Capturing Wormtail 1
Wade usually didn't pay much attention to the names above people's heads, as it gave him a sense of detachment, as if he were in a game world.
He'd gotten used to treating names as part of someone's hair, and thus ignoring them.
But now, he still glanced at the girl's head.
[Luna Lovegood].
It was her, indeed.
This girl wasn't quite like the elf-like beauty portrayed in the movies; her looks weren't particularly striking, but her unique aura was very noticeable.
Luna, wrapped in a blanket, groggily sat up and looked at Wade, remaining silent.
Wade walked over and asked, "You're a first-year, aren't you? It's so late, why aren't you sleeping in your dorm?"
The blonde girl stared at Wade with her bulging eyes, not blinking for a long time, which gave off a very strange feeling.
After a while, she slowly said, "I lost my book, and I came to look for it, but didn't find it... The dorm door is locked."
"Didn't you knock? Or did your roommates not let you in?" Wade asked with a frown.
"What does it matter?"
Luna lay back down, pulling the blanket up to just below her eyes, and said very calmly, "Anyway, the door will open again tomorrow morning."
She was so nonchalant that if Wade intervened, it would seem like meddling.
He asked again, "What's your name, and what book did you lose?"
The little girl peered through the darkness and asked him, "Are you going to help me find it?"
"If it's not too much trouble."
She seemed to be thinking for a moment before saying, "My name is Luna Lovegood, and some people call me Loony. I can't find my A History of Magic."
Wade waved his Wand and clearly stated, "Luna's A History of Magic, Accio!"
A book suddenly flew out from between the sofa cushions and landed directly in Wade's hand. Wade placed it beside the little girl.
"Wow—"
Luna let out a soft gasp, and after a few seconds of silence, as if just remembering, she said, "Thank you."
"If you need help, you can find me... I'm Wade Grey, a second-year."
After saying that, Wade picked up his schoolbag and returned to his dorm.
Even though Luna was sleeping alone in the common room that night, Wade wasn't worried about her safety.
The House-elves who cleaned usually worked in the common room at night, and the portraits on the walls and the ghosts wandering through the common room weren't just decorations either.
...
The next morning, when Wade woke up, Luna was no longer on the sofa.
The heavy rain had poured all night and hadn't stopped by morning. The rain hammered against the windows, and streams of water ran down the glass.
The playing field was a foot deep in water, and Hagrid's animals were all huddled in their sheds.
Students couldn't go play the escape game, so many of them were peering out the windows, staring longingly at the sky, hoping the rain would stop soon.
But the rain continued for several days.
"I wish I knew a Weather Charm," Michael said in frustration, addicted to the game. "Then I could make the rain stop whenever I wanted."
It was finally the weekend, but being stuck in the castle due to the heavy rain was truly cruel for the game-addicted Young Wizards.
Michael was still wishing, while Harry and Hermione had already gone to the Library to look for Magic Books on Weather Charms.
During these past few days, Wade's Veritaserum was finally brewed.
The clear, transparent liquid in the crystal bottle looked just like water.
He took out the Marauder's Map to confirm Peter Pettigrew's location again.
The rat was, as always, in Ron's dorm.
Sometimes he would go out for a walk, wandering through various corners of the castle. The first time Wade couldn't find him on the map, he was worried for a while, thinking Peter might cause a big incident.
Later, he discovered that the person was just bored staying in the dorm and ran around outside.
Even as a rat, Peter always hid from crowds, and also from the students' pet cats and Owls, having to sneak around even for a walk.
Recently, Ron had been participating in the escape game, and Peter often followed him. It was said that he even helped Ron scratch an opponent once.
At dinner, Ron at the Great Hall praised his rat enthusiastically, calling it a "meritorious subject."
Wade had considered if he could exchange the rat with Ron for a new Wand or some Galleons. But after much deliberation, he dismissed the idea.
Ron's current Wand wasn't broken, and though the Unicorn hair was showing, it still worked normally. He was indeed short on money, but he might not be willing to sell the rat for cash.
Ron was a person with many flaws, but also stubborn and loyal. Perhaps he regarded the rat as family and wouldn't easily let go.
Doing so would only alert Peter Pettigrew. If that guy escaped from Hogwarts and hid in a city of ordinary people or in the wilderness, Wade really wouldn't know how to find him.
The operation to capture Peter Pettigrew had to be foolproof.
Perhaps because of the rain, the students had been cooped up in their dorms and common rooms all day, and Peter Pettigrew hadn't snuck out for several days either.
Wade put away the Marauder's Map and Veritaserum, then took out the Book of Friends. He messaged several people to coordinate their next steps before leaving the Room of Requirement.
The corridor was empty. He went down to the fifth floor before seeing the Weasley Twins, with whom he had arranged to meet.
Seeing him approach, the twins immediately covered their ears with both hands and shouted, "Look, Wade!"
They kept their ears covered for a moment, then suddenly released their hands, and a large cloud of misty white smoke drifted towards the ceiling.
George even creatively flexed his fingers, making the irregularly shaped smoke rings bubble out like air bubbles in water.
Even with the recent heavy rain, the Gryffindor Quidditch team hadn't stopped training.
To avoid catching a cold, they would each drink a small sip of a stimulating potion after training, which caused smoke to come out of their ears for a while afterward.
Harry was quite embarrassed by this, as Colin Creevey had snapped a few photos of him looking like a steam locomotive. But the twins thoroughly enjoyed it, even developing a new smoke ring performance.
"Look, we can do this too!"
Fred covered his ears again for a moment, then released a large puff of white smoke, blowing into the middle to turn it into a hollow smoke ring.
George waved his Wand, conjured a bubble, put the smoke ring inside, and finally balanced it on his head, asking, "Doesn't it look like a pope's coronation?"
"Yes, exactly, hahahaha…"
Fred burst into laughter.
Wade was also infected by their lighthearted atmosphere and couldn't help but laugh.
After joking for a bit, Wade asked, "Fred, George, have you looked at Ron's dorm with the Marauder's Map?"
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