Chapter 192 - 192 Sirius’ past

Chapter 192: Chapter 192 Sirius' past

Harry's lips trembled a little as he looked at the letter the pink haired witch handed him.

"Am I ... I being expelled from Hogwarts?" He asked with his eyes closed and an extraordinarily pained expression.

"Expelled? What are you thinking?" The pink-haired witch seemed to be holding back a bit, "The Ministry of Magic can't wait to baby you, why would they think about expelling you?"

"Huh?" Harry's eyes widened as a wave of ecstasy washed over him, "So ... I don't have to be expelled?"

"Of course." The pink haired witch nodded, "Let me introduce myself, I'm an official Auror in the Ministry of Magic's Auror Office, you can call me Tonks."

She pronounced the words "official Auror" very heavily, and had a proud expression on her face, as if she was afraid that people wouldn't know that she had passed the official Auror test just this summer.

"Uh, hello Tonks." Harry finally breathed a sigh of relief and took the letter Tonks handed over, "Since it's not about firing me, what's the meaning of this letter forbidding abuse of the Division of Magic? You know ... I did break the rules after all."

"You're right, you did break the rules of the Department of Magic." Tonks nodded, "So there's always a process to go through, a warning for the first violation and no other punishment."

With that, she took a distant look in the direction of Maiden Road, "A memory canceler has already gone over to make it right for you, don't worry, your aunt and uncle's family won't remember anything that happened today!"

Harry then let his heart drop completely and looked down as he opened the letter in his hand and read what was written on it-

Mr. Potter:

We have received a report that you used an Expansion Spell at your residence tonight at 9:12pm. You are reasonably aware that underage wizards are not permitted to use magic outside of school, and that any further such behavior on your part will result in your expulsion from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Decree on Reasonable Restraints on Underage Wizards, Eighteen Seventy-Five, Paragraph Three).

Also remember that any magical activity that might attract the attention of non-members of the wizarding community (Muggles) is a serious offense under the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act, Section XIII.

Have a great summer!

Mafalda Hopkirk.

Ministry of Magic Division Against Magical Abuse

...

Harry looked at the letter in his hand with some sadness and some relaxation at the same time.

Relaxed because he knew that this violation of magic use was behind him and he wouldn't be expelled from Hogwarts, and sad because Harry had just learned that there would be a reminder for the first violation.

If he had known about this earlier, then he would have found a better opportunity to use magic on the Dursleys as much as he could and teach them a lesson!

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about business!" Tonks suddenly exclaimed, interrupting Harry's musings, "Harry, is there anything else you haven't taken care of?"

"If there's something else to do or something to get, then I think you need to hurry up, because in case you didn't know, you're in a lot of danger right now!"

Tonks' originally very perky expression suddenly turned serious as she pulled Harry over to a much shadier area next to the street and searched around very professionally, clearing away anything suspicious in the vicinity as required during Auror's test.

"Huh, why is there a big black dog here?" She saw a big black dog next to her and didn't pay much attention to it, just casually shooing it to the other side of the street.

"I don't have anything else to get, I can get out of here anytime I want." Harry shook his head and grabbed his trunk and Hedwig's cage, "But ... Tonks, why am I in danger?"

"I'll tell you more about this when we're somewhere safe, I need to get you to the Ministry of Magic now ..." Tonks said with some urgency, "Are you able to do an attendant manifestation?"

"Not only did I see him, I saw him many times!" Tonks said, "Oh, I forgot to introduce you, Sirius Black is my mom's cousin."

Harry looked at Tonks' pretty cheeks and then at Sirius Black's gaunt, withered, sunken face in the newspaper, and couldn't really connect the two, much less believe that he was the most handsome boy wizard Tonks had ever said he was.

"And don't you believe it, Sirius was always the schoolboy of Hogwarts before he was in Azkaban!" Tonks could see Harry's disbelief and added, "Let's see how I can describe how handsome he is ... By the way, you do know Professor Dracula, don't you?"

She suddenly thought of the silver-haired man she had met twice in the Cairngorm Mountains, on Azkaban's island.

"And what does this have to do with Professor Dracula?" Harry looked at Tonks suspiciously.

"Sirius was just a little bit worse than Professor Dracula when he was younger!" Tonks said in a very sure tone.

The two of them did not notice that the big black dog next to the street first raised its head proudly after hearing Tonks' comment about Sirius, and a hint of curiosity surfaced in its eyes after Tonks mentioned Professor Dracula.

"Wow, so exaggerated?" At the thought that this Sirius could be nearly as handsome as Professor Dracula, Harry almost felt a few good feelings for the wanted man.

What he didn't realize was that the bigger reason for this inexplicably born favor was not because of Sirius' former handsomeness, but because of a strange familiarity he felt with the face.

"No, no, no, he's a murderer who's killed thirteen people!" Harry shook his head menacingly, shaking off the distractions in his mind, "He killed thirteen people with one spell!"

"Yeah, one spell," Tonks said, "in front of witnesses, in broad daylight, and caused a good deal of trouble for the Ministry of Magic."

Speaking of which, Tonks scratched her hair a little suspiciously and changed her hair color back to her favorite pink, "It's rather strange, from the way Sirius acted afterward, it's surprising that he was most definitely in support of the Mysterons."

"What? Voldemort?" Harry asked subconsciously.

"Hiss-" Tonks drew in a fierce breath before looking over at Harry and complaining, "Don't say that name outright for nothing, you scared me, Harry!"

"Sorry," Harry apologized instantly, "I'm sorry, I ... I forgot ..."

"Well, now I really believe you're not afraid of Mystique." Tonks rubbed her eyebrows helplessly.

"So ... so that means that Blake is a supporter of the Mysterons?" Harry asked a little anxiously.

"From the evidence available, it does." Tonks said, her face still looking a little puzzled, "My mom has never been too convinced about this, but there's nothing she can do about it with the evidence."

"According to the information given by the Ministry of Magic, Sirius and the Mysterons are very close ... Anyway, back when you were almost killed by the Mysterons-"

She subconsciously glanced at Harry's lightning shaped scar that was hidden by the hair on his forehead, "All of the Mystic's supporters were hunted down, and most of those Death Eaters knew that since the Mystic had fled, they had lost their power along with him, so most of the Death Eaters were honest."

"But those led by Bellatrix Lestrange thought otherwise, they were die-hard followers of the Mystic, and Sirius would have been among those people."

"A fellow Auror told me that the Aurors once cornered Sirius in the middle of the street, which was still full of muggles ... But he took out his wand and blew up half the street with a spell, and a boy wizard and twelve muggles were killed by him... ..."

Tonks' voice trailed off, as if she was grieving for those who had died.

"The boy wizard was called Peter Pediru," she continued, "and he was posthumously awarded the Order of Sir Merlin, First Class, after his death."

"Sirius, on the other hand, was completely unrepentant for the evil he had caused and laughed the whole time ... Then he followed the Aurors without the slightest bit of resistance, laughing the whole way. The colleagues in the Ministry of Magic all thought he had gone completely insane."

"At that time, the impact of this incident was so great that the Muggle government went to great lengths to keep it hidden." Tonks continued, "The whole street was bombed, all the muggles died, and the explanation they gave was ..."

"I know this one, a gas explosion." Harry took over, "I finally realize now why so many gas explosions are in the news in the muggle world."