HP:[" the Illithid Inquisition"]

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Hermione promised she would keep her new cat under control and Ron apologized for his harsh words. Harry was very grateful. He had never liked it when they got into fights before but this one felt even worse.

The next morning they all made it to the Hogwarts Express without incident. On the platform Mr. Weasley had stopped Harry to warn him of the high chance that Sirius Black had escaped to come after Harry. Harry thanked Mr. Weasley for the warning but told him that Dumbledore had already warned him about it and so he was aware of the danger.

"Promise me you won't go looking for Black." Mr. Weasley then demanded just as the train was about to pull away.

"What?" Was all Harry could say in response since he was caught off guard by the request.

"I mean it Harry." Mr. Weasley pressed. "Leave this one to the ministry. Black's a killer. And if he wasn't mad before he went to Azkaban he is now. Stay away from him and keep yourself safe."

"I will." Harry said. The thought of going chasing after a mad mass killer had never occurred to him. Harry might even have also given his word to that effect, but the train was leaving and he had to get aboard.

Harry, Ron and Hermione ended up in a train cabin with a sleeping adult man. His luggage identified him as Remus Lupin and Hermione guessed he must be their new defense against the dark arts professor. Harry had had a different defense against the dark arts teacher every year he went to school. His first year teacher Quirrel had been secretly possessed by the spirit of Lord Voldemort and had been destroyed when he tried to assault Harry. As this had brought him into contact with the powerful protective enchantments that had been cast around Harry as a result of his mother willingly giving up her life to protect her son, the very same enchantments that had destroyed Lord Voldemort twelve years ago when Harry was just an infant child.

Their last defense professor, Gilderoy Lockhart had turned out to be a massive fraud. He had stolen the accomplishments of other wizards by first learning their stories, erasing their memories and then publishing their tales as he had been the one to do everything in them. When Harry and Ron had forced him to try and help them rescue Ron's sister from a basilisk he had tried to destroy their memories with Ron's wand. However that wand happened to be broken and so instead the spell had backfired and erased his own memories.

Thanks to those incidents and others like them that had happened over the course of the last two decades many students now believed that the post was jinxed and no professor could last more than a year in the position.

Once Harry was certain that Professor Lupin was asleep he told Ron and Hermione about Mr. Weasley's strange belief that Harry might go after Sirius Black.

"Well it's not so unthinkable mate." Ron said. "You have sort of sought out trouble and danger these last two years."

"Only because there wasn't anyone else to help us with it." Harry deflected. "If this is one problem the Ministry can take care of, they're welcome to it."

Ron and Hermione shared a look as if they didn't really believe him. Then Hermione said, "Well hopefully you can stick to that plan. I don't mind saying that Black scares me. I don't want to have anything to do with him."

"The man would have to be mental to come after you at Hogwarts." Ron added. "There's no place safer in the world. And Albus Dumbledore will be on the lookout for him, so there's nothing to worry about."

An odd thing to say considering this school has almost gotten you killed twice now. Esharry commented. He didn't usually do so while Harry was having a conversation, it would be very strange if Harry ended up responding to someone in his head. Personally I kind of doubt he even is coming after you. If killing you was a good enough reason to break out of Azkaban he should've done so years ago while you were more vulnerable and isolated. He must have some other motivation, something that happened recently to draw him out.

Harry thought these were sensible comments so he repeated them to the others. Well he repeated the part about Black's possible motivation, personally he agreed with Ron that the safest place in the world was near Albus Dumbledore, the school had only become really dangerous when he had left it. Ron and Hermione considered what he had said and there followed some wild speculation about what other motives he might have. In the end Ron summed it up.

"Azkaban drives people barking mad from what my dad's said, so who knows what's going on in a madman's head?"

By then the lunch trolley had arrived and further discussion was buried under snacks and sweets. It was especially distracting for Harry since Esharry shared his sense and had never had anything like these sweets before, so for Harry it was practically like discovering them all for the first time. Even better his first time he hadn't known what he was getting into with wizard candy, now he knew what was coming. Such as the shock that every flavor jelly beans really came in every flavor; including motor oil, jalapeno, glass, milk and peppermint. After the first handful it was the normal ones that caught people really off guard.

The sky gradually darkened around them and by the time they were done with their lunch snacks the sky had almost blacked out Far more so than it should've for this time of day, even this far north. The air began to turn chill and the light went almost completely off on the train. Nevil and Ginny stumbled into their cabin dazed and confused. Everyone was wondering what was going on.

"I'll go up and have a word with the conductor." Hermione suggested.

"No, don't move." A new voice said as Professor Lupin suddenly revealed that he was awake and stood up. "Everyone stay where you are. I'll find out what's going on."

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