The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Looking at Minister Fudge who kept playing riddles, Mrs. Rostamer was also a little helpless. She felt that she might not be able to get anything out of Fudge.

"It is said that the Minister of Magic in Japan is going to be replaced." Fudge suddenly remembered something and started talking enthusiastically, "I can't remember clearly. They don't seem to be called the Minister of Magic. What are they called? "

"Shogun?" Professor Flitwick prompted from the side.

"That's right!" Fudge knocked on the table, "The [General] who has been in power for nearly seventy years has stepped down! The person who replaced him seems to be a girl with a magic wand on the hilt."

"What?" The audience around Fudge was a little surprised. Seeing their surprised looks, Fudge was very proud, "This is the latest news obtained by the Ministry of Magic. It will probably take some time before the handover is completed in Japan."

"Isn't it said that only the strongest wizard in the Japanese magic world can be called [General]? How could a wizard with such powerful magic suddenly appear?"

"You're getting old," Fudge snorted rudely, "If you want to challenge the current general to obtain the title of [General], you need to pass the three tests of [wisdom], [bravery], and [strength] conducted by the three subordinates of the shogunate. The trial is very difficult, so no one has challenged the old general for a long time. Who knows how much strength he still has? He is not much younger than Dumbledore!"

The topic came up with Dumbledore, and Fudge found that everyone around him had closed their mouths and drank in silence. Hagrid, who had been silent just now, snorted dissatisfiedly, and a few drops of wine splashed out from his nostrils and dripped on the bar table.

Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became tense, Ms. Rosmerta could only appear again to smooth things over, "Speaking of Sirius, you know, among all the people who have taken refuge in the dark forces, Sirius Black is the one I least expected... …”

Hearing what she said, everyone sighed. Harry under the table even stretched his ears, waiting to hear the news about Sirius.

As several people narrated, explosive news poured into Harry's brain:

Sirius knew his parents and was their best friend!

He betrayed his parents and caused them to die tragically at the hands of Voldemort. He also killed his father's friend Peter when he was at the end of his rope! !

Sirius is still his godfather! ! !

The wine glass in Harry's hand fell to the ground with a loud sound, but no one paid attention.

"Black behaved quite normally in Azkaban, and the Dementors seemed to have very little influence on him - it's incredible, and it really worries me... to know that You-Know-Who is a kind of... The situation, but if he is allowed to find his most loyal servant, he will definitely make a comeback quickly! Fortunately, Black, he is now..." Fudge stopped.

But everyone understood what he meant: Fortunately, Sirius lost his mind and wanted to catch Harry wholeheartedly and avenge his master. Perhaps, catching him in Hogwarts is the best way to deal with it.

Everyone was silent. Finally, with the sound of glass hitting wood, everyone drained the wine in their glasses.

"Connelly, we should go back to school. I remember you came to deliver the invitation to the World Divination Conference to Professor Trelawney?"

Fudge hummed, and then there were a few squeaks of chairs pushed away and footsteps, and Fudge and the others left the Three Broomsticks Bar.

Tom and Hermione stuck their heads under the table. Harry's invisibility cloak had slipped off, but he was unaware.

Seeing Harry's devastated look, Tom and Hermione didn't know how to comfort him. He could only push the butterbeer in his hand to Harry and watch him drink the beer in the glass one sip after another.

After drinking several drinks, Harry stood up staggeringly and walked straight out the door. He seemed to care about nothing, even the invisibility cloak was put on him by Tom.

"Harry -" Tom wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start: things in Harry's family couldn't be explained in a short while. Maybe he can only let his elders solve it.

"I know, just leave me alone." Harry shook his head and ignored Tom. He walked like this in a daze, back to Honeydukes' cellar, and then returned to the castle through the tunnels.

There was only one question left in his mind: Why had no one ever mentioned that his parents died because of the betrayal of his best friend?

"Tom——" After returning to the castle, Harry took off his invisibility cloak and walked unsteadily towards Gryffindor Tower. Hermione looked at Harry's back with some worry.

"Should we do something?"

"But what can we do?" Tom asked.

"Then can you tell me why you let Sirius go?"

"Of course, I let him go because he is innocent." Looking at Hermione's eyes, Tom felt as if she thought she was crazy. So Tom sighed and began to tell Hermione the stories that happened in the previous generation...

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The principal's office welcomed two uninvited guests.

"Remus, I'm really surprised that you brought Sirius to see me." Dumbledore sat on the chair behind his desk and looked at Lupin.

Lupine felt like he was being seen through the blue eyes behind the half-moon glasses. But fortunately, he was very magnanimous today and had a clear conscience.

"Yes, Professor, I brought Sirius Black here. I think you should meet him. He brought some interesting words." Lupine calmly pushed Sirius to Dumbledore.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Sirius showed an unprecedented shyness.

"Professor Dumbledore, we meet again."

"You have changed so much." Dumbledore said with a smile, as if the person standing in front of him was not a wanted criminal from the Ministry of Magic, but an outstanding graduate who visited his alma mater after graduation.

"Azkaban makes people grow old." Sirius sighed, then laid out the Marauder's Map in front of Dumbledore and activated it.

Looking at the magical map in front of him, Dumbledore blinked mischievously, "It's no coincidence that you were rarely caught by the janitor during your school days - with this map alone, your N.E.W.T. Transfiguration and Magic My grades in the spell class should be excellent. I wonder if this map can be here with me——"

"No!" Sirius and Lupine rejected Dumbledore in unison.

Dumbledore did not continue to pester. All his attention was attracted by a small black dot named "Peter Petrew" on the Marauder's Map.

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