Chapter 146 The Real Traitor

Sherlock turned his head to look at Lupin, who looked alert, but did not speak at the first time.

Because Lupin raised a furry finger to him, indicating that he should not speak for the time being.

The two wolf ears on his head were shaking gently, as if sensing the sound from some direction.

Then he waved cautiously to Sherlock, indicating that he should follow him carefully.

The movements of both of them began to become lighter, and they tiptoed to the left rear. After walking for about ten steps, Sherlock also heard a slight snoring sound.

Lupin stopped, and Sherlock remained motionless. They looked towards the place where the snoring sounded, and there was a big black dog lying there sleeping!

Both of them held their breath, looked at each other, and saw affirmation in each other's eyes.

This black dog is Sirius Black!

As soon as Sherlock saw Black, he gently took out a cloth bag from his pocket, grabbed it, took out five or six wands and threw them around him, and those wands floated in the air.

Lupin was stunned at Sherlock's actions. If this was not a critical moment, he would have thought that Sherlock was showing off his wealth to him.

Sherlock didn't care whether he could understand it or not, and continued to throw wands.

The wands thrown out at the beginning had quietly dispersed, and the farthest control distance of controlling magic was about ten meters.

And the distance between them and Black was about ten meters, and dozens of wands had quietly flown directly above him, and all the wands were aimed at him.

At this moment, Black, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly moved his dog ears alertly, sniffed his nose, and suddenly opened his eyes!

Sherlock and Lupin just met his eyes!

At the first time, Black felt something was wrong and realized that this was definitely not an encounter. The target of the man and the wolf on the opposite side was himself!

A panicked look appeared in his eyes. He got up from the ground at a very fast speed, and suddenly exerted force on his four legs, trying to escape to the depths of the forbidden forest!

Lupin also roared at the same time, and ran towards Black on all fours!

Sherlock did not move, but the dozens of wands that had been suspended in the air and surrounded Black before began to wave regularly.

In all directions, countless bushes suddenly disappeared, and hundreds of vines slid on the ground like snakes, completely surrounding Black who had not run a few meters away!

Finally, under Black's desperate eyes, the vines directly wrapped around his body, wrapped him up completely, leaving only a huge dog head!

Seeing Black being caught by Sherlock, Lupin did not stop his forward steps. He directly hit Black's dog face head-on, knocking him bloody!

The sun in the east has slowly risen, and the morning glow covers half of the sky, but the man, wolf and dog present have no mood to appreciate the brilliance.

The moon sets, and the werewolf features on Lupin are gradually fading. He returns to a human face. The embarrassed face is extremely pale, but the hatred in his eyes has not disappeared even a little!

Lupin stared at Black's bloody dog ​​face.

"Change back to me!"

Sherlock loosened the vines on Black's body at the right time, and the black dog also turned into a tall but extremely thin man with black hair, dark gray eyes.

Seeing Black's face, Lupin couldn't help it. He waved his fist again and hit Black's face hard!

"You killed James and Lily!"

Black's mouth and nose were bleeding, and he replied hoarsely.

"I don't deny it."

"Peter was blown to only one finger by your spell!"

Lupin didn't punch again. The first punch made him calm again, but his questioning was still not over.

"No! Peter is not dead!"

When asked here, Black suddenly became emotional and struggled hard.

"I don't deny that I killed James and the others! But the traitor is not me! Listen to me, Lupin..."

However, before he finished half of his words, Sherlock tightened the vines on him.

"You'd better wait to say anything to the Dementors. It's possible that they won't listen to your explanation at all and just give you a kiss."

Sherlock knew that villains died because of talking too much, and didn't want other twists and turns in the end.

Seeing that his actions didn't seem to be fake, but he really wanted to give himself to the Dementors, Black was completely anxious!

"I'm not lying! If I was really the traitor and really wanted to kill Harry, I had the chance twice before, but I didn't do it! I haven't hurt anyone since I escaped from Azkaban! James' death is related to me, I am guilty! But I wasn't the one who betrayed him! I didn't resist when I was caught, I just wanted to punish myself for my sins!"

He said all the things he wanted to say in a row, and Sherlock stopped.

Lupin looked at him, and Sherlock said hesitantly.

"Why don't we listen to what he says first?"

Lupin also had this idea. He could hear from what Black said just now that there might be some hidden secrets at that time.

Sherlock did not let Black go, but tied him tighter.

They stood condescendingly, looking at Black lying on the ground tied up, and Lupin said coldly.

"We can give you a chance to explain."

Black obviously cherished this opportunity very much. He knew very well that if he was handed over to the Dementors, there was almost a 99% chance that he would be kissed and his soul would be sucked away.

He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that after he died, no one would know that Peter was the traitor!

"After the prophecy about Voldemort's defeat spread, James had already thought of hiding." Black tried to calm his rapid breathing and told Lupin and Sherlock, "At first, he really wanted me to be the secret keeper of the Fidelius Charm."

"But at that time, I was too smart and thought I could let him announce that I was the secret keeper, but actually find that bastard Peter Pettigrew and let him be the real secret keeper. In this way, Voldemort can put all his goals on me and will not know who the real secret keeper is."

"But what I didn't expect was that my so-called brilliant plan killed James and Lily! Peter was the traitor! After he became the secret keeper, he immediately told the secret to his master!"

"Voldemort later killed James and Lily died! After I learned about this, I went crazy to seek revenge on Peter. I found him and forced him into a dead corner where he couldn't escape. He shouted in front of people on the street that I betrayed Potter! Then he used a powerful explosion spell! "

"He blew up all the Muggles on the street, leaving only one of his fingers on the ground!"

"I thought he was dead, so I didn't resist. I accepted the arrest of the Ministry of Magic and wanted to spend the rest of my life in Azkaban to punish my mistakes. But just last year I found out that Peter was not dead at all! He was still alive and had been staying by Harry's side!"

"That's why I escaped from prison. I must kill Peter! I must kill him with my own hands!"

Black shouted as if his hatred was about to jump out of his throat.

Sherlock frowned and listened to all his stories. He just asked one question.

"What is Peter's Animagus form?"

"A mouse!" Black gritted his teeth and said, "He probably relied on this to escape from under my nose at the time, and fooled me twice in a row!"

Hearing this, Sherlock felt that Black was almost certainly not lying.

Because in his memory, the most profound impression of this semester in the original book was that the real bad guy turned into a mouse and ran away.

Lupin also believed Black's words at this time.

They were playmates in childhood, and naturally knew Black's character. He had always felt incredible that Black would betray James, and now everything became reasonable through his explanation.

But Sherlock did not simply let Black go as a good person. He looked into Black's eyes and asked.

"How did you know that Peter was not dead in prison?"

"Newspaper! When Fudge came to Azkaban for inspection, he brought a newspaper in! The newspaper is still on me, you can take it out of my pocket!"

After hearing what he said, Lupin walked to his side, reached into his robe pocket and began to search, and finally found a crumpled Daily Prophet from it.

This was last summer's newspaper, and the front page was full of news that Arthur Weasley won the annual first prize of the Prophet, and the family was traveling in Egypt with the prize money.

The photo of the Weasley family in Egypt occupied half of the newspaper, and the mouse Scabbers lying on Ron's shoulder was extremely conspicuous.

"Look at the forelimb of the mouse! He is also missing a middle finger. Peter's explosive curse at that time blew off his finger!"

Following Black's reminder, Lupin and Sherlock also noticed the forepaw of the mouse Scabbers that was missing a finger!

Lupin also muttered to himself.

"Yes, that's right, this mouse does look exactly like Peter's Animagus form!"

By now, they have believed most of what Black said, but Sherlock still feels unsafe.

He fumbled in his pocket and took out a small bottle of potion.

"Do you dare to say that everything you said is true after drinking the truth serum?"

Black said without hesitation.

"No problem!"

Lupin looked at Sherlock in surprise. Veritaserum is a contraband in the magic world. Except for the Ministry of Magic and a small number of qualified potion masters, ordinary people can't get this potion at all.

Sherlock walked in front of Black and raised the potion in his hand. Sirius opened his mouth without hesitation and drank all the liquid in the bottle of potion.

Then Lupin and Black were waiting for the truth serum to take effect. However, Black's spirit was not at all infatuated. On the contrary, the wound on his face that was previously injured by Lupin's fist was healing rapidly.

They both looked at Sherlock in shock, and Sherlock shrugged at them.

"Sorry, I don't have the ability to get the truth serum, so what I gave you just now was just a bottle of healing potion. If you don't dare to drink it, I will take you to find the Dementors. If you dare to drink it, it means that what you said is true, and this bottle of medicine can help you."

While he was speaking, he had already lifted the Transfiguration on Black, allowing him to move freely.

Lupin extended a hand to Sirius on the ground.

"So at that time you suspected that I was the spy among us, so you didn't tell me about the change of plan later?"

Sirius extended his hand and shook it with Lupin, and was pulled up from the ground by him.

"Forgive me, Lupin, I didn't expect that the cowardly Peter would betray us at that time."

"It's okay, my old friend, I have always misunderstood you over the years, we are even."

They hugged each other, like a pair of old friends who met again after a long separation.

Sherlock looked at them and couldn't help but remind them.

"I think things like reminiscing and sensationalism can come later, and there are still the most important questions that have not been asked clearly."

Sirius and Lupin separated at this time. He looked at Sherlock and extended his hand to him.

"We have met many times, but I still don't know your name."

Sherlock extended his hand and shook his hand.

"Sherlock Forrester, the current professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, I also want to thank you for helping me and Silk before."

They briefly got to know each other and began to talk about business.

"Since the real traitor is Peter, and he has been hiding in the Weasley family as their pet, he must have known that you escaped from prison to seek revenge on him." Sherlock said calmly.

As long as Peter's name was mentioned, Sirius couldn't help but grit his teeth.

"Of course he knew I was looking for him. I sneaked into the Gryffindor common room twice. I didn't find him there the first time. When I went there the second time, he had already pretended to be dead and escaped from the boy!"

Sherlock also knew something about Ron's rat Scabbers.

"I met Harry and Ron's friends a few days ago. Hermione was crying secretly in the classroom, saying that her cat ate Ron's pet mouse and they had a conflict over it."

"No, it wasn't! That girl's cat is the smartest cat I've ever seen. I gained its trust and asked it to help catch Peter, but Peter pretended to be dead for the second time and tried to escape again!"