            Sirius seemed to consider this for a long moment, before parting his dry lips. "I woke up in that—that Death Room. Alone and cold and bleeding, which I now remember was your doing," he said with a sly grin. "I managed to get out and realized it was the Department of Mysteries. Knew that if anyone from that department found me, I’d be done for. Likely stick me in one of their experiments for research. Luckily, there was something else already drawing the attention of the guards. Barely caught sight of it, but I could have sworn I saw the Bloody Baron whizzing around."