Harry Potter: Transmigrated Detective Link

As soon as Lupin heard Hermione ask this, he immediately fell silent.

Because to tell the truth, he also knew that what he and the others had done to Snape during their student days was somewhat excessive, and if Harry and the others knew, it would indeed be a little… embarrassing.

Standing stiffly in place, organizing his words, Lupin finally opened his mouth and said, "Do you know? I am actually a werewolf. Regarding this point, I think you should already know it, right? Hermione."

"What?!"

Harry and Ron exclaimed, and turned to look at Hermione beside them.

Hermione, however, nodded with a solemn expression, glanced toward Snape's side, and said, "It was when Professor Snape substituted for you that he hinted at a lot of relevant information, so I was able to know."

"First I want to thank you for your trust, Hermione, really, thank you! Generally, very few young wizards are willing to trust a werewolf."

Lupin said with some gratitude, "And then, it's about the question you just asked. Do we have a grudge with Severus? My answer is, of course."

"Do you still remember the Shrieking Shack? That was actually the place Dumbledore specially assigned for me to transform during my school days."

"Every full moon night, I would be sent along the passage under the Whomping Willow into the Shrieking Shack, and then endure the transformation period."

"Becoming a werewolf is very painful. Since there was only me inside the Shrieking Shack, I would bite myself, scratch myself."

Villagers who heard those sounds and shrieks thought it was a particularly violent ghost."

"Dumbledore let such rumors spread… Even now, though the shack has been quiet for many years, villagers still dare not approach it."

"James, Sirius, and Peter learned of this. Like you, they neither despised nor feared my werewolf identity; instead, with tireless effort and astonishing talent, they spent a full three years learning the Animagus transformation."

"And thereafter, every full moon night, they would come to the Shrieking Shack in animal form to accompany me through that painful time."

"And then?"

Hermione spoke with shining eyes. Although Lupin's story was interesting, it still hadn't reached the main point.

This made her somewhat impatient.

Hearing this, Lupin gave her a deep look, then, in a slightly hoarse tone, said, "Don't worry, Hermione, we're almost at the key part. Severus indeed had a grudge with us."

"We were in the same year, and our relationship was not good from the start. Well, in fact, he especially hated James, I think perhaps because he was jealous of James's talent on the Quidditch pitch."

"Anyway, he was very curious about why I disappeared regularly every month, probably wanting to use it as leverage to threaten us."

"One night, he seized the chance and personally saw Madam Pomfrey sending me into the passage under the Whomping Willow to transform."

"Then Sirius, for fun, played a prank on Severus. He told Snape that as long as he poked the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, he could follow me in. Severus, after hearing it, was very happy, he actually tried it!"

"This was extremely dangerous, if he went through the passage, he would meet a fully transformed werewolf!"

"For a young wizard like him, even if he wasn't killed on the spot, he would be bitten and infected with the werewolf virus, thus becoming one of my kind!"

"James, upon hearing what Sirius had done, risked his life to chase after Severus and drag him back. But Severus still saw me already transformed. He wasn't stupid, of course he realized Sirius had meant to harm him."

When Lupin finished speaking, the three, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, all stood silently in place, not knowing what to say.

Harry and Hermione seemed calmer, the former even felt a bit glad, as his father had played an entirely positive role in the whole story. At this moment, he was already immersed in a beautiful fantasy of his father.

Hermione's expression was blank, so no one could tell what she was thinking inside.

Ron, however, looked at Sirius with more fear than before. In his mind, if Sirius had been able to do something that could have cost a classmate's life during school, he must have become even more dangerous now.

Perhaps sensing Ron's gaze, Sirius gave a contemptuous cold snort toward Snape's side and said, "Bah! He deserved it! Sneaking around trying to find out what we were doing… hoping we'd be expelled… I say he's just an ungrateful white-eyed wolf!"

His words startled Ron, who hurriedly lowered his head, hiding the expression on his face.

Not far away, Snape had also finished hearing Lupin's account.

His body trembled with rage, and his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

If it had been under normal circumstances, he would have attacked them as soon as he caught up, never giving the other side a chance to talk nonsense.

Unfortunately, with his wand so badly damaged, he simply couldn't do that now.

So he could only rely on his past authority, hoping to intimidate Lupin and the others.

Even when hearing Lupin's piercing words, he could only endure it.

But when Sirius then spoke in that mocking tone, he finally could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and roared, "You want me to thank that damned Potter?! And say I was jealous of him?! Ha! You clearly know nothing and spout nonsense! He was a robber!"

"He relied on being the heir of the Potter family to forcibly take away my... I could tear him limb from limb! Obviously, obviously I was the one who came first…"

Snape's voice gradually weakened, and in the end he still didn't say the most crucial information.

His words snapped Harry out of his fantasy. Those emerald-green eyes glared at Snape with disgust, and he said harshly, "Sirius was right, you really are an ungrateful white-eyed wolf!"

"Shut up, Potter! Your father was a thief!" Snape roared, "Insolent! Teaming up with a murderer and a traitor against a professor! I'll have Dumbledore expel you!"

At this, Harry's expression faltered slightly.

For someone from a bad foster family, his greatest fear was being expelled from Hogwarts, then he would have to slink back home and be sent to the reformatory his aunt said only delinquent boys went to.

In the past, whenever Snape mentioned "expulsion," Harry would back down.

But this time, Snape had insulted his father, he could no longer tolerate it.

His eyes widened in fury as he shouted back, "Am I wrong?! My father saved your life! If not for him, you'd already be a corpse!"

"You!"

Snape looked a little incredulous. His face went pale, and he stared blankly.

Before he could fully speak, Sirius burst out laughing again.

"Hahaha! Stop wasting words with the greasy git! He'll never let us go, let's just start the fight!"

With that, Sirius immediately transformed back into his big black dog form and lunged toward Snape.

"Wait! Sirius!" Lupin was startled.

Even if Sirius became more agile as a black dog, he was still no match for Snape.

Lupin almost instinctively pulled out his wand, ready to save Sirius when Snape attacked.

But what happened next surprised him greatly.

Because instead of striking Sirius mid-charge as Lupin expected, Snape suddenly dodged sideways before raising his wand.

"Stupefy!"

A pale-gray light flashed, hitting Sirius precisely.

But the spell only flickered twice on Sirius's body before disappearing, having no real effect.

Everyone was stunned, Sirius ignored it and continued pouncing to bite.

Snape raised his wand again, this time, as his magic flowed, the wand tip suddenly exploded, blasting both him and Sirius away.

It was then Sirius noticed Snape's wand problem.

He turned back into human form, grinning viciously, "Oh-ho! Looks like someone's wand has an issue!"

Snape's face instantly darkened.

His wand was too badly damaged, trying to fight with reduced power yielded no effect, and pushing magic harder just caused explosions.

In this state, he couldn't use magic at all.

'Give up?'

Snape shook his head, ruling it out immediately.

Harry Potter, he had to take him back. This wasn't just his promise to Dumbledore; it was his obsession.

Moreover, the effects of the Enhancer and Polyjuice were still in place.

With the physical boost from those two potions, he wasn't without a chance.

Thinking this, Snape quickly got up, became a blur, and darted to Sirius's side, then smashed a heavy punch into his face.

"Ugh!"

Sirius cried out in pain, sent flying at an angle by the great force of the potion.

Snape followed up, ready to strike again, when suddenly, a white light beam attacked.

Using his excellent physical reflexes, Snape blocked it with his wand, but still staggered back several steps.

"Severus, I don't want to hurt you. Just leave!"

From not far away, Lupin shouted, holding a wand glowing with dangerous red light.

Snape took a deep breath. He knew that was just a warning, if he didn't wise up, Lupin would get serious.

But so what?

Snape moved, this time toward Lupin.

If he could seize Lupin's wand, he could win this fight.

"Expelliarmus!"

With a sigh, Lupin raised his wand, red light burst forth, and Snape was blasted back even faster than he'd come, slamming to the ground.

Struggling to rise, Snape felt a filthy foot stomp on his chest.

"You damned greasy git!"

It was Sirius.

He roared each word, fists raining down on Snape's face.

Snape reached out to resist, to strike back, but in a fistfight, how could he match Sirius, who had long lived in beast form?

He had never been good at this.

Gradually, Snape's vision blurred, and sharp ringing filled his ears.

Half-conscious, he seemed to return to school days, whenever he provoked James, didn't it always end with him being pinned down and beaten?

Back then, there would always be a large crowd pointing and whispering.

And among them… there was her…

It was to avoid that humiliation that he had studied desperately, practiced spells, and after graduation decisively joined the Dark Lord, becoming a Death Eater.

And the result?

In the end, he still couldn't protect anything.

Still ended up under someone's foot.

Ah… how pathetic he was.

———

In reality, Sirius's beating continued.

Lupin and Harry had rushed up, grabbing Sirius's arms, trying to pull him away.

But Snape's deep eyes were already unfocusing.

Right now, he hoped he could just pass out soon, escaping might be shameful, but at least then he wouldn't have to endure this humiliation.

Just as his vision dimmed, a few drops of warm blood suddenly splattered on his face.

It jolted Snape awake.

Forcing his eyes open, through blood-smeared vision, he finally saw it, a slash-like wound had appeared on Sirius's cheek, blood spurting from it.

At this moment, Sirius looked shocked and furious, because the sudden attack just now had aimed straight for his throat.

If not for the animal instinct honed from long years as a black dog, making him tilt his head just in time, he might already have been decapitated.

'Who was it? Who came in aiming to take his life?!'

Sirius scanned around, looking for the culprit.

But by then, Lupin's eyes had gone cold, he flicked his wand, sending a great mass of black shadow that pulled Sirius, Harry, and the others rapidly back.

The next moment, an orange-red light ball with a long tail streaked through the night sky and landed exactly where they had been standing.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Light exploded, violent blasts spread from the impact point.

Dark red fire and dust shot into the sky, instantly engulfing Snape's figure.

Sirius and the others landed.

Harry and the others still hadn't processed what had happened, only staring at the fire and smoke in the distance, their faces full of fear.

"Blasting Curse…"

Lupin's eyes were sharp as he murmured the name of the light ball, then moved his wand.

A strange wind howled through the valley, sweeping away the smoke and dust.

Gradually, a tall figure emerged.

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