A day at Hogwarts

Surrey is the back garden of southwest London. Local real estate developers believe it is one of the most livable areas in the UK and even the world. It has a lot of green spaces, lakes, and waterway landscapes. Many high-income people in London own properties here, and towns There are also many cafes close to nature.

On a weekend afternoon, the weather was not bad. On the terrace of a riverside cafe, several people were discussing a story told by an old man.

Today, Dumbledore made some changes at Petunia's suggestion. His beard and hair were shortened by magic. He dug out a suit and hat from fifty years ago from the closet. He held a cane in his hand. The proprietress of the cafe My mouth is watering just looking at it.

One of Penny's classmates named Sophia went to London to work after graduating from high school. She first worked as a salesperson in a bookstore, and soon became the boss's wife and now the boss's wife.

This small Sherlock Holmes Club was established with this bookstore as its core. There are about ten members, including police officers, nurses, etc. They often get together to talk about Sherlock Holmes, and from time to time someone will come up with questions and others will solve the case.

Petunia heard a lot about Black from Lupine and always felt something was wrong, so she mentioned it to Sophia.

Sophia found it quite interesting. She discussed it with everyone at a party and came to completely different results.

This time Dumbledore slightly changed the whole thing into a "real incident" of the French underground resistance organization during World War II. Voldemort had a mustache on his boiled egg face, the Death Eaters became the Gestapo, and Black became The rebellious child of a family that supported the Nazis.

He told the stories of Sirius Black, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew starting from school and ending with Black being captured by Aurors.

Peggy is a police officer, and her father is also a police officer. She has seen many criminals. After listening to Dumbledore's "story", she said: "I am even more certain that Mr. P (Peter) is the real traitor, Mr. J ( He should have the information about James' hiding place, not Mr. B (Black) as everyone thinks."

"Mr. P seems to be unknown in their small group. This is very common in organizations such as gangs. Such people often join because they are afraid of power. He will give in when a stronger force threatens him. We I often find breakthroughs in these people at work.”

"I speculate that the Gestapo may have used Mr. P's family to threaten him, which ultimately led to Mr. P's rebellion."

Also present was another police officer, Freddy, who expressed a different opinion: "Mr. P may have rebelled, but it is not ruled out that Mr. B is the real mastermind."

"Splitting bets is very common among those big families. It is very likely that Mr. J has extremely important information, which makes Mr. B's family feel that they can deal with this matter at the expense of exposing Mr. B."

"But Mr. B did not do it himself. Instead, he asked Mr. P, who was instigated by him to rebel, to do it. In the end, Mr. P was killed and silenced."

"You overlooked one point." Nurse Susie shook her head, "Teeth and other bones are very hard."

She said seriously: "I have never seen an explosion, but I have seen a lot of various car accidents, and I have seen all kinds of dead and injured people."

"I am certain that no matter what kind of explosion, it is absolutely impossible to leave only one intact finger, but the other parts will not be found."

"I speculate that Mr. P created the explosion himself and left a finger to mislead others, making everyone think that he died in the explosion."

Freddy asked her: "Since Mr. P committed suicide, why didn't Mr. B tell the story later?"

"Atonement." Danny, the owner of the garage, gave an answer that surprised everyone, "I have thought about this question for a long time. It was only after Mr. Dumbledore added the details that I figured out why Mr. B did what he did in the end. "

"The relationship between Mr. B and Mr. J is like brothers. The most important thing is that they are very talented and very conceited."

"I have seen many young people like this. They are young and energetic. They always think that everything in the world is under their control and they can use their intelligence to play with terrible enemies."

"I have a guess. Mr. B and Mr. J probably came up with an idea that they thought was genius, but Mr. J died because of Mr. P's rebellion."

"So Mr. B felt extremely guilty because of Mr. J's death. He thought that the only thing he had to do after Mr. P died was to spend the rest of his life repenting and atonement. And because Mr. P was already dead, the truth no longer mattered. ”

Peggy nodded and said: "Susie said that Mr. P could not have left only his fingers, and he might still be alive. This inspired me again."

"Mr. P has lived with Mr. J and Mr. B for many years. He is very aware of Mr. B's personality and thoughts, so he arranged to fake his own death to escape, thinking that Mr. B would not tell them about the mistakes they made after seeing him die. , as long as you change your identity, you can live safely."

"I heard from my father that this kind of thing is not uncommon, and occasionally we can catch fugitives from many years ago."

Freddy still insisted on his point of view: "This does not prove that Mr. B is innocent. Perhaps Mr. P has done a lot of things under his men that others do not know. Mr. P has long had the idea of ​​​​getting out."

"And for Mr. B, prison is sometimes a very good choice. Maybe he can get the care of his family and live a good life there, and avoid a lot of trouble."

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From time to time, Dumbledore asked the landlady to serve scones, Scottish butter shortbread, Victoria cake, Yorkshire curd tart, apple pie, toffee pudding, imperial biscuits, Irish black tea bread, Cornish mince pies, rock cakes, etc. For snacks, you can choose from Darjeeling, Ceylon, and Earl Guinea. In the evening, there are also French meals from nearby restaurants, such as Basque lamb stew, Burmundian beef, Basque seafood soup, French puff pastry pie, and Nicoise salad. He paid for it.

Everyone ate and played, and it was grandpa who treated us, so we were very happy.

Dumbledore listened quietly as these young people tried to reconstruct what happened bit by bit based on the known evidence such as the personalities of the parties involved and the details of the incident, adding some details from time to time.

At first, like everyone else, he believed that Black had betrayed the Potter family, but now after listening to everyone's analysis, he also had some doubts about Peter.

But he didn't jump to conclusions easily and decided to do some more investigation.

The two police officers, Peggy and Freddy, began to argue. They had different opinions on whether Mr. P's finger was cut off by himself or blown out. This was the focus of whether he was still alive at the time. In the end, it was a pity that they could not pass the criminal investigation technology. means to identify.

Although he specializes in magic, Dumbledore didn't know much about Muggle criminal investigation techniques, so he asked curiously: "How can you tell if your finger is broken?"

Peggy replied: "Yes, if the finger is cut off from the bone, the cross section will have very flat marks."

Freddy stretched out his palm and added: "There is a distance from the finger joint to the root of the finger. If it is cut off actively, the joint part will not be left. If it is damaged due to an explosion, the phalange bone is likely to be intact."

He took another finger biscuit, broke it and said, "If the bone was blown off, the cross section of the finger bone would be uneven."

Dumbledore nodded.