Chapter 156 154 Wormtail

Chapter 156 154. Wormtail

Hermione also heard Jon's question. She turned her eyes to Jon's hand and saw the small tuft of gray hair.

"It doesn't look like something from a human being."

Jon looked at these gray hairs carefully and frowned.

"Are there any other animals on the carriage?"

"There is Hagrid's Niffler named Beech." Hermione thought, "But Beech's fur is black, and this one is a bit grayer. In addition, there are also Thestrals who are kept in a special room. But those Thestrals are unlikely to come to the Potions office, and their fur, if anyone can see it, should be pure black."

"There is no animal on the carriage with gray fur." ​​Jon's brows frowned more and more, "Even Professor McGonagall's Animagus is a tabby cat, and it is even less likely that she will have gray hair. of hair.”

He raised the tuft of hair to Hermione's eyes and asked in an inexplicable tone.

"Do you feel like what kind of animal left this behind?"

Hermione stared at the gray hairs, not quite understanding what Jon wanted to express.

"Um, a magical animal? It was kept on a carriage by professors, and it was just locked in a room that we couldn't enter, so we didn't know about it?"

"Don't think it's so complicated." Jon stared at Gray Fur and said softly, "Do you think this could be the hair of a mouse?"

"mouse?"

Hermione tilted her head in confusion. She felt that short and thin gray fluff like this could be many animals, such as gray rabbits, cats, and dogs. But why would Jon specifically emphasize mice?

"This is indeed possible." She could only think according to Jon's idea. "Maybe it was at the welcome dinner last time when school started. A gray mouse slipped into the carriage in the field. None of us noticed it. Already settled here.”

Jon's brows did not relax at all, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"No, if it was a mouse, it should have slipped onto the carriage earlier!"

Hermione was having trouble understanding what Jon was saying. She couldn't understand how he could deduce so much from just a handful of hair.

Jon did not continue to explain so much to Hermione. This tuft of hair looked very ordinary, but it could make people who know certain things think of a lot of things!

He did not linger in the Charms classroom, but took the tuft of gray hair, turned around and opened the door to leave.

"Where are you going?" Hermione asked from behind him.

Jon walked in a hurry and said without looking back.

"Go to Professor Dumbledore."

Hermione froze.

She felt like she couldn't keep up with Jon's brain circuit. Just because she found a bunch of hair from an unknown animal on the carriage, should she report this to Professor Dumbledore?

Jon was indeed ready to go find Dumbledore, but as he approached the door of the principal's office, his pace gradually began to slow down.

This matter must be reported. He has never thought of investigating anything on his own. There are so many people and professors on the carriage, and Dumbledore is there, it is definitely much better than him alone.

But even if you want to say it, you have to think about how to tell it and avoid being suspected of why you thought of it.

After arriving at the door of the principal's office, Jon already had a plan in mind. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

When Dumbledore's response came from inside, he opened the door and walked in.

Dumbledore was not the only one in the principal's office. Except for McGonagall, Flitwick, Lupin, and Lily, who had just finished chatting with Jon an hour ago, were all here.

They seemed to be discussing something. After Jon walked in, everyone's eyes focused on him.

"Sorry, Professor, I seem to have interrupted your meeting."

Facing Jon's apology, Dumbledore just shook his head.

"It's okay, Jon, if you have something important, you can just say it."

Jon didn't hesitate anymore. He took a deep breath and held up the gray hair he found in the Charms classroom.

"Professor, I just discovered this while practicing spells in the Charms classroom."

Everyone in the principal's office looked at the small tuft of gray hair held between his fingers.

Flitwick, Lily and Lupine frowned unconsciously. It wasn't that they were dissatisfied, but they still didn't understand why Jon came to the principal's office with such a tuft of hair.

Only Dumbledore's face remained calm. He seemed to be thinking of something in the corners of his blue eyes. After seeing the gray hair on Jon's hand, his pupils shrank slightly.

"I don't know if there are any other professors on the carriage who have any pets, but from what I know of the existing animals in the school, none of them have this kind of hair."

Jon said the words he had thought of before entering the door.

"When Professor Slughorn was still here, he told me about a very magical transformation technique among wizards called Animagus. I was wondering if it was possible that the person who sneaked into the carriage was actually an Animagus? These hairs are what he left after he turned into an animal!”

His words did not cause any obvious change in Dumbledore's expression, but Lily and Lupine both turned pale the moment Jon mentioned Animagus.

They seemed to be reminded of some unforgettable past. Lily clenched her fists at some point, and Lupine also had a rare gloomy look on his face.

"I know I might be making a fuss out of a molehill by thinking this way, but maybe it's really possible."

"No! You're not making a fuss about this, Jon."

Lily interrupted him before he finished speaking. She had already stood up from her seat. Her usually cold face was now extremely cold.

"This is a very important clue! Can you tell me which spells classroom you found it in?"

Jon could tell that the professors in the principal's office had already thought of what he was going to remind them of, and he didn't hesitate.

"It's in the classroom with the sign saying 'Charms (2)'."

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly spoke.

"The clues you provided are indeed important. Thank you very much for your attentiveness, Jon, but can you please step aside now?"

He looked at Jon, with neither surprise nor frown on his face, and his tone was still as sincere.

"We need to talk about a personal matter that happened in the past. This matter is not very good. You should know that such not-so-good things should always be avoided."

Of course, Jon knew what they were going to talk about next, and he was not dissatisfied at all with Dumbledore hiding it. It was precisely because he knew that he understood these things better, especially in front of Lily, the client. It was inappropriate and unknown. Mentioned by passionate people.

He nodded and left the tuft of gray hair on his desk. After conveying the clue, he turned and left the principal's office.

As he left, Lily turned her head, glanced at the animal hair left by Jon, and then stared closely at Dumbledore.

"Only mice can have such fur! It can only be mice!"

"I can understand your current mood, but the more this happens, we have to calm down, Lily." Dumbledore persuaded her, comforting her and sitting back on the chair, instead of rushing to Jon immediately when he found Gray Mao's Charms classroom.

But although Lily sat down again, her expression did not change at all, it was still so cold, hateful and impatient.

"What Jon said is right. None of the animals raised in the carriage match the color and shape of this kind of hair. This is not a matter of calmness, but he is very likely to be on this carriage, not only in , and has been there for a long time!”

It sounded like she was trying very hard to suppress her tone, but her voice still couldn't stop becoming sharp.

Even Lupine, who had always been calm and gentle, looked the same, but his emotional control was obviously much better than Lily's. He didn't say anything, and looked at Dumbledore, as if waiting for him to take action. Finish what you said.

At this moment, Flitwick seemed to have thought of why Lily and Lupine became like this after seeing the tuft of gray hair. He sighed deeply and did not say any more words to dissuade them.

"I know that this tuft of hair is probably left by Wormtail." Dumbledore looked at Lily and Lupin seriously, "His Animagus is a mouse, a gray-furred mouse. This is We all know this. But it’s probably him who’s sneaking into the carriage now, so I have to advise you to calm down.”

"Think about it, how many years have we not heard from him? After the Dark Lord led his men to occupy Hogwarts Castle seven years ago, he completely consolidated his rule in the entire British wizarding world. After that, he just disappeared."

"It stands to reason that he has made such great contributions. No matter what, the Dark Lord should reward him well after gaining power, but there is no information about him. His name has not appeared in the magic world for seven years. ”

"You hate him. All of us who know what he has done hate him. He himself should know this better than anyone else. Because of this, we have always suspected that the Dark Lord helped him for his safety. Incognito, he rearranged an identity that none of us could guess and held a high position in the Ministry of Magic, and profited by betraying his friends. We have also been looking for those suspicious pure-blood wizards, trying to find all the clues about him. But after so many years, there is still no clue.”

"And now, a person from the Ministry of Magic and the Dark Lord has sneaked into the carriage, and this person is very likely to be Wormtail, who has been missing for so long. In this carriage, Lily and Lupine are both in the situation "Excuse me, do you think that with his character, he will come to such a place?"

Dumbledore is obviously much more thorough than anyone else. He is rational enough to think through all the problems. What he just said, even Jon did not think of it for a while, and he was watching By the time Jon took out the tuft of gray hair, he had already noticed something unusual about it.

But not everyone can be as sensible and calm as him.

Even if there's nothing wrong with what he said, it doesn't change the fact that Wormtail is probably on this carriage right now!

Faced with this fact, neither Lily nor Lupine could just sit back and wait for death.

"These are indeed problems, but with these problems, are we going to ignore Wormtail who is right next to us?" Lily's voice was calm, but the calm voice was obviously trembling.

Lupin's tone remained calm.

"You are right, sir. If Wormtail really appeared in the carriage to act as an undercover agent for the Dark Lord, it would be against common sense. He should know best how much we hate him. He must have some kind of plan with his master, but the more so, the less we should catch this traitor as soon as possible! Because only in this way can we pry open his brain as quickly as possible and know all their plans and conspiracies!"

Dumbledore was silent.

He was not convinced by Lily and Lupin's words, and he knew very well that no matter what he said now, he could not stop their hatred for Wormtail that had accumulated for countless years.

Dumbledore knew that there must be a problem, but he had no way to say what the problem was.

It was precisely because of this that he had no reason to stop Lily and Lupin from trying to find Wormtail out of the carriage, even though his intuition told him that this was very likely what Voldemort wanted to see...

France, Paris.

In an old house located in the suburbs of Paris, Sirius sat on the sofa in the living room, absentmindedly cutting the steak in front of him, eating dinner while listening to Bill, the eldest son of the Weasley family, reporting to him.

"After all this time of visits and investigations, Charlie and his team concluded that the top leaders of the French Ministry of Magic are currently divided into four factions. One is the pro-pure-blood superiority faction, which is composed of ancient wizard families and some half-blood wizards who meet the new pure-blood standards. These people are loyal supporters of the Dark Lord's rule theory. Many of them want to turn the French magic world into the current Britain, where pure blood completely controls all power."

"Another faction is the profit-seeking faction headed by the current French Minister of Magic Eric Amalric. They are now openly leaning towards pure-blood superiority, but in fact they just want to use this attitude to muddy the waters of the French magic world and gain more benefits for themselves. They are also the biggest reactionary force in the French Ministry of Magic on the surface."

" Then there are the Muggle-friendly factions led by Adele Roland, who are cooperating with us. They are now fiercely fighting against the profit-seeking faction. I heard that they will hold a temporary parliament soon to try to drive the Minister of Magic out of office and stabilize the situation in France. "

"Finally, there are the neutral factions. These people are the largest in number, accounting for nearly half of the entire Ministry of Magic. Most of them are pure-bloods or half-bloods with relatively moderate ideas. They are inclined to pure-blood superiority, but do not want such radical reforms to bring chaos to France. They are not helping either side. In the end, whoever has the advantage will become the faction. "

Eight thousand words, equivalent to the usual four updates. Tomorrow will also be the same amount, and the update time is basically the same. Go to sleep