Chapter 144 Lupin's Friends

"It's probably the two Weasley brothers who saw that Harry couldn't go to Hogsmeade this year, so they gave him this map."

Lupin guessed the reason.

He stood up from his chair, put on his coat, and prepared to go out.

Sherlock stared at the Marauder's Map and said thoughtfully.

"Doesn't this map show the movements of everyone in Hogwarts? Maybe we can find Black through this."

Lupin shook his head.

"Hogwarts is very big, and there is a lot of information on this map. Let's not talk about whether we can find Black on the map as soon as Black sneaks into Hogwarts. Who in the school can always stare at this map?"

What he said made sense, but Sherlock always felt that there must be other reasons for him to reject this proposal, but he didn't delve into it, nodded, and followed Lupin out of the castle.

The moon had risen at this time, hanging in the sky, emitting a bright white light. Lupin's spirit had not changed much, but his face looked unusually pale in the moonlight.

Sherlock looked at his changes and asked in confusion.

"Before the transformation, did you have any other feelings?"

Except for his extremely pale face, Lupin's emotions and mental performance were normal, he explained.

"The closer it is to the time of transformation, the more tired my body will feel. Physical fatigue will cause many high-level spells to be unable to be used, or unable to cast spells for a long time."

Sherlock can understand this.

To be precise, wizards in this world do not have blue bars. The magic power in the wizard's body is more like representing the strength of magic. The stronger the magic power, the stronger the magic used, rather than a consumable energy.

If you insist on giving a blue bar feature to an attribute, it is more like physical strength.

Casting for a long time will make the wizard exhausted, and the physical strength will decrease quickly. Students basically have no restrictions when practicing spells. If they feel tired, they can continue to practice after a rest.

In theory, as long as a wizard has sufficient physical fitness, he can cast spells without restrictions.

This is why Sherlock has been getting up every morning to exercise. His floating wand casting system consumes a lot of physical strength.

He uses two hundred and one wands to cast spells together. If he uses them three times, his body will be exhausted. He can barely use them the fourth time, but he will be exhausted after the fifth time.

This is the effect after the spells are reduced.

Overall, under normal casting conditions, Sherlock can cast between 500 and 600 spells in a row with his physique, and his body will be hollowed out.

Hogwarts students whose bodies are still developing and who don't pay attention to exercise will be exhausted after casting about 200 spells, and will feel tired after 100 spells.

However, with the intensity of Hogwarts teaching, it is rare for students to practice 100 spells a day, so learning magic is equivalent to no limit for them.

Moreover, for a normal wizard duel, it is usually ten spells that can decide the winner. It is impossible for two people to fire two or three hundred spells in a row, and the result is still undecided.

Therefore, there is no so-called blue bar in this world. As long as you can use it, you can cast spells at will.

Except for Sherlock, who can cast 200 spells at a time.

Sherlock has been studying the reasonable combination of the number of wand casting spells. Last time when facing the straw man, 200 Patronus spells were obviously too wasteful. Even if only 100 were used, the same effect could be achieved under reasonable combination.

Two hundred laser rains flew all over the sky, seemingly with great deterrence, but it consumed Sherlock's endurance.

Lupin took Sherlock to the Whomping Willow next to the Forbidden Forest. The willow was manic and aggressive, and normal people had no way to get close to it.

When he was more than ten meters away from the willow, Lupin waved his wand at a small stone under him.

The stone suddenly turned into a squeaking mouse, running quickly and jumping onto the trunk of the Whomping Willow.

It seemed to have touched a knot on the trunk of the willow, and the irritable magic willow immediately stopped moving.

Lupin led Sherlock to find an entrance to a tunnel next to the tree canopy, and the two climbed in together.

"This Whomping Willow was planted by Dumbledore the year I entered school, and the secret passage here was also specially prepared by him for me. When I was in school, every time it was the day of transformation, he would ask the school doctor Madam Pomfrey to bring me here, and then let me go to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade Village through this secret passage, where I transformed and spent the time as a werewolf to avoid hurting others."

Lupin told Sherlock about his past experiences.

Sherlock could clearly hear that his words were a little emotional, and there was also some loneliness that he wanted to hide, but couldn't hide.

He didn't ask much about this. Everyone has some little secrets of their own, even himself.

They walked along the passage for about half an hour and finally came to a dirty and dilapidated shed.

This is the famous haunted house in Hogsmeade Village, or in the entire British wizarding world - the Shrieking Shack.

Sherlock looked at the house and thought about the time when the name of the haunted house, the Shrieking Shack, spread out, and probably guessed something.

"This place is called a haunted house because people used to hear strange screams in the middle of the night. That was the noise you heard after you transformed here as a student, right?"

Lupin nodded.

"Yes, in fact, the spread of rumors was also the result of Professor Dumbledore's deliberate promotion, so that no one would venture here when I transformed and be accidentally injured by me."

"But in fact, it was almost there once?" Sherlock blinked.

Lupin looked at him in surprise.

"You, you know these things?"

"Snape told me." Sherlock sighed, "I asked him why he hated you so much, and he told me that it was because your friend tricked him into going in when you transformed, and he was almost bitten to death by you who turned into a werewolf."

Lupin fell silent, his expression was bleak, as if he was recalling some bad memories.

"We did go too far because we were ignorant at that time, especially Sirius."

Sherlock was stunned when he heard this familiar name, and then he immediately reacted.

"Who are you talking about!"

Lupin seemed to have accidentally let the cat out of the bag, but he didn't care much about letting Sherlock know about it, but just when he was about to open his mouth, his face suddenly became ferocious!

"Wait, let me tell you later, Sherlock..."

Sherlock also found that Lupin was about to transform, and he stepped back a few steps to ensure that he had enough distance to cast spells after an accident, while observing Lupin's performance when he transformed into a werewolf.

A painful roar sounded, and Lupin's head stretched and his body became longer.

His shoulders hunched, hair grew on his face and hands, and his fingers bent into sharp claws.

An upright werewolf image appeared in front of Sherlock. Compared with ordinary wolves, the werewolves in animal form have shorter muzzles and smaller pupils, and look closer to humans, but the combination of human form and wolf appearance makes the werewolves look extremely ugly.

After transforming into a werewolf, Lupin stared at Sherlock with his beast eyes, but there was no tyranny or cruelty in them, only calmness.

Obviously this was the effect of the wolf poison potion he drank in advance.

Studying the transformation of werewolves was the main purpose of Sherlock and Lupin coming together, but now he didn't have this idea, and stared into Lupin's eyes and asked.

"You said your friend in school was Sirius Black?"

Lupin, who was covered with gray and black hair, motioned Sherlock to sit down and said, and none of them cared about the dusty floor of the Shrieking Shack, and sat directly on the ground.

"I got the news that you joined the Order of the Phoenix last year, Sherlock." Lupin's voice was rough and low in the werewolf state, but it still had his unique gentleness in his tone, "So even if I don't tell you some things now, you will know them later."

Sherlock didn't say anything, he listened quietly to Lupin telling his past stories.

"Dumbledore is a kind headmaster. After knowing that I am a werewolf, he still approved me to study at Hogwarts. Here I not only learned magic, but also made several good friends."

"I have always been afraid that if they find out that I am a werewolf, they will alienate me, but later they still discovered my secret through clues."

"But the identity of a werewolf did not become an obstacle to our friendship. They are still willing to get along with me. Later, they learned the difficult Transfiguration for me, so that I would not be alone here to transform."

Hearing this, Sherlock certainly guessed who those friends of Lupin were at school.

"So Sirius Black, James Potter, they are all your friends?"

"How do you know there is James?" Lupin asked in surprise.

"Before the school started, Mr. Weasley found me and told me about how Black betrayed Harry's father. I know they were very good friends before. Since Black is one of your friends, Harry's father must be one of them."

Lupin nodded in agreement, with pain in his eyes.

"Sirius, James and Pettigrew, they are all my friends."

"Peter Pettigrew?"

Another familiar name. Not only did Mr. Weasley talk to him in the Leaky Cauldron, Sherlock always felt like he had seen or heard this name somewhere else by accident, but he couldn't remember it.

"Yes, Peter Pettigrew, we were a group at the time, but you should know what happened later. Black betrayed James, which led to his and Lily being killed. Later, Peter tried to stop Black from taking revenge, but was also blown up by Black with a spell, leaving only one finger!"