What a strange thing, Harry thought when faced with the question.
Professor Brain didn't ask too much about how he discovered those secret passages, but after Professor Lupine learned about it, he showed great concern. He even chased him to the Gryffindor lounge at such a late hour. Question this.
The three Harrys looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what Professor Lupine was up to.
"Oh, well--" Harry shrugged, trying to sound as innocent as possible, "We discovered a few of them ourselves."
Tonight, Harry had already lied to two professors who were close to him, but he couldn't help it. Fred and George were kind enough to give him the Marauder's Map, and he couldn't drag them into the water.
Lupine stared at Harry sharply, not at all like his usual gentle demeanor. Regarding Harry's explanation, he neither chose to believe it nor rejected it. He just continued to ask,
"I thought... you must have had a little help from something else too, Harry?"
Could it be that Professor Luping knows that map?
Harry's heart suddenly beat faster and he couldn't help but think of this.
"I'll just put it bluntly, Harry."
Lupine was not going to talk in circles. His pale cheeks were flushed by the flames. He stared closely into Harry's green eyes and asked,
"Professor Brain told me that among the three secret passages that Filch didn't know about, the entrance to one was not inside the castle, but under the whomping willow beside the playground... Please allow me to be confused about this, Harry , I think it’s unlikely that you would know this under normal circumstances, right?”
Ron and Hermione stood behind Professor Lupin. When Lupine asked this question and stared into Harry's eyes, their eyes met in mid-air, and they both saw the confusion in the other's eyes.
Professor Lupine went out to find Harry just to know this?
"Well...it's because..."
Harry frowned, trying desperately to find an excuse to get past the question, but Professor Lupin added sternly,
"I assume the truth you told me must be the truth, Harry?"
Harry was speechless, unable to continue spinning lies. ŴŴŴ.
"Because of that car, Professor--"
Ron mustered up the courage to stand up. Facing Lupine's suspicious eyes, he said crisply,
"I think you may have heard about that, Professor, when Harry and I arrived at Hogwarts in a flying car at the beginning of our second year."
"The Daily Prophet reported something at that time...," Lupine said slowly with memories flashing in his eyes, "Minerva seemed to have mentioned it to me a few times. She said that your car ended up crashing into , that whomping willow?"
You're a genius, Ron!
From Harry's peeking eyes, Ron read this sentence, and this also boosted his confidence, and his tone became much more confident,
"Oh, yes, Professor!"
Ron said in an unbearable tone,
"That was a very painful lesson, Professor. Harry and I are generally reluctant to recall that car... it finally lost control and hit the Whomping Willow. You know, that tree has a bad temper. We I tried my best to dodge, and finally escaped from its clutches at the cost of two broken ribs and a wand!"
Hermione's cheeks turned red. She could never get used to the behavior of telling nonsense to fool the professor, although she had done this many times herself.
"In other words, it was at that time that you discovered a secret passage there?"
Lupine's frown relaxed a little. Ron's words sounded reasonable. At least, there were no obvious flaws.
"Yes, Professor!"
Ron, whose brain became more active, said,
"But we were in a hurry to escape and didn't have time to go down and see what was going on... Later we wanted to do that, but we couldn't get closer to it!"
"Okay, that sounds like the truth."
Lupine breathed a sigh of relief and his shoulders relaxed. However, before Harry could relax, Lupine regained his seriousness. He glared at Harry and said,
"Professor Brain told me that after you practiced the Patronus Charm at my place last week, you sneaked out of the school gate and went to Hogsmeade to drink. To be honest, Harry, I was shocked, because I I thought the sounds you heard when the Dementors were approaching would make you exercise greater restraint."
Harry wanted to explain, but Lupine didn't give him a chance;
"Your parents sacrificed their lives to protect you and keep you alive, Harry, and this is really not the right way to repay them - risking their sacrifice just for a couple of beers."
Lupine left, and his last disappointed look made Harry feel even more uncomfortable than in Professor Blaine's office. Seeing his appearance, Hermione opened her mouth and said nothing, although in her heart she agreed with the two. Professor Harry's education.
As he slowly walked up the spiral staircase leading to the dormitory, Harry suddenly said in a dull tone,
"I suddenly felt like I had been acting stupidly all this time."
"Oh, don't think so, Harry -"
Ron patted the lost Harry and said,
"Professor Brain and Professor Lupin are both adult wizards, and their life experience is incomparable. And when they were our age, they might have done countless bastard things!"
............
There was no light in the night, and a week of fine snowflakes turned the world outside Hogsmeade into a snow-white picture.
In the dry and cold cave, a big dog that looked like a black bear lay trembling on a bunch of hay. Under its body was a pile of blood-stained white bones of field mice.
The swirling and shrill cold wind squeezed in through the narrow entrance of the cave, and a sound like a ghost crying or wolf howling immediately sounded in the dark cave. The big black dog raised his head and happened to see a sharp black shadow jumping onto a black stone at the entrance of the cave. He raised his back and shook the snow off his furry body.
A piece of cake?
When he saw what was in Crookshanks' mouth, the originally weak big black dog suddenly jumped up and let out an excited whimper.
The biting cold and unbearable hunger made it unable to think about where Crookshanks got this thing from. It ferociously rushed towards Crookshanks and grabbed the frozen big round with one bite. The cake was eaten and he bit into it desperately.
Click!
The cave filled with howling winds suddenly remembered the sound of something breaking. The hungry big black dog spit out broken teeth and blood, as well as the piece of cake Crookshanks brought.
Hagrid's rock pie...
The big black dog was about to cry but had no tears. It had a lifeless expression on its face. It finally recognized what this thing was.
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