[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes":3,"chapter-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-144":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","HP: I AM SHERLOCK HOLMES",{"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},1879834,2495,"Chapter 144: 0144 The Letters","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-144",144,"\u003Cp>After Harry restored normal communication with his friends, Hedwig was exhausted and panting every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time she returned from delivering letters, not only were her feathers disheveled, but both wings drooped down, barely able to support her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this, she pecked Harry's head several times harshly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, Hedwig, spare me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry also felt somewhat sorry for his pet and coaxed her for a long while before she calmed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Hedwig refused to continue such high-intensity overtime work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her little master was really too much!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even capitalists would weep upon hearing this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just when Harry was at his wit's end, holding a stack of letters to be sent, an unexpected turn of events occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The turning point came from Aunt Petunia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was completely an accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since last Christmas, Petunia had noticed that the relationship between her nephew and the whole family had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was the hair growth potion or the weight loss pills, both had real effects on her husband and son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was undoubtedly a good thing for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Harry indirectly helped Uncle Vernon secure that big order, even Uncle Vernon found Harry much more agreeable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention herself, who had direct blood relations with Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Hedwig throwing a tantrum with Harry, Aunt Petunia, out of gratitude, specially went into the kitchen and prepared a good meal for Hedwig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, from then on, it became unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hedwig had originally been eating the cat food Harry prepared for her, only occasionally flying out at night to hunt, catching mice and other prey for extra meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury to frugality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tasting Aunt Petunia's cooking once, Hedwig's taste was completely spoiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, no matter how patiently Harry tried to persuade her, she kept her eyes tightly shut, turned her head to one side, and looked disdainfully at the cat food brought to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was even more exaggerated was that without Harry's reminder, Hedwig instinctively flapped her wings and flew straight into Aunt Petunia's bedroom to beg for food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she was repeatedly awakened by Hedwig's wing-flapping, looking at those round, big eyes, Aunt Petunia couldn't help but recall the fear of being dominated by owls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For her, preparing food for a wizard's owl wasn't anything unfamiliar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the day, when her sister Lily was studying at Hogwarts, she had already done this sort of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even Lily's owl wasn't this annoying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conclusion was that neither mother nor son was easy to deal with!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she was unhappy, Aunt Petunia still grumbled while preparing food for Hedwig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, Hedwig was finally willing to deliver letters for Harry again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, she often ate cat food, but eating it three times a day was not only unpalatable but also troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since tasting Aunt Petunia's cooking, one meal was worth three previous ones. Her back didn't ache, her legs didn't hurt, and her wings were strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying fifty miles in one breath was no problem!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the letter Harry wrote to him, Sherlock looked at Hedwig, who had come to deliver it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, she had gotten a whole circle fatter than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current Hedwig looked exactly like a Scottish round-faced fat chicken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, this didn't affect her flying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also made Sherlock consider whether he should have Watson bring a letter to Harry, and let him taste Aunt Petunia's cooking too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he ultimately didn't do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, his own mother's cooking wasn't bad either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, for wizards from Muggle families like him and Harry, telephone communication was obviously more convenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that Harry identified more with his wizard identity, plus he wanted Sherlock to see the fattened Hedwig, so he specially had her fly over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Sherlock, communication with Harry only occupied a portion of his time, and a very small portion at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spent his time on other people as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them was Hermione.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione had now completely figured it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock was purely someone with a \"don't initiate, don't refuse, don't take responsibility\" attitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she wrote, he would reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she didn't write, he wouldn't write.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding this point, Hermione simply set aside her reserve and began using the dual approach of owl mail + telephone calls to strengthen contact with Sherlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, under these circumstances, she finally got the satisfactory responses she wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What surprised Sherlock was that besides Hermione, that Slytherin prefect Gemma Farley had also strengthened her communication frequency with him during this period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supposedly, he and Gemma Farley had no previous interactions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry was the one who knew her earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When hospitalized due to the Quirrell and Philosopher's Stone incident, Gemma Farley had specially visited her on behalf of Slytherin House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when Harry told Sherlock about this, Sherlock immediately realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That witch... was not simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a true Slytherin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to be mentioned in the same breath as Malfoy, Flint, and their kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the newly enrolled Harry Potter just had the empty title of \"Savior of the Wizarding World\" without matching strength, all she did was observe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after Harry demonstrated his abilities, she boldly made her move, expressing friendliness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For someone as kind-hearted as Harry, he naturally accepted her approaches easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she specially sought him out about Flint's matter, although Sherlock rejected her, he further realized Gemma Farley's purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just Harry, she was equally concerned about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a prefect, this was understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Percy and Penelope did the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that Farley's approach was more in line with Slytherin style—true Slytherin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, for Sherlock, what was most important was that the content of her letters was indeed topics he was interested in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a witch born into a pure-blood family, and an excellent student at that, Farley naturally understood the wizarding world better than Hermione.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, her understanding of the Muggle world was no less than Hermione's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her first letter, she began discussing magical crimes with Sherlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She also specifically pointed out the differences between crime and detection in the magical world versus the Muggle world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of her ideas even brought inspiration to Sherlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, Sherlock naturally wouldn't refuse to respond and exchange letters with Farley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides these matters, Sherlock was also constantly monitoring the follow-up to the house-elf Dobby incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Professor Snape's investigation, the results were exactly as Sherlock had previously speculated—the house-elf Dobby was indeed from the Malfoy family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, their gold-plated young master classmate in Slytherin could at most be considered Dobby's little master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, although it was Snape who took away and initially interrogated Dobby, it was Dumbledore who brought Sherlock the follow-up news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, because Snape himself was unwilling to maintain long-term contact with Sherlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the person who had made the agreement with Sherlock was Dumbledore in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, the information he extracted from Dobby wasn't suitable for him to continue exchanging with Sherlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this stemmed from one name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucius Malfoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Draco Malfoy's father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Malfoy family, like the Weasley, Longbottom, and Abbott families, belonged to the Sacred Twenty-Eight pure-blood families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy's father, Abraxas Malfoy, had a bad reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lucius Malfoy was 14 years old, the first Muggle-born Minister for Magic in history, Nobby Leach, was forced to resign due to a mysterious illness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumors suggested that the mastermind behind this was Abraxas Malfoy, who liked to promote pure-blood supremacy theories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Abraxas Malfoy died of Dragon Pox, these rumors spread throughout the city. Because people generally believed it was retribution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, Lucius entered Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his fifth year, Lucius was elected prefect and became good friends with the newly enrolled Severus Snape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he married another member of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, Narcissa Black, and they had Draco Malfoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, when they pried open Dobby's mouth and learned that this creature was indeed the Malfoy family's house-elf, Snape's expression became particularly colorful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he unhesitatingly threw this matter to Dumbledore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Dumbledore was helpless, due to the seriousness of the situation, he still accepted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting more detailed information from Dobby, he simply Apparated to Sherlock's house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides discussing this matter with Sherlock, he had also decided to accept Sherlock's suggestion and visit Dr. Granger for a dental checkup while he was at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, relying solely on tooth-care potions seemed insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When their son's school headmaster came to visit, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes naturally had to receive him warmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having had the experience of the deputy headmaster visiting last year, both were familiar with the routine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dumbledore picked up the tea prepared for him and took a sip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The taste was good, just too light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Sherlock's parents, a trace of nostalgia appeared in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once upon a time, he too had been someone with a happy family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need to mention the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After brief pleasantries, Dumbledore came to Sherlock's bedroom with him to discuss the follow-up matters regarding the house-elf Dobby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When school starts this year, Lucius Malfoy intends to slip a Dark Magic artifact left behind by Voldemort into Hogwarts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the first sentence involved Sherlock's knowledge blind spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He unhesitatingly asked: \"Why would their family have Dark Magic artifacts left behind by Voldemort?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because Lucius Malfoy was once a Death Eater.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock couldn't help but frown, realizing things weren't so simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can read more than 40 chapters on:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>patreon.com\u002FMikeyMuse\u003C\u002Fp>",1595,"2026-06-10T06:27:24.273Z",1,"novelbin.me","41c1c911619fe020b3277167fe7d274b168af84532153aed52ec52b694c5acb6","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-145","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-143",637,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-cover.jpg"]