AN: I'm just a sucker for a happy end which you will see in this chapter. I know the timing is off but heck It's my story.
Hermione cleared her throat. "What's your full name?"
Peter looked at her with disgust. "Peter Robin Pettigrew."
"What's your animagus?"
"I'm a common house rat, known as Wormtail."
Hermione nodded. " What were you doing on the night of Halloween?"
Peter became a little nervous but the serum forced him to speak up. "I followed my Lord to the Potter cottage."
Lily paled.
"Why did you do that?" Hermione asked, she knew she had time. This serum was more powerful than the ones they knew now and it wasn't possible to build up any resistance against this one. One of those nifty inventions of Morgana.
"Because I wanted to appease my Lord and see James suffer."
James was silent. His face turned white. He was clenching his fists so hard his knuckles turned white. There was his friend sitting in that chair. Or that was what James thought.
"Why did you want James to suffer?"
"Because he married a filthy little mudblood and had a baby with that vermin!" Peter spat out. He tried to get out of his shackles.
Hermione cast a modified Immobulus charm on him so he could only move his head.
"Who else did you betray?" Hermione asked. She needed to know. She could probably rescue more people from the order.
Peter started laughing. "All of my so called friends. My Lord knows everything about Lupin and Black, The Potters, Longbottoms."
"Let me rephrase that, who's death is your doing?"
"Marlene McKinnon and Dorcas Meadows along with a few others that didn't matter. The Prewitt brothers are almost death because of me and a few others so I guess them too."
"Where are they?" Hermione asked.
Pettigrew chuckled. "You silly girl you can't reach them in time. But let me humor you. They are in our old apartment." Pettigrew looked straight into Remus's eyes.
Hermione turned around to Remus. "Remus, what's the address?"
Remus was speechless. He just visited it the other day.
"REMUS! The address!"
"It's right next to the owl imporium. But they're not there. I visited the place just last week."
Pettigrew laughed again. "Of course you didn't see them, Little Remus. I'm not that stupid. I've hidden them in my bedroom under an illusion."
"Midas, Tiny please come here."
The two house-elves popped into the room. "Get to their apartment and look for the Prewitt brothers."
The house-elves nodded their head and popped away.
"You silly little girl. You really think you can save them do you?"
Hermione squared her shoulders. "I'm sure I can. I defeated your master after all."
Pettigrew went mad. He started screaming and crying that his master wasn't death and they would all tremble in fear once his master would collect him.
Hermione turned around to the rest of the room. The Marauderers were looking sick, Lily and Alice were cradling their babies against their chest and Frank was whispering to his mother.
"Does anyone have some more questions for this rat?"
Remus and Sirius wanted to interrogate some more.
"Since when are you faithful to Voldemort?"
Before Hermione could hear the answer, two faint pops in the hall signalled the arrival of her house-elves.
They were both levitating a Prewitt-brother.
"Mistress, they are in bad shape and what the rat said is true. They probably will die soon. We put a stasis charm on them so you could try but please Mistress, don't exhaust yourself." Midas said, looking at her.
Hermione nodded her thanks and let the elves put the brothers in a clean room.
She could do it, but all she needed was some timeā¦
She walked into the room where the elves had put the Prewitt brothers. She got down on her knees again and stopped time again. She would give the Weasleys their uncles or brother back.
She made the room sterile with a few spells. She decided to work on Gideon first. She spelled away his clothes, which made Hermione gasp. She knew they never survived the war the first time round but seeing his body, she didn't think anybody would.
His body was covered with cuts and bruises. Scars were already forming. She turned him around slowly. She saw gashes made with a knife on his side and there were puncture wounds along his spine. Even if she could heal him, the chance would have been big that he would have been paralyzed. But Morgana had taught her a lot and she was certain she could heal him without any lasting damage.
She set to work. She removed the stasis charm and poured flushing potions, skin rejuvenating potions, pain potions and a vitamin potion into his mouth. The potions were working because the bruises and cuts disappeared immediately, even the large gashing on his side were gone almost completely in the first 30 seconds.
Hermione muttered healing spell after healing spell, focusing on his spine. An hour later, the last click signalled Hermione that his spine was indeed ok again and that he would make full recovery after spending the first few weeks in a wheel chair. He would have to learn to walk again but that was a small price to pay for being alive. She called Mary to look after him further, bathing him and putting him in pyjamas so he could have a good night's sleep.
Hermione walked over to Fabian. After she spelled away his clothes, it looked like he had similar problems but she noticed his legs, bending in weird ways. They had broken his legs in multiple places. It looked like a hamer had shattered his bones into a million little pieces.
Hermione sighed. 'How could someone do this to another person? A person that was close to you.'
She got back to work. She vanished all the little shards of bone in both his legs before pouring a hefty dose off skele-grow down his throat. He would be fine, he just needed to be strong for the next couple of days. She cancelled the time charm while Mary was bathing and putting pyjama's on Fabian. Hermione sighed and wiped her forehead. She was exhausted but she managed to save two lives.
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