Chapter 381 Lupine and Black

Over the next few days, the only topic in the school was Sirius Black, and the stories about how he broke into the castle became increasingly bizarre.

Gryffindor's Seamus Finnigan insisted that Black had taken the form of a dementor and infiltrated the castle with the guards.

Luna thought he was a painted demon who could freely enter and leave the castle's portraits.

The torn portrait of the Fat Lady was taken off the wall and replaced by Sir Cadogan.

But the Gryffindor students didn't seem happy with him.

In the corridors, Kyle could always hear Gryffindors complaining.

"That Sir Cadogan, he spends half of his time every day teasing others to duel with him..."

"Every time I enter the common room, I have to waste five minutes responding to his duel... because he'll keep provoking you if you don't speak."

"He can always come up with some ridiculously complicated passwords, and he changes them at least twice a day."

"I think he probably held it in for too long on the eighth floor."

Someone said, "The corridor where Sir Cadogan was before is rarely visited by anyone, and the owners of other portraits do not welcome him as a guest."

"It's obvious because he always likes to talk nonsense and of course no one welcomes him.

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In just a few days, Sir Cadogan had replaced Black as the new hot topic among Gryffindor students.

"At least he's brave."

During one lunch, Fred said with a smile: "No other portrait will accept this job, only Sir Cadogan is willing."

"And I heard that he volunteered." George also said beside him.

They didn't hate Sir Cadogan very much, and sometimes they even took the initiative to provoke each other, making him jump up and down in the portrait.

To be honest, Kyle was quite curious about Sir Cadogan, but he was only in charge of the Gryffindor common room and could not jump to work in Hufflepuff.

At this time, Harry also walked into the auditorium, but his expression looked a little unhappy.

Percy followed him, observing the surrounding situation from time to time, as if a fire dragon might pop out of the corner at any time and swallow Harry up.

This strange behavior inevitably attracted the attention of others.

"Here we go again...this big head."

Fred glanced at him and quickly turned his head back.

"What's going on?" Cedric asked curiously: "Why do I feel like Percy is very nervous?"

"It's because of Harry.

George explained: "A few days ago, my mother wrote to us and said that she wanted to help take care of Harry, and then he became like this."

"You should all know what happened between Black and Harry." Fred came over, "Mom...or most people think that Black came to the castle last time just to kill Harry so that he could be saved. The master takes revenge."

Others nodded.

"No wonder I always see professors following Harry recently..." Qiu said suddenly.

"Not only that," Cedric said, "Even when the Quidditch team is training, Ms. Hooch is supervising it."

"Percy probably thinks of himself as a professor." Fred curled his lips, "And this is an auditorium, so Black can't hide under the table."

As he spoke, he bent down and put his head under the table in a serious manner and asked: "Mr. Black, are you here? Do you want some steak?"

His funny look made many people laugh.

Harry probably had similar thoughts.

Kyle saw him turn around and say something, and Percy no longer followed him so closely, but still kept a distance that wasn't too far or too close.

The first period is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

After eating, Kyle and Kangna came to the classroom together.

Professor Luping looked a little strange today. He seemed to have something on his mind. He was always distracted during class and called the students by the wrong name several times.

In the end, he simply did not continue the lecture, but asked the students to work in pairs to practice banishing spells to deal with little devils.

Until the end of get out of class...

"Kyle, can you stay for a moment?" he said. "I have something to ask you."

After everyone left the classroom, Kyle looked around... To be honest, he was still a little resistant to being kept by Professor Lupin.

Fortunately, there are no wardrobes or boxes around this time, and there should be no Boggarts or anything else.

However, Professor Lupine didn't notice anything strange about Kyle. He closed the door and hesitated for a long time before asking, "Did you see him that day?"

"who?"

"That's Sirius Black."

"Yes, I saw it." Kyle nodded.

"What... does he look like..." Professor Lupine asked in a low voice, "I mean... does he look like the photo in the newspaper?"

In just one sentence, his eyes changed several times, nervous...disappointed...hatred...there seemed to be a vague concern, but it was fleeting.

"You can tell they are the same person, but there are still differences."

Kyle thought for a while and said: "He is very thin, with only a layer of skin covering the bones. He is slovenly and dirty, and his eye sockets are sunken... It seems that in order to avoid the pursuit of the dementors, he should have eaten A lot of hardship.”

"That's what he deserves!" Professor Luping suddenly punched the table and said excitedly, "He should have deserved it thirteen years ago..."

As if he realized that he had let something slip, Professor Luping closed his mouth suddenly and took a few deep breaths.

"Sorry Kyle, just think of what I just said as nonsense." He forced a smile, "The last question is, when you were chasing Blake, where did you lose him?"

"That's where Professor Dumbledore found us," Kyle said.

"Later we discovered that there was a secret passage behind the tapestry, which led to the fourth floor. I think that's where he escaped."

Kyle spread his hands, "But we thought Filch must also know about the secret passage, so we didn't go out of our way to tell the professors."

"Yes, Filch does know about the secret passage...but we searched the fourth floor for several hours and found nothing."

Professor Lu Ping's eyes flickered for a moment, then he raised his head and said:

"Okay Kyle, thank you. It's been long enough. Let's go to the next class.

Oh, by the way, don't worry about being late, I will explain to the professor then... what is your next class? "

"Potions class..." Kyle said, "Are you sure you can get Professor Snape not to deduct my points?"

"Um..." Professor Luping was silent.

"I can help you add back the deducted points in the next class."