[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-494":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250732,4210,"Chapter 494: Injustice","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-494",494,"\u003Cp>“Before you clear your name, wizard, you are not permitted to do such dangerous things.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will did not yield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Name?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius looked as if he had heard an unfamiliar word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know better than anyone—the truth differs from what most people believe, and my master remains one of the few who hold the full truth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will lifted his sharply defined green face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly… do you know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius pressed his ear against the wall, studying the short Puckidge with intense focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What you know, what you don’t—my master knows it all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will spoke slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius clenched his lips in silence; his mind was in turmoil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since his identity was exposed, he had vaguely sensed something unusual about the other, and held faint suspicions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, everything seemed to point definitively toward one conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had appeared in his Animagus form—and who else could possibly know he was an Animagus?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who knew—his friends, his enemies—how could they have revealed this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the thing he had hidden deepest, known to almost no one, had been exposed as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the word “name” was spoken, he felt as if stripped naked, overwhelmed by sudden confusion and profound unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could you… how do you know…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius’s voice was hoarse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wizard, my master’s magical power is beyond your imagination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius was frantic; his voice scraped from his throat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That rat couldn’t have told you! And everyone else who knew… they’re all…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will said seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could you—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius was bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Read more newspapers, wizard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will ignored his confusion and handed him a newspaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Will opened a book with mist-covered cover—*Dream Tales*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius snapped back to awareness seconds later, staring at the shy face on the newspaper, then at the golden headline: *Dreams and the Divine*—suddenly, something occurred to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A suspicion he had just confirmed, yet could not articulate, emerged from an angle he could not have imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“May I meet your master…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius rasped,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Puckidge?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will seemed to ponder:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wizard, you are bold. I will relay your request.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Room 10 fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the sound of Sirius rapidly flipping through books and newspapers remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in Room 11.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien was rising to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiang Xien, what you said…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry followed behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Harry, he won’t harm you—but you still must be careful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien finished seriously and closed the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Leaky Cauldron was quiet; occasionally, a drunken patron slumped at a table let out a muffled grunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien stepped on the cushion, watching the door to Room 10 open naturally; he sighed softly and stepped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Black.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Green… sir.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius had not spoken to anyone in a long time; his voice sounded strange and hoarse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you an Animagus?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius hid the newspapers behind his back; his trembling wrist betrayed his inner unrest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Sirius’s unwavering gaze, he saw the wizard before him slowly nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah… an unrecorded Animagus…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius seemed nostalgic, then his face twisted with hatred as something occurred to him; when he looked at Xiang Xien again, only deep reverence remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’d better keep this secret, wizard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Secret?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius laughed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What secrets can wizards possibly keep before you? Unless they don’t dream… and haven’t died…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius suddenly lunged, pressing tightly against Xiang Xien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… you—we once read that book, we all thought it was fantasy, a magic only in legend…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if it’s real… no, it must be real—you, you, you… they—do they hate me? I ruined everything. It was me—I destroyed everything. I am guilty. I deserve to be locked in Azkaban—that’s my due…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But do they hate me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien remained silent; he said nothing, merely gestured with his hand as a kettle poured three steaming cups of pumpkin juice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius only then realized how overwrought he had become; he quickly sat down, his gaunt frame sinking into the chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do those who love us truly leave us? Or do we remember them more vividly when we face hardship?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do those who love us and whom we love truly hate us? Or do they live within us, becoming part of us—and is it we who hate ourselves?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien spoke softly and slowly, guiding the pumpkin juice to hover into Sirius’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius glanced at Xiang Xien dazedly; as the warmth of the pumpkin juice flowed down his throat, countless memories flooded his mind uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lights of Diagon Alley had dimmed; only the window of the Leaky Cauldron still glowed with a warm golden hue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius sat motionless for a long time, until the steaming pumpkin juice grew cold, until a rooster’s crow awakened the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien had left early, but he did not return to Hogwarts immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As planned, he had already gained Sirius’s tentative trust; after helping Sirius complete a few simple tasks, he could easily enter the Black Manor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it was unnecessary…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Xien stared at a box placed far away—inside it lay perhaps the most evil magical artifact ever created: the Horcrux, Salazar Slytherin’s locket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Will first entered the Black Manor, Puckidge had swiftly found and retrieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the days Xiang Xien spent studying magical reshaping in Diagon Alley, he saw Sirius lurking on the Leaky Cauldron’s balcony, watching Harry sit in the bright sunlight outside Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour, finishing his essays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Florean Fortescue, the ice cream shop owner, sometimes engaged Harry in enthusiastic conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wizard not only knew much about medieval witch-burnings, but also gave Harry a free ice cream every half hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time, the gaunt, gloomy man nearly crushed the balcony railing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent him from leaping straight down, Will watched him without letting up for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>",953,"2026-06-19T10:00:42.198Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a8af3001d29b7d1b888158eadcb396abb5ddfd4fd050860ca3ab4e112aff8148","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-495","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-493",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]