Chapter 159 After the Attack

In the dark auditorium, sleeping bags were neatly placed on the floor, with men and women separated on both sides.

Only after Percy threatened to call the ghost did the young wizards stop talking about the wanted criminal entering Hogwarts.

At this time, a weak "squeak~squeak~" sound came from outside the sleeping bag.

Ron, who was almost asleep, heard the sound and immediately got up from his sleeping bag and said in panic, "Scabby! Is that you?"

As if it heard the call, the mouse squeaked and crawled directly towards Ron.

"It actually came to find me. I really..." Ron held Banban in his arms, his voice trembling! But he said very softly:

"Don't worry, I won't leave you, and I won't let you get hurt!"

Peter Pettigrew came here, which meant that Sirius had failed.

Hearing Ron's comforting tone, Wright, who was resting with his eyes closed, couldn't help but think.

What would Ron do if he knew that the mouse he was carefully protecting was a wretched bald middle-aged man?

At the same time, he kept sighing in his heart: "Peter Pettigrew, you have no heart! What are you going to give back to Ron for what you owe him?"

It seemed like a long time had passed, and Wright was awakened from his sleep by a little bird with a blue light.

He opened his hazy eyes and looked at this patron saint who looked like Fox and radiated warm light.

He knew that Old Dumbledore had come to him for something. Wright sighed softly, crawled out of the sleeping bag, and followed him out of the auditorium.

Following the Patronus to the castle gate, I found Dumbledore standing there waiting.

"Professor! What's going on?"

Watching the patronus circling around him, Wright asked.

"Do you know Sirius Black?"

Dumbledore dispelled the Patronus, thought for a moment, and slowly asked Wright.

"I know, he's a wanted criminal!" Wright answered indifferently.

"You know, that's not what I'm asking!" Dumbledore looked at Wright with burning eyes and continued:

"Black shouldn't have come to Hogwarts. He knows better than anyone that he will be caught again if he comes here."

"Unless he has a reason to come! And I want to know that reason."

"So what do you want to know?" Looking at Dumbledore's burning eyes, Wright knew he couldn't avoid it, so he spoke directly to the point.

"Everything! I want to know why it turned out like this." Dumbledore said in a hurried tone, as if he wanted to know the mystery of it all.

"Okay, as you wish! I'll tell you what I know!"

Without any guilt, Wright looked directly into Dumbledore's eyes and said slowly:

"All of this goes back to when you provided a safe house for Mr. and Mrs. Potter!"

"The Fidelius Charm can bury the secret deep in the mind of the keeper. The keeper who was decided at that time was Blake!"

"Everyone thought he was a traitor and led Voldemort to kill Harry's parents."

"I know all this!"

There was a rare hint of dissatisfaction in Dumbledore's tone. He interrupted Wright and was obviously unhappy that Wright was deliberately keeping him in suspense.

Faced with Dumbledore's dissatisfaction, Wright didn't care and began to explain:

"That's the point. Everyone thought Blake was the keeper at the time!"

Hearing Wright's emphasis on this point, Dumbledore frowned slightly, looked at Wright's serious face, and said slowly: "Could it be! Black is not the Secret Keeper?"

When Dumbledore asked this question, Wright nodded seriously and continued to explain.

"Right! At the time, Mr. and Mrs. Potter and he all felt that Black was too big of a target to be the Secret Keeper."

"So they secretly replaced the person as the keeper of the secret, and put Brett on the stage to attract the fire."

After hearing Wright's answer, Dumbledore's brows furrowed even deeper, and he asked in a serious voice: "Who is the new keeper?"

"Peter Pettigrew! He is at school right now..."

"I understand! You go back first." Dumbledore interrupted Wright before he could finish.

"Then I'll go back first!" Feeling someone approaching, Wright turned around and left without refutation.

"How much did you hear?" Dumbledore watched Wright walk away, then turned to look at Snape who appeared in the corner.

"The keeper of the secret has been changed to Peter Pettigrew!"

Snape said expressionlessly what he had just overheard.

This calm tone and expression is like the calm before the storm.

Seeing Snape's indifferent expression, which looked like a thousand-year-old ice sculpture, Dumbledore, who was old and wise, could not help but remind him:

"Now that you know this, don't kill him when you hunt down Blake!"

"If he dies, we won't know the whereabouts of Peter Pettigrew!"

"I understand!"

Hearing Dumbledore's obvious intention to protect him, Snape responded with a blank expression and indifference.

After saying this, he threw away his black robe, turned around and walked into the castle without stopping at all.

Wright returned to the auditorium and crawled back into his sleeping bag, thinking:

"As long as the news that Black is an 'illegal Animagus' has not been exposed, the only people who can catch him are Lupin and Snape."

"Forget it. I don't want to bother with these cliché TV dramas. I'll just go to sleep."

Having made up his mind, Wright put all his thoughts aside, closed his eyes, and fell into a sound sleep.

In the next few days, there was only one topic in the whole school, and that was Sirius Black.

However, the portrait of the gatekeeper in the Gryffindor common room was changed to Sir Cadogan.

It had to change the complex password more than twice a day, which made Wright a little difficult to accept.

Neville is even more troublesome, as he basically has to follow others to enter the lounge.

But soon, the little wizards' attention was attracted by the upcoming Quidditch match, which was the first game of the year.

At the same time, due to the rampage of the Dementors, the weather became increasingly severe, with storms raging day and night.

"It's so difficult for me. If Wright hadn't just come back, I don't know how I would have gotten into the lounge."

After finishing training in the heavy rain, Harry was warming himself by the fire in the lounge, wrapped in a blanket and complaining about the new goalkeeper.

"That's right! I wonder when we can get the gatekeeper back."

Ron, who was sitting next to him, teased Banban and looked very bitter and resentful.

"It's okay! I don't think it's that difficult, right, Wright?" Hermione said easily while stroking the big orange cat Crookshanks.

"It's still a bit difficult. After all, it changes the password so quickly." Wright agreed casually.

But his attention was on the big orange Crookshanks. With the power of Nightmare, Wright felt that Crookshanks was becoming more and more hostile towards Scabbers.

Seeing this, Wright speculated: "Was it the night when Black attacked Gryffindor? That should be when they had the exchange!"

"So, Sirius is in the girls' dormitory? Shit! I'm kind of envious for some reason."

Thinking of this, Wright couldn't help but raise his right hand and hit the table.