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Lupin pushed the door of the secret passage aside, kicking up a cloud of dust.
He quickly crawled out of the secret passage and entered a house, a messy and dusty house. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls, the floor was stained, the furniture was broken, and the windows were nailed shut.
This was the Shrieking Shack. Lupin and his friends had been here countless times. Since Blake had invaded the castle, it was very likely that he was hiding here.
Lupin sniffed the familiar smell in the air. He held his wand in front of his chest and carefully walked through the dark passage, climbing up the stairs that were about to collapse.
Just like the first floor, everything on the second floor was covered in a thick layer of dust.
But the floor was different. Something had walked here recently. It was the claw marks of a canine.
Lupin looked down. He was all too familiar with the footprints. They were left behind by Sirius Black's Animagus. Blake must have been here recently. It was very likely that he was still hiding in this house.
Lupin tightened his grip on his wand and looked cautiously at the closed door at the end of the corridor. Blake could be hiding behind this door, ready to pounce at any time. Although the other party did not have a wand, Lupin still did not dare to be careless.
He approached slowly, trying not to make a sound. He gathered all the magic in his body and condensed it, the tip of his wand glowed faintly.
"Come out, Sirius, I know you're in there!" Lupin stood outside the door and shouted. His voice echoed in the empty house.
Nothing happened. There was dead silence behind the door.
Lupin narrowed his eyes. In the next second, his wand quickly emitted a thick red light, sending the door flying out of the room.
Inside the room, there was only a luxurious four-poster bed. The curtains around the bed were covered in dust. There was no one up there. He was the only one standing at the door, panting heavily.
Lupin put down his wand dejectedly. Blake was not here. Perhaps he had been here before, but after knowing that Lupin had seen him tonight, he hid somewhere else.
"Despicable coward!" Lupin muttered in a low voice.
Blake's behavior did not match his impression of Sirius. He was not a person who would run away. When he was a student, he was the bravest among them. However, when he knelt on the ground and kissed the edge of the Lord Voldemort's robe, his courage had probably vanished.
Blake was no longer the brave and fearless Gryffindor. Instead, he was more like a treacherous and cunning Slytherin. Or perhaps he had always been one.
Lupin stood in front of the door for a whole minute with an indescribable loneliness on his face.
He sighed deeply and turned around, preparing to leave. 【Love ↑ Go △ Small ↓ Say △ Net
But he immediately stopped. He saw something left on the bed. It was a photo.
Lupin walked over and picked up the photo.
There were four boys in the photo. From left to right, they were himself, Jaime Potter, Sirius Black and Peter the Dwarf.
The four of them were smiling happily in the photo. They were all laughing and greeting Lupin.
Lupin suddenly felt a little sad. He still remembered that this photo was taken on the lawn in front of the castle gate when they graduated. Each of them had a photo as a souvenir.
His own photo was given away by Hagrid when he was collecting photos for Harry two years ago. Jaime's photo was lost in the ruins on the night he was attacked. Peter's photo should have been blown to pieces along with Blake.
The only one left with this photo was Blake himself.
It was very likely that he accidentally left it here when he stayed in the Screaming Shack. He did not expect Blake to keep this photo. Lupin thought that he had long thrown it away along with his friendship.
Looking at the yellowing photo, Lupin's thoughts went back to the era when they had just graduated, the darkest era of the magic world.
At that time, the Dark Sorcerers led by Voldemort wreaked havoc in the world of magic. They openly resorted to violence and spread terror everywhere. In the name of "entertainment", they killed Sorcerers and Muggles with impure bloodlines. They even started a Sorcerer War to overthrow the structure of the world of magic.
In that long war, Lupin witnessed the death of many people, including his elders, classmates and many kind people.
The year they graduated was three years before the end of the war. They could not wait to join the Order of the Phoenix and stand on the frontline against Lord Voldemort.
Although the power of Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters was far stronger than that of the Order of the Phoenix at that time.
But with the close cooperation of the four of them, they had repeatedly stopped Lord Voldemort's conspiracy and escaped from his hands.
Lupin originally thought that it would continue until they defeated Lord Voldemort.
But in the last year of the war, everything changed. Dumbledore received news in advance that, for some reason, Lord Voldemort was hunting down Jaime and Lily's son, Harry. Jaime originally wanted to fight head-on, but for the sake of Harry, they finally listened to Dumbledore's suggestion and hid, using the Undying Loyalty Curse to protect themselves.
Other than Dumbledore, he and Peter were the only two people who knew who Jaime's secret keeper was. Jaime chose Sirius Black. He used to think that Blake was his closest friend and the strongest among them.
Lupin also naively thought that this was the best choice.
But he was wrong, they were all wrong!
Less than a week after Blake became Jaime and Lily's secret keeper, he betrayed them to Lord Voldemort. Lord Voldemort broke into their house that night and killed them, but for some reason, he failed to kill Harry!
After learning this news, Lupin still remembered his reaction at the time. He frantically searched for Blake, wanting to find out the truth from him. Something must have gone wrong. Why did Jaime and Lily die? Why did the Undying Loyalty Curse fail?
Even then, he did not believe that Blake would betray them to Lord Voldemort.
Two days later, Lupin found Blake.
However, he was one step too late. Peter found Blake before he did.
When Lupin saw Blake on the street, he was already surrounded by Auror. A minute ago, he had blown Peter and the entire street of Muggle to smithereens.
Everything was clear. It was Blake who betrayed Jaime and Lily to Lord Voldemort. During the interrogation, he killed Peter.
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