312 Basement and Uninvited Guests

312 Basement and Uninvited Guests

"basement?"

After seeing the door panel hidden by the carpet, Snape had a bad feeling in his heart - he remembered Kiki, the Chimera, and he also remembered that there was a basement in Steve's house.

Could Professor Kettleburn's house also have this kind of "basement" - filled with dangerous magical animals?

This made Snape's expression immediately tense. His wand finally no longer pointed at James and Sirius, but immediately moved to the entrance, with a guarded look on his face.

Although James and Sirius didn't know the situation in Newt's family, they had both seen Qiqi with their own eyes and were almost involved in each other's madness.Now a mysterious basement suddenly appeared in this house. Without even thinking about it, the two of them immediately realized that this was almost where Qiqi originally lived.

Perhaps the mysterious werewolf was also in the basement - the only place they hadn't searched.

However, the first person to discover them was not them, but Callan, who was regarded as their mortal enemy. Not to mention that Sirius had gradually thought that the werewolf might also be the purpose of Callan and Snape coming here - which is consistent with their goal. consistent.

But this gave them a hard time.

Sirius didn't know why Callan wanted to find this werewolf - judging from his attitude of ignoring Remus, the other party seemed not to know Remus' werewolf identity.

So what is he for?

After Yu James looked at each other silently, Sirius finally couldn't help but asked: "What on earth are you doing here?"

Snape glanced at him coldly, and his eyes inadvertently glanced at Remus who lowered his head, with an expression of disgust on his face again.

Karan was still staring at the dark underground stairs, and he said without looking back: "Why don't you tell us your purpose first?"

He slowly turned around and looked at Sirius and James respectively, who looked unhappy.

"It seems that our purpose is the same." He said softly: "For the werewolf in this basement."

The expression on James' face changed. This was not good news for them.

However, Karan did not continue to pester. He continued: "Time is limited, and there are not many opportunities like this. If you don't want to waste time anymore, then we have to go in first."

Before anyone could respond, Karan and Snape walked in along the stairs.

"It's really bad." James whispered, and he looked at Remus: "I didn't expect such a mistake to happen. What are you going to do?"

This time, he began to ask Remus for his opinion - because he was not sure whether Remus was willing to ask about werewolves in front of Callan and Snape, and he did not know whether this would give Remus bring extra trouble.

Remus was silent, and the footsteps inside the entrance were getting farther and farther away from them.

But within a few seconds, he suddenly raised his head and said, "Let's go down too - judging from their attitude, it's obvious that they don't intend to conflict with us."

“And it’s a rare opportunity.”

He finally added reluctantly: "I don't want to sneak out of the castle with you anymore."

This is understandable. After all, no one among the few people expected to meet Callan and Snape after arriving in Hogsmeade Village for the first time. This is really not a pleasant experience and adventure. .

"Don't be discouraged, Remus." Sirius grinned: "You will get used to it - you can't be so unlucky every time."

After asking Remus for his opinion, James turned his head to the other side: "What about you, Peter?"

Peter took two steps back in fear.

"I...I..." He hesitated and couldn't speak, his face full of hesitation and resistance.

He obviously didn't want to enter this dangerous basement.

"Don't-" James shook his head slightly, and he stopped Sirius's sarcasm in time, and then comforted Peter: "Then you can stay here, and you can also help us guard against... .Hmm...Pedestrians passing by, or the Kettleburn professor who came back unexpectedly."

It was obvious that this was James' excuse for Peter's withdrawal, and there was a good chance that Peter wouldn't be able to help him once they got to the basement.

But Peter immediately nodded gratefully, almost crying.

"Okay," Sirius urged impatiently: "Let's go."

At the same time, Callan and Snape had finished all the stairs, and they came to a wide space. The environment here was somewhat similar to that in Steve's suitcase. It seemed that the same invisible stretching spell had been cast. And there are items everywhere that would be used in Care of Magical Creatures lessons.

"It seems we found the right place."

Karan breathed a sigh of relief as he hadn't encountered any magical animals yet. He held up the wand that was blooming with light and said, "It's better not to search separately. It's too dangerous. Don't accidentally wake up any sleeping Chimaira." beast."

Snape didn't need Karan's reminder at all. Ever since he discovered this basement, he had become very energetic. He didn't even bother to refute what Karan said to the four of them before coming down.

The threat of the werewolf was higher than anything else, not to mention that they still didn't know where the werewolf was hiding and whether it was still being controlled.

The basement was dark, not even the moonlight could shine in. Karan and Snape held up their wands, and the two light groups moved side by side, carefully exploring the space.

After a while, the light group turned into five again, but the two sides made a tacit agreement not to disturb each other, so as not to cause any overwhelming trouble.

The space in the entire basement is not exaggeratedly large, and is even simpler than Steve's suitcase. There are not many special environmental magics arranged, which allows them to explore all the places very quickly until the end. , in front of a pile of bags containing feed, the two parties met again and stopped together.

A blurry figure was leaning on the bag with his head bowed.

Remus's heart almost jumped with excitement. This was undoubtedly the target they were looking for - the mysterious werewolf.

The other party's whole body was tightly tied with rough ropes, and a black bag was placed on his head. From the sound of the sound, he was either asleep or in a coma, and only a slight gasp could be heard.

"You stay away from him."

Callan warned that this sentence was not only spoken to Snape, but also to James and the three of them, so that they would not be bitten by each other when they took off their hoods.

Snape immediately took a few steps back, and James and Sirius were also held back by Remus. He was the person who knew the horror of werewolves the most, and the person who least expected anyone to be bitten by them. ——Whether this werewolf transforms or not.

He found no precedent, but he would never watch his friend risk his life.

After everyone was far away from this mysterious werewolf, Karan narrowed his eyes slightly. He used wandless magic and controlled the hood to float up little by little, trying not to wake the other person up first.

Finally, the hood was lifted, revealing a ferocious and terrifying face under the light.

It's hard to imagine this appearing on the face of a wizard rather than a beast.

Karan frowned. He had already recognized the other person, and presumably the people behind him did the same.

Not long ago, the wanted portrait of this werewolf was published in the Daily Prophet.

The leader of the werewolves - Fenrir Greyback.

He was also the one responsible for biting Remus, turning him into a miserable werewolf forever.

In the face of such shocking facts, the conflicts between the two parties became less important. Sirius frowned and said, "How could it be this guy? Oops, we seem to be in trouble."

As a member of the pure-blooded Black family, Sirius had heard some rumors about Greyback. According to his parents, he was a "despicable, shameless and dirty" guy, but they wanted to The evasive attitude failed to hide from Sirius.

This is an unpopular guy who is also extremely scary and has committed so many crimes that even being imprisoned in Azkaban is not an exaggeration.

"This means that it is almost impossible for us to get any information out of him." Sirius whispered to Remus: "Don't think that he will be that kind of pitiful guy. He is definitely the scariest werewolf alive."

"I just don't know why he appeared here?" Sirius then muttered to himself in confusion: "Principal Dumbledore actually caught him, but why didn't he send him to the Ministry of Magic?"

James guessed in a low voice: "Maybe it is related to the werewolf riot. The principal's purpose is the same as ours - we want to get some news out of him."

Remus, who had always been silent, suddenly interrupted: "This is impossible. The principal will not be such an unruly person, and there is no way he would use lynching."

This was also Karan's original idea.

But when he saw Greyback in front of him, his doubts about Principal Dumbledore couldn't help but become deeper.

At this time, there was a sudden rush of footsteps from the stairs, and Peter walked in in a panic.

"James——"

He shouted carefully in a low voice, not daring to be too loud, but full of urgency.

"Someone is coming," he was so nervous that he couldn't even walk steadily: "There are so many people! So many people suddenly appeared around the house!"

The sudden appearance of the bad news stunned several people, and then Karan immediately turned around and walked up the stairs. Snape followed him with a tense face, and James and the others followed closely.

Karan quietly stuck his head out of the entrance and looked in the direction of the window. He immediately noticed those sneaky figures. They were all covered in black witch robes, their faces were covered, and they didn't look like they were moving. He was an imposing wizard, but he was stooped and looked shabby.

But Karan had no time to think about the reason, because they were about to enter the house.

"Get down quickly!" Karan urged: "Everyone, get down!"

Even James and Sirius knew this was not the time to reply, mainly because these people were dressed so much like Death Eaters.

After everyone walked down the stairs, Karan quickly cast his wandless magic. The wooden door closed quietly, and the rolled-up carpet completely covered the floor again one second before the door was opened.

Several people stared nervously at the creaking floor above their heads, as those figures in black robes had already walked in.

Peter almost whimpered, but fortunately Remus, who was always paying attention to this, covered the other person's mouth in time.

At Karan's signal, they walked back to the basement together. Karan cast another stun spell on Greyback and put the hood back on his head.

"What should we do now?" Snape asked in a low voice with a pale face. Every footsteps seemed to step on his heart, and the next second he would be discovered by those above him.

And from the sounds of it, those people had gradually lost their patience.

Karan's expression was so cold that he seemed to be dripping with water. He finally figured out the origin of these uninvited guests - werewolves. Only they would have such a shabby posture, rather than the nobility deliberately maintained by pure-blood families.

This is simply bad news - they have been surrounded by a large group of werewolves. Even if they have not transformed yet, they all have wands in their hands, and they will be infected after being bitten by ordinary werewolves. A mild case of lycanthropy that would prevent them from even attending school banquets.

What's more, several of them were staying with the target of that group of werewolves - Fenrir Greyback.

He is the leader of the werewolves, and he will definitely be the first target of the werewolves to rescue him.

"Hide with the invisibility cloak first." Karan could only say, still hesitating in his mind whether to use the magic coin.

James and the other two had the same plan. Each of them picked a corner and carefully hid it in the feed pile.

The sound of objects being smashed overhead continued to sound, and the werewolves were acting unscrupulously, without any worry that the sound would be heard by people near the house.

This may be due to the soundproofing spell, which is another bad news.

At this time, James's heart was filled with guilt.

"I didn't expect my luck to be so bad." He whispered, "I'm sorry, Remus, I should have listened to you."

Sirius also rarely admitted his mistake: "You must carefully consider your future outings in advance."

The current situation is completely different from the adventure they imagined. This is not the safe Hogwarts Castle. The most dangerous situation is just to be caught by that old guy Filch and be deducted a large amount of college points.

They were in real danger, and it might even cost them their lives.

"Stop thinking." Remus suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and consoled him: "Don't forget, there are Aurors in Hogsmeade. They will definitely be able to discover the situation here in time, and... ..”

Remus's words suddenly stopped.

Above the head of the basement, there were suddenly two violent stamping sounds, followed by a clear and ear-piercing shout.

"Come here, everyone! There's a basement here!"

"Fenrir might be hiding in here!"