"Scabbers!"
"Scabbers!"
"If you can hear me, come out and answer me already."
Ron kept calling out in despair, his eyes searching everywhere.
His desperate voice made Harry and Hermione, who had come to look for Scabbers with him, as well as Fred and George, who had joined later, feel a little sorry for him.
Ron's Scabbers really was a strange rat. It disappeared every few days.
Then, for no apparent reason, it would suddenly come back.
"Crookshanks."
Hearing the despair in Ron's voice, Hermione felt a little guilty and hurriedly called for her pet.
After all, it was her pet Crookshanks, that somewhat silly yet adorable cat, that had caused Scabbers to disappear.
"Ron, look! Isn't that your rat?"
Fred spotted Sirius Black walking quickly in the distance and immediately called out, "But from the looks of it, it doesn't seem to be doing very well."
At that moment, Scabbers was bound within a prison formed of Sirius Black's lightning, and was being tormented by electric shocks from time to time.
Hearing that, Ron quickly looked over. His eyes lit up, and he cheered excitedly.
"Oh my God, my Scabbers!"
But when Ron saw the rat in Sirius Black's hand from afar, his face immediately filled with despair.
His Scabbers was being baptized by lightning.
David Lyle was actually abusing his Scabbers. How could he do that?
"Merlin's beard, someone save my Scabbers!" Ron screamed angrily and desperately as he charged toward David Lyle.
Harry and the others exchanged looks, finding it hard to believe that David Lyle would abuse Scabbers.
After all, in their eyes, David Lyle had always been friendly, mature, and thoughtful.
Could someone like that really be an animal-abusing pervert?
Not daring to think too much about it, Harry hurried forward as well. Before long,