Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 148 Peter Pettigrew

When Harry was trapped in the chair, the other party looked at John with an incomprehensible look, but it soon turned into a hateful look.

John didn't need Legilimency to know what Harry was thinking at the moment. John curled his lips and stared at Harry.

"Don't look at me like that, Harry, sometimes what you see, what you hear, what you know is not the truth."

"Like, like this!"

Speaking of John gave Sirius a look, Sirius naturally understood what John meant, and then under the shocked eyes of Harry, Ron and Hermione.

With a burst of changes, Sirius turned into a black dog they were very familiar with.

"Wick...?!" Harry was shocked, staring at John with wide eyes.

Ron and Hermione also showed the same shocked expressions as Harry at this moment. They really didn't expect that Sirius, a criminal wanted by the Ministry of Magic, had been staying by Harry's side.

Sirius returned to human form and stood in front of Harry, looking at him with a kind of love he couldn't understand.

"This this……"

Harry was like a stranded fish, opening and closing his mouth, but unable to utter a complete sentence.

He has realized that the truth of the matter may not be as he thought, because if Sirius is really Voldemort's lackey, then he has countless ways to kill himself during this period, instead of using this method to let him fall into the net .

Seeing this, John waved his hand, and saw that the bondage on Ron and Hermione's mouths disappeared, but at this moment, the two of them couldn't say anything, and they were completely stunned by what they saw.

"So John and Sirius knew each other from the beginning?" Harry looked at John with complicated eyes.

He clearly remembered that the black dog that Sirius turned into was given to him by John.

John didn't answer Harry's words, but this attitude already let Harry know the answer.

Harry once again turned his gaze to Professor Lupine who had already stood beside Sirius, and asked, "Professor, do you know Sirius too?"

Lupine looked at Harry calmly, nodded without saying anything.

Although Hermione's voice was a little hoarse due to the previous sobbing, she kept calm and asked, "So why did you arrest us?"

"Yeah, John, why did you arrest us!" Ron also shouted.

John didn't speak, but gestured to Sirius with his eyes, now it's his turn to explain everything.

Sirius naturally understood the meaning in John's eyes. He conjured up a chair, sat down and untied Harry and the others.

Harry and the others also knew at this moment that things were not what they thought, so they didn't choose to run away, but looked at Sirius to see what the other party had to say.

Sirius stared at Harry, his eyes were complicated, and he seemed to see past memories from Harry's face, and as he fell into the memories, Sirius spoke slowly:
"It all starts with the past. I, Lupine, your father James, and Peter Pettigrew formed a foursome called the Predators."

"James is our leader, and Peter Pettigrew is the least magical of the four"

"He admired us very much and volunteered to follow us as a small follower. Later, we took him into the Marauders. With our help, Peter also learned Transfiguration and became an Animagus."

"But due to the limitations of his own personality and magical talent, he can only turn into a mouse, so he is also called Wormtail"

When Harry heard the title "Wormtail", he froze for a moment, because he remembered the name shown on the Marauder's Map.

So he took out the Marauder's Map from his pocket, and Sirius and Lupine naturally saw the Marauder's Map in his hand.

"I didn't expect the Marauder's Map to be in your hands, Harry," Lupine said with some emotion.

Sirius reached out to take the Marauder's Map from Harry's hand, and pointed his wand at the Marauder's Map.

"I solemnly swear that I will not do good deeds."

In an instant, thin lines of ink spread like spider webs from where the tip of George's wand touched, connecting each other, criss-crossing, extending to every corner of the parchment, and then the words appeared on the top, which were green. Large font:

"Moonface, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

gentlemen who help magical mischief makers
Introducing!Marauder's Map! 』

Because of being outside the school, nothing was displayed on the Marauder's map at the moment.

"Moonface is Lupine, Wormtail is Peter, Padfoot is me, and Prongs is...your father, Harry," sighed Sirius.

"At that time, James was capable and thoughtful, and he proposed the Marauder's Map. At that time, we read a lot of alchemy books, and even sneaked into the headmaster's office to steal the construction map of Hogwarts, so we created this pair of us. The perfect prop."

"The prank is over!"

Sirius thought, folded the Marauder's Map carefully, and returned it to Harry.

Harry took the Marauder's Map handed over by Sirius. At this moment, his mind became a mess, because he couldn't tell whether the Sirius in front of him was real or the Sirius he heard in the tavern was real. of.

But Harry's thoughts, which Sirius didn't know, continued what he had just said.

"Although Peter is timid and cowardly, he is very observant and used to follow the strong and let them protect him. Therefore, during school, Peter
He is willing to follow us. "

"Although Peter's magic level is not very good, we treat him very well and treat him as a good friend."

"But after we graduated, Voldemort's power gradually rose."

"Later, because of the prophecy of the Son of July, the James family was hunted down by Voldemort. We tried our best to protect James and the others, but we never expected that there would be traitors!"

Speaking of this, Sirius' expression became distorted, and hatred shone in his eyes.

"That traitor is none other than Peter Pettigrew!"

"I don't know when he was subdued by Voldemort and stayed in Hogwarts to become Voldemort's spy. Peter devoted himself to collecting Hogwarts evidence for Voldemort."

Speaking of this, Sirius seemed to be a little bit collapsed and covered his face: "If I had known earlier, if I had known earlier, James and Lily would not have died!"

Lupine reached out and patted Sirius on the shoulder: "It's not your fault, Sirius, we didn't even know he had joined Voldemort at that time."

"What happened back then?" Ron asked.

Lupine glanced at Sirius, and said, "Principal Dumbledore proposed to protect James and Lily with the Loyalty Curse. Naturally, Sirius, who is Harry's godfather, was chosen as the secret keeper."

"It's just that Sirius, in order to be more secure, thought that Peter Pettigrew, who has a low sense of presence, would be safer as a secret keeper, so he recommended Peter to your father James. In addition, we didn't know that Peter had betrayed him at that time, and he was still our good friend. "

Having said that, Lupine sighed and said, "So James followed Sirius' suggestion and replaced the secret-keeper with Peter."

"However, no one expected that Peter, who knew where James and the others were hiding, immediately told Voldemort the news, causing James and the others to sacrifice. Since Sirius is a well-known secret keeper, only the James and his family could replace Peter. Sirius knew, naturally Sirius became the first suspect."

"Then...why didn't Sirius tell the truth?" Hermione asked.

At this moment, John said, "Because he thought he killed James and the others, so he chose to use this method to atone for his sin."

"But Peter Pettigrew is dead, who knows if what you said is true!" Ron said.

Hearing Ron's words, John showed a somewhat complicated smile, and then asked a question that made Ron a little strange.

"Ron, do you like owls or other pets? You can find Sirius at that time, and he will pay you back."

While Ron was still wondering, Hermione obviously realized what John meant, and turned her head to look at Scabbers in the cage on the table in disbelief.

Harry naturally also noticed Hermione's movements, and couldn't help but set his sights on Scabbers in the cage.

Ron also reacted at this moment, and said loudly: "Wait, John, you mean that Scabbers was transformed from Peter Pettigrew? This is ridiculous. You know, Scabbers has been in our house for 12 years. How can he Possibly Peter Pettigrew!"

"Twelve years," said Lupine. "Don't you wonder how he lived so long?"

"We...we took good care of it!" said Ron.

"But he doesn't look too good now, does he?" said Lupine. "I guess he's been losing weight since I heard Sirius was out..."

"And he's missing a finger on his front paw. The bone left by Pettigrew Peter was a finger." John added
Harry and the others looked carefully and found that Scabbers was indeed missing a finger on his front paw.

Sirius said hoarsely: "I'm such a fool, I persuaded Lily and James to use Peter instead of me as their secret keeper at the last moment... It's all my fault, I know... the night they died , I went to see if Peter was safe, but when I got to his hiding place, Peter was gone, and there was no sign of a struggle there. I didn't feel well, got scared, and went to your parents' house right away. When I saw the ruins of their house, saw their dead bodies...I realized what Peter did...what I did..."

Sirius' voice choked, and he turned his face away.

"Actually, after saying so much, we can't prove that what we said is true, but there is a reliable way to prove all of this."

said Lupine, with a chill in his voice Harry had never felt before.

As he spoke, he grabbed Banban out of the cage, and the strength of his hand made Banban let out a howl.

"That's forcing it to show itself," Lupine said. "If it's really a mouse, it won't hurt it."

"Ready, Sirius?" Lupine asked.

Sirius had regained his composure, and walked over to Lupine and the struggling mouse, his wet eyes suddenly burning up in his face.

"Come together?" he asked softly.

"I think so," said Lupine, clutching Scabbers tightly in one hand, and raising his wand with the other. "Count to three. One-two-three!"

Both wands emitted a blue light, and for a split second, Banban stopped in mid-air, his little gray body writhing crazily.

Amid Ron's screams, the rat dropped to the ground, another blinding flash, and then, like a fast-forward shot of a tree growing, a head came out and so did its limbs.A moment later, a man stood where Ban Ban was, cowering and wringing his hands.

Crookshanks growled and spit on the bed, the hair on his back bristling.

It was a very small man, not much taller than Harry and Hermione.Thin, lacklustre hair was a mess, with a large patch of baldness on top.

He looked wrinkled, like a fat man who lost a lot of flesh in a short period of time, with dirty skin almost like spotted fur, a pointed nose and water

Wang Wang's mung bean eyes also have the characteristics of a mouse.He scanned the crowd, breathing heavily, and Harry saw his eyes flick toward the door.

"Hello, Peter." Lupine said cheerfully, as if mice often turned into old classmates in front of him. "Long time no see."

"Little... Sirius... Re... Remus..." Peter Pettigrew's voice was shrill, and he glanced at the door again

"My friend...my old friend...long time no see..."

　It's stupid, the automatic timer is set for the next day, I just found out now, this is yesterday's Chapter 2, I'm really sorry
　　
　
(End of this chapter)