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013 Lead the dog out of the den

When the shiny oak door opened in front of Lawrence, Dumbledore stood up from his seat,

"Lawrence, what happened so late?" Dumbledore asked,

"Peter escaped, Professor." Lawrence briefly told Dumbledore what happened in the Glenfindo saloon, while spreading the map on the table.

"Fox, please invite Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape and Professor Lupin to come." Fox flashed a spark and disappeared into the air. Dumbledore leaned over and looked at the map and asked, "Where is he now?"

"At the Hagrid House." Lawrence pointed at the edge of the map, Dumbledore was in deep thought. Lawrence looked at the map, and the three professors walked into the principal's tower. They pushed the door open,

"Principal." Snape said, looking at the map on the table, and looking at Lawrence again,

"What happened?" Professor McGonagall asked. Remus didn't say anything, he just stood aside.

"Peter re-used the same trick again," said Dumbredo, who told the three professors,

"Should we arrest him now?" Lawrence asked.

"It's night," Dumblido said lightly, "The Ministry of Magic will definitely be curious why the four professors are going to Haegel's cottage to have a party?"

"But, professor, I don't understand why we didn't just subdue Peter at the beginning?" Lawrence asked. "As long as Peter was proven alive, the Ministry of Magic would definitely doubt the truth of that year."

The four professors fell into silence, and Limes cleared his throat with caution,

"Sirius is the only remaining direct line in the Black family," Limes showed an unnatural expression. "His escape from prison has put a lot of pressure on the Ministry of Magic."

"To be precise, many countries secretly controlled by the black wizards, they privately welcomed Black to rebuild his family there. The ancient pure blood family was so popular," said Dumbledore. "For a long time, they have maintained the magic of the family. Many people believe that intermarriage with them will be a guarantee for their descendants to continue to possess magic, and they believe it."

"Although the Black family has declined, he has a great reputation in the entire magic world. It would be fine if he did make a mistake, but if it was proved to be a wrongful prison, the pressure under the Ministry of Magic in England would be enough to make the senior officials led by Fauci lose their status." Remus said,

"Simply put, just hand over Peter before we find Black," Snape said gloomyly. "The Ministry of Magic will not give him the opportunity to confront Black, but will directly choose to "disappear" and let him truly be the hero of sacrifice."

"Then don't hand over Peter?" Lawrence asked. "We can catch him, not hand over to the Ministry of Magic."

"How can this work, Rovande?" Professor McGonagall said, "After the criminal wizard is caught, he must notify the Ministry of Magic in his location within one day. This is common sense."

"But it should be able to make sense, right?" Lawrence couldn't understand. "Can you only let the Ministry of Magic do this?"

"In fact, there is no way to make things work, Lawrence," Dumbully said tiredly, "I am the chairman of the International Wizards League and the chief wizard of Wisengamo. I am the guardian of the rules. The wizard of the crime must be handed over to the Ministry of Magic. This is the principle, and there is no room for flexibility." (Note 1)

"In fact, the Ministry of Magic did not make any fundamental mistakes. You can only say that his procedures are imperfect," Remus said, looking helpless, "because in fact, if it is true as we think, then these sins of Peter are enough to be rectified on the ground."

"So we can only continue to monitor Peter?" Lawrence asked.

"Until we find Sirius," Remus said,

"Your plan is important," Dumbledore said. "If we can't find Sirius Black, we can only hand Peter over to the Ministry of Magic."

"But I've never seen him," Lawrence said bitterly, "Maybe he's already found something wrong?"

"I would like to ask Mount Crook to sway near Hogmaud Village to find Sirius. Black tried to get him into the campus," Dunbulido said, asking Mount Crook, who was already playing with Fox, "Is that OK? After all, Lawrence only has time on average holidays."

"Meow-" Crucker Hill nodded,

"Try your best, Lawrence." Dumbledore said, "Maybe he may not necessarily appear tomorrow?"

The office was silent, everyone was worried, Lawrence put away the map, this action made Professor McGonagall a little more awake,

"It's time for you to go back to the dormitory," said Professor McGonagall. "It's already late."

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March is coming and leaving again. Lawrence will go to Hogmaud Village with the help of Snape every weekend, but he has never met Black. In early April, Hogwarts ushered in the Quidditch game between Ravenclaw and Glenfindo. In the game, Harry performed the speed of the rocket crossbow, and Glenfindo won the championship with 230 to 30, which made Luna feel a little sad.

In the game, Harry successfully used a patron saint with a rough body. Although it was finally confirmed that the dementors were pretended by Malfoy and others, Slytherin was deducted 50 for this, which made Harry much happier.

"Let's go, Lawrence." George shouted, "Let's go prepare the party supplies."

The three of them walked to the hunchback statue of the one-eyed old woman on the fourth floor. Fred opened the passage and climbed in with George one after another. Crook Mountain rushed out of the corner and jumped up into the passage. Lawrence saw Snape from a distance, but he just looked here and turned away. Lawrence also climbed into the passage.

The three of them came to the Honey Duke Candy Shop and started purchasing food for the banquet. Thanks to the traceless stretching spell bags they made last year, they could bring back a lot of candy, which made the Honey Duke's clerk very busy.

"I think I'll go to Sangan Broom Bar to buy butterbeer," Lawrence said. "You guys put candy here."

"Leave it to you." Fred waved his hand, Lawrence turned and walked out of the candy shop. He walked to the bar with three brooms. He saw a familiar big black dog flipping through the trash can. Lawrence slowed down. He didn't expect to see Sirius at this time.

Black, he was not sure enough to subdue Sirius in this distance.

Black, if it fails, it may attract the attention of those dementors stationed nearby,

"Come with me, Mount Crook," Lawrence said softly, he walked into the bar with Mount Crook, first bought butter beer from Ms. Rostar, while the planners were moving, he borrowed a feather pendant from the sheepskin paper, quickly wrote a few words, and then wrote the line "Glenfind Talk of the Clearance of the Graffiti" at the beginning,

"Leave this to him," Lawrence said anxiously, "this should lure him into the campus."

Crook Mountain thought for a while, it stuffed a small piece of paper at the foot of the table, ran out of the bar, and after a while, it ran back and took the small piece of paper away. Lawrence put the butter beer into the bag, and he prayed secretly, hoping that things would go smoothly.

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That evening, Harry was wandering in the corridor, a cat and a black dog broke into his sight, and when they saw Harry, they stopped.

"Crook Hill?" Harry said, looking at the big black dog beside Crook Hill with strange eyes, "Is this your friend?"

"Meow-" Crook Mountain shouted, and the big dog's gray eyes stared at Harry and looked at him.

"Are you hungry?" Harry asked, and the big dog nodded.

"I'll take you to the kitchen to have something," Harry said with a smile, "I'm just about to eat something, too."

He turned his back to the big dog and led the way in front of them. They walked quietly to the portrait of the fruit bowl in the basement. Harry scratched the pear in the painting. The pear turned into a green door handle. Harry opened the door and entered. The big dog and Crook Mountain followed. Harry turned around and looked at the big dog with a smile. Dunbulido stood out from the shadow. He smiled.

The big dog froze. He looked back and walked into Remus and Snape behind. The door was closed and it had no way out. The big dog turned around and looked at Harry. The distance between them was very close. If it subdued Harry at this time, the professors would not have time to rescue him. It knew clearly that for Harry's safety, the professors would definitely let him go, but it gave up. It showed a humanized bitter smile and turned back into a tall and thin man.

"I think...that's the end." Sirius said in a hoarse voice. He threw down his wand, raised his hands, took the initiative to take a step back and leave Harry.

"Sirius," Remus smiled, his eyes a little wet, and he walked over and gave Sirius a hug, "I'm sorry."

"You're lucky." Snape whispered, "I think there's nothing wrong with me here, Principal."

"You?" Sirius was stunned. He didn't expect that this would be the result.

"Look at Harry, Sirius." Dunbulido smiled, "He is the one you should thank the most."

Harry changed at this time. His hair was still black, but not so messy. His figure began to grow taller, and his facial features began to change, revealing his dark purple pupils-

"It's you-" Sirius was dumbfounded, looking at the Hogwarts student who once gave him chocolate and food.

"I asked a lot of people in the end and looked up a lot of information," Lawrence, who turned back to the same, smiled a little cunningly, "Dogs really can't eat chocolate."

"How am I discovered?" Sirius asked blankly,

"Oh, of course--not." Lawrence said, laughing,

"Okay, I'm very happy, Sirius," Dumblido said with a smile, his blue eyes were full of smiles, "We've been looking for you for a long time."

"Professor," Sirius breathed a sigh of relief, but his whole body was too relaxed and could not stand. He was supported by Remus, "I don't understand--"

"This is a long story. Tonight is a test to confirm our guess," Dumbledore said. "In the corridor, your teeth have at least a few hundred chances to bite Harry's neck. Just now, even though you were in a siege, you still had no intention of taking Harry as a hostage. Yes, even though that Harry was all pretended to be Lawrence."

"I--" Sirius couldn't speak,

"You should be glad," said Dumbledore, and Lawrence took out the map at this time. "Your youthful frivolity saved yourself. Only after reading it can we guess the outline of the whole thing."

"James-" Sirius could no longer hold it back, and tears burst out from his eyes.

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Author's words: In the original work, Black also entered the Glenfindo dormitory on this day.

Note 1: I refer to episode 4, Dumblido vs. Batisty.
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