Hermione couldn't help it anymore, and her tears flowed from the corners of her eyes like broken beads. In her opinion, Crookshanks was very suspicious. It has always had a mysterious interest in Scabbers, and just now it appeared near the Gryffindor Tower, so maybe it really killed Scabbers.

Harry and Neville beside them also showed complicated expressions. The two of them also think that maybe Hermione's Crookshanks killed Scabbers.

Hermione sobbed and tried to apologize to Ron, "Yes, I'm sorry... I, Crookshanks—"

"Crookshanks is innocent." Tom interrupted her feeble defense.

"Aren't you brainless? Or are your brains stuffed with flour?" Tom took a step forward, almost in front of Ron, "Crookshanks is the murderer? You mean from Ravenclaw public rest?" Room, then ran into Gryffindor Tower, and finally slipped into your dormitory, captured and killed Scabbers? Don't you think the logic in it is a bit illogical?"

Crookshanks also meowed twice after Tom, as if to say: You are right, the **** shoveler!

Ron's momentum faltered: Indeed, the distance between the two is too far. A cat, across such a distance - you send a new school wizard from the Ravenclaw lounge to the Gryffindor tower, it is likely to get lost, let alone a kitten.

And the purpose of all this is to catch a mouse? As for?

"There is a very simple method of verification, Sir Cadogan!"

Tom turned to look at Sir Cadogan, who was standing next to his pony, watching the play with relish.

"Aha!" Hearing Tom mention his name, Sir Cadogan immediately regained his spirits, "Brave, Cadogan's sword is always ready for people like you."

Tom: Ah this?

Why do you feel that I have a high degree of favorability with Sir Cadogan? Tom analyzed his situation a little bit, and suddenly found that from Sir Cadogan's perspective, he was definitely a disadvantaged group: the number was not dominant, and he was still at the gate of other colleges, and he had to protect the crying girls... It fits Sir Cadogan's chivalry too well. If you don't help me, can you still call yourself a "Sir"?

"Excuse me, did you see the cat enter the common room from you yesterday?" Tom held Crookshanks in front of the portrait of Sir Cadogan, allowing him to see it more clearly.

Sir Cadogan didn't even look at it, holding his head high, indicating that without a password, no creature could pass through the gate he guarded, not even a cat.

Tom spread his hands, "Look, the problem is solved, it wasn't Crookshanks at all. I admit that Crookshanks had a history of attacking Scabbers in Diagon Alley - but it was a cat, and the cat saw the mouse go Isn't it normal to catch?"

Crookshanks: Meow (yes)!

Ron was discouraged all of a sudden, and he was in an extremely embarrassing situation at this time.

"Don't blame Hermione for your fault," Tom said seriously, emphatically.

"My fault?" Ron suddenly raised his head again.

"Yeah, it's your fault, you didn't take a good look at it, didn't you? Maybe if you kept it in a cage, these things wouldn't happen - the mouse's brain is that big, it's not as smart as other animals, and it's likely to be got lost—"

"No, no, Banban is very smart. He has been in my house for twelve years and has never been lost," Ron repeatedly denied, with a dejected look on his face, "I'm sorry for him... I always feel that he will It is not free enough in the cage, but now that I think about it, it just lies there and sleeps every day..."

"Maybe the rats in the castle did it and attacked Scabbers, but I think Scabbers should still be alive." Tom casually threw up a possibility.

As soon as he said this, Ron raised his head, and his eyes sparkled: "Yes, Scabbers may still be alive! If it was done by a mouse, there should be other traces left at the scene, Tom, you What is the solution?"

Tom shoots the arrow first and then draws the target. He knows that Peter Pettigrew doesn't die so easily. How could an adult wizard be killed by a mouse or a cat? He made such a big show just to "escape the golden cicada's shell".

Sirius' surprise attack really scared it, so it couldn't wait to find a chance to escape. It's just that the forged evidence during this escape is somewhat insufficient. It might have been more convincing if it had left a few cat hairs next to its own blood. But unfortunately, Gryffindor College does not have students who raise cats, so this time Peter Pettigrew's forged "murder scene" is not so realistic.

So many things have changed. If Crookshanks lives in Gryffindor and has multiple previous convictions for assaulting Scabbers, if he can get Crookshanks hair, if there is no one on the scene who can calmly analyze it like Tom, then the pot will be buckled Solidly, it will bear the title of "murderer" for a long time, and Hermione will also live in guilt for a long time.

Fortunately, none of these things happened.

"Okay, don't cry," Tom walked up to Hermione, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped away the tears from the corners of Hermione's eyes and cheeks.

"Well," after Hermione took Crookshanks from Tom, she held it and stood aside, quietly waiting for the end of the matter.

But Tom has no intention of leaving for the time being. Now Sirius is lurking in a certain corner of the school, how dangerous it is, it is better to send Banban to his master.

Tom was a helpful kid, and now he's determined to help Ron find his little mouse.

After learning about Tom's thoughts, Ron was stunned. He said incoherently: "Tom, you—why, I mean thank you, but how did you do it? I have no idea."

"We can divination." Tom gave his method.

The rest of the people present:  …

Among the five people present ~lightnovelpub.net~ only Tom really believed in divination. The other four, Harry, Ron, and Neville felt that divination was unreliable, while Hermione directly believed that it was a trick taught by a liar, and she almost said, "I'm not targeting anyone, I want to say All masters of divination are liars."

In Hermione's eyes, all divination was bullshit. In addition to arithmetic and divination, this class is also interesting.

"So, what should we do?" Ron raised his eyebrows, choosing a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

"Professor Trelawney taught us branch divination before. I think we can try it. It was mentioned in the book "Branch Divination."

This book can be regarded as a supplementary teaching material for the divination class, and Professor Trelawney mentioned it in class. Of course Tom hadn't read the book.

But it doesn't stop him from using it to fool people.

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