Gryffindor's Seamus Finnigan insisted that Black had transformed into a Dementor... and had sneaked into the castle with the guards.

Luna believed that he was a painting monster who could freely enter and leave the castle's portraits.

The torn portrait of the Fat Lady was taken down from the wall and replaced by that of Lord Cadogan.

But the Gryffindor students didn't seem happy with him.

In the corridor, Kyle could always hear the complaints of Gryffindor students.

"That Sir Cadogan, who spends half his time every day daring others to duel with him..."

"Every time I enter the common room, I have to waste five minutes responding to his duel... because if you don't say anything he will keep provoking you."

"He also always comes up with ridiculously complex passwords, and he changes them at least twice a day."

"I think he probably stayed on the eighth floor for too long."

Someone said, "The corridor where Sir Cadogan used to be was rarely visited, and the owners of the other portraits did not welcome him as a visitor."

"It's obvious because he always likes to talk nonsense, and of course no one likes him."

…

In just a few days, Sir Cadogan replaced Black and became the new hot topic among Gryffindor students.

"At least he's brave."

During a lunch, Fred said with a smile: "No other portrait artist was willing to take this job, only Sir Cadogan was willing to do it."

"And I heard that he volunteered." George also said.

They didn't really dislike Sir Cadogan, and sometimes they would even take the initiative to provoke him, making him jump up and down in the portrait in anger.

To be honest, Kyle was also quite curious about Sir Cadogan, but the latter was only in charge of the Gryffindor common room and could not switch to work for Hufflepuff.

At this time, Harry also walked into the hall, but his expression looked a little unhappy.

Percy followed behind him, observing the situation around him from time to time, as if a fire dragon might jump out of the corner at any time and swallow Harry in one bite.

This strange behavior inevitably attracted the attention of others.

"Here we go again... this big head."

Fred glanced at him and quickly turned his head away.

"What's going on?" Cedric asked curiously, "Why do I feel like Percy is very nervous?"

"It's because of Harry."

George explained: "Mum wrote to us the other day to say she was going to help look after Harry, and then he became like this."

"You all probably know what happened between Black and Harry." Fred came over, "Mom...or most people think that Black came to the castle last time just to kill Harry and avenge his master."

The others nodded.

"No wonder I always see professors following Harry around recently..." Qiu said suddenly.

"Not only that," said Cedric, "even when the Quidditch team is training, Madam Hooch is there to supervise."

"Percy probably thinks of himself as a professor." Fred curled his lips, "Besides, this is the auditorium, Black can't hide under the table."

As he spoke, he bent down, put his head under the table and asked seriously, "Mr. Black, are you here? Do you want some steak?"

His funny appearance made many people laugh.

Kyle saw him turn around and say something, and Percy stopped following him so closely, but still kept a distance from him.

The first class is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

After dinner, Kyle and Kanna went to the classroom together.

Professor Lupin looked a little strange today, as if something was on his mind. He was always absent-minded during class and called the wrong students' names several times.

In the end, he simply stopped teaching and asked the students to work in pairs to practice exorcising spells to deal with the little devils.

Until the end of get out of class...

"Kyle, could you stay for a moment?" he said. "I have something I want to ask you."

After everyone left the classroom, Kyle looked around... To be honest, he was still a little resistant to being kept by Professor Lupin.

Fortunately, there were no wardrobes or boxes around this time, and there shouldn't be any Boggarts or anything else.

However, Professor Lupin did not notice Kyle's abnormality. He closed the door and hesitated for a long time before asking, "Did you see him that day?"

"who?"

"That's Sirius Black."

"Yes, I saw it." Kyle nodded.

"What does he look like..." Professor Lupin asked in a low voice. "I mean... is he the same as in the photograph in the newspaper?"

In just one sentence, his eyes changed several times: nervousness... disappointment... hatred... and there seemed to be a hint of concern, but it was fleeting.

"You can tell it's the same person, but there are still differences."

Kyle thought for a moment and said, "He is very thin, with only a layer of skin covering his bones. He is sloppy and dirty, and his eye sockets are sunken... It seems that he must have suffered a lot in order to avoid the pursuit of the Dementors."

"He deserves it!" Professor Lupin suddenly slammed his fist on the table and said excitedly, "He should have thirteen years ago..."

As if realizing that he had let the cat out of the bag, Professor Lupin suddenly closed his mouth and took a few deep breaths.

"Sorry Kyle, just treat what I just said as nonsense." He forced a smile, "One last question, where did you lose Blake when you were chasing him?"

"That's where Professor Dumbledore found us," said Kyle.

"Later we discovered that there was a secret passage behind the tapestry that led to the fourth floor. I think he must have escaped from there."

Kyle spread his hands. "But we thought Filch must know about the secret passage, so we didn't tell the professors specifically."

"Yes, Filch does know about the secret passage...but we searched the fourth floor for several hours and found nothing."

Professor Lupin's eyes flickered, then he raised his head and said, "Okay, Kyle, thank you, you've delayed me long enough, go to the next class.

Oh, don’t worry about being late, I’ll explain to the professor when the time comes…what class you have next.”

"Potions class..." Kyle said, "Are you sure you can ask Professor Snape not to deduct my marks?"

"Uh..." Professor Lupin was silent.

"I can help you get back the points you lost in the next class."

(End of this chapter)