Hi guys, here is my newest chapter and the last one for this year, but it will continue in 2009 ;D

As an early Christmas gift this chapter will be longer than any chapter before, a special thank to all my faithful readers, I love you guys, you rock!!!!

Okay now on with the story and Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!!!


Willow awoke the next morning and saw that Buffy was already up, which was weird, because she loved to sleep in. Willow quickly walked into the bathroom, got ready and dressed, grabbed her wand and

took her bag of books before hurrying down the steps. She met Buffy in the common room.

"Hey why are you up? It is not even eight."

"Couldn't sleep." Buffy replied, not being totally honest with her friend, that was because Willow was always worrying about her wellbeing.

"Nervous?" Willow asked smiling.

"Maybe a little. So what classes do we have today?"

"Let me think, today is Wednesday, that means… Double Transfiguration, Muggle Studies and care of magical creatures."

"Hm… okay… we will see how it works out."

Together they walked out of common room, Buffy was still in awe when it came to the castle, she had never seen anything like this before.

They entered the great hall, but were stopped soon. A blond girl stepped in front of them, her arms crossed in front of her chest. At each of her sides stood another girl, glaring as much as the blond.

Buffy was reminded of Cordelia, she looked over to Willow and rolled her eyes.

Willow knew her, she was a Slytherin, she always talked to Lucius, but she didn't know her name.

"What do you want?" Buffy asked annoyed.

"You mudbloods really think that you can come into this school without being invited, right?" she spat, but Buffy just looked over to Willow, she didn't know what mudblood meant.

But Willow knew and made a step forward.

"Take that back."

"Make me…." Narcissa said smirking at her, while the smirk made Willow want to punch her.

"Wills…" Buffy whispered and grabbed her arm, she was confused, it seemed like Willow had gotten more self-confident in the time she had been here, but still, it was not good hitting that stupid girl, it would

just cause trouble.

"Narcissa I think it is enough." They heard another voice and Buffy saw the blond guy stepping towards them, the guy who had been staring at Willow before. He glared at Narcissa, who shrugged her shoulders

and stormed off, her two shadows on her heels.

Buffy looked over to Willow and saw her red cheeks, so she had a thing for that blond guy.

"Thank you." Buffy said, because the two were just staring at each other, without saying something.

Lucius looked at the blond girl now and nodded.

"By the way I'm Buffy." she said extending her hand, Lucius hesitated just a moment, then he took her hand and answered:

"Lucius, but you shouldn't be talking to me, your housemates won't like that!" Then he looked one last time at Willow and walked out of the great hall.

Buffy grabbed her best friend's arm and led her away from the other students, Willow just looked confused at Buffy, she had no idea what she wanted.

"Now spill… what is this with you and that tall blond guy?"

Willow blushed deep red, she should have known, that Buffy would see it right away.

"I don't know…" Willow said with a sigh and looked at her friend, but then she realized that classes would start soon and she had no time to explain everything now.

"I will tell you everything later, after classes, but now we should get going or we will be late to Transfiguration and Professor McGonagall would not happy about that."

"Alright… later then." Buffy answered and the two friends left the great hall towards their first class.

Hours later, Willow and Buffy sat in the room of requirement, Willow had told Buffy everything that had happened since she came to Hogwarts, especially of those events including Lucius.

"I just don't get it, a week he sat at your bedside, afraid that you might not wake up, but after you do, he is all distant again…." Buffy said, rubbing her head.

"I don't get it either, I mean, sometimes I get the feeling that he feels something for me too, but then… I don't know."

"His feelings for you are obvious, the only question is, why isn't he showing them to you?" At that moment, Buffy decided to talk to Lucius as soon as possible, maybe he had a good explanation.

Buffy yawned and said:

"I guess we should head back, it is already late, I'm tired because I couldn't sleep well last night and I want to sleep now."

Willow nodded and the friends got up, they left the comfortable room and walked back to the Gryffindor room.

As soon as they stepped through the hole, they saw Remus, Sirius, James, Lily and Peter sitting in one of the corners.

Sirius' eyes fell on Buffy and he grinned, then he got up, Willow rolled her eyes, this would get ugly, because Buffy was tired and when she was exhausted she snapped much easier than normally.

Buffy wanted nothing more than to sleep, but before she reached the staircase that led to their dormitory, someone stepped into her way.

She looked up, right at a dark bush of hair, which belonged to Sirius. She knew that kind of grin he was wearing right now and she was so not in the mood to get hit on.

"Stop grinning, this isn't going to work, so I tell you, before you even waste time or energy in this whole thing. I am not interested in you, in no possible way, you are not my type, will never be and it would be

better for your health, if you would be smart enough to stay away from me, especially when I am like I am in today."

Sirius' grin disappeared, while Buffy shoved him out of her way and disappeared into the girls dormitory.

Willow smiled and walked over to her friends, James had a hard time to hide his laughter behind his hand, while Lily just giggled.

Neither of them had seen Sirius like this, he was still staring at the place Buffy had stood in.

"Wow she was pretty mad…" Lily finally managed to say in between gasps because she tried to breath properly again after her laughing fit.

"She hadn't slept much last night and you shouldn't mess with her, when she is tired."

"I can understand that, I am pretty tired myself, I will go to our dormitory too. See you tomorrow guys." Lily said and got up, she gave James a short kiss, then she walked the stairs up too.

Willow stayed back and remembered what she wanted to talk with the guys about.

"Oh about Friday, how will we do it?"

"We?" Peter asked confused.

"She succeeded in turning into an Animagus." Remus said and everyone's eyes grew wide, even Sirius regained some of his self control and turned towards her.

"Really?" James asked interested.

"Really." Willow answered, though she wasn't looking at him, her eyes were fixed on Peter and she saw pure terror in his eyes, he was definitely afraid of something, but of what? She would find out and keep

an eye on that creepy little guy.

"So what are you?" Sirius asked and sat down beside his friends, he had caught himself, but it was obvious that he was still shocked by Buffy's words.

"I am not telling you, you will find out on Friday, until then you have to wait." Willow just answered, amused by the frustrated faces of her friends.

"So what I thought about…. Are we gonna take Buffy with us as back-up? I mean what when you lose sight of me…" Remus began and surprised everyone.

"Are you crazy. She could die…" James began, but Remus looked over to Willow, who thought that this idea wasn't too stupid.

"I would say, that we take an owl with us and when we really lose sight of you, I can tell Buffy and she will go and find you."

"Can she?" Remus asked after he listened to Willow's words.

"Of course. Don't worry."

"Could anybody explain to me what is going on here?" Sirius demanded to know, but Willow shook her head.

"It is up to Buffy to tell you. Okay guys I will go to bed now, see you tomorrow."

With that she got up and walked to her dormitory, Buffy and Lily were already asleep, so Willow snuck quietly to her bed and changed into her sleeping clothes.

Then she crawled into her bed and pulled the covers over her shoulders. In no time she was asleep.


Willow awoke early the next morning and as soon as she sat up, she felt millions of butterflies in her stomach, because she would have tutoring with Lucius later on.

With a sigh, she got out of her bed and headed for the bathroom, there she took a quick shower and dried herself with a drying charm, after that she left the bathroom, to find Buffy awake on her bed.

"Is Remus a good tutor?" she asked, while Willow got dressed.

"Yes. It's fun to study with him. He is great."

"But I don't want to learn so much…." Buffy whined and Willow giggled, while she put on her robes.

"Don't worry, with Remus it doesn't feel like learning."

"I hope you are right." Buffy said getting up, then she made her way to the bathroom.

Willow smiled and walked out of the dormitory, her bag in her hand, she would wait for Buffy in the common room.

She took her seat in front of the fire and tried to ease her nervousness, when she thought of the tutoring later.

"Good Morning, you are up early. Are you alright, you look troubled…" she heard a voice nearby and turned her head to see James near the place where she sat.

"Good Morning to you too! Yeah, I am alright, just a lot on my mind."

"If you ever need to talk about it, my ears are always open…."

Willow smiled and nodded, she liked James, he was always nice and a good person.

"Thank you."

"No problem." he replied, then both saw Buffy coming down the stairs.

"Okay, I'm ready for hell…" Buffy said, which made James and Willow laugh.

The three of them left the common room, walking down the stairs to the great hall, to get something to eat before their classes started.

After breakfast Willow and Buffy walked to their first class, which was potions, as soon as they entered the classroom in the dungeons, Willow walked over to her desk, Buffy close behind.

"Morning Severus." she smiled at her dark haired friend, he looked up from the book he was reading and smiled a little.

"Morning."

"Oh you haven't met. This is my best friend Buffy.. Buffy this is my friend Severus, he's a Slytherin."

"Ah that explains the green." Buffy smiled at Severus, who seemed confused and to Willow's amusement he seemed to blush a little.

"Oh wait…. You are Severus Snape right?"

Severus blinked when Buffy said that and nodded slowly.

"Then you are my potions tutor. We are going to meet tomorrow, after classes."

Severus nodded again, but he couldn't answer because Professor Slughorn entered and said:

"Take your seats…." everyone sat down, despite Buffy.

"Ah miss Summers, you can team with Miss Rosenberg and Mister Snape if you want." Buffy nodded with a bright smile and sat down onto the free stool beside Willow.


Hours later Willow and Buffy sat in Greenhouse II and listened to what their Professor was talking about, but Willow grew more nervous with each passing moment.

It seemed like it was really obvious, because Buffy elbowed her into her side and shoved a piece of paper over to her.

Okay now it is enough. What's up with you? Stood there and Willow took her quill to write something on it too.

I have tutoring with Lucius today

Buffy read what Willow had written and she immediately understood why her friend was so nervous.

Well that gives you the chance to talk to him

Buffy advised her, while Willow wrote the answer she shook her head.

I cannot do that it's just, I don't know I'm scared

Buffy immediately knew that her decision to talk to Lucius was right, because Willow wouldn't make the first step.

That was the moment their teacher announced that the class was over. Shortly after that, Remus stepped towards them and said:

"I thought it would be the best if we stay here and start with Herbology."

"Sounds okay with me." Buffy answered and saw Willow getting up.

"I have to go, but we will see each other at Dinner, right?" Buffy nodded and smiled shortly at her friend, before she left the greenhouse.

Willow's heart was beating like crazy, when she stepped into the entrance hall and made her way towards the charms classroom.

In front of it, she stopped for a moment and took a few deep breaths, before opening the door. Lucius was already waiting inside, he looked up from his book, when he heard her entering.

"Hi…" Willow said nervous and sat down in front of Lucius.

Lucius smiled shortly and pulled out his wand.

"Today I will show you a pretty useful charm, it is called the Stealth Sensoring Spell."

"Okay… what does it do?"

"You can put it on doors or windows and it will inform you, when someone steps through it."

"Hey, that's pretty cool…" Willow said and thought of all the demons they could have detected sooner, if they put this spell on Buffy's house or even the doors of Sunnydalehigh.

The spell wasn't hard to learn and Willow cast it on the doors of the Charms classroom, to see if it worked, Lucius stepped through the door and Willow heard a sharp ring in her ears.

She pressed her hands to her ears until the sound had died down.

"Wow that is horrible… but at least you cannot overhear it!"

"That's what the spell is for. As for Dada I have something over there in the box." Lucius said pointing across the room. Willow looked to the corner of the room and saw the box she hadn't noticed before.

"What is it?"

"Go and look!" Lucius said with an amused smile, Willow nodded, she got up and walked over to it, she pulled the blanket with which the box was covered away and saw through the glass some kind of reptile

at least it looked a little like some.

It had long fingers, sharp little horns, green teeth and green skin, almost like scales.

„What is it?" Willow asked and turned to Lucius who knelt down beside her and his closeness made her heart beat faster.

„This is a Grindylow. It lives in lakes, it is a water demon and it uses his long fingers to capture his prey, it attacks humans when they get to close to his living space."

„To me it doesn't seem so dangerous." Willow said crouching down, so she could take a closer look at the thing inside.

When she came close, the Grindylow jumped towards her, but just hit the wall of the box, growling angry.

"As you see, these little things are pretty aggressive." Willow inched away from the box.

"Seems like that…."

For a moment both of them were silent, until Willow gathered all of her courage to say:

"I wanted to thank you again for earlier… this girl Narcissa is …" Willow didn't know what to say, she could hear Lucius chuckle beside her.

"Yeah, that's Narcissa, you should just ignore her. She is not important, though she thinks she is!"

Willow smiled and got up.

"I guess I should leave now, it is almost time for dinner. But I see you tomorrow." Lucius nodded and looked after her, when she left the room. He sighed deeply, he didn't want her to go, but it was the best, at

least that was what he tried to tell himself, though he wasn't fully convinced anymore.

"How was your tutoring?" Buffy asked, as soon, as Willow and her were alone in their dormitory.

"Alright… I guess. But Lucius is distant, like always."

"Hm… that sucks, but I bet, he will come around eventually."

"I hope so!" Willow sighed, because she wanted nothing more than to explore the feelings she had for Lucius.

"So this Severus…" Buffy began and interrupted Willow's thoughts. "He seems nice, but somehow I got the feeling that he was surprised that I was talking to him, like he isn't used to people being nice to him."

"You are right about that, James and Sirius used to pull pranks on him, call him ugly names and just be mean towards him."

"And now?"

"Well James just did it, because he was jealous, he thought that Lily had feelings for Severus, but after the two of them came together he has stopped being cruel towards him."

"What about Sirius?"

"I can't stand him. He is just mean to Severus because he is smart and a geek, so he picks on him for no good reason."

"He is an idiot and thinks he can act like he wants but he will see that that he is wrong. He should be careful with what he does, because when he picks on Severus again, he will regret it."

Willow couldn't help but giggle, she just hoped she was near, when Buffy finally snapped.

But she grew serious when she remembered something she wanted to talk with Buffy about.

"Oh, there is something else though!"

"And what?"

"You have met Peter right?"

"You mean the little pudgy girl, who always follows James and Sirius?!"

"Exactly. Something about him is not right, I cannot point it out, but I don't trust him."

"Hm… I guess I will have a closer look at him and see what the guy is all about."

Willow nodded satisfied and got up.

"I'm dead, lets get some sleep."


After Dada the next day, Buffy walked down the steps to the potions classroom, where she was about to meet Severus. Willow had gone off to the Charms classroom to meet with Lucius. Buffy couldn't wait till

Monday, because on Monday she had her first tutoring with Lucius, which was the perfect opportunity to talk with him about Willow and his feelings.

Buffy reached the Potions classroom and opened the door, she saw Severus' black hair behind a cauldron, he seemed occupied with something.

Quietly she walked closer and when she rounded the table she saw him reading in a thick book. A smiled crept on her face, he looked so concentrated and somehow cute… She didn't know where that thought

had coming from, but it was true. Sure he wasn't the typical handsome guy she had dated before. But there was something about him that she liked.

Maybe it were his dark eyes, which almost seemed black, or how his hair always fell into his face. Buffy shook her head, she didn't even know that guy, so she should stop acting like a lovesick teenager, she

hadn't done that for a long time and felt no urge to do it again.

"Hi." she greeted him and Severus winced, he looked up and smiled unsure.

"Sorry. I haven't heard you entering."

"It's okay. So what were you reading that's so interesting?"

"I do some research for Dada, we talk about Vampires at the moment… so.." he held up the book and Buffy read the title.

"The Source of Europe and the mystery of their disappearance"

Buffy couldn't help but laugh out loud, when she sat down beside Severus.

"What's so funny about that?"

"Oh just the fact, that I know more about it than the book…" Severus looked at her with big eyes, not sure what to say to that.

"You want me to share my knowledge?"

"Of course!" Severus was eager to get some knowledge, maybe she was right and she knew more than the book, but he wanted to know why she knew so much about it in the first place.


"I thought we could talk a little about werewolves today…" Lucius said after Willow sat down in front of him.

He saw her pale and furrowed his brows, something was wrong, he could see it in her eyes.

"Is something wrong with the topic?"

"No, not really, it's just that I hade my share of experiences when it comes to werewolves, so can we just skip that topic and talk about something else?"

Lucius saw how uncomfortable she felt with the topic and nodded.

"Sure…" he thought a moment and then said:

"We can practice with the boggart again, when you feel like you can make it. The Boggart is still in the closet over there!"

Willow looked at the closet and thought about Angel, but then again, it would be the best to confront her fears and defeat them.

"Yes. Let's do it!" Willow answered getting up, she grabbed her wand and thought about what she could do with him so she could laugh about him.

Lucius stood by her side and waited until she was ready.

"Okay, I am ready." she finally said and Lucius laid his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry. I'm right beside you!" Willow smiled a faint smile at him, then she turned back to the closet and nodded.

"Alohomora." he said and pointed his wand at the closet.

The closet opened and Angelus stepped out of it, glaring at Willow, then a wicked grin appeared on his face and Willow couldn't help but shiver.

Lucius saw it, but he knew her well enough, that she would be angry if he stepped in now. So he did the only thing he could think of, he took her hand in his and squeezed it.

Willow felt the fear falling off of her, Lucius' warm hand gave her enough strength to raise her wand and then she said:

"Riddikulus."

Willow looked at Angelus and his grin disappeared when his teeth fell out of his mouth and on top of that his hair fell out too. In front of them stood now a bold and toothless Angelus. Willow couldn't help

herself, she began to giggle, even Lucius had to laugh at that image.

Angel looked terrified and then turned to Lucius and immediately transformed into his father again.

Lucius looked at him with pure hatred in his eyes and Willow saw it, she realized that she still held his hand and this time it was her who squeezed his hand.

Willow didn't look at his boggart and because of that she saw the grateful smile on his handsome features, then he raised his wand and said:

"Riddikulus."

Like the last time the man's hair turned into an afro and he wore the ugliest flower dress she had ever seen, she laughed and Lucius smiled a little, the boggart backed off into the closet and with a wave of his

wand, Lucius closed the doors.

"Thank you!" Willow said and looked down at their hands, Lucius still held hers and she couldn't keep herself from smiling.

Lucius knew he had to let go of her hand, but he just couldn't force himself to do so.

"There is no need to thank me!"

Willow looked up at him and felt herself drowning in his stormy grey eyes, but she gasped, when she saw that the sun was setting. They had to get Remus to his hiding space before dark, so she had to go.

"I have to go…. There is something that has to be done, I am sorry." With that she let go of his hand and grabbed her bag, then she stormed out of the room.

Lucius looked after her and he felt the loss of her hand in his, it was almost painful and he wanted nothing more than to follow her and pull her close to his body. To touch her and to hold her forever.


Willow stormed into the common room and saw James, Peter, Sirius and Remus already waiting there.

"I'm sorry, I forgot the time. Let's go."

They nodded and Remus gave her the cage with a small owl in it.

"So Buffy knows?"

"Yes, I have talked to her." Remus said, when they left the common room and made their way towards the entrance hall. Remus was really pale and she could understand it, how she wished she could help him

with this whole werewolf thing. Free him from that curse, but as far as she knew there was no way of doing so.

They left the castle and walked towards the whooping Willow.

"Okay, its time." James said to Peter who turned into a rat, somehow Willow immediately thought that it suited him.

He ran towards the tree and did something Willow couldn't see in the dark, but the willow stood still and they could walk on, to an entrance under the tree.

They ducked into the tunnel and shortly after that the tree began to move again.

"How far is it till we reach the hut?" Willow asked.

"About ten Minutes and we should hurry, the moon will come up soon!" Remus said, he could feel it deep inside.

Because of his words, the friends began to run through the tunnel and after an eternity, at least to Willow it felt like that they stopped. Sirius opened a trapdoor over their heads and they climbed into a dusty

old house.

"I will go up to my room and lock myself in, you should change now too." Remus said, disappearing upstairs. His friends nodded, James turned into a deer, Sirius into a big black dog, Peter again into the rat that

suited his character and Willow turned with a smile into a Lynx.

The boys looked at her for a while then James seemed to nod, he and Sirius walked up the stairs and Willow followed them, she saw them taking their place at each side of the door, just waiting.

Willow looked at them, then she turned around to take a closer look at the house, while doing so, she realized something, Peter was gone.

That made her suspicious, she ran downstairs but she could see him nowhere, but she could hear small footsteps getting further and further away.

Thanks to her better hearing, because without it, she would have never found that little animal. But where was he going?

She was sure of one thing, she would find out. Quickly but without a sound, she followed him back into the tunnel and right back to the whooping Willow.

She made sure she was far away enough so he couldn't hear or smell her, but close enough, so she still heard where he was going.

He left the tunnel and Willow followed him into the darkness, she was glad that as a Lynx she heard and saw better, because she could see his small form running into the direction of the forbidden forest.

Where the hell was he going? And why?

As fast as she could she followed him, right into the forbidden forest, Willow followed him almost half an hour until he stopped, Willow stayed hidden behind a bush and looked at him transforming back.

"Master?!" she heard him whisper.

Only seconds later a dark cloaked figure appeared in front of him, Peter fell to the ground not even daring to look at the person.

"When will you bring me what I want?"

"Soon my master, but it is difficult, there are too many people around!"

"Then make those people go away. I need it as soon as possible, without this power I will never be able to destroy Dumbledore and this school. After he is gone there is noone that stands a chance against me

and I will rule all of the wizarding world and enslave all muggles."

"I will do my best my master. I will not disappoint you!"

"It would be better for you, if you don't, because you would regret it!"

Willow couldn't help it, but by the words of the conversation and what the cloaked person said, she was sure that she stood in front of noone else than "He-who-must-not-be-named" Voldemort!

But what had Peter to do with him, sure it seemed like he was working for him. What could Voldemort possibly want?

Which power was great enough so he could defeat Dumbledore and destroy the school, which was full of powerful wizards and witches.

She broke out of her thoughts when the cloaked figure disappeared and Peter still laid on the ground. It seemed like he hadn't noticed that Voldemort was gone.

That was her chance she had to get back to the others as quick as possible and later tell Buffy and Dumbledore everything, so they could decide what to do now.

She hurried out of the forbidden forest quietly so Peter didn't hear her.

She reached the tree and dodged the moving branches so she could slip back into the tunnel.

She ran towards the entrance to the house, which she had left open, before Peter reappeared at the shack she was back with James and Sirius, while she could hear shouts and screams from Remus' room.

Half an hour later Peter came back too, Willow didn't look at him, like she hadn't even realized that he had been gone.


The night went by so slowly that Willow felt like she would go crazy, but finally it dawned and Remus opened the door, he looked exhausted and sick, but human. So everyone else turned back.

Willow walked to Remus and put his arm around her shoulders, so he could steady himself on her.

"How are you?"

"Tired… but I already know it, I will lay down now and sleep before it's starting all over again."

Willow smiled at him, she wished she could do more for him, than just sit in front of his room.

Buffy walked inside of the common room up and down, they should return any minute now.

Only moments after she thought that, the portrait opened and they stepped inside.

Buffy smiled at Remus, who smiled a weak smile back, then she looked at Willow and immediately saw that something was wrong.

Willow nodded shortly at her, then she helped Remus up the stairs into his room and told the boys to help him get undressed.

Then she hurried down the steps and grabbed Buffy's arm.

"We have to go, right now."

"Where to?" Buffy asked confused, when Willow pulled her out of the common room.

"We have to speak with Professor Dumbledore something happened last night and we have to do something about it!"

Quietly she followed Willow through the corridors to Dumbledore's office.

They stopped in front of the stone gargoyle.

"Berty-Bott's-every-Flavor-Beans" she tried it, but nothing moved, so he had changed his password, Willow cursed and Buffy saw how worried Willow was, so she stepped forward and knock against the hidden

door with all of her slayer strength.

It didn't take long until it opened and a confused Dumbledore stood in the door, still wearing his sleeping clothes, a robe with moons and stars on it and a matching hat.

"So I wasn't dreaming when I heard a knock on my door. What can I do for you at such a time on a Saturday?"

"Something happened and we need to talk about it."

Dumbledore saw Willow's seriousness and nodded, then he led her up the stairs into his office.

Dumbledore took his seat behind his desk and his first question was:

"How is mister Lupin doing?"

"You know it?" Buffy asked surprised.

"Of course, I was the one who came up with the idea of the shrieking shack and the whooping willow."

Willow nodded, that explained a lot, especially why the boys hadn't been afraid to get caught by a teacher, when they came back this morning.

"So now what is so important Miss Rosenberg?" Dumbledore interrupted her thoughts.

"Well while we were out of the castle last night, I saw something, or better someone on the school grounds."

"And who would that be?"

"Voldemort…" That answer even surprised Dumbledore, then he grew stern.

"Are you sure it was him?"

"90% I haven't seen his face, but by the way he talked it could be noone else than him."

"Now explain everything from the beginning." Dumbledore ordered and Willow nodded then she started:

"After we reached the Shrieking Shack, I realized that Peter was gone, so I began to search for him. I never really trusted him, so I had the feeling that something was up. I followed him back to the whooping

willow and into the forbidden forest. Then he called his master and only moments later a cloaked figure appeared, I couldn't see anything of him, but Peter seemed really afraid, he didn't even dare to look at

him."

"So you are saying Mister Pettigrew is a spy, send by Voldemort?"

"More than that, by what he said."

"So what did they say?"

"Voldemort seemed angry because he wants Peter to get him something but Peter hadn't done it, he said too many people were around. Voldemort said he needed this power to defeat you and the whole

school, without it he couldn't do it. Peter promised he would bring it soon and then Voldemort disappeared."

Everyone was silent for a moment until Dumbledore spoke up again.

"It seems like you really have met Voldemort yesterday and the conversation really worries me, because we don't know what power he is talking about, though we know one thing, the power has to be

somewhere inside the castle because Voldemort cannot get it by himself. We need to keep a close eye on Mister Pettigrew from now on."

"Why don't we just grab him and make him tell us everything?" Buffy asked.

"Because he wouldn't say a word. Peter is too afraid of Voldemort, we could do with him what we wanted but because of his fear he would not say a word. So we have to follow him, keep our eyes on him and

as soon as he makes a move to get that power we have to stop him."

"Are we gonna tell James, Sirius and Remus about it? I mean, they think he is a friend…?!" Willow asked and Dumbledore seemed to think about it.

"I guess it would be the best, but you have to advise them, that they are not allowed to make a move until I say so! It could ruin all of our chances to defeat Voldemort once and for all, when we get that power,

we can use it against him."

"So it would be better if we don't tell Sirius about it. He would just flip and attack Peter without further thinking…" Buffy said and Dumbledore nodded with a small smile on his lips.

"You are indeed right Miss Summers, so I guess we stop our conversation here, I will inform every teacher at Hogwarts, to keep an eye on Mr. Pettigrew and tell me when he is acting suspicious."

"We will do our part too and if I meet that Voldemort guy, I will get my information from him." Buffy said and everyone else knew what she meant with that.

"I guess that would really surprise him, I think no one had ever attacked him physically."

"Well there's always as first time." Buffy answered getting up.

"Alright, when you see or hear something, please inform me right away!"

"We will." Willow promised an the two friends left the office.

"Seems like your feeling about that guy was right from the beginning!" Buffy said and Willow nodded, though she wished she had been wrong, it would be really hard for Remus and James when they learned

that their friend was a spy for Voldemort, though they always said they would join the army against Voldemort after graduation.

They entered the common room and saw James, Sirius and Peter sitting at the fire. It was still early so the common room was deserted.

"How do we get James away from them?" Willow whispered and Buffy grinned.

"I will distract Sirius and Peter and you talk to James, you know him better, that makes it more easy for him… at least I hope so!" Buffy mumbled back and Willow nodded.

"Yo Sirius, today is Saturday, so you are gonna teach me how to fly. Willow isn't so into flying so she told me that I can have her tutor session too."

At first Sirius looked surprised, then he grinned.

"Sure Sweety. There is no one that can teach you Quidditch like I can." Buffy rolled her eyes at Willow, while Sirius hurried to his room, to get his broom. When he came back, James said:

"I want to see that, I bet it will be hilarious." Peter nodded too and while Buffy and Sirius walked out first, closely followed by Peter. Willow grabbed James' arm.

"What?"

"There is something I need to talk to you about and Remus too. We should go upstairs and get him."

"What is it, you sound serious."

"It is… but I cannot tell you here, someone could overhear our conversation and that would not be good."

James furrowed his brows, but he nodded and disappeared upstairs to wake Remus.

Willow felt bad when they came down the steps, Remus looked so exhausted, she wanted nothing more than to tell him, that everything was alright and he could go back to sleep. But they had the right to

know!

"Let's go to the room of requirement." Willow said and walked out of the common room, while Remus and James followed her to the seventh floor, where the room of requirement was located.

As soon as Willow closed the door, Remus fell into one of the chairs.

"I am sorry, that I had to interrupt your sleep, but there is something you two need to know!"

James sat down too and Willow paced up and down in front of them.

"So what is it?" James asked curious.

"It is about Peter. While you and Sirius sat in front of Remus' room yesterday he left the hut. I followed him into the forbidden forest and …. Wow it is really hard to tell you guys this, but Peter is a deatheater.

He met with Voldemort last night and promised him to get some unknown source of power out of the castle."

The boys stared at her they couldn't believe it.

"Are you sure?" Remus finally asked, looking more defeated than ever.

"Yes. I already spoke to Dumbledore, he said we have to act like nothing is up, until he tries to get that power so we know what it is and we can defeat Voldemort with it."

They were silent for a moment and it was James who spoke up.

"I cannot believe this. I mean we trusted him and he is betraying us like that, how dare he. He will suffer for that!"

"I can understand that you are angry, but you have to act like always, or he will get suspicious."

"Willow is right… but what about Sirius?"

"That is why Buffy distracted him. He wouldn't understand it, he wouldn't stay cool and ruin everything."

The boys nodded, they knew Sirius well enough to know that Willow was right.


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See ya next year!