Chapter 378: The grievances of parents (Edited)

"What did you want to see me about, Fish?"

Snape stepped in to stop the kitten from further irritating his godson.

"Oh...right!"

Fish then remembered his business, turned to Snape and asked: "Fish wants to ask you, why do you think Lupin is in cahoots with Black? I asked Minerva and she wouldn't tell me."

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The little cat growled angrily.

Snape narrowed his eyes slightly, laughed lightly wryly, and replied evasively, "What's the point of knowing? Anyway, Mr. Headmaster thinks that idiot... Lupin is innocent."

He glanced at Malfoy beside him, but ultimately did not reveal Lupin's identity.

"But Fish also thinks there's a spy in the school nya, so he wants to know your reasons for suspecting Lupin."

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Instead of allowing himself to be sidetracked by Snape, Fish asked again with a serious countenance.

He had just come out of the dormitory when Black had stumbled in, and he had been in the dormitory when Black hadn't moved, so Fish couldn't believe the coincidence.

As for the fact that Neville's note had gone missing the day before Black's break-in....

It wasn't the first time Neville had lost something, so who knew if it was the first time he had lost the note with the password.

Seeing that the cat actually agreed with him, Snape curved his lips slightly and, though he quickly returned to his deadpan face, was in a good mood to answer Fish's question.

"Because Lupin and Black were very good friends before he was taken to Azkaban."

That was the only reason Snape gave, and then he wasn't going to reveal more.

But what he didn't know was that Fish also knew a lot of things.

"And wasn't Lupin also a good friend of Harry's father? And Peter Pettigrew, who was killed by Black..." asked Fish, wide-eyed with surprise and scratching the back of his neck in confusion, "Black killed two of his best friends, so it's unlikely that Lupin would help him hurt Harry again, right?"

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"Hmph! Who knows?" Snape scoffed, "After all, he's a..."

Malfoy pricked up his ears, but unfortunately Snape swallowed his words mid-sentence, and was devastated.

Since Professor McGonagall had told Fish that most wizards were prejudiced against werewolves, Fish saw no problem with Snape thinking that.

And judging by his usual behavior with Harry, the clever kitten had guessed that Snape probably held a grudge against Harry's father, and it was only natural that Harry's father's friends wouldn't get along with Snape.

It was no wonder that Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall didn't take Snape's suspicions seriously, and even Fish, who had discovered the relationship between the two, didn't now think Lupin was the mole.

Unhappy that he hadn't been able to find a clue to catch Black, the cat deflated, waved a hand at Snape and Malfoy, and turned to leave the Potions classroom.

Afterwards, however, Fish told Harry what he had heard.

"So, Professor Lupin was also a member of my father's 'little group'?"

Harry confirmed to Fish very seriously.

Inside the Three Broomsticks, he had heard Professor McGonagall mention that his father and Sirius Black were the leaders of some little group, and that Peter Pettigrew, who had been killed by Black, was also a member of the group, but Professor McGonagall hadn't said anything about the other members.

But that's not the point, the point is....

If there was already one traitor in the group, it wasn't impossible for there to be a second.

Unlike Fish, Harry distrusted Lupin as much as Snape.

Because...

He had been in a similar situation in first year. Didn't he also think Quirrell was the good guy?

Harry had already suspected Lupin once, and the fact that he was a suspect again made it hard for Harry not to think twice.

As for Lupin being a close friend of his father...

Wasn't he Black as well? He was also his godfather. In terms of proximity, Black and his father were obviously closer. Professor McGonagall and the others considered them best friends.

Fish, oblivious to everything Harry was thinking in the blink of an eye, nodded nonchalantly and replied, "That's what Severus nya said."

"No wonder he's so hostile to Lupin..."

Like Fish, Harry had guessed the reason for Snape's dislike of Lupin, and he knew for a fact that his father and Snape had been at odds when they were students, unlike the cat, who had relied on speculation....

The only thing he didn't quite understand was why, according to Dumbledore, his father had saved Snape's life, and why Snape hadn't thanked him, but instead had become even more hostile towards him.

But it didn't matter what Snape thought compared to Black, the man who had killed his parents, and what Harry wanted to find out was....

What Harry wanted to find out was if Lupin had secretly helped Black.

Not that Harry underestimated the Cat's intelligence, but Fish still didn't quite understand the intricacies of human relationships.

So he turned back to his best friend Ron ...

Although Harry was a little uncomfortable with the term "best friend" after learning about Black, he still trusted Ron as much as ever.

Besides Fish and Ron, Harry also found Hermione, who was busy with her schoolwork.

After all, Fish wasn't much help when it came to analyzing problems, and he and Ron were basically an atmospheric team, with the occasional bright idea, but the main one was Miss Know-it-all.

Having been comrades in arms, not to mention Fish's presence, Hermione put down her textbook and ran with Harry and the others to the Room of Requirement.

"You mean Lupin could very well be Black's mole?" Ron jumped to his feet and shouted after hearing Harry's story, "Really?!!"

Professor Lupin was now the most popular Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in years, and he was a Gryffindor.

And Fish scratched his head in surprise, "Harry do you distrust Lupin as much as Severus nyaa?"

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Harry, who didn't even use the same flying broom as Malfoy, now agreed with Snape, something the kitten never expected.

"Because he reminds me of Quirrell..." said Harry quietly, "And don't you think that's strange? Every now and then, he always disappears for a few days... Maybe to deliver a message to Black!".

"If you say so..."

Ron looked a little convinced.

Fish, who knew the truth, couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Lupin didn't disappear to deliver a message to Black...."

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Although Fish didn't like Lupin very much, he defended him a little.

"Fish can't tell you exactly what he was doing, but he wasn't delivering a message to Black."

"Fish is right," Hermione said with a serious countenance, "Lupin's disappearance for a few days had nothing to do with Black, but if he was Black's friend, it was probably him helping him infiltrate the school."

"Why would you say that?" asked Harry and Ron in astonishment.

And Fish looked at Hermione curiously, "So you know about Lupin nya as well?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Hermione looked at Harry and Ron with equal surprise. "Let me remind you that the days Lupin disappeared were all full moons, and his Boggart was also a silver-white sphere."

As soon as Hermione said that, Fish knew she really did know about Lupin.

"Hermione, how do you know nya? did Minerva tell you nya?"

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Fish tugged on Hermione's sleeve and asked curiously.

Hermione, however, shook her head and replied, "No, I figured it out myself, I suspected it ever since I did that paper Professor Snape gave me to do, and then I corroborated it a bit..."

She said with a face of disgust, "I didn't know Lupin was hiding something too, aren't there good people among the teachers in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class?!".

"I think Lupin is a good guy... Minerva said he's a good guy, and told Fish not to be prejudiced against him."

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Even Hermione was starting to question Lupin, which made the kitten not so sure.

"Does Professor McGonagall know too?!"

Hermione was surprised, and even more so when Fish said that all the other professors must know.

As the two spoke, Harry and Ron were confused,