On the first day of school, Helen and Isabel took Andy to King's Cross Station.
They used Apparition.
The little girl had been sulking about it – Andy assumed it was because she was going to be separated from her lovely brother.
Thinking about it, Andy's mood immediately improved.
"Mum, Isa, I'm getting on the train, so you should go home early too!"
Andy waved to Helen and Isabel as he carried his luggage and said, "Remember to write to me!"
"Andy, goodbye!" Isabel said reluctantly.
Helen warned in a serious tone, "Andy, I don't want to hear that you've done something dangerous again!"
Realising that they were at the station, Helen lowered her voice, "I don't want to visit you in Azkaban one day, or read about your wanted notice in the newspaper."
"Of course, Mum!"
Andy quickly reassured her, "Such a thing won't happen."
Boarding the train, Andy found an unoccupied compartment and waved his wand to place the suitcase on the shelf.
"Back to school!" Andy sighed.
Most of Hogwarts' classes were now useless to Andy. Andy had progressed too quickly, and Hogwarts curriculum was too slow for him.
On second thought, except for the practical part of the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, the Ancient Runes and Divination class, Andy was just wasting his time going to the other classes.
'Looks like I'll have to find a chance to mention it to the Professors and request permission to read some other books in class,'
Andy planned, 'Well...I should be able to learn new things in the Care of Magical Creatures class. Besides, um...Herbology class?'
Andy was a little overwhelmed!
Clatter
The compartment door swung open and Hermione, who was carrying a fat orange cat in her left arm and a huge suitcase in her other hand, raised an eyebrow and said, "I finally found you."
Andy waved his wand to help Hermione put the suitcase down, and couldn't help but glance at Crookshanks in Hermione's arms. "Looks like I'll have to spend some time with it to get used to its appearance."
Hermione placed Crookshanks on the seat and looked at Andy with a smile. "Andy, you're not an orange cat, so you don't need to mind him. Besides, you don't look anything like Crookshanks."
"Yes, I'm much cuter than him," Andy said, waving his wand to summon the Fat Cat Patronus.
Crookshanks immediately pricked up his ears.
"Crookshanks is also very cute,"
Hermione said, stroking Crookshanks's head. "Once you get used to looking at him, you'll see his beauty."
Yes, ugly cuteness is also cuteness.
"By the way!"
Hermione suddenly asked, "What's the deal with Sirius Black? I read in the newspaper that you caught him?"
"Mm-hm!" Andy shrugged.
"Looks like you've had a pretty good summer!"
Hermione chattered on, "Andy, you won't believe this, but I saw Black's wanted notice on the TV news too—well, I wrote to you about it."
"I just didn't expect the Ministry of Magic to have some contact with the Muggle government."
Andy said with a shrug. "Of course! After all, they are both a part of the same country, so there will inevitably be some cooperation."
Speaking of Sirius, Hermione's tone suddenly became a little enthusiastic. "I really didn't expect that there would still be such hidden secrets in the case twelve years ago. I read in the newspaper that Black let the Ministry of Magic put him in Azkaban because he felt guilty."
"He clearly could escape from there long ago, but he never took action until he saw Peter Pettigrew's whereabouts in the newspaper, only then he escaped from Azkaban."
Young children will always admire a lone hero like Sirius.
"It sounds like the hero's story in a Film," Hermione concluded.
Sirius didn't defend himself because he felt guilty; this might have been deliberately publicised to protect the image of the Ministry of Magic – after all, Sirius was convicted without a trial.
Andy had privately and darkly speculated that the reason Sirius was convicted without a trial was most likely because of Dumbledore's testimony.
Dumbledore told the Ministry that Sirius was the Secret Keeper of the Fidelius Charm!
What more was needed for a trial?
"Guess what the film star is doing right now?" Andy suddenly asked.
"What?" Hermione asked curiously.
"He's helping me collect the reward money from the Ministry of Magic,"
Andy laughed. "After the hero escaped from prison, the Ministry of Magic offered a reward of 10,000 gold galleons. Although it turned out that Black was innocent, the Ministry's reward was real."
"He told the Ministry that I had captured him and that the Ministry should reward me with 10,000 gold galleons."
Hermione's eyes widened at this news.
This kind of thing...
A wanted man asked the Ministry for a reward for the person who helped capture him.
"Unheard of!" Hermione said, dumbfounded.
"It is heard that Fudge is avoiding Black these days,"
Andy said with a smile. "Fudge said the warrant had been rescinded, but Black told Fudge that I had caught him before the warrant was rescinded."
"Fudge said it didn't count because I hadn't delivered the person to the Ministry. Black said that the warrant hadn't been rescinded when he and Fudge went to the Ministry."
"I thought about it... I caught Black and handed him over to Dumbledore, who in turn handed him over to the Ministry."
"After that, we proved that Black was innocent, and Black was taken to the Ministry and his wanted notice was withdrawn."
Andy asked with a smile, "Miss Know-It-All, do you think I should claim the reward money?"
"Of course you should!"
The little witch said with righteous indignation, "You caught Black! After the person was sent to the Ministry of Magic, they revoked Black's wanted notice...of course, they should pay the reward to you."
Andy put his hands up, "Then let's pray that Black succeeds in collecting the debt!"
"Praying won't help in this kind of thing!"
Hermione said, "We should write a letter to Fudge. If he doesn't pay the reward to you, we'll lodge a complaint against him in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and take him to Wizengamot"
"When we get to Hogwarts, let's look for some law books in the library."
At this, the young witch volunteered, "Andy, if you need a lawyer, I can help you. You caught Black, and Black is the best witness!"
Andy: "..."
Andy swears that he really only said he wanted to collect the debt as a joke before.
To be fair, Andy thought Sirius was crazy to demand payment from Fudge, but Andy never imagined that this little witch in front of him was even crazier than Sirius.
She wants to take the Minister of Magic to court!
Very good, this is very Hermione!
"The current head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is Amelia Bones. As far as I know, she is a very principled and fair witch."
Andy became quite enthusiastic, "I'll write to her right now. I'm going to take Fudge to court!"
"And I'll expose this debt to my aunt!"
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