The dormitory door was slammed shut, the voices of Harry and Ron gradually faded away, and the room fell into deathly silence.
After an unknown amount of time, a mouse crawled out from under the bed, ran over to the table and began to bite the snack bags, taking big bites of the snacks that Harry and Ron brought back from Honeydukes candy store.
Banban prefers human food to the food prepared for mice.
This eating style is related to the fact that Banban was once a human.
Yes, this rat named Scabbers was once a human, not a rat.
Although he has lived in the body of a mouse for more than ten years, he was once a wizard, a wizard named Peter Pettigrew.
That's right, it's the same name as Peter Pettigrew, who was killed by Sirius Black and finally won the First Class Order of Merlin. In other words, Peter Pettigrew is his past.
If someone says that, he must be crazy.
Everyone thought Blake was crazy, and Peter also hoped that his former friend was crazy.
However, not only did Black not let the Dementors drive him crazy, his mind was also very clear, so clear that he could even find his own traces in a newspaper.
After Sirius Black escaped from prison, Peter knew that Black was not crazy, especially the information he heard from Mr. Weasley, that various signs before Black's escape indicated that the other party had discovered that he was still alive, so he desperately escaped from Azkaban and tried to break into Hogwarts Castle to kill him.
All this was so crazy, and Sirius Black had already tried it once, and even though he failed, Peter knew Sirius Black, and that guy would never let him go easily.
The seemingly heavily guarded Hogwarts Castle is not as safe as it seems. Black knows the locations of most of the secret passages in the castle and can easily pass through the outer guards and enter the castle.
This made Peter Pettigrew always worried and afraid that Blake would suddenly appear one day and kill him.
In fact, if Sirius Black had a clearer mind, he would not have to take the risk of killing Peter. He could have just forced Peter to return to his original form and let everyone know that Peter Pettigrew was still alive. That would have been bad luck for him.
"It's all your fault!"
Peter looked at the photos of the Potters on the bedside table, hatred growing slowly in his heart. He had been living as a mouse for more than ten years, but how many decades could a person have in his life
He hated it all.
Looking at the dancing Potters in the photo, Peter was silent.
He remembered that when he was still a student at Hogwarts, the influence of the mysterious man had spread throughout the British wizarding world. Every time the Dark Mark appeared above a house, it meant that someone was murdered by the Death Eaters. That was the darkest period in Britain.
Peter actually knew that James had always believed that his family's dragon pox was related to the Death Eaters, and because they were unwilling to surrender or remain neutral, the Death Eaters murdered James' relatives in a despicable way.
Infecting people with dragon pox was a popular method of murder in those years, and it is said that the only Muggle Minister in the British wizarding world died from an attack of dragon pox.
At that time, Peter persuaded Potter to take Lily away from England and away from those dangers, but James refused and even roared at him: "I don't want to be a coward, and I won't hide. The mysterious man can't make my family surrender, and don't even think about making me surrender. I will resist them and resist to the end."
At that time, the mysterious man's power was simply not something they could resist.
As soon as they graduated from school, the four joined the Order of the Phoenix, an anti-mysterious organization founded by Dumbledore.
In fact, Peter didn't really want to join the Order of the Phoenix. He just wanted to live a peaceful life, but he eventually joined the Order of the Phoenix.
Peter hated Potter's so-called bravery. What good could there be in fighting the most evil demon in history except losing his own life
Isn't your own life more important
Did he intend to put Lily, who was following him, in danger
If they die, they won't even have a future, so what's the point
Everyone said that the mysterious man was afraid of Dumbledore, but the situation was still not optimistic and Dumbledore did not have much energy to protect them.
Well, after joining the Order of the Phoenix, Peter realized that the Order's noble cause was to try to save more people and then fight You-Know-Who together.
But what does that have to do with him? Is it worth risking one's own life to save innocent lives
Peter disliked the Order of the Phoenix from the bottom of his heart.
Especially after joining the Order of the Phoenix, Peter has been worried and afraid that Voldemort will appear at the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix one day. He is afraid that when he goes out to perform a mission one day, he will be caught by the minions of the mysterious man, tortured severely, and eventually lose his life.
However, the nightmare soon became reality!
Voldemort showed up at his doorstep, but luckily for Peter, he didn't notice the Dark Mark floating above their house when he returned.
Instead of killing Peter and his mother, Voldemort gave him a choice.
Surrender or die.
Or, Voldemort saw this as a good opportunity to plant a spy in Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix, so Peter and his mother survived.
If he had not joined the Order of the Phoenix, perhaps such a thing would not have happened, and his mother would not have been affected.
But there are no ifs.
At first, Peter actually thought about asking Dumbledore for help, asking Dumbledore to save his mother, and asking Dumbledore to hide them, but Peter knew very well that betraying Voldemort would only lead to death.
However, what caused him to waver was what the Death Eaters showed him.
Be it the Ministry of Magic or the Order of the Phoenix, many of the informants they thought they were providing intelligence were actually Voldemort's men. His influence spread throughout the entire British wizarding community. All of this made Peter feel extremely desperate.
He knew he had no choice.
"What good is there in refusing? Are you tired of living?"
Peter Pettigrew had not forgotten what he had said when he passed the message to Ludo Bagman.
Ludo Bagman was apparently much smarter than him, and used his connections with August Rookwood to get a job at the Ministry of Magic.
It is impossible to play Quidditch for a lifetime. The best option after retirement is to become a Quidditch coach, but joining the Department of Magical Games and Sports of the Ministry of Magic is obviously a better choice.
And he was not branded with the Dark Mark, just like Peter, even if he was eventually accused of passing messages for Voldemort, he could still find an excuse for himself.
After that conversation, Peter Pettigrew completely compromised. He also wanted to gain some benefits for himself through Voldemort, as did many wizards who were loyal to Voldemort.
In helping Voldemort collect intelligence about the Order of the Phoenix, Peter did not put his heart and soul into it, but only revealed some unimportant information to Voldemort.
In fact, Peter didn't have access to any important news.
Later, Voldemort learned of a prophecy that James' son was the person in the prophecy. After learning that the Potters were planning to hide, Voldemort asked him to be Potter's secret keeper and promised that after the success, he would arrange a good position for him in the Ministry of Magic.
In fact, Peter already knew that even if Voldemort had not promised those things, he would have no choice.
Voldemort's power was at its peak, and the Ministry of Magic had long been infiltrated by the Death Eaters. All the efforts of the Order of the Phoenix were of no avail.
After he betrayed the Order of the Phoenix and his former friends, he had no other choice, and Peter did not have the courage to betray Voldemort.
He doesn't want to die yet.
Everything went better than expected. Peter told James that he was not as brave as Black, Lupin, and James. The situation was getting worse and worse. He was very scared and wanted to hide abroad, but he was afraid that Lupin and Black would say he was a coward. So Peter wanted to become the Potters' secret keeper, and then he could hide openly to a place where the mysterious man and the Death Eaters could not find him.
James agreed and apologized to Peter.
"It's too late. I can't turn back." Peter turned back into human form, looked at the photo of the Potters, and murmured.
Black would never give up easily. He would definitely break into Hogwarts Castle again and try to kill himself.
Before Blake is caught again, he has to pretend to be dead once, and it just so happens that the crazy cat keeps chasing him, which is a good opportunity for him.
Peter put the few cat hairs he had collected on the ground, bit his palm, smeared the blood on Ron's sheets, then turned into a mouse again and slipped away.