The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts
Chapter 371 Chasing Sirius
Banditry is a magical profession. They need to find a balance between completing their goals (robbery) and survival (not being killed by the officers and soldiers). To this end, the bandits have a countermeasure: to turn grass into bandits between the two administrative regions.
Sirius, who was born in the Black family, a pure-blood family, had definitely never come into contact with bandits, but when faced with the pursuit of the Ministry of Magic, he adopted the same strategy as the bandits: running to a place where no one cares. This place had to be close enough to Harry and be able to escape the pursuit of the Ministry of Magic. Sirius thought about it and felt that there was only one place that met the requirements - the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade Village.
These days, Sirius has been hiding in the Shrieking Shack, treating it as his base camp.
This cabin was originally a "safe house" prepared by Dumbledore for Lupine. Whenever the full moon came, Lupine would come here to complete his werewolf transformation. Years of vacancy and a reputation as a haunted house have kept people away from the house, and visitors won't enter the house. At best, they will look around the fence. This makes the long-abandoned Shrieking Shack an excellent hiding place.
At least Sirius didn't have to worry about being accidentally seen while taking a nap one day.
Of course, being off the beaten path isn’t the Screaming Shack’s biggest advantage. Sirius chose to stay here because this house connected Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. Sirius could use the Shrieking Shack as the center, looking for opportunities to get close to Peter while getting supplies from Hogsmeade. It's really perfect to be able to sneak into Hogwarts while being searched by dementors.
Moreover, no matter how shabby the Shrieking Shack is, it is still a house. Living in a house is much more comfortable than sleeping in the wild. The temperature had dropped sharply recently, and Sirius also retreated into the Shrieking Shack, sleeping idle in the room, thinking about how to torture Peter Pettigrew.
But today seems a little different. It's snowing outside the window again, and it's also a little noisy. Sirius saw a young couple coming outside the house through the cracks in the wooden boards that sealed the window. They seemed to want to enter the Shrieking Shack for some excitement.
Sirius was nonchalant about it. He felt that these two people should not have the courage to enter the house and explore. But what happened next was a little unexpected.
Several boys had conflicts with them.
From the appearance and tone of the territorial man, Sirius smelled something familiar.
"This golden-haired bunny always smells like the Malfoy family." Draco Malfoy's behavior and appearance reminded Black of many old things.
Then came the conflict, its aftermath, and Harry's sudden appearance.
The moment he saw Harry, Sirius felt as if his heart was being pinched. He was so excited that he couldn't breathe for a moment, and it seemed like all the blood in his body was rushing to his brain. This wasn't the first time he saw Harry, but the excitement was still the same as when he saw him for the first time.
After Sirius escaped from Azkaban, he immediately went to Privet Drive in Surrey just to take a look at Harry from a distance.
His goal was achieved, but there was a little accident...
Sirius was so excited after seeing Harry that he couldn't control himself. He suddenly lost control of the distance and ran too close. As a result, Harry saw him and seemed to startle him. This made Sirius restrain some of his behavior.
After saying goodbye to Privet Drive, Harry headed to Diagon Alley, while Sirius headed to Hogwarts ahead of Harry.
But when he heard that Harry was the Seeker of the Gryffindor team, he couldn't hold back his thoughts and ran to the Quidditch field at Hogwarts to watch a Quidditch game in which Harry participated. Ditch game. Although it was raining heavily, Sirius could still see that Harry was flying very well, just like his father, which made Sirius very happy. Looking at Harry's flying figure, he once saw the shadow of James.
As for the trouble he caused Harry during those several appearances, Sirius didn't know. Sirius never imagined that he just wanted to see his godson for a few moments, but it would leave such a huge psychological shadow on Harry.
Looking at Harry, Sirius' eyes gradually became fonder. However, as he looked at it, he realized that something was not quite right about the atmosphere below.
Sirius hurriedly ran outside the house, and Harry saw him within a few seconds of going out.
Harry saw a dark shadow in his peripheral vision. He turned his head and saw a large, shaggy dog staring directly at him.
He suddenly got chills. But he quickly realized that this seemed to be a good opportunity! A good opportunity to solve the "ominous" situation in one fell swoop! Tom is here, Hermione is here. Harry felt that among the students at Hogwarts, the two of them were the most reliable students of the same level.
With them here, maybe we can try to find out the ominous truth? See what it really is.
So he threw down his invisibility cloak and ran to the barbed wire fence in three steps and two steps. With a sudden jump, the barbed wire cut his palm, but he didn't realize it. He rushed towards the direction where the big dog disappeared. past.
Tom was about to follow when he saw a yellow shadow in the snow. He bent down and picked it up. As he expected, it was an ordinary piece of parchment.
Tom put the parchment into his pocket and took the invisibility cloak with him.
"Hurry up!" Hermione had already run to the fence and took out her wand: "Split it into pieces!"
The barbed wire snapped and a big hole opened, and she and Tom got in together.
From Sirius's perspective, things were a little weird: his dear godson Harry ran over excitedly after seeing him. It's just a pity that his expression is a bit ferocious, not quite what a godfather and godson should look like when they reunite.
Sirius didn't react for a moment, but having been wanted by the Ministry of Magic for a long time, he was already frightened, and he instinctively reacted: run away. So he turned back to the Shrieking Shack.
All entrances to the Shrieking Shack are sealed. There was only a small gap left, just enough for Sirius to squeeze through.
Not long after he got in, there was an explosion behind him. A gap was opened in the wall, and Tom and the three of them got in.
Sirius cursed inwardly and continued to run away. He wasn't afraid of those little wizards, but he was worried that he might accidentally hurt Harry.
"Accidental injury" was only a superficial reason. Sirius had another reason hidden in his heart that he did not dare to face directly, and that was guilt.
Yes, guilt.
He had always felt a pang of guilt towards Harry. He always felt that it was his mistake that caused little Harry to lose his parents. If I hadn't been smart enough to change the secret keeper, maybe James and his wife wouldn't have been betrayed by the traitor, and they wouldn't have died...
This emotion has always been buried deep in Sirius's heart and has never been expressed. This also made him afraid to show up and meet Harry.
Sirius crossed the stairs vigorously, rushed to the secret passage, and dived in.
"It's safe." This was the first thought that came to his mind. At the end of the secret passage is the whomping willow, which is enough to stop the three little wizards. It's just a pity that this house can no longer be lived in. It's such a cold day, where should I go?
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"Are you a wizard or not?" Hermione pulled Harry away from the edge of the gap and split the board into pieces, breaking the board and revealing the room inside.
The three of them rushed into the house, and what they saw was a messy, gray living room. The wallpaper on the living room has peeled off, and the floor is covered with thick stains and the remains of furniture. There is almost no light in the room - the windows are boarded up, and only a few rays of light are revealed through the gaps in the boards.
And the big dog has disappeared. The only sound in the room was the sound of three people breathing.
"Look here!" Hermione said, pointing to a series of footprints on the ground, "the traces of the dog's claws, it went here."
The three of them followed the dog's footprints and finally saw an tunnel entrance. Harry couldn't wait any longer. He took the lead, jumped in, ran down a steep slope, turned a corner, ran a few steps, and saw an exit that looked like a tree hole.
But when he got out of the tree hole, he only felt that he was hit hard on the face, which made his eyes black and his nose sore.
Harry rolled down from the tree hole.
"Are you okay?" Tom helped him in time.
"It's okay..." Harry responded dazedly, feeling a rush of heat on his nose.
"You've got a nosebleed!" Hermione screamed.
"I'm fine... I caught 'Ominous'..." Harry said weakly as he lay in Tom's arms.
"We need to take him to Madam Pomfrey," Hermione said anxiously, taking out her handkerchief and trying to stop Harry's bleeding, but with little success.
"The bridge of his nose may be broken, and he may have a concussion." Hermione made a preliminary judgment.
"Okay." Tom immediately took action and ran towards the tree hole-like exit.
"What are you going to do?" Hermione grabbed Tom. "Do you want to be like him?"
"Don't worry, we are now under the whomping willow in the Forbidden Forest." Tom threw Hermione away, ran to the edge of the tree hole, and rushed out.
As soon as he came out of the tree hole, he felt a strong wind coming. He immediately transformed into a phoenix and avoided a branch falling from the sky. Then, while avoiding the attack of branches, he scanned the situation around the tree hole. Soon, a conspicuous knot appeared in his field of vision.
He swooped up to the knot, poked the knot with his beak, and the furious Whomping Willow suddenly became quiet.
He returned to the cave entrance and pulled Harry and Hermione out together.
Tom saw that Harry was not in good condition, so he and Hermione helped Harry to the school hospital.
Madam Pomfrey at the school hospital is an extremely talented doctor. She stopped Harry's nosebleed with just a wave of her wand and gave him a tranquilizer. After Harry drank it, he fell into a deep sleep.
Tom and Hermione stayed for a while and then left the school hospital, leaving the place quiet again. In the entire hospital ward, Harry was the only one sleeping - as for Peggy, who had lived here for a long time before, she was transferred to St. Mungo's for further treatment. Many doctors asserted that the chances of the little girl waking up were slim.
The ward was quiet. Suddenly, a window was pushed open. The big black dog got in through the window.
It stared at Harry with extremely complicated emotions in its eyes.
"Collapse!" Suddenly, a voice came from behind it. Sirius twisted as hard as he could to avoid the sudden curse.
Immediately afterwards, he felt a weight on his body, and a young man took the opportunity to press on him.
"Sirius, let's capture him without mercy!" The words he shouted made Sirius break into a cold sweat.
How does he know my name? How did he know I could turn into a black dog? Sirius' mind was filled with questions. But now was not a good time to think about it, Sirius could feel a chill on the back of his neck and knew it was the wand pressed against his neck.
He had no choice but to raise his hands and surrender.
"Change back to human form." The voice spoke again.
Sirius was silent for a moment and released his Animagus transformation.
The person on Sirius's back was, of course, Tom. He had just pretended to leave, but in fact he was hiding in the ward wearing an invisibility cloak, waiting for Sirius to take the bait.
Tom was certain that Sirius Black, who had accidentally injured his godson, would sneak into the ward to make sure that Harry was okay. So he just sat back and waited.
Soon, a skeleton-like man appeared in front of Tom.
But before Tom could take a closer look at him, Tom felt a huge force coming from under his knees, knocking him to the ground. Sirius stood up to the ground, threw Tom off his back, then turned around, picked up a chair next to the hospital bed, and tried to knock Tom down, but when he turned his head, what he saw was a yellow Snake pupils.
Sirius' head buzzed, his body stiffened and he almost fell. This time his movements became stiff, and Tom seized the opportunity.
"Petrify them all!" Tom was lying on the ground, but his petrification spell hit Sirius accurately. Tom watched Sirius fall straight to the ground with a look of disbelief on his face.
Tom, who had subdued Sirius, breathed a sigh of relief. Panting, he picked up the chair that Sirius had grabbed and sat on it.
After a while, he adjusted his breath, turned into a phoenix, and flew out of the window with Sirius.
Sirius, who was caught in the claws, showed a shocked expression: the young wizard just turned into a phoenix in front of his eyes!
He felt that his three views had been subverted, and he couldn't even believe his eyes.
In a state of confusion, Tom flew Sirius to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and threw him to the ground. Sirius knew that he was about to face the judgment of his fate.
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