Lupine forcefully pushed the secret passage door aside, splashing a lot of dust.
He quickly crawled out of the secret passage and into a house, a messy, dusty house. The wallpaper had come off the walls, the floor was stained, pieces of furniture were broken and looked like they had been broken, the windows were boarded up.
This is the Shrieking Shack, Lupine and his friends have been here countless times, and now that Black has invaded the castle, it is likely to hide here.
Lupine sniffed the familiar smell in the surrounding air, and with his wand across his chest, he walked carefully through the dark corridor and up the stair that was about to collapse.
Like the first floor, everything on the second floor was covered in a thick layer of dust.
Not so on the floor, where something had recently walked, the paw marks of a canine.
Lupine glanced down, he was too familiar with this footprint, it was the trace left by Sirius Black Animagus. Blake must have been here recently, and it is very likely that he is still hiding in this house.
Lupine tightened his wand tightly, looking cautiously at a closed door at the end of the corridor. Black might be hiding behind this door, ready to pounce at any moment. Although the opponent didn't have a wand, Lupine still didn't dare to be careless.
He approached slowly, trying not to make a sound, the magic power of his whole body was secretly gathered and condensed, and the tip of the wand glowed weakly.
"Come out, Sirius, I know you're in there!" Lupine shouted standing outside the door, his voice echoing in the empty room.
Nothing happened, there was deathly silence inside the door.
Lupine squinted his eyes, and the next second, his wand quickly emitted a thick red light, and knocked the door out of the room violently.
In the room, there was only a luxurious four-poster bed, and the curtains around the bed were full of dust. There was no one there, only him standing at the door panting heavily.
Lupine put down his wand dejectedly, Black wasn't here, maybe he was there, but after knowing that he saw him tonight, he hid somewhere else.
"Vile coward!" Lupine murmured under his breath.
Black's behavior did not match his impression of Sirius. He was not a person who would run away. In his student days, he was the bravest of them all. However, when he knelt down and kissed the side of Voldemort's robe, The courage of the past is probably gone.
Now Black is no longer a brave and fearless Gryffindor, but more like a sinister and cunning Slytherin, or he was originally.
Lupine stood at the door of the room for a whole minute, with an indescribable loneliness on his face.
He sighed deeply and turned to leave. But he stopped immediately, he saw something left on the bed, it was a picture.
Lupine walked over and picked up the photo.
The photo shows four boys, from left to right, their school self, James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew.
The four people in the photo are smiling so happily, they are all laughing and saying hello to Lupine.
Lupine suddenly felt a little sad. He still remembered that this photo was taken on the lawn in front of the castle gate when they graduated, and each of them took one photo as a souvenir.
When Hagrid collected photos for Harry the year before last, he sent out his own; James’s was lost in the ruins on the night he was attacked, and Peter’s should have been blown into pieces by Black along with himself. broken pieces.
The only one left with this photo is Blake himself.
It was likely that he had accidentally left it here when he stayed in the Shrieking Shack before. I didn't expect that Black would keep this photo forever. Lupine thought he had lost it along with his friendship.
Looking at this yellowed photo, Lupine's thoughts went back to the time when they just graduated, the darkest era in the magic world.
At that time, dark wizards headed by Voldemort were raging in the wizarding world. They openly resorted to violence, spread terror everywhere, killed wizards and Muggles with impure blood in the name of "fun", and even launched a war to overthrow the wizarding world. Pattern of wizard wars.
In that protracted war, Lupine witnessed the death of many people, including his elders, classmates and many kind-hearted people.
The year they graduated was three years before the war ended. They couldn't wait to join the Order of the Phoenix and stand on the front line against Voldemort.
Although Voldemort and his Death Eaters possessed far more power than the Order of the Phoenix at that time.
But relying on the close cooperation of four people, they have stopped Voldemort's conspiracy many times and escaped from his hands.
Lupine had thought it would last forever until Voldemort was defeated.
But in the last year of the war, everything changed. Dumbledore got the news in advance that for some reason, Voldemort was hunting James and Lily's son Harry. James originally planned to fight head-on, but for Harry's sake, they finally followed Dumbledore's advice and hid, using the Fidelity Charm to protect themselves.
Besides Dumbledore, myself and Peter Pettigrew are the only two people who know who James' secret agent is. James chose Sirius Black. He once thought that Black was his closest friend, and he was the strongest among several people.
Lupine also naively thought that this was the best choice.
But he was wrong, they were all wrong!
Less than a week after Black became James and Lily's secret agent, he betrayed them to Voldemort. Voldemort broke into their house that night, he killed them, and somehow failed at Harry!
After knowing the news, Lupine still remembered his reaction at that time. He frantically went to find Black. He needed to ask him the truth. There must be something wrong. Why did James and Lily die? Why did the Fidelity Curse fail? .
Until then, he hadn't believed that Black would betray them to Voldemort.
Two days later, Lupine found Black.
But he was one step too late, and Peter Pettigrew found him before he did.
When Lupine saw Black on that street, he was mobbed by the Aurors who had blown Peter and the street of Muggles to pieces a minute earlier.
It all became clear that it was Black who had betrayed James and Lily to Voldemort, and in the ensuing questioning he had killed Peter Pettigrew.
Lupine stood helplessly on the corner of the street. He saw Black laughing wildly there, while he was crying silently in the corner. This was the only time he shed tears after he made a vow not to cry when he was a child.