Chapter 148 Happy Lunar New Year (Ch 148)

【Family, Happy New Year! 】

[Originally I wanted to give myself a holiday on New Year’s Day, but after thinking about it…I decided not to. ]

After a while, Harry came running back and placed a handful of pounds on the table in a very impressive manner.

Kaisen looked at Harry, who was begging for praise, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Lupin, hoping that he could help him out of the predicament.

But Lupin just shrugged casually, and he seemed very satisfied with what Harry did.

“Okay Harry, although it is actually very embarrassing for me as an adult to take money from a child like you, but since you have this intention, I will not discourage you… This will not happen again.” Kaisen picked up the stack of pounds and subconsciously looked at the number.

It’s actually the real thing!!!

“By the way, Professor, how did you suddenly appear in Privet Drive? And what’s the story with this uncle and Malfoy’s father?” Harry asked.

“Dumbledore told me. As for this, this is your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor next semester, Professor Remus Lupin. He is much more reliable than Bigelow and Lockhart.”

“As for why they came to Privet Drive…it was pure coincidence.”

Harry opened his half-moon eyes and looked at Kaisen speechlessly.

“………..Okay Lupin, please explain it to Harry.” Kaisen said helplessly, unable to stand Harry’s weird look.

Lupin coughed twice and said softly, “Before the enchanted book therapy, Lucius Malfoy had been secretly funding Greyback and the werewolf group under Greyback.”

“Greyback is Lucius Malfoy’s dirty knife.”

“After the advent of enchanted book therapy, wizards lost their fear of werewolves. After all, it only takes about one Galleon to be completely cured. Lucius Malfoy also unilaterally cut off funding to Greyback, which made Greyback very angry.”

“And today Lucius Malfoy should have known about Dobby’s affairs, so he came to Harry on purpose. To be honest, I wasn’t that worried when I first saw Lucius Malfoy. For one thing, he is not good at magical combat, and although he also worships pure blood, compared with those truly crazy pure-blood families in the wizarding world, he is much more rational and reasonable.”

“So I’m not worried that he will do anything to harm Harry’s uncle and aunt. Of course, they will definitely suffer a little.”

“But Greyback is different. He seems to be very dissatisfied with Lucius Malfoy. I don’t know how he got Lucius Malfoy’s itinerary. The two of them arrived at Privet Drive almost at the same time.”

“That was also when I reentered Harry’s house.”

“That’s my aunt’s house,” Harry whispered.

“But that’s your home too…little wizards always need a home,” Lupin comforted.

“I feel like Hogwarts is more like my home.”

“……Well said.” Kaisen was a little shocked by the speed at which Lupin’s expression changed.

“So Greyback and Lucius Malfoy weren’t technically in the same group at that time?” asked Kaysen.

“If I hadn’t been there, the confrontation would have been between Lucius Malfoy and Greyback. Of course, I think the more likely possibility is that Lucius Malfoy used money to send Greyback away, and then hired someone to quietly kill Greyback.” Lupin explained.

“Yeah, that makes sense.” Kaisen nodded… After a moment of silence, he asked again, “What do you think of Lucius Malfoy? I’ve only met him a few times.”

“A…very smart guy. He is very good at speculation and fence-sitting. Basically, his family has never been liquidated for various speculations since its establishment. Of course, I only know this from the unofficial history books I read when I was a student. I don’t know as much about the so-called upper class as you do.” Lupin said after taking a bite of ice cream.

“What’s their attitude toward Muggles?” asked Kaysen.

“The centrists tend to be purebloods, or the purebloods tend to be centrists. They certainly can’t be compared with the Weasleys and the Abbotts, but compared with the Lestranges and the Blacks, they seem much more anthropomorphic. When Voldemort was in power, they tortured Muggles for fun. Even those two families often did this when Voldemort was not in power.”

“But most of the time, the Malfoy family just went with the flow in Voldemort’s team. They were neither active nor passive. Of course, they definitely did something. In fact, you shouldn’t ask me about these things. Snape knows much more than I do.” Lupin explained.

“Huh? Why?” Kaisen and Harry asked in sync.

“Um…you’ll know when the time comes when you ask him yourself.” Lupin said guiltily.

Harry shook his head with difficulty when he saw this: “Then I won’t ask.”

But Kaisen was different. He had quietly taken out a small notebook from under the table and started taking notes.

“By the way, Professor Lupin, why are you at Privet Drive?” Harry asked after taking a bite of ice cream.

“To protect you.” Lupin said after thinking for a while with his eyes downcast.

“Is it just for today’s situation?” Harry tilted his head.

“No, it was an accident today. Don’t you subscribe to the Daily Prophet during your holidays?”

Harry shook his head. “They won’t even let me out of the house, let alone have owls flying around the roof all day.”

“Are they so mean to you? I always thought it was boring for you not to go out during the holidays.” Lupin said with some surprise.

“If you had seen what he was like in Hogwarts, you wouldn’t have asked such a question.” Kaisen complained in a low voice.

“Sorry…” Lupin said as he took out a newspaper from his coat pocket, flattened it and handed it to Harry.

Harry took the newspaper and glanced at it casually, and his attention was soon attracted by the headline on the front page.

“So, the purpose of this prison breaker named Sirius is to kill me?” Harry asked calmly.

“Normally a normal child shouldn’t have the same attitude as you do,” Lupin said.

“It happened once before, actually.” Harry said sheepishly.

Lupin looked at Kaisen with a strange look, and the latter shrugged helplessly.

“Dumbledore, don’t you know?”

“Um…yes.”