Harry Potter and the Runaway Convict Chapter 22

"All right. Well, Dumbledore himself offered to be the Potter's Secret Keeper, but they declined, saying that I would never betray them, that I would die before I let them die. Dumbledore told them that someone on our side was working for Voldemort........" Lots of gasps.
"People, it's just a name. If you don't quit gasping, this trial will never end," Judge DeRosa said. More lost time. Saying Voldemort was buying them time, but if the crowd was ordered to be quiet, then it would not buy them any more time. Where was Melissa?
"They insisted on using me anyway. And people believe that they went through with it, and that I killed them. But instead, their closest friends, including me, suggested a perfect bluff, since Voldemort" no gasps "would go straight after me. So we told them to use the weaker wizard, Peter Pettigrew, who wasn't the obvious."
Someone in the crowd yelled, "He wasn't weak, he was very strong and very brave, and you killed him!"
Sirius looked into the crowd, along with everyone in the courthouse, to find the source of the voice. Sirius gasped. The voice belonged to none other than the very last person on earth he had expected to see there, at his trial.
"You're wrong. You're wrong," he said.
"No, I'm not! He was killed by you. I hate you! You took away the two people that meant the world to me. You killed my husband and you brainwashed my twin!"
That's right. The voice belonged to Morgan Gumtree Pettigrew, Melissa's 'evil' twin. Sirius sighed, thinking about Melissa. Where was she now?

In the woods, she groaned. She had been following all night. Would she ever find the rat? Or, more importantly, would she find the rat in time?
All she wanted was to save the person she loved most in the world. Sirius.