Chapter 279 Neighbor Moody

In the early morning, the cold wind blows on the grass, and the sun shines through the sparse leaves, casting mottled light and shadow on the ground.

There were four or five people in the originally deserted garden, and in front of them was a small stone monument. Nuts, melon seeds, corn, etc. were piled around the stone monument.

Ferdinand, dressed as a priest, said in a low voice:

"Today, we gather here to say our final farewell to a little life. In these short two years, she brought us a lot of peace and happiness."

"And now, she has gone to another world and left us with memories that will last forever."

"Dear Miriam, it turns out that you can run freely in that world, enjoy endless food, and there will always be warm sunshine there."

"Rest in peace, friend."

Fiona sobbed and tears fell down.

——Well, she wasn't actually sentimental at first, because she knew that the life of a hamster as a pet was short when she first raised it.

But perhaps Ferdinand's eulogy was so well written that it aroused her empathy and made Fiona burst into tears.

It wasn't until the funeral was over and she returned to the living room that she finally calmed down.

"Sorry, I can't control it..."

Fiona choked and said, "Now that I think about it, Miriam is so good... Even if she can no longer run on the wheel, she will crawl into the palm of my hand..."

"You have lost a friend and it is normal to be sad... Miriam just escaped from her old and heavy body. She must be a beautiful and healthy little hamster in heaven..."

Ferdinand held her shoulders to comfort her. Wade felt that he had no room to interrupt. Seeing the only guest standing by the window, staring outside with a serious expression, he walked over.

In the kitchen, several little dolls were busy cooking. With the sound of tinkling, the room is filled with the breath of life.

"Mr. Moody." Wade walked over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"There was a man dressed as a Muggle riding his bike on the road outside just now and passed the truck parked on the side of the road."

Moody said seriously and carefully.

Wade glanced outside.

The place they lived at this time was not a suburb of London, but next door to Moody's house. This place is close to a small town of ordinary people, and there are often vehicles on the road.

On the side of the road, there was an ordinary red truck, and a few ordinary passers-by were passing by.

"Uh..." Wade asked thoughtfully, "Someone passed by on a bicycle...is there any problem?"

"Of course!"

Moody slowly pulled out his wand and spoke solemnly: "With that guy's speed, he should have appeared from the other side of the truck forty seconds ago... but I never saw his figure."

Wade glanced outside again. It was calm and there was nothing unusual.

Moody sneered and said: "Hey, hey, pretending to be a Muggle is such a smart idea. Unfortunately, I am more cautious than they think! But be careful that the passers-by around you are their accomplices!"

He glanced at Wade, who was standing relaxedly next to him, and shouted in a low voice:

"Be on guard, boy!"

"Although it may be the attacker who is coming for me...but it is also possible that he is looking for you. Compared with your parents, your target is too big, and someone may want to kidnap you..."

Before Moody finished speaking, a young man walked out from behind the truck.

His clothes were covered in dust, he was holding a somewhat deformed bicycle with both hands, his left leg was covered in blood from scratches, and he was walking with a limp.

Apparently, the reason why he didn't show up in time just now was because he accidentally fell down.

Moody stared at the man suspiciously for a long moment until he disappeared from sight.

Then, he swallowed what he had not finished, as if he had not been fighting with the air just now, and naturally changed the topic:

"I heard that Lockhart gave you lessons?"

"Yes." Vader said, "He taught us Defense Against the Dark Arts for more than half a year, until the incident was revealed and he was taken away from the school by the Aurors, and then replaced by the current Professor Abigail."

"What did he teach you?"

Moody asked as he limped over to a nearby chair and sat down.

"There is nothing useful, mainly telling stories about his past heroes - of course, now we all know he is an imposter - and asking students to perform plays," Wade said.

"Perform... a play?"

Moody asked confused, a little confused as to what this had to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts.

So Vader briefly described the process of Lockhart's class.

The retired old Auror was silent for a while and then said: "Sounds like a loser...Based on this paragraph alone, no one can imagine that he could escape from Azkaban, right?"

His blue magic eye and his normal eye looked at the newspaper on the small table.

That's the Daily Prophet.

Ferdinand has always insisted on subscribing to this newspaper to learn more about the world in which Vader lives.

The front page headline of this newspaper was the news of a prison break in Azkaban, and it was three people who escaped together!

This almost caused an earthquake in the wizarding world.

In the past two weeks, Fudge had been embarrassingly promising on camera almost every day that the Ministry of Magic would capture the escaped prisoners as soon as possible to ensure everyone's safety.

But two weeks have passed, and the three are still on the run, and the Ministry of Magic has not caught any of them.

The voices of public doubt were about to break through the text and throw them in Fudge's face. Fudge had to expand the force of the pursuit, and even the faces of the three guys could be seen in the Muggle news.

Some people began to criticize Fudge again, saying that he should not inform the Muggle Prime Minister about the affairs of the magic world.

The two sides accused and explained each other in the newspapers all day long, and then reminded the public how evil and cunning the three fugitives - especially Peter Pettigrew - were.

"Be careful of every mouse around you! They may all be Peter Pettigrew!"

The Ministry of Magic appealed in the newspaper, and the author wrote about Peter's Animagus form.

Then at the bottom of the newspaper, followed by advertisements for several rat-killing potions.

...

When Wade saw the newspaper, he realized that he had made a preconceived mistake.

He thought that Peter Pettigrew, like Sirius in the plot, used the Animagus form to avoid the surveillance of the Dementors and secretly escaped from Azkaban.

Animagus is not that common, and if there are no necessary magic materials (such as mandrake leaves), it is impossible to teach others.

So it was not easy for Peter to escape by himself. Wade did not expect that he brought a companion with him.

Two of them.

Let alone Lockhart, the idiot, what was the identity of the man named Gar?

The information released by the Ministry of Magic only said that he was a vampire who was arrested for violating the Statute of Secrecy and hurting a Muggle working in the hospital, but there was no more detailed information, and no one knew what his magic level was.

Probably because this person's crime was really nothing great, and he did not resist much during the capture, so the Ministry of Magic had very little information about him.

The focus of the report was always on "Peter Pettigrew, the confidant of the mysterious man".

At that time... when Wade found Peter, where were Gar and Lockhart? Did they know the cause of Peter's death?

Wade thought to himself.