Title: Truth behind the name and the lies pt.3
Pairing: DracoxHarry, OliverxPercy, twincest, growing RemusxSeverus,
Fandom : HP
Notes: An abused boy finds out he's a wizard and a hero; his tormented mind rebels. One person sees through the misconceptions to the real Harry and treats him the way he deserves. How does this change them both and those around them
Evil Kitty Dictator-
'Awwwwwwww sappy moments all around haha. I can't wait till they catch Peter, that's gonna be way interesting. Oh well
Lee isn't needed to make the relationship cute, the twins can do it all by themselves. Even though Sirius maybe innocent like in the movie it doesn't mean he'll be forgiven for all the cruel things he did to Sev. IF Harry does accept his innocence it won't turn out how he wants that's for sure. Update when you can.' - Yes, catching the rat is interesting. Yes, twins are adorable. He is innocent only of the betrayal of James and Lily, not of what happened to Severus. I don't see Harry or Remus being to keen on having him around because their love for Severus..
Sari Sunshine-
'AWW! Love and twincest! Who does't love some good twincest?... Maybe my sisters they being twins and all. Lol Good Crookshanks attacking that nasty AWWZ Ollie wanting the cup for Percy too so sweet and just general AWWWZ all around for this chapter.I have a bad feeling about all the goodness going on something bad is bound to happen' - George and Fred are love...
Crookshanks is a smart cat thing. Yes Oliver loves his Percy...yeah it will be interesting.
Notes: Any objection to Remus having a crush on Severus? I think I have five [I mean seven] votes for a RemusxSeverus relationship...
Chapter 9- Rats and liars
They were making a new potion today, a Shrinking Solution. Harry and Draco set up their cauldrons right next to Ron and poor Neville, so that they were preparing their ingredients on the same table. Ron was not happy and muttered nasty things.
Half way through the brewing process Neville was in trouble. Neville regularly went to pieces in Potions lessons; it was his worst subject, and his great fear of Professor Snape made things ten times worse. His potion, which was supposed to be a bright, acid green, had turned —
"Orange, Longbottom," Severus said, ladling some up and allowing to splash back into the cauldron, so that everyone could see.
"Orange. Tell me, boy, does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours? Didn't you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one cat spleen was needed? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?" he glanced at Ron's, "Weasley, did you take a stupid potion this morning or were you born that way? Yours is just as awful. Your brothers could do a shrinking potion in their sleep. Didn't I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? I can tell my looking at it that's where you went wrong potionwise of course."
Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears.
"Please, Professor," Harry asked, "please, I could help Neville put it right…"
"I don't remember asking you Potter. If you think you can. Though I very much doubt it. Correcting a potion that went wrong is difficult for even an experienced potioneer. Malfoy might have the possibility for it in the future." Severus said coldly, and Harry blushed the same shade as Neville. "Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly. I'll be doing the same with your rat, Weasley."
Severus moved away, but not before grabbing the toad and balding rat, leaving Neville breathless with fear and Ron glaring daggers at him.
"Help me!" Neville moaned to Harry.
Harry glanced at Draco, "can we fix it…"
"I see how it is…picking favorites. You three poofs together…" Ron glowered.
Blaise hissed from his table beside them, "Shut up Weasley."
Severus sealed the two familiars in a circle of his own creation, even an animagus couldn't break it. A student couldn't put their hands in and retrieve their pet because…well they'd receive a nasty shock the first time. He sneered.
"Hey, Harry," Seamus Finnigan said, leaning over to borrow Harry's scales, "have you heard? Daily Prophet this morning, they reckon Sirius Black's been sighted."
"Where?" Harry and Draco asked quickly.
From another table, Blaisé looked up, listening closely.
"Not too far from here," said Seamus, who looked excited. "He was spotted in Hogsmeade. But by the time the Ministry of Magic got there, he was gone."
"Not too far from here…" Draco repeated, looking at Harry, trying to sense his reaction. He turned around and saw Ron watching closely. "What, Weasley? You think after your behavior we're going to help you fix your potion?"
But Ron's eyes were shining malevolently, and they were fixed Harry. He leaned across the table. "Thinking of trying to catch Black single-handed, Potter?"
"You really think I have a death wish…" Harry said quietly.
Ron's thin mouth was curving in a mean smile. "Of course, if it was me," he sneered, "I'd have done something before now. I wouldn't be staying in school like a good boy, I'd be out there looking for him."
"Harry just said he doesn't have a death wish." Draco said roughly.
"Don't you know, Potter?" Ron breathed, his blue eyes narrowed.
"That he is the reason my parents are dead? Yeah, I know. Papa told me."
"How do you know your precious papa didn't help…" Ron's eyes glimmered wickedly.
"Why don't you focus on correcting your potion Weasley." Draco said dryly, "Unless, you trust it won't ensure your precious Scabbers has an unpleasant demise." He moved to help Neville really quick, he wasn't quite the potioneer Uncle Sev was but he could balance the base to acid ration that made the potion the wrong color and possibly hazardous to Neville's precious toad.
Nott laughed openly, watching Neville sweat as he stirred his potion feverishly. Draco was muttering instructions to him out of the corner of his mouth, so that Ron couldn't hear and duplicate though they had messed up in different parts of the potion. Harry and Draco packed away their unused ingredients and went to wash their hands and ladles in the stone basin in the corner after Draco was satisfied Neville's potion was fixed.
The end of the lesson in sight, Severus strode over to Neville, who was cowering by his cauldron.
"Everyone gather 'round," Severus said, his black eyes glittering, "and watch what happens to Longbottom's toad. If he has managed to produce a Shrinking Solution, it will shrink to a tadpole. If, as I don't doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned." He knew it wasn't poison anymore…"
The Gryffindors watched fearfully while the Slytherins looked excited.
Severus held Trevor the toad in his left hand and dipped a small spoon into Neville's potion, which was now green. He trickled a few drops down Trevor's throat.
There was a moment of hushed silence, in which Trevor gulped; then there was a small pop, and Trevor the tadpole was wriggling in Snape's palm.
The Gryffindors burst into applause. Snape, looking sour, pulled a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, poured a few drops on top of Trevor, and he reappeared suddenly, fully grown.
"Fifteen points to Slytherin and five to Gryffindor." said Snape, which wiped the smiles from each Gryffindor's face. "I guess perhaps, the potion was salvageable. Though I expect you owe Malfoy for the life of your precious toad. Now Weasley, let me get your bloody rat."
He retrieve the squirming creature, "Bite me, and I will curse you." He muttered, the rat stilled, he dipped his spoon into Blaisé's potion because no one was looking and only pretended to take some of Ron's fouled potion. He poured some down the rat's throat and threw it on the ground.
The rat convulsed, whimpering pathetically. There was a pop and instead of a hairless blind baby rat there was a squalling human infant with familiar watery eyes dwarfed by a worn and dirty shirt, Severus was shocked that Remus' suspicions were correct. Since when was Lupin Remus to him?
"Well, well Peter Pettigrew. It seems your death has been greatly exaggerated. I think I will be confiscating your so-called rat. Draco, would you step into my office and floo Remus and Minerva please? It seems we have an unwelcome guest. Class dismissed. If you are expecting a class with Professor Lupin, I'm sure it will be cancelled. I would head to the tower if I were you."
The Gryffindors scurried out, most of Slytherin heading to their next class.
Ron stared at what used to be Scabbers, "What did you do to him…"
"Me? I did nothing…must have been your so-called shrinking potion. Though I do wonder how it managed to turn your rat into the baby of a man who has been assumed dead for almost thirteen years." Severus glared.
Draco returned with Remus and Headmistress McGonagall.
"What is this about Severus."
Remus took one look at those eyes, "So…" he said quietly, "I was right…hello Peter. I wish I could say it was nice to see you." He glared, "…but it's not."
"Peter? Pettigrew? He's dead. Sirius killed him…"
"We can test that theory, what is the chance he'll be a rat again if I use the antidote…" Sever glanced at Remus.
"I'm not sure. I know the revealing spell…I'm sure the Headmistress does as well." Remus said.
"Rat? Revealing spell…just what is going on…"
"It seems, when they were students Remus' friends thought it quite fun to become animagus and keep it to themselves. Peter became a rat. He has probably been hiding as a rat for the last twelve years. Though I'm not sure why he'd fake his death…"
McGonagall nodded, "I see. So Peter is a rat. I do know the animagus revealing spell. Mutator formarum revertere I believe. Never had it used on me…" she shivered, "Of all things why a rat."
"Animal chooses the wizard Minerva, you know that."
Severus poured the antidote on the squalling unhappy infant, it shifted back and for the between rat and man. Finally settling on human, it was like watching a speeded-up film of a growing tree. A head was shooting upwards from the ground; limbs were sprouting; next moment, a man was standing where Scabbers had been thrown and the baby had been before had been, cringing and wringing his hands.
"Oh…oh…" looking from face to face…
"Still pathetic as usual." Severus scowled.
"Remus…my old friend…is he here…"
Remus raised an eye brow, "who…" his eyes narrowed, "I can smell a lie so choose your words carefully Peter. I hope you didn't forget the Headmistress is a cat. She can chase you, though I'm sure she'll have a hard time protecting you from the likes of Crookshanks or Mrs. Norris."
Peter shifted nervously, "He wanted to kill me...I ran…I was scared…"
"Peter…you accused him of betraying Lily and James in front of Muggles. The street exploded and then all the Ministry found of you was a finger. What were you doing…"
"…I was scared…he raised his wand…I lost my courage…I transformed out of fear."
Blaise coughed, "lie…"
Remus glanced at him, "I thought so. You spent twelve years as a rat, scared of Sirius? Explain the finger. I'm confused…"
Severus stared at him, marching up and tugging up his sleeve, "You…you wormy little bastard. I don't know how you managed it…" He showed them Peter's arm, on his left forearm was the same Dark Mark, a skull with a snake protruding from its mouth that was on his own arm. "I would never have suspected you. You were the spineless push-over even I could bully."
Remus blinked, "You were the traitor…but…Sirius was secret-keeper…"
"Is that what Dumbledore said? I thought he might have told the truth…"
There was something cold in those eyes…Draco thought. Holding tight to Harry's hand he glared, "Are you sure? Are you going to keep lying? I'm sure I can have my friend Blaisé go find Sirius. I wonder what his reaction to your capture would be."
"Remus…they want to bring the man who wants me dead…" Peter whinged…
"Why does he want you dead…you cornered him on a Muggle street remember…" Severus drawled, moving closer to Remus.
"I don't understand why you trust a Death Eater…"
Severus raised an eye brow, "How do you know that I was a Death Eater. I don't remember seeing you…"
"I don't know…the people you hung out with when we were at school became Death Eaters…." Peter's watery eyes darted around nervously.
"I've had enough. I'm getting Sirius. Severus, come with me. I'm not going alone. Don't let this scum out." Remus snapped.
"Don't bring him here…" Peter whimpered trying to find an
"What scared he'll tell me the truth…" remus glared, taking Severus' hand, "This will be interesting…"
They walked to the edge of the forest…
Remus magically magnified his voice, "Padfoot! Get your furry ass out here. I know you're there…I've got Wormtail. In case you want to talk to the scum."
I hope I didn't disappoint the RemusxSeverus fans out there. I have issues seeing Remus the werewolf as anything but seme...though Severus will protest...
I know it's a cliffy sorry *hides*