Chapter 144
Catching Wormtail 1
Chapter 144 Catching Wormtail 1
Wade usually doesn't pay special attention to the names above other people's heads, because it would give him a sense of disconnection, as if he were in a game world.
So he had gotten used to thinking of names as part of his hair and ignoring them.
But at this time, he still glanced at the top of the girl's head.
【Luna Lovegood】.
Sure enough it was her.
This girl is not quite like the elf-like beauty in the movies. Her appearance is not too outstanding, but her unique temperament is very noticeable.
Luna wrapped in a blanket, sat up dazedly, looking at Vader without saying a word.
Wade walked over and asked, "You are a first-year student, right? It's so late, why don't you sleep in the dormitory?"
The blonde girl looked at Wade with her bulging eyes and didn't blink for a long time, which gave people a very strange feeling.
After a while, she slowly said, "My book is lost. I came to look for it, but I couldn't find it... The door of the dormitory is locked."
"Didn't you knock on the door? Or did your roommate not let you in?" Wade asked with a frown.
"What does it matter?"
Luna lay down again and pulled the blanket under her eyes. She said calmly, "The door will be open tomorrow morning anyway."
She was so frank that if Wade intervened, it would seem like he was meddling in her affairs.
He then asked: "What is your name and what book did you lose?"
The little girl looked at him through the darkness and asked, "Will you help me find it?"
"If it's not too much trouble."
She didn't know what she was thinking. After a while, she said, "My name is Luna Lovegood. Some people call me Crazy Girl. I can't find my History of Magic."
Vader waved his wand and said clearly, "Here comes Luna's History of Magic!"
A book suddenly flew out from the gap between the sofa and fell directly into Wade's hands. Wade put it next to the little girl.
"Wow--"
Luna uttered a soft exclamation, and after a few seconds of silence, she said, as if she had just remembered, "Thank you."
"If you need help, you can come to me...I'm Weed Grey, a sophomore."
After saying this, Weed returned to the dormitory carrying his schoolbag.
Although Luna slept alone in the lounge at night, Vader was not worried about her safety.
The house-elves who clean the room usually work in the evening, and the portraits on the walls and the ghosts walking around the room are not just for show.
……
The next morning, when Wade got up, Luna was no longer on the sofa.
The rain continued all night and did not stop in the morning. The raindrops hit the windows and streams of water flowed down the glass.
The playground was a foot deep in water, and Hagrid's animals were huddled in their sheds.
The students couldn't play the escape game, so many of them leaned against the windows, staring at the sky, hoping that the rain would stop soon.
But the rain continued for several days.
"It would be nice if I knew the weather spell." Michael, who was addicted to the game, said frustratedly, "The rain will stop whenever I want."
The weekend finally came, but they were trapped in the castle because of heavy rain, which was too cruel for the little wizards who were addicted to games. Michael was still making a wish, while Harry and Hermione had already gone to the library to look up the magic book of weather spells.
During these few days, Wade's truth serum was finally ready.
The clear and transparent liquid is in a crystal bottle, just like clear water.
He took out the Marauder's Map and confirmed Peter Pettigrew's location again.
The rat stayed in Ron's dormitory as always.
He sometimes went out for a walk, wandering around the castle. When he didn't find him on the map for the first time, Wade was worried for a while, thinking that Peter would do something big.
Later he found out that the man was just bored in the dormitory and went for a run outside.
Even after turning into a mouse, Peter always avoided people, the students' pet cats and owls, and had to walk stealthily.
Recently Ron went to participate in an escape game, and Peter often followed him. I heard that Peter once helped Ron scratch his opponent.
At dinner, Ron praised his mouse highly at the long table, calling it a "meritorious minister".
Wade once thought about whether he could exchange the mouse with Ron for a new wand or Galleons, but after weighing the pros and cons, he gave up the idea.
Ron's wand was not broken, and although the unicorn hair was exposed, it was still usable. It was true that he was short of money, but he was not necessarily willing to sell the mouse.
He was a man with many shortcomings, but also stubborn and affectionate. Perhaps he regarded the mice as his own family and would not let go easily.
This would alert Peter Petillo. If that guy escaped from the school and hid in a city or mountain where ordinary people lived, Wade really didn't know how to find him.
The operation to capture Peter Petillo must be foolproof.
Perhaps because of the rain, the students stayed in the dormitories and lounges all day, and Peter Pettigrew hadn't sneaked out for several days.
Wade put away the map and truth serum, took out the Book of Friends, sent messages to several people in a row, communicated what to do next, and then came out of the Room of Requirement.
The corridor was empty, and he went down to the fifth floor before he saw the Weasley twins, with whom he had made an appointment in advance.
Seeing him coming, the twins immediately covered their ears with their hands and shouted, "Look, Vader!"
They covered their hands for a while, then suddenly opened their hands, and a large cloud of white smoke floated towards the ceiling.
George was also creative in using his fingers to shrink and expand, and irregular round smoke rings came out in clusters like bubbles in the water.
Even in the recent heavy rain, the Gryffindor Quidditch team did not stop training.
To avoid catching a cold, they would take a sip of a stimulant after training, at the cost of smoke coming out of their ears for the next period of time.
Harry was embarrassed by this, as Colin Creevey took several photos of him looking like a steam locomotive, but the twins enjoyed it and even developed a new smoke ring trick.
“Look, we can do this!”
Fred covered his ears for a moment longer, then let out a large cloud of white smoke and blew through the center, making it a hollow smoke ring.
George waved his wand, a bubble appeared, put the smoke ring inside, and finally put it on his head. He asked, "Does it look like the Pope's coronation?"
"Like, very much like, hahahaha..."
Fred laughed out loud.
Wade was also infected by their relaxed and happy atmosphere and couldn't help laughing.
After joking for a while, Wade asked, "Fred, George, have you used the Marauder's Map to look at Ron's dormitory?"
(End of this chapter)