bioinnovel Chapter 178 Sirius is a bastard
Chapter 178 Sirius is a bastard
Chapter 178 Sirius is a bastard
In October, the weather at Hogwarts grew colder, with more rain and longer nights.
The continuous rain soaked the castle windows, the Black Lake level rose sharply, and the site became a wet and muddy mess.
Sirius Black is still leading the Ministry of Magic in circles; the outcome of Hagrid's case is still pending, leaving the Board of Governors in a real bind.
The twelve members of the Board of Governors are all increasingly worried. They can't understand what Hogwarts is up to this year, or whether Dumbledore is really getting old.
At the beginning of the year, students launched a collective petition against Gilderoy Lockhart, and after parents learned the truth, complaint letters flooded the school board like snowflakes.
At the start of the new school year, Slytherin students' parents filed a joint complaint against the new professor Hagrid, unanimously believing that Hagrid was unqualified to be their teacher.
Now, Gryffindor students' parents have also started a joint complaint, directly targeting Slytherin Headmaster Snape, saying he is selfish, biased, mean, and insults students at will, which is extremely detrimental to the students' healthy development.
The socialites on the board of trustees couldn't understand it. Had Dumbledore lost control of the school and just let Gryffindor and Slytherin fight each other?
What troubles the board members the most is that they are unwilling to offend either of the two colleges.
Gryffindor will definitely be unhappy with the handling of Hagrid's complaint, especially since Dumbledore is backing Hagrid. How can this be dealt with?
Slytherin will certainly be unhappy with the handling of the complaints against Snape, who is the head of the house and was rescued from the Ministry of Magic's inquiries by Dumbledore.
What if Hagrid's complaint isn't addressed, and Slytherin students' parents pressure the Ministry of Magic?
Lucius Malfoy is not someone to be trifled with. Will he throw money at the Ministry of Magic? Will he curse the members of the Board of Governors again?
If Snape's complaint is not addressed, what will the Longbottom family, who are initiating the complaint, think?
Don't underestimate the influence of pure-blood families in wizarding society. If they escalate things, Hogwarts will lose face across the sea. Losing face across the sea is absolutely unacceptable!
The board members now really wanted to grab Snape by the collar and ask him what he was thinking. Of all the students to bully, why did he have to bully Longbottom? Was he someone to be bullied?
House Longbottom is one of the Twenty-Eight pure-blood houses. Neville's parents, Frank and Alice, were both respected Aurors. The couple were driven insane by the Cruciatus Curse used by the Death Eaters. Neville Longbottom is a descendant of heroes.
Who is Severus Snape? Just a young Potions Master, and Dumbledore's spy within the Death Eaters. That makes him seem pretty impressive, doesn't it?
But that's no excuse for bullying people!
Bullying a poor child whose parents are hospitalized for a long time and who was raised by his grandmother is something that can't be brought to light anywhere.
In the first month of the new school year, the escaped Sirius Black and two complaints against professors caused a great stir at Hogwarts, with Gryffindor and Slytherin locked in a fierce battle.
What is Belvina doing at this crucial time of year?
Belvina Black, the mastermind behind everything, was like a scumbag in a melon patch, jumping up and down, eagerly anticipating what was to come. If not bloodshed, she at least hoped the two academies would fight.
One afternoon in early October, Belvina trudged through the muddy, damp field, where the recent rains had created several thin streams.
Even though they were still some distance from the rare and magical plant, the Man-Beating Willow, Belvina could already see Lupin's tired and haggard figure. He stood alone in the bleak autumn wind, exuding an indescribable loneliness.
Belvina waded through streams and mud, trekking as if over mountains and rivers, to reach Lupin's side.
The full moon had just passed, and Lupin looked very weak. He was leaning on an old vine cane and looked to be more than a generation older than Belvina, although they were only five or six years apart in age.
"You runaway Gorgons!" Belvina said irritably. "Why do we have to meet here? Can't we stay in the castle? The weather is absolutely terrible!"
"It's easier to say some things here," Lupin said weakly. "It also reminds me of more things from the past."
Belvina remained dissatisfied, complaining, "Should I kick your ass with my muddy boots? Maybe with the help of the Great Memory Restoration Technique, you'll even remember things from when you were a baby."
Lupin gave Belvina a strange look, whether from the way she spoke or from curiosity about the Great Memory Restoration Technique.
"Was it you, Longbottom, who complained about Snape?" Lupin asked bluntly. "I can't think of anyone else but you."
"Where there is oppression, there is resistance," Belvina remarked casually. "Couldn't it be Neville Longbottom who refused to be oppressed and rose up in resistance?"
Lupin didn't speak, but a gentle smile graced his pale face, and his warm eyes seemed to say: Do you think I believe you?
"If you're here on behalf of Professor Dumbledore to accuse me, then there's no need to say anything more," Belvina said seriously. "I'm just acting according to my own preferences, and I don't think I've done anything wrong."
Belvina never denied Dumbledore's greatness, but regarding the school and the students, she felt that Dumbledore's handling of the situation was very inappropriate—no, to be precise, very bad. Last school year, in order to expose Gilderoy Lockhart's true colors, Dumbledore wasted more than half a year of the entire school's time. Young wizards only receive a total of seven years of education at the school.
Furthermore, the conflict between Slytherin and the other houses has existed for nearly a thousand years, and it cannot all be attributed to Dumbledore, but Dumbledore never seemed to have thought about improving the relationship between the houses.
It was precisely because of Dumbledore's inaction and his negligence that Snape was able to act recklessly in his position as Head of Slytherin, constantly widening the rift between Slytherin and the other houses.
In short, Belvina harbors many grievances against Hogwarts and Dumbledore, which she dared not express in the past, but she no longer cares about them now.
Do it big, finish it quickly, just get it done!
Looking at Belvina's beautiful face, Lupin suddenly said out of the blue, "She really looks like her."
"Like what?" Belvina asked, not understanding what Lupin meant. Had he lost his mind after turning into a wolf?
"I said, you and Sirius are a lot like each other in some ways," Lupin said. "You always act according to your own whims and never consider the consequences."
"—" Belvina.
Lupin took two steps forward, leaning on his cane, and said, "The Whomping Willow appeared at the school because of me; it was planted by Dumbledore to help me."
Belvina genuinely didn't know about this; the Whomping Willow was already there when she was at Hogwarts. While the Whomping Willow is a rare plant, who would bother investigating the origins of a tree?
"You know, I'm a werewolf, and I'm very dangerous and aggressive during a full moon," Lupin continued. "My parents and I once thought I wouldn't be able to study at Hogwarts, until Dumbledore knocked on my door."
“I know, Professor Dumbledore mentioned it to me a little,” Belvina said, “just before I became the owl of Hogwarts.” She added.
Lupin thought for a moment, then continued, "There's a secret passage beneath the Whomping Willow, leading to the Screaming Shack of Hogsmeade. I can endure my painful Transfiguration there. The rumors of it being haunted keep the villagers away, and the Whomping Willow also deters students from trying to get close."
So the Screaming Shack isn't really about ghosts, it's about werewolves?
Maybe... perhaps... a ghost story would be better?
"After coming to school, I made friends for the first time in my life," Lupin said. "James and Sirius, their liveliness, cheerfulness, confidence and freedom deeply attracted me, and we became best friends."
As Belvina watched Lupin slowly recount the past, a line from a song from the East suddenly came to mind: "You are haggard, but I will make you radiant."
The qualities that attracted Lupin to James and Sirius were precisely what Lupin lacked.
"Later, they discovered my secret and realized that I would disappear once a month," Lupin continued. "At that time, I was very scared, scared of being expelled from school, scared of losing them."
“They accepted your uniqueness, accepted your little hairy problem,” Belvina said. “If it were me, I probably couldn’t do it like they did. People say werewolves are cold-blooded, wicked, and deserve only to die.”
Prejudice in the hearts of the people is a mountain. Werewolves not only have to face the pain of transforming under the full moon, but also suffer the insults and bullying of the people. Poverty is the norm for werewolves.
Some werewolves are kind like Lupin, unwilling to harm others and bearing their pain alone; others choose to unleash their inner evil, taking revenge on everyone without restraint, with Fenrir Greyback being the most representative example.
"To help me, and to protect me, they became Animagus through self-study," Lupin said. "James was a stag, Sirius was a big black dog, and Peter was a mouse."
"Rats?" Belvina asked, puzzled. "The stag and the big dog might be there to suppress you when you turn into a wolf."
What can mice do?
Lupin weakly raised his hand and said, "The Whomping Willow has a mechanism that allows Peter, in his rat form, to approach quickly and without being easily noticed by the Whomping Willow."
He continued, "Do you know why Snape hated us so much?"
"I know." Belvina thought for a moment and said, "You guys always bully him, which is somewhat of a form of school bullying. Once, he was even forced to put on a wardrobe malfunction by the lake."
“That’s not all,” Lupin said. “Snape also noticed that we disappeared once a month. I don’t know what Sirius did or said, but it turned out that Snape went to the Shrieking Shack on the night of the full moon.”
Belvina didn't make a scene, and Snape was still alive and well, proving that no tragedy had occurred on that full moon night.
She said, "See? I told you that guy was a bastard! He has absolutely no idea how serious this is. You don't even need to bite Snape to death; once you bite Snape, your life is completely over."
Lupin sighed. He had once thought he knew Sirius Black well enough, but later realized that he had never really known Sirius Black.