Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 186 Undercurrent emerges
Unlike the professors who secretly mobilized various forces to re-establish the Order of the Phoenix, the students of Hogwarts still lived a peaceful life.

They had no idea how horrible things had happened in the school during this period, and they were not prepared for the coming war.

Attend classes, eat, and study.

Studying and playing day after day is all they have.

However, there are always a few students who are good at observation.

"Oh my God"

In a corner of the Fountain Garden, Ron was lying on the lawn with a look of pain on his face.

Harry sat beside him, watching his good brother fall into great pain, and he didn't know how to persuade or comfort him.

"You know, Harry, Scabbers is my best pet. It has lived in my house for eleven years. To me, it is like a family member." Ron murmured with a sad face.

Harry opened his mouth and considered his words. "I believe Scabbers wouldn't disappear for no reason. Maybe he just ran out to play, or got lost in the castle or something like that."

Hearing this, Ron jumped up immediately.

"No! Scabbers is so well behaved, how could it run around? It must be Filch's cat. That dead cat must have eaten my Scabbers. I'm going to kill it!"

"Well, it may not be done by Mrs. Norris. Maybe Scabbers will come back after a while." Harry tilted his head.

After staring at Harry blankly for a moment, Ron fell back.

"Wow, wow, wow. My Banban!"

"Stop howling." Hermione, who had been silent the whole time, was upset by Ron's voice and couldn't help but pat him. Then she shook her head and couldn't help but say, "Haven't you noticed anything wrong with the school recently?"

"Something's wrong?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the curiosity of the two teenagers was instantly aroused.

Ron stopped crying at this time. He looked at Hermione in confusion and spoke.

"I don't think there's anything wrong."

Looking at the somewhat slow-witted Harry and Ron, Hermione rolled her eyes and said seriously, "Haven't you noticed that there are more strangers in Hogwarts recently, and Professor Snape is often absent from class."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Harry said immediately.

For him, without Professor Snape causing trouble in class, he has been much more cheerful during this period. If possible, he really hopes that Professor Snape can resign.

But what responded to him was Hermione's speechless expression. After a pause, Hermione continued.

"Don't you think it's a problem that Professor Lockhart suddenly lost his memory? The Daily Prophet said that his memory was damaged due to a spellcasting error, but he is the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, so how could he make a spellcasting error?"

"I can't say anything about other professors, but I think it's normal for Lockhart to make mistakes when casting spells," Ron muttered.

Hermione ignored him. "And Professor Suze is too mysterious. He has no background and no entry or exit records."

"Wait." Harry was stunned. "How do you know there is no entry and exit record?"

Wenyan, Hermione was a little vague for a moment, she glanced at Ron cautiously, then skipped the topic and continued.

"That's not important. What's important is that I've looked up a lot of books, but I've never seen any introduction to a magical creature like Rocket, and he's not an Animagus."

"So?" Harry still didn't understand what Hermione wanted to say.

"So I think there must be a big problem here. Do you remember the Transfiguration class this morning? Professor McGonagall frowned and looked very worried." Hermione said.

"Is that why?" Ron lost interest. "Hermione, are you suffering from paranoia?"

"She's actually right."

Suddenly, two voices rang in Ron's ears at the same time, and two hands patted his shoulders.

"Wow!"

Ron was so scared that he almost flew up. He looked back and saw his two twin brothers staring at him with smiles on their faces.

"You guys walk without making any sound? You scared me to death!" Ron said angrily.

But the twins knew Ron very well, and they knew that if they provoked Ron, they would definitely be kicking cotton.

"We were just passing through."

"Help you find your rat, remember?"

"But we found something even more interesting."

"Do you want to hear it?"

Fred and George spoke in unison.

The three little ones were already accustomed to the twins' speaking pattern. Harry looked at them curiously and asked.

"What's interesting?"

The twins didn't waste any time and directly took out a piece of parchment from their arms.

"This is it. We stole it from Filch's office not long ago."

“We are still learning how to use this thing, but we have discovered many interesting things.”

George turned and looked at Hermione. "Your discovery is correct."

"There are indeed many strangers in Hogwarts." Fred took over the conversation and continued.

Seeing that Harry and the other two still had question marks on their faces, Fred and George looked at each other and decided to show them how to use this thing.

Fred held the parchment in both hands, while George took out his wand and gently tapped the center of the parchment.

Immediately, the twins spoke at the same time.

"I solemnly swear that I have no ill intentions."

The next moment, the ink line on the parchment began to extend without any warning, everything happened so naturally.

Slowly, the parchment opened out of thin air, and the ink gradually spread, outlining the entire map of Hogwarts. At the same time, names and footprints appeared.

"What is this?!" Harry was a little surprised when he saw the scene on the map, because he saw countless names, even his own.

"This thing is called the Marauder's Map."

"It's something we found in Filch's office drawer."

"It can cover the entire Hogwarts and mark some magical secret passages."

"It can also display all the people who appear here, showing their locations and names."

At this point, Fred pointed to the location of the Fountain Gardens on the map.

"See, this is where we are."

At the location of the fingers, five names come together, and there are footprints marks of different sizes.

"We used this thing to avoid Filch's night patrols and explore the castle."

Hermione didn't focus on the adventure. Her eyes kept wandering on the names on the map.

Hermione's eyes swept across most of the map. She seemed to have suddenly discovered something. She couldn't help but move closer and pointed to the location of the upper floors of the castle.

"Look here, Professor Kaia Black is with Headmaster Dumbledore, and the person next to them is..."

"Newt Scamander?" Ron raised an eyebrow. "Who's that?"

Hermione rolled her eyes at him and couldn't help but speak. "Newt Scamander, the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is also the first person to catch Grindelwald. Didn't you collect his cards before?"

"Oh, I forgot." Ron scratched his head awkwardly.

But he soon became excited. "Can this map help me find Banban's location?"

"No." George shook his head.

“Only names will appear on it.”

“No animals will appear.”

"So your rat."

“We don’t know where it is.”

The twins sang the same tune and spread their hands at the same time.

"and many more."

Ron suddenly discovered a bug.

"Shouldn't only people's names appear on it? Then why are the names of Rocket's raccoon and Filch's cat Mrs. Norris also on it?"

Hearing Ron's question, George and Fred didn't know how to answer.

But the next moment, lines of beautiful ink-colored words suddenly appeared on the live map.

[Prongs: All intelligent life will appear on the Marauder's Map.]

[Bigfoot: Including weird little animals that can speak human language. ]

[Wormtail: Except for all the names.]

[Moonface: We also added Filch and his annoying henchmen on purpose.]

The sudden appearance of the text stunned everyone present.

Harry looked at the lines and couldn't help but read them out loud. Then he looked at Fred and George with a confused look on his face.

"You saw it too."

"This thing is a magical product."

“So are their creators.”

"There are always questions that come up."

"Interesting." Harry was immediately attracted by this magical prop.

This was the first time he had seen something so interesting.

Ron and Hermione were very interested in the Marauder's Map, and they quickly gathered together, curiously looking at the environment on the map, and tentatively talked to several 'creators of the map'.

And without them noticing, a man named 'Barty Crouch Jr.' had quietly entered Hogwarts Castle.

Next to this name, there was another set of footprints, which belonged to 'Nymphadora Tonks'.

On the open-air terrace, Dumbledore stopped chatting with Newt and Suze and turned around when he noticed that his guests had arrived.

What I saw was a burly man with messy hair, limping as he pushed open the door to the rooftop and walked in quickly with a little girl.

There was an obvious scar on the man's face, and one of his eyes was a fake one. It kept spinning around, looking at the people in front of him from time to time.

"Long time no see, old friend." Dumbledore smiled.

"It's been a long time indeed. I rushed here as soon as I received your message." The man replied in a deep voice, then turned to look at Newt and Suze.

"This is Alastor Moody, one of the most senior Aurors in the Ministry of Magic, and this is Tonks, a trainee Auror." Dumbledore introduced them.

"Mr. Scamander, it's an honor to meet you." Moody forced a smile on his stiff face and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Newt.

Then he turned his head again and his eyes fell on Su Ze.

"Are you the Professor Su who calls himself Black?"

"It's me." Su Ze stared calmly at the crazy man in front of him.

The two looked at each other, and no one spoke. For a moment, the atmosphere on the scene became somewhat subtle.

After a long silence, Moody nodded thoughtfully and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Here's a piece of advice for you. When you go out in the future, it's best not to use the last name Black."

(End of this chapter)