&houghts wao the Slytherin dungeons a get in. A simple unloking harm wouldn’t work, or else students would have beeo differeories willy nilly. He supposed he ould hardly ask MGoher, as she seemed rather tight-lipped about the whole thing. He was half w if he ould blow a hole in the wall of the duied somethihe orner of his eye.
He gasped. The wolf.
It was walking right up agaile wall, so lose its side rubbed agaioo notie Harry iaopping in its traks.
There was only about tweween them.
Harry dropped to a squat a his hand, as though the animal in front of him were a ommon house dog.
“Hi,” he alled softly. “I won’t hurt you if you don’t hurt me.”
&e Harry’s voie, but did o run away.
“What are you doihe astle? Hagrid doesoo muh, best him see,” Harry oanding again and walking slowly towards the wolf his haeopped when he had halved the distao a squat.
“e on now, I won’t bite,” Harry said.
& out a snort that Harry felt sely akin to a ugh, ao inh slowly towards him.
Finally, the wolf reahed his fiips, but did not sniff him like a n would. I a Harry, their eyes eerily ihey oked their head.
Harry notied up lose that the wolf was e, but rather a white gold.
& you a pretty thing? I told Hagrid y to worry about,” Harry murmured. He reahed out ahe wolf’s head, but drew his hand bak as soon as it made ontat. A wave of unease ame over him, that sik feeli in the hall earlier.
The wolf did han to look away from Harry, turning their he air, as though offended.
“I didhing by it,” Harry said out loud, feeling suddenly defensive.
The wolf looked at him out of the orheir eye.
Harry was struk with horession was. It reminded him of whealk to Sirius when…Oh. Oh.
“Whaion died in his throat. He leared it and began agaily, are you?”
The wolf’s grey eye dragged away from him, looking forwards one more, oedly this time.
“A student?”
The wolf huffed.
“No?”
Nothing.
“A professor, then?”
The ugh-ish surned.
“No again?”
The wolf srathed at their ear with their bak paw, as if to say, “Just a wolf, thanks.”
“I k,” Harry said, his v. “You know who I am, don’t you?”
Another huff Harry hose to read as an affirmative.
“Then you know I was rather lose to Sirius Bk. I know an animagus when I see one,” he said, most of the time, he added mentally.
&uro look at him, narrowing their eyes.
“You’re not helping your ase,” Harry poi. “Beause you learly uand me.”
Their eyes beame impossibly narrower.
“You’re a bit rubbish at being a dog, mate,” Harry ughed.
The ed at him half-heartedly.
“So, will you tell me?”
The wolf looked at him ily for a momeood, ao walk away from Harry, bak towards the wood.
“Hey!” Harry alled to him, but the wolf didn’t look bak.
Harry wathed them disappear into the lirees, beoming more oh eah step that, whatever was going on in this astle, whatever hau, had a lot to do with that damn dog.