Chapter 426 Poor Innocent and Bad Peter

Peter's tragic situation did not arouse sympathy from everyone, but Sirius still suppressed the desire to kill and spared Peter's life.

Lupine looked at Harry and others with emotion. He didn't expect that they were still willing to trust him after his identity as a werewolf was exposed.

In order to completely clear up this misunderstanding, Lupine and Sirius told Harry the ins and outs of the whole incident in detail, with almost no reservations except that it was inconvenient to talk about matters related to the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry almost cried and listened to everything. It took him a long time to calm down. He looked angrily at Peter who was tied to the ground, dirty and with nosebleeds, and asked in confusion.

"Why did you suddenly choose him as the secret keeper?"

According to Sirius and Lupine's descriptions, Peter is timid, cowardly and incompetent, and is absolutely useless. Even if the secret keeper needs to be changed, Lupine should be the one to take over!

"You should have heard what Peter said just now. At that time, a traitor appeared in the camp that resisted Voldemort and delivered a lot of information to the mysterious man.

Because of Lupine's identity as a werewolf wizard, I had doubts about him, so I excluded him when selecting the secret keeper." Sirius explained and looked at Lupin apologetically.

"Please forgive me, Remus."

"It doesn't matter, I also doubted you at the beginning! We are even." Lu Ping shook his head.

After saying that, the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly. It was this layer of suspicion that led to the identity of the secret keeper falling on Peter. Among James' friends, Peter was the one with the least suspicion.

Usually, being an undercover agent requires a high degree of courage and a good attitude, and Peter did not meet either of these requirements.

This was originally the safest move, but who knew it would push James and Lily into hell.

"Anyway, it's all my fault Harry! I'm sorry for you. It was me who took the initiative to suggest James change the candidate that caused all this." Sirius looked at Harry with great self-blame and said.

"No, you're not wrong!" Harry shook his head and said firmly. "It was Peter Pettigrew who was at fault. He betrayed your and my father's trust and betrayed his friends!"

Everyone present was silent for a moment. Only Hermione thought of the most important thing to do now and reminded her.

"Now that everything has been figured out, let's go tell Professor McGonagall now and ask her to notify people from the Ministry of Magic to clear Mr. Black's suspicion!"

Harry nodded hastily, he didn't want to wait any longer.

"This is not possible! Now is not the time." Ivan stopped them.

"Why?" Harry looked at Ivan in surprise, with a puzzled look on his face. "Also, I have always wanted to ask, since you have known it for a long time, why didn't you tell it earlier?"

"Of course I'm worried that people from the Ministry of Magic will interfere with it." Ivan sighed, and then explained to Harry and others, emphasizing the stakes.

The Ministry of Magic will not slap itself in the face. If there are no external factors, and faced with such a major scandal, they will only choose to conceal it as much as possible, make mistakes and never admit it on their own initiative.

"That shouldn't be the case, right? That's the Ministry of Magic and we have captured Peter Pettigrew. The evidence is conclusive. If we just give him a little Veritaserum, wouldn't everything be clear?" Hermione pursed her lips and said hesitantly.

Everything Ivan said just now impacted her outlook on life, which made Hermione, who had always been accustomed to obeying rules, unable to accept it for a while.

"The Ministry of Magic is not as impartial as you think, Hermione! For many politicians, the truth of the matter is not important, they only care about which outcome is beneficial to them! It is to say black is white What they do best!”

Ivan cruelly tore apart Hermione's fantasies and put the cold facts in front of the thirteen-year-old little witch.

Harry and Ron were also reshaped. They could not imagine that the Ministry of Magic would confuse right and wrong.

"Ahem"

Sirius coughed twice to attract the attention of Harry and others. He felt that this kind of thing was not something that children of Harry's age should understand, so he spoke.

"We have already made a decision on this matter. We just need to wait for Dumbledore to come back and leave this matter to him to solve."

"Then how long do we have to wait? What if Professor Dumbledore doesn't come back for several months?" Harry frowned and said worriedly.

Ivan shrugged. He couldn't answer. Generally speaking, as the principal of Hogwarts, Dumbledore should not be absent from school for several months in a row.

"Soon!" Lu Ping said suddenly.

Everyone turned to look at him in surprise, and Lupine said truthfully without hiding anything.

"I just received the news today. Professor Dumbledore should be back tonight! To be safe, we only need to wait here for one night, and we can go see him early tomorrow morning!"

"Really? That's great!" Harry said happily.

Hermione, Ron, and even Sirius breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news, as if a big stone had been lifted from their hearts.

The same is true for Ivan. Although he has always been reluctant to meet Dumbledore, he has to admit that Dumbledore can always bring people a wonderful sense of security.

It's as if as long as he's around, there's nothing to worry about.

Thinking of this, Ivan looked at Peter Pettigrew, remembered something that needed to be confirmed, looked at everyone and said.

"Peter has taken refuge with the mysterious man, so he should have the Dark Mark on his body. If Veritaserum cannot be used in the trial court, this will be enough evidence!"

If he remembered correctly, the first thing Voldemort did after his resurrection in the original time and space was to use the Dark Mark on Peter to summon Death Eaters.

But before his resurrection, Voldemort, who lost his power, most likely did not have the ability to put the Mark of the Dark on Peter.

The only possibility is that it was engraved when Peter surrendered to Voldemort thirteen years ago!

Sirius soon thought of this Death Eater symbol, with a sinister smile on his face, and walked towards Peter Pettigrew step by step.

Peter's face was full of horror. His body was squeezed into the corner, and he kept crying and begging, like a weakling who was unable to resist the invasion.

Of course he has the dark mark that Ivan mentioned!

This is the reward he received for completing his undercover work and betraying James and Lily. It is proof that he has gained the trust of the Dark Lord!

But what he had worked so hard to obtain has now become his life-saving talisman!