Chapter 217 The Real Murderer

"Severus, what are you doing?!" Snape's sudden movement surprised Professor McGonagall.

She hurried to Peter's side and saw that he lowered his head feebly and had fallen into a drowsy state.

"Severus, what did you feed Peter?" Professor McGonagall grabbed Snape's sleeve tightly and pursed her lips sternly, "I know you had a lot of conflicts with James and the others at the time, but now It’s been more than ten years!”

"Severus, you really don't need to hold a grudge to this extent..."

"There's no need to worry about him, it's just a little bit of Veritaserum." Snape's eyes were still fixed on the dazed Peter, and he said in a stiff tone, "I hope it wasn't Veritaserum that was poured into his mouth. , but poison made from mandrake juice."

"What on earth do you suspect?" Professor McGonagall frowned tightly.

At this moment, Dumbledore, who had been silent until now, suddenly interrupted Professor McGonagall.

"Let Severus go first, Minerva, I asked him to do this," he said.

"Albus?" Professor McGonagall turned her head and looked at the sofa where Dumbledore was sitting, and asked in surprise, "Why are you doing this?"

"I just want to confirm something." Dumbledore shook his head gently at her, "Don't be too impulsive, Minerva, what you see about many things may not be the truth."

Professor McGonagall gave him a doubtful look, and finally her trust in Dumbledore was much stronger than the emotion brought by his former student.

So she let go of her hand holding Snape's sleeve and took two steps slightly to the side.

Snape never relaxed his gaze on Peter from beginning to end. His eyes gradually became bloodshot and red.

"Tell me, twelve years ago...who betrayed Lily, who betrayed that arrogant fool Potter!" He forced his tone to calm down, but his words were obviously trembling.

Everyone present turned their attention to the short, fat figure with his head lowered and a haggard expression, wanting to see what kind of answer he would say.

"It's me...it's me who betrayed James..." Peter said in a tone without any emotion.

His first words made Professor McGonagall's eyes widen and she covered her mouth in disbelief.

"But... isn't James and Lily's secret keeper Sirius Black?" Professor McGonagall took a step forward and asked urgently.

"He was the one chosen in the original plan...but Sirius felt that he was too conspicuous. Anyone could have imagined that James would choose the clever Sirius as the secret keeper, so he persuaded James and Lily at the last moment to keep the secret secret. The person is replaced by me..."

Professor McGonagall's vagina suddenly tightened, and Snape clenched his fists and grabbed Peter's collar.

"Tell me, Pedilu, why did you turn to the Dark Lord?!" He said viciously with a trembling voice, "How could you turn to the Dark Lord?! How could you deserve Lily's trust in you!"

"The Dark Lord is too powerful. I can't muster the courage to go against him. I'm a coward. I don't deserve to be in Gryffindor." Peter said, "It's a coincidence. Not long after I agreed to the Dark Lord, little Sirius persuaded James and Lily to change the secret keeper to me..."

"I thought I could get a lot of credit, and I wouldn't have to worry about my safety from now on. But the Dark Lord disappeared the night he went to Godric's Hollow, and no one could contact him..."

"I was frightened because I had to be hunted by two camps at the same time - Sirius asked me why I betrayed James; the Dark Lord's supporters thought I was still working for the Order of the Phoenix and deliberately tricked the Dark Lord into Godry Kegu made him miss..."

"So I had to think of a way to survive."

"At that time, Sirius had already found me. He always knew where I would hide...so when I was facing a life-and-death crisis, I had a flash of inspiration and shouted on the street, 'You betrayed James and Lily', and then blew up the entire street before he could do anything, leaving dozens of feet nearby in ruins."

"Sirius is so good, he will not die easily under such an attack. But he actually doesn't know that I am not as weak as they thought. He thought that I was just emotionally excited and caused the magic to go out of control, causing myself and The street was blown to ashes..."

"But I didn't. I protected myself under that curse, and cut off my index finger to make him think that I was dead and intact. Then I turned into a rat and escaped into the sewer, mixing with other real rats. Together...until he was adopted by the Weiss family."

"I've been completely transformed into a pet rat since then, but at least I survived."

Under the influence of Veritaserum, Peter's tone was still unhurried and without ups and downs, which made several people present sound even more depressed.

Professor McGonagall couldn't believe that the obedient student who couldn't speak clearly turned himself into a demon step by step, causing the death of dozens of people, including his friends!

She took a deep breath for a long time before finally taking a deep breath.

"But...but if you are afraid, why don't you tell Dumbledore? We don't necessarily let you join the Order of the Phoenix, you can quit at any time!" Professor McGonagall said sadly, "What's more, Dumbledore can obviously protect you. you……"

"Dumbledore cannot protect everyone." Peter continued to say expressionlessly, "As a friend of three loyal members of the Order of the Phoenix, James, Sirius and Remus, I am naturally on the opposite side of the obvious Death Eaters. , they will find me anyway."

"If I become a Death Eater and get captured by Dumbledore, I can at least spend the rest of my life in Azkaban; but if a member of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​captured by the Death Eaters, then I will definitely die in their hands..."

"I didn't want to die, so I chose to be a Death Eater."

"Oh my God! I really can't believe it..." Professor McGonagall turned away and took off her glasses, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Snape on the other side couldn't bear it anymore, and the expression on his face seemed to be distorted.

"Don't want to die? Hahaha..." Snape grabbed Peter's collar with one hand and raised his wand at some point with the other hand. "Then have you ever thought that there are people in the Order of the Phoenix who don't care about those ridiculous things?" rule!"

A dazzling green light suddenly burst out from the wand in Snape's hand, illuminating Peter's small, unfocused eyes green.

Just when the death curse was about to hit Peter's face, a burst of red light suddenly came from behind and hit Peter's face first, knocking it out of Snape's hand.

In the same way, it also made him fly away from the range of the killing curse.

Stone foam splashed, and green light beams struck the wall behind, creating a ferocious gap in the solid stone wall.

"Albus, do you want to protect this shameful traitor?" Snape turned his head and looked at Dumbledore fiercely, "You know, he killed Lily!"

"Yes, I know, Severus." Dumbledore sighed softly, "But he has other uses, and I can't allow you to kill him like this."

"What use can he have?!" Snape shouted loudly, completely losing his usual cold and gloomy tone. "Do you still want to use this traitor to rehabilitate the wanted criminal Sirius Black?"

"Severus, now that the truth has been revealed, we can confirm that Sirius is innocent." Dumbledore said softly, "He only sneaked into Hogwarts to catch Peter and avenge James and Lily. "

"But isn't he wrong?" Snape said in a cold voice, "If the arrogant man hadn't thought he was so majestic and conspicuous, how could he have thought of handing over the Secret Keeper to such a traitor!"

"Severus, your prejudice against Sirius is still too deep." Dumbledore shook his head helplessly.

"I'm just telling a fact!" Snape said through gritted teeth.

"I have seen their true nature clearly from 20 years ago... they are arrogant, arrogant, pushy, and never take other people's emotions and feelings into consideration. It is their own fault that they have ended up like this!"

Snape angrily walked back and forth in the staff room, spitting out one unpleasant adjective after another, all of which were pinned on the original foursome, venting the pent-up energy in his heart for more than ten years. Emotions.

Dumbledore looked at him quietly without interrupting.

Dracula also watched with interest the angry behavior of the potions professor who always had a gloomy face, and found it very interesting.

The first person who couldn't stand it was Professor McGonagall.

"Severus, James and Sirius were indeed a little willful and naughty when they were in school. I also admit that they are the most troublesome students I have ever taught, but they did pay a lot to fight against the mysterious man."

Professor McGonagall had wiped away her tears, put on her glasses again, and returned to her capable and neat image. Only her still slightly red eyes showed that she was still not calm.

Snape's yelling stopped.

He was one of the mysterious people's gang members who were fought by James and Sirius back then. At this time, he felt a little unsure when facing Professor McGonagall's rebuttal.

"If you think so, then so be it." He curled his lips and pushed open the door to the lounge. "You can do whatever you want, but I don't think the Ministry of Magic will compromise for a former criminal so easily!"

After that, he left the staff room without looking back.

Every time he glanced at the culprit who caused Lily's death, his heart would ache again... After all, it was himself who really made the Dark Lord think of killing James' family.

"Albus, what are we going to do next?"

In the staff lounge, Professor McGonagall looked at Dumbledore hesitantly and asked.

"No matter what, let's loosen the martial law in the castle first." Dumbledore looked at the sky outside the window and said softly, "It's almost dawn, and it's time for another important person to wake up."

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In a small bedroom, the curtains were tightly closed, and the walls were filled with soundproofing spells.

At this time, Remus Lupine looked pale and haggard, and painfully woke up from his sleep.

Even with the wolfsbane potion that Snape was asked to refine for him by Dumbledore, which enabled him to stay awake on a full moon night, the process of transformation was still not easy.

It's not because of the pain of transformation, but the psychological pressure.

Lupine always regarded himself as a wizard, not a werewolf, so he always felt disgusted with his body when he transformed into a wolf form.

This kind of mentality began to develop when he was in school. Fortunately, he had three good friends who were willing to transform into animal forms to accompany him through every full-moon night, which prevented him from collapsing under this torture year after year.

After completely integrating into the werewolf community in the past two years, he chose to fight to resolve the discrimination against werewolves in wizarding society, and this psychological burden gradually eased.

"Professor Lupine, are you awake?"

At this moment, a mellow voice passed through the heavy soundproofing spell and came in from outside the door.

Lupine stood up with difficulty, adjusted his clothes a little, and then walked over and opened the door.

"Professor Dracula, you woke up early enough." Seeing the silver-haired figure outside the door, he said hello casually.

"You can't say that." Dracula chuckled. "To be precise, Dumbledore and I stayed up all night."

"More than one big thing happened last night, Professor Lupin!"

Dracula took Lupine to the staff lounge and roughly introduced what happened that night along the way——

Including Sirius sneaking into the Gryffindor common room, he and Dumbledore caught a mouse and found out it was Peter Pedro, Snape used Veritaserum on Peter and learned that he was the real traitor …

Lu Ping's mood changed from surprise to astonishment, then to shock, and then to enlightenment.

"I should have thought of it earlier," he murmured, "At that time, Sirius and I actually had some concerns about each other..."

"Sirius thought I was a werewolf. At that time, most werewolves had joined Voldemort's camp; and I thought he was a member of the Black family. His brother and cousin were the most loyal Death Eaters at the time..."

"The two of us couldn't give each other full trust. Unexpectedly, it was Peter, the most inconspicuous and trustworthy person, who betrayed James."

Lu Ping's eyes were full of shame, as if he thought he was a sinner.

"More than ten years have passed, there is no need to regret it now, Professor Lupin." Dracula turned his head and glanced at Luping, "Why don't you take advantage of this time to tell me what you had at that time? Interesting fact, think about where Sirius Black might be hiding..."

Dracula raised the corners of his lips, "You are the person who knows him best in the entire magical world now, and your ideas are of great reference value to us."

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