Chapter 658: The Story of Heaven
Lu Ping, who had just accepted the post of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, had the same thought in his heart: Are all the students so strong now? If you are so powerful, what else do you need me to teach you? Am I right or wrong to accept this job?
But when he looked down and saw Harry and Ron, he remembered how they faced the dementors just now... That was the normal reaction of a child who had just entered the third grade. The child might be special... To be honest, Lupine wasn't sure if the child cast the spell he was familiar with? Has anyone improved on this Patronus Charm?
"Are you all right?"
Liya and Tohsaka Rin are not ordinary children. Tohsaka Rin has experienced many things even when he was very young, so he can face the crisis calmly.
At least compared to the flustered and sweaty Ron and Harry next to them, these two girls acted as if nothing had happened just now.
As for Hermione, she was still struggling with the strength gap between herself and Ethan, and had completely forgotten the horror brought by the dementors.
After making sure that the dementors hadn't had time to hurt anyone here, Ethan finally greeted Harry and Ron again.
Now the relationship between Harry, Ron, and Ethan is not bad. If it weren't for the identity of Slytherin, the two of them would have regarded Ethan as a friend.
"Wait, this classmate."
Seeing that Ethan was about to leave, Lupine immediately asked his identity.
"Excuse me, what is your name...?"
"Ethan."
Ethan knew what Lupine wanted to ask. He probably wanted to ask Dumbledore about himself. After all, he was definitely not an ordinary student who could cast such a powerful Patronus Charm at his age.
First of all, in terms of talent, he is definitely a genius among wizards; secondly, Lupine noticed that Ethan was wearing a Slytherin uniform, so there is a high probability that Ethan is the heir of a wizard family.
However, Ethan did not report his surname, and he had no way to directly know which family the other party was a descendant of.
As for whether it would seem impolite? Lupine didn't care at all. He had already seen how arrogant the descendants of many wizarding families were, and they didn't take anyone seriously...Compared to this young man, at least he had With enough proud capital, his strength is still good.
The only episode on the way was the trouble caused by the dementors. Except for the attention of the dementors in Harry's compartment, these things did not happen in other compartments.
I don't know how to say that Harry Potter is too unlucky? Or is this the test that he must go through as the protagonist.
Afterwards, nothing happened during the process of returning to school. The sorting ceremony for new students and the dinner to welcome new students and students to return to school went smoothly.
But when the dinner was over and the students began to go back to the dormitory to rest, Ethan was left alone by Dumbledore.
"Go to my place."
In addition to Ethan, Dumbledore also called Snape and Lupine who had just joined the job. Ethan knew that Dumbledore wanted to ask about the dementors when he saw these two people.
Sure enough, as he expected, after arriving at Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore asked Ethan for all the details of what happened to Lupine.
Lupine was in the car at the time, so he knew more than Ethan did, including the fact that the Dementors broke into the car and tried to attack the students.
"What do you think?"
When Lupine finished talking, he was surprised to find that Dumbledore was politely asking the young student for his opinion, as if he was not facing a Hogwarts junior student, but a fellow student Great wizards of his same rank.
Looking at Snape next to him, he seemed not surprised by this situation, and stood aside very calmly - what made Lupine even more unacceptable was that Snape was actually making tea for Ethan.
Is it the other way around? Isn't Snape the Head of Slytherin? Why did he make tea for the students of his academy?
"The dementor attacking the students was indeed an accident."
Ethan took the hot tea that Snape handed over. Some specially treated magical plants were used in it, which has a good calming effect on wizards.
Although for Ethan, this effect is equivalent to nothing, just hot water with a special taste, but he will not refuse other people's kindness.
"Why Potter?"
Dumbledore was worried that this was another means by someone who wanted to kill Harry Potter by the hand of the dementor. As for the dementors being sent by the Ministry of Magic, he knew exactly what was going on in that department.
"Compared to other carefree children, Harry has more pain in his heart. Maybe he is more likely to attract the attention of dementors?"
Although the dementor here is attacking Leah on the surface, but Leah is just in front of Harry Potter. Dumbledore has already confirmed this from Lupine's description: the dementor wants to It wasn't Leah who attacked, it was Harry Potter.
As for the reason Ethan described, Dumbledore didn't know if it was true. After all, the magic world doesn't know much about magical creatures like dementors: this is a magical creature, and it's full of blood. Filled with negative energies, able to feed on human happiness, and capable of sucking away human souls;
It will be expelled by the patron saint spell, which is full of positive energy, but there is no effective way to kill it-speaking of it, Ethan used the guardian spirit to kill the dementor, which seems to be the first time in the magic world Really kill this creature.
The Ministry of Magic claims to be able to control the dementors very well, but from this incident, the so-called control of the Ministry of Magic is not credible.
"Anyway, these things were sent by the Ministry of Magic... Doesn't someone need to be responsible for this?"
"..."
Ethan's question made the room fall into a strange silence, Dumbledore finally just shook his head helplessly: "The Ministry of Magic is to ensure the safety of Hogwarts, after all..."
"Because of Sirius?"
Lupine's expression changed a little, but he stood quietly aside, he was still a little confused about the current situation, he didn't understand what Ethan's identity was, and he didn't plan to intervene until he figured out the situation.
"Yes, we were all worried that he would hurt Potter."
"Hurt Potter?" Ethan shook his head: "He won't hurt Potter."
Ethan is very sure of this, after all, he is an outsider who knows the follow-up plot. It's just that these remarks will not be easily recognized, especially Lupine.
"Why are you so sure? What do you know?"
"I don't know much, but I know what I should know."
Sirius is the godfather of Harry Potter, and he was arrested in Azkaban because he killed the Potter couple, that is, Harry Potter's parents.
He was considered to be Voldemort's running dog, leaking his friend's hiding place and causing the Potters to die in the hands of Voldemort. After the Potters died, Sirius was thrown into Azkaban without any trial. , everyone thought he was a sinner.
Before this moment, even Sirius' former friend Lupine thought so.
"Don't you think so?"
"No, because it was someone else who leaked the secret."
"This is impossible!"
There are many magical spells in this world, and the Loyalty Curse is such a spell. Sirius is considered a traitor by everyone, and no one speaks for him because of the existence of such a spell.
With such a curse, there is no way to find the Potters except for the Secret Keeper’s betrayal. It’s just that everyone doesn’t know that after the discussion between the Potters and Sirius, they secretly changed the Secret Keeper—and this is the The traitor who betrayed the Potters.
Dumbledore did not doubt the authenticity of what Ethan said like Lupine did, because he felt that there was no need for Ethan to lie about this kind of thing. The return of school year things.
"Do you know who really betrayed the Potters?"
Ethan took a sip of hot tea, and murmured in his heart, "The plot is about to end again...", but he didn't hesitate at all: "I also know that this person is hiding in Hogwarts right now."
"what?"
Not only Lupine was taken aback, but even Snape and Dumbledore were taken aback.
The person who betrayed the Potters is undoubtedly Voldemort's minion, and this kind of person is actually lurking inside Hogwarts? This is not a good sign, is Hogwarts infiltrated by Death Eaters?
Who is the one?
Dumbledore thought about it, but he couldn't think of who would be Voldemort's subordinates. He basically knew the details of these professors in the school. Unless they joined Voldemort's camp later like Quirrell two years ago, otherwise there should be no signs not to be discovered by oneself.
"No, even if James and Lily secretly changed the secret keeper, the secret keeper must be someone we all trust. How many people are there?"
"Not many."
Lupine's face suddenly changed drastically. If it wasn't for Dumbledore's presence, and his reputation was enough to reassure him, he even suspected that this was a conspiracy against himself.
Because apart from Sirius, James and Lily's friends are only themselves and Pettigrew Peter, and Pettigrew Peter is dead...
"You think I betrayed James and Lily?"
"I'm not talking about you."
Ethan was speechless about the brain circuit of this group of people, he stretched out his finger helplessly, and made a chopping motion.
"Does it mean that I'm dead if I chop off my finger and throw it in front of you?" Helplessly spread his hands: "No one doubted him, could it be because of the ready-made Sirius?" The blame man, so you take it for granted that the matter has been resolved?"