Chapter 219 Sirius Black
It was a house, a messy, dusty house.
The wallpaper had fallen off the walls, there were stains all over the floor, every piece of furniture was broken, as if it had been vandalized, and the windows were all boarded up.
There was a man half lying in the room, a man who didn't look like a living person.
A tangle of dirty, tangled hair hung down to his elbows; if the eyes in their deep, dark sockets could not move, he might be a corpse; waxy skin clung to his face. The skeleton looks like a skull.
He is Sirius Black.
Sirius was depressed now. Not long ago, he took great risks and sneaked into Hogwarts Castle, hoping to catch Peter Pedillo who had betrayed James in the middle of the night.
Last night was the night of the full moon. Lupine, the only one in the whole castle who could recognize his Animagus form, had to endure the process of transforming into a werewolf alone, and it was impossible to go out and inspect the entire castle as usual.
At the same time, last night also happened to be Halloween. The professors and students all had a Halloween dinner in the auditorium. Everyone was full of food and drink, and fell asleep deeply.
Therefore, he was able to sneak into the deserted Gryffindor Tower without anyone noticing, and he also entered Gryffindor using a piece of paper with a week's password that was brought to him by a clever mixed-breed cat Nives. Findor Common Room.
Sirius believed that last night was the best chance to catch Peter. If he missed this opportunity, he might never be able to catch that nasty rat again.
But he failed in the end.
Peter was not stupid. This mouse who just wanted to survive also knew that last night was a full moon night and it was impossible for Lupine to patrol the castle grounds as usual.
What happened during this period allowed Peter to judge that Sirius had discovered the fact that he was hiding with Ron and pretending to be his pet, and it was no longer safe to stay in Gryffindor Tower.
So he ran out of Ron's bed in advance and ran towards the Forbidden Forest with his tiny mouse body. Only by completely integrating into the vast forest can he gain greater vitality...
In fact, it's no wonder that Sirius jumped in vain. Peter, who was full of survival consciousness, had actually wanted to escape a long time ago.
It's just that Hermione's mixed-race cat, Crookshanks, is too smart. She has long realized that he is not a normal mouse, so she has repeatedly tried to catch him in the boys' dormitory.
If Peter's naive little master Ron Weiss hadn't come to protect him, he might have been exposed.
It is precisely because of Crookshanks' suspicion that Peter was unable to escape under the tight guard of a cat.
Fortunately, Crookshanks went to find Sirius last night with Neville's note on which he recorded the password for the common room. Peter finally found a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape and slipped out of the common room.
It's just that the crawling speed of a mouse is really limited. Peter was caught by Dracula and Dumbledore halfway through...
Of course, Sirius didn't know that Peter had been caught. He was half lying on the dusty floor of the Shrieking Shack in annoyance, racking his brains to think of other ways to catch Peter.
"That dead rat is too alert, no, it can't go on like this!" Sirius grabbed his messy hair and thought bitterly.
"In order to survive, that rat is probably even willing to stay in the sewers with real rats... If it really comes to that, I may never find him again."
With this thought in mind, he stood up from the ground and carefully used magic to restore the dust on the ground to its original state... He had to be careful at all times to prevent others from finding out that anyone had been here.
At the same time, Sirius secretly made up his mind and decided to take the risk and return to Hogwarts.
If he can't catch the enemy who betrayed James and Lily this time, then no matter how long he lingers, it will be useless. He might as well give it a try!
Sirius figured it all out, tiptoed to the other side of the shed, and lifted up a broken board.
There was a deep passage under the wooden board, and he knew that this passage could lead to the Whomping Willow in the northeast of Hogwarts Castle.
Sirius picked up the wand he had captured from someone else and lit the light of the Illuminating Charm on the tip of the wand.
Then, he saw a tall figure with silver hair walking quietly in the corridor.
The secret passage that was originally low and required bending down to pass, unexpectedly, every time he took a step, an area became spacious and flat, and even a layer of neat tiles was automatically laid around the corridor, allowing the silver-haired man to His figure is completely free of dust.
There was no light on the figure, and the only light in the corridor came from the tip of Sirius' wand. After many reflections, it shone on the handsome but pale face, adding a bit of a strange atmosphere.
"You...you are a human or a ghost!" Sirius subconsciously exclaimed.
As he said this, he suddenly realized that no matter whether the figure was a human or a ghost, he should immediately control the unexpected visitor to prevent his location from being leaked.
So he immediately cast a powerful stun spell on the figure.
However, the figure just raised his hand casually, took Sirius's coma spell in his hand, and then shook it gently...
As if the coma spell had no effect on him, it was crushed into a tiny speck of light and dispersed with the open palm of the figure.
Sirius opened his eyes that were covered by dirty hair.
Even though this was just a coma spell he cast in a hurry, as an outstanding wizard who had fought on the front line with Death Eaters, he didn't think the power of this spell was much different from the spells carefully prepared by those excellent Aurors. .
However, just such a curse was caught by a person with his bare hands...
This is too exaggerated!
Sirius realized that he might not be able to deal with the figure that was gradually approaching him, so he thought about retreating and silently took two steps back.
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Switching back to Dracula's perspective, he had just been walking in the deep and dark corridor for several minutes.
Using Transformation to change the terrain while walking slowed down the progress a little, but in order not to get caught in the dust that had not been cleaned for who knows how many years, it didn't hurt to go a little slower.
As a vampire count who likes to be active at night, he doesn't need any lights and can easily see things in the dark corridors.
Just as he was walking until he was almost impatient and ready to apparate directly to the Shrieking Shack, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him.
A figure that looked as skinny and scary as a skeleton, with a skin color bluer than Regulus Black's Inferi, and with a mass of dirty long hair, appeared behind the bright light.
Then, the skeleton spoke:
"You...are you a human or a ghost?!"
Dracula: "..."
To be honest, although Dracula was neither a human nor a ghost in the strict sense, being asked this question by such a long-haired skull was really hard for him to accept.
Then, the skeleton picked up the wand and used a stun spell on him.
Dracula was not very happy, so of course he showed no mercy. He directly raised his hand and rubbed the stun spell into light spots.
Then, he took a step forward and appeared in front of the skeleton in an instant.
"Before asking others whether they are humans or ghosts, I suggest you first take a look at what you look like!" Dracula said coldly, "You think so, Mr. Sirius Black?"
Sirius' eyes became very solemn when he heard Dracula call his name accurately.
He didn't respond, just took a half step back again, and then apparated away from the Shrieking Shack in an instant.
"Hey, why are all wizards so uncreative?" Looking at Sirius disappearing, Dracula sneered, "Do you really think you can run away by apparating?"
The light in his eyes flowed, instantly capturing the previous space fluctuations, and then following the traces of Sirius's Apparition, he also Apparated and disappeared in place.
The next moment, Dracula appeared in a remote barren mountain, and in front of him was the eager Sirius Black.
"We meet again, Mr. Black." Dracula raised the corners of his lips and greeted Sirius playfully.
"What?!"
Before Sirius could recover from the shock just now, his fragile mind suffered another shock, and his heart skipped a beat.
He subconsciously used Apparition again, but before his body could get into the vortex of space fluctuations, he was pulled out by a big illusory hand and dragged him to Dracula.
"I haven't explained my purpose yet, why are you running away?" Dracula frowned and looked at Sirius in front of him, and said coldly, "Don't you want to hear why I'm looking for you first?"
"When I meet someone as weird as you, do I have to stay there for Christmas if I don't run away?" Sirius seemed to know that he couldn't run away at this moment, and lay down on the ground with some self-deprecation.
"I said, do you want to see what you look like first, and then think about whether you want to call others weird." Dracula twitched the corner of his mouth, grabbed Sirius by the collar and dragged him to a nearby place. By the pond.
He pressed Sirius's head down, letting his skeleton-like skinny cheeks reflect on the water, "Take a good look at your own image! I thought the conditions of the Black family were pretty good before, but I didn't expect you to be born." Such a skull."
Sirius suddenly became quiet and looked quietly at the water surface that occasionally wavered.
"Hahahaha...did I become like this?" After only a second of silence, he suddenly laughed crazily, "You may not believe it, but I used to be the school lord of Hogwarts... …Professor Dracula?”
After Sirius relaxed from his tense state, he finally recognized Dracula's identity from his iconic silver hair and powerful strength.
"Really?" Dracula glanced at Sirius's face, and then looked away with disgust, "So...will the so-called school idol look like this in the end?"
He thought of the handsome school boy Tom Riddle, who later turned into the noseless Voldemort; and then looked at Sirius Black, who was tortured into a skeleton by the Dementors...
Dracula was silently worried about Cedric Diggory's future.
"Professor Dracula..." Sirius said suddenly while still looking at the water.
"Um?"
"Before you send me to Azkaban, can you help me catch someone?" Sirius said bitterly, the hatred in his voice seemed to rise to the sky, "Compared to me, that person deserves more Being imprisoned in Azkaban, he deserves to be killed by a Dementor's Kiss!"
After saying this, he was afraid that Dracula would disagree, so he continued to add a few more chips:
"After doing this, I will let you send me to the Ministry of Magic to collect the highest reward. I can even give you all the remaining wealth of the Black family... We can sign an unbreakable oath. !”
Sirius knew that he had no chance to resist, but he still wanted to try if he could trick this powerful professor into helping him catch Peter, otherwise he would not be willing to die!
"Save it, there are only a few members of your Black family left, how much money can you still have left?" Dracula said in a disdainful tone.
"Wait a minute, Professor Dracula, you may not understand pure-blood families..." Sirius said eagerly, "Even though our family has declined now, the wealth accumulated over the years is by no means a small number! I... …”
"Don't bother, I know how much wealth you still have." Dracula interrupted him, "It's only a few hundred thousand galleons, and most of it is not liquid, so it's not interesting."
Sirius:"?"
Hundreds of thousands of galleons are not enough. Who is this Professor Dracula? And how did he know how much wealth the Black family had left?
Sirius was confused.
Of course, he could not know that his brother Regulus Black had been rescued by Dracula, and that the house elf Kreacher had already counted the remaining wealth of the family. Regulus was currently planning to let Various hidden assets of the Black family are revived.
"Okay, if the person you are talking about is Peter Pedro, then we have actually caught him." After watching the fun, Dracula finally gave up on playing tricks on Sirius and told the truth.
"Snape used Veritaserum to ask all the truth about the rat. Now Dumbledore should be thinking about how to eliminate your wanted notice."
Sirius' eyes suddenly widened.
"Seriously?!" He jumped up instantly, with uncontrollable ecstasy in his tone.
"Of course, I don't need to lie to you." Dracula chuckled, "I'll go back to Hogwarts later and take you to see it for yourself."
"...But before you go back, I think you should take a good bath so as not to scare those timid little wizards."
A malicious smile appeared on Dracula's face, and he kicked Sirius into the pond.
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