[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-war-at-hogwarts":3,"chapter-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-112":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Wizard War at Hogwarts",{"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},2358085,4612,"Chapter 112","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-112",112,"\u003Cp>“When I was a child, I lived in the orphanage on Spider Lane, next to Severus.” Karan said slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, who’s Severus?” Harry felt the name was oddly familiar, but he couldn’t quite place it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Severus Snape.” Karan sipped his tea. “As far as I know, he’s now teaching Potions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, so that’s it.” Harry nodded. “I never knew Professor Snape’s full name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those childhood days were actually the happiest. We often went to visit Lily—oh, your mother, Lily Evans.” He sighed. “But once we started school, we all drifted apart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry said nothing. He realized the experiences behind this might be deeply complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From a very young age, I noticed Severus loved Lily, but he was always too shy to show it.” Karan paused, as if waiting for Harry to absorb this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shock churned inside Harry. He had never imagined that Ron’s “old bat” had once loved his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later, Lily went to Gryffindor, Severus to Slytherin, and I to Hufflepuff.” Karan continued. “Lily became friends with James and Sirius, but she didn’t really like them—they constantly bullied Severus.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Marauders?” Harry had never heard the term.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes—Prongs, James; Padfoot, Sirius; Moony, Remus; and Wormtail, Peter.” Karan still remembered their school nicknames vividly. “Back then, hardly anyone in school didn’t know about them. The four of them formed a gang and caused trouble everywhere.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, let me piece this together.” Harry felt dizzy. “James is my father, James Potter, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And Sirius—you’re not telling me this is Sirius Black, are you?” He felt things were slipping beyond his expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. They were practically the best of friends back then.” Karan seemed utterly unaware of the fugitive news. “And Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lupin? No wonder Harry had felt from the start that Professor Lupin was so warm toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But, Mr. Caran, you can’t possibly not know about Sirius Black?” Harry pressed urgently. “He escaped from Azkaban.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Azkaban?” Karan looked genuinely startled. “I didn’t know. I just returned from America recently—what else has happened?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because of the Dark Lord, I went straight to America after graduation.” Karan said. “I only heard rumors that Lily married James—I wasn’t even sure if it was true.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When did you come back?” Harry realized he might know far more than Karan did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last month.” He gave a self-deprecating smile. “I was nearly driven mad by my Muggle family, so I decided to return to the wizarding world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you never read the newspapers?” Ron asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Occasionally, I read the Sun.” Karan gave a strange smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, you might not know—the Dark Lord was defeated. My parents gave their lives to kill him.” Harry summarized briefly what he knew. “And it’s said Sirius Black was once the Dark Lord’s right-hand man. He escaped Azkaban to seek revenge on me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What a twist of fate.” Karan sighed. “Even back in school, I knew Sirius wasn’t a good man. I just never understood why Lily chose James.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Under Sirius’s influence, they mocked Severus endlessly—made fun of his hair, called him ‘Sneaky,’ pulled his pants down, even once tricked him into the Shrieking Shack, nearly getting him killed.” Karan spoke bitterly. “Lily used to defend Severus, but gradually she was swayed by James and began distancing herself from us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Dumbledore said my father saved Severus’s life.” Harry whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh yes—that time in the Shrieking Shack. The story went that James saved him.” Karan snorted. “I’m certain Sirius meant to kill him, and James only stopped him. That’s all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry had no idea how he could return to school after hearing all this. He still had at least four years of Potions ahead—and he didn’t know how he’d ever pretend ignorance when speaking to Snape again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later, Severus mentioned several times that he wanted to join the Dark Lord.” Karan sighed. “I even understood why—he had no choice. But that meant he could never be with Lily, a Muggle-born.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for me, I’m Muggle-born too, but I didn’t want to oppose Severus, so I chose to flee to America.” Karan’s tone shifted. “It was truly a land of freedom—air sweet with liberty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry and Ron exchanged a glance and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In America, you can live however you want—no need to suffer all those ridiculous formalities. There’s no Dark Lord, no pure-blood aristocracy. Everyone is equal.” Karan spoke with longing. “The Magical Congress isn’t ruled by one man—it governs the magical world democratically, handles the Statute of Secrecy with flexibility, unlike the Ministry, which is so cold and heartless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If that’s true, why did you come back?” Ron asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, because of my Muggle wife.” Karan looked troubled. “She had an affair with her tennis coach—it broke my heart. So I decided to leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And I lost the divorce case.” He added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, that’s too bad.” Harry offered politely. “I never considered leaving the country—I plan to fight the Dark Lord to the end.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll fight beside you.” Ron nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Children, having ideals is good.” Karan said meaningfully. “But if you find the Dark Lord too powerful to face directly, America is still an escape route.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, out of politeness, Harry bought a set of Gobstones. Karan’s Gobstones were beautifully made and cheap; Ron raved about their strange texture, but Harry knew they were just plastic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back, Ron kept talking excitedly about Snape’s dark past, even planning to ask Professor Lupin if it was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Harry stopped him. If he didn’t want to be docked twenty points every Potions class for some flimsy excuse, he’d better keep quiet about what he’d heard today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, they went to the Three Broomsticks to see if Zhang Qiu was still eavesdropping. She wasn’t hidden—she sat openly at a window table, chatting with a girl with golden curls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, that’s Marietta.” Ron seemed to know the girl. “Her mother is head of the Floo Network Office—she works with my dad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not in the same department?” Harry recalled what he knew of the Ministry’s structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our families are distant relatives.” Ron added. “Notice her hair—does it have a hint of red?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It does. Then,” Harry hesitated, “let’s not disturb them. Let’s find another table.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright… oh!” Ron suddenly gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at the barmaid—she’s so beautiful.” Ron was entranced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on, come on—think about what you want to drink.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Harry stared blankly at the menu and Ron stared dreamily at Rosmerta, Zhang Qiu walked over with a cup and whispered, “I actually overheard something secret.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you drinking?” Harry looked at her cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Butterbeer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then we’ll have Butterbeer too.” Harry said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll go ask her for two Butterbeers…” Ron muttered, walking toward the barmaid as if “two Butterbeers” were some kind of romantic declaration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know, the professors are saying Sirius Black was responsible for your parents’ deaths.” Zhang Qiu whispered. “He betrayed them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Harry’s heart leapt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They say when Voldemort planned to attack your parents, your father came up with a plan—he used the Fidelius Charm to hide their home.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Fidelius Charm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. This spell requires choosing a Secret-Keeper. As long as the Secret-Keeper doesn’t reveal the secret, no one—not even Voldemort—can find the location.” Zhang Qiu explained. “Your father chose Sirius Black as the Secret-Keeper because they were close friends in school.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But for some reason, Sirius chose to betray him—he told Voldemort everything.” Zhang Qiu’s voice grew somber. “The professors say it might be tied to his family—Black family are all Death Eaters. He was ultimately influenced by them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder Malfoy called him ‘noble blood.’” Harry spat heavily. “I’ll capture that bastard myself—and have him shot!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Calm down, Harry.” Zhang Qiu placed a hand on his shoulder. “Right now, you and he both want to kill each other—but you’re in the light, he’s in the dark. That’s dangerous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, that’s exactly my advantage.” Harry’s fingers tapped lightly on the table. “I won’t be foolish enough to go after him alone. I promised Mr. Weasley I wouldn’t show myself to him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s alone. But I have the support of others—professors, the Ministry, even Malfoy.” Harry stroked his chin. “The most feasible plan is to catch him at Hogwarts. I’ll need to plan carefully.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry had once thought Sirius was just an ordinary Death Eater, perhaps a bit mad—but now he knew Sirius had been his father’s childhood friend, a traitor who betrayed him. He would have his revenge for his father’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>",1408,"2026-06-21T04:54:27.874Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","029cd32a8d77d9cb6f3c004897380e53eb35689375c7a79bf1b66120ceb7117e","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-113","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-111",528,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwizard-war-at-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]