But then he discovered that there were a few more cabins on the mountain at some point in time.

In his mind, this was something he had never seen before—where do people live in the mountains near the school?

Snow is piled up here for half of the year. It is neither suitable for living nor for growing things. It is only suitable for people to play in summer and early autumn. What is this wooden house built for?

Out of an abundance of caution, Peter must figure out what's going on here.

He got closer to the cabin and found a sign in a tree nearby with the words "Welcome to Hogsmeade Ski Resort" painted on it.

Ski_slpe? What is this?

Fortunately, he doesn't need to think about it for long, because the location inside has its explanation - Hogsmeade Ski Resort, which provides lake fishing, mountain hiking, bicycle rental, golf, and alpine skiing services, is your vacation. best choice.

Seeing these project cards, Peter's brain began to calculate quickly.

Although I still don't quite understand what skiing is, it sounds like it's a place for entertainment. And because it is a new construction, there is no one here for the time being, and it looks very safe.

Of course, what attracted him most was the food.

In order to provide food and accommodation for tourists, the ski resort has built a food warehouse at a higher place, using the natural low temperature here to preserve some non-perishable foods.

If this warehouse is eaten by mice with two or three kilograms of food every month, it should not be suspected.

With this information, Peter Pettigrew decided to settle down here, at least until summer.

He jumped into the food warehouse and began to look at the contents—in addition to pumpkins, onions, and potatoes, there were also a lot of bacon, salted fish, cheese, and ham.

Although wizards have anti-corrosion spells, they seem to have different effects when cast by different wizards, so villages tend to use shelf-stable food.

...it looks like I won't be hungry anymore. Peter thought happily.

As for the mouse traps in the corners, Peter Pettigrew naturally sneered at them - there was still cheese hanging on them. Wouldn't anyone really think that mice like to eat cheese these days? No, no, no?

If this weak mousetrap could catch a mouse, the rats in this world would be extinct long ago.

However, just as he happily slipped out of the food storage room along the wall, he suddenly jumped over, and the whole mouse was lying on the wooden floor.

He lowered his head in astonishment, only to find that his limbs were firmly stuck to the ground by a yellow gelatinous substance, no matter how hard he pulled, he could only pull out a very elastic yellow wire.

To make matters worse, due to his struggles, not only did his limbs stick to this strange mass, but even his belly and a few beards stuck to it, which made him even more immobile.

"Oh, new here, why did you accidentally get stuck with that thing." A small thing came to Peter's side.

Peter raised his head with difficulty and found it was a **** rat. \"Help me!" he shouted to the black rat, \"I can't move."

The black mouse blinked: "Sorry, I can't do it. If I go to help you, I'll be stuck with that thing too, we've tried several times before, and Kou

Chi, Jerry, Jeff, and Barry were glued to a board and all died. "

Peter felt unlucky when he heard it: "Then can you find some people from the same family to help me dig out the board under me and move it outside? Just move it to the tree."

Casting the Animagus Transfiguration doesn't require a wand, but it also requires certain gestures and movements. If he sticks to this yellow glue like this, he won't be able to do anything.

q Me, no, this floor is too thick, we need to spend too much time... The boss said, don't get close to these boards, whoever dares to approach will die by himself, don't implicate us all. "The **** rat refused Peter's request, "but...I can help you—hand." "

Seeing the **** mouse showing his front teeth, an ominous omen surged in Peter's heart: "How can I help?"

"Cut off your throat from behind and give you a treat." The **** mouse's front teeth gleamed, "Otherwise, we will be unbearable when we see you starved to death here.

"No! I think I can save one more time!" Peter shouted.

"Don't struggle, it's very determined... But my front teeth are very big, you have to endure it, Jerry is my punishment, because he struggled too hard, so he bleed a lot in the end, this time I will try to do better …”

Seeing that the **** mouse suddenly had a ferocious expression and gradually approached him, Peter screamed in fright.

- Ordinary people may not know a little knowledge-that is, mice actually eat the same kind of corpse, and they especially like to eat hearts. During the epidemic in the United States, because the restaurant was closed, the mice on the streets of New York killed each other because there was no food in the garbage can.

But it’s fine for outsiders not to know about this. Can Peter, who has been proficient in being a mouse for many years, still know it? Plus he's a "foreign gopher" here again, and killing him doesn't make any difference.

It's a mouse that knows, so it's normal for this black mouse to have a different heart.

I didn't die in the hands of Voldemort, I didn't die in the hands of Black, should I die under the mouth of a black rat for some inexplicable reason?

No matter what, come and save yourself!

As if hearing Peter's voice, the sound of several people walking and talking suddenly came from outside the warehouse.

"...Don't worry, Gilderoy, I'm watching here, nothing will happen. Ooo, the mouse is no big deal. I used the mouse glue to dry it off a lot a few days ago. Just a big rat!"

"Thank you, Horace, the rich Muggles have high requirements for food. Although the house-elves are good at cooking, the ingredients should not be neglected... By the way, who is the idea of ​​buying rat glue from Muggles? out? I like it."

Lockhart bent down and stared at the gray rat still struggling on the sticky mouse glue, smiling kindly.

The person next to him didn't know why: "My idea, what's wrong? You can buy it for half a pound—a dozen, and you can keep it for two months. It's very cheap."

"I mean really good, if there was a bit stronger glue, we could use it to catch goblins."

As Lockhart spoke, he took out a wire cage from his pocket and threw Peter into it.

\"You are..." Horace asked strangely.

Although the rat's limbs were still immobile, Lockhart cast a firm spell on the rat cage for the sake of caution: "Take it back as dog food, and occasionally let the family dog ​​see blood, otherwise it will go crazy. already."

Horace shrugged: "Whatever you want, the most important thing around the food warehouse is the old man.

Chapter 222 Old friends meet by chance

As Lockhart thought, Sirius Black was indeed insane.

Because he exhausted his calculations and finally entered the Gryffindor Tower, he found that Peter Pettigrew was not there.

In fact, when he entered Hogwarts Castle and found that Crookshanks had not come to meet him as agreed, he had a vague sense that something was wrong.

Of course he didn't know because it was because after Crookshanks "bited" Ron's rat, Hermione cried and stuffed it into the cage so it couldn't get out, thinking it might have been an encounter What happened.

But the plan has been carried out so far, he can't give up halfway, so he can only bite the bullet and come to the Gryffindor Tower.

Fortunately, the password Crookshanks gave him was genuine. Although Sir Cadogan had never seen this strange man, he had the password, so he still put him in.

When he came to the common room, Black still couldn't see Crookshanks, which also prevented him from knowing the location of Ron's bedroom.

He had to go outside the dormitory and shine his wand at the door numbers of those dormitories, trying to find Ron's name in the middle.

After passing through more than 20 bedrooms, Black finally found Harry and Ron's bedroom, raised his wand, and crept in.

However, after cutting Ron's veil with a cutting spell, he was unable to find Peter.

He flipped around in disbelief, but let alone Peter's rat, he couldn't even find a mouse hair.

Because of the urgency and disappointment, Blake rummaged a little bit harder

, so that Ron woke up.

When Ron saw the face of an unfamiliar man, and the look that looked a little grim because of his exasperation, he naturally screamed in fright.

Seeing that the people around him were awakened by Ron, Black knew that his trip had failed. In order to avoid immediate arrest, he had to escape from the common room and ran towards the secret passage of Duke Honey.

Just around the corner, because he couldn't hold his feet, he knocked over Remus Lupin who came to check the situation.

Neither of them had imagined that they would meet again in this place and in this form.

Because of his own selfishness and fear, Lupin never reported to Dumbledore that Blake would turn into a dog.

But he was also always worried that it would lead to Black's success, so he used the alarm system Lockhart had left in his office—the picture monitoring the entrance and exit of the pipes.

So just after Ron screamed, Lupin got the news immediately, and hit Sirius when he was going upstairs.

Blake couldn't care anymore. After finding out who he had knocked down, he still didn't hesitate, and continued to rush down the stairs.

But the phrase "Meng Zhang is in the way" suddenly came from behind, but Blake slapped him under the stairs heavily.

"Go away, Remus! I don't want to kill you!" Black scolded and got up.

Lupin raised his wand tremblingly and pointed it at Black: "I'm afraid this is not up to us, traitor!"

The world is overwhelmed by the death of a sword at the Huangqiao Bridge. My father has a heart-to-heart, succumbing to the death of a sword.

Lupin was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, but Sirius took the opportunity to pull out his wand.

Lupin was suddenly startled: \"Passed out

But before he could utter the stun spell, he felt a huge force coming from under his feet, and then the whole person seemed to be picked up by the troll, and was hung upside down from the ceiling.

It was "Fuchsia", they used to use it... Lupin finally remembered this silent spell when he was hanged upside down.

Unfortunately, it was too late. By the time he regained his mobility and put himself down, Black had already escaped.

Lupin was gasping for breath, as if undecided whether to pursue it or look over at Gryffindor Tower.

But a sudden voice above his head relieved him of the trouble: "Remus? Just... did you meet anyone? My students said Blake broke into their dormitory."

"...I'm afraid that's the case, Professor McGonagall." Lupin raised his head and said to the head emerging from the stairs on the fifth floor.

\"What?!" McGonagall was taken aback, \"How dare he...how can?"

"Are any students injured? Where's Harry?" Lupin asked hastily, at the same time his heart was tugging at the old man.

If Harry really died because of his own selfish reasons, then he really wanted to live with guilt and remorse for the rest of his life.

\"No, no students were injured."

Professor McGonagall's answer made Lupin's heart fall back to the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief, and the words Blake shouted before leaving began to appear in his mind.

Lupin finally made up his mind - I want to see the principal!

After throwing off Lupin, Black stepped into the secret passage in embarrassment, and

Not bothering to hide anything, he Apparated immediately after walking out of the school and returned to Hogsmeade.

Although he was sorry to Lockhart, he didn't intend to return the wand, he wanted to flee before Dumbledore and Lupin didn't come after him, and then search for Peter Pettigrew again.

Before fleeing, of course, he was going to take the keys to his vault and the keys to his house at 12 Grimmauld Place, which he had buried in the dirt under the bushes next to the Shrieking Shack.

He rushed to the bushes beside the screaming shack and bent down, ready to dig out the hidden key.

As a result, just as he was digging, a wand suddenly appeared from the air and pointed at his back.

"Pass out!" shouted Gilderoy Lockhart.

- A red light flashed, and Sirius Black threw himself in front of the bushes, suddenly unconscious.

"Sure enough... I'm still more of a yin person."

Lockhart laughed self-deprecatingly after seeing himself shattering a famous wizard again

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tender.

Then, he shouted to his house: "Dobby! Help me get this guy in!"

When Sirius woke up in a daze, a familiar voice entered his brain along with his consciousness.

"Headmaster, what would you like to drink? Coffee? Elderberry tea? Wine? Or iced lemonade?"

(Ah... it's the Ministry of Magic official who likes to put on airs, then again, the "headmaster" in his mouth is...)

"You seem to have given me four choices, but in fact I have no choice, and Gilderoy - an old but powerful voice sounded.

(Oops, it was Dumbledore!)

"Are you talking about the drink, or the two?" Lockhart asked rhetorically.

"All." Dumbledore looked calm, "Iced lemonade, thank you

Chapter 223 Statement

Seeing Blake wake up, Dumbledore's expression gradually became serious.

"Let go of him, Gilderoy, trust me, he can't escape anymore." Lockhart obediently let go of his restraint spell: \"\"Of course, with you here, I believe no matter who it is Can't escape. "

Blake, who was beginning to realize what was going on, looked up at Dumbledore, only to meet the gaze projected from the other side.

Dumbledore also stared straight at Blake's face. The two looked at it for a while, and finally Blake turned his eyes away and declared the failure of the confrontation.

"It's surprising...I actually smelled guilt. said Dumbledore softly. "Then, Sirius, don't you have anything to say to me?"

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"What can I say, don't you all know?" Black said mockingly.

Dumbledore shook his head: "On the contrary, Toguidro's blessing, I have been so busy this year that I rarely have time to pay attention to the school... Then again, no matter what I can ask from others, it is better to ask the client himself. Better come, do you agree.

Sirius Blake raised his head in pain - the disappointment of his failure, his resentment towards himself, and his hatred of Peter were all intertwined at the moment, making him want to tear himself apart.