Chapter 52 Loyalty
Of course, Harry would not really do anything to this fat woman, he just wanted to scare her. This illusion was not Harry's, but Sherry's masterpiece.
After this incident, Aunt Marge obviously developed a fear of Harry. After a hasty farewell, she almost ran away from the Dursleys' house. It seems that this woman will not appear around Harry again for a long time.
Vernon Dursley and Petunia Dursley were both angry and helpless about this situation. They believed that their family kindly adopted Harry, an orphan, when he was in trouble. They provided him with food, clothes, and schooling, but Harry Potter was not grateful, but used his monster-like ability to hurt them. He was really an ungrateful guy. However, there was nothing they could do about it. They lost this ability three years ago.
The remaining few days passed quickly, and Sherry also received a letter of employment from Hogwarts. As Sherry said, the last professor of the Protection of Magical Creatures course formally resigned from the position to Dumbledore in mid-July. After Dumbledore fully confirmed that his choice was voluntary, he also sent a letter of appointment as a professor as agreed, and asked him to reply as soon as possible so that the teaching materials needed for the Protection of Magical Creatures course could be added to the notice to the students.
It was impossible for Sherry to leave Harry and return to Hogwarts at this time. Therefore, he only sent his requirements for teaching materials and told Dumbledore in detail that he was worried about Harry's safety, especially now that there was a murderer running outside. Although, Peter Pettigrew may not know that it was because of Harry's report that he was caught by the professors of Hogwarts and used this to clear Sirius Black's grievances. However, what if this timid guy suddenly rushes to deal with Harry? Dumbledore did not comment, but reminded him to get to school as soon as possible to participate in the pre-employment training for professors.
Sirius took Harry out of the Dursleys' house at five o'clock in the morning on July 30th. Harry never talked about the abuse of the Dursleys in detail, but anyone could see how unhappy Harry was at the Dursleys' house. Sirius was feeling guilty about Harry, so he often tried to make Harry happy.
When Harry came to Grimmauld Place again, he strangely felt that this old house that looked extremely gloomy made him feel more at home than the Dursleys. That's right, the location of the house is not important, what's important is the family in the house, which is why the home is a home. Sirius Black may be a little impulsive and reckless, but he really raised Harry as his own son, although he himself looked like a frivolous big child.
"Hello, Kreacher!" Harry greeted the old house-elf who passed by him gently. Even though the guy kept muttering about Harry when he returned the greeting, it did not affect Harry's good mood.
The moment Harry stepped into the Black mansion, Sherry rushed into the basement filled with books on dark magic. A year had passed, and Sirius had not cleaned the place at all, and even the house elves had not come here, probably based on Sirius's order.
Sherry waved his hand, and all the tiny dust particles were gathered together and placed in the corner. He took out a book called "Dark Creatures" from the bookshelf and read it carefully. This book introduces in detail some dangerous and deadly magical animals or magical creatures in the entire magic world today. Most of these creatures are distributed in the wild mountains and some ocean areas where few people go. These strange magical creatures and their various abilities to kill people opened Su Yun's eyes. Sherry will start to be a teacher in the next school year, which can be regarded as a knowledge reserve for his own teaching.
A night passed, and the next day was Harry's birthday. Even though Sherry could not officially show up in front of everyone now, he still chose to stay with Harry. It was a bit embarrassing to say that Sherry had never given Harry a birthday present, and it looked like he probably wouldn't be able to give Harry one this year either, because Sherry was actually a pauper, not even a single Knut's worth.
Compared with last year's grand occasion, the professors did not come again. However, the Weasley family, at Sirius's invitation, came to the Black Mansion. Although Harry thought that it was because Sirius was attracted by Mrs. Weasley's cooking skills, Ron and Hermione's arrival also made him very happy.
Everyone exchanged information about their holiday life. When Hermione kept asking everyone whether they had finished their homework, everyone felt guilty. The twins were exploring the Black Mansion. Even though Mrs. Weasley repeatedly warned them to behave, it was completely useless.
Soon, a fierce quarrel came from a remote room on the first floor.
"Give it back to me, you two shameless thieves!" An old voice shouted angrily, sounding like the very old house elf.
"Aha, as a house elf, you dare to steal the property of the owner. It seems that you are also a person!" The voice of one of the twins came out, and the door opened suddenly, and the twins rushed out one after another. Kreacher jumped and made a noise behind, constantly trying to grab something that the twins were throwing back and forth.
"If you have the ability, take it back. If you don't, you may get a piece of clothing for stealing the owner's property!" It was unclear whether it was Fred or George, who was shaking a small thing in his hand.
"Give it back to me, give it back to me, give it back to me." Kreacher jumped up and jumped on his head, reaching out to grab the thing, but the thing was thrown into the hands of the other twin. So Kreacher jumped down again, changed direction, and continued to grab the thing, but it was thrown back again. Kreacher was very anxious, but for a moment, he really couldn't do anything about these two naughty people.
"What are you doing again? Can you be quiet for even an hour?" Mrs. Weasley's roar came from the kitchen. Soon, she was wearing an apron and her clothes were stained with some flour, and she rushed out of the kitchen aggressively.
"If you have nothing to do, help the adults clean the room and decorate these places. Don't make such a big noise." Mrs. Weasley pointed at the twins, "I'm serious. From now on, if you make any more noise, I guarantee that you won't be able to leave the house for a month. Now, return the things to Kreacher."
"Mom, this thing doesn't belong to the house-elf. He stole it." One of the twins said.
"We also found a lot of silver forks and cutlery in his nest. It's definitely not his own," the other one said, "Besides, this thing looks a bit old. He hid it very tightly. If I hadn't been sharp-eyed, I really wouldn't have found it."
"What's wrong?" The movement downstairs alarmed Mr. Weasley and Sirius upstairs. They walked downstairs one after another. Sherry looked at the small thing held by the twins, full of green magic aura, filling the place. Like the Ravenclaw diadem, the Slytherin locket itself possesses very ancient magic, and this magical aura is very huge. However, Sherry can also see that the black fragment that is swimming like a fish in the green magical aura is, needless to say, one of Voldemort's soul fragments.
After hearing the whole story, Sirius immediately ordered: "Kreacher, take out those things you hid immediately."
Kreacher trembled and said, "Master Sirius, please..."
"I mean immediately, or do you need a piece of clothing?" Sirius said impatiently, "Hurry up and find those things, let me see, what on earth have you hidden?"
Kreacher was frightened when he heard that he was going to be given clothes. He looked at Sirius in shock at first, and then when he found that the other party was full of impatience, he turned around and slowly walked into the remote room. After a long while, he came out with a bunch of things in his arms, and carefully put them on the ground, as if treating them as priceless treasures.
Harry and the others looked at the things Kreacher put on the ground and found that there were all kinds of things in them. From a half-broken small wooden horse toy, to a notebook with some crooked handwriting, to silver knives and forks and plates, and a crystal cup, etc.
When Sirius saw these things, his face changed instantly. He squatted down and picked up the broken wooden horse toy. He seemed to see the black-haired little boy who was crying while holding the wooden horse. This was the first gift he gave to his brother. He bought it with his own money. It was not expensive, but Regulus always treasured it very much. Once, after it was accidentally broken, he cried while holding the toy. It took a lot of effort to coax him back.
"How did these things get to you?" Sirius asked in a deep voice. Every thing in it belonged to his brother. The notebooks he scribbled when he was a child, the tableware that belonged to him, etc.
"Kreacher, Kreacher will keep these things for little master Regulus," Kreacher's voice was a little choked, "When he comes back, he will need them."
This time, Sirius didn't speak, and the people around him seemed very silent. They all knew that this Regulus would never come back. Voldemort killed him. In the newspaper where Sirius Black's case was overturned, his family members were introduced in detail, including the story of Regulus Black. (To be continued)