Chapter 173 Not Friends
James' eyes behind his black-framed glasses were filled with disbelief.
"Why do you think so? I always treat you as a friend."
He looked at Peter with anger in his eyes and said, "Aren't we good enough to you? No one wants to play with you. Didn't we take the initiative to take you to play with others?"
Peter seemed to have heard something funny.
"Why doesn't anyone play with me? It's all because of you!"
His thin and pale face became extremely distorted due to resentment, and his eyes, which usually flashed with fear and anxiety, were now burning with a deep fire of resentment.
"If it weren't for the two of you making trouble in the academy all day long, causing the academy to lose so many points, why would those students be unwilling to make friends with me!
I don't like night outings at all, and I don't like playing tricks on others with you guys. This is all your fault!"
When he first entered Hogwarts, Peter wanted to study hard, but he soon discovered that sometimes hard work does not always pay off.
Sirius and James were obviously making trouble and not studying seriously at all, but their test scores were better than his.
Besides, the other students were better off financially than him. Except for Lupin, no other student was as poor as he was, and all his robes were old.
He began to curry favor with James, hoping that James could slip some money through his fingers to make his life a little easier.
But James seemed to be blind to his difficulties and only led him to make trouble. Gradually, other students began to dislike him as well.
But James and Sirius were different.
Even though these two people are naughty, some people are still willing to make friends with them because of their wealthy family background and handsome faces.
Why do these people look down on him? Just because he has no money?
He wanted money so badly that he wanted to earn everyone's envious gazes and tens of thousands of gold galleons, even if it meant selling his soul.
In fact, he had no intention of betraying James at first, but when he met the Death Eaters in the Forbidden Forest that day, he was just trying to survive. Why couldn't these people understand him?
"If you don't want to go on a night tour and don't want to cause any trouble, you can tell us. Why not? We won't force you to go with us."
James couldn't understand his inner thoughts.
"My refusal is useless! I've said before that I don't like night tours, but you still dragged me along."
Peter looked at James and Sirius with resentment and said in a hoarse voice:
"How can people like you who are born high and mighty understand my inner thoughts? You have never thought about me at all!
You said you consider me a friend, so let me ask you a question, do you know when is my birthday? "
Sirius and James were silent at this question.
The two thought hard and realized that they really didn't remember Peter's birthday.
"Look, you don't even remember my birthday, but I remember yours."
Peter fiercely wiped the corners of his eyes that were about to shed tears, looked at the two men viciously and said, "What have I done wrong?"
Sirius looked at Peter calmly and said, "Even if we were wrong, Lupin has never done anything wrong to you. He truly regards you as a friend and carefully prepares birthday presents for you every year. This is not a reason for you to betray your friend."
"Since he considers me a friend, he shouldn't pursue these matters."
Peter wiped his eyes, his lips trembling, but he still shouted: "I'm not wrong! This is not my fault!"
He covered the Death Eater's mark on his hand, which was aching slightly.
Seeing that he refused to repent, James's originally bright and confident eyes were now filled with anger and contempt, and every glance seemed to cut Peter into pieces.
"You're disgusting, how could someone like you be sorted into Gryffindor?" he said angrily.
Sirius looked at him calmly and said, "If you have any opinions about us, you can raise them at the beginning, instead of thinking that we are wrong and agreeing with us to do those things.
No one wants to make friends with you, not because you are not as good as us, but because you have never regarded others as friends, so they will not make friends with you.
I will tell Lupin about this and let him decide whether to forgive you or not."
Sirius placed a ring on the table, which was a birthday gift Peter had given him before.
"Maybe we did do something wrong in the past. I can apologize to you, but we are no longer friends. Next time we meet outside of Hogwarts, I will not let you go easily."
Those unruly eyes glanced at Peter coldly, then turned and left without hesitation.
James also glanced at Peter and left with Sirius.
James caught up with Sirius in the corridor.
"Should we go back later?"
After all, I was a student in the same dormitory with Peter.
Hearing this, Sirius frowned, obviously not wanting to go back and see Peter's face.
"If he is sensible, he will take the initiative to ask to change dormitories after today."
"So what should we do tonight? We can't stay out all night."
James put his hands into his robe, his eyes rolled around, and then he thought of something and his eyes lit up.
"We can sleep with the new professor tonight," he suggested.
"Why go to him? Why not just go to Hagrid?"
Sirius felt that the new professor didn't seem to get along well with them and didn't want to go.
"Hagrid's place is not good. The bed there is too hard. Last time I slept at his place for a whole night, my waist was hurting yesterday."
James had a beautiful idea. He thought that the new professor was well-dressed and a very gentle person, and would definitely not refuse them to stay there for one night.
Sirius couldn't persuade him, so he had to follow him to the room where the new professor was.
The two stood outside the door.
Sirius folded his arms, looked at James and said, "If you want to live here, you go and ask him. I won't ask anyway."
At worst, I can just stay at Hagrid's place for a night.
He went up and knocked on the door.
"knock knock"
There was a crisp sound on the wooden door, but no one responded from inside.
James didn't give up and knocked a few more times, making the door slam loudly.
Sirius glanced at the sky outside and said slowly, "Professor Su should still be teaching now, he shouldn't be here."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" James grinned.
His hands were sore from knocking.
"I just remembered that," Sirius said.
The two turned around and planned to go to the alchemy classroom to look for Jiang Li, when the door behind them suddenly opened.
Hearing the sound, Sirius turned his head and found that the elf who opened the door looked familiar.
Kreacher didn't expect that the people outside the door were Sirius and James, and he hurriedly tried to close the door.
Sirius was quick to block the door with his shoe and stretched out his hand to prevent him from closing it.