Probably to recuperate and prepare for tomorrow's exam, the snoring in the dormitory was particularly loud, and there was also a smell of burnt aroma. Looking at the handful of bones scattered on the table, someone probably packed the chicken legs from the auditorium. Came back for a late night snack.
There were a lot of black fragments and bones piled together. Someone should have used a fire spell to heat them up. Unfortunately, he probably didn't control the firepower well and it was burnt a lot. Fortunately, he didn't burn down the dormitory, otherwise it would be so fun. But it’s big.
All I can say is that he deserves to be a Gryffindor.
After the three people walked into this dormitory, no one knew what kind of magic was used. The room fell into a state of 'stillness'. Although the snoring was still there, except for the four people sleeping soundly on the four-poster bed, everything in the room was silent. Frozen by magic.
The bed rose silently, the cabinets and tables beside it also floated into the air, and countless fragmentary objects slowly flew through the air under the control of magic. This carpet-like search would not miss anything.
But after a while, Dumbledore shook his head slightly and said, "He is not here. Apart from them, there are no other living creatures in the dormitory. The elves clean the dormitory every day, and I didn't find even a cockroach." "
"is that so?"
Harry frowned slightly. Maybe in this world, Peter Pettigrew didn't choose to become a mouse and live in the Weasley family? Harry, who was a little confused, planned to ask the twins tomorrow. Just because he couldn't find them in the dormitory, it didn't mean that Scabbers the mouse really didn't exist.
But at this moment, Harry caught a glimpse of a picture frame out of the corner of his eye. He subconsciously reached out to fish it out, and saw a group photo of the Weasley family in front of the Burrow. This picture was taken several years ago. The eldest son Bill and Charlie, who graduated last year, are still in the photo frame. The family with smiles on their faces waved friendly hands to Harry after seeing him. The photos in the wizarding world can move, but the people inside Unlike portraits, they cannot leave the photo and visit other places.
Seeing Harry staring at the photo attentively, Dumbledore, who was a little strange, also cast a look at him. Just when Dumbledore was confused, a rat's head with a sly look popped into the pocket of Percy's clothes. When he came out, the photo that was originally in action was frozen. Grindelwald's finger pointing at the frame stretched forward and pointed at the inconspicuous little black dot.
"You guessed it right." A faint smile appeared on Grindelwald's lips, "Look, we found him."
The mouse in the photo is scratching the side of the pocket with its small paws. His left front paw is missing a small finger than the right one.
"Although we found the wrong person, we seem to have found the right person."
"What a wonderful chance encounter. Maybe you are also favored by fate?"
"Maybe." Harry nodded slightly, "I brought Veritaserum."
He took out a thumb-sized glass bottle from the small bag on his chest, which contained about a dozen drops of transparent liquid. There was a handwritten label attached to the bottle.
"Severus is so"
Dumbledore's mouth twitched. He knew the inside story, but wasn't it a bit too much to give this to his godson?
"Legilimency is fine. I think I'll leave the Veritaserum to Peter."
Dumbledore didn't want Harry to use this kind of potion on the Weasley children. Although Snape's potion must be of high quality and would have no side effects, the terrible taste should spare these children's lives.
"It's up to you, Professor."
Harry nodded and took back the small bottle, but his calm gaze at this moment gave people an inexplicable pressure to turn around and run away.
"If the rat that Peter transformed into was Percy's pet, then it would be really easy to attack him. With a scapegoat agent, the risk of him being exposed is indeed very low. He is timid and afraid of death, but he is also a bit clever. Yes It’s just a rat.”
He chuckled, Grindelwald seemed quite satisfied with this plot.
If all of this was really led by Peter Pettigrew, then he had really fooled everyone. If Harry hadn't boldly guessed at the end, after Voldemort took the blame for him, he really wouldn't have been exposed. identity.
The three people who left the dormitory found Percy. However, the three of them immediately came back in a circle and came to the dormitory that was filled with the smell of chicken legs. The mouse used to be Percy's pet, but after Ron went to school , this gray mouse was given to Ron.
Another proficient legilimens start. Dumbledore had a deep understanding of this magic. It seemed that it was easier for him to extract information by 'questioning' in a dream than when he was awake.
"We're late."
Dumbledore showed a helpless smile and shook his head. What happened tonight was really terrible.
"This mouse was indeed brought to Hogwarts by Ron, but after Ron found the scapegoat at Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley bought him a reward gift, including an owl that Ron wanted very much. .”
"A month ago, Ron's owl came and was brought to the dormitory by him, and the mouse that Peter transformed"
The corner of Dumbledore's mouth twitched. The memory picture he read in Ron's mind showed that Peter was really in trouble.
Since following Ron, Peter's life has suddenly become easier. Compared to Percy, Ron's thick nerves make him live a life of doing whatever he wants. Percy thinks that a fat gray mouse is not a good thing. As a pet, Percy has always kept him in a cage and rarely takes him out of the dormitory. The food he feeds regularly is bread and water. Although the amount is large and full, he almost doesn't finish it after several years of eating. He ate and vomited.
But Ron was different. Although Ron didn't think mice were good pets, this guy was stupid. Although he was worried about himself, he didn't care about himself at all. What moved Peter even more was that Ron was a foodie. After finishing the chicken legs for dinner, he would pack them back. The fragrant chicken legs were 10,000 times more delicious than bread. He could also use the bones left on the table to grind his teeth.
After turning into a mouse, many of his habits were assimilated by the mouse. This is an inevitable consequence of maintaining an Animagus for a long time. There are even weak-willed wizards who forget that they are human after a long period of transformation. In fact, Peter is very timid, but he is still determined after experiencing strong winds and waves.
But such a leisurely day was interrupted by a damn owl. In order to reward Ron, the Weasleys squeezed out a little money to buy him a wand. Due to the lack of money, it took several months for the owl to get the second gift. After buying it for him, Ron, who was so excited that he almost ran away from Hogwarts, immediately brought the owl back and opened its cage.
Peter, who was lying on his textbook, munching on yesterday's leftover potato chips and humming a song, suddenly encountered a bloody disaster under the dark clouds. The owl carrying the cage and flying all the way to the door was very hungry at the moment. Such a big fat mouse Looking at it, the owl's eyes turned green.
An eagle swooped and the owl rushed towards him and put its talons on Peter's fat belly. He was instantly disemboweled and was so painful that he almost died on the spot.
If it hadn't been for the fact that the food he'd fed over the past few months hadn't left him with a smooth face and a thick layer of fat in his belly, the first blow just now would have taken him away.
The shrill screams finally awakened his little master's brain, which was not very easy to use. The kid was a little stupid, but at least he didn't hesitate to save Peter. He picked up the owl in one fell swoop and saved Peter's life. If it were any later, the owl's sharp beak would tear open his belly and start feasting on this fresh delicacy. Peter, who didn't dare to stay any longer, ran away in a hurry, dragging a trail of blood and disappeared out the door.
"Perhaps he has not left Hogwarts for the time being." Dumbledore said thoughtfully, "Peter was seriously injured. Although it will not kill him, it will take some time to recover. Although he cannot use magic, but The animals transformed by Animagus are still much stronger than ordinary animals."
"Transforming back into human form cannot heal his injuries, and physical injuries cannot bring him back to wizard form, but the wounds will not disappear. Peter, who cannot use magic to recover from his injuries, needs time to recover. He should not run away from Hogwart. Ci, this is a place he is familiar with, and it is easier to find food and shelter than anywhere else."
"Does that mean we now have to play an unpleasant game of cat and mouse with him?"
Suppressing the annoyance in his heart, Harry frowned and said.
"Maybe we can take a trick?"
At this moment, an interesting idea popped into Dumbledore's smart mind, "Hogwarts is very big. This castle can accommodate ten thousand people without being crowded. Even I don't know how Hogwarts is." How many rooms does Gwarts have? The space inside the castle has been expanded by magic, not to mention the countless secret hiding places."
"let's go."
Dumbledore turned and left the dormitory, walking through the common room and out into the corridor.
"There are too many secrets in Hogwarts. Although I am the principal of Hogwarts, I don't know all the secrets of this castle."
Dumbledore, who was taking the lead, seemed to be in a good mood. He spoke briskly, and this emotion seemed to calm Harry's mood.
"Once I took a wrong turn when I went to the toilet and entered a wonderful room filled with all kinds of exquisite and luxurious chamber pots. When people are in urgent need, a hidden door will appear in front of them. The door opens on the wall, but we don’t need to try our luck now. This door that can appear anywhere in the castle actually has a fixed entrance."
"Look, we're here."
Dumbledore stopped in front of an empty wall. On the opposite side of the wall, there was a tapestry of a troll beating Barnabas stupidly. This was also one of the few corridors in Hogwarts that did not have a hanging portrait, so it was empty.
"As long as Peter is still hiding somewhere in Hogwarts"
Dumbledore pointed to the blank wall in front of him, "Keep your needs in mind, walk back and forth in front of this wall three times, and the door to the Room of Requirement will be opened for you."
"Try it, Harry, maybe there's what you want behind the door."
Dumbledore made room for Harry, thinking silently, 'I need to go to where Peter Pettigrew is hiding.' Harry walked back and forth three times on this blank wall. When he opened his eyes, a The standard wooden door often seen in Hogwarts appeared in front of him.
At the beginning, Harry planned to borrow the Marauder's Map from Fred and George. Harry had no intention of keeping it as his own, even though it was made by his father, but the Marauder's Map was indeed very useful. It can show the location and name of everyone in Hogwarts. If finding a needle in a haystack is too troublesome, he also plans to find Lupin. As one of the producers, Lupine must know something that the twins don't know. skills.
But what he never expected was that Dumbledore found a more effective method. Except that the Room of Requirement could not conjure food and gold, it could almost meet the needs of most people. The name of the Room of Requirement was quite appropriate, even It can open a new secret passage leading outside of Hogwarts. This is an incredible magic. Ordinary wizards will definitely not be able to do this.
Maybe this is the powerful magic left by one of the four founders who established Hogwarts. As the founders of Hogwarts, each of them has powerful power that ordinary wizards cannot imagine.
Harry felt a little nervous as he held the doorknob. He hoped that the Room of Requirement would grant his wish. Although this approach was outrageous, it also seemed magical.
The wooden door was slowly pushed open, revealing a dark room that exuded a musty smell of old wood. As fluorescent light balls flew in, the dark room was illuminated. It was a room similar to a utility room, with many broken sofas and broken chairs thrown in, none of them intact.
"Peter~Peter~where are you~"
Harry sneered and hummed a creepy tune. A dark shadow emerged from his body. The chaotic and evil aura from Obscurus filled the entire room in an instant. The black shadow that resembled a dementor filled the room. Although Ying didn't have the aura of despair, the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped a few degrees inexplicably at this moment.
In this extremely depressing moment, the red light from the white ivory broke the silence.
"Torn apart."
The already decayed sofa seats were cut into small pieces under the power of the curse. The collapsed garbage pile raised smoke and dust, but a small vortex swallowed up all the flying dust.
"Come out quickly~ Let me play a game with you~"
"If you hide and don't want to meet me~"
"When I catch you, I'm going to peel off your skin, pull your tendons, cut your flesh, and feed it to you."
The increasingly gloomy tone seemed to make Harry become more and more perverted. Seeing this scene, Dumbledore turned his head and glanced at Grindelwald, but this guy actually had the same look on his face as Harry.
'How interesting. Grindelwald gave Dumbledore a look, "You have to play games with a smile." '
Dumbledore, who no longer wanted to see the chaos and banter between the two, covered his forehead, but in the next second, the tuneless humming suddenly raised the tone of his teeth.
"I~ caught you~"
"Little mouse~Peter~"
The shrill squeaking sound was like the noise made by fingernails scraping against a blackboard. The fat mouse lying in a pile of food and food scraps had its dark little eyes widened. Harry silently squatted in front of Peter and stretched out his hand. The dark hands made him feel suffocating and desperate.
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Thanks to Cangyou for the 500 points~
This chapter is two in one. I went out for a swim today and stretched my rusty arms and legs. The third chapter is no problem. I will work hard to write the fourth chapter.
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