The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 224 Analysis and layout (for subscription, for collection, for recommendation)

After talking about Buckbeak, Hagrid saw the cage in Ryan's hand and asked, "What happened to your mouse?"

"Oh, this is Ron's pet." Ryan said as he opened the cage and handed Scabbers to Hagrid. "This mouse feels a lot thinner than before, and its spirit is also a lot worse. I have recently used some methods to treat it. , but it only prevented the rapid deterioration of the rat's condition, but it still couldn't cure it. You are the only person I know who knows about these animals, so I want to find you to find a way."

"Let me see." After finishing speaking, Hagrid took Scabbers with his big hand, "It looks like it has suffered a lot of injuries before." Hagrid moved Scabbers' head and paws with his hands and said, "Look at its ears even because of external force. It's been torn apart, and one of its front paws is missing."

"By the way, how old is this mouse?" Hagrid asked Ryan after checking.

"As far as I know, this is Percy's previous pet, probably seven or eight years ago." Ryan said uncertainly.

"Seven or eight years? What a miracle. You must know that this kind of ordinary mouse can only live for three years in most cases. However, there are always exceptions to everything. Maybe this mouse is the exception. But even if it lives longer than normal mice It should be at the end of its lifespan now, so I personally suggest that you feed it some absinthe, although this is not good for mice, but at least it can make its last days more comfortable." Hagrid Finally came to a conclusion.

"Okay, thank you." After speaking, Ryan stuffed Scabbers back into the cage. After discussing which case to focus on for a while, Ryan and Hermione said goodbye and left Hagrid's cabin.

When they returned to the common room, Hermione suddenly said to Ryan: "Go up and put the cage away first, I have something to tell you."

Ryan nodded and quickly put the cage away and returned to the common room. He found Hermione sitting in a corner waiting for him.

As soon as he took the seat opposite Hermione, Hermione asked him, "What the hell is that Weasley's mouse?"

"How do you see that's wrong?" Ryan asked.

"Others might think that the thing wrapped around your cage is just an exotic decoration, but I've seen you beat zombies to ashes with ease in temples with those beautiful little stones engraved with strange runes. You only need one stone for such a scary zombie, but I don’t think it’s a normal mouse that needs more than a dozen stones wrapped around the cage.”

"Well, you watched carefully. What I want to tell you is that I suspect that the rat may be a wizard."

"What?" Hermione couldn't control the volume, and several classmates in the common room turned to look at her.She hurriedly lowered her volume and asked, "Why do you think so?"

"It was actually just an accident." Ryan said what he had made up in advance. "You know I have some magic that I can't learn in school. The first day I got Scabbers, I used a hypnotic magic for the soul, and it fell asleep directly."

"Hypnotic magic makes it fall asleep, it's normal." Hermione said a little puzzled.

"But the problem is that it's for the human soul. In theory, animals shouldn't be asleep," Ryan explained. "Afterwards, I experimented with similar magic several times, and the final conclusion is that this mouse should turn into a human."

Seeing Hermione opened her mouth to show a shocked expression, Ryan paused and continued. "I went to Hagrid today to confirm this. It's not normal for an ordinary mouse that is not a magical animal to live for so long."

"So that mouse may have been transformed by a wizard? Being able to live like a mouse for several years means that the wizard cannot disclose his identity. In this case, there is a high probability that criminals in the wizarding world will use this method Hide yourself. God, what do we do now?" Hermione whispered nervously.

"I even have a suspicion about who this mouse is, but I have to ask someone to be sure." Ryan glanced at the common room after he finished speaking, and then shouted at a tall boy with red hair: "Percy Senior, here I have a question to ask you."

Percy quickly ended the ongoing conversation and walked over, "Hi, Lane, Hermione, what are you doing here?"

"We were discussing a problem, you know that Ron's rat was treated at my place recently, and we found something, um, unusual things." Lane replied.

"The rat? It used to be my pet. I can answer some questions for you," Percy said.

"It used to be your pet? That would be great. I wonder when that pet came to your house? What was it like when it first came to your house?"

"Well, that pet was first brought back by my dad. First to our big brother Bill, then to me when I was in school. Then to my little brother Ron when I got a new owl. It has been living in our house for 12 years. God, Scabbers has lived for such a long time, I didn't notice." After careful recollection, Percy was also a little shocked by this situation.

"As for how it looked when it first came to our house, my father picked up a mouse in our garden that day. I remember very clearly that this mouse had injuries on its ears and a front paw was missing. Now think about who we were at that time. I didn't expect that this mouse, which looked covered in wounds, would have lived so long." Percy finally said.

Ryan and Hermione glanced at each other, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.Only Hermione was genuinely surprised and Ryan was faking it.

Percy also saw that something was wrong from the exchange of expressions between the two, and asked, "What problem did you find on Banban?"

"Well, your mouse might be a human," said Hermione.

"How is that possible?" Percy asked in disbelief.

"It's true," Lane said. "Because we took Scabbers with us when we went to Hagrid's today, and he told me the normal lifespan of a normal house mouse like this is only three years."

"Well, that might be because our mice live longer," Percy stammered in shock.

"It's normal to live for one or two years, but it's a little abnormal to live four times longer? If you compare it with humans, Banban's age is equivalent to that of Nicolas in the mouse, but it doesn't have the Philosopher's Stone and the potion of immortality." Min added.

Percy's complexion began to turn ugly. After all, normal people know that they don't look better after sharing the bed with a stranger for several years.

At this time Ryan went on to say: "And based on what Senior Percy said just now, I have roughly guessed who this mouse is."

"Who?" Percy and Hermione said in unison.

"Peter Pedilu, the legendary man who should have been killed by Sirius Black."

(End of this chapter)