Chapter 22 - Sirius.
Harry fell to the ground after just being struck with two spells at
once, the Intalaenius curse, and it's cure with the words Anti-Intalae.
Voldemort turned around at once and glared with fury at Lupin. "That
was a big mistake." Snarled Voldemort, gripping his wand. "You'll regret
that."
Lupin didn't deny that for a second, and gripped his own wand too. Harry
slowly sat up and watched the two wizards glare at each other.
Harry stood up and shouted "Lupin! What are you doing here!"
"Saving you of course."
"But you can't! Not on your own! It's too dangerous!"
"I'm not on my own!"
"What?"
Then two dogs jumped in and began to attack Voldemort.
"See, they're with me." He said, running over to Harry. "Are you alright?"
"Um, yeah, but who are they?"
"Don't you recognise him? It's Sirius of course!"
"I know that's Sirius! But the other one!"
The two dogs seemed to have knocked Voldemort unconscious in the time that
Harry and Lupin were talking and came running over. But they hadn't been
very successful; Voldemort slowly grabbed his wand, and in an instant was
perfectly healthy.
Suddenly the two dogs transformed into their human forms. Both of
them looking extremely like Harry's Godfather. But Harry had no time to
stand confused, or ask questions. He lifted his wand to Voldemort and
yelled "Intalaenius!" A bright light flashed out of his wand and hit
Voldemort, who fell to the ground and lay there dead still.
The Death Eaters that had been watching began to walk towards the
four men. Everyone in the room was clutching their wands, and was advancing
on Harry, Lupin, Sirius and the other Sirius. The four of them lifted their
wands and shouted all sorts of spells at the twenty angry wizards.
Voldemort still lay there, without moving an inch whilst everyone else
fought.
Harry noticed Snape, standing at the back of the angry crowd looking
sheepish. He clearly didn't want to be there, because he was meant to be on
the Death Eaters side, but couldn't hurt Harry because he worked at
Hogwarts.
Harry noticed him there and knew he had to do something. If Snape
didn't fight, then the others would criticize him and tell Voldemort when
he woke up, who would torture him. If Snape did fight then he would lose
his job. Harry pretended that he had been hit by a curse, and dropped
himself onto the floor. No one else noticed because a lot of people were
dropping down. Harry made sure that no one was looking at him and quickly
but quietly crept away to see Snape.
"What are you doing? Do you want to get men killed?" Snape said in a
half whisper.
"We have to get out of here!" Harry said to him, tip-toeing to the exit.
"I'm not going anywhere!" Snape called, trying to sound important to the
student.
Then Harry realised what he had to do. He grabbed his wand and put Snape
under the imperius curse. Snape had only just recovered from being under
the imperius curse by Voldemort; after he had been knocked unconscious the
spell had been broken.
Harry signalled to Lupin that they should try and escape. He told Snape to
unlock the door, and went to help Lupin and the Sirius' escape.
"How are we going to make it out of here?" One of the Sirius' asked.
"I know! I could dig a tunnel out of here and we could crawl through!"
Suggested the other one.
"I've got Snape, he's unlocking the door at the moment." Harry explained. A
flash of light zoomed past them and hit the wall behind them. Lupin pointed
his wand at the Death Eater who did that, and mumbled some words to him
quietly. Then the Death Eater turned into a small black rabbit. Sirius
laughed at the rabbit, and nearly got hit by a flash of red light. Lupin
did the same to that Death Eater too. And within minutes all four of them
had turned around twenty Death Eaters into rabbits. Sirius couldn't quite
do the spell properly and all of his rabbits turned either pink or green.
On the other side of the room, Snape had unlocked the door. They went
to join him and escape, but when they got there, Harry noticed that there
was only one Sirius. They turned around and saw a bunch of pink, green and
black rabbits climbing over a very still Sirius. They ran back over to the
other side of the room to help him.
"Sirius! Are you alright?" Harry shouted, shooing off all the oddly
coloured rabbits.
"That's not Sirius!" Shouted Sirius. "That's Procyon!" Sirius helped up his
double.
Harry was extremely confused. "Who's Procyon?"
"That is!" Shouted Lupin.
"But, but, I don't understand!" Lupin and Sirius were looking very
concerned. They knew exactly who he was.
"He's my brother!" Informed Sirius, and he picked him up and put one arm
around his shoulder. Lupin took the other arm, and helped Procyon walked
across the room and back to the door, where Snape was still standing, and
waiting for Harry to tell him what to do.
