Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 139 The Full Moon Ends and the Quidditch Match
Because of the pain from the deformation and tearing of his body just now, Lupine's body is still trembling at this moment, and his pale face shows how painful it was before.

Lupine supported the table beside him to stand firm. He looked weakly at Snape who was maintaining his magic, pursed his lips and said, "Thank you for your help, Snape."

When Snape heard Lupine's thanks, it was like eating a live toad, with unspeakable disgust on his face.

"John!" Snape frowned and said without looking at Lupin, "I'll leave it to you. If he loses control, I don't think you've forgotten the magic I taught you."

After finishing speaking, he directly interrupted the maintenance of the wolf transforming curse, waving his robe like a bat disappearing into the darkness.

Without Snape to maintain the magic, Lupine would immediately turn back into a werewolf, but the next second the same magic hit Lupin, suppressing the change again.

John looked helplessly at the place where Snape disappeared, and didn't know what to say for a while.

After confirming that Snape was far away, Sirius changed back into a human form, and he yelled, "What kind of attitude is that snot-nosed man! I really thought he needed his help! With him like this, he can still become a master of potions. Pooh, he already Should die with that shit Voldemort! That bastard..."

Lupine didn't feel surprised, because he took the initiative to find Lupine after Sirius went to John to ask when Pettigrew was dealt with.

After some frivolous exchanges, the two who had been friends with each other finally figured out the truth of the matter.

And after learning that Sirius had been by Harry's side to protect him with John's help, the last bit of doubt in Lupine's mind disappeared.

"Okay, Sirius, don't talk about this." Lupine interrupted Sirius's curse, and then he looked at John and smiled, "I'm really sorry for you, John."

"It's nothing, after all, you are a good teacher, aren't you?" John said nonchalantly, maintaining the spell in his hand.

Soon as time passed, the brilliance of the full moon in the sky became increasingly dim.

Finally, around three o'clock in the morning, the first ray of morning sunlight illuminates the dark earth and the gloomy sky.

Lupine breathed a sigh of relief, he could feel the animal nature in his body being reduced, which meant that the full moon of this month had passed smoothly.

After John confirmed that Lupine was indeed fine, he interrupted the maintenance magic.

He didn't choose to give the potion to Professor Lupine when it was about to dawn. It was really that the potion specially prepared by Professor Snape was too tasteful, so it's better not to deepen the conflict between them.

And while John left early, Lupine and Sirius stayed behind to clean up the Shrieking Shack.

In the Gryffindor bedroom, Harry woke up very early.

At first, he thought it was the howling wind that woke him up, but then he felt a cool breeze on the back of his neck.

Harry jerked up and sat up straight, rubbing his eyes and putting on his glasses to look.

He saw the prankster Peeves floating around beside him, blowing into his ears.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked angrily.

Peeves puffed out his cheeks and blew hard, then whizzed out of the room, giggling wildly.

Harry reached for the alarm clock and looked at it. It was only 04:30 in the morning.

Cursing Peeves in his heart, he turned over and tried to go back to sleep, but now that he woke up, it was hard to ignore the sound of thunder rolling overhead, the strong wind hitting the castle wall, and the snapping of branches in the Forbidden Forest in the distance.

In a few hours, he would be battling the storm outside on the Quidditch pitch.

Finally, he no longer expected to go back to sleep, got up, got dressed, picked up his Nimbus 2000, and quietly left the dormitory.

Harry had just opened the door when he felt something rub against his leg.He bent down quickly just in time to grab the tip of Crookshanks' shaggy tail and drag him outside.

"Tell you, I think Ron is right about you," Harry said to Crookshanks suspiciously. "There's a lot of rats in this place, go catch them. Go,"

As he spoke, he pushed Crookshanks down the spiral staircase with his feet.

"Don't bother Scabbers."

In the common room, the sound of the storm grew louder.

Harry knew very well that the match would not be cancelled.

Quidditch matches don't get canceled because of something as trivial as a lightning storm.Still, he was starting to feel worried.

Wood had pointed out Cedric Diggory to him in the corridor once.

Digory was a fifth grade student, much bigger than Harry, with a Seeker's light build and quick movements, but in this weather, Digory's weight was an advantage, and it was not easy for him Staggered by the wind.

Harry was killing time in front of the fire, waiting for daylight, getting up every now and then to stop Crookshanks from slipping up the boys' dormitory stairs again.

Finally, he felt that it must be time for breakfast, so he walked through the portrait hole alone.

Because there was no Sirius attack, it is still the kind fat lady who guards the door of the Gryffindor lounge now, not the inconspicuous Sir Cadogan.

In the auditorium, Harry ate a big bowl of porridge, and only then felt a little cheered up.

When he started to eat the bread, other team members also came.

"It must have been a tough fight," said Wood, who ate nothing.

"Don't worry, Oliver," Arya reassured him, "we don't mind the drizzle."

Yet this is by no means a drizzle.

Quidditch is particularly popular, and all the teachers and students in the school come out to watch the game as usual.

They ran along the lawn towards the field, keeping their heads down against the strong wind, because the umbrellas in their hands were blown away by the wind halfway.

Harry was about to enter the dressing room when he saw Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle walking towards the stadium under a large umbrella, pointing and laughing at him.

The players changed into bright red uniforms and waited for Wood to give them his usual pregame speech, but it didn't happen.

Wood tried a few times, but only made a strange choking sound, and shook his head helplessly, motioning for them to follow him.

The wind was so strong that they were blown side to side as they walked towards the field.There was another roar of thunder, even if the audience were cheering and applauding, they could not have heard it.

The rain hit Harry's glasses, and everything in front of him was blurred by the rain. How could he see the Snitch under such conditions?

At this moment, Harry noticed a person in the rain curtain walking slowly towards this side. There seemed to be some invisible barrier above his head, blocking all the raging wind and rain around him.

Harry tried hard to look in the direction of this person, luckily, Harry found that this person was walking towards them.

Soon after the man approached, Harry saw the man's appearance clearly.

"John!" Harry didn't expect that it was John, who had never been to a Quidditch match before.

Then he saw Wick obediently following John, and Harry felt a little pleasantly surprised: "Wick!"

Hearing Harry's words, Sirius glanced at John, then passed through the barrier into the rain and rushed to Harry's side.

Just when Harry was complaining about where Sirius had been running all this time, he saw Hufflepuff players in pale yellow robes coming from the other side.

"Hi, John." The leading Hufflepuff Captain Cedric greeted John smiling after approaching.

"Hello, Senior Digory," John nodded with a smile.

The two didn't communicate much. After saying hello, Cedric led the players into the arena, but when he passed by Harry, he lowered his head and glanced at him.

Harry didn't notice Cedric's movements, but rushed into the arena in a hurry after handing Sirius to John again.

"Hot air dehumidification," John said, pointing at Sirius with a finger.

The spell from life magic took effect quietly, and the invisible hot wind rose from the bottom of Sirius' feet, drying the wet hair on his body.

Then John took Sirius to the Hufflepuff auditorium.

As for why John came to the Quidditch arena, one was because of Sirius' request. After all, he was now a pet on the surface, and he couldn't enter the Quidditch arena in a fair manner without someone leading him.

The second is that John seemed to remember this competition, because the enthusiastic joy of the little wizards caused a riot of dementors, and John was going to take the opportunity to capture some dementors again.

After all, he had caught the attention of the Ministry of Magic by secretly capturing the dementors before. All the dementors were under enhanced surveillance, and there was basically no chance to capture those dementors without alerting the Aurors.

And because the blame for this matter still fell on Sirius, in order to avoid deepening Sirius's "crime" and cause the other party to find himself complaining about this matter, John chose to temporarily stop poaching Dementors. up.

John slowly climbed up to the Hufflepuff stands, found a place to sit down, and Sirius stood up impatiently and looked down at the arena below.

However, John noticed that a line of sight was looking at him from the position of the professor's stand not far away.

John turned his head to look, and met a pair of blue eyes hiding wisdom.

Headmaster Dumbledore in the distance smiled at him, and John naturally nodded back with a smile.

In fact, John guessed that Principal Dumbledore probably realized that Wick was Sirius. You must know that the other party is not only one of the most powerful wizards in the magic world, but also a master alchemist no less than John's teacher Nick Flamel.

But John didn't care about it, after all, he didn't expect the collar he made casually to fool the principal.

And John suspected that after knowing that Wick was Sirius, the principal had already monitored him and began to secretly investigate the truth of what happened back then.

I haven't come to him or Sirius yet, but I just want to see what they are going to do.

But these are not the things John is paying attention to now, he turned his attention to the center of the arena.

At this moment, Gryffindor captain Oliver Wood and Hufflepuff captain Cedric Diggory, under the guidance of Ms. Hooch, the two captains came together and shook hands with each other.

Cedric smiled at Wood, but Wood clenched his teeth like a tetanus and just nodded.

John clearly saw that after Ms. Hooch said "get on the broom".

Harry jerked his right foot out of the mud and stepped onto his Nimbus 2000.

As Ms. Hooch put the whistle between her lips and blew, the sharp and piercing whistle temporarily overwhelmed the sound of the rain, as if it came from afar.

The game officially started.

(End of this chapter)