Could He Really Be a Genius?
When Sirius began showing all sorts of unusual behavior, Harley became certain that something must have happened between them and Professor Snape back then.
From what Harley knew, her parents had entered Hogwarts during the same period as Professor Snape and seemed to have been in the same year.
And Sirius had always hated Professor Snape.
When he had first learned that Professor Snape often made Harley "serve detention," he had been filled with righteous indignation, practically itching to grab his wand and have a fight with Professor Snape.
After learning that Harley was using the excuse of "serving detention" with Professor Snape when she was actually studying Potions under him—
Sirius began repeatedly reminding Harley to be careful. That old snake Snape was full of bad intentions and no good person.
Sirius's hatred for Snape was obvious. If nothing had happened between the two of them during their school days, Harley simply would not believe it.
But Harley also concluded that Sirius, Uncle Remus, and her father had definitely been in the wrong back then.
At the very least, they themselves believed that some action they had taken—or something they had done—had been unjustifiable and morally deserving of criticism.
Otherwise, Sirius would have long since brought up things Professor Snape had done as a student and used them to criticize him in front of Harley.
With Sirius's temperament, which was about the same as that of a first-year little wizard, Harley had no doubt he was capable of such childish behavior.
And when even the always mature and steady Uncle Remus suddenly displayed such strange behavior, what had happened back then became worth pondering.
However, since her godfather and uncle were unwilling to talk about it, Harley did not press further.
Beside them,