Batman's Owl Godfather

Wandering in an empty castle for more than a hundred years?

Snape's words were hard for everyone to believe.

Their first thought was that their Potions Master had gone crazy.

"Snape, are you serious?"

Sirius touched Snape's forehead.

Given their relationship, Snape should have slapped Sirius' hand away with a look of disgust at this action.

But he didn't.

On the contrary, Snape's reaction was extremely slow at this time, and he felt like he was out of his mind.

"alright!"

Ares interrupted Sirius' further questioning.

"Professor Snape, I have returned it to you alive, and the banquet will continue.

"If anyone tries to break the rules again, don't blame me for being heartless. I'm especially talking about you, Sirius."

Ares said calmly, "If you want to find out who killed Harry, just sit down and sit down."

These words were indeed extremely convincing to Sirius.

He was still filled with hatred.

But just after Ares's strange method and Snape's weird reaction, Sirius temporarily calmed down.

He snorted coldly and sat down.

"Okay, now let me announce what happened after the last banquet."

Ares said calmly, "Two members have left us forever, one is Harry, and the other is Peter Pettigrew."

Peter?

As soon as this name came out, others naturally looked at Sirius.

And Sirius admitted it frankly, not shying away from other people's eyes at all.

"I killed him."

He said, "Whether there is this party or not, I will kill him, but I originally wanted Harry to take action and let him personally avenge his parents, but Harry refused."

At this moment, Hermione thought of the scene when Sirius called Harry away at the end of the last party.

Is that what this was all about?

"How did you kill him?"

Cedric suddenly asked, "In addition to the party itself, can members also kill each other?"

"Of course I want to crush his neck with my own hands."

Sirius sneered, "But when I caught him and wanted to do something, my wand suddenly disappeared from my hand, and I choked his neck, and something inexplicable happened.

“It was like he apparated, appearing a few meters away from me.

"In the end, I could only use the power of the patron saint to poison him to death."

poison--

This is an ability that can only be used by snake protectors.

But Sirius clearly said that he was the protector of the eagle.

"Isn't this normal?"

Sirius shook his head, "Anyway, I don't want to kill anyone except Peter. I like to say I am a protector, just say I am a protector."

When Katum heard this explanation, he thought to himself: "It makes sense."

Although Sirius may not have agreed with the rules of the banquet before, nor did he make the decision after careful consideration.

But subconsciously, he does have a desire to push himself to the forefront and protect other protectors.

This isn't the first time he's done this.

Sirius was like this when he worked as the secret keeper of the Fidelity Charm for the Potter family.

Put yourself in the foreground to attract attention, then change the real secret keeper to Peter.

Although that time it became a tragedy.

After listening to Sirius' explanation, Cedric nodded: "So that poison is really useful?"

"Actually, it wasn't poison, it was just the snake's patron saint that flew out and bit him."

Sirius said, "At least I saw Peter's death, the painful look, which makes me satisfied."

"No need to elaborate on this."

Cedric raised his hand, dismissing Sirius' desire to describe it further.

Then he analyzed further——

"So now, the identity of Sirius' protector can be confirmed, and we can rest assured that he will be the leader."

It has been said before that leaders can get half the votes.

Sirius did not refuse the offer.

Anyway, he only believes in himself now.

Cedric continued: “And the real eagle is still hiding behind the scenes, which is a good thing.

"But we can't be sure that the dead Peter is a bad guy, so looking at the worst-case scenario -"

Cedric looked around the long table.

"Among the seven of us, there may be three bad guys!"

This set of analysis seems reasonable.

But after hearing this, Hermione didn't feel convinced at all. On the contrary, she had a strange idea.

"Cedric is so calm."

Hermione thought, "Why can he get into the mood so quickly? Isn't he sad at all about Harry's death?"

This is not a game, someone is really dead!

The real reaction should be like Malfoy and Neville!

Hermione turned her head and looked at the pair of brothers.

The two of them sat together, hugging each other and cheering each other up, and Hermione swore that this was the best relationship she had ever seen between these two people.

But Cedric's coolness is not an isolated case.

Fred, who was sitting on the other side, also started to analyze, but judging from his appearance, he didn't seem to want to be so calm.

It's just that at this time, as a senior, he must put the pressure on himself to prevent it from spreading downwards to Hermione and the others.

"So our problem now is to find out who would want to kill Harry?"

Fred's eyes lingered on everyone's face, as if he was considering everyone's suspicion.

But in the end, he sighed: "I think Peter is the bad guy, Sirius did not poison Harry, he killed Harry."

"No!"

Just after Fred finished speaking, someone suddenly raised an objection.

And it was none other than Sirius.

"Peter had no chance to kill Harry."

He gritted his teeth and said, "Because I had killed him before Harry died!"

How could a dead person kill someone?

"It was someone else among you who killed Harry!"

Sirius's angry accusation was still ringing in his ears.

At this moment, Fred had nothing to say.

The banquet fell into a long silence.

Finally, Cedric spoke: "Then we can only let the Eagle's Protector come out and see who he is investigating, whether he is a good person or a bad person."

It seems that this is the only way.

But unfortunately, after Cedric finished speaking, no one responded to him.

The Eagle's Protector did not seem willing to stand up.

At this point in the banquet, there was no need to discuss any further.

Ares clapped his hands.

"It seems that you have finished the discussion."

He said, "Now, you can start voting. Who will you choose to be hanged tonight? Make a decision!"

After the voice fell, everyone looked at each other.

What a joke, just decide the life and death of a person?

"I don't vote."

Sirius said first, "What I want is to find the real murderer, which requires investigation and evidence, not a few words at a banquet to decide the life and death of a person!

"What's more, a group of people can execute a person by voting. What's the difference between this and murder?"

Sirius wanted to be an avenger, not a murderer.

He still retained a trace of rationality and did not make any decision to kill the wrong person for revenge.

After that, Sirius looked at Ares indifferently.

"This should not violate the rules, right? If you have to vote for one, then I will vote for myself. "

"Of course you can abstain. "

Ares took a deep look at everyone at the banquet, "Anyone can abstain, it doesn't matter."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone was relieved.

"Then I abstain!" Hermione said immediately.

"I abstain too!" "I abstain too!"

Malfoy and Neville quickly followed behind to express their opinions.

It was cruel for them to decide a person's life or death by voting.

Seeing this scene, Fred made a gesture of surrender: "Although I think this is wrong, I can't vote if I really vote. I abstain."

Of the seven people at the table, only Cedric and Snape were left undecided.

And Snape was still sitting in his seat in a daze.

"More than a hundred years? No, it may be more than two hundred years..."

He repeated this kind of words, occasionally looking up at Sirius, "How long did you say I was away?"

"You were away for one minute! "Sirius responded impatiently.

Seeing Snape like this, he didn't have any intention to vote.

Only Cedric was left.

When everyone looked at the only person who could still vote, Cedric finally compromised.

"In fact, I really suggest that you think about it carefully. Voting is the only way for good people to eliminate bad people."

He said, "But now that things have come to this, I can't insist anymore. I will also abstain. "

The result of the vote was determined at this moment.

No one voted, all abstained.

"That's it!"

Ares had no opinion on this result.

"As long as you can accept it."

He announced calmly, "Then I also congratulate you all for surviving. See you at the next banquet. The interval between banquets will no longer be one month in the future. I may notify you at any time. "

After that, Ares left here.

Immediately afterwards, Neville and Malfoy fled here as if they were escaping, and it seemed that they were unwilling to wait any longer.

Others stood up one after another, and Cedric was the last one. He seemed very uneasy at this time.

When he passed by Hermione, Hermione heard him talking to himself.

It seemed that he was muttering about the number of votes.

Hermione actually felt that good people should vote.

But who can she vote for?

Hermione couldn't imagine who she pointed her finger at, and she would not feel guilty forever.

"Katum, let's go!"

Hermione picked up the owl and left the hall.

She had just gone out, and Bruce appeared in front of her.

"Have you been waiting outside the door?"

Hermione wrinkled her nose, "Forget it, I forgive you."

"Forgive what?"

Bruce was puzzled at first, and then asked quickly, "Let's not talk about other things first, what is the situation of this banquet? "

What could be going on.

Hermione told Bruce that no one voted, and then roughly repeated the opinions of others.

After listening, Bruce said nothing.

He looked at Hermione with a look that suddenly became a little empty.

"Yeah..."

Bruce murmured, "How could a little wizard have the heart to vote to kill someone? It's over..."

"What did you mean it's over?"

Hermione asked, "Just tell me what you think! Why make it so confusing?"

"It's too late to say anything now."

Bruce shook his head. His performance at the banquet further confirmed his thoughts.

"It's impossible to win by following the rules.

"Hermione, I was just thinking--

He raised his head and looked into Hermione's eyes.

"Even if everything can be reversed, I don't want to see you die in front of me."