"What the fuck..."
As he read the latest issue of the Daily Prophet, Tris felt his scalp prickle.
The front-page headline was familiar, yet unfamiliar.
"Death Eater prisoner Peter Pettigrew, who was incarcerated in Azkaban last year, recently escaped. His current whereabouts remain unknown. According to the head of the relevant Ministry of Magic department, this is the first escape from within Azkaban since its establishment. Related..."
Tris put down the newspaper, his expression conflicted.
At that moment, at least eighty people in the Great Hall, if not a hundred, wore similar expressions, though their thoughts were more or less different from his.
Tris felt as though ten thousand alpacas were stampeding through his mind.
For fuck's sake, no Chamber of Secrets plot, so we're skipping straight to the Prisoner of Azkaban plot?
But you've got this plot wrong, too!
Back then, Sirius had been considered a vicious criminal. Once he escaped, he headed straight for Hogwarts and was even spotted in the surrounding area.
But he had actually wanted to see Harry and kill Peter.
Now that Peter had escaped from Azkaban, however, even if his head was full of the shit he had eaten there, he would never have the guts to come to Hogwarts.
He had no reason to come, either.
Throughout the morning, almost every student seemed restless in class, and even the professors appeared unsettled.
At lunch, discussion erupted everywhere.
"Tris, how do you think that Pettigrew escaped from Azkaban?" Theodore leaned toward Tris, looking fascinated.
Tris did not understand it either. In the original plot, when Sirius escaped, everyone had been terrified and panicked.
Yet now that Peter had escaped, everyone's reaction was completely different. They actually seemed somewhat... intrigued and curious?
After thinking it over briefly, Tris realized why.
Although the charges against