Chapter 147
Catching Wormtail 4
Chapter 147 Catching Wormtail 4
"Good afternoon, Mr. Filch," Wade said. "As you can see, we are not breaking any school rules."
Everyone looked at him.
Good students can tell lies that sound like the truth.
If Filch saw the mud puddle from before, would he be so angry that he would put Wade in detention for a semester?
Of course, none of them tried to sabotage Wade in front of Filch.
Wade was the only student who took the initiative to greet Filch and did not show contempt or disgust towards him.
Although Filch's paranoid complex always made him doubt whether Wade wanted him to let down his guard and do something bad in the future, his attitude finally softened when he saw Wade.
The castle administrator snorted, "It's better this way."
He called his cat, and Mrs. Norris came out from the corner. The equally skinny man and cat continued to wander in the corridor.
Soon after, everyone heard Filch shouting: "Stop right there, Ward! You're defiling the castle and making a mess of the ground! I'm going to teach you a lesson..."
"I can't believe he just let us go like that," George said in disbelief.
"Let's go!" Percy said, suppressing his temper. "I want to hear what great reasons you can come up with! Bullying mice...you two are really getting more and more outrageous!"
"Wader and Hermione are with us!" Fred argued. "Do they look like the kind of people who would bully mice?"
This is also the reason why Percy was willing to patiently follow them. Otherwise, the twins' credit value would have been negative in Percy's eyes. He would not listen to what they said and would directly take them to complain to the professor.
But Percy would not say that. He put on a stern face and lectured: "Mr. Grey, Mr. Potter, and Miss Granger, I think you should spend more time studying instead of fooling around with certain people!"
The twins snorted with rage and tried to murder him with their eyes.
Ron whispered to Harry, "What's going on?"
Harry shook his head: "I was just called here by Wade, and I don't know anything."
"I think only Fred and George are in league with Wade," said Ron, frowning. "But what does my Scabbers have to do with them?"
"Yeah..." Harry echoed in confusion: "Isn't it just a mouse?"
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"This is not a simple mouse."
Arriving at the Umbrella House, Vader looked at the twins and said, "Actually, we suspect he's an Animagus."
"Animagus?"
Of course Ron knew what Animagus was, as Professor McGonagall had just taught him about it in class a few days ago.
He sneered, "This is ridiculous. Scabbers has lived in our house for eleven years. You say he is an Animagus?"
He paused and asked seriously, "Are you mentally ill?"
Harry didn't say anything, but he also felt that Wade's statement was unbelievable.
Percy frowned at the Weasley twins, "Is this your new prank? You're playing a lie on Vader and all of us?"
Wade is not a Gryffindor student, and he has never even seen Scabbers. How could he come up with such a ridiculous idea?
In Percy's opinion, his brothers must have deceived him in some unknown way.
Percy was furious. He said angrily, "Just wait! I will definitely tell my mother everything about this!"
Fred rolled his eyes, and George explained, "We have evidence!"
"What evidence?" Percy demanded.
George: "..."
He knew his brother very well. If Percy knew about the Marauder's Map, he would definitely confiscate it and give it to the professor.
This was something George absolutely did not want to see.
George looked at Fred and Wade. Fred said solemnly, "It's been in our house for eleven years, Percy. No mouse can live that long."
"Just because of this?" Percy waved his arms and said, "You think you're the only one who's smart? Don't you think mom and dad haven't thought about it? We give it tonic every year, and the potion has extended its life!"
"But it's just an ordinary tonic, not an elixir of life!" Fred said in a louder voice, "We always said that it was dying of old age, but it still eats so much now, and there is no sign of aging at all!"
"That's because... I've been taking good care of him!" Ron shouted, "You don't understand! Scabbers is a good mouse!"
"You're the one who doesn't understand!" Fred was also angry. He said, "We're not looking for trouble for no reason. This mouse has a name..."
"Yeah, his name is Scabbers," said Ron sarcastically.
"No!" said Fred. "It's Peter Pettigrew!"
Percy was stunned for a moment, then his face turned pale. "What did you say?"
Wade waved his hand, interrupting the brothers' quarrel.
"There is no point in arguing, the facts will prove everything."
He waved his wand, and the doors and windows of the umbrella house all slammed shut and locked, leaving no gaps.
Vader then removed the jar and dumped out the unconscious rat.
"Banban!"
Ron tried to take his mouse back, but Percy grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Percy?" said Ron.
"Wait." Percy asked, breathless. "Why do you think... it's called that?"
Fred said nothing.
He was regretting that he might have exposed the Marauder's Map.
"The Exposing Spell." Vader pointed his wand at the mouse and explained to everyone: "If he is an Animagus, this spell will reveal his true form. If he is just a mouse, then nothing will happen."
"I say..." Ron frowned and said, "It's really ridiculous that you guys take this kind of joke seriously..."
He couldn't continue speaking, and his face gradually turned paler.
The tip of Wade's wand emitted a blue-white light, and the unconscious Banban suddenly woke up. It struggled and screamed, and its body twisted strangely.
Hermione covered her mouth in horror.
Suddenly, a head appeared, followed by hands and feet, and then a body...
A short, fat man replaced Banban and lay on the floor, gasping for breath.
He is bald, has sparse hair, is very dirty, and looks very similar to a mouse, with a pointed nose and watery eyes.
"Is that Scabbers?" groaned Ron. "Or did you turn Scabbers into a human?"
"This is impossible!" Percy said in disbelief. "Peter Pettigrew... isn't he dead? Killed by Sirius Black many years ago!"
He said as he looked over to see Harry.
Harry looked back at him in confusion.
"Petrify them all! Imprison them immediately!"
Wade didn't give Peter Pettigrew a chance to argue and immediately cast two spells. The man was tied stiffly to the floor and couldn't move.
"Do you believe it now?" Vader said, "This is what we are going to say."
(End of this chapter)