt upwards. After a while, Kyle saw a small glimmer of light.

He knew that he had reached the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade, and this secret passage would eventually lead there.

It was a messy, gray room with sealed windows and only a few dim oil lamps on the wall.

The light he saw just now was emitted by the oil lamp. Although it was very dim, it was enough in this small room.

When Kyle walked in, the room was tense and the atmosphere was very tense.

Kyle stood aside with the Disillusionment Charm, and the flickering oil lamp cast his shadow on the wall, but no one present noticed this...including Professor Lupin and Sirius Black.

They were arguing fiercely at a table in the corner at this time.

Harry, Ron and Hermione stood on the other side. They seemed to have finally realized their current situation and began to be afraid.

Ron had a complicated expression. He wanted to go forward and get his rat back but didn't dare.

"When Scabbers bit me, I thought what I should have thought of." He said weakly: "Scabbers ran away, but Lupin trapped it with a spell... Will the professor come to us with a wand? Snape won't!

He must have planned it in advance. Damn it, why didn't I think of it before..."

"But what do they want your Scabbers for." Harry wondered, and looked at Lupin and Black warily.

"I don't know." Ron said, "Maybe they like to kill other people's pet rats."

But Harry and Hermione didn't think so. An ordinary pet rat was not worth their risk.

And as the argument became more and more intense, Harry heard a very familiar name.

"I didn't betray James!" Black roared, saying what he had always wanted to tell everyone.

"Peter is the real secret keeper... We changed, I thought this would keep it from You-Know-Who. As long as he keeps hunting me, James and Lily will be safe."

Black's voice trembled, as if he wanted to cry, but after being tortured by the Dementors for twelve years, crying had long become a luxury.

He held Scabbers with red eyes and shook her hard.

"But I never thought that this damn, cowardly traitor would tell the location to the mysterious man the day after he became the secret keeper."

"You must have been very happy at that time..." Black raised his hand, looked at the struggling mouse, and smiled fiercely, "What did your master reward you with!"

"Enough, you are crazy, both of you!" At this time, Ron suddenly shouted: "It's not Peter, it's Scabbers, my pet mouse!"

He took a step forward bravely, "I've heard enough, give Scabbers back to me!"

"Sorry, I can't let you leave before the truth comes out." Professor Lupin said, and took the mouse that was almost crushed to death from Black's hand.

"This is the truth!" Black seemed even more irritable.

"I told you before that as long as you find the Marauder's Map, you will see Peter's name on it at a glance... It's in Filch's office!"

"Do you think I didn't look for it?" Lupin said expressionlessly: "I went to Filch's office after you sneaked into the castle for the second time, but the map was gone!"

At this time, Harry felt that his head was a mess.

He knew Peter Pettigrew, and Minister Fudge mentioned him before when he was talking about the three broomsticks.

But wasn't he dead? He was killed by Black himself!

A Minister of Magic can't lie.

Thinking of this, Harry couldn't help but say, "You can say anything now, because you have killed Pettigrew, and the whole street is full of witnesses!"

"What they saw was not what they thought." Black said rudely, "He deceived everyone with despicable means!"

"But Scabbers can't be Peter." Ron still refused to believe it, "It has lived in our house..."

"Twelve years!"

"Do you think ordinary mice can live that long?"

"That's because Kyle has been brewing rat tonic for it." Ron retorted, "It started when it was still in Percy's hands, and it has been several years."

"Who is Kyle..." Black was stunned for a moment, obviously didn't expect Ron to say that, and he always felt that he had heard this name somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"A very smart child." Lupin explained, "and amazing knowledge."

"It turns out to be just a kid who hasn't graduated yet..." Black said nonchalantly. He looked at Ron just now and thought that the other party was some magical animal master.

"It was just a coincidence. He met an Animagus, but he was so self-righteous that he thought his tonic worked!"

Kyle, who had been standing next to him, raised his eyebrows.

Although what he said was correct, why did it sound so harsh when it came out of Black's mouth?

When did he become so self-righteous?

Besides, those tonics were all carefully prepared by him.

At this time, Black continued to patiently say to Ron: "Is he missing a finger?"

"So what?" Ron said.

"They only found the finger..." Harry subconsciously thought of what Fudge had said before.

"Yes, the coward cut off the finger before it was transformed." Black said, "After I blocked him, he screamed loudly, letting the whole street hear that I betrayed Lily and James, and then before I could recite the spell, he blew up the street with the wand hidden behind his back, and got into the gutter with other rats..."

"Mad man!" Ron said, as if he was listening to an extremely absurd story.

Hermione also spoke, her voice trembling, trying to be calm, "But Professor Lupin, Scabbers can't be Peter Pettigrew, you must know that."

"Why do you think it's impossible?" Lupin asked calmly.

"Because if Peter Pettigrew was an Animagus, people would know... The Ministry of Magic has records... There are only seven Animagus in this century, but Peter Pettigrew's name is not among them."

"You are right, Hermione." Lupin said, "But the Ministry of Magic doesn't know that there were three unregistered Animagus active in Hogwarts."

"How do you prove it!" Harry felt his mind was even more confused, "Prove that Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew!"

"It's simple, and this is what I want to do." Lupin looked at Black deeply, "I hope you are not lying to me, otherwise..."

His tone was cold, and then he threw Scabbers to the ground and pointed his wand at it.

The wand sprayed a blue light, covering Scabbers' head...

Black smiled, and his sunken eyes suddenly lit up strangely...

Harry, Ron, and Hermione also looked at the mouse on the ground nervously.

However, nothing happened...

Scabbers was still the same, running wildly on the ground, and was finally caught by Ron.

The smile on Black's face froze, but Ron showed a victorious attitude.

"See, I said they were all crazy. How could Scabbers be Peter Pettigrew?"

Harry looked at Lupin silently.

He looked gloomy and turned his wand to point at Black. "What else do you have to say? It's ridiculous that I would choose to believe you, a traitor!"

"No, it's not like that..." Black said dully: "There must be something wrong with your spell... He is Peter Pettigrew... He is... I won't make a mistake..."

"You should save this kind of words for the Dementors." Lupin said without any emotion.

Seeing this scene, Scabbers, who was held in Ron's hand, stopped struggling, and his little eyes were full of surprise after surviving a disaster.

"No... Remus, it's not like that..." Black rushed forward in despair, "You must have made a mistake, I beg you to give me the wand... let me do it..."

"Don't even think about it!" Lupin pointed the wand at him, "Don't get any closer..."

But before he finished speaking, Black rushed forward regardless, knocked him to the ground and snatched the wand.

Another blue light, but it was also useless.

"Impossible... This is impossible..." Black was like crazy.

Harry immediately raised his wand after reacting.

But before he could chant the spell, a faint voice came from the corner, very familiar.

"Disarm you."

Kyle, who had lifted the Disillusionment Curse, walked out and reached out to catch the flying wand.

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