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Chapter 611: Past Events, Catching Peter

Sirius's memory was so explosive that Harry's mind was a little confused and his thoughts were more complicated than ever before.

"I didn't expect that the real traitor was Peter Pettigrew."

Professor McGonagall shook her head. She still remembered that thin figure who had always followed James and his group during school days, like a little follower.

It took him several years to completely integrate into that small group. He always followed the lead of James and Sirius. No matter how you look at him, this man seemed harmless, but no one expected that he would commit such a shocking crime as soon as he took action.

"Could there be some misunderstanding here? Banban has been in my family for many years..."

Ron already knew that Scabbers was the murderer identified by Sirius, but he still couldn't believe it. After all, this mouse had been in his family for many years and had been a pet to several of his brothers. His family treated Scabbers as a family member.

Now someone told him that Banban was actually a wretched middle-aged man, and he was totally unable to accept this reality.

You know, he would secretly tell Banban about any grievances and thoughts in his heart. If Banban was really a human, wouldn't all his secrets be known to others?
"Ron, how many years has Scabbers been in your house?"

Zhou Ming asked.

"Um, twelve years?"

Ron said somewhat uncertainly.

"Peter Pettigrew was declared 'dead' twelve years ago."

"That doesn't mean anything..."

"You have to know that mice generally can't live that long."

"Maybe Banban is an exception..."

"But it's missing a finger. That's the only thing Pettigrew has ever found. Let's face it, a mouse that can't live for twelve years lived for twelve years and happened to be missing a finger. If it's a coincidence, then it really could be a coincidence. But if all the dots are coincidences, then it's not a coincidence. Do you understand?"

Zhou Ming made the final decision immediately.

"..."

Ron opened his mouth, but had nothing more to say.

"Then the next step is to capture Peter Pettigrew, Professor..."

Zhou Ming looked at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore was about to speak.

"I go!"

Lupin suddenly stood up, and for the first time, he, who usually behaved gently, showed an expression of extreme anger on his face.

He regarded Peter Pettigrew as a friend, or rather, he regarded James, Sirius and Peter as his most precious friends.

Because of his werewolf bloodline, it was almost impossible for him to make friends, but the other three never looked down on him. In order to make him less special, the three even took the risk of learning Animagus transformation.

So Lupin cherishes this friendship very much.

However, James died, Sirius was imprisoned, and Peter was previously presumed dead, and Lupin once thought that his life was over.

It wasn't until he met Harry that he felt his life had a little color.

Now that he knew that Peter was the culprit behind all this, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and he wished he could beat Peter to death with his own hands.

"I'll go as well."

Professor McGonagall also stood up.

This matter concerned Gryffindor House, so there was no reason for her, the headmaster, not to be present.

"Then I'll leave this matter to the two of you to resolve."

Dumbledore nodded, then looked at Zhou Ming, "Zhou, help untie him. I don't think he will run away again, am I right? Sirius."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Sirius nodded vigorously. It was the only thing he could do at the moment.

Zhou Ming smiled and gently waved his wand, quickly untying the vines that were wrapped around Sirius.

Finally free, Sirius took a deep breath and slowly got up from the ground. He looked around and finally set his eyes on Harry.

"You look exactly like your father, but your eyes are more like your mother's."

Just one sentence made Harry burst into tears on the spot.

"Let's not talk about that for now, Sirius, can you tell me in detail what happened twelve years ago?"

Dumbledore asked.

Because what they saw before was just a relatively vague memory, and a lot of the content in it was not clear enough. It was not that Zhou Ming deliberately concealed the information, but the magic of extracting memory was like this. It was impossible to pull out all the memories in detail.

So they only knew the whole story and the general outline of the incident, but many details were still unclear, and Dumbledore wanted to know more.

Sirius's expression was originally calm, but after hearing Dumbledore's question, his expression quickly turned ferocious.

"Peter, that bastard, he betrayed James, he betrayed everyone..."

After his description, everyone was able to fully reconstruct what happened at that time.

It turned out that was the time when Voldemort was at his most notorious. He killed all those who dared to resist him. The wizarding world was in turmoil, and the most fierce resistance came from the Order of the Phoenix.

James and his gang, including Lily, are all members of the Order of the Phoenix, so they have always been a major concern for Voldemort.

In fact, if it were just that, there would be no problem. After all, Voldemort has many enemies, and many people secretly resist him.

The reason why he targeted the James family was mainly because of a prophecy.

The prophecy says that a child born at the end of July will be the one to end Voldemort's evil reign.

Voldemort believed in these things the most, so he immediately began looking for children born at the end of July, and Harry became his target.

In fact, this prophecy corresponds to two people, one is Harry and the other is Neville.

But Voldemort didn't know about Neville, so he focused entirely on Harry.

He began sending out his Death Eaters to search for the whereabouts of the Potter family.

In order to ensure that James and his friends would not be found by Voldemort, the four planned to use the Fidelius Charm to hide James's house. As long as the secret keeper did not tell anyone, no one would be able to find the house, even if Voldemort was standing at the door.

The original secret-keeper should have been Sirius, as he had the best relationship with James.

But he felt that his target was too obvious, especially since he had a younger brother working for Voldemort. He was worried that he would be caught by Voldemort and tortured to extract information, so when he was about to cast the Fidelius Charm, he proposed to replace the secret keeper with Peter.

"...I thought he was inconspicuous. Voldemort would definitely not notice this little guy. It would be safest to let him keep the secret. But who could have thought, who could have thought..."

Who could have thought that this would be the last straw that killed James' family?

Whether out of fear or speculation, Peter betrayed James and told the secret to Voldemort, so Voldemort found James and Lily and killed them easily.

Afterwards, Sirius went looking for Peter like a whirlwind, and finally blocked him, and the two soon wrestled together. But after a while, Peter suddenly shouted that it was Sirius who betrayed James and Lily, then took out his wand and blew up a street directly, and after throwing a finger, he turned into a rat and ran into the sewer.

So this finger became his remains, and Sirius was branded a traitor.

"Why don't you explain?"

Hermione asked.

"Because the people from the Ministry of Magic didn't try me at the time. After they caught me, they directly identified me as the murderer and put me directly in Azkaban. I didn't have a chance to explain myself."

Sirius said sullenly.

His eyes were a little red, and it was not just anger. It was obvious that he was thinking of James.

James was his best friend, bar none.

In fact, Sirius had an unhappy childhood and he himself was extremely dazzling to his family.

By the time he reached adolescence he had come to loathe almost all of his relatives, especially his mother and cousin Bellatrix Lestrange.

Most of the Black family graduated from Slytherin, but Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor House after entering school, which showed that he had different ideas from other relatives of the family before attending Hogwarts.

He even lavishly hung Gryffindor banners in his room at 12 Mowgli Place and posted several pictures of Muggle girls in bikinis, which infuriated his mother.

During his studies, Sirius' relationship with his family continued to deteriorate. In the campus environment at that time, not only did Slytherin exclude him, but even Gryffindor students disliked him. He was once alone and very lonely.

At this time, James appeared.

James, Lupin, and Peter became good friends with him.

The four of them called themselves the Marauders. They had a very good relationship while in school, and after graduation they all joined the Order of the Phoenix to fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters in the First Wizarding War. During that time, Sirius even became Harry's godfather.

If nothing unexpected happened, his happiness would have continued, but unfortunately it was all destroyed by Peter himself.

His hatred for Peter was beyond words. Of course, he hated himself as well. He hated himself for proposing to change the secret-keeper. If he was the secret-keeper, he could just choose to commit suicide even if he was caught by Voldemort.

Instead of telling the secret, which led to James and Lily being killed.

“I didn’t expect it to be like this.”

After listening to Sirius' explanation, Dumbledore couldn't help but sigh.

It was difficult for him to comment on Sirius's behavior, because there was nothing wrong with Sirius's idea itself. He was indeed too conspicuous, an anti-pure-blood faction coming from a hardcore pure-blood family.

Not to mention that Voldemort was watching him, even the other Death Eaters wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

His mistake was that he trusted Peter, but the problem was, before Peter betrayed, who could have thought that he would betray? James, Lily, and Lupin did not think that Peter would betray, so the fault itself was not Sirius.

"I know about your situation. Don't worry, I will arrange to clear your name next. Sirius, it's time for you to come back again."

"I'm going to kill Peter. I won't allow him to live any longer!"

He said with hatred on his face.

"He deserves to die, but not by you."

"But……"

"No buts, Sirius, you can't become a murderer. Don't forget, you still have Harry."

Dumbledore said.

Sirius suddenly reacted, he turned his head to look at Harry, and found that Harry was also looking at him.

"Harry, come here."

He held out his hand to Harry.

Harry hesitated for a moment, but still took a step forward and walked step by step to Sirius.

"Hello..."

He opened his mouth and was about to say something when Sirius suddenly hugged him in his arms.

"Child, you must have been lonely these years, right? Don't worry, I'm back. I'm your godfather, chosen by your father himself. From today on, you have a family."

Sirius whispered.

This sentence was actually also said to himself, because he was also a person without relatives.

In his opinion, those members of the Black family, whether alive or dead, were not qualified to be his relatives, and he did not acknowledge them.

On the contrary, James, Lily, Lupin, and now Harry, are his relatives.

Harry was stunned for a moment, and just when he was about to say something, he found that tears were already flowing uncontrollably.

He was indeed very lonely during these years. He had to endure all kinds of rejection from his aunt and uncle and all kinds of bullying from Dali. He was a child without parents. Before entering school, he didn't even know who his parents were.

Now he not only knew the identities of his parents and what they had done, but he also had his own godfather.

Everyone else present was silent; they were all watching the scene silently.

Not long after, Professor McGonagall and Lupin returned, carrying a huddled man.

When Ron saw this man, his face turned green and he almost fainted.

Fortunately, Hermione reached out and helped him up, preventing him from making a complete fool of himself.

"No!"

Ron let out a miserable cry, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him at this time.

Everyone was looking at Peter.

"Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore, and Sirius, and Harry...Oh, Harry, come on, let me see you. I am your father's best friend. I held you in my arms when you were born!"

He held out his hand to Harry.

"Get away, you bug!"

Sirius immediately protected Harry behind him. Although Peter was at least ten meters away from Harry, he hated Peter to the point that he would not allow the other party to reach out to Harry from ten meters away.

"Sirius, have you forgotten? We are friends!"

"Bah! I'd have to be blind to believe you were my friend! You betrayed James and Lily, how dare you use the word friend to me!"

Sirius glared at Peter. If he hadn't had a wand, he would probably have been unable to resist and fired an Avada Kedavra.

"I, I have no choice. Voldemort has captured me and is torturing me. I, I really can't stand it anymore..."

Peter said with a look of grievance.

"You can understand, right? Sirius, that's the Dark Lord. I, I can't resist him."

(End of this chapter)