Chapter 145 Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock couldn't help shaking his head after listening to his story.

"What a shameful betrayal."

At the same time, he frowned again, remembering what Lupin had said before.

"You said that after they found out that you were a werewolf, they learned a high-end Transfiguration technique to accompany you?"

Lupin didn't answer Sherlock's question immediately.

He silently looked up at the full moon hanging high in the dark night outside the shed, and remained silent for a long time.

After a while, he slowly spoke.

"I have always felt guilty about this matter, and I have even been hesitating whether to tell Dumbledore. Now that I have told you, even if Dumbledore is disappointed in me, after tonight, I will tell him the whole story."

Sherlock didn't say anything, he showed a listening attitude, wanting to hear Lupin finish the story.

"James, Sirius and Pettigrew learned a kind of transfiguration called Animagus so that they could accompany me when I turned into a werewolf. This magic can make wizards turn into animals, and werewolves are only interested in attacking humans and have no intention of attacking animals."

"James and Sirius are very talented in magic. They learned this magic on their own, and Pettigrew also mastered Animagus with the help of the two of them. After they finished learning, they did not report this to the Ministry of Magic, and took me, who turned into a werewolf, to wander around Hogsmeade Village."

" I was very young at that time and didn't think about how dangerous it would be to do so. Not only the time with Snape, but there were many times when I almost hurt others, but fortunately I graduated from Hogwarts safely afterwards. "

"Sirius knows Animagus, and he may sneak into Hogwarts through this, but I have never dared to tell Dumbledore about it. Telling it is equivalent to telling him that I did such a thing when I was a student. I am afraid that he will be disappointed in me!"

Lupin hugged his wolf head. He looked very painful, but his tone was full of a sense of relief from saying everything.

"The students in the castle like me very much and think I am a good teacher, but I am timid and hesitate to tell the truth."

Sherlock didn't care about Lupin's current mood, because Lupin's words reminded him of something. He stared at the werewolf opposite who was blaming himself, and asked quickly.

"Do you remember what animal Black's Animagus form turned into?"

"It's a black dog."

Hearing his answer, Sherlock stood up from the ground suddenly.

"A black, big dog?"

Lupin noticed Sherlock's abnormality. He looked up, as if he had guessed something, and stared at Sherlock blankly.

"Yes, he is very big, as tall as an adult's waist."

Sherlock hit his palm heavily with his fist.

"It turned out to be him!"

"Have you seen him?" Lupin asked nervously.

"More than that, he helped me a lot!"

Sherlock did not say specifically what he helped. He paced back and forth in the Shrieking Shack, as if thinking about something.

"But it shouldn't be. Without you saying it, no one knew he was an Animagus. He sneaked into Hogwarts easily, and sneaked into the Gryffindor common room twice. Why didn't Harry get attacked once? Was Harry lucky?"

He muttered to himself, and Lupin also heard his mumbling, but he didn't know why.

Sherlock suddenly stopped, stared at Lupin, and began to analyze it bit by bit.

"The first time I saw him was when Hogwarts had just started. At that time, he should have just arrived in Hogsmeade and had not yet found the opportunity to sneak into Hogwarts. The second time was also in Hogwarts. It was the evening of the first day of school. He was still in Hogsmeade, which means he had not found the opportunity yet."

"On Halloween, I went to Hogsmeade again, but Black was no longer there. That night, just as the Halloween party was going on, he violently sneaked into the Gryffindor common room, which means that he successfully entered Hogwarts before Halloween."

"And the third time I saw him was when the Dementors broke into the school Quidditch game, on the highest level of the Quidditch stadium. At that time, he should have thought that there would be no one there, but he happened to meet me!"

He suddenly paused when he said this.

The Shrieking Shack was unusually quiet, so quiet that Lupin's heavy breathing was extremely clear.

"This shows one thing." Sherlock said slowly.

Lupin stared at him and asked immediately.

"What does that mean?"

"From the first time he broke into the Gryffindor Common Room on Halloween, to when I met him during the Quidditch match, to the second time the Gryffindor Common Room was broken into a few days ago, he never left Hogwarts during that long period of time!"

Lupin did not quite agree with Sherlock's conclusion.

"Impossible, I've used the Marauder's Map, and I haven't seen his name in any area of ​​Hogwarts."

Sherlock stared into his eyes.

"Does the Marauder's Map really cover the entire area of ​​Hogwarts?"

Lupin said without hesitation: "Of course!"

"What about the Forbidden Forest?"

Lupin was stunned!

Yes.

The Forbidden Forest is very large. As one of the creators of the Marauder's Map, Lupin knew very well that they had recorded every corner of Hogwarts on it, all the secret passages, and all the exits.

But the Forbidden Forest could not be drawn on it, because the forest is too big!

If Black wants to find a hiding place in Hogwarts, the Forbidden Forest is the best hiding place!

"Yes! He can hide in the Forbidden Forest!"

Lupin's wolf face showed great surprise. He now felt that Sherlock's former boss in the Auror Command was a complete idiot!

It is definitely the biggest loss for the Ministry of Magic to let such a talent out!

"We will go to Dumbledore tomorrow, tell him about it, and then conduct a big search of the Forbidden Forest!" Lupin said excitedly.

Sherlock did not respond to his proposal, but stared at Lupin with a gleaming look.

"Maybe we can try it tonight."

Lupin was shocked by Sherlock's words.

"Tonight? We?"

"Yes, tonight, we." He said affirmatively.

"But I still look like a werewolf..."

"I want your werewolf look." Sherlock looked at him and said, "In this state, are your hearing, smell and vision much stronger than normal?"

Lupin hesitated and said: "... Yes, yes, but there are only two of us, such a large Forbidden Forest..."

"I know the chance is small, but I can definitely try it."

In the end, Lupin was convinced by him.

The two of them went through the tunnel of the Shrieking Shack and returned to the Whomping Willow. It was almost one o'clock in the morning. There was no sound except the chirping of insects and birds in the Forbidden Forest.

Sherlock and Lupin did not act separately, because even if they searched separately, it would be useless for such a large Forbidden Forest.

The two of them together could ensure that if Black was found, he would not be able to escape easily.

After entering the Forbidden Forest, they kept searching deeper. Lupin was undoubtedly one of the magical creatures at the top of the food chain in the magic world in the form of a werewolf. The official danger rating of the Ministry of Magic for werewolves is xxxxx, which is on the same level as creatures such as dragons and basilisks.

So they didn't have to worry about being attacked by other magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest. With Lupin, they all had to take a detour.

Sherlock and his team kept walking deeper for more than an hour, and even walked to the area where the Acromantula used to be, which has now been burned into a white area, but still did not see the shadow of Black.

"No, it's hard to find a black dog in such a big place with just two of us." Lupin shook his head. He felt that this trip was destined to be fruitless.

Sherlock touched his chin and said thoughtfully.

"Maybe we went in the wrong direction. We subconsciously thought that since Black wanted to hide in the Forbidden Forest, the deeper he hid, the safer he would feel."

"But in fact, it doesn't matter where he hides in the Forbidden Forest in his Animagus state, because no one knows his Animagus form except you. Even if someone sees him in this forest, it's just a black dog, and normally no one will be suspicious."

"What's more, he must always pay attention to the movements of Hogwarts. If he hides in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, it will be difficult for him to observe the school."

"So we shouldn't look for it in the depths of the Forbidden Forest. We should search the edge of the Forbidden Forest near Hogwarts!"

Lupin was shocked by Sherlock's reasoning.

Wizards, especially those of pure blood, have always been naturally at a disadvantage in logical reasoning ability.

Most magic requires strong emotions to release, so basically, the longer you learn magic, the less rational you will become.

But Sherlock's performance at this time is completely like an outlier among wizards. He combined all the clues together and deduced a result that is infinitely close to the answer!

They immediately turned around and returned to the original path, and began to search again on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

But after searching for more than an hour, when the sky began to turn pale, there was still no harvest.

Sherlock shook his head and sighed.

"It seems that the two of us can't find it now. Let's go back to the castle and tell Dumbledore about this, and then let more people come to look for it."

Just as Sherlock's voice fell, Lupin suddenly pricked up his ears alertly.

"Wait!"