309 Three parties and sudden confession

309 Three parties and sudden confession

a few days later.

In a girls' dormitory in Gryffindor Tower, Mary changed into a set of pink pajamas. She stared at the only empty bed in the dormitory and murmured to herself: "Why hasn't Lily come back yet? She It seems to be very busy these days, and I don’t know what I am busy with.”

Ma Lin, who was lying on the bed beside her, looked up at Mary and said with a smile: "Are you really just curious about this? No matter what Lily is busy with, we definitely know who she is with now - you I miss Karan very much."

Mary's face turned red all of a sudden, and she turned away angrily, unwilling to talk to Ma Lin anymore.

At the same time, in the empty Gryffindor common room, there was a sudden burst of whispers.

"Don't squeeze - be careful, don't step on my feet." This was Sirius's voice.

"If Peter retreats further, the invisibility cloak won't be able to cover him. Just wait a little longer." James comforted, "It will be fine when we enter the secret passage."

At this time, Remus, who had always been silent, suddenly asked: "But how are we going to get back to the dormitory later? What if the Fat Lady is not here?"

"Then -" James made a long sound, and finally said with an indifferent smile: "Then go to the kitchen and live there. The house elves there will definitely be willing to help us."

Sirius added: "The Shrieking Shack is fine too. It's not a full moon tonight anyway, so no one will go there."

Neither of these options sounded good, but the silent Peter didn't show any dissatisfaction and just followed silently.

Remus, whose face became increasingly pale, sighed and said nothing more.

At this point, Remus has made his own choice - he longs for a free adventure.For this reason, he secretly convinced himself for a long time before officially setting off.

The four of them struggled to crawl through the hole in the wall, and the fat lady in the portrait looked at the empty corridor in confusion.

"Is anyone there?" she asked.

But no one answered.

It wasn't until they gradually moved away that the four of them stopped holding their breath.

"You have to hurry up." James urged in a low voice: "Otherwise we will have to take the secret passage in the Shrieking Shack."

The four of them walked quickly together, passing through the dark and silent corridor and heading downstairs along the moving stairs.

Finally, they stopped in front of a statue of a one-eyed witch on the fourth floor.

"Left and right separation."

James took out his wand and whispered the spell.

Immediately, the hunched back of the statue opened, allowing a thinner person to slip in.

Although he had already witnessed this scene, Remus couldn't help but said with a strange expression on his face: "It's unbelievable that you would discover such a secret passage."

"This shows that I have talent." James said proudly: "I was just practicing transformation in the corridor, and I happened to discover that something was wrong here - of course, it may not be so simple for others. "

Remus nodded sincerely: "That's true."

But Remus' expression became even more baffling. He stared at James with a strange expression: "What a strange talent. You are definitely the best at doing bad things secretly..."

"Okay, okay." Sirius said impatiently: "Let's wait until tomorrow to preach, or don't say it at all. We have to get in quickly, otherwise it will be too late when Honeydukes closes - that is another secret passage I’ve been to Hogsmeade and there’s no mistaking the location at one end.”

"Quick, don't waste time, let's go in one by one."

the other side.

In the potion preparation room behind the mirror on the fifth floor.

Lily had two dark circles under her eyes, her hair was messy, and her expression was a little serious.

Callan and Snape stood opposite her, and Steve and Gaspard stood on the other side.

"Remember to return to the castle early, we won't wait for you."

Lily whispered, then reluctantly handed Karan a bag.

Karan was stunned for a moment. He didn't open the bag, but just put it into his small pocket like magic.

Snape looked at this scene with confusion. After Karan turned around and left, he mouthed to Lily silently: "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on him."

However, Lily just waved her hand gently, with a look of helplessness on her face.

After they all disappeared into the secret passage, Lily turned to look at the two people on the other side, her eyes seeming to be questioning.

Steve immediately lowered his head with guilt, while Guspard suddenly raised his head. He stared at the candle floating in the air and pretended to be serious.

Lily immediately guessed the reason why they did this.

"So you already knew?" she asked: "You know that Karan hasn't given up on studying werewolves yet?"

The two looked at each other silently, but they didn't look at Lily after that.

"So tired, so sleepy." Gespard said suddenly. He turned around and left, his pace getting faster and faster: "It's time to go to bed."

By the time the last words came through, Gaspard had already disappeared.

Steve looked at this scene in shock, and Lily also felt sincerely in disbelief at Gaspard's decisiveness.

"Don't even think about escaping!"

Lily walked quickly behind Steve and blocked his path to the entrance room.

"Quick! You must explain this matter clearly! Otherwise I will tell the professors!"

Steve became even more shocked.

"Tell the professor?" He asked in surprise: "Then why didn't you do this earlier? You also secretly prepared so many potions for Karan and Snape. I thought you knew about this a long time ago?"

"How is that possible!" Lily immediately retorted: "I didn't do that because...because..."

Because what she was most worried about was that Karan couldn't listen to her own persuasion - he had always been like this.

But while Lily was hesitating, Steve had already seized the opportunity to run past her.

"Don't worry!" Steve finally shouted loudly: "Karan escaped safely from the mysterious man, how could he be afraid of a mere werewolf!"

"You should go back early too!"

Steve admitted Karan's plan in disguise, and Lily stared at his back angrily. She looked left and right at the potion preparation room where she was the only one left, and finally stamped her foot angrily twice.

"It really pissed me off!"

She strode towards the entrance, muttering words such as "disobedient", "reckless", "really terrible" and so on along the way. The sound of her feet on the ground became louder and louder.

But in the end, she stopped in front of the entrance of the secret passage, turned around and looked into the empty darkness, and still couldn't help but whisper: "I don't know if those potions are enough..."

At this moment, in the dim secret passage, Karan and Snape both raised their wands and cast the lighting spell together.

Karan glanced sideways and said angrily: "Even if you stare, you don't have to start now, right? Isn't it too early? We are still in the secret passage."

Snape sneered, his eyes still fixed on Karan: "Who knows what you think? Don't try to play tricks, we will come back immediately after picking up the package!"

Karan raised his eyebrows but said nothing.

His strange reaction immediately alerted Snape.

"What exactly do you want to do?" He asked with a frown: "Is it possible that you haven't given up on the werewolf in Professor Kettleburn's house yet? That's a werewolf! Don't mess around!"

Of course Karan would not mess around, he had planned everything.

This is a rare opportunity. Professor Kettleburn went to the Fire Dragon Sanctuary. The werewolf in that house may be unguarded. Of course, this is not absolute. Kingsley may be there, but The Aurors stationed in Hogsmeade had work to do on weekdays, and Karan had no intention of barging in rashly.

This time is just the first confirmation, there will always be other opportunities in the future - whether it is directly targeting the werewolf in the house, or trying to find out the identity of other werewolves from the other party, after that, you only need to make up for it A forgetting spell will do.

It's not like Karan has done similar things before, and he has even succeeded perfectly.

All this is within the plan.

Snape's violent reaction was also planned.

But Karan has already thought of a countermeasure, and this method is much simpler than casting the Forgetting Spell.

All it takes is one sentence.

"Remus Lupin, he's a werewolf," Callan said.

In Karan's eyes, Snape suddenly froze, and the expression on his face gradually changed, first stunned, then disbelieving, and a little scared.

"What did you say?"

Snape's voice became hoarse for no apparent reason.

Callan also stopped. He looked at Snape in the darkness and repeated calmly: "Remus Lupin, a second-year student in Gryffindor, a member of James and Sirius's group. One of them, he’s a werewolf, the real deal.”

"I saw this with my own eyes."

He ignored Snape's reaction and continued: "You should know that there is a Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade, right? Lupine transforms there every month. The so-called haunted house should be called the Werewolf House. "

"And it's not just me. Regulus also personally saw Remus after he transformed into a werewolf. We happened to bump into each other in the Shrieking Shack, and later agreed to keep each other's secret. Don't you always think that the two of us Did the acquaintance come too suddenly? That’s why.”

Snape was still in a daze. Against the backdrop of the ball of light, his face was unprecedentedly pale, without a trace of blood.

"how can that be......"

There was still disbelief in his tone.

Then his eyes suddenly widened, he turned around, raised his steps and was about to return to the castle.

"What are you going to do?" Karan caught him quickly: "It's time for you to stop messing around. I didn't tell you this to let you go to the professors to complain. You haven't thought about it yet. Do you understand? The Shrieking Shack was built specifically for Remus, just to allow him to go to school in peace without harming the students. There is no way Principal Dumbledore doesn't know this."

But Snape seemed not to have heard what Karan said. He fiercely wanted to get rid of Karan's hands and shouted: "Don't stop me!"

"That damn werewolf is a Gryffindor! So is Lily! They're probably in the common room right now! I have to find him!"

"Don't be impulsive!" Callan also shouted, but it was of no avail. Snape's strength suddenly became unusually strong at this moment. He dragged Callan away forcefully, leaving two long lines on the ground. long traces.

"Oh my god." Karan frowned, this was not the result he wanted.

"Lily knows about this too!" he had to shout again.

Snape stopped immediately. He turned his head and asked with wide eyes: "What did you say? Lily also knows... Was she also there at the time? It was during the full moon?"

Karan took the opportunity to shake his stretched wrist, shook his head and said, "No, Lily was not there at the time. She is the student who is the least willing to violate school rules among us. How could she sneak out of the dormitory at night? "

"I just guessed it, but I guess it won't be too far off. Don't forget, Lily is the one who will be in the same classroom with Remus every day - they are both Gryffindors. Remus With such frequent leave, there is no chance that Lily will not notice this, and don’t forget, Lily is the first in grade, she has always been good at studying, and she may have taught herself about werewolves a long time ago - especially It was after the werewolf riot happened."

Snape's throat rolled hard. He didn't doubt Callan's words, just like he didn't doubt Remus's identity as a werewolf.

He could see that Karan was not lying, and there was no need to lie to himself about such a thing.

"But why... why didn't she say it?" Snape asked in a hoarse voice: "Don't she know how dangerous werewolves are? She specifically asked me to keep an eye on you just to avoid Putting you in contact with the werewolves of Hogsmeade."

Karan shook his head again, sighed softly, and took out the bag Lily gave him from his pocket.

"Let's take a look." He handed the bag to Snape.

Snape silently took the bag. He opened it and looked inside, and found that it was filled with potions of various colors.

"Boil potion, itching potion, cold potion..." He identified the potions inside one by one. They were all low-level potions that he and Lily had discussed, preparing to deal with those students who regarded him as a traitor. .

But now, the bag has fallen into Karan's hands.

Lily even handed it to him personally.

"Is this why Lily stayed up late recently?" Snape asked: "Is that why her condition has become so... bad?"

Karan sighed again.

"Yes." He said: "I think she had already guessed that I would not be so peaceful, so while letting you stare at me, she secretly made another preparation - these hard-prepared potions. ”

"On the one hand, they are seriously discouraging them, but on the other hand, they don't want us to get hurt."

"This is Lily, such a kind Lily."

Then Karan met Snape's eyes, ignored his involuntarily clenched hands, and asked him: "Now, do you still dare to say that you understand Lily?"

"She is so kind, far more kind than you can imagine. I think this is also the reason why she did not reveal Remus' werewolf identity."

There was a deep silence in the secret passage.

Snape's hands clenched repeatedly, his face still pale.

"Remus Lupin..." he said almost through gritted teeth.

After a while, Snape raised his head and looked at Callan again.

"Are you really planning to study werewolves?" He asked, "Are you sure?"

Callan stared at Snape, who suddenly burst out laughing.

"I killed all the basilisks in the secret room with just a rooster. Maybe you think this is simple, but I changed from an ordinary stone to the shape of a rooster, and then made the rooster come alive - this is different from The existing sculptures are completely different.”

"Transfiguration?"

Karan chuckled: "I'm the best at it."

"Then let's go." Snape seemed to have made up his mind: "We should really prepare early to guard against all werewolves."

"Whether it's outside the castle or inside the castle."

He handed the bag in his hand over again, but Karan didn't take it.

"Take it," he said, "These potions won't help me much."

The ash wand bloomed silently with a ball of light, reflecting Karan's slightly narrowed eyes.

"We have already made enough preparations." He said softly.

"A loyal wand is what I need most."

The light suddenly became much brighter, and Karan smiled and praised: "Good boy, good boy..."

Snape silently put the bag into the pocket of the wizard's robe. He couldn't cast the Seamless Stretching Charm, so the wizard's robe immediately bulged up greatly.

After seeing Kahlan talking strangely to himself, Snape asked with strange eyes: "Who are you talking to?"

Karan smiled mysteriously.

"Of course it's a gift, a perfect gift."

Snape's eyes became even weirder.

"Let's go." He urged, shaking his head to get rid of the idea of ​​what terrible ghost Karan could see, and at the same time grasped the cypress wand in his hand.

It was at this moment that an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Many wizards would rather die than continue to live after contracting lycanthropy.

I don’t know...is this considered the glory of death?