Chapter 143 Hermione: Riddler, Die! (5500 Words)

Chapter 143 Hermione: The Riddler must die! (5500 words, this is a big chapter!)

"Good evening, Mr. Sellers.

Hermione drew the curtains and hid in a small private space. She dipped her quill in ink and wrote a line in her diary.

"I'm Hermione. Harry told me about you writing to him."

Then, she stared at the diary with her big eyes, waiting for Cyrus to respond to her.

Cyrus was still looking for the manuscript that Lily Potter might have left behind in Godric's Hollow, when a line of words suddenly came to his mind, and he immediately cheered up.

During the summer vacation, he wrote a letter to Harry, telling Harry that the diary could actually be used to contact him, and told Harry that if he heard some prophecies about him, he must tell him through the diary.

Now there is a response from the diary. Could it be that the things predicted have made progress?

He calmly responded:

"Good evening Hermione, where is Harry?"

Where's Harry?

Hermione's eyes widened with anger, and she wanted to tear up the diary on the spot.

I finally borrowed the diary from Ginny, and the first thing you asked me was where is Harry?

What's the matter, is it because you won't reply without Harry?

She now wished she could rush to the Gryffindor boys' dormitory, lift Harry's curtains, twist off his cap, and then tell Cyrus: Harry is dead, what a fool!

By the way, it would be best to call Ginny along, and then the two of them bury Harry in Hagrid's pumpkin patch!

She was so angry that it took five minutes before she responded.

"No Harry, just me! What, you only talk to Harry?!"

When Cyrus on the other side saw this line of text, he realized something was wrong.

"So much resentment..."

A brown kitten with shaggy hair and an angry mouth popped into Cyrus's mind, so much so that he even suspected that the pen of the little witch opposite was about to puncture the diary.

Cyrus felt very bad, very bad.

The little girl Hermione's resentment seemed to be unusually great, and she seemed to have the intention of asking for revenge.

Of course, Cyrus also knew that he was a bit uninteresting. After leaving Azkaban, he had not contacted anyone except Harry.

In fact, Ginny wrote a lot of things in the diary during this period. Although she didn't know that Cyrus could see the contents of the diary, she still showed her heart to Cyrus without reservation.

But Sellers couldn't read them all.

He doesn't have that much time to play house with the little girl.

But now, Cyrus needs to use his ingenuity to try to smooth down the kitten's erected hair:

"Because I trust you, Hermione. Unlike Harry, you are very smart. You were the only one who guessed my plan before, right?"

"I'm sure you'll be fine, I'm afraid you won't survive more than two hours without Harry and Ron!"

Hermione, who was lying on the bed with her butt sticking out, looked at these words and suddenly wagged her tail proudly.

This Mr. Sellers, I guess he has some vision!

but--

Hermione's expression changed again.

If you think that I will forgive you, you are totally wrong!

The writing in the diary continues.

"I believe you will handle all the problems, Hermione. But Harry is different. You have also seen that he is in trouble almost every semester. I thought something happened to him again this time. "

Cyrus praised Hermione first, and then excused himself. But the effect of this move didn't seem to be that good. After a moment, he saw Hermione reply briefly:

"Really? Then what does this have to do with you only writing to Harry and giving him a birthday gift? You didn't write to me on my birthday."

This sentence was like a vent filled with resentment being opened. In an instant, all kinds of complaints rushed out!

"You don't write to me!"

"I won't write to Ginny either. If it weren't for Harry, I wouldn't even know that I could contact you in this way!"

"Do you know how worried we were during this period? Ginny tried to find ways to plead with Dumbledore every day and wrote many letters to the Ministry of Magic. She was not happy until she saw you escaping from prison."

"But I'm still worried, because of the Ministry of Magic's pursuit and those dementors..."

While writing, Hermione felt aggrieved and shed tears. Big tears fell on the diary, but they did not wet the book. The tears were absorbed by the diary.

She barely mentioned herself and kept talking about how worried Ginny was, but she was just as scared inside. Especially after seeing those dementors with my own eyes, those monsters are really terrifying!

Cyrus' mind was filled with the salty feeling of tears.

He was a little overwhelmed, but felt very warm inside.

At Hogwarts, he had a group of friends who cared about him, even if he had tried to trick them.

"Don't worry Hermione, I'm fine now. Dementors are just a few broken toys to me. No one can do anything to me except Dumbledore. And it just so happens that the relationship between me and Dumbledore is now With a little tacit understanding, he is now not so eager to send me to Azkaban. I think this must be due to you."

Hermione slowly calmed down after seeing Cyrus' reply. She was about to continue writing something when her roommate suddenly opened her curtains, scaring her so much that she quickly pressed the diary under her body.

"Hermione, are you okay? I heard you... crying?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine, really." Hermione quickly reached out to wipe away her tears and forced a smile.

After venting her emotions, she was not so sad now, but it was still a bit difficult for her to change her expression immediately.

"Don't be like this, Hermione, we all know that Ron is a bit of a jerk." Her roommate said.

They thought Hermione was sad for Ron. Ron and Hermione had been arguing all day long because of their pets.

"It has nothing to do with Ron, but... I'm fine, thank you." Hermione said softly.

She sent her roommate away, and then continued to look at the diary, which already had a new paragraph of text on it.

"How are you doing lately? It's probably not that easy to choose so many courses, right? In fact, you can give up some courses appropriately. For example, Divination is really unnecessary for you. You can continue to take Muggle Studies. I think it is necessary to look at Muggles from the perspective of wizards.

"You will find the arrogance of wizards, their short-sightedness, and that most of them don't understand Muggles at all and are unwilling to understand Muggles. In fact, Muggles are becoming increasingly powerful. If you plan to become the Minister of Magic in the future, I think you need to think about the relationship between the wizarding world and the Muggle world. I think you can be a bridge."

Hermione was stunned.

There is too much information in these two paragraphs, so she didn't know how to answer for a while.

The main reason is that the word "Minister of Magic" shocked her too much.

It's like the Prime Minister of the Muggle world, and she herself is just a third-year student, distracted by her studies. Does she have the ability to consider such things?

"I can't become the Minister of Magic, Mr. Cyrus. Have you forgotten that Malfoy called me a 'mudblood' last year? Most of the Slytherins see me this way. And it just so happens that they have the upper hand in the magic world. "

"That's hard to say. It's obviously incorrect to determine superiority by bloodline. And this old idea will be abandoned sooner or later like rotten meat." Cyrus replied, "I hope you can look at wizards and Muggles from two perspectives and think about the relationship between them. If you don't forget how Harry and Ron came to school last school year, you will know that magic and science are not completely mutually exclusive. "

Of course, he knew that Hermione would become the Minister of Magic in the future, and this identity would actually be useful to Cyrus.

In fact, Cyrus was already thinking about the future. When one day, he became the leader of the magic world, would he let wizards hide? Cyrus did not desire war, and in fact did not like blood and killing, but he planned to break the Statute of Secrecy.

The Statute of Secrecy is like a piece of gauze, which was originally used to bandage the bloody wounds of wizards. But for a long time, this piece of gauze has been connected to the flesh and blood of the wizard's wounds. While the scar has not completely healed, the wizard must open it himself!

Even if opening it will bring bloody pain!

Otherwise, when the wound is completely healed, the gauze will grow into the flesh, and everything will be too late.

Of course, breaking the Statute of Secrecy is not an easy thing. It is tantamount to going against the entire wizarding world. The Ministry of Magic of the world will stand on the opposite side of Cyrus. More than half a century ago, a loser was imprisoned in Nurmengard.

"Okay, let's not think so far ahead. What about recently? Do you have any troubles?"

"Too many! Too many!" Hermione said immediately.

"It's too tiring to study 12 courses. I don't know how to stick to it. I feel that the Divination class is simply nonsense! But you told Harry that Professor Trelawney is a real prophet, so I am not so willing to give up. And Harry, Ron insisted that Harry encountered an ominous omen. Hagrid is also worried..."

Hermione complained bitterly.

Especially there are some things she can't talk to Harry and Ron about. For example, studies and Crookshanks.

Cyrus can understand Hermione's pain during this period from the text. The heavy schoolwork makes her mentally tense, and the conflict with her friends makes her almost collapse.

"Trelawney does have a little gift for prophecy, but you can't learn anything from her. Prophecy requires "third eye", which is a kind of talent, just like Parseltongue. I think there is no loss for you to give up this course. Neither I nor Dumbledore have the gift of prophecy." He comforted.

"As for the unknown - Hermione, you need to remind Harry and Ron, let him not forget what I said to him before, sometimes the omen that seems dangerous may be the opposite, and things that get along day and night will show their fangs. "

"But if you know something, why don't you just say it clearly? "Hermione asked this fatal question.

Cyrus was silent.

He suddenly felt that what Hermione said made sense.

"Well, Hermione, I think you are right, but it's a long story."

Cyrus thought about it and decided to tell the truth.

Dumbledore obviously had his own ideas. He knew that Peter Pettigrew was the traitor, but after reminding Harry and Hermione, he did nothing and let Peter escape.

This is obviously intentional. Dumbledore needs a servant around Voldemort to help Voldemort resurrect.

If he is not alive, how can he really be killed?

It is not a wise thing for Cyrus to break Dumbledore's layout. Dumbledore has a general view of the situation. Except for a small mistake, he can make everything develop in the direction he wants.

And all this is also beneficial to Cyrus. As long as the plot can develop as the original, Dumbledore and Voldemort will die, and no one can restrain him.

But Dumbledore is cold and ruthless.

He treats everyone as a chess piece. As long as he can win in the end, he doesn't mind how much the chess piece suffers, and he doesn't even mind letting the chess piece sacrifice.

But Harry is not a chess piece without feelings and pain. He is a good boy. And Sirius has also helped Cyrus. They are all good people, at least they deserve to live a happy life.

"You can speak slowly."

"Sirius Black is actually innocent."

Hermione had prepared to listen slowly, but Cyrus' words made her fall into silence. He was like throwing a bomb into a calm lake and detonating it!

Although Hermione didn't understand the connection between Sirius and ominousness, this was enough to surprise her.

"But, this is impossible. I heard that he killed many people, and there are many people who can testify-" Hermione subconsciously refuted.

"That's true, but sometimes what you see with your eyes and hear with your ears may not be the truth." Cyrus explained slowly, "Sirius is innocent, and the real guilty person is Peter Pettigrew. He betrayed Harry's parents and became Voldemort's lackey. It was because of his betrayal that Harry's parents were killed."

Hermione stared blankly at the words that appeared in the diary, and she didn't know how to respond.

Cyrus explained the truth of the past to her word by word:

He talked about the inseparable Marauders during school, James Potter and Sirius were like brothers, James made Sirius Harry's godfather, Voldemort was determined to kill the child in the prophecy, and they exchanged the identities of secret keepers...

"In the end, Peter Pettigrew blew up a street and more than a dozen lives, and Sirius was willing to go to jail and voluntarily accepted the punishment he thought he 'deserved'."

Cyrus put an end to this old story.

Hermione did not respond to him for a long time. Her mind was full of complicated thoughts. If what Mr. Cyrus said was true - no, since Mr. Cyrus said it himself, it must be true - how should she tell Harry the truth of all this?

At the same time, she also had another question.

"You said Sirius Black went to Azkaban voluntarily, so why did he escape now?"

"This is because he found out that Peter Pettigrew was still alive."

"What? How is this possible?" Hermione almost shouted, lying down and writing quickly, "But you said that he used magic to blow himself up, and only one finger was left at the scene."

"Yes, that's what they saw back then, but I also said that things seen with the eyes are not necessarily the truth, right? Peter Pettigrew was just faking his death. He released a spell to confuse people and cut off one of his fingers, and then he turned into a rat in the explosion and hid in the sewer to escape.

"He didn't dare to show up, because the information he provided led to Voldemort's "death" and many Death Eaters wanted to kill him. During the summer vacation, Ron's family won a big prize, and this incident was on the news. Sirius saw their family photo. Do you remember what I just told you, what is Peter Pettigrew's Animagus form? "

"Mouse, you mean Scabbers..." Hermione opened her mouth blankly, and the mouse with dry yellow hair appeared in her mind. Yes, it was missing a finger.

"Otherwise, which mouse can live for 12 years? Think about it, after Sirius escaped from prison, has Scabbers been very uneasy?"

Hermione felt like she was falling into an ice cellar, and her whole body was cold. Such a terrible dark wizard lurked around them for so long, and they were completely unaware. If he wanted, he could even kill Harry at any time.

"I'll catch him immediately!"

"Wait, don't be impatient." Cyrus stopped her.

"Don't rush tonight, Peter Pettigrew dare not act rashly, wait until tomorrow. You can find a few more professors. If he runs away, it will be difficult for Sirius to overturn the case. You can find Lupin and McGonagall, they will listen to what you say patiently. "

Hermione nodded heavily. Now she knew that the so-called ominous thing was actually Sirius himself.

"But this story is too long. I don't know how to tell Harry." She said in a dilemma.

"You don't need to tell me. After this incident, the person who killed his parents will be punished, and he will have another family. Is there a better ending than this?"

Hermione felt a little relieved and said, "I didn't expect that Scabbers was actually Peter Pettigrew. No wonder it always stares at him. I know my Crookshanks is the smartest!"

"That's what I said, but Hermione, I think you should still apologize to Ron for this matter." Cyrus reminded, "You now know the identity of Pettigrew, but I think you really didn't take Crookshanks's action against Scabbers to heart before, right?"

"But, Crookshanks did a good thing." Hermione was a little unconvinced.

"But this is based on the premise that Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew. You didn't know about this before, right? What if Scabbers is just an ordinary mouse?" Cyrus said slowly.

"What if it is just an ordinary mouse, but Crookshanks killed it? Although we all know that cats have such habits, Scabbers has been in Ron's house for so many years, we should take care of our friend's feelings, right?"

"But..."

"You are a good child, Hermione. Go and apologize to Ron, not for Peter Pettigrew, but just for Scabbers."

"I know, Mr. Cyrus, you are right."

After that, Cyrus talked to Hermione about some other things, such as what he had experienced recently. How he escaped from the Dementors, and then talked about what the Ministry of Magic looked like.

He made Hermione laugh so hard that she had to bury her face in the quilt to ensure that she didn't make too much strange noise.

Her roommates thought Hermione couldn't help crying again, and they all decided to go and scold Ron the next day!

Of course, when chatting with Hermione, learning content is absolutely indispensable. She asked a series of questions in one breath, almost turning into a hundred thousand whys.

Cyrus answered them one by one.

That night, Hermione didn't sleep at all.

In the end, their topic ended with Cyrus' promise to write to each of them for Christmas.

Hermione was satisfied, and then she was late for the first time.

She missed the whole morning class.

Of course, the professors knew that she was tired, which was very common among similar students in previous years, so no one blamed her.

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