❝︎Well well, Evelyn, you really aren't a Clermont for no reason❞︎

3-9; Scabbers

he black dog quickly jumped over the three of us and headed straight towards Ron sitting on the ground hugging Scabbers.

"RON!" I called out as the dog bit Ron's leg dragging him towards the womping willow. Harry dived to grab Ron's hand but barely missed, the black dog now dragging him into a little hole under the tree. I pulled Harry back up only to be thrown backwards by the womping willow, my head landing on a rock. I felt a warm liquid run down my face with a sharp pain on the side of my head, blood. We quickly got back up as Ron's screams echoed through the air, the tree getting ready to attack us if we stepped foot near it.

"Come on," Harry said grabbing my hand as Hermione followed us towards the Womping Willow. It's thick branch missed us once and then two more strikes down separating Harry Hermione and I. Directly in front of me was the hole that Ron was dragged into. I quickly made a run for the hole as the tree attacked Hermione and Harry knocking them back. One of it's branch came straight down towards me, if it hits me I would be dead right away. I made a quick dive into the hole getting in it as the tree barely missed my legs.

I fell on my knees letting out a quick yelp after sliding down the hole. It was a dark passageway that led somewhere straight, in the distance I head Ron's scream. It was pretty far down the passageway, what if it's too late when I get there after waiting for Harry and Hermione? It was too risky to wait and I quickly ran down the passageway following Ron's faded screams.

At the very end of the passageway was a ladder leading up to a trapdoor. The air was oddly humid and dusty in here, and quite chilly too. I slowly got up the ladder and out of the trapdoor as quietly as possible, in the background were Ron's whimpering. He was still alive.

Outside the trapdoor was a house, a thin yet steep one. The floors and walls were all made of wood, very old wood. There were spiderwebs and dusts everywhere. I recognize this odd structure of a house, I'm in the shrieking shack. I went upstairs following Ron's cries and outside a fairly large room, it was in a really terrible condition. There I saw the black dog dragging Ron onto a mattress. It started to walk back towards the middle of the room slowly changing it's shape. It's legs growing out, the mouth compressing, the spine straightening up vertically until it changed into Sirius Black. He's an animagus, but why wasn't he killing Ron? I took my wand out of my pocket and slowly walked in pointing it at Sirius Black who only laughed.

"Evelyn Clermont."

"You murderer," I gritted my teeth. I was terrified of course but without me Ron would be hopeless. Something was strange though, Sirius Black wasn't even armed. No wand, no weapons, nothing to protect him. His intentions were never meant to kill any one of us.

"No I did not murder Peter Pettigrew-" He spat that name with such disgust.

"You did something worse than murder" His story of killing his old friend, Peter Pettigrew, was a well known story in the Wizarding World especially since it was everywhere on the Daily Prophet. he left nothing of him but his finger. He opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by Harry and Hermione storming into the room rushing towards Ron not yet noticing Sirius Black. I slowly backed away not letting my eyes off of him towards Harry.

"HARRY! It's a trap, he's the dog. He's an animagus!!" Ron said pointing behind me. He looked at the four of us and I saw his expression change from his maniac like one to a serious one. He slowly walked towards Harry as I got in between the two, my wand still pointed towards Black.

"If you want to kill Harry you'll have to kill me too," I said although I wasn't even sure how he would kill him unarmed. Either way this man had been to azkaban and got past the dementors, you'll never see anything coming with him.

"Only one will die tonight," Black muttered in a much more serious tone.

"AND IT'LL BE YOU!" Harry pushed me to the side lunging at Black grabbing him by his neck and pinned him on the ground. He quickly pulled out a wand and pointed it at his face.

"Are you going to kill me Harry?" Black let out a laugh.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" The doors barged open and Profesor Lupin came in. Harry's wand flew out of his hands and on the floor. He nudged Harry to move away and I quickly pulled him back up and away from him.

"Well well Sirius, looking rather crazy aren't we? Finally the flesh reflects the madness," Professor Lupin said his wand pointed towards Black. The four of us curdled up in a corner watching the events unfold, my arms were around Harry's who was extremely tended up.

"Well you're done all about the madness aren't you Remus?" Black smiled. With that, Profesor Lupin lowered his wand smiling back before helping Black up and giving him a hug. I let go of Harry's arm and stared in disbelief.

"I felt him, He's here" Black whimpered. "Let's kill him."

"NO! I TRUSTED YOU! He's a werewolf, that's why he's been missing classes," I shouted pointing at Lupin who smirked looking at my direction.

"How did you know?"

"Your boggart and Snape's lessons."

"Well well, Evelyn, you really aren't a Clermont for no reason"

"ENOGUH stalling around let's kill him!" Black shouted walking around the room.

"Wait-"

"I DID MY WAITING! 12 YEARS OF IT. IN AZKABAN," He shouted interrupting Lupin, there were anger in his eyes, he was even shaking. Lupin turned around to the four of us, I quickly moved to stand in front of Harry.

"Very well, kill him," Lupin handed Black his wand. "But wait one more minute, Harry has the right to know why."

"I know why, you betrayed my parents. You're the reason they're dead," Harry slowly walked past me.

"No Harry it wasn't him. Somebody did betray your parents but it was somebody who until quite recently beloved to be dead!"

"Who was it then!"

"PETER PETTIGREW. He's in this room right now. COME ON COME ON PETER! Come out and play!" Black was moving like a maniac, his expressions, his tone, everything was just crazy. He started walking towards us, but not at Harry, rather towards Ron hugging Scabbers. What did he mean by he was in this room? It's just Hermione, Ron, Harry, Lupin and I. Of course none of them could be Peter Pettigrew.. Unless my suspicion was right, Pettigrew is an animagus.

"Expelliarmus," The wand in Black's hand went flying away as Snape walked in. What the fuck is going on.

"Vengeance is sweet, I hoped I would be the one to catch you," He walked in pointing his wand at Lupin and Black.

"Severus-"

"I told Dumbledore you were helping an old friend into the castle and now, here's the proof."

"Brilliant Serveus, always jumping to conclusions but never being right so now if you'll excuse us Remus and I have some unfinished business to attend to" Black slowly walked up to him as Snape pointed his wand directly onto his throat. The four of us watched confused as the two started bickering and fighting. I felt Harry's hand grab my wand slowly pulling it away. Quickly I grabbed his hand to stop him from pulling out my wand out of my hands.

"Trust me Harry, Black is innocent," I whispered. He looked at me confused for a second before taking my wand out of my hand.

"After you" Snape motioned the four of us to get out. Harry slowly approached him pointing my wand at Black. Please don't be stupid.

"Expelliarmus!" He quickly flicked my wand toward Snape sending him backwards onto the old bed which collapsed as soon as he hit it.

"Harry! What did you just do!" Ron exclaimed

"You attacked the teacher!" Hermione looked just as confused and shocked as Ron was.

"Tell me about Peter Pettigrew," His wand was now pointed at Black and Lupin.

"He was at school with us, we thought he was our friend," Lupin looked frustrated.

"No, Peter's dead. You killed him" Harry said pointing my wand back at Black.

"No he didn't- I thought so too until you mentioned Pettigrew on the map," Lupin was now in between Snape and Harry trying to reason with him.

"The map was lying then."

"The map NEVER lies. Pettigrew's alive, and he's right there" He said pointing to Ron's direction. I was right then, Peter Pertigrew is scabbers.

"Me? He's mental!" Ron held Scabbers closer.

"Not you- YOUR RAT!" Black just looked at him like he was the dumbest person on the Earth.

"Scabbers has been in my family for-"

"12 years, it's too old. He's missing a toe isn't he?" I asked Ron, everything started to connect. Peter Pettigrew was hiding from someone as a rat.

"So what?" Ron looked back over at me furrowing his eyebrows.

"All they could find of Pettigrew was-"

"A finger! The maniac had cut it off so everyone would've thought that he was dead! And then he transformed into a rat!" He cut Harry off who was starting to catch on too.

"Show me."

Black walked over to Ron and snatched Scabbers out of his arms. He put the wand down on an old piano. It started to run away as Black and Lupin both shot nonverbal spells at it missing until Black hit one just as it was about to get away through a hole in the wall. The rat turned into a fat lump of a man, his two front teeth sticking out, he just looked like a rat. The thought of how I would occasionally play with it letting it roam around in my clothes and on my body just disgusted me.

The man walked to the middle of the room and looked around panicked. Peter Pettigrew was alive, Sirius Black is innocent.