The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 222 Breaking in and fighting (Please subscribe, collect, and recommend)
As Ryan was writing, a bottle of butterbeer was placed on the table in front of him. Looking up, Ryan saw Fred smiling at him, while George was throwing Toad mints to the crowd.

"You two are really weird. Why are you still studying here while everyone else is celebrating?" Fred asked.

"It's because of you two brothers and Harry that I not only have to take care of my own affairs but also prepare lessons for the three of you. You need a lot of time to train for the competition. Since we have agreed to help you, don't we need to spend more time preparing and try to let you master more knowledge in a short period of time? Don't forget that you will have another competition after this one, don't you need to prepare for it?"

"Thank you for your help!" Fred scratched his head and said, "But you can try the butterbeer, it tastes really good and has no alcohol."

After getting almost everything ready, Ryan and the others joined in the celebration. It was not until one in the morning that Professor McGonagall, wearing a plaid dressing gown and a hairnet, arrived at the scene and insisted that everyone go to bed. Only then did the Gryffindor party end.

After everyone went to bed, Ryan sneaked out of the dormitory and went to the common room, then chose a corner behind the sofa to start meditating.

Because he knew that Blake was likely to attack tonight, he planned to wait for Blake here.

After meditating for more than an hour, a slight friction sound came from the entrance, and then a figure came in from the entrance.

The moonlight shone through the window of the common room onto the man's face, and Ryan saw a thin body like a skeleton. He had a large mass of messy hair on his head, and looked very dirty. Most importantly, he was holding a knife in his hand.

It seemed that Sirius Black had been having a bad time recently. After making sure that Black didn't have a wand, Ryan activated the Zixia magic skill and suddenly jumped out from behind the sofa.

"Who is it?" Before you could finish your words, Blake suddenly rushed up with his right hand raised high, then turned the knife in his hand over and tried to knock Ryan unconscious with the handle of the knife.

It seems that at least Black is not a bad guy, and he will remember not to hurt innocent people at this time. Thinking of this, Ryan dodged Sirius's attack and then hit the acupuncture point on the back of his neck. Maybe because of the long-term running and hunger, he consumed his physical strength, and Black failed to avoid the attack.

He fell directly to the ground, luckily the thick carpet on the ground absorbed the sound of his fall. After a dull thud of a heavy object falling to the ground, the common room remained silent.

Ryan took out an enchanted rope and tied it around Blake, then used his wand to chant at him: "Resurrection soon." It was obvious that the spell had woken Blake up, but he still pretended to be unconscious and tried to fight back.

"Mr. Black, there is no need for you to pretend to be unconscious. As Harry's friend I must ask you something. Can you tell me why you want to kill Harry?"

"No, I didn't." Sirius' eyes suddenly widened, and then the veins on his hands popped up. "I came to kill that bastard, and that bastard is still alive! I'm going to kill him! Kill him!"

Sirius was so excited that he was incoherent, but he didn't want to wake up the others, so he tried to keep his voice down even when he was yelling. After a while of excitement, Sirius calmed down and looked at Ryan: "You should be Ryan Liang, right? Can you tell me why you think I might not be the murderer."

"Wait, how do you know who I am?" Ryan remembered that he didn't introduce himself at all.

"I picked up a lot of waste newspapers in Hogsmeade, and among them was a photo of you receiving the Order of Merlin, Second Class. To be honest, your Asian face is so easy to recognize. You are the only Asian boy in the entire Gryffindor community."

"Then what makes you think I think you're not the murderer?"

"Because you showed mercy just now and didn't go out to call for help."

As expected, he still lacked experience. Ryan simply said half-truthfully: "Since you have seen me in the newspaper, you should know that I am a Muggle wizard. Sometimes I read a lot of information about the magical world to understand this world, and your case is in an old newspaper I have read. From my point of view in the Muggle world, a case like yours that was directly sentenced without trial really has too many suspicious points."

"Besides, I learned from Hagrid that it was you who gave Harry to Hagrid after his parents died. If you really wanted to kill Harry, you could have done it then. So when I saw you come in, my first reaction was to ask you what on earth you were doing here?" Ryan told Sirius the reason he had prepared before.

"You are very brave, you deserve to be a Gryffindor." Sirius glanced at Ryan and said, "Yes, I am Harry's godfather, and his father and I are like brothers. I will never hurt him. The one I want to kill is the real traitor Peter Pettigrew. It was because of me that he had the opportunity to betray the Potters to Voldemort. I came out to look for him because I saw him in the newspaper." Sirius said in a hoarse voice.

"Of course, I was lucky too. When I arrived at the door today, I found a piece of paper outside with the passcode for the entire week written on it. That's why I was able to get in smoothly."

"Is Neville cursed? Even if Crookshanks wasn't there, he would have lost something." Ryan thought, "Maybe there was some confusion when we entered the room during the celebration today, so Neville lost his note."

Ryan was thinking about these things when he saw Sirius staring at him. So he opened his mouth and said the shocking news: "Is the Scabbers you mentioned now a mouse with a missing finger on its front paw?"

"You, how did you know?" Sirius looked at Ryan in surprise.

"You just said that you could see him in the newspaper, but theoretically he should have been dead and it is impossible for him to appear in the newspaper. So the only explanation is that he didn't look like a human when he appeared, so the only way he could hide in the Gryffindor Tower was by disguising himself as someone's pet. Owls in school all go to the owl room, and the only suspicious pet among the remaining pets is Ron's pet Scabbers, who asked me to take care of him. Ordinary house mice, which can live several times the lifespan of normal mice, inexplicably began to deteriorate this year." If you know the result, the reasoning process is still very simple, but Sirius, who didn't know these, was obviously shocked.

"Smart boy, I even doubt whether you should be sorted into Ravenclaw. You just said that Peter Pettigrew is with you, hurry up and take him out so I can kill him." Sirius said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)