Chapter 152 Live Well, Harry

In the eyes of Harry and Sirius, they only saw that the moment Sherlock touched Snape, the two of them suddenly disappeared together!

Silently, as if they were erased from the screen by an eraser out of thin air!

"What's going on! Where are Professor Forrest and Snape!" Harry said in shock.

Ron and Hermione couldn't answer his question either, because they didn't know what happened.

"Don't worry about it! Run! Run quickly!" Sirius had let go of Lupin at this time.

Lupin knelt on the ground, and the bright white moonlight sprinkled on his body was like a deadly poison, causing his body to undergo drastic changes!

Sirius took Harry and the others and ran towards the direction of Hogwarts Castle together!

Lupin, who had completely turned into a beast, rang a long wolf howl in the moonlight!

Harry couldn't help but look back while running.

"Peter! Peter, he's still there!"

Sirius grabbed him and didn't let go.

"Don't worry about him! He's dead! Let's go back to Hogwarts before Lupin notices us!"

They ran wildly, not daring to stop for a moment. However, just when they ran to the Whomping Willow, an innumerable number of Dementors in black robes floated down from the sky and surrounded them.

The coldness that was enough to freeze a person almost froze Harry in place!

Black suddenly let go of Harry's hand. He panted and looked at the Dementors that surrounded them.

Harry seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and he begged desperately.

"No! Sirius! You can't... They will kill you! They will kill you!"

Sirius looked determined.

"I had thought of this result when I escaped from Azkaban, Harry. Being able to avenge your parents has already satisfied my greatest wish!"

He broke free from Harry's hand and fled in the opposite direction of Hogwarts Castle.

Animagus was not used, because Dementors have no eyes, they can only rely on smell and human emotions to sense the existence of the target. If he turned into a dog, these Dementors would definitely target Harry and his friends.

"Expecto Patronus!" Sirius recited the spell of the Patronus.

A silver light shone in front of him, but no Patronus was formed under his spell.

It was just a faint silver shadow, just like the level Harry had been practicing.

These lights could not disperse the locust-like group of Dementors, but Sirius still successfully forced back several Dementors that blocked him.

He escaped from the encirclement of Dementors, but in fact he could not escape for long, because not only these in front of him, but there were also groups of Dementors flying over outside, forming a denser encirclement around him!

Harry looked at the direction where Sirius fled, and subconsciously wanted to take a step to catch up, but Hermione pulled him in time.

"If you follow them, they will suck you dry!"

"But I just met him, and he said he would sign my consent form... and take me to his house..."

Harry held back tears in his eyes. He didn't want to cry because he had cried enough today, but he couldn't help but shed tears.

Hermione, Ron and Harry broke into the castle gate. They leaned over the window in the corridor and saw the direction where Sirius escaped. Suddenly, a silver light lit up half of the sky.

No one knew what Sirius was like now, whether he was still alive or caught by the Dementors.

Harry knelt on the ground, his eyes were empty, and his whole spirit seemed to be drained.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other. They wanted to find something to comfort Harry, but at this time, the two opened their mouths but couldn't say anything.

Just as they were stunned in the corridor, a messy sound of footsteps sounded from upstairs.

Professor McGonagall, Minister of Magic Fudge, Filch and two other accompanying personnel from the Ministry of Magic walked down. They were originally preparing to leave the castle, but now they were obviously alarmed by the reaction of the Dementors.

Seeing the Dementors outside like a swarm of locusts, Fudge shouted excitedly.

"Aha! Those guys must have discovered it!"

Professor McGonagall looked at Harry and the others, her face serious and her brows furrowed.

"It's curfew time now, what are you still doing here? Go back to the common room!"

Harry didn't listen to her, but hugged Professor McGonagall's legs excitedly!

"Professor! Go and save Sirius! He is innocent! He is wronged! The real murderer is actually Peter Pettigrew! Go and save him! Please! Ron, Hermione and the others can testify!"

"Yes, we can all testify, Professor!" Ron and Hermione also said hurriedly.

However, none of the adults present believed them. Fudge looked at them in surprise, muttering.

"What kind of evil magic did Black cast on them? Why would they say such things?"

"No! If you don't go over there, he will really die!"

But no one believed what Harry and the other children said. Professor McGonagall asked Filch to take them to the common room, and Filch was naturally happy about it.

Harry and the other three were forced to go back to the Gryffindor common room. Harry did not go back to the dormitory, but sat there.

The most painful thing in the world is to have hope, and then hope is ruthlessly broken in front of you.

Ron and Hermione were with Harry, and they were very worried about his condition.

"We can go to Professor Dumbledore!" Harry suddenly stood up, as if he had thought of a life-saving straw.

"What can Dumbledore do to help us?" Ron whispered.

But Harry didn't want to think about this now. Dumbledore was his last hope. He had to grasp this hope and couldn't let anyone destroy it.

He took out the invisibility cloak, put it on himself, Hermione and Ron, and sneaked out of the common room together.

They walked down the stairs and came to the stone monster on the third floor. Harry and the other three had no password, so they could only ask it.

"Help us, we want to see Professor Dumbledore, please, let us see him!"

The stone monster was silent, as if communicating with someone, and then it made way for Harry and the others.

Harry and the others did not stop, and immediately went to the principal's office on the eighth floor along the spiral staircase inside, and hurriedly pushed the door and ran in.

Dumbledore looked at their anxious appearance and was very surprised.

He put down the quill in his hand, looked at them, and comforted them softly.

"Don't be nervous, what do you want to see me so late? It should be curfew time now, right?"

Harry had no way not to be nervous, he was afraid that if he waited any longer, things would really be irreversible.

He quickly told Dumbledore the whole story, and Hermione and Ron supplemented some of the omissions in the middle due to nervousness.

So soon, Dumbledore knew what happened.

"Professor, can you tell the Dementors not to kill Sirius?" Harry begged, "He was really wronged. It was Peter who killed my parents, not him at all!"

Dumbledore shook his head at Harry's desperate gaze.

"I have no way to order the Minister of Magic, and no one will believe what you say. They will only think that you have been bewitched by Black with evil magic."

Harry stared at the serious face and felt that the ground under his feet seemed to fall apart. He had become accustomed to the idea that Dumbledore could solve any problem.

He expected Dumbledore to come up with a solution to the problem out of thin air, but no, the last hope was shattered.

"What we need now," Dumbledore said slowly, his light blue eyes looking from Harry to Hermione, "is more time."

"But..." Hermione began to say, and then her eyes widened, as if she had thought of something, "Oh!"

Harry and Ron were confused by their conversation, but at this time Dumbledore had stood up from his seat, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.

"It's 0:40 midnight now. You need to turn it four times." He lowered his voice. "I will leave this room first. If everything goes well, you can save more than one innocent life tonight. But remember this, all three of you. You must not let anyone see it, Miss Granger. You know the law, and you know what is dangerous and must not be seen by others."

Before Harry could figure out how things were going, Dumbledore had turned around and turned back when he reached the door.

"Good luck to you."

"Good luck?" Harry repeated, and the door behind Dumbledore closed. "Turn it four times? What is he talking about? What should we do?"

Hermione fumbled around her collar excitedly, and finally pulled out a fine gold chain.

Harry and Ron were still confused, but Hermione had already put the chain on their heads, and then the gold chain was completely pulled out, with a small, shiny gold timer hanging under the gold chain.

Hermione didn't explain too much, she just turned the timer back four times.

The headmaster's office with soft lights disappeared, and Harry and Ron felt like they were flying, flying very fast, flying backwards.

Various blurry clouds and shapes passed before their eyes, and something was knocking in their ears. They wanted to speak, but they couldn't hear their own voices. Then they felt that they touched the solid ground under their feet, and everything was in focus again. They stood beside Hermione, standing in the headmaster's office where no one was.

"We are now back to four hours ago, when we were about to go to Hagrid's hut!" Hermione grabbed Harry and Ron's hands and ran out of the headmaster's office with them.

Harry and Ron still couldn't understand, and Ron asked in disbelief.

"That timer can go back in time?"

"It's called a time-turner." Hermione whispered, "Put on your invisibility cloak, Harry."

The three of them put on their invisibility cloaks and walked down the office. Hermione also had time to explain the time-turner to them.

"I got it from Professor McGonagall on our first day at school. You must be a model student in Hogwarts to apply for it from the Ministry of Magic, and it can only be used for study. Professor McGonagall swore not to tell you about this, so I never told you, which is why I can take several classes at the same time!"

Harry's breathing began to become rapid.

"But even if we can go back in time, what use will it be to help Sirius?"

Hermione shook her head. She didn't know this either.

"At this time, Buckbeak has not been executed yet. We may be able to rescue it. We can rescue it first and then wait for the next step."

The three of them successfully sneaked behind Hagrid's hut through the invisibility cloak and successfully let Buckbeak go before the executioner of the Ministry of Magic arrived.

Then they quietly followed themselves four hours ago and saw with their own eyes that they were blocked by Sherlock and the other two.

"My expression was so stupid at that time." Harry muttered under the invisibility cloak.

They hid on the periphery of the Forbidden Forest and did not dare to get too close.

They followed again until a group of people caught Peter out of the Forbidden Forest.

They once again witnessed the scene of Sherlock and Snape disappearing in front of their eyes, and at the same time Lupin turned into a werewolf, and Sirius took them away.

Harry and the others did not run with themselves four hours ago at the first time, but saw Lupin, who had turned into a werewolf, cruelly biting Peter who was lying unconscious on the ground!

After just the first bite, Peter was awakened by the unbearable pain.

He wailed and struggled to sit up from the ground, but Lupin took the second bite without hesitation, and a large piece of flesh and skin was torn off Peter's shoulder!

Accompanied by a piercing scream, Peter disappeared the next moment.

Harry knew that he had turned into a mouse and escaped. He raised his wand to keep Peter, but Hermione pulled him and said.

"Don't go. If you are bitten by a werewolf, you will also become a werewolf. This is more painful than death for normal wizards."

They ran forward quickly, following Sirius and the others, and saw Sirius taking the initiative to separate from them in order to lead away the Dementors.

"I understand..."

Harry muttered to himself as he looked at the direction where Sirius fled. He thought of the silver light that illuminated half of the sky in the corridor!

Harry left the invisibility cloak to Hermione and Ron, and broke into the night alone, running towards Sirius.

"Wait for me here!"

The night wind whistled around him, and Harry's mind was filled with the image of Sherlock teaching him the Patronus Charm.

"Happy! Happy!" He kept repeating, getting closer and closer to the periphery of the Dementors.

He was thinking about his experience of traveling with Sherlock during the summer vacation; thinking about his terrible birthday, but it was the only one in thirteen years that someone remembered and was willing to celebrate for him; thinking about how after he and Sirius recognized each other, he hesitantly told himself that he was actually the guardian designated by Harry's parents and could let Harry live with him during the holidays.

Harry was looking forward to it, he was looking forward to a bright future in the future.

The coldness emanating from the Dementors was constantly eroding him, and his mother's voice seemed to ring in his ears again.

But it was no longer a desperate plea and wailing, she seemed to be talking to him in his ear.

"Live well, Harry."

Countless Dementors surrounded him. Harry could already see Sirius, who had fallen to the ground in the middle, his whole body blue, and couldn't even use Animagus.

He raised his wand and ignored the ghosts in black robes surrounding him.

He was no longer afraid. He grabbed Sirius's cold hand and recited the spell loudly!

"Expecto Patronus!"

A brilliant silver light spurted out from his wand. It was no longer an unformed mist, but a dazzling silver animal!

The bright light almost illuminated half of the sky. A stag with shining light broke into the group of Dementors. The Dementors retreated, disintegrated, and disappeared into the darkness. They fled in a panic!

"Wake up! Sirius! Wake up!"

Harry shouted his name. Under the shining silver light, Sirius opened his eyes and stared at Harry.

"Hurry up!" Harry urged him, "Minister of Magic Fudge is coming, you should hurry up!"

Sirius took one last look at Harry.

"Wait for me to write to you."

Then he turned into a big black dog and disappeared into the night.

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It's a 4,500-word chapter. I'll stay up late to continue writing it and try to post it early tomorrow morning.