A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 497: Recent situation

Hermione pursed her lips and chuckled, and Harry laughed more heartlessly.

"What's wrong?" Lupine asked suspiciously.

"No, it's nothing," Harry smiled more happily, "Of course the professor is on our side, it's so normal——"

"You are right," Lupine said solemnly, "but he is too independent, and sometimes the news is not right...I was almost beaten to death by him."

"What's going on?" Harry stopped smiling.

"I took a few days off a while ago to catch up with my friends," Lupine said gloomily, "You should know that I mean my kind..." Harry and Hermione nodded slightly, Know he's talking about werewolves.

"Originally Dumbledore wanted me to lurk into the werewolf community, but my face has gained some fame and has appeared in newspapers a few times... So I simply acted semi-publicly, trying to persuade those relatively moderate werewolf groups to promise Provide a stable potion of wolfsbane, let them stand on our side, or at least remain neutral. As a result, once Felix came to find a dark wizard-the relationship between werewolves and dark wizards is very complicated, and sometimes they get mixed up. Together, it was probably because they were all on the fringes of society, but the werewolves were forced... Then there was a little conflict, and a few impulsive werewolves rushed up, and were struck back by black lightning in the next second."

"The speed is too fast, I can't react at all." Lupine said with lingering fear, "But the task is completed, and those werewolves moved away overnight."

Harry and Hermione looked at each other.

"Children, I don't say this to blame Felix - although his approach is indeed a bit rough." Lupine finally said, "But you must realize this: werewolves are dangerous. Although divided into brutal and Moderates, but they are all in the dangerous category, the only difference is whether they take the initiative to attack people, so don't form the illusion that moderates are good-tempered—"

"I don't think so, Remus, you have a better personality than most people I know." A young woman's voice appeared in the living room.

The witch has a pale, heart-shaped face, a pair of sparkling black eyes, and the short spike-like hair is a bright and eye-catching violet color, and her dress is also Muggle-style, weird Shirts, patched jeans, like the rebellious teenage Harry occasionally sees.

Harry was familiar with this face, and after looking at it carefully for a few seconds, he remembered that he had seen her in the third grade.

"Hello, Tonks." Lupine calmly introduced to the two, "Tonks is an Auror of the Ministry of Magic, who was chosen to reside in the Order of the Phoenix as a liaison between the two parties."

Harry and Hermione understood immediately.

Tonks stepped forward and looked at them with great interest. She held out a hand, "Hello, I've been looking for a chance to chat with you," she said familiarly.

Harry and Hermione stretched out their hands frantically, Tonks approached them and whispered to them, "I've joined the Order of the Phoenix."

"Congratulations—" said Harry dully, unable to think of anything appropriate for the occasion.

During this time, Kreacher remained silent. When Harry looked at him, he bowed respectfully, "Please allow Kreacher to make tea for the young master."

"Oh, uh, all right," said Harry. Then Kreacher disappeared before his eyes. He found Kreacher's attitude a bit strange.

"He treats us like air," Lupine said, "Because of my status as a werewolf, in fact, his attitude towards Tonks should be better, but——"

"My mother was expelled from the Black family." Tonks shrugged and said, "I don't think he approves of me either."

"Expelled? The tapestry?" Harry asked.

"Yeah." Tonks made a gesture of firing sparks.

Hermione watched their conversation puzzled.

Harry explained in a low voice: "There is a tapestry on the wall on the second floor. On it is the family tree of the Black family, but not everyone is on it. Some members who seriously violate the family tradition will be erased from the tapestry. It was like this before Sirius.”

Hermione nodded in understanding.

"Then—you are welcome." Lupine smiled and opened his arms, hugging Harry.

…

Harry and Hermione sat on the sofa, feeling that everything around them was novel.

"Are you alone?" Hermione asked.

"Of course not, Sirius contributed this place as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Everyone is usually very busy, and it's rare to get together, so they come here when they have free time." Lupine explained, "Molly packed out A few houses are barely able to live in now."

"I remember Sirius and Kreacher cleaning up the house before." Harry said that he lived here for a few days, and the environment was not bad back then.

"Well, let me put it another way, it barely meets the needs of the new residents," Lupine said with a smile: "Sirius is a bachelor, and Kreacher... I say that although he is still conscientious, after all, the old And I strongly suspect that his aesthetics has been biased..."

Lupine looked up at the time, "Sirius will be back soon, he said that he should get off work as early as possible today, and I will cook."

"Need help?" Tonks asked.

"No need," Lupine said, but Tonks followed out anyway, and after a while, there was a "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping" sound from the stairs below—"Oh! I'm sorry. ——"

As soon as the two left, Kreacher appeared, and he brought a pot of tea, "This is Master Harry's—" He poured hot tea into the cup intimately, and then glanced at him with big eyes He glanced at Hermione, but didn't move.

Hermione poured herself a cup of tea with some embarrassment, and took a sip.

"If Master Harry has any orders, just call Kreacher, Kreacher is at your service." The house-elf disappeared with a bang.

Harry explained in a low voice, "Kreacher has served the Black family for generations, and is greatly influenced by pure-blood thinking. It took Sirius a lot of effort to stop him from swearing, but I guess it was only half the success, Kreacher Now completely ignore non-pure blood wizards."

"I can understand." Hermione held the teacup and looked at the direction in which Kreacher disappeared with great interest.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the house. I've been here a few times before, but it's strange. I didn't find any place suitable for practicing magic... We are on the second floor now, and the first floor is the foyer And the dining room, there are several bedrooms on the third floor, but a lot of rags were piled inside during the general cleaning before, I don’t know what’s going on now...the end of the corridor is the study..."

Harry and Hermione glanced into the study and saw the professor sitting on a chair, saying to himself: "Animagus?" He looked up, looked at Harry and Hermione and asked, "Little Is Sirius back?"

"Not yet," said Harry honestly.

"Professor," Hermione asked, "where can we practice magic?"

"There are two places. In addition to the two bedrooms that once belonged to Sirius and Regulus on the fifth floor, there is also a spacious activity room, which was locked up before. It is not a problem to practice ordinary magic. The basement floor It is the location of the kitchen, but go down through another hidden entrance and pass a long step, and you will find a huge space, which can barely be counted as the second basement floor. I guess it may be the spell laboratory of the Black family, which was later abandoned, but The walls there are all made of extremely strong stones, and there are various magical protections..."

After Felix explained, he asked again: "By the way, do you know about the award?"

"Honors?" said Harry and Hermione in unison.

Felix smiled, "Ms. Burns said that you have a chance to win the Medal of Merlin, Second Class. This is not a lie."

Harry had completely forgotten about it.

When he returned to the living room, Harry was still in a daze. He was about to get the Order of Merlin?

…

When it was almost eight o'clock, there were some noises downstairs.

Harry pricked up his ears, he heard familiar footsteps, it was Sirius!

"Harry!" Sirius appeared at the door of the living room, smiling at Harry, "Mundungus has finally done something reliable." He sat down opposite Harry, and almost sat down On Mundungus, "Ouch—"

"Is it time for dinner?" Mundungus said sleepily.

"Not yet," said Sirius. He shifted and sat down, and Crookshanks jumped on top of him, allowing Sirius to scratch its jaw.

Mundungus muttered something that no one could understand, covered his head with his tattered clothes and continued to sleep.

"What have you been up to lately?" Harry asked.

"There are many things that can be done," Sirius leaned wearily on the sofa, "We are now in the preparation stage, and both sides are very cautious. As for the ghost wounding incident. We think that Voldemort is secretly recruiting troops, wooing the team, or planning some conspiracy... In short, he will not be idle. Our side is doing the same thing, but it belongs to the side with a solid defense line. He glanced at Harry, "while living without a fixed place, at the same time the family has a big business, that's the situation."

"The magic world has been peaceful for many years. Most people are not vigilant, and there are many loopholes to exploit. You should have heard about Azkaban... Amelia has been working as a paper maker during this time."

"And the Floo Network." Mundungus muttered in his sleep.

Sirius grinned.

"That's right, who would have thought that the humble Floo Network Administration would become so important during the war? Amelia ordered the Floo Management Team to clean up old and illegal lines and monitor them for abnormalities ——"

"What about here?" Harry asked, remembering that Mundungus had told them before that the Black family had part of the technology to build the Floo network.

"Don't worry about it for now~IndoMTL.com~ Sirius bared his teeth and said slyly: "Here has been cast with the Charm of Loyalty, and the Ministry of Magic can't find it. position. "

…

At dinner, everyone exchanged information while eating.

"Fudge was sent to lobby in various European countries, reminding people to be vigilant against the local activities of Death Eaters... It's considered the best use of people." Sirius shrugged and said.

Harry was amazed.

"Molly told me that she will move in in two days and bring a few children with her." Lupine also revealed a piece of information.

Harry and Hermione were thrilled to hear the news.

"I'm going out for a few days," Felix said, "and I'll be back before the start of the honors."

"Where to?" Lupine asked sharply.

"Visit Mr. Scamander, I miss those little guys he keeps in the basement."