Harry Potter and the Old Ones

"I need to talk to you privately," Harry said to Tiera, Ron, and Hermione after the train started.

The four of them walked down the corridor, looking for empty carriages, but all the carriages were full except the last one that was not.

There was only one person in this carriage, who was sitting by the window and was fast asleep.

They stopped on the threshold—

The Hogwarts Express was usually for students, who had never seen an adult here, save for the witch who was pushing the food cart for them.

The stranger was wearing a very worn wizard robe, with patches in several places. He looked sick and tired. He looked young, but his light brown hair was already mixed with spontaneity.

"Who do you think he is?" Ron asked quietly.

They sat down and closed the door softly.

Ron and Hermione sat in the empty row, while Harry pulled Tiera and the stranger in the row.

They all do it far away from the windows.

"Professor R.J. Lupin," Hermione whispered immediately.

"How do you know?" Ron asked in surprise. "How do you know everything?"

"Isn't it written on his suitcase," Hermione replied, pointing to the luggage rack over the man's head, where there was a small, worn suitcase, tied with many ropes and neatly knotted. The words "Professor R.J. Lupin" were printed in the corner of the box, the letters peeling off.

"Cough... oh, well," Ron muttered, "don't know what he's teaching?"

But Ron regretted it immediately after asking—

Because he found the other three looking at him with an idiot look.

Obviously, there is only one vacancy at Hogwarts.

"By the way, Harry, are you trying to tell us something?" Ron said off topic.

Harry told them about the Booksleys' argument, the warning Mr. Weasley had just given him, and so on.

After Harry finished speaking, Ron seemed to have been struck by lightning, and Hermione covered her mouth with her hands—

Too bad I didn't play a beatbox

It seemed that only Tiera remained calm as always.

When listening to Harry's story, Tiera was calm the whole time, and even wanted to laugh a little—

Grandpa's big treasury is coming.

"Tiella, what do you think?" Hermione asked.

"I think there must be something strange about this," Tiera said.

Harry, Hermione, Ron: ? ? ?

Sleeping Lupin:  …

"That's it." Tiera explained, "I specifically checked the time of Sirius's escape. He was first reported by the Daily Prophet on July 17, and the Daily Prophet was Published at 8:30 in the morning, in order to ensure the timeliness of the news, the Daily Prophet will generally confirm the final version and start printing at 11:00 the night before."

"So Sirius must have escaped from prison before eleven o'clock on July 16." Tiera said with a fake analysis, "and the magic is, on the morning of July 15, my father, Professor Dumbledore And the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who just visited Sirius Black."

"Mysterious?" Tiera said.

"It's mysterious enough..." Hermione made a thoughtful look.

"So I don't think Harry's safety needs to be worried at all." Tiera patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "So I think the Sirius escape must be the mastermind of Professor Dumbledore, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge Take the lead, and then my father will investigate and follow secretly, trying to dig out some secrets from Sirius Black."

"Otherwise, how did Sirius escape from Azkaban?" Tiera added, "so all we have to do is stay away from Sirius."

After Tiera finished explaining, the feelings of the other three little wizards seemed to ease a lot.

Leisurely began to discuss the upcoming third grade life and the spring outing of Hogsmeade village.

"It would be nice to leave school for a little while and explore Hogsmeade, isn't it?"

"I think so," said Harry dully. "When you feel this way, be sure to tell me."

"What do you mean by that?" said Ron.

"I can't go. The Dursleys didn't sign the consent form for me, and neither did Fudge," said Harry.

"I'm not going either." Tiera said while sorting out her study notes in the memory palace.

"Why?" Harry asked in surprise and delight.

"I forgot to ask my adoptive father to sign." Tiera casually found a reason, "When I remembered this, he had already gone on Dumbledore's secret mission."

"Oh... ok." Harry said with a slightly upturned corner of his mouth.

The Hogwarts Express headed steadily north, the scenery outside the window getting wilder and darker, and the clouds above him getting thicker. Outside the doors of their carriages, people kept walking back and forth. Crookshanks was now settled in an empty seat, its squashed face turned to Ron, its yellow eyes fixed on Ron's pockets.

At one o'clock the food cart plops to the door of their carriage.

"Should we wake him up, you say?" Ron asked awkwardly, pouting at Professor Lupin. "He looks like he needs something to eat."

"No," Tiera said. "He looks like he hasn't rested in a long time. Let him sleep for a while."

He has chocolate on him anyway, Tiera thought.

After the lunch cart passed, the train went slower and slower. The sound of the wheels also gradually decreased.

The wind and rain outside the window became louder.

Harry, who was closest to the door, got up to check the corridor. In every carriage on the side of the corridor ~www.NovelMTL.com~ there are people looking out. The train suddenly shuddered and stopped, and there was a thumping sound in the distance, indicating that the luggage had fallen off the shelf.

Then all the lights went out suddenly, and they were thrown into complete darkness.

"What's wrong?" Ron's shaky voice came from behind Harry.

"Maybe Sirius Black came to hijack the train," Tiera said deliberately.

"Ah~?" Ron said again in a trembling little milk voice.

Hmm... It's really comfortable, the little milky voice that Ron is afraid of sounds really comfortable.

"Maybe in order to kill Harry, Sirius may blow up our train to the sky." Tiera said again.

"No~" Ron's little milk voice trembled even more.

"Come on!" Hermione said, patting Tiera's knee with her hand. "Don't blind Ron, isn't Mr. Lockhart stalking the investigation? How could Sirius Black attack the train?"