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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Sun, Sept. 19, 2004
Raven's POV
"Our third year was basically started when the convicted murderer Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban prison. He was the first to ever manage to do so and, it was believed, he was out to hunt down Harry as everyone suspected Sirius was loyal to Voldemort."
"I gather that turned out not to be the case?"
"Correct. Sirius was after the person who actually had betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort. I'll cover that later. Harry spent his summer with his remaining family, the Dursleys who treated the same as they always have. They are completely horrible to him."
"Who are the Dursleys and why does Harry stay with them if they are that bad?"
"Harry has three remaining relatives. His uncle, Vernon, hates him. His aunt, Petunia, who is the sister of Harry's mum and a cousin, Dudley. They all hate wizards, witches, magic and anything to do with Harry so they treat him like a pest. I don't why he stays except that Dumbledore seems to feel it is necessary for some reason."
I nodded since I lacked anything to say at this point.
"That summer, Vernon's sister came around and was insulting of Harry's parents so Harry, umm, blew her up and"
"Blew her up?" I spoke loudly while feeling my eyes widen. Well, no wonder these Dursleys disliked magic.
"Not like that, more like a balloon. The Ministry found her after Harry ran away, deflated her and wiped her memory of it. Harry was forgiven by the then Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge but also told to stay at the Leaky Cauldron until his time at Hogwarts began for his third year. We were on the train heading back to Hogwarts when we met the new Defense against the Dark Arts instructor, Prof. Remus Lupin and had a first encounter with the dementors. They normally guard Azkaban but were sent to Hogwarts to see if Sirius would make an effort to come here."
"What exactly are these dementors?"
"They stay cloaked all the time so no one is completely sure but, when present; they make you feel just dreadful. Every bad feeling, sad or depressing thought, despair and misery is called forth by their mere presence. It's quite distressing. Also, they can perform the Dementor's Kiss, which is said to allow them to suck out the very soul of a person and leave them lifeless, for all practical purposes."
"Charming. They must be lots of fun at parties." Hermoine grinned at this before continuing.
Hermoine's POV
Looks like I can add a sense of humor to the still short list of things I know about the newest member of Gryffindor.
"Yes, well, be that as it may, Harry was confined to the castle and grounds while Sirius and the dementors were about. It didn't stop the dementors from coming onto the grounds and nearly killing Harry during a Quidditch match even though they were only supposed to guard the entrances to the school and not be on the actual grounds though. That confinement only applied to Harry when the other students would be allowed to visit Hogsmeade on weekends. It was a concern that Harry might seek out Sirius for vengeance. Partly because everyone believed that Sirius had betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort but also because he had been best friends with Harry's father and was Harry's godfather as well. The two of them attended Hogwarts together along with Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. The four of them got along quite well even after the other three discovered Lupin's condition."
"His condition? He was ill?"
"Not precisely. Lupin had been infected as a child but Dumbledore allowed him to attend Hogwarts anyway with some precautions in place. Lupin is a werewolf but was kept away from other students during his transformations. The other three stayed with him because they themselves had each become an animagus. Harry's father, James, was a stag. Sirius was a giant dog. Pettigrew is a rat, in more ways than one as he is the one that actually told Voldemort where the Potters were hiding. Pettigrew then framed Sirius for a number of deaths and, as a result, Sirius was sent to Azkaban while everyone believed that Pettigrew was among those killed. Pettigrew had been disguised as a rat that ended up with Ron's family and when Sirius saw a picture of Ron's family in the Daily Prophet, he recognized Pettigrew and escaped to come to Hogwarts."
"Nobody in Ron's family suspected their rat was anything more than just a rat?"
"No. Ron says that they just believed the rat was magical which is why it lived as long as it did. Anyway, after Sirius made his way to Hogwarts, Lupin found an old creation called the Marauder's Map, which is something he, Sirius, James and Pettigrew put together as students. The map shows the location of everyone within Hogwarts at any moment and it showed him the Pettigrew was on the grounds, even though he believed Pettigrew dead. After tracking both him and Sirius down, the truth came out as both Remus and Sirius managed to cause the rat to change back to his human form and suddenly, there was Peter Pettigrew, alive and well.
"That is certainly some map. What happened to it?"
"Umm, I don't know. I never actually saw it." I had told her a lot but there were still some things I wasn't going to give away just yet, like the map since I knew Harry had it or knowledge of his invisibility cloak.
I sensed Hermoine holding back but decided not to push in favor of hearing the remainder of her story. "What happened to Lupin, Black and Pettigrew then?"
"Lupin resigned when word leaked out that he was a werewolf which had been kept a secret until then. Pettigrew escaped since that very night happened to be a full moon and Lupin's changing was a distraction to the rest of us. Since no one else had seen him, even though Dumbledore believed us, Sirius couldn't officially be exonerated although he did escape as well and remained a fugitive and that brought about the end of our third year at Hogwarts."
