Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

Lycos glanced at the TV with interest.

The man on the screen had a thin face, with tangled, foot-long hair surrounding his face. However, if you looked closely, you could still see that his facial features were quite handsome. It was just that no one wanted to look closely at a criminal.

It seems that the efficiency of the Ministry of Magic is indeed very high. In order to capture Sirius Black who had just escaped from prison, they have even notified the Muggle government and mobilized Muggles to search for his whereabouts together.

Soon, the newscaster reappeared on the screen and continued with the next news: "The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries will announce today--"

"Go on!" Vernon Dursley stared at the announcer furiously. "You haven't told us where this lunatic escaped from! What's the point? He might be coming right down this street!"

It's even possible that this madman is already on this street, Lycos added in his mind.

Lycos came here precisely because of this madman.

"Harry, do you know this man?" He looked at Harry beside him casually.

"Me?" Harry opened his mouth. "How would I know him? He's a..."

Harry was about to say that this was a criminal, but when he recalled the thin face that had just appeared on the screen, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, and he didn't know where this feeling came from.

At the same time, Petunia Dursley's voice interrupted their conversation.

"Don't joke, Mr....Hayden." A flattering smile appeared on her long face.

Lycos's performance on the test just now made her convinced of his Eton College identity.

"You haven't introduced your own learning method yet. Even if Harry can't use it, you can let Dudley give it a try, right?"

Lycos glanced at Penny.

Then, he looked at Dudley Dursley, who was even fatter than Crabbe and Goyle, and a playful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"Is that so... Are you really sure you want to try?"

……

After a happy meal, Lycos dragged Harry out of the house on the pretext of taking him out for a walk.

The Dursleys sent them out with smiles on their faces. Only the faint voice of Harry's aunt Marge, who was drunk, and Dudley crying and sobbing could be heard from inside the house...

"Lex, hahahahaha...you are such a good actor!"

After walking a few blocks, Harry finally couldn't help laughing and collapsed on the low wall of Magnolia Crescent Street.

"Hahahaha... This is the first time I've discovered that Lockhart's acting lessons are actually useful. Look at Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, they never doubted your identity at all!"

"Of course." Lycos also leaned against the low wall nearby and chuckled. "For this performance, I robbed an Eton College student. The school uniform and badge I'm wearing are genuine!"

"Ah?" Harry opened his mouth wide. "But... won't that student call the police? It would be bad if it attracted the attention of the Ministry of Magic..."

"It's not a big deal." Lycos shook his head nonchalantly. "I'll return the clothes to him in a bit. By then, he won't remember anything that happened tonight. He'll just think he was lost for two hours."

Wouldn't the Oblivion Charm he had just learned come in handy?

"By the way, Lycos, why did you think of looking for me in Little Whinging today?" Harry asked curiously after he had almost finished laughing.

Lycos didn't say anything, but his eyes drifted unnoticed to the fence behind him.

If he guessed correctly, there was a big black dog lying there quietly watching them...

……

Chapter 178 Sirius Black

"What's wrong? What's there?"

Harry noticed Lycos's look and turned his head to look at him in surprise.

He also felt that there seemed to be someone or something standing in the small space between the fence and the garage behind them.

"Nothing, maybe a dog." Lycos said casually, changing the subject back to Harry's previous question: "I came here to see you today because I heard a piece of news..."

"News?" Harry asked, puzzled. "What news is so important that it brings you all the way to Little Whinging?"

"This news is related to you." Lycos said nonchalantly, "To be precise, I came here to tell you this news..."

He deliberately amplified the sound so that the big black dog hiding between the fence and the old garage could hear it... Although with the dog's hearing, there should be no need for Lycos to amplify the sound...

"Do you remember what questions I asked you just now in the Dursleys' house?" Lecos leaned on the low wall by the roadside and turned to look at Harry.

"What? Sorry... I don't quite remember." Harry was even more confused.

He had no idea what questions Lycos had asked him.

"It's normal that you don't remember. You probably thought I was joking at the time..." Lycos chuckled, "I was in the house earlier and saw a wanted poster on TV - it was about Sirius Black..."

There was a sudden sound of blades rubbing against each other in the grass behind the fence. Harry was startled and looked back.

There seemed to be a large, hulking outline of something with huge, glimmering eyes, staring at them from the grass behind the hedge... Harry felt a little chilly.

"Lex, what's that back there..." Harry couldn't help but ask, "If we weren't prohibited from using magic, I'd really like to use an illumination spell to see what it is. It's scary."

"What's there to be afraid of? I told you it's just a dog," Lycos said. "Don't interrupt me. Just listen to me... Where was I just now? Oh, yes, when it comes to Sirius Black..."

"Is there anything special about that wanted criminal by the Muggle government?" Harry couldn't help but interrupt Lecos again.

"It seems that you have been staying at home for so long that you have completely lost contact with the wizarding world." Lycos shook his head helplessly, took out a copy of The Daily Prophet from his snakeskin wallet and handed it to Harry.

"Look at this newspaper. Does the person in the largest photo look familiar?"

Harry unfolded the newspaper doubtfully and saw the huge wanted poster at a glance - the skinny, tangled-haired, crazy man he had just seen on TV.

"Sirius Black is a wanted criminal by the Ministry of Magic?!" Harry was horrified when he saw the wanted poster in the newspaper. "But...but how did he appear on Muggle TV news?"

"The Ministry of Magic and the Muggle government are not isolated. Every Minister of Magic maintains contact with the Muggle Prime Minister." Lycos explained casually, "When they encounter problems that are difficult to solve, they will notify the Muggle community so that the Muggles can be prepared."

"Just like when Sirius Black blew up an entire street, the Ministry of Magic couldn't completely cover it up, so they could only inform the Muggle government and deceive the Muggles by saying it was a gas explosion."

As he said this, Lycos glanced at the grass behind the fence again.

It can be seen that Sirius is still very patient. Even after talking to this point, he still has no intention of coming out of the grass.

"Then I see," Harry said, suddenly realizing. "Uncle Vernon was just saying that the news didn't tell us where Black escaped from, nor did it give a rough range of his escape... So it's because they don't know where Black could have escaped to."

Then Harry's brows furrowed again, becoming even more confused.

"But...what does Sirius Black have to do with me?" he asked. "I never knew him...according to this newspaper, Black was imprisoned in Azkaban shortly after I was born."

Lycos glanced at him, and then said something that took Harry a long time to recover from -

"But Blake is your godfather."

"what?!"

Harry's jaw dropped and his eyes widened.

"You...I...this..."

The news was so shocking that Harry's tongue trembled for a while and he couldn't speak clearly.

"No hurry, straighten your tongue first." Lycos leaned back leisurely and began to lean against the low wall to admire the stars in the sky.

The weather today is not very good, and the stars are a little dim, just like the street lights on this old street, scattered on both sides of the road, making the corners behind the fence even darker.

Harry was so overwhelmed with shock and disbelief that he probably didn't notice.

But Lycos clearly heard some heavy breathing coming from behind the fence, as if a large animal was suppressing the urge to pounce.

Didn't it break through? It seems the pressure wasn't enough, Lycos thought.

"Lex, you... you really didn't lie to me?" Harry took a long time to calm down and asked hurriedly.

"Of course, why would I lie to you about this?" Lycos said, "This is not a secret, many people know about it... I also heard about it from Sirius Black's brother."

There was an unmistakable sound of claws scratching the ground from behind the fence.

Lycos's eyes moved.

Logically speaking, Sirius should not have known that Regulus was not dead. This was undoubtedly shocking news to him...

But even after Lycos threw out this news, Sirius did not rush out from the bushes, which shows how patient he was in order to take revenge on Peter Pettigrew.

That being the case...

"Harry, Sirius Black was once your father's best friend." Lycos said slowly, "Black's brother told me that they were almost inseparable..."

"Well... let me give you an example that you can easily understand - their relationship is as close as Fred and George."

Harry understood.

In other words, his father and the wanted criminal in the newspaper were once as close as brothers?

"And then?" Harry asked dully. "What happened then?"

"Your father trusted Sirius Black very much. This trust surpassed his trust in all his other friends..." Lycos said slowly, "This relationship lasted until they graduated and left school. Black even served as the best man when your parents got married."

"Later, Black became your godfather... Oh, by the way, weren't you worried about not having a parent's signature on your Hogsmeade application form? If you meet Black, his signature would be useful."

Lycos smiled at Harry with interest.

"That's not funny, Lycos," Harry said gravely, "I won't accept a murderer as my godfather."

The breathing behind the fence seemed to grow heavier.

"Then I hope you'll continue listening. There are worse things than murderers..." Lycos sighed and slowed down his speech. "You should know that Voldemort came to your house twelve years ago and killed your parents."

Harry's eyes dimmed.

"Yeah, I know." He nodded slightly.

"Actually, before that, Dumbledore had already learned that Voldemort was tracking your family. So he immediately told your parents and advised them to hide..."

"With Dumbledore's help, your parents settled in Godric's Hollow and set up a very powerful protective magic - the Fidelius Charm."

"Is this protective magic a defensive spell like the Shield Charm?" Harry asked in a low voice.

"No, the Fidelius Charm is very different from ordinary defensive spells. It is a very advanced and complicated spell..." Lycos continued to introduce.

In Harry's opinion, Lecos was unexpectedly talkative today, as if he had said everything for the next semester.

Lycos was also a little annoyed. His voice was a little hoarse. Sirius was still patient and did not come out of the bushes... But the helpers arranged by Regulus could not take the initiative to catch him.

After all, Sirius was an outstanding wizard who had eliminated many dark wizards in the last wizard war started by the Death Eaters. The Wizarding Party could not guarantee that they could catch him in one go, and they were afraid of alerting him completely.

Therefore, the best way is for Lycos to lure Sirius out alone, and then achieve his goal without bloodshed through some rhetoric.

Of course, before introducing Sirius, Lycos still had to continue to introduce Harry to the Fidelius Charm...