Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse - Chapter 394

c384 The truth about Pettigrew

“I’m sorry to call you here at this hour, Sirius, Remus.”

The July sunshine filtered in through the large windows, making Dumbledore’s office filled with wonderful knick-knacks appear even brighter. Albus Dumbledore was sitting in his seat, and opposite him were two familiar faces – Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

Although the death of Peter Pettigrew due to the backlash of his oath was indeed beyond Dumbledore’s expectations, Sirius was successfully rehabilitated in the end – in fact, when the Wizengamot tried him thirteen years ago, If he had been more attentive, he wouldn’t have been sentenced to Azkaban as a Death Eater. Pettigrew’s recently deceased body itself is important evidence that overturns the conclusion of the year. Coupled with Dumbledore’s unprecedented prestige at this stage… it is not easy to overturn Sirius’s case.

After regaining his innocence, he was finally reunited with his godson. After Dumbledore personally destroyed Voldemort’s soul, Harry’s protective spell became less important, and he did not need to be forced to stay with the Dursleys in order to recharge the spell – and the old and new lives The sharp contrast between them also quickly made the relationship between him and Sirius become harmonious…

As for Lupine, he returned to Hogwarts at the invitation of Dumbledore and resumed his position as Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Just like Avada’s previous speculation, Voldemort’s death does mean the complete end of the curse of the “Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts”, and the specific reason was only revealed under the magic senses after Voldemort’s soul returned to integrity. There was a clue – the curse was on Voldemort himself.

To put it simply, the specific content of that curse is: “I curse Tom Riddle to become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.” Generally speaking, if Voldemort did not become a professor as required, the curse should torture Voldemort himself; but the power of Voldemort is that, with his extremely powerful magical attainments, he abruptly transferred the price of the curse to all previous students. On the head of the defense professor – that is to say, as long as he is not a defense professor for a day, this curse attached to him will travel thousands of miles to torture the defense professor at that time…

As for the year of the Philosopher’s Stone – I’m sorry, the Hogwarts staff list stated that the defense professor at that time was Quirinus Quirrell, not Voldemort, even though he was actually hanging on the back of Quirrell’s head. , and that curse was obviously not very adaptable… So the curse Voldemort launched twenty years ago hit himself twenty years later.

Therefore, after Dumbledore confirmed that the curse had dissipated with the death of Voldemort, Lupine was able to successfully retake office, and after undergoing the werewolf healing surgery, he no longer had to worry about harming the students…

“It’s your job, Professor.”

Sirius grinned: “Anyway, as a new school director, I will have to go to Hogwarts again sooner or later; and I guess Moony Face will also have to get familiar with the life of a professor again…”

“Well, as long as I don’t hold you up – how’s Harry doing?”

“very good.”

When talking about Harry, Sirius immediately became elated: “After getting rid of those bad Muggle relatives, his overall appearance has become much better to the naked eye… but he still can’t get used to living in my house. His old house, he spent nearly one-third of his time at Arthur’s house during this holiday, and I also went to have a few meals with him…”

“You also have to restrain him a little.”

Lupine next to him listened and laughed: “He will also have to face the owls exam next year. For the sake of his future, he still has to pay attention to it – the value of the wizard level exam is different now. ,right?”

“Why do you care about this? That university doesn’t teach people how to play Quidditch. Harry is now bent on developing into a professional Seeker… If it doesn’t work out, wait until he retires and then participate in the university’s own recruitment. You can take exams too.”

“But then…”

“Ahem.”

Seeing that Sirius and Lupine were engaged in chatting again, Dumbledore had to cough twice more before drawing their attention back: “The main reason why I’m calling you here this time is to inform you that Pettigrew The results of Peter’s investigation are in.”

“Peter?”

Upon hearing this name, the smiles on Sirius and Lupine’s faces instantly faded, and they also showed uneasy expressions: “So what is going on?”

“Unfortunately… based on the clues we have so far, the truth is probably the one you least want to hear.”

Dumbledore shook his head slowly, then pulled out a stack of documents from under the table and pushed them towards Sirius and Lupine: “This is what has been searched from the homes of those pure-blood families in the past two months. , you can take a look at the internal records of the Death Eaters back then.”

Sirius and Lupine held their breath and took the documents and read them word by word. For a moment, except for the crisp sound of parchment being turned, there was no other movement in Dumbledore’s office…

“he……”

After an unknown amount of time, Sirius’s trembling voice broke the calm air again: “He actually really…I…but…”

“Why…why…obviously…”

His chest was heaving violently, and his hands were firmly pressed on the pile of documents, as if he wanted to tear them into pieces to deny the contents. Lu Ping on the side held his arm tightly, but his face had become extremely ugly…

When they learned that Pettigrew died due to the backlash of his oath, they thought they were ready to face the worst outcome. But when the decisive evidence was laid out in front of them, they realized that they were not as tough as they thought.

“Your initial inference was correct.”

There was an indescribable sadness in Dumbledore’s voice: “It is indeed Peter who chose to join Voldemort because of his cowardice and lust for power. After becoming the Secret Keeper, he betrayed the address of the Potter family to Voldemort…”

“But why?!”

Sirius raised his head suddenly, stared at Dumbledore with red eyes, and shouted in a pleading tone, as if begging him to tell him that what he was seeing was just a prank: “He was obviously so sincere at the time, and he also investigated so much. Intelligence…and the final unbreakable oath was also made at his own initiative, wasn’t it?”

“Why is this all fake?!”

“……I have no idea.”

After Dumbledore was silent for a long time, he slowly said, “But I have a theory.”

“His betrayal was originally due to his own cowardice, so maybe he would feel regret and uneasiness deep in his heart. After Voldemort’s failure, the security that Voldemort originally brought him The feeling suddenly dissipated, causing him intense and extremely complex psychological pressure…”

“In order to get rid of such pressure, he will most likely create some fantasies to tell himself that he has not actually betrayed, has no old friends who have wronged him, and is not Voldemort’s person. Combined with the fact that he was a Death Eater The little knowledge he learned during the camp… I’m afraid that’s how the explanation he gave us came about.”

“Moreover, as time goes by, he will become more and more convinced of those fantasies, until he completely distorts his original personality – that’s why he behaves so sincerely when telling us that, He would also take the initiative to bind himself with an unbreakable oath… But when he was about to face prison again, his original cowardly nature broke out again, urging him to break away from the oath and fly away… Then, he died from the backlash of the oath. ”

“That’s the only possibility I can think of.”

“so……”

Sirius looked at his hands in disbelief: “So I really killed James?”

“Is it really because I was smart and changed the secret keeper to Pettigrew that he was able to successfully betray the James family? If that’s the case, I…I…”

“No—calm down, Padfoot, and look at this.”

Lupine on the side suddenly pressed his shoulder and pointed to a piece of text on the document with his other finger: “You made this decision because of the confusion spell – during that time, Pettigrew has been secretly releasing it on you. Confusion spell to prompt you to make that decision – this is part of the Death Eaters’ plan.”

“…”

Sirius didn’t make a sound, just lowered his head and sobbed silently.

“Well, Professor Dumbledore, I think he needs to go out and relax… Do you have anything else to do?”

Lupine helped Sirius stand up slowly, asked Dumbledore in a low voice, and when he saw the latter shaking his head slightly, he took him straight out of the office.

After watching the two figures disappear from the door, Dumbledore also sighed heavily, then stretched out his finger and lightly touched the document opened by Lupine…

Immediately, the records recording “Pettigrew cast a confusion spell on Black” disappeared with his fingers, as if they had never existed from the beginning.