Chapter 286 The Silent One

"——cry?"

Harry suddenly felt that he didn't recognize this word.

He leaned out and saw a few familiar boys walking out of the corner, supporting each other by the wall next to the supermarket. Some of them, such as Pete, were actually crying.

Behind him, Wade put down his sleeves and said to the cashier with a dull expression: "Please give me the change."

"Oh... OK." The cashier said in a panic.

When Harry walked out of the supermarket with the vegetables, he still looked incredible.

"How did you do it?" He whispered to Wade: "Did you use magic?"

"I learned some fighting skills from Professor Abigail, and of course... magic."

Wade also whispered: "Teach you a little trick-you can use the supersensory spell on yourself to enhance your perception and be more agile when fighting."

"When you use the supersensory spell, won't it trigger the trace?" Harry asked puzzledly.

Wade smiled and said, "Who said I just used the ESP spell?"

This inconspicuous but actually very useful spell, of course he maintained it for a long time.

And Wade didn't tell Harry one thing -

After learning Animagus, Wade found that using a small transformation on himself would not trigger the trace.

The magic flowed through himself and acted on himself, without being released at all, so it would not be monitored.

He opened and closed his palms several times, and his fingers, which were originally thick at the joints, gradually returned to the appearance of a thirteen-year-old boy.

Behind them, Peter, who was hit on the nose, burst into tears. His friend next to him complained, "Who is that guy? His fist is as hard as a rock."

"And he curses people in a terrible way." Another boy patted Peter's shoulder with lingering fear and said, "It's okay, cry, Peter, I understand you... I was almost crying just listening."

"Potter boy really found a backer." Another person stared at Dudley with dissatisfaction and asked, "Dudley, did you know that guy was very powerful a long time ago, otherwise why didn't you do it just now?"

Dudley, the only one who was not injured, stammered, "I... I had a stomachache today, I'm not feeling well... so..."

In fact, he was just worried that he would grow a pig's tail again.

Since his father Vernon knew that Harry could not use magic outside of school, he has restored most of his previous attitude. He often cursed at Harry and sometimes wanted to hit him with his cane.

But Dudley was much more cautious in this regard.

His idea was very simple-Harry was only forbidden to use magic, not really forbidden to use magic.

The law prohibits hitting people! Dudley didn't stop hitting other children just because it was against the law!

So every time Harry pretended to use magic, Dudley would be scared.

But his difficulties were incomprehensible to his friends who didn't know the existence of magic.

They were angry because of Dudley's "self-centered" behavior just now. Dudley felt a little guilty and could only follow behind.

A group of children cried and cursed, and walked noisily by the street.

Then, two men squatting on the side of the road, as if they were trimming bushes, turned their heads to look at them, and then looked to the other side.

Wade and Harry had already walked away.

One of the black-haired men whispered, "Harry Potter? I didn't expect him to live here... Who's the boy next to him?"

"You must have heard of his name - Weide Grey." Another brown-haired man said with a bit of boasting, "My student. When he was in school, he really admired me."

The black-haired man looked at him strangely and bluntly exposed him, "So... why are you hiding from your admirer, Lockhart?"

Lockhart's face changed, and he lowered his voice and said hurriedly, "Don't call my name, Gar! What if you are heard?"

"We have to leave this place as soon as possible!" Gar said to himself, "Harry Potter must have a protector from the Ministry of Magic. If we continue to stay here, we may be discovered soon."

"We finally found a job with high salary and little work..." Lockhart was very reluctant.

"If you want to go back to Azkaban, then stay! Anyway, I'm leaving."

After Gar finished speaking, he left along a path very decisively.

"Wait for me!" Lockhart hurriedly followed, saying, "How long will we hide like this? Why don't you come with me to Telford? There is a fan who admires me very much, and she will definitely be willing to help us."

"Don't forget that your scam has been exposed!" Gar said bluntly: "The people who admired you before have been deceived by you, and maybe now they hate you more than anyone else!"

Lockhart was speechless, and then asked: "Then you say...what should we do?"

"Speaking of which...I also know a vampire, he is my uncle." Gar said thoughtfully: "Maybe we can go to him..."

...

Wade didn't know that he had passed by the two fugitives he wanted to find.

The two of them returned to Sirius's house. Harry was obviously very happy because the person he hated was beaten, and he talked about his past experiences in a tone of reminiscing about the bitterness.

"Once I was chased by them and jumped onto the chimney of the school...I have never jumped so high before!"

Harry said with regret: "Why can I jump more than ten meters high when I don't know that I have magic, but I can't jump up after I learn magic?"

"Because ignorant children are more likely to create miracles, probably because their minds are unrestrained?"

Sirius, who happened to come down from upstairs, heard him and continued: "But grown-up wizards can control their own power."

He still had some cigarette ash on his body, and it was obvious that he had just traveled to No. 12 Grimmauld Place through the fireplace to send the portrait of Regulus back.

Wade thought for a while and said: "If an adult completely loses his memory and his mind is like pure white paper like a baby, can he have two characteristics at the same time? He can do something special with his will like a child, and he can quickly master his own power."

Sirius blinked, and after a long time, he said: "The idea is very interesting... but you have to find an adult with amnesia to verify it first, right?"

"Actually, there is." Lupin came out of the kitchen with a plate and said: "-the kind of person you are talking about, who has both characteristics."

"Really? Who?" Harry asked curiously.

"Credence Barebone, an Obscurial who lived to adulthood, caused great damage in New York, USA many years ago, and then died."

Lupin said: "I once read his story in an old newspaper, and I think he is the kind of person you are talking about."

"What is an Obscurial? What kind of person is that?" Harry asked.

"This story is too long to tell, but it's lunch time now." Lupin asked: "Who will help put the table away?"

The three people sitting on the sofa stood up together.