New Professor at Hogwarts

Soon several people were standing in front of the door of Xia Ran's office.

Xia Ran held the door handle, turned around and looked at the crowd and said, "No matter what you see later, be calmer. The truth is definitely not what you imagined."

Dumbledore gave Xia Ran a meaningful look. He seemed to have guessed something on the way over.

Snape still had a dull expression, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione were nervous and confused.

Xia Ran smiled and opened the door. A person's soliloquy suddenly came from the room. No, he had a cat talking to him.

"Why hasn't Xia Ran come back yet?"

"Meow!"

A man with messy black hair held a large ginger cat in his arms. He suddenly heard the sound of opening the door and looked over. Both parties were stunned for the first time.

"Sirius?!"

Among the people, Harry and Snape reacted the most violently. They immediately pulled out their wands and pointed them at Sirius instantly.

"Expelliarmus! Expelliarmus!" Xia Ran was already on guard and immediately fired the disarming spell at Harry and Snape. When they were not on guard against her, she disarmed their wands and held them in the palm of her left hand. inside.

"Professor??" Harry and Ron looked at Xia Ran in surprise.

Snape's expression became even more gloomy.

"I told you, don't pull out the wand yet. It won't be too late to start the duel after I finish speaking." Xia Ran said with a headache.

"Ah, Crookshanks, come back!" screamed Hermione, recognizing her cat.

Dumbledore clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention, and said softly: "Harry, Snape, don't be impulsive yet, and let Xia Ran explain what he found."

Harry and Snape were extremely angry and the other was extremely cold. They both remained silent. After all, Xia Ran had taken the opportunity to disarm them.

Sirius let go of his hand, and Crookshanks jumped to the ground, then trotted all the way to Hermione's feet and was held in her arms.

Harry and Snape gave Crookshanks a disgusted look.

"Dumbledore, long time no see." Sirius said, turning to Harry with a complicated expression, "Harry, I'm so happy to see you. To be honest, you look a lot like your dad, but your eyes and your Just like my mother, they both have the same green eyes.”

Harry snorted angrily, indicating that he did not want to talk to him, the indirect murderer who betrayed his parents.

Snape's face looked a little unnatural. Fortunately, everyone was paying attention to Sirius and did not see this scene.

Xia Ran interrupted Sirius and said: "Okay, let's not talk about old times now, business is more important." Then she said to Snape: "Professor Snape, could you please call Professor Lupine?"

Snape stared at Xia Ran with a cold expression, motionless.

"Okay, Severus, please, please go to Remus' office." Dumbledore said.

Snape stood for a while, staring at the back of the principal, and then at Sirius, with deep resentment on his face, and finally he reluctantly walked out of Xia Ran's office.

The atmosphere in the office was not much better. Sirius seemed to have something to say, but was afraid of getting into trouble. Harry glared at Sirius angrily, and occasionally glanced at Xia Ran resentfully, obviously complaining that Xia Ran colluded with the traitor who betrayed his parents.

Hermione hugged Crookshanks tightly, and she and Ron looked around nervously, as if they were afraid that they would fight directly.

Dumbledore showed his all ears.

"Dumbledore, please sit down first. Sirius, sit down too." Xia Ran waved her wand to conjure several chairs, walked around and said, "Where should I start?"

"Ah, by the way, this Marauder's Map."

Xia Ran touched the parchment with her wand and said softly: "I solemnly swear that I will not do bad things!"

In an instant, thin ink lines spread like a spider web from the place where the tip of Xia Ran's wand touched, connecting with each other, criss-crossing, and extending to every corner of the parchment. Immediately, words appeared on the top, which were green. The large cursive characters:

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs—

Gentlemen who are here to help the makers of magical mischief——

Introducing--

The Marauder's Map!

This map shows all the details of Hogwarts Castle and grounds, but the most unusual thing is that it has many small black dots clustered together, each with a name in very small fonts. In addition, there are some remote and secret passages on the map, many of which seem to lead to Hogsmeade.

"Ah, what a creative magic item!" Dumbledore praised.

Even Harry, Ron, and Hermione temporarily forgot about the tense atmosphere and looked at the Marauder's Map with interest.

Almost all the black spots were concentrated in the auditorium, where the students slept after all.

Sirius twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Dumbledore."

"Are you one of the makers, Sirius?"

"Yes." Sirius nodded.

"Let me think about it, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, Moony I think I already know who it is, so are you the one of the remaining three? Padfoot?" Dumbledore speculated.

"Yes, I am Padfoot up there, Moony is Remus, Wormtail is Little Peter, and Prongs is..." Sirius said, looking at Harry, and said, "He is your father. , Harry, James we sometimes call him Prongs."

"You betrayed him!" Harry shouted, "You traitor!"

Sirius's face turned extremely pale in an instant, and he said: "I did not betray James, and Harry, even if I were killed, I would not betray the Potters." After a pause, he said with difficulty: "But I don't deny that Potter The death of Mr. and Mrs. Te is related to me."

Just then, Snape called Lupine over.

Sirius forced a smile at Lupine.

Lupine pursed his lips tightly and pressed the wand with one hand, as if he wanted to draw it out to attack Sirius, but he also wanted to hear Sirius's defense. What would Xia Ran say?

"Okay, everyone, sit down. It's still a long time. We have plenty of time to tell the story slowly." Xia Ran changed two more chairs for the two professors, and his office suddenly became crowded.

Snape and Lupine sat down next to Dumbledore.

"Before tonight, before this moment, you all know that Sirius is Voldemort's lackey and loyal dog. He betrayed Harry's parents, causing them to be killed by Voldemort. Although Voldemort was also killed by Lily Evans In the end, the ancient magic he cast at the risk of his life damaged and destroyed his soul, and he didn't die completely because of the Horcrux."

Xia Ran said, ignoring the confused expressions of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and continued: "But in fact, the traitor is not Sirius, but someone else."

"Impossible! It was Sirius who betrayed my parents that made Voldemort come to our door!" Harry yelled angrily.

"Calm down, Harry, calm down."

Xia Ran waved her hand and said: "Yelling and making noise will not solve any problem. Just listen to me."

He unfolded the Marauder's Map, pointed to a certain place on the map, and said, "Look who this is?"