Hogwarts: Not Even Voldemort Can Stop My Learning

"Good afternoon, Mr. Filch," Wade said. "As you can see, we haven't broken any school rules."

Everyone stared at him.

Good students could lie just as convincingly.

If Filch had seen the muddy puddle from earlier, he'd probably be angry enough to give Wade detention for a whole semester, wouldn't he?

Of course, no one betrayed Wade in front of Filch.

Wade was the only student who would proactively greet Filch and didn't show him any disdain or disgust.

Although Filch's paranoia always made him suspicious, wondering, for instance, if Wade was trying to make him drop his guard before doing something bad, his attitude softened somewhat when he saw Wade.

The caretaker snorted. "It had better be."

He gestured to his cat, and Mrs. Norris darted out from the corner. The equally scrawny man and cat continued to patrol the corridor.

Not long after, everyone heard Filch shouting, "Stop right there, Ward! Defiling the castle, making a mess everywhere! I'm going to teach you a lesson…"

"I can't believe he just let us go," George said, incredulously.

"Let's go, quickly!" Percy said, barely suppressing his temper. "I'd like to hear what brilliant excuse you can come up with! Bullying a rat… you two are getting more and more outrageous!"

"Wade and Hermione were with us too!" Fred argued. "Do they look like the kind of people who would bully a rat?"

This was also why Percy was willing to be patient and go with them. Otherwise, the twins' credibility with Percy would have been in the negatives long ago, and he wouldn't have listened to anything they said; he would have just dragged them to a professor to report them.

But Percy wouldn't say that. He lectured them with a stern face, "Mr. Gray, Mr. Potter, and Miss Granger, I think you should spend more time on your studies, rather than messing around with certain people!"

The twins huffed in frustration, trying to murder him with their eyes.

Ron whispered to Harry, "What's going on?"

Harry shook his head. "I just got called over by Wade; I don't know anything either."

"I think only Fred and George are in on it with Wade," Ron frowned. "But what could my Scabbers have to do with them?"

"Yeah…" Harry echoed, puzzled. "Isn't it just a rat?"

...

"It's not just a simple rat."

Once they reached the Umbrella Room, Wade looked at the twins and said, "Actually, we suspect he's an Animagus."

"An Animagus?"

Ron, of course, knew what an Animagus was; Professor McGonagall had just taught them about it a few days ago in class.

He scoffed. "That's preposterous. Scabbers has lived with us for eleven years. You're saying he's an Animagus?"

He paused, then asked seriously, "Are you two out of your minds?"

Harry didn't speak, but he also found Wade's claim unbelievable.

Percy frowned at the Weasley Twins. "Is this your new prank? Are you tricking Wade with such a lie, and playing a joke on all of us?"

Wade wasn't a Gryffindor student, and he hadn't even seen Scabbers. How could he come up with such an absurd idea?

In Percy's eyes, his brothers must have used some method to deceive him.

Percy was utterly furious. He said angrily, "You just wait! I'm definitely going to tell Mum everything about this!"

Fred rolled his eyes, and George explained, "We have proof!"

"What proof?" Percy demanded.

George: "…"

He knew his brother well. If Percy found out about the Marauder's Map, he would definitely confiscate it and give it to a professor.

That was something George absolutely didn't want to happen.

George looked at Fred and Wade.

Fred said in a low voice, "It's been in our family for eleven years, Percy. No rat lives that long."

"Is that all?" Percy waved his arm. "You think you're the only smart one? Do you think Mum and Dad haven't thought about that? We give it tonics every year; the Potions extended its life!"

"But those are just ordinary tonics, not the Elixir of Life!" Fred said in a louder voice. "We've always said it was dying of old age, but it still eats just as much now, with no signs of aging at all!"

"That's because… I've been taking really good care of it!" Ron yelled. "You just don't understand! Scabbers is a good rat!"

"You're the one who doesn't understand!" Fred also got angry. He said, "We're not causing trouble for no reason. This rat has a name…"

"Yeah, its name is Scabbers," Ron said sarcastically.

"No!" Fred said. "His name is Peter Pettigrew!"

Percy froze, then his face went pale. "What did you say?"

Wade waved his hand, interrupting the brothers' argument.

"Arguing is pointless; the facts will prove everything."

He waved his Wand, and the doors and windows of the Umbrella Room all slammed shut and locked with loud bangs, leaving not even a crack.

Then Wade took out the jar and poured the unconscious rat onto the table.

"Scabbers!"

Ron tried to retrieve his rat, but Percy grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Percy?" Ron said.

"Wait." Percy seemed to be gasping for air as he asked, "Why do you think... it's called that name?"

Fred didn't say anything.

He was annoyed with himself, thinking he might have exposed the Marauder's Map.

"Homenum Revelio," Wade said, pointing his wand at the rat and explaining to everyone, "If he's an Animagus, this spell will reveal his true form. If he's just a rat, then nothing will happen."

"I say..." Ron frowned and said, "It's really ridiculous that you're taking this kind of joke so seriously..."

He couldn't continue, his face gradually turning pale.

The tip of Wade's wand glowed a blue-white light, and the unconscious Scabbers suddenly woke up. It struggled and shrieked, its body twisting grotesquely.

Hermione covered her mouth in horror.

Suddenly, a head emerged, followed by hands and feet, and then a body...

A short, stout man replaced Scabbers, lying on the floor, gasping for breath.

He was bald, with sparse hair, very dirty, and his appearance was remarkably similar to a rat's, both having pointed noses and small, watery eyes.

"Is this Scabbers?" Ron groaned, "Or did you turn Scabbers into a person?"

"This is impossible!" Percy said in disbelief, "Peter Pettigrew... isn't he dead? Sirius Black killed him many years ago!"

As he spoke, he looked at Harry.

Harry looked back at him, puzzled.

"*Petrificus Totalus! Immobilize!*"

Wade didn't give Peter Pettigrew a chance to argue, immediately casting two more spells. The man was bound stiffly to the floor, unable to move.

"Do you believe it now?" Wade said, "This is what we were trying to tell you."

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