Hogwarts: Me? Fight Voldemort?

Chapter 232 The Professor Arrives

"Rehearsal has begun!"

Jimmy directed Percy and the others in their rehearsal, and took some promotional photos with his camera.

Percy and the others quickly got into position, standing in the positions and postures they had agreed upon beforehand.

Percy bent slightly, raised his head, and looked ahead with a determined gaze. To his left was a senior student who looked dirty but had put on exquisite makeup, and to his right was a senior student from Ravenclaw.

The two men helped Percy, who appeared to be injured, and together they faced the enemy ahead.

The other people were also arranged in staggered positions on both sides, forming a tragic scene of a superhero team facing an invincible opponent but still having to rise to the challenge.

Click!

As the flash went off, Jimmy gave the group a thumbs up and said, "Try a different pose."

Dozens of photos were taken in a row, some featuring the team and others featuring individuals, resulting in a maximum promotional effect.

After a few minutes of this, Jimmy put away his camera, went to Sirius Black who was still beating Peter Pettigrew, and put his spiked club away.

"That's enough. This is the script you'll be memorizing. I'll help you memorize the contents."

Jimmy handed Sirius Black a very simple script and then pointed his wand at him.

"Is your help a threat? I'll remember that. Don't point your wand at me..."

Sirius Black had been fighting for so long and was tired, so he unceremoniously took the parchment and began to read it.

The above consists of only two sentences: insisting that Percy and his friends helped him, and praising Percy and his friends with every compliment he could think of.

After reading the note, Sirius raised his hand and asked, "That's it?... Ouch!"

Jimmy cast a memory-restoring spell, imprinting the contents of the script deeply into Sirius's mind.

Just then, footsteps could be heard outside both the main and side doors of the auditorium.

Time is up!

"The professors are coming!" Jimmy said, immediately covering himself with the invisibility cloak and retreating to a corner.

The next second, the auditorium doors swung wide open!

Professors Flitwick and McGonagall cautiously entered the auditorium one after the other and immediately lit the candles in the auditorium.

Thousands of floating candles illuminated the entire auditorium, and the two let out a sharp gasp when they saw the messy auditorium and Sirius Black, who clearly did not belong to the student class and had a scruffy beard.

Two small doors near the professors' table were also kicked open, and Professors Lupin and Snape, wand in hand, stormed into the Great Hall. The four professors instantly blocked all the entrances and exits of the Great Hall.

Percy feigned weakness as he looked at Professor McGonagall and greeted her, "Professor McGonagall!"

"Look here! Look who this is..." Professor Snape, who looked like a bat spirit, immediately spotted the person he hated second most, Sirius Black!

The wand pointed directly at Sirius Black, and a chilling smile appeared on his usually expressionless face. "Looks like you won't have a chance for revenge!"

"No, Snape, I have already done my revenge, and it tasted very sweet!" Sirius Black remained calm despite several professors pointing their wands at him, and even winked at his good friend Lupin, whom he hadn't seen for twelve years.

He pointed to Peter Pettigrew, who had already been knocked unconscious, and let out a burst of wild, maniacal laughter. "Look at my masterpiece! I've broken the limbs of a poor mouse; endless torment awaits him for the rest of his life! Hahaha!"

Professor Lupin, who had been looking complicated, only noticed the blood on the ground and Peter Pettigrew lying there, lifeless, after hearing Sirius Black's words. His pupils contracted, and his complex emotions were filled with intense joy.

His slightly mustache lips began to curl upwards, and he put down his wand.

"Who is he?" Professor McGonagall was the most puzzled by the current situation. She was a bit far from Peter Pettigrew, and it took her a few steps forward to recognize the person on the ground. "Peter Pettigrew...? What's going on?"

Snape's lips curled into a displeased smile as he quickly replied, "Isn't it obvious? An Azkaban escapee has broken into the school and is trying to harm the students. I suggest we subdue him immediately and send him back where he belongs!"

Then more footsteps approached, and Hagrid and Professor Sprout arrived at the entrance of the auditorium.

Percy was nudged in the elbow, and only then did he remember what he was supposed to say. He immediately grabbed his companion's shoulder and shouted, "Let me tell you what happened!"

“Shut up, you have no right to speak here, Weasley!” Snape clearly didn’t want Percy to finish his sentence. He sensed that things were about to take a turn, and he hated twists and turns, especially those that didn’t involve him.

“Severus, let Percy finish what he has to say.” Professor McGonagall looked at Professor Snape with displeasure. “Be careful before you figure out what’s going on!”

This time, undisturbed, Percy recounted with great emotion how he first discovered Peter Pettigrew's name by confiscating the Marauder's map, then how he cleverly made contact with Sirius Black, and finally how he used a scheme to trap Peter Pettigrew in the Great Hall and defeat him.

The professors' expressions changed several times in surprise, but Snape kept a sour face.

Sirius Black looked stunned, but after a small pebble hit him in the face, he snapped out of it and pointed at Percy, praising, "That's right! That's him, the bravest and smartest I've ever met, uh..."

He was at a loss for words. He had been imprisoned in Azkaban for twelve years, and no one spoke to him. His vocabulary had long since regressed to that of a child. He could only come up with such words after racking his brains.

"The best student..."

After hearing the story, Professor McGonagall looked at Percy with a mixture of relief and tenderness, and a touch of heartache. "Percy, well done, but you should go to Mrs. Pomfrey now."

"a ha ha ha!"

It was as if a loudspeaker was mounted on a tall pole, and Hagrid's laughter rang out above everyone's heads, a laughter filled with joy and relief.

Boom boom boom!

Suddenly, the people around felt a tremor beneath their feet. Hagrid, with his mountain-like body, ran to Sirius Black, opened his arms, which were thicker than an elephant's leg, and picked up the frail Sirius Black, leaning him against his large, hard chest muscles.

Even though the outside was covered in snow, Hagrid was still only wearing a tight-fitting single layer of clothing, and the strong masculine scent emanating from him almost made Sirius faint.

Sirius Black certainly noticed his best friend from back then, but for a moment he didn't think Hagrid was any different from before.

It wasn't until his head was sandwiched between two enormous pectoral muscles that he realized Hagrid's changes were far from minor.

“Hagrid, put Black down! Are you trying to kill him?” Lupin stepped forward and patted Hagrid’s arm, his voice sounding like he was hitting a stone.

After being put down, Sirius Black took a few steps back in surprise and doubt, looked up at Hagrid, who was nearly four meters tall, and asked in astonishment, "Is it my imagination? Hagrid seems to have gotten taller and stronger."

Hagrid wiped away the tears of emotion that welled up in his eyes and explained with a smile, "It's all thanks to Jimmy's help that I've become very strong."

Chapter 233 Connelly Fudge Arrives

"Jimmy?"

Sirius Black glanced at the open space not far away, the place where Jimmy had disappeared, but he was no longer there.

Hagrid said with emotion, "She is a brave, upright, and kind little wizard. Many people have received help from her. You should get to know her."

upright? Kind?

Sirius Black doesn't deny that he's brave, but let's forget about the other two...

“We should lock Peter Pettigrew up first, but Sirius Black, you may not be able to move around freely until he wakes up.”

Despite Professor McGonagall's willingness to believe that her former mischievous student, Sirius Black, was not the murderer of the tragedy twelve years ago.

But she couldn't let Sirius Black, whose wanted posters were plastered everywhere, run around, or he would easily scare the students at school.

Before the incident was publicly clarified, Sirius Black could only stay in a relatively closed place, as could Peter Pettigrew, who also had to be imprisoned.

"Hmph!" Snape snorted and put away his wand. If he had a ranking of the people he hated, James Potter would be number one, and Sirius Black would be number two.

Many of the bad things that happened in the past were done by James Potter and Sirius Black together, with Sirius stirring things up the most. The two school bullies did a lot of bad things.

Unfortunately, Sirius Black is now innocent, and with Professor McGonagall around, it will be difficult for him to take action against Sirius Black again.

"I don't think that's necessary."

Just then, Dumbledore's voice came from the doorway into the messy Great Hall.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Dumbledore, the headmaster, dressed in a long blue-white robe, wearing a wizard's hat, and dressed very formally, appear at the door.

Besides him, there was a short, stout man named Cornelius Fudge standing at the door, dressed in a suit.

It's around 1 a.m. now, and Dumbledore is dressed formally, so his appearance with Cornelius Fudge suggests they were prepared in advance!

Jimmy wasn't surprised at all by the appearance of the two, after all, he had seen Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge at the castle yesterday afternoon.

As the two stepped into the hall, people around them immediately made way for them.

Cornelius Fudge smiled and nodded to Professor McGonagall. "Minerva, what happened here?"

When Hagrid took two steps, revealing the scrawny and emaciated Sirius Black, Cornelius Fudge was startled and hurriedly drew his wand, pointing it at him. "Sirius Black!"

“Calm down, Cornelius.” Dumbledore grabbed Cornelius Fudge’s hand and pressed him down. “Let’s hear what’s going on here.”

Hidden in the shadows, Jimmy nudged Percy in the waist, causing him to straighten his hunched back and let out an "Ah!"

Cornelius Fudge, his lips trembling slightly, raised his wand and pointed it at Percy. Percy reacted quickly, clearing his throat. "Minister Fudge, let me explain!"

Percy recounted the events almost verbatim, following the script.

After hearing the story, Cornelius Fudge seemed to have his worldview turned upside down. He opened his mouth wide, walked quickly to the body of Peter Pettigrew, and wiped the blood off Peter Pettigrew's face with his foot.

Although he didn't remember him well, he recognized the dead man, Peter Pettigrew, whose portrait had appeared at the Merlin Order Awards ceremony where he was posthumously awarded the Order of Merlin, Third Class.

Lupin asked somewhat eagerly, "Now that Sirius Black's innocence has been proven, when does Secretary Fudge plan to announce this news?"

He hoped that Sirius Black could return to the sunlight and live like a normal person, as Sirius Black had already taken the punishment for the mistake he had unintentionally made.

The twelve years he spent in prison have far exceeded the price he should have paid.

After all, the people who hurt James and Lily the most were Peter Pettigrew and Voldemort, not Sirius Black.

Cornelius Fudge didn't reply, but sulked to himself, head down as if deep in thought. Then he turned and glanced at the composed Dumbledore.

All sound in the auditorium fell silent; only a few people could understand what Cornelius Fudge was thinking.

Dumbledore understood, Jimmy understood, Percy, who was studying Jimmyism, could vaguely guess, while the others simply assumed that Cornelius Fudge was thinking about how to answer.

He seemed to be caught in a dilemma, unable to come up with a good solution but also unwilling to offend Dumbledore.

Jimmy had no choice but to help him. He wrote a small note under his invisibility cloak, secretly slipped it into Percy's hand, and whispered in his ear, "Have Cornelius Fudge lock up and interrogate Peter Pettigrew first, then give him the note..."

After whispering for a while, I realized that making a good first impression was crucial, so I had to explain things clearly to Percy.

Fortunately, Cornelius Fudge was also an indecisive person, and he pretended to be dead until Percy was ready.

Having acquired the true wisdom of the workplace, Percy was full of confidence. Holding the note, he approached Connery Fudge and loudly proclaimed, "Minister Fudge, I think we should lock up Peter Pettigrew and interrogate him with truth serum first!"

I know Minister Fudge doesn't want to disturb the Aurors' rest, but for the sake of the ordinary wizards in those hardworking wizarding families, give the order!

"what?"

Cornelius Fudge was a little confused. He wasn't racking his brains; he was just trying to figure out how to get by with this.

But after thinking about Percy's words, he raised his head again and said, "Well... although I don't want to disturb the Aurors' rest, I'm afraid I have to do it now!"