Fortunately, the crowd that squeezed into her bedroom behind him were all righteous people. United in their cause, they quickly apprehended the canine culprit Sirius before he could trample to death the very benefactor who had just avenged him.
Harry's hands moved faster than his brain—he immediately cast a Binding Spell on his dear godfather, creating a scene that could only be described as "filial piety." Lupin grabbed the rope and tried to drag his dear friend under the bed—unfortunately, he was too heavy to budge. So Fred and George made their grand entrance, and together the four of them subdued Sirius on the carpet.
Sirius blinked his innocent eyes, lying pitifully on the floor with his tongue hanging out, gazing sadly at his godson and best friend with obvious confusion in his eyes:
Why were they treating him this way?
The "do you think this is appropriate?" questioning looks from Harry and Lupin said it all.
Jane stared in bewilderment at the crowd that had packed her tiny bedroom to the brim.
Half-asleep, her arm automatically moved under the covers, carefully checking on the production research plan that Dumbledore had instructed her never to reveal—
Good, it was still there.
"What's happening?" She forcibly suppressed her morning grumpiness. "Why did you all suddenly come here in the middle of the night?"
She was shocked to see Harry first display some kind of troubled and hurt expression, Ron also hanging his head, Hermione and Ginny with tears in their eyes... then Lupin looking guilty and uneasy, hesitating to speak, and finally Fred and George, whose faces usually wore smiles, now bearing heavy expressions...
This scene looked like someone had met with disaster no matter how you viewed it!
With such a mobilization, whoever had the accident was most likely someone closely connected to her!
Lupin sighed and sat by her bedside, his back slightly curved, looking at her with pained eyes.
"I know this is very hard for you to accept, sigh..." He lowered his head. "We hope to give you some comfort. You must be feeling terrible in the middle of the night—everyone wanted to come keep you company."
Jane felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her from head to toe, making her heart stop beating instantly.
This kind of description—could it be Dumbledore...
"I... I'm mentally prepared." She felt her throat choke up, speaking with difficulty. "I can bear it..."
She felt her mind go blank...
Dumbledore's voice and smile kept appearing before her eyes...
Lupin and Harry exchanged worried glances. Seeing Jane's pale face and cold sweat, they knew she must have been tossing and turning all night, unable to sleep!
After experiencing such arduous combat, with so much hard work turning to nothing, how could she possibly feel well?
He felt he understood this kind child's source of pain: feeling bad about taking Wormtail's life, even though he was an enemy.
"Everything will get better," Lupin continued earnestly comforting her. "It will all pass, even if now is the darkest time. The loss of life always makes people feel bad—this is due to people's natural compassion. Please put your mind at ease, Yu."
"We'll create a better future," Fred and George deliberately made funny faces. "Smile, Yu!"
But Jane couldn't smile at all. The meaning of "loss of life" made her vision go dark.
How could this be? They had only said goodbye half a day ago...
Seeing Jane unresponsive, everyone became anxious—
Sirius broke free from Harry'sBinding Spell and leaped onto the bed again, chasing his own tail in circles, trying to make Jane happy again—this was something he used to do often.
Seeing no reaction from her, he became anxious and started bouncing up and down on the bed.
He first used his mouth to take Jane's hand and place it on his satin-like fur... for her to pet the dog.
Seeing she still didn't move, he used his tongue to lick her eyelids, trying to bring back her consciousness.
But just as he leaned in, a very loud sound of a door crashing to the floor rang out like thunder, scaring him so much his fur stood on end!
A stern and furious elderly voice suddenly rang out at the doorway:
"What are you doing?!"
...
What those comforting Jane didn't know was—
Several minutes earlier, their supreme leader Dumbledore had made another late-night visit... conducting a surprise inspection of this house.
In his conception, if Yu had listened to his instructions, at this late hour, this child and everyone from the Order of the Phoenix should all be sleeping soundly.
But first he saw the candlelight burning in the living room...
Then he heard barking coming from upstairs, mixed with human voices.
This made him frown, feeling this matter was far from simple!
Because those sounds... were actually coming from Jane Yu's bedroom!
Dumbledore cast a sound-muffling spell on his feet, lowered his breathing frequency, and slowly walked up the stairs—
He saw the light from Jane's bedroom... making his sense of foreboding grow stronger and stronger...
He just knew it: bedroom... late night... human voices... dog barking...
This child was probably throwing a midnight party!
But at this moment, his shoulder was tapped by Mrs. Weasley carrying midnight snacks, making him turn around in surprise.
"Albus—?"
Dumbledore seriously made a "shh" gesture to her, then pointed upstairs with his right index finger, asking in a low voice:
"Fred and George... are they there?"
Seeing their highest leader so solemn, Molly Weasley frowned, feeling this matter was far from simple!
She also tightened her movements, trying not to make any sound, and nodded heavily.
She didn't know if it was her imagination, but she felt the Dumbledore before her seemed to... crack.
He took a deep breath to calm his emotions, then asked with difficulty:
"Sirius... is he there?"
Mrs. Weasley nodded deeply again.
Dumbledore looked like he had shattered.
"And Harry... at this hour?"
Mrs. Weasley gave him another certain look and affirmative nod.
For some reason, she felt Dumbledore had already weathered away on the spot.
"Should we go up and check on Yu?" she suggested softly, preparing to bring up the midnight snacks.
"Go up and check..." Dumbledore muttered, closing his eyes to try to calm himself. "Indeed... indeed we should check... No matter what, they can't be throwing parties and not sleeping so late at night... when they're still growing... at this hour, it's too outrageous..."
He dragged his heavy steps upstairs, his mind recalling various youth literature and adolescent education documents.
Perhaps his parting instructions weren't deep or thorough enough, letting the child bring so many human creatures into her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Dumbledore thought this way, looking through the half-open door crack...
What he didn't see didn't matter, but what he saw was shocking—
That tiny bedroom was actually packed with people!
He slightly gripped the doorknob, widening the door crack a bit—
The scene of a big black dog bouncing around with its mouth open, face shameless and tongue hanging out, giving Jane Yu's face a big lick was displayed before him in all its glory without any blind spots!
Dumbledore felt his vision go black!
Sirius Black, how is it you again!
Not sleeping late at night, jumping disco on someone's bed, bringing a group of men, women, old and young to throw a party—is this appropriate?
His arm gripping the doorknob used force—
And tore the entire bedroom door right off!
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