Chapter 446
Sirius and Lupin
Chapter 446 Sirius and Lupin
Hi Michael:
Thanks to Dumbledore, I am back safe and sound, all is well, and I will be back at school this Sunday evening.
My friend's book is not with me at the moment, so I can only choose to write to you. I will discuss other details after we meet.
Please help me report peace to everyone. I hope you are all well.
Have a nice day, Vader]
Vader signed his name, waited for the ink to dry, folded the letter, stuffed it into the envelope, and watched the owl fly out the window with the letter.
He actually wanted to go to his previous apartment to pack up his things that he had left there. All the gifts he received for Christmas were also piled there. But as soon as Wade showed any intention of going out, Fiona grabbed his wrist tightly, and her fingers seemed particularly cold.
"Not now." Wade patted her arm comfortingly and said, "Tomorrow morning, I can ask Mr. Moody to accompany me. He used to be the most powerful Auror in the Ministry of Magic. You can rest assured with him accompanying you."
"But Moody has been away from home recently." Ferdinand frowned.
Then he thought that Vader had already returned, and if Moody went out to rescue Vader, he should be back soon.
Ferdinand changed the subject again and said, "How about this, I'll go with you to visit Moody tomorrow morning. If he's not at home... we can still contact Lupin."
Ferdinand also has Lupin's contact information.
Anyway, after this kidnapping incident, the couple dared not let Wade go out alone for the time being. Even the house in London, they didn't have a good impression of it at the moment.
Even though it wouldn't take Vader much time to turn into a peregrine falcon and fly over, and he could also Apparate, he still smiled and nodded and agreed.
Wade sent the letter to Michael and sat at the desk by the window to sort out books - books that recorded black magic, even if they were copies, were not suitable for ordinary people to see.
Not only are their contents dark and dangerous, but also because of the magic recorded in these books, they have the ability to hurt others. Some books will tempt people to read them, some will bring disasters, and some will cause people to have auditory and visual hallucinations.
Therefore, these books must be sealed with appropriate magic at ordinary times, and certain techniques are required when reading them.
Similar to Hagrid's favorite "Monster Book of Monsters", if you don't stroke the spine of the book, it will be no different from a mad dog, and can even bite off a person's fingers.
Wade was halfway through tidying up when he vaguely heard the bang of firecrackers exploding. He looked up at the window alertly, thinking that perhaps Moody had returned, but the next second he saw two familiar figures walking towards the door.
"Sirius! Remus!"
Wade leaned over the window and waved happily. The two adult wizards looked up at him, then smiled and waved.
Both of them looked exhausted and were originally talking in low voices with serious expressions, but after seeing Wade, their expressions immediately relaxed.
Wade went downstairs quickly, and when he passed the study, Ferdinand opened the door and asked, "Wade, what's wrong?"
"Sirius and Remus are here!" said Vader.
When the two arrived downstairs, Fiona had already opened the door and greeted the two guests.
"Good afternoon, Mrs. Grey."
"Long time no see, Mr. Grey."
The two men said with a smile, and then walked up to Wade impatiently, and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that he was safe and sound.
"Great, you're okay!" Lupin opened his arms and gave him a strong hug, and said in a trembling voice: "I'm sorry, Vader."
"It's not your fault, Remus." Wade patted his back soothingly and said, "You know, that's Grindelwald."
"Don't always look so gloomy, Moony."
Sirius put his hands on their shoulders, winked, and said, "What a great adventure, isn't it? Vader, I really wish I were you - it must be exciting to face the devil who ruled Europe fifty years ago!"
Lu Ping: "..."
He rolled his eyes speechlessly at Sirius - what nonsense are you talking about in front of other people's parents?
Vader couldn't help but laugh.
……
Mr. and Mrs. Gray knew that they had something to say, so after preparing dessert and tea, they returned to the study upstairs, leaving the space for Wade and the other two.
After a conversation among them, Sirius and Lupin learned about Wade's general experience, and Wade also learned about their experience of tracking the whereabouts of the Witch Party and even attacking the castle.
"We thought those guys would definitely lock you up in the Witch Party's lair, but we didn't expect Grindelwald to take you to the battlefield."
Sirius said with a frown, his eyes sharpening a bit.
Lupin patted Vader's shoulder and said, "I guess that's definitely not a good memory. Vader, if... I mean... if they forced you to hurt someone, don't feel burdened. We all know that you have no choice."
"Don't worry, I just did some technician work." Wade said with a smile: "Even when they were fighting, Grindelwald just let me stay by his side..."
He paused and continued, "Actually, I feel... he should have known about your rescue plan a long time ago, and was originally planning to let me leave with Dumbledore."
While he was speaking, Lupin kept watching his expression. Seeing that Vader's eyes were still clear and calm, and his face was not gloomy, he knew that he was telling the truth, and he finally felt relieved.
Sirius snorted coldly: "That bastard must have bad intentions, Wade, you have to be wary of those guys, dark wizards are no good!"
He paused, thought of Regulus, and changed his words: "...Most dark wizards are not good! Their kindness is more terrible than their evil deeds, because those guys definitely want to get more from you!"
Wade thought about it and felt that this was not wrong, so he nodded.
"Be careful and firm in your beliefs." Lupin looked at Wade and said, "Whether it is good or bad intentions, as long as we know what is really important, we will not be confused."
"I understand." Wade said seriously, "Dumbledore said the same thing."
"Speaking of which, that Obscure One kidnapped all your puppets to the Witch Party's territory - although it was also to save you - Wade, did you know about this?" Sirius asked.
"Maybel?"
Wade recalled the girl who was determined to save her friends, and then thought about the personalities of the puppets of Cube and Cloak, and suddenly fell silent.
I always feel that it is almost impossible for the puppets to be kidnapped by Mabel, but the possibility of them kidnapping the Silent is extremely high.
But the wizarding world avoids talking about the thoughts and personalities of intelligent creatures like house-elves. If people knew that puppets have ideas of their own and have organized a rescue operation with great action... then perhaps the history of Muggles hunting witches will be repeated, and it will become wizards hunting puppets.
"Mabel is considered my friend. I helped her once on that island."
Wade quietly put the blame for the puppet's unauthorized actions on Mabel, frowned slightly, and thought for a while before saying:
"She probably wanted to ask me for help, and somehow she found out about my kidnapping, so she brought her puppet to launch a rescue operation."
Thinking of the rolling black fog of the Obscurus that overturned the truck, and the look on the girl's face when she later decided to leave all the Muggle soldiers to the Wizarding Party, Sirius nodded, thinking that although the child was young, she also had that determination.
Just like Wade, he is equally young, but it is impossible to treat him as a pure child.
But he still had a question: "Where did she get the news? Even we were not sure about the identity of the person who did it at first."
Lupin beside him said to himself: Hmm... Vader seems to be hiding something? What is there to hide... It seems that he didn't know about it before...
Lupin thought about it and turned to Sirius and said, "It's probably because of the two of us. Remember? We discussed this when we were chasing the owl that delivered gifts to the Gray family's apartment."
Sirius raised an eyebrow. "You mean... the Obscurial was hiding in the house at that time?"
"Hmm." Lupin nodded and sighed, "Come to think of it, I actually saw that colorful cube puppet at that time, but I thought it was just some kind of decoration and didn't pay much attention to it."
Sirius also remembered and was speechless.
The Silent One, who had been tracked by the magic world for so long, was once only a few meters away from them, but neither of them noticed him.
However, the two of them had only heard of the power and danger of the Obscurus, and had never seen the methods of this creature... Perhaps the Obscurus had some unique hiding skills?
"Actually, I want to go back to the apartment," Wade said, "to see if the puppet has come back, if Mabel is still there, and my Christmas present is over there."
Lupin immediately understood what he meant and said, "We'll go with you."
……
Wade didn't plan to be away from home for a long time, so they went out immediately after dinner. He also told his parents that he would be back before going to bed.
"I can't help it. They are too worried about me."
After they went out, Wade explained to the two of them embarrassedly.
"I understand." Lupin said gently, "If I were your parent, I wouldn't feel comfortable letting you spend the night outside."
"Having a pair of good parents is an invaluable experience." Sirius said nostalgically, "Fleamont and Euphemia - oh, Harry's grandparents - treated me the same way. They treated me like their own son."
The streets of London are very quiet at night. The brick and stone buildings on both sides stand silently, with occasional faint lights coming through a few windows.
The three of them stood on the side of the road and observed the surrounding environment first to make sure there were no hidden dangers and no Muggles hanging around before walking towards the apartment.
Entering the room, with the moonlight outside the window, I felt that the room was very deserted. Wade turned on the light, and the bright light instantly filled the entire room.
There were a lot of gift boxes piled on the bed, on the floor and on the shelves. The wardrobe space was still there, and the bell that connected the inside and outside was sleeping soundly with its head down.
"Don't sleep."
Wade flicked the bell with his fingers, and it suddenly woke up, then shouted happily: "Master, you are back!"
Then it shook and asked, "Huh? Where are the Rubik's Cubes?"
"That's what I wanted to ask you," Wade said. "How long have they been gone? Have they come back in the past two days?"
"Well……"
Lingling fell into deep thought and could not answer for a long time.
There is no way, it is just a bell for guarding the door, it has no concept of time at all. And when no one is around, the bell will fall into sleep most of the time to save energy.
Wade saw it "hum" for a long time without saying anything, and knew that he had asked a stupid question. He went into the closet to take a look, but there was no trace of those gifts, so he used the levitation spell to send all the gifts in, and then slowly opened them after returning home.
Wade also put away all the magic books in his pocket, filling up an entire bookshelf, and placed them in different rooms from his previous books to avoid any bad influence on each other.
When he walked out of the closet space, he saw Sirius and Lupin helping him pack his luggage - the clothes in the closet flew out one by one, folded automatically and fell into the box, and other items also lined up and jumped into the box and stood in their own positions.
When they were leaving, Fiona told him to pack up all the important things. She thought the house was unlucky and she would never live there again.
For wizards, moving is a simple matter. No matter how much stuff they have, they can all be stuffed into a small suitcase.
Sirius and Lupin also took the opportunity to visit the wardrobe space. They had actually heard of this place, but they were still surprised when they saw the huge space inside with their own eyes.
"Remus is considered to be good at the traceless extension spell, but I have never seen him make the space so large!"
Sirius exclaimed in amazement: "I only heard that Mr. Newt Scamander has a magical suitcase, which seems to be another world!"
"Professor Murray took me to visit Mr. Scamander, and I did learn a lot from him."
Wade looked up at the magic runes in the space, then turned around and said with a smile, "But his space is for saving endangered magical creatures. Mine is mainly used to study alchemy, and the scenery is not as rich and interesting."
"Don't let the Ministry of Magic know that you have such a large space." Sirius smiled, "Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to go abroad in the future."
Lupin looked at the space, slightly absent-minded, and said nothing.
Newt Scamander made outstanding contributions to the resistance against Grindelwald and protected many magical creatures. He was a very respectable person, and Lupin also thought so.
But Scamander also set up a werewolf register at the Ministry of Magic to record all known werewolves in the UK, which is managed by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
Perhaps Newt's original intention was to promote harmonious coexistence between werewolves and humans, but the Ministry of Magic's implementation methods are always rough, simple, and arrogant.
Werewolves who refused to register would be considered dangerous elements that needed to be eliminated, but what about werewolves who voluntarily registered? Regardless of life or work, they would be monitored and managed. Lupin had seen and experienced a lot of inconveniences and discrimination in this regard.
Wade transformed the closet space into a pencil case, stuffed it into his pocket, took one last look around the room, and said, "I'll leave a note for Mabel and the others. When they get back, they'll know where to find me."
He pulled out the parchment and just wrote the beginning when he heard Lupin suddenly say, "Look up in the sky, is there anything flying towards us?"
Wade looked up out the window and saw a small ball of fire approaching them at high speed in the night sky.
(End of this chapter)