HBWnovel Chapter 354 The Mansion of the Black Family
Chapter 354 The Mansion of the Black Family
Chapter 354 The Mansion of the Black Family
"Don't get excited, I know you are Sirius Black, and I know you are not a Death Eater, so you don't need to run away, I just want to talk to you about something!"
Seeing that Sirius fled directly towards the exit of the room as soon as he saw him, Charlie immediately moved his feet, and with a flash of his body, he stopped in front of him.
Seeing this, Sirius slammed on the brakes and returned to the original place.
"Really, Dumbledore wants to see you, I mean no harm!"
Charlie held up his hands to indicate that he wasn't holding his wand.
Seeing this, Sirius hesitated for a moment, and resumed his human form.
"You said Dumbledore wanted to see me!"
"Yes, Dumbledore knows that you were wronged. It was Peter Pettigrew who really betrayed the Potters, but he has no evidence!"
Charlie shrugged and explained.
Sirius stared blankly, then smiled bitterly and said:
"So he knew, well, I'll go with you to see Dumbledore!"
Sirius understood that since Dumbledore already knew the truth, he had nothing to fear.
Charlie nodded, his body flashed to Sirius, and then grabbed his shoulder, and an apparition disappeared on the spot.
"You can Apparate at Hogwarts!"
When Sirius came back to his senses, he found himself directly in the principal's office, and couldn't help showing a surprised look.
Charlie smiled:
"I am immune to the anti-apparition spell!"
"Long time no see, Blake!"
At this time, Dumbledore's old voice came from behind the desk in the office.
Sirius turned his head to look at Dumbledore, with mixed feelings in his heart:
"Long time no see, Headmaster Dumbledore!"
"Actually, I don't blame you for what happened back then. I was tortured by dementors in Azkaban for so many years. It's almost the same. It's time to let go!"
Dumbledore looked at Sirius' skinny appearance, and then thought about the young and handsome Black when the Potters got married, he couldn't help but sighed.
"If I hadn't been smart enough to replace the secret keeper with Peter, James and Lily wouldn't have been killed by Voldemort. It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"
Sirius' face was full of regret and guilt.
At that time, James first chose Sirius Black as the secret keeper, but later Sirius felt that being the secret keeper by himself was actually not the best.
Because everyone knows his relationship with James, Voldemort must have guessed it.
So he persuaded James to let the inconspicuous Peter Pettigrew be the secret keeper, and he was outside to attract the attention of Voldemort and Death Eaters, which would be safer.
The reason why Lupine was not chosen is because Lupine will transform every full moon. Once he transforms into a werewolf, he will lose his mind. As a secret keeper, it is a bit too dangerous.
It's just that he never expected that Pettigrew secretly took refuge in Voldemort and directly leaked the hiding place of the Potters.
"It's been 12 years Black, put that down first, we need your help, Voldemort is back!"
Dumbledore stood up, looked at Sirius with a serious face and said.
When Sirius heard that Voldemort was resurrected, his pupils shrank immediately, showing an unimaginable expression:
"How is it possible that Voldemort was not killed by Harry 12 years ago?"
Dumbledore shook his head, and then explained to Sirius how Voldemort made Horcruxes, resurrected with black magic, and how he and Charlie destroyed the artifacts.
"Voldemort, and Peter!"
Sirius gritted his teeth immediately after hearing this, with hatred on his face.
"Principal Dumbledore, how can I help you!"
Dumbledore looked at Charlie.
Charlie took a step forward and said with a smile:
"We need to go to your Black family's mansion first, because I discovered a very interesting thing a few days ago, and maybe I can find the answer in your mansion!"
City of London, Grimmauld Place, about ten kilometers away from King's Cross Station,
An old man, a middle-aged man, and a young man slowly revealed their figures amidst crackling sounds.
And the children in the square who were making snowmen to celebrate Christmas didn't feel any surprise about the three people who suddenly appeared in the middle of the square, as if they didn't see them at all.
These three were none other than Dumbledore, Sirius and Charlie who had just apparated from the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.
"Wait a mininute!"
When the three of them walked to the front of the square, between houses No.11 and No.13, Sirius took out his magic wand, pointed at the air in front, and a dilapidated door full of black scratches appeared in front of the three of them.
The number twelve is written above the gate.
The black door has no keyhole, no mailbox, only a silver ring in the shape of a big snake.
Obviously, this is not an ordinary door, but a special magic door.
Blake uttered a series of incantations, and the wand tapped lightly on the silver ring, and the door slowly opened with a sound like a rattling chain.
Charlie followed Dumbledore and Sirius across the threshold, and the moment he entered the gate, he smelled a decaying and unpleasant smell, which forced him to temporarily close his keen sense of smell.
After entering the gate, a long porch appeared in front of Charlie's eyes. On the left and right walls of the porch, there were two rows of portraits that had darkened over time.
In the portraits are sleeping members of the Black family who have passed away.
Through the porch, a messy and dirty hall came into view, the most striking of which was a huge umbrella stand made of troll legs.
"If my younger brother Regulus really changed Voldemort's Horcrux, the only person who might know the clue is Kreacher, the elf in the family. Regulus is the favorite of Kreacher in the family!"
After entering the living room, Sirius turned on the old-fashioned gas lamp in the living room, making the whole room look a little brighter.
"Where is Kreacher now?"
Dumbledore asked.
"If there are no accidents, he should still be living under the large boiler in the kitchen cabinet in the basement. You wait for me here, and I will call him out."
After talking to Dumbledore and Charlie, Sirius turned and walked towards the end of the living room, a staircase leading to the basement.
"Clean up!"
After Sirius left, Charlie, who really couldn't stand it anymore, waved his hand and cast a descaling spell on the living room.
A burst of magic swept over, and all the dust and stains in the living room gathered together under the power of magic, turning into a garbage ball the size of a head.
With another wave of his hand, Charlie cast a Transfiguration Charm, turning the garbage ball into air.
(End of this chapter)