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I Smell a RatThe room was occupied with five ginger mops. The two eldest boys sat either ends of the settee, lazily, playing a game of exploding snap. The middle eldest child was perched like an owl on a wooden chair, his head nearly touching the book in which he was reading. The youngest of the boys lay across the floor with the youngest child and the only girl of the family poking a small fat rat.
"Ronald, would you leave scabbers alone" the boy reading said finally lifting his eyes from his novel.
"but he doesn't do aannnnnnnnything" said the young boy giving the rat a great poke, the boys clothes was old after belonging to one of the boys playing exploding snap and his face was rather grubby but at 5years old he really didn't care. The house wasn't scruffy, after all there mother spent all day cleaning, it was just untidy and with seven children who could keep a house clean.
"Maybe he doesn't appreciate being prodded every two minutes," the middle child snapped back.
"Relax Percy, Ron's only messin" called the eldest boy, the middle child, Percy sighed heavily,
"That is not the point," Percy then put down his book and went to grab the rat, the young boy Ron began to cry loudly,
"Percy just let him have it to shut him up, mom will do her nut if he disturbs dad and that bloke from the ministry," the eldest boy said rising from his seat, the other player of exploding snap sat up in his seat, his wand rolling lazily off his rat.
"He is my rat," Percy argued, "and Ronald is hurting him,"
"I want him, I want him," whined the young girl.
"Shhh Ginny," said the eldest boy, "just let them play Percy,"
"No it is my ra" Percy began to argue back but was interrupted by his sister. The young child waved her brothers wand in the air pointing at Percy, sparks shot randomly of the uncontrolled wand.
"Ginny, put down the wand," screamed the three elder brothers but it was too late, a quick yellow spark shot through the air, hitting directly the rat, who went flying through the air and onto the ground. All the children held there breath, but then the rat moved slightly and they all exhaled, but then the rat began to grow, bigger and bigger. Until it was a man, the rat was a man.
The boys screamed, the girl shrieked dropping the wand immediately, but as soon as scabbers appeared a man he was back as a rat.
"WHAT in the world is going on!!" shouted a small plump woman who appeared at the door, the five children ran to the safety of the woman, the youngest boy and girl in tears but all as white as the clouds outside.
"mum, scabbers he he tur turned into a m man," stuttered the eldest boy, for a moment the room lay silent, only the sound of the two mans voices in the other room could be heard,
"Don't be daft bill, scabbers, he is a rat," the woman laughed nervously, after all her children was always making up stories but the look on there faces was slightly unnerving.
"We know mom but he turned into a man," said the second eldest child, the woman looked at her children and knew immediately this was no joke, after all Percy too looked petrified and he never cracked a smile.
"WH...What happened? Before he well... changed" the woman asked, she wasn't to sure she wanted to know,
"Ginny had Charlie's wand and was shaking it and a yellow spark came shooting out and hit scabbers and he well changed," the eldest child, bill, said quickly hardly taking a breath.
"Why did Ginny ha..." the mother began to ask but trailed off, aware this was not important. After all her child's rat was a man, an animagus maybe. The young girl, Ginny screamed loudly as the rat moved along the floor.
"Shhhh gin," Charlie pulled his sister into his arms.
"What's going on?" a voice asked from behind the door, walking past his children and into view, came Mr. Weasley
"We heard screaming," stated another voice, this wizard was tall, his head was bald and voice commanding.
"The children they said, well they think that they saw scabbers turn into a man," said Mrs. Weasley softly, everyone's eyes turned to the rat.
"Mom, he did turn into a rat," Percy spoke breaking the silence,
"I think he is an animagus," Charlie added his eyes not leaving the rat. Mr Weasley and the man from the ministry could both tell this was serious,
"Percy take Ginny and Ron into the other room," Mr. Weasley ordered, "bill, Charlie you can stay but wands out"
"But he..." Percy began but saw the stern look in his mother's eye and brushed his younger siblings out of the room. The four wizards then pulled out there wands, bill and Charlie stood at the back, Mr. Weasley was at the front with Mrs. Weasley and the man from the ministry whose name was Travis at either side.
Mr Weasley muttered a spell and pointed his wand at the rat. Immediately the small rat began to grow larger and larger, standing on four legs, losing the tail until there stood a man. His hair was a dirty grey identical to scabbers coat, his back was hunched and his stomach was rather fat. It was funny the fact that the man seemed to resemble a rat so much. But this was not a laughing matter, Mrs. Weasley began to shake, her house had been invaded, by an intruder, by
"Its peter Pettigrew" she murmured.