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Just now, Crookshanks had completed his mission perfectly—he had brought Sirius Black into Hogwarts tonight!

Now that Black had confirmed Sirius Black had entered Hogwarts...

Next, he had to pinpoint his location.

In truth, Black could have used True Sight to locate Sirius directly.

But seeing through the walls of buildings was never as intuitive as looking at a map.

Besides, he did not want to expose his True Sight yet.

So the Marauder's Map would be the perfect reason for how he had reasonably found Sirius.

Black's gaze swept over the Marauder's Map.

Very quickly, he found a motionless dot in a secret passage.

Written clearly above that dot was "Sirius Black."

Black looked at his watch. It was now eight fifteen in the evening.

He guessed that Sirius, forced into acting ahead of schedule, would only begin moving after everyone had fallen asleep tonight.

Right now, Sirius was definitely conserving his strength in the secret passage.

Still, hiding in a Hogwarts secret passage was far safer for Sirius than hiding in Hogsmeade or the Forbidden Forest.

Old Rep had just sent Black a letter telling him that Fudge and Shafik had held a private talk for an hour...

Fudge would not spend that long in a secret discussion with an official he had barely dealt with before for no reason.

Black thought it over, combining it with the information he currently knew.

Very quickly, he arrived at the most likely conclusion.

That was: the reason those Aurors from the Ministry of Magic had only just learned that Sirius was an Animagus...

Was because Fudge had used this information to sell Shafik a good deal.

The deal had only been reached close to evening.

As for how Fudge had learned this secret, of course Dumbledore had told him