Sirius Black

Saturday has finally arrived, Quidditch Grand Final is today. This match will determine the final winner of this semester's House Cup.

Skylar did not go to watch.

In the laboratory within his Suitcase Space, he completed the final step in refining the Baruffio's Brain Elixir. Since returning from Sardinia and obtaining the Runespoor eggs from his sister Gulana, he had gathered all the necessary materials for the Baruffio's Brain Elixir.

Before starting to concoct the Potions, Skylar took a sip of Felix Felicis to ensure everything went perfectly. He then added Dragon Claw Powder, Jumping Toadstool, and Frog Brain to the potion, carefully controlling the heat as he simmered it.

Under the influence of Felix Felicis, his intuition was greatly enhanced. He could judge the exact time to add ingredients simply by intuition. After the liquid began to emit a faint fragrance, Skylar added the Rune-like serpent egg, and a small pot of very thick green liquid appeared.

Skylar extracted one-tenth of the concentrated green liquid, put it into a test tube, and diluted it with a large amount of water. The color immediately lightened.

Skylar fed the diluted Baruffio's Brain Elixir to Silver Fang. After drinking it, Silver Fang became unusually excited, jumping up and down incessantly. Half an hour later, after confirming that Silver Fang had not experienced any side effects, Skylar extracted three-tenths of the undiluted concentrate and drank it all in one gulp.

The moment he swallowed the medicine, Skylar felt his mind was relaxed and his thoughts were more active than ever before.

He took a deep breath, and the feeling was more than just mentally invigorated. Basically, with just a little mental stimulation, he could easily find the answer or a solution to the problem.

Skylar sat in the armchair, closed his eyes, and interlaced his fingers, preparing to think about some things while the drug was still in effect. With the help of the Baruffio's Brain Elixir, Skylar suddenly understood many things. When he opened his eyes again, he immediately took out his pen and scribbled down what he had just thought of in his notebook.

Afterward, Skylar tried to focus his mind on releasing the Patronus Charm and found that the Patronus lasted for almost twice as long as before. Skylar's magic power had reached the level of an upperclassman, and the duration of the Patronus was already many times longer than that of Harry and others in the original story. Now, due to the increase in mental power, Skylar was able to control the output of magic power more precisely, greatly reducing the waste rate of magic power. The duration of the Patronus could probably rival that of an adult wizard.

When Skylar returned to the Great Hall, he saw the triumphant Slytherin and the dejected Gryffindor.

Draco, beaming with pride, loudly boasted about his achievements in the Great Hall, venting his smug satisfaction.

Skylar's pre-arranged tactics for Draco proved effective. From the very beginning of the match, Slytherin completely tightened their formation, focusing solely on preventing Gryffindor from scoring. With Gryffindor trailing by two hundred points, it meant that Harry could do nothing but disrupt Draco in the early stages of the match. However, Draco's skills had improved dramatically, and the fruits of his hard training finally came to the fore. Coupled with the superior performance of the Firebolt, he successfully caught the Golden Snitch despite Harry's attempts to stop him.

Having finally won the Quidditch Cup, Slytherin's excitement lasted for at least a week, and Draco's popularity soared as a result.

The girls noticed that Daphne and Meredith were always keeping a close watch on Skylar. Only then did they realize that Draco was not much worse than Skylar in terms of family background and appearance. Suddenly, they started to hover around Draco all day long, like sharks smelling blood. This made Pansy very unhappy, and she also began to nervously guard Draco.

Even the weather seemed to be celebrating. As June approached, the days became sunny and cloudless, hot and humid, making you want to bring a few pints of chilled Pumpkin Juice and stroll over to the venue, sit down, and perhaps casually play a few rounds of Gobstones, or watch the Giant Squid swimming dreamily on the lake.

Speaking of Giant Squid, Skylar had come into close contact with them during his adventures in the Caribbean Sea in his previous life. Skylar was certain that they were not the same species as the deep-sea Giant Squid in the Muggle World. The Giant Squid's gentle nature and intelligence could perhaps be explained by its domestication by wizards, but that didn't change the fact that the deep-sea Giant Squid was a saltwater species. The deep-sea Giant Squid could not adapt to the light, water pressure, and salinity of the Black Lake, let alone eat the bread that the students fed it.

However, despite searching through the entire Hogwarts library and the vast family collection, Skylar found not a single word about the "magical Giant Squid." This gave Skylar a bold idea: could it be...? (The author will leave this as a mystery for now; please don't hit me!)

But the students couldn't do that, because final exams were approaching. Instead of lazily passing the time outdoors, they had to stay in the castle, resisting the temptation of the summer breeze outside the window and forcing their brains to work hard.

Skylar never worried about the exams; to him, they were just a formality. Even the best exam results would be useless in the coming chaos.

Besides, with his abilities, earning Galleon wouldn't be difficult at all. If he were even luckier, and could preserve the House of Malfoy, the family's wealth alone would be enough for him to squander for a lifetime.

(Note: In fact, even if the original plot had been followed, although the House of Malfoy had declined, Draco still did not need to work and was still well-off, which shows how deep the Malfoy family's wealth was.)

While others were still studying hard, Skylar sneaked into the Forbidden Forest again to search for rare materials.

As soon as Skylar stepped into the outer edge of the Forbidden Forest, he witnessed a scene that greatly surprised him.

Beneath a towering ancient tree, Sirius Black Black against the trunk, unconscious. He had suffered severe injuries; the front of his clothes was torn in half, and the dried bloodstains were shocking. On his half-exposed chest, there was a fist-sized bruise that had slightly sunken in.

Skylar thought for a moment, then took out a bottle of first-aid medicine from his pocket and poured it into Sirius Black's mouth. After waiting quietly for a moment, Sirius Black suddenly opened his eyes.

"Ugh..." He seemed to have been startled and suddenly tried to get up, but his injuries wouldn't allow him to. Sirius Black let out a painful groan and fell back onto the cold ground.

Skylar seized the opportunity to cast Hypnosis Charm on him. Sirius Black was in a very weak state at the moment and was easily hypnotized by Skylar, entering a deep sleep.

Skylar gradually extracted the details of Sirius Black's attack from him.

As for why not use the Legilimency? Both Legilimency and Hypnosis Charm are suitable for extracting secrets from people's hearts. Legilimency can directly and brutally invade a person's mind and steal memories. Its advantage lies in its convenience and speed. However, since the spell must be cast directly on the subject, there will be traces afterward, and the subject will have a feeling of memory confusion. Therefore, most Legilimens must also be proficient in Memory Charm to try to make the subject forget that they were Legilimency Mantraed.

Although Hypnosis Charm are relatively complex and slow—the caster needs to use continuous words and gestures to slowly induce the subject's consciousness into a deep sleep state, and then use words to induce the subject to actively reveal the information they need—the whole process is slow and complicated, but there is no trace of it afterward, and the subject will only think that they have just taken a nap.

(Note: Simply put, the Legilimency is similar to an invasion of memories and thoughts, while the Hypnosis Charm is merely a magic that induces the other person to cooperate.)

The attacker was Peter Pettigrew!

"Peter Pettigrew?" Skylar's brow furrowed even more.

Peter Pettigrew is undoubtedly the epitome of cowardice; asking him to fight Sirius Black is practically impossible—he's been running away the entire time, even after successfully deceiving everyone. How could such a coward possibly attack Sirius Black, whom he's always admired and envied?

Needless to say, even with Peter Pettigrew's strength, it would be difficult to beat Sirius Black to this extent, even if he launched a sneak attack.

Skylar his mind, he continued to use Hypnosis Charm to induce Sirius Black to reveal some secrets he wanted: the location of the House of Black's Chamber of Secrets and the code to Sirius Black's Gringotts. After obtaining all the information he needed, he ended the spell and put Sirius Black into a deep sleep, so that when he woke up, he would not remember ever having met Skylar.

After much deliberation, Skylar decided to confess some of the things to Dumbledore.

Clearly, Peter Pettigrew's situation had gotten out of his control. Sirius Black was, after all, an Auror- level fighter. Even in his weakened state after escaping from prison, he was probably not an easy opponent to defeat, let alone be injured like this.

I'm not Harry; I don't have the protagonist's halo. The reason I was able to kill the Basilisk, fight off the Dementor, and defeat the Werewolf was because I knew my enemies well. But if I were to act rashly against Peter Pettigrew, who is out of the original story and whose strength is unknown, it would be tantamount to courting death.

Skylar put the sleeping Sirius Black into his Suitcase Space and then hurriedly headed to the Headmaster's Office.

Although a password was required to enter the Headmaster's Office, Skylar knew that all the portraits and statues in the castle were Dumbledore's eyes and ears, so there was hardly anything inside the castle that could escape his surveillance. Dumbledore definitely knew that someone was looking for him.

Skylar enough, after waiting for a short while at the entrance to the Headmaster's Office, the Gargoyle at the entrance seemed to receive some kind of instruction and automatically moved aside, revealing the entrance behind it. Skylar that this was Dumbledore's way of inviting him in, Schelling went straight up the entrance steps.

In Dumbledore's office, Skylar took Sirius Black out of his Suitcase Space and told the headmaster that he had accidentally encountered the unconscious wanted criminal Sirius Black in the Forbidden Forest and had brought him to the headmaster for handling.

The headmaster looked at Skylar's briefcase with interest, then glanced meaningfully at the unconscious Sirius Black, and said quietly, "Skylar, you're truly a student who has surprised me greatly!"

Skylar didn't dwell on the meaning of Dumbledore's words, but he quickly said, "Headmaster, catching Black wasn't my doing; I just happened to run into him. I think Black's situation is probably not as simple as it seems. Shouldn't we find out who seriously injured him?"

Dumbledore used his wand to cast a healing spell that Skylar had never seen before, and Sirius Black's body gradually recovered at a visible speed.

When Sirius Black woke up and saw Dumbledore present, he didn't dare to act rashly at all. He could only explain in detail how he was wrongfully imprisoned years ago, how he escaped in Animagus form, how he came out to seek revenge on Pettigrew, and how he was attacked and seriously injured by Peter Pettigrew in the Forbidden Forest.

Dumbledore didn't seem too surprised. He had long suspected the incident twelve years ago and that Peter Pettigrew was still alive. The only thing he hadn't considered was that Peter Pettigrew was actually Ron's rat, Scabbers. Now that he knew this clue, he could piece together the whole truth.

Dumbledore quickly summoned Professor Lupin, Lupin readily accepted the whole story. After all, the whole thing wasn't hard to guess, especially since he had recently been turned into Werewolf due to the tampering with the Wolfsbane Potion, which was definitely Peter Pettigrew's doing.

The rest could have been left to the adults, Skylar politely offered to leave, but Dumbledore kept him behind.

Dumbledore's eyes flashed sharply as he asked Skylar, "Skylar, what's your opinion on this matter?"

Skylar paused for a moment, then replied, "What opinion could I possibly have? Professor, since you believe Mr. Black is innocent, then all we need to do now is find Scabbers and confront him, and the truth will come out, and we can clear Mr. Black's name."

Dumbledore pressed on, "You have so many good ideas, could you help us figure out how to find Scabbers?"

Skylar thought carefully for a while and replied, "Scabbers is too small and is good at digging and burrowing, making it difficult to find. The only way now is to lure it out. Scabbers definitely knows that Mr. Black is not dead, so as long as we can expose the traces of Mr. Black's serious injury and hiding place, and use Mr. Black as bait, Scabbers will definitely make another move."

After discussing it for a while, the group began making arrangements.