Chapter 381: Lupin and Black
For the next few days, there was only one topic of conversation throughout the school: Sirius Black. The stories about how he had broken into the castle grew increasingly wild.
Seamus Finnigan from Gryffindor insisted that Black had snuck in disguised as a Dementor... right among the guards. Luna, on the other hand, believed he had been posing as a painting of a goblin that could come and go from the castle at will.
The torn portrait of the Fat Lady was taken down and replaced with that of Sir Cadogan. But the Gryffindor students didn't seem pleased with him. In the corridors, Kyle constantly overheard them complaining.
"That Sir Cadogan, he spends half his day challenging people to duels..."
"Every time I go to the common room, I have to waste five minutes answering his challenges... because if you ignore him, he just keeps taunting you."
"He also keeps coming up with the most absurdly complicated passwords—and changes them at least twice a day."
"I think he's probably been stuck on the eighth floor too long," someone commented. "The corridor where Sir Cadogan used to be was pretty much deserted, and none of the other portraits wanted him as a neighbor."
"Of course, no one wants to put up with someone who only ever talks nonsense," another agreed.
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