For a few days after Halloween, all the school was talking about was Sirius Black.
The discussion focuses on how he entered the castle. Ivan has heard various claims that Black will become invisible, change his face, and turn into other things. Hannah of Hufflepuff even wrote an article for the Hogwarts Newspaper in which she swears that she witnessed Black transform into a flowering bush.
This article was rejected by Hermione before it reached Ivan.
Thanks to the series of articles introducing "Dementors", the sales volume of "Hogwarts Wizarding News" has been good since the beginning of school, and the issue with "Patronus Charm" is the highest in history. more than two thousand copies.
In addition to the young wizards at school, many adult wizards also learn the protection spell through the "Hogwarts Wizardry". Ivan just discovered that so many people didn't know this spell before, and he was worried about the overall strength of the magic world.
In addition to the more and more mysterious rumors, there are many things that have changed in the castle.
For example, the vandalized portrait of the Fat Lady had been taken down from the wall, and in its place was a portrait of Sir Cadogan in full armor and his stout gray pony.
No one was happy about it, and Sir Cadogan spent half his time challenging the people to fight him. The rest of the time is spent pondering ridiculously complicated passwords, and he has to change the password twice a day.
Another example is that Harry is now under intense surveillance.
The professors walked with him in the corridors for all kinds of reasons and excuses; Percy followed him everywhere like a guard dog of great pomp.
Blake invaded the castle, and Peter Pettigrew should be the most affected.
Ron told Ivan that the mouse tonic he sent hadn't worked, and Banban now didn't eat anything except drinking water. It huddled in the corner under the bed all day without moving, as if it was dead.
A more accurate description should be waiting to die. Aiwen has already tested it, and the tracking potion has worked. Within a hundred meters, he can feel the location of Scabbers at any time.
The next step is to find an opportunity to get in touch with Sirius Black, and then we can end this year's events. But the first two failed contacts have made Black wary of Ivan, and he has become more cautious. Ivan has no idea where he is hiding.
According to the original plot, Blake should be hiding in the screaming shack, but Ivan checked after Halloween, and he was not there.
On the night of Hallow's Eve, Lupine also saw Black. He knew about the Shrieking Shack, and with Black's level of caution, it was impossible to stay there.
Just as Lupine didn't trust Black, Black didn't trust Lupine either.
Twelve years of living in Azkaban had left him with little sanity left. He didn't even believe in Dumbledore. All he could think about now was revenge.
Black is probably hiding in the Forbidden Forest now, and Ivan is not interested in finding a dog everywhere in the forest, so he decided to devise a plan to lure him out.
At the lunch table, Ivan saw Crookshanks running out of the auditorium with a large piece of bread in his mouth. A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, maybe he could use it...
Hermione, the cat, is so clever that Ivan sometimes wonders if it is also an Animagus. It must have become friends with Sirius Black now, and the bread it took just now should be given to Black.
Just as Ivan was staring at Crookshanks slipping past him in a daze, he saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione walking into the auditorium with frustrated faces.
"You know what Snape asked me to do! He actually told me to clean the chamber pot in the school hospital, and magic is not allowed!" Ron gasped in anger, his fists clenched tightly, "Why can't Black Hiding in Snape's office so he can finish him for us!"
"No, Ron! Isn't Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning of the third grade?" Colin asked anxiously, "Why did you get locked up by Snape?"
"Good question, Colin!" Ron snorted heavily, "I was punished by Snape for confinement in Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning, and then I have to endure him again in Potions class in the afternoon." .”
"But why?"
"Because Snape said that Professor Lupine was sick and couldn't attend the class, he took the Defense Against the Dark Arts class." Harry also sat down angrily, "Snape must have messed with it, you remember Did I mention that he made a potion for Professor Lupine a few days ago, what must he have put in that potion?!"
Harry's words got Ron's approval, but Ivan knew that Snape had concocted the wolfsbane potion, which needed to be taken a week before the full moon night.
Counting the time, these few days should be the day when Lupine transformed, no wonder one didn't see him.
"Don't be silly, Harry, why did Snape do this?" Hermione took out her Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook.
"You've got to ask, he's always wanted to teach this class," cried Ron, "look what he's done in class, spend half the class criticizing Lupine's teaching methods, and spend the rest Ask us an inexplicable question in half a class!"
"What did he ask?"
"It's a werewolf, Colin!" Ron turned his head and said, "Snape has been asking us how to identify a werewolf. Hermione knew the answer, but he didn't let her answer. I asked him if he didn't want to know the answer. Why did you keep asking us this question, and then he fined me for confinement!"
"But there must be a reason for this. Why does he insist that I know how to identify werewolves?" Hermione said thoughtfully.
"Anything is possible, maybe he was bitten by some crazy werewolf, that's why his head is so abnormal!" Ron said angrily, "Look, the homework Snape left for us, one A treatise on identifying and killing werewolves, at least two parchments, he is absolutely insane!"
"The difference between a werewolf and a real wolf, the symptoms of a werewolf in human form..." Hermione checked carefully in her Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook.
"My God, Hermione, you're not really going to finish that assignment, get to know an evil werewolf, and kill him?"
"The middle finger is the same length as the ring finger, weakness, full moon, transformation time, something scary..." Hermione ignored him, her hand flicked across the books, and then, she seemed to find something, She jerked her head up, fear in her beautiful chestnut eyes.
"Werewolves are not necessarily evil, Ron!" Seeing Hermione's expression, Ivan knew that she had discovered the truth, he sighed and said, "Wizards usually think that werewolves don't have reason and feelings, only know destruction and Killing, full of bloodthirsty desires, in fact, this kind of view is wrong."
"You have to know that even a person with a pure heart and a person who never forgets to pray at night will inevitably turn into a wolf on the night of the full moon when the aconitum blooms!" Aiwen looked at Hermione calmly, "But He is still kind in nature, we cannot distrust him just because he is just a werewolf."
"Really, Ivan?!" Hermione asked uncertainly. For some reason, under the gaze of the other party, she suddenly became less worried.
"Yes, I believe him!" Ivan nodded.
Harry, Ron, and Colin stared blankly at the two of them, with puzzled expressions. They couldn't understand what the two guys on the other side were saying.