Chapter 048
In the courtroom, as Crouch read out the final verdict, all the wizards in the audience stood up. They were excited and everyone was shouting insults at Sirius in the center.
Only Lupine didn’t fit in with them.
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“I have seen everything I want to verify.” Dumbledore’s eyes flickered, and he reached out to hold up Ivis’ arm and said,”We should leave.”
The two slowly rose into the air, and the dungeon under their feet disappeared like smoke. Everything began to become blurred, and everything looked like a spinning black vortex.
Ives felt that he was slowly turning somersaults, and suddenly, he His feet landed on the ground and found that he had returned to the sunny headmaster’s office.
The pensieve flashed in front of him, and Dumbledore stood beside him.
“I’m sorry, Professor,” Ives apologized quickly,”I didn’t mean to see these memories. Dumbledore shook his head,”I pulled you down, not to mention you will see the memories here sooner or later.””
He led Ivis to the desk, and the two of them sat on the chairs.
Dumbledore’s eyes were on Ivis’s pocket, and he smiled:”It seems you caught him.”
“Yes,” Ivis nodded. Just as he was about to take out Scabbers, Dumbledore stopped him.
“Let me do it.”
He waved his hand, and Scabbers flew out automatically, and then floated between the two of them.
Dumbledore knocked on a piece of parchment on the table, and the piece of paper floated into the air, entangled Scabbers, and then transformed into a A cage that he can never escape from
“After the conversation that day, I asked many people, and the two memories you just saw are the most important,” Dumbledore said warmly,”The first memory proves that Peter Pettigrew is an illegal Arnie. Magus, and his Animagus is a rat”
“The key point of the second memory is that Crouch did not hear the entire case at the time and directly announced the result. This was an illegal operation.”
“With these two memories, plus Peter Pettigrew himself and some witnesses, I think Sirius’ case will be overturned soon. There was guilt on his face,”This was all my mistake. At that time, I didn’t examine the whole thing carefully. I thought it was Sirius’s betrayal that caused all this.” This caused him to stay in Azkaban for a full ten years……”
Dumbledore took off the half-moon glasses on the bridge of his nose and wiped them gently with a cloth, using this action to cover up his trembling lips.
“professor……”Ives was choked for a moment and didn’t know how to comfort the old man.
“Well,” Dumbledore put his glasses back on and put on a cheerful expression,”it’s time to meet our ‘old friend’ who is still sleeping comfortably.”
Dumbledore enlarged the cage containing Scabbers several times, large enough to accommodate several people. The mouse transformed by Peter Pettigrew was still sleeping, unresponsive to everything in the outside world.
“What did you do to him?”Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.
Ives touched his hair awkwardly,”I just fed him a little water of life and death.”
“Just a little,” Ives drew out the universe at his fingertips.
Dumbledore laughed and said,”Forget it, just pay attention to the dosage when you use it yourself.”
He raised a wand with a strange shape. It was an elder wand, with nodes arranged in an orderly manner on the wand – it was the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand in the world and one of the Three Hallows of Death.
Dumbledore looke
d away from Scabbers, a dazzling light flashed out, and then – as if watching a sped-up movie, Scabbers’ head slowly turned into a human head, and his limbs seemed to sprout. Slowly stretched out from where the mouse’s limbs were.
The next moment, a man was lying on the spot where Banban was lying. He was still sleeping soundly. It was a very short man, barely 1.5 meters tall. The sparse, light-colored hair was messy, and a patch of hair on the top of his head was bald.
Peter Pettigrew was a very swollen man. His skin was as dirty as the patchy hair, and his pointed nose also made people look uncomfortable. He couldn’t help but imagine rats.
The effect of the water of life and death was extremely good, and Peter still didn’t wake up. As a last resort, Dumbledore had to ask Fawkes, the phoenix, to inform Snape and ask him to bring some antidotes.
Soon, the door of the office was violently opened Pushed open.
Snape strode in, his robes lifted by the wind, like a big bat.
He saw Peter lying in the cage at a glance. His footsteps stopped and he froze in place. , said incredulously:”This is……”
“Peter Pettigrew,” said Dumbledore softly, without explaining what was going on,”he needs some sobriety.”
The bars of the cage revealed an entrance. Snape walked in, roughly grabbed Peter’s hair, pulled his head up, and drank some sobering potion.
Peter Pettigrew slowly woke up, and he still had some consciousness. Hazy,”Well……”
His wretched little eyes rolled around a few times, as if his brain finally got rid of the influence of the water of life and death and woke up. Realizing the current state, Peter said with a livid face and a trembling voice:”Severus, long time no see. Professor Dumbledore”
“Ouch!”
Snape slammed his head to the ground, and then walked out of the cage.
The newly exposed entrance of the iron cage quickly closed, and Peter had to grab the railing, pretending to be confused and innocent, and shouted:”I, how can I will be here……”
“Peter,” Dumbledore walked up to him and said in a deep voice:”Someone told me a bizarre story. In that story, the Potters temporarily changed the secret keeper from Black to you. Therefore, the person who betrayed them actually It’s you.”
Peter let go of his hand, took a few steps back and fell to the ground. His face turned green and white for a while, and he waved his hands repeatedly and said,”No, it’s not me.”
Dumbledore slowly revealed the truth.
Snape’s eyes gradually changed from indifferent to angry. He suddenly pulled out his wand, as if he wanted to kill Peter with a death curse.
An old man Holding Snape down with his arms, Dumbledore shook his head slowly at him, then looked at Peter and said coldly:”You tell us the truth, otherwise I don’t mind letting Snape give you some Veritaserum.”
Peter was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. His knees kept rubbing and moving on the ground until he hit the bars of the iron cage. Then he trembled and said in a fearful and frightened tone:”Principal… I’m so scared… I didn’t want to, it was all forced by the Dark Lord… He caught me and tortured me with the Cruciatus Curse… I only said this as a last resort.……”
“Huh~huh~” Snape’s heavy breathing echoed in the room. If Dumbledore hadn’t stopped him, he would have killed this damn, abominable traitor on the spot.
“Follow me,” Dumbledore led Snape and Ivis to a small cubicle. The only sound left in the office was Peter’s crying.
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