Blowing Yourself Up with Anger

For a moment, the entire dining table fell into an eerily silent atmosphere. Kane looked at Hagrid's strange, pale face beside him, frowned, and wondered if he ought to fit in a little better.

For example... smoothing out the smile that had risen because he was eating chocolate, then drawing in a sharp breath. "That's terrible. Sirius Black actually escaped from prison..."

Yet after he said that, no one else at the table responded. Left with no choice, he continued, "So who is he?"

Looking at the people around him staring straight at him, he shrugged helplessly. "Is that strange? Did you forget that I'm a Muggle-born little wizard?"

Filch still did not want to eat at the same table as Kane and had run off early, so aside from Kane, only three people remained at the table.

Now, those three looked at each other, none of them knowing how to explain it.

In the end, Dumbledore slowly spoke. "Back then, during the period when Harry's parents fought against Tom, they had always been on the front lines. Until Lily became pregnant, the Order of the Phoenix—a small group I personally founded—decided that three living lives should not remain exposed to danger. So I used a spell called the Fidelius Charm to protect them."

Kane more or less understood what Dumbledore meant next. In almost every work of fiction across all cultures, once a story started this way, the following developments were usually more or less the same.

Aside from those being protected, the Fidelius Charm needed a Secret Keeper, and that Secret Keeper had been Sirius Black. As for what happened afterward, Kane could have learned it himself if he had skipped fewer History of Magic classes.

Sirius Black betrayed the Potter family, leaving Harry to inherit a huge