Chapter 57: Sirius Appears

Snape's actions made both John and Lupin stunned.

This seemed to be going a bit too far.

John keenly noticed that Professor Snape was not right; this was not simple hostility, but more like suspecting that Professor Lupin had done something.

So John hurriedly opened his mouth to say.

"Professor, Professor, at that time Professor Lupin was in the staff room with me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Professor Snape's movements paused, but the suspicion in his eyes did not dissipate.

"And after that?"

Professor Snape stared at Professor Lupin and continued to ask coldly.

However, this time he was asking John.

"After that, we were always together."

"He saw that I was locked in the staff room and couldn't attend the banquet, so he just brought me out to relax."

Snape's eyes shifted between the two, as if weighing the truth of John's words.

However, in the end, he still put down his wand.

"Severus, did something happen?"

Professor Lupin saw Professor Snape put down his wand and then asked.

"You will know when you return to the castle."

After saying that, Snape didn't explain, waved his big robe, and turned to walk toward the castle.

However, after walking a few steps, he noticed that John hadn't followed, turned his head, and glared at him.

John understood and hurried to follow.

However, before leaving, he whispered to Professor Lupin: "Professor, let's talk another time tomorrow; I hope you can give me an answer by then."

After saying that, he quickly caught up with Professor Snape's pace.

And Professor Lupin stood where he was, watching them leave.

He actually guessed what had happened, but he couldn't say much.

As for John, if he didn't agree to him, John probably wouldn't take him to find that black dog.

Under the night, Lupin's eyes gradually deepened, and finally, only a sigh remained, drifting into the night with the wind.

John followed Professor Snape all the way back to the castle.

He found that the students were all walking in the direction of the Great Hall.

Listening to their conversation, John finally knew what had happened.

Sirius Black had appeared!

Just now, the Halloween banquet ended, and the students were planning to return to their respective dormitories.

However, a change had occurred in the Gryffindor dormitory.

John, who had accompanied Hermione back before, knew that the secret passage to that dormitory was guarded by a portrait and required a corresponding password to open the passage and enter the Gryffindor dormitory.

But at this moment, that portrait had been roughly slashed with several cuts, and the marks were as ferocious as wolf claws.

However, fortunately, the portrait guard, the "Fat Lady," was not injured, just terrified.

She curled up in another portrait with a look of horror, shouting to the people around: "Sirius Black has broken into Hogwarts! He even attempted to break into the Gryffindor dormitory!!"

The occurrence of such a thing immediately attracted the school's attention.

Headmaster Dumbledore arrived at the scene in person, directing the professors to recall all students and go to the Great Hall to gather for protection.

After the recall, they went to seal the castle and thoroughly investigate every place in the castle where Sirius might be hiding.

Hearing the news of Sirius's appearance, John was also quite surprised.

Could it be that Professor Snape's overreaction just now was because Sirius had appeared?

That didn't seem right either; what did Sirius's appearance have to do with Professor Lupin?

Could Professor Lupin have helped Sirius sneak into the school?

John couldn't figure it out.

Tonight's events really came one after another.

John always felt that there might be some connection between these things.

And Professor Snape didn't discuss anything with John, told him to return to the Great Hall immediately, and then hurried away.

John had no choice but to stop thinking about it and walk toward the Great Hall.

At this time, the Great Hall was full of students.

Students were still being brought in by professors one after another.

John returned to the Ravenclaw long table, and Ryan and Ethan immediately surrounded him.

"John, you're finally back; we were worried about whether you had run into Sirius."

"Don't worry, I'm fine; Professor Snape brought me here."

John sat down and comforted the two.

Before they could continue talking, Titus also came over.

He also saw John return and came over to confirm it.

"I knew you were fine."

Titus patted John happily and said.

"You don't know, when the news of Sirius breaking in appeared, everyone was scared to death."

"A group of people were running around everywhere."

"If the Headmaster hadn't stabilized them, they probably would have all fled the castle."

Titus happily told John about what had happened while he was away.

And it seemed that Titus wasn't afraid of Sirius at all.

He remembered that they had discussed Sirius when talking about the Death Eaters.

At that time, Titus said that his father believed Sirius had been framed.

Thinking about it now, John couldn't help but feel curious.

"Titus, when you said before that your father thought Sirius might have been framed, why did your uncle think so?"

John thought, so he asked Titus.

"I'm not too sure either; my father was also a student at Hogwarts back then, and he was Sirius's junior at the time."

"It seems something happened back then, and Sirius helped my father, so they got to know each other."

"Although they weren't very close."

"I think my father just felt indebted to Sirius, so in his heart, he still felt Sirius was a good person."

"Actually, the old man doesn't have any evidence to prove Sirius is a good person."

Titus said in a low voice.

From his perspective, his father probably just subconsciously leaned toward believing Sirius because of a little personal affection.

John thought thoughtfully after hearing this.

"So what exactly happened back then?"

Ethan, who was on the side, couldn't help but interrupt and ask.

Regarding the sins Sirius committed back then, they weren't actually that widely spread.

Many people only knew that Sirius killed over a dozen Muggles and killed one of his wizard friends.

Titus also shook his head at this; his father didn't tell him everything.

After all, he was only eleven years old, and the reason his father mentioned Sirius to him was also because the news of Sirius's prison break had become known to everyone, so he just mentioned it.

"By the way, Titus, do you know the relationship between Professor Lupin and Professor Snape?"

"Why do I feel like they are very much at odds?"

At this time, John changed the subject and continued to ask Titus.

"I know, they were classmates before."

"And not just them, Sirius was also their classmate."

"I heard that back then, there was a middle-school-syndrome organization in the school called the Marauders; I don't know who came up with that stupid name."

"Anyway, at that time, Professor Lupin and that Sirius were members of this organization."

"And Professor Snape seemed to have suffered deeply from this organization."

"So the two of them probably have some grudges between them." ===== CHAPTER 58 =====