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Violet's Story part 21
"So, what do you guys want to do now that the exams are over?" I said, but a letter flew in. It was from Hagrid and he said they lost the appeal. Harry had walked in that moment, and we gave him the letter before he could tell us what Trelawny had said. Harry told Hermione what had happened to the cloak, and Hermione asked how to open the witch's hump, and she went and got it.
We went down to dinner with the rest of the school, and I went to my seat, only to eat then to go down to the table with the rest of them. Severus was angry, but he didn't know anything. Once I got there we waited until everyone was going back to the common room because I told them what happened when Fred, George, and I had tried to do that. So, when everyone was leaving I had to shake Fred off because he wanted to go with me wherever I was going.
Finally we got to an empty room, waited until the coast was clear, put on the cloak and were off to Hagrid's. When we got to the front of Hagrid's hut, I heard something in the forest and turned to see what it was. I only saw a bit of a black robe, and some shoes. "Violet come on," Harry said while pulling my arm to get me inside. Once we had the cloak off, I looked at everyone's shoes. The shoes that I saw outside were Harry's, but Harry was right next to me, how could he have been in two places at once?
I stopped thinking about that when I heard Hermione squeak and drop the milk jug. There was Scabbers. "Ron, you have very jumpy rat you know. You take him to a nice place, and he comes back all sick, then when a cat tries to catch him he freaks and-" I didn't go on because they were starring at me. "Never mind." Hagrid was looking out the window, "They're comin'," he said. We looked outside to see my father, Fudge, and the two men.
"Don't worry Hagrid I'll tell Fudge off for you," I told him. "No yeh won'. Yeh gotta go. They mustn' find yeh here... Go now... I'll let yeh out the back way," he said pushing me then all of us out the back door. Buckbeak was nervous and pounding the ground picking up dirt. We couldn't move even with Hagrid's desperate attempts to get us to go.
Hermione flung the cloak over us, and urged us all to go on. I was the stubborn one, and was the last to budge. We went slowly to the castle then hurried on because we didn't want to hear it. Ron kept stopping because his rat wasn't staying still. "Ron hold him, or put a sleeping spell on him or-" but I didn't finish because the thud of ax made me jump. Right then all I wanted to do, was cry into someone's shoulder, Fred's shoulder because Buckbeak was gone. I put my head on Harry's shoulder without tears coming down.
Harry had tried to go back, but Hermione and Ron pulled him back. I couldn't speak, I couldn't move, but they pushed me forward. Ron was trying desperately to hold on to his rat, but Crookshanks came, and Scabbers got out of his grasp. Ron came out from under the cloak, and I ran after him with Hermione yelling for us to come back. Finally Ron caught Scabbers, "Ron you need to put a spell on that rat before he gets us in trouble."
"I'm not-" but Ron didn't get to say that he wasn't going to do that because a big black dog had pounced on Harry, and had come back around. Ron pushed Harry out of the way and had stood in front of me and the dog bit Ron's arm. Before I could go help Ron, I felt something hit my waist and a pain like I have never felt pierced my body. I put my hand on the right side of my waist, where it had hit me, and saw something dark on my hand. I was bleeding.
The next second, I heard a loud crack from a bone, and saw that Ron's leg had been the thing that had broken. Harry and Hermione were arguing while I ripped my robes to cover my wound. I walked over to them while they were trying to get to the trunk. We weren't going to get past the branches of the Whomping Willow. Crookshanks slithered through the branches and hit a knot on the trunk. Where have I heard that you do that? It drove me crazy that I could never think of what the things around here meant, and where I had heard them.
We walked through the branches and followed Crookshanks down a slid to under the tree. When I got down there Harry helped me because I couldn't get up. We went through the tunnel following Crookshanks, but I had to stop because my waist was hurting to badly, so they waited too, but only for a minute then we went on. We got to the end and there was an opening. We went through, Harry in front and Hermione and I behind. We were in the Shrieking Shack, Sirius had told me all about this place, wait. Sirius, told me about the tree too and he was Animagus, a big black dog.
I was about to tell them when Harry kicked down the door and Hermione ran over to Ron. Ron told them what I was thinking, and there behind the door was Sirius Black. I was stunned, and yet angry with him for causing all of this. He took Harry's wand away and told Harry that he was brave like his father. I went up to Sirius and hugged him. He pushed me away asking, "Who are you?" I smiled and said, "Who do you think?" turning to help Ron cover his leg.
"Don't you come near me. Your friends with him, and you never once told us. You let him in the castle didn't you?"
"Ron, don't be stupid, and what are you going to do bite me?" I walked over to him and pulled some cloth off the bed and wrapped his leg. Harry had gone forward while I was trying to wrap Ron's leg. "Ron stay still... there you're done." Ron had stood up to hold Harry with Hermione. "There'll be only one murder here tonight," Sirius said grinning. I stared at him with confusion, who was he talking about? "Why's that? Didn't care last time did you? Didn't mind slaughtering all those Muggles to get to Pettigrew....What's the matter, gone soft in Azkaban?"
"Harry!" both Hermione and I said. "Be quiet!" Hermione said. "HE KILLED MY MUM AND DAD!" I was about to tell Harry off, but he had broken free of Ron and Hermione's arms, and was fighting with Sirius. Harry was punching Sirius every where he could while holding the arm with the wands. I got up to stop this, but Ron pushed me back and I fell over a loose board. I raised my head to find Ron and Hermione fighting too. Harry had his wand and shouted, "Get out of the way!" They moved out of the way without protest.
Sirius was trying to convince Harry to listen to him. Even though the pain was more than I could bear, I sprang forward on to Sirius just as Crookshanks did. Harry wasn't going to settle for anything. "Harry you don't know the whole story. You have-"
"Why should I listen to you. You lied, you were with him the whole time helping him try to get to me. I should have known. You don't hear my parents either, you don't even know my parents or anything about what went on."
"Harry stop, if you kill Sirius you'll be losing something you never got to have. If you kill him," I said with tears coming down my face, "If you kill him then you'll have to kill me too."
"Who are you?" Sirius asked. "All I can say with them here, is that I'm Violet," I told him without taking my watery eyes off Harry. "You... you're Violet. You're-"
"Sirius, not very many people know and I would like to keep it that way." Harry looked confused, but he didn't move his wand away.
Harry raised his wand ready to strike with all three of us looking up at him. There were footsteps coming from below us, and Hermione was screaming that Black was up here. In walked Remus, I smiled as he looked at everyone, then took Harry's wand and the two wands Hermione had away. "Where is he, Sirius?" Remus asked with both Crookshanks and I still hugging Sirius, he pointed to Ron.
"But then... why hasn't he shown himself before now? Unless," Remus' eyes widened, "Unless you switched without telling me?" I got up off of Sirius just as Harry was asking what Remus meant. Remus walked up to Sirius and helped him up and hugged him, like old times, as Sirius would say. I smiled, but Hermione screamed, "I DON'T BELIEVE IT! You- you-" she was pointing at Remus. "Hermione-" Harry was angry because now Remus had lied to him, not really, but that's what he thought.
"NO! Harry don't trust him, both of them have been helping Black get into the castle, he wants you dead too- he's a werewolf," Hermione told them. He told them she was right in thinking he was a werewolf, but not about the other things and tried to get to Ron. Ron shouted, "Get away from me werewolf!" I said with a mother like tone, "Ron!" but Remus had stopped and asked Hermione how long she's known.
Remus went into explanation about he found us. He said he saw us go down to Hagrid's then come back out with another person. We didn't, only with Scabbers, I was totally confused. He thought the map was malfunctioning, but the map wasn't. Then he saw Sirius come and drag two people down to where we were, and then both Sirius and Remus said that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew.
Sirius tried to get Scabbers, but Lupin stopped him, but he was still trying. I was getting very dizzy and I was going to fall, "Violet!" said Remus catching me. "Sirius you owe her the truth as well. Violet sit down," he said while sitting me down next Sirius who was starring at the rat. As soon as I sat down I felt better, and could see straight. Hermione was telling Remus that he couldn't be an Animagus because he wasn't on the register. Both Remus and I laughed. He stared at me and began to explain.
Remus went on to explain things I already knew. He told them about the Whomping Willow being planted because of him and telling the Shrieking Shack was for him. That Severus made the potion for him to become a harmless wolf. He told them of Sirius, Peter, and James, my father, becoming Animagi for him. About how they would get past the tree. I loved listening to this story as Sirius would always tell me about what they did.
He told them how they came to write the map, and the names of each of them, something Sirius never told. "What did you say? Wormtail?" I asked Remus while the rats squeaking got even louder. "Yes, as I was saying-"
"Are you sure that's his name?"
"Yes, why?"
"Change him. Change that rat into Peter, I want to-"
"Wait until I finish-"
"I know what happens, more so than you. Change him now!"
"When I'm done explaining to them, both you and Sirius will have to wait."
Remus went on to tell them about the joke that Sirius had played Severus, and I found it quite amusing until Severus came out from behind the door pulling the cloak off. Severus was mental, I stared at him until he tied up Remus' hands, ankles, and mouth with a spell. Sirius got up to get Severus, but Severus just smiled and pointed his wand at him. "Severus! You stop this right now," I told him trying to get up. "Violet, I would suggest that you keep your mouth shut. I have a wand and can use it."
I stopped trying to get up and said, "You know very well, that I don't need a wand to beat you. I can use my feet to kick you instead." He just laughed and said, " You're injured, you can't possibly get me." He was right, I was badly injured, so bad I couldn't stand. Hermione went up to him and asked if we could just listen, but he yelled at her to keep quite. "DON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" he yelled. "You should be one to talk, Severus," I told him.
Severus was going on telling Sirius that he was going to take him to the dementors and they had a kiss for him. He yelled at us to come, but Harry blocked the door way, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione all tried to disarm Severus at the same time. I tried to get up to help Remus, but Sirius pushed me back down, and helped him. Sirius went on to tell them how he knew Scabbers was Peter then they changed him.
Violet's Story part 21
"So, what do you guys want to do now that the exams are over?" I said, but a letter flew in. It was from Hagrid and he said they lost the appeal. Harry had walked in that moment, and we gave him the letter before he could tell us what Trelawny had said. Harry told Hermione what had happened to the cloak, and Hermione asked how to open the witch's hump, and she went and got it.
We went down to dinner with the rest of the school, and I went to my seat, only to eat then to go down to the table with the rest of them. Severus was angry, but he didn't know anything. Once I got there we waited until everyone was going back to the common room because I told them what happened when Fred, George, and I had tried to do that. So, when everyone was leaving I had to shake Fred off because he wanted to go with me wherever I was going.
Finally we got to an empty room, waited until the coast was clear, put on the cloak and were off to Hagrid's. When we got to the front of Hagrid's hut, I heard something in the forest and turned to see what it was. I only saw a bit of a black robe, and some shoes. "Violet come on," Harry said while pulling my arm to get me inside. Once we had the cloak off, I looked at everyone's shoes. The shoes that I saw outside were Harry's, but Harry was right next to me, how could he have been in two places at once?
I stopped thinking about that when I heard Hermione squeak and drop the milk jug. There was Scabbers. "Ron, you have very jumpy rat you know. You take him to a nice place, and he comes back all sick, then when a cat tries to catch him he freaks and-" I didn't go on because they were starring at me. "Never mind." Hagrid was looking out the window, "They're comin'," he said. We looked outside to see my father, Fudge, and the two men.
"Don't worry Hagrid I'll tell Fudge off for you," I told him. "No yeh won'. Yeh gotta go. They mustn' find yeh here... Go now... I'll let yeh out the back way," he said pushing me then all of us out the back door. Buckbeak was nervous and pounding the ground picking up dirt. We couldn't move even with Hagrid's desperate attempts to get us to go.
Hermione flung the cloak over us, and urged us all to go on. I was the stubborn one, and was the last to budge. We went slowly to the castle then hurried on because we didn't want to hear it. Ron kept stopping because his rat wasn't staying still. "Ron hold him, or put a sleeping spell on him or-" but I didn't finish because the thud of ax made me jump. Right then all I wanted to do, was cry into someone's shoulder, Fred's shoulder because Buckbeak was gone. I put my head on Harry's shoulder without tears coming down.
Harry had tried to go back, but Hermione and Ron pulled him back. I couldn't speak, I couldn't move, but they pushed me forward. Ron was trying desperately to hold on to his rat, but Crookshanks came, and Scabbers got out of his grasp. Ron came out from under the cloak, and I ran after him with Hermione yelling for us to come back. Finally Ron caught Scabbers, "Ron you need to put a spell on that rat before he gets us in trouble."
"I'm not-" but Ron didn't get to say that he wasn't going to do that because a big black dog had pounced on Harry, and had come back around. Ron pushed Harry out of the way and had stood in front of me and the dog bit Ron's arm. Before I could go help Ron, I felt something hit my waist and a pain like I have never felt pierced my body. I put my hand on the right side of my waist, where it had hit me, and saw something dark on my hand. I was bleeding.
The next second, I heard a loud crack from a bone, and saw that Ron's leg had been the thing that had broken. Harry and Hermione were arguing while I ripped my robes to cover my wound. I walked over to them while they were trying to get to the trunk. We weren't going to get past the branches of the Whomping Willow. Crookshanks slithered through the branches and hit a knot on the trunk. Where have I heard that you do that? It drove me crazy that I could never think of what the things around here meant, and where I had heard them.
We walked through the branches and followed Crookshanks down a slid to under the tree. When I got down there Harry helped me because I couldn't get up. We went through the tunnel following Crookshanks, but I had to stop because my waist was hurting to badly, so they waited too, but only for a minute then we went on. We got to the end and there was an opening. We went through, Harry in front and Hermione and I behind. We were in the Shrieking Shack, Sirius had told me all about this place, wait. Sirius, told me about the tree too and he was Animagus, a big black dog.
I was about to tell them when Harry kicked down the door and Hermione ran over to Ron. Ron told them what I was thinking, and there behind the door was Sirius Black. I was stunned, and yet angry with him for causing all of this. He took Harry's wand away and told Harry that he was brave like his father. I went up to Sirius and hugged him. He pushed me away asking, "Who are you?" I smiled and said, "Who do you think?" turning to help Ron cover his leg.
"Don't you come near me. Your friends with him, and you never once told us. You let him in the castle didn't you?"
"Ron, don't be stupid, and what are you going to do bite me?" I walked over to him and pulled some cloth off the bed and wrapped his leg. Harry had gone forward while I was trying to wrap Ron's leg. "Ron stay still... there you're done." Ron had stood up to hold Harry with Hermione. "There'll be only one murder here tonight," Sirius said grinning. I stared at him with confusion, who was he talking about? "Why's that? Didn't care last time did you? Didn't mind slaughtering all those Muggles to get to Pettigrew....What's the matter, gone soft in Azkaban?"
"Harry!" both Hermione and I said. "Be quiet!" Hermione said. "HE KILLED MY MUM AND DAD!" I was about to tell Harry off, but he had broken free of Ron and Hermione's arms, and was fighting with Sirius. Harry was punching Sirius every where he could while holding the arm with the wands. I got up to stop this, but Ron pushed me back and I fell over a loose board. I raised my head to find Ron and Hermione fighting too. Harry had his wand and shouted, "Get out of the way!" They moved out of the way without protest.
Sirius was trying to convince Harry to listen to him. Even though the pain was more than I could bear, I sprang forward on to Sirius just as Crookshanks did. Harry wasn't going to settle for anything. "Harry you don't know the whole story. You have-"
"Why should I listen to you. You lied, you were with him the whole time helping him try to get to me. I should have known. You don't hear my parents either, you don't even know my parents or anything about what went on."
"Harry stop, if you kill Sirius you'll be losing something you never got to have. If you kill him," I said with tears coming down my face, "If you kill him then you'll have to kill me too."
"Who are you?" Sirius asked. "All I can say with them here, is that I'm Violet," I told him without taking my watery eyes off Harry. "You... you're Violet. You're-"
"Sirius, not very many people know and I would like to keep it that way." Harry looked confused, but he didn't move his wand away.
Harry raised his wand ready to strike with all three of us looking up at him. There were footsteps coming from below us, and Hermione was screaming that Black was up here. In walked Remus, I smiled as he looked at everyone, then took Harry's wand and the two wands Hermione had away. "Where is he, Sirius?" Remus asked with both Crookshanks and I still hugging Sirius, he pointed to Ron.
"But then... why hasn't he shown himself before now? Unless," Remus' eyes widened, "Unless you switched without telling me?" I got up off of Sirius just as Harry was asking what Remus meant. Remus walked up to Sirius and helped him up and hugged him, like old times, as Sirius would say. I smiled, but Hermione screamed, "I DON'T BELIEVE IT! You- you-" she was pointing at Remus. "Hermione-" Harry was angry because now Remus had lied to him, not really, but that's what he thought.
"NO! Harry don't trust him, both of them have been helping Black get into the castle, he wants you dead too- he's a werewolf," Hermione told them. He told them she was right in thinking he was a werewolf, but not about the other things and tried to get to Ron. Ron shouted, "Get away from me werewolf!" I said with a mother like tone, "Ron!" but Remus had stopped and asked Hermione how long she's known.
Remus went into explanation about he found us. He said he saw us go down to Hagrid's then come back out with another person. We didn't, only with Scabbers, I was totally confused. He thought the map was malfunctioning, but the map wasn't. Then he saw Sirius come and drag two people down to where we were, and then both Sirius and Remus said that Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew.
Sirius tried to get Scabbers, but Lupin stopped him, but he was still trying. I was getting very dizzy and I was going to fall, "Violet!" said Remus catching me. "Sirius you owe her the truth as well. Violet sit down," he said while sitting me down next Sirius who was starring at the rat. As soon as I sat down I felt better, and could see straight. Hermione was telling Remus that he couldn't be an Animagus because he wasn't on the register. Both Remus and I laughed. He stared at me and began to explain.
Remus went on to explain things I already knew. He told them about the Whomping Willow being planted because of him and telling the Shrieking Shack was for him. That Severus made the potion for him to become a harmless wolf. He told them of Sirius, Peter, and James, my father, becoming Animagi for him. About how they would get past the tree. I loved listening to this story as Sirius would always tell me about what they did.
He told them how they came to write the map, and the names of each of them, something Sirius never told. "What did you say? Wormtail?" I asked Remus while the rats squeaking got even louder. "Yes, as I was saying-"
"Are you sure that's his name?"
"Yes, why?"
"Change him. Change that rat into Peter, I want to-"
"Wait until I finish-"
"I know what happens, more so than you. Change him now!"
"When I'm done explaining to them, both you and Sirius will have to wait."
Remus went on to tell them about the joke that Sirius had played Severus, and I found it quite amusing until Severus came out from behind the door pulling the cloak off. Severus was mental, I stared at him until he tied up Remus' hands, ankles, and mouth with a spell. Sirius got up to get Severus, but Severus just smiled and pointed his wand at him. "Severus! You stop this right now," I told him trying to get up. "Violet, I would suggest that you keep your mouth shut. I have a wand and can use it."
I stopped trying to get up and said, "You know very well, that I don't need a wand to beat you. I can use my feet to kick you instead." He just laughed and said, " You're injured, you can't possibly get me." He was right, I was badly injured, so bad I couldn't stand. Hermione went up to him and asked if we could just listen, but he yelled at her to keep quite. "DON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" he yelled. "You should be one to talk, Severus," I told him.
Severus was going on telling Sirius that he was going to take him to the dementors and they had a kiss for him. He yelled at us to come, but Harry blocked the door way, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione all tried to disarm Severus at the same time. I tried to get up to help Remus, but Sirius pushed me back down, and helped him. Sirius went on to tell them how he knew Scabbers was Peter then they changed him.