Chapter 383 Poor Neville

"After all, Lupine is the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor appointed by Albus himself. I think he should be trustworthy." Professor McGonagall frowned, not agreeing with Snape's approach of imprisoning Lupine.

"That's not necessarily true. You must know that Lockhart and Kino were also appointed by Dumbledore himself. This is not the first time that he has made a mistake." Snape raised his eyebrows and reminded everyone, reminding everyone of the previous How incompetent the two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors are.

McGonagall didn't know how to refute Snape's words, and the other professors also hesitated.

I have to say that Snape's analysis is quite reasonable. All signs indicate that there is someone in the castle helping Sirius Black, and Lupine, who was originally Black's friend, is the most suspect!

Lupine was keenly aware of everyone's gaze. He wanted to defend himself, but in the end he sighed. He knew that no matter what he said, he could not clear his suspicion.

"I believe Professor Lupin did not do this!" Harry suddenly shouted.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at him in surprise, but Harry repeated again that he wanted to believe that Lupine did not provide help to Sirius.

"Potter! You'd better think carefully before you speak! All of us are working hard for your safety," Snape said with a dark face.

"You also said it was for my safety, right?" Harry interrupted Snape directly, "Then I am willing to believe Professor Lupin, so you can't lock him up!"

Snape was shaking with anger. He was about to reprimand Harry for his words, but the other Gryffindor wizards were inspired by Harry and started to support him.

"Yes! I don't think Professor Lupine would do that either!"

"I want to believe Professor Lupin!"

"So do we!"

"Thank you, thank you!" Lu Ping looked at the students in front of him who were willing to believe in him and stood up to speak for him, and he was very moved for a moment.

Ivan was no longer silent. He knew very well that Lupine had nothing to do with Sirius sneaking in. Of course, he could not be allowed to take the blame, so he spoke to McGonagall.

"Professor McGonagall, we cannot make arbitrary conclusions without evidence. Every student knows Gryffindor's password, so it may not have been given to Black by Professor Lupin."

As for why Black got a wand."

Why bother asking? Of course I gave it to him!

Ivan complained silently in his mind, but on the surface he remained calm and continued his analysis. "Black has escaped from Azkaban for some time. Maybe he snatched it from some wizard outside."

"I assume Professor Lupine did not lose your wand?" Ivan looked at Lupine, who nodded and took out his wand.

It was a cherry wood wand about twelve inches long. The upper part was orange and the lower part was dark brown. It was straight and had an oval shape at the end.

After seeing the wand, the fat lady shook her head and said that the wand she saw in Brett's hand was not this wand, but a wand with a slightly curved chassis, which was easy to identify.

Immediately afterwards, Ivan asked all the little wizards to take out their wands, confirm that no one's wands were lost, and asked the Fat Lady to identify them one by one.

After the Fat Lady shook her head for the last time, Snape spoke impatiently. "That doesn't mean anything! Maybe Lupine accidentally got the second wand from somewhere and gave it to Black. Otherwise, how can we explain the note?"

"You don't want to say which Gryffindor student wanted to kill Potter, so he handed Black a note?" Snape said with a sneer.

However, at this moment, a weak voice suddenly came from the crowd.

"Yes, that note could be mine, Professor!"

Everyone turned their heads to look over, and saw Neville's trembling body, slowly raising his hands, with an expression as if he was ready to cry at any time.

"Mr. Neville Longbottom" Snape looked at Neville in disbelief, his eyes narrowed, "You just said you were the one who handed the note to Black?"

Mag and others looked at Neville with astonishment in their eyes. No one dared to believe that Neville, who was usually as timid as a doormat, would dare to do such a thing!

Harry was also very surprised. Will Neville help Black? Why? He remembered that he had not offended Neville. When Black sneaked into the dormitory and was discovered, Neville was the one who screamed the loudest.

"No, that's not it." Poor Neville stammered and couldn't speak under the attention of everyone.

"You probably left that note accidentally, right?" Ivan explained helplessly. He guessed this when he heard the fat lady say that Blake was holding a note when he entered the dormitory.

Because in the original time and space, it was Crookshanks who took Neville's note, causing Sirius to successfully obtain the password.

"That's right!" Poor Neville nodded quickly, saying that he was just as Ivan said, but he just accidentally left it behind.

The young wizards suddenly realized that Neville's poor memory had been known to everyone for a long time, so they did not suspect anything.

Snape's face was very ugly, and his plan to imprison Lupin would be ruined. Snape could only vent his anger on Neville and said with a dark face.

"Mr. Longbottom! Because of your mistake, Black almost succeeded! All of us have to gather here late at night to deal with this matter. You must find it very interesting, right?"

"Fifty points have been deducted from Gryffindor!" Snape ordered the sentence without mercy.

Neville's body trembled and he almost cried. He saw that the Gryffindor points pool this morning only had a total of sixty or seventy points.

Seeing this scene, Professor McGonagall shook her head and said nothing. Although Neville was not entirely to blame for Sirius sneaking into the dormitory, he was partly responsible after all, and deducting 50 points as a warning was not too much.

After the suspicion on Lupine was temporarily lifted, all the professors searched the entire castle as planned.

Among them, the three major deans have heavier tasks and are also responsible for notifying students from other colleges to go to the auditorium.

Mag took the students here to meet in the auditorium. This search will probably last all night, so they have to rest there today.

What makes Ivan a little confused is that after such a long time, Dumbledore, the principal, has not been seen.

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