Chapter 348: Tiger Form (Edited)

With Fish's rejuvenation spell, Madam Pomfrey allowed them to leave the infirmary after examining them both.

Clutching the pieces of his flying broom, Harry followed the group back to the common room dejectedly as Fish was led by Professor McGonagall to the Headmaster's office.

"Hiss~!"

(●`Д′●)

As soon as he saw Dumbledore, Fish was immediately hostile, he was very displeased with the mean old man who used the stinky attack during the fight....

Suddenly, they understood the reason for Harry's attitude towards Malfoy.

"It seems that..."

Dumbledore said slowly, with a mysterious smile to a furious Fish, "It seems Fish remembers what happened this time."

"Hmm?"

Professor McGonagall was puzzled for a moment, then turned to look at the small cat beside her.

"!!!"

The fluffy kitty instantly calmed down, his thoughts quickly spinning.

"Of course Fish remembers nya! You bad old man, you threw a stinky troll at me!"

?(●`Д′●)?

The kitten quickly thought of a response and instead of denying it, kept yelling at Dumbledore with his teeth and claws.

The Dark Lord himself had taught him the art of deception, not to be weak, but to act with a sense of righteousness.

Indeed, Professor McGonagall, who was still skeptical, asked curiously when she saw Fish's appearance, "Do you remember everything, Fish?"

"Nya?"

?ω?

The kitten pretended to be puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by all the stuff?"

"It's about the fight you had earlier with Albus, do you remember the events that triggered it?"

"Well... I don't remember that nya!"

(`ω′′≡`ω′)

The kitten was thoughtful for a moment, then purred and shook his head, telling a lie.

"What Fish can remember is that at first, after seeing the Dementors bringing Harry down, and hearing Minerva, he felt angry and wanted to run upstairs and beat them up, then... after that Fish seemed to run forward, and my memory after that is very fuzzy nya"

The Dark Lord's own trick, mixing lies with the truth.

"But Fish can vaguely remember the Dementor chase, and then someone stepped in and saved them..."

(〃｀3′〃)

After all this time, the kitten had already thought of everything he had to say, and immediately made an indignant face, wrinkled his nose and snorted.

"And it looks like Fish can't beat it! And then it occurred to me to ask Fluffy and Uroboros for help, and then I don't remember what happened next, and then I was engulfed in the troll's stench and suddenly came to my senses..."

Finally, Fish did not forget to settle the score with the culprit, and as he spoke, he began to blame Dumbledore again.

"As soon as Fish came to his senses, he saw the old bad guy enlarging that troll nya, the Dementor must have been rescued by him nya!"

?(●ΦДΦ●)?

There didn't seem to be any holes in the kitten's story, so Professor McGonagall was quick to believe his lies.

But Dumbledore was not fooled by the cat.

As a man who had fought Fish, Dumbledore was more than certain that Fish was sane at the time; he had dealt with enough deranged werewolves to know if the tiger on the Quidditch pitch had really lost his mind...

If Fish had really lost his mind, how could he have worked so well with Fluffy?!

And the tactics Fish used in fights didn't look like the work of a cat who had lost his mind and wouldn't have been forced to use the troll trick if he hadn't.

Of course, there was a small chance that, as Fish had said, the cat had been semi-conscious, retaining its fighting instincts but not recognizing who its opponent was.

Dumbledore didn't think the odds were that high....

And for the moment, it wasn't that important, but more importantly, Dumbledore had to defend himself first, or he would be truly hated by the cat.

"Although Grandfather Albus wanted to get rid of those Dementors, if they really suffered casualties, it would be hard to explain to the Ministry of Magic. Anyway, they were sent by the Ministry of Magic to help us catch Sirius Black."

(?ω?)

Fish said nothing, just pinned his ears back and stared at Dumbledore with a deadly stare.

Apparently, the Cat didn't have much of a clue what the Ministry of Magic was, so this reasoning didn't sit well with Fish.

Then Dumbledore continued, "And you were biting the Dementor's neck, which is a very dangerous move."

"What was dangerous about that action? that's what Fish used to do when he hunted nya!"

?(●ΦДΦ●)?

The kitten was still a bit young compared to the wily Dumbledore, and with that comment, Dumbledore made sure that Fish was totally sane at that moment.

The old bad guy flashed a meaningful smile, didn't expose the little cat's lie, but went on to explain.

"Dementors, in addition to their ability to suck out happiness, have a terrifying power known as the "Dementor's Kiss", which allows them to suck the kissed person's soul out through their mouth, so that you no longer have a sense of yourself, you no longer have memories, you no longer have... anything. You're just alive, an empty shell."

"Nya!"

∑(●°Д°●)

Dumbledore's description was so terrifying that even the bold kitten was startled, and turned his head to look at Professor McGonagall.

She nodded solemnly, confirming that Dumbledore was not lying.

Only then did the cat nod to Dumbledore and thank him sincerely, "It was Fish who misunderstood you, thank you, Albus."

At last he wasn't calling him a mean old man, but Fish still wouldn't call him grandfather.....

Dumbledore stroked his beard with some regret.

But there was no hurry, he could guide Fish later, the most important question now was to find out if Fish had really mastered the ability to turn into a tiger, and if he would be able to keep his sanity if he turned back into one.

"So Fish, can you turn into that white tiger of your own free will now?"

Dumbledore avoided Professor McGonagall's gaze and winked silently at the kitten.

"Since you were able to have a vague recollection before, you must have made some progress on how to become a tiger, right?"

He winked at Fish again as he said the word "vague".

"Nya..."

?ω?

The clever kitten quickly realized that he hadn't fooled the wily old bad guy.

So he honestly replied, "Fish knows how to change, but he can't change now nya..."

After Fish came to, he had already mastered the [Tiger Form] spell, but when he tried to activate it based on the knowledge that had suddenly appeared in his head, he failed just as he had with done the [Summon Allies Spell] at the beginning.

The little cat could vaguely sense that the reason he couldn't become a tiger was because he was too young to endure the effort of becoming a big cat.

Fish told Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall the truth about his situation.

"As soon as Fish grows up a little, he should be able to become a big cat!"

?(●ΦωΦ●)?

The kitten said confidently to the two of them.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looked at each other, then Professor McGonagall stroked Fish's head and said once more, "So, when Fish can become a tiger, be sure to tell us first and don't change in front of everyone else."

"Isn't that the right thing to do?"

?ω?

Fish cocked his head to one side and looked at Professor McGonagall with a surprised expression.

"When the time comes, Fish will challenge Minerva."

Professor McGonagall: "..."

One thing is for sure, after seeing Fish in his white tiger form today, Professor McGonagall was a bit under pressure.