A certain Hogwarts magical cat

Chapter 356 The Bait for the Dark Lord

After listening to Kreacher's narration, Charlie couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

In fact, he is not very clear about the detailed contents of the Slytherin locket. He only knows that Voldemort hid the Horcrux locket in a cave, and was later dropped by Regulus to the house-elf Kreacher.

In fact, he felt that if he came from the perspective of a wizard, true pure-blood theorists like Regulus were not wrong.

They just want wizards to live a bright and aboveboard life, instead of living in hiding because of the secrecy law.The blood and strength they pursue is not violence and cruelty.

In fact, it is also recorded in the magic book that the original Death Eaters did not persecute Muggles and non-pure blood wizards, they only pursued the purity of blood.

This is why Voldemort had so many followers in the beginning.

"This silly brother, why do you want to take risks alone, since you have betrayed Voldemort, why don't you stand with me!"

Sirius returned the locket to Charlie and sighed sadly.

"Perhaps, this is the pride of Slytherin!"

Charlie took the locket and thought to himself.

Presumably, although Regulus recognized Voldemort's true face, he still did not approve of the idea of ​​the Order of the Phoenix headed by Dumbledore.

And as a real Slytherin, he probably didn't want to ask Gryffindor for help.

"Do you want to destroy it now?"

Sirius asked.

"No, I haven't been able to destroy it yet, we still have to use it to catch the Dark Lord!"

Charlie held the locket in his hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Hogwarts Castle, Christmas dinner,
After taking care of everything, Charlie finally hurried back to the castle a few seconds before the dinner began.

The decoration of the castle was the same as in previous years, colorful and very beautiful, although there were not many students staying at Hogwarts because it was a holiday.

Thick ribbons of holly and mistletoe hung in the corridors, and mysterious lights shone in every suit of armor.The twelve Christmas trees stood in the auditorium as usual, with golden stars shining on them.

Before entering the auditorium, Charlie was attracted by a strong and attractive cooking aroma in the auditorium.

"Good evening, almost missed!"

Charlie breaks the disillusionment spell and appears next to Alice.

When Alice saw Charlie, she couldn't help showing surprise on her face, and then said with some reproach:

"Charlie, it's Christmas today, where did you go all day?"

"Dumbledore asked me to do something, and I just came back after finishing it!"

Charlie looked at Ron and Hermione staring at each other on the table, and couldn't help changing the subject:
"What's wrong with them? They're fighting again!"

Alice hurriedly explained in a low voice:

"Scatterers disappeared this afternoon, Ron found Scabbers' blood and Crookshanks' cat hair on the bed, and thought Scabbers was eaten by Crookshanks!
Hermione thought it couldn't be Crookshanks, because she locked him in the cat cage in the dormitory before she went out in the morning and didn't let him out!
The two quarreled like this, and they haven't reconciled until now! "

"Looks like Peter Pettigrew is playing dead again!"

Charlie knew there was absolutely no way for Crookshanks to kill Pettigrew, because Pettigrew would have touched the Animagus if there had been any danger.

The reason for this situation must be that Pettigrew felt that it was too dangerous to stay by Ron's side, so he directly pretended to be dead and hid in the castle.

The mouse's body is so small, as long as he pays attention, it is basically impossible for Sirius to find him in the castle.

In fact, Pettigrew is still a bit greedy. If he just wanted to run for his life, he should not have followed Ron back to Hogwarts after knowing that Sirius had escaped from prison. Instead, he would have gone away and gone to hide in other countries.

The world is so big, if he really kept hiding, Sirius would not be able to find him.

It's just that he still holds a glimmer of hope, hoping to see Voldemort resurrected and regain power, so that he can contribute Harry as soon as possible, so as to get the reward from the Dark Lord again.

This was why he had been reluctant to leave Ron and Hogwarts.

At the end of the holiday, on the morning of the first day of school, in the auditorium,
Ron and Hermione were still fighting over Scabbers' disappearance.

Ron felt that since Hermione's cat Crookshanks killed Scabbers, Hermione should apologize to him, or at least show guilt, but Hermione kept arguing that it was not Crookshanks who did it.

For this matter, Harry was partial to Ron, because he felt that Scabbers' disappearance must be related to Crookshanks, and Crookshanks' hostility towards Scabbers had always been obvious.

And Alice stood on Hermione's side. Yesterday morning, she saw Hermione put Crookshanks in the cage with her own eyes, so it couldn't be Crookshanks.

Only Charlie knew the truth, but he didn't tell the four of them.

Because of the current situation, it is impossible to tell the truth to the four to prevent it from affecting his and Dumbledore's fishing plan.

Moreover, it is not a big deal for children to quarrel. After a while, the truth will be revealed, and they will naturally reconcile.

"Hey, Harry, did you read the Daily Prophet this morning? I heard that a wizard saw Sirius in Hogsmeade last night and took a photo.

If I were you, I would definitely not be able to bear it, I would hunt him down myself! "

At this moment, when the little Malfoy trio passed by the Gryffindor long table, they suddenly said something strangely to Harry, and then left quickly.

When you saw this, Ron, you immediately comforted:
"Harry, don't listen to him, he just wants to encourage you to find Sirius, and then let you be killed, so that he can easily win the Quidditch match!"

Seeing that Harry's expression was wrong, Hermione and Alice also began to persuade:

"Harry, you've got to be reasonable. Black did a very, very terrible thing, but don't—don't take the risk, that's playing into Black's hands... Oh, Harry, if you go to him, it's just going to be Black's advantage.

Your parents don't want you to get hurt, do they?They would never want you to go find Blake! "

"I'll never know what they want, I've never spoken to them just because of Blake."

Harry said sadly.

"I won't go to him, who of you has today's "Daily Prophet", I want to see it!"

"Brother, wait a minute, I'll borrow one for you!"

Ron left his seat and quickly found a copy of the latest "Daily Prophet" this morning.

The newspaper's cover featured a picture of a pale Sirius sitting on a bench outside Hogsmeade, wearing somewhat tattered clothes and wearing a strange locket around his neck.

(End of this chapter)