"John, John, what happened yesterday? It must not be what Professor Dumbledore said, right?" In the History of Magic classroom, Hermione asked John excitedly after making sure there were no outsiders. Harry and Neville followed her. Behind him, he was also staring at John curiously.
In fact, during the day, Hermione wanted to ask John, but unfortunately Hufflepuff's classes were full today and she couldn't find time to ask John - if they still went to Gryffin as in the original plot , then there will only be one transfiguration class today.
But now that their new trio have all entered Hufflepuff, their course schedule is naturally completely different from the original plot.
(The letters below the courses represent houses, R=Ravenclaw H=Hufflepuff G=Gryffindor S=Slytherin)
Fortunately, their evening course happened to be John's History of Magic, and the get out of class ended at only eight o'clock, and the curfew was at ten o'clock, so they had enough time to ask John for details.
"Little clever guy, you guessed it right. The truth is indeed not that simple. I can tell you, but you must not tell it to outsiders, understand?" John looked at the curious looks of several children and couldn't help but smile.
Ignoring some details such as "assassinations" and "interrogations", it is not a big problem to tell a few children the general situation. Anyway, these children are relatively reliable in terms of the original plot and his current understanding.
Not to mention that among the trio there is Harry, who is deeply involved in this matter.
"We will never tell anyone!" Hermione agreed without hesitation, and Harry and Neville nodded repeatedly.
"Actually speaking, this matter has a lot to do with you, Harry!" John nodded, and then directly named Harry.
"It has something to do with me?" Harry was very surprised.
"Yes, to be precise, it has something to do with your parents - when your father was a student at Hogwarts, he had three very close friends, namely Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Dwarf, they also formed a small group called the Plundering Followers!" John introduced the three children to some of the deeds of the James Potter quartet in school.
But even though John said it very cryptically, several children still heard something was wrong.
Why does Potter's father's small group of four act like a bullying group?
If it were other students, they might not feel this way.
But the three children Harry, Neville, and Hermione are different.
What's the difference? That is, they were all bullied in the past.
Needless to say, Harry had the most profound experience of being bullied by his cousin Dudley and his friends since childhood.
Because of his stupidity, Neville was often bullied by children of similar age when he was a child.
As for Hermione, she was rejected by some children her age because she was too good.
"...It sounds like the behavior of Harry's father's small group is not like good students, but it is a bit similar to Malfoy's small group." So after John finished speaking, the honest boy Neville couldn't help but Bit muttered.
Hermione nodded with great feeling.
As for Harry's face, he looked a little unhappy. After all, one of the people they were talking about was his father.
He didn't want to believe what John said, but he also knew that John had no intention of lying to him.
"If that's the case, Harry, I suddenly understand why Professor Snape was so targeted at you during Potions class this morning!" Hermione glanced at Harry with some sympathy and said.
Because when John was talking about James Potter's experience, he also mentioned Snape being bullied, so Hermione could easily think of Harry being bullied by Professor Snape in Potions class in the morning. The situation was targeted, and it was the same as when Harry took potions class for the first time in the original plot, and he was deducted points.
But soon for Hermione, the points that were deducted were added back by Snape - after all, the Hermione now is not the little girl who is alone and helpless in the magical world in the original book, but has John. This big Buddha is behind her.
Apparently Snape knew about Hermione and John's relationship beforehand.
If it hadn't been for yesterday's incident with Pettigrew, Snape might have been able to ignore John.
But now, he still has to give John some face.
Therefore, Harry is still targeted, but it is impossible to face Hermione with the same attitude as in the original work.
Even Hermione felt a little bit "kind" in Snape's attitude.
Hearing Hermione's words, Harry couldn't help but sigh.
If things were really as John and Hermione said, then in the face of Snape's targeting, he could only admit that he was unlucky. Who let his father do the evil?
If he were in Snape's position, maybe he would also target himself a little - just like he had always wanted to teach Dudley a lesson since he was a child.
Regarding the two children's topic about Snape, John just had a smile on his face and didn't say much. After all, even Snape himself couldn't explain clearly the dispute between Snape and the Potters. , it’s better not to let a few children have trouble.
"But what does this have to do with what happened yesterday?" Although the topic was briefly diverted by Snape's remarks about Harry, Hermione quickly brought it back to the topic.
"This involves the death of Harry's parents!" At this point, John's face became serious.
"The cause of my parents' death?" Harry's face became serious when he heard this.
"Yes, we are going to talk about a special spell here, the Loyalty Charm!" John said, explaining the spell to the three of them.
"You mean, Voldemort was able to find my parents because the Secret Keeper betrayed them? Who is this Secret Keeper? Sirius? Lupin? Or Pettigrew?" Harry asked angrily.
He was not stupid. Since John deliberately mentioned his father's small group called the Predators before saying that he was loyal, it meant that the secret keeper was one of the other three.
"For the past 10 years, everyone has believed that this man is your godfather Sirius Black, and he was also accused of killing Peter Pettigrew and a group of Muggle bystanders, so he was imprisoned in Azkaban !" John did not answer directly, but talked about Blake.
"So the real murderer is not him, but Lupine?" Hermione immediately asked.
"Of course...not..." John glanced at her and said.
Now the three children were all confused, weren't they?
"It's not Black, it's not Lupin, it can't be a dead person like Pettigrew, right?" Hermione couldn't help but said.
"Congratulations, you got the answer right!" John nodded. "Pettigrew faked his death scene, blamed everything on Sirius, and then hid as his own Animagus, a mouse. "
"Rat???" Hermione and Harry exclaimed immediately, and then looked at each other. They immediately remembered Ron's "sacrificial" pet.
As for Neville, he was confused and still thinking about what an Animagus was - due to amnesia, some of his common sense about the wizarding world was even inferior to Hermione and Harry, who had only studied for more than a month.
