Before Harry could decide, they heard a noise from one of the rooms off of the hall. Silently they crept down the hall and stopped outside the door that Harry remembered leading to the kitchen. Harry took a few deep breaths to calm himself down and he could hear Ron and Draco doing the same next to him.
Harry lifted his wand and blasted the door open.
In the kitchen three men sat around the table. Wormtail, Draco's father and another man who Harry didn't recognize. The men jumped around in surprise.
"That's a shame" Harry said with a sarcastic laugh "It looks like we're too late for dinner"
~~~~~~~~~~
Remus and Sirius had spent the evening in the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. Sirius was fully enjoying being free again and fully enjoying the effects that Firewhiskey had on him. They were walking through Hogsmeade on their way to the Hogshead. Remus was staggering slightly and kicking an old tin can along the floor. Sirius walked along next to him singing.
"I loooove yooou babeeee. La la la la la"
"Shut up Padfoot" Remus laughed "You sound like a deranged banshee"
"Right, You've had it now Moony" Sirius replied in a tone of mock-threat. Remus took a sideways glance at him, grinned and started running down the street, Sirius set off after him and soon caught up. He grabbed Remus by the waist, in something vaguely resembling a rugby tackle, and before they knew it they were both in a heap on the floor in the middle of the street, laughing. Sirius was on top of Remus playfully punching him, Remus was struggling underneath desperately trying to kick him back. Remus noticed something unusual out of the corner of his eye and stopped fighting. Sirius took no notice and carried on.
"Isn't that the Weasley twins shop?" Remus asked Sirius. Sirius glanced in the direction Remus was pointing, still punching him.
"I think so, why?"
"The door, it's been forced open" Remus told him. Sirius stopped and looked at the shop properly. He climbed off of Remus and pulled him up from the ground. They crossed over the street and peered in the window of Weasley's Wizardly Wheezes. They couldn't see anyone in there. Sirius opened the door and they went inside. They both looked around for any signs as to why the door had been forced.
"Harry" Sirius said suddenly
"What?"
"Look" Sirius held up the invisibility cloak. "It was next to the fireplace"
Remus looked puzzled.
"Only one thing for it then" He said as he took some floo powder. Sirius did the same.
"Re-floo to last destination"
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Talitha had gone up to the hospital wing to see how Harry was doing only to find him not there. Ron and Draco's beds were empty as well. She pulled a small mirror out of her robes
"Sirius" she said "Sirius"
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"H..Harry" Wormtail stuttered "What… How?"
"Shut it!" Harry yelled.
"Draco…son" Lucius Malfoy started. The three boys looked round as the third man started to speak. Draco interrupted him.
"You! It was you! You tried to kill me!" He shouted at the third Death Eater. Draco glared at his father.
"How dare you call me your son when you are sitting here with a man who did that to me!" Lucius started to stand his wand in his hand hidden below the table.
"Stupefy" Ron shouted as he stunned Malfoy. Lucius fell back into the chair.
The third Death Eater had managed lifted his wand without being seen. He shot a curse at them which hit Ron and knocked him to the floor. Ron lay on the floor groaning. Before Harry or Draco could do anything, he had lifted his wand again.
"Crucio" He growled. Ron yelled out in pain.
"Impedimenta" Harry pointed his wand at the Death Eater.
"Expellairmus" Draco shouted seconds later and disarmed him.
"Stupefy" Ron managed to say from the floor and stunned him as well, the Death Eater fell to the floor next to Ron.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius and Remus arrived in the living room of the Potter's house.
"What's Harry come here for" Remus whispered. Sirius shrugged as he felt something buzzing in his pocket. He took out a small mirror and looked at it. Talitha's face appeared in it.
"Harry's gone" she said urgently.
"We're at the house in Godric's Hollow. We think he's here" Sirius said quietly. "We found the invisibility cloak"
"I'll be there in a few minutes" Talitha replied and then disappeared from the mirror.
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Harry turned to Wormtail, who was now shaking. Harry laughed at him.
"Not so brave now your friends can't help you" He taunted.
"Please" Wormtail begged "I'll, I'll…
"Nobody asked you to speak" Harry roared. Harry was stalling for time now as he hadn't actually planned this far ahead. 'We could do with Hermione being here, she'd have an idea' Harry thought.
"You alright Ron" He asked. Ron nodded. Draco held out his hand which Ron took and pulled himself up.
"That bloody hurt" he muttered. Harry looked back to Wormtail whose eyes had suddenly widened in shock as he looked over Harry's shoulder towards the door.
Harry turned slowly half expecting to see Voldemort standing there. He was immensely relieved to see Sirius and Remus standing in the door way.
"I think we need to have a little chat Wormtail" Sirius said.
Wormtail had started to move around the table towards another door. Quickly he turned and ran up the stairs behind the door. Sirius went after him before anyone else had time to react.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius ran up the stairs two at a time.
"Get down here!" He was shouting as he did. At the top of the stairs he saw Wormtail disappear into one of the rooms. Sirius crashed through the door firing stunning charms.
"Are you purposely doing this to annoy me" he yelled as he looked around the room, James' old bedroom. His Quidditch posters still on the wall and one of his old brooms lay on the bed.
"Sirius… Padfoot" Wormtail was trying to talk his way out of the situation. Sirius walked up to him and looked him directly in the eye. Forgetting about the wand in his left hand Sirius raised his right arm and his fist connected with Wormtail's face.
"Don't speak to me! Get out of this room!" Sirius continued yelling. He grabbed Wormtail's robes and forcefully threw him out of the room. He then grabbed hold of him again and threw him down the stairs.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Harry could hear Sirius shouting and a flash of light lit up the door way. The there was more shouting and banging. Wormtail came tumbling down the stairs and landed in a heap on the floor. Sirius came down the stairs and pointed his wand at him. The red spark of a stunning spell hit Wormtail. Sirius shoved him into a chair. Another flash of light and Remus hit him with an anti-disapperating charm.
"You've been busy" Talitha smirked from the doorway, no one had heard her arrive. She shot a light out of her wand which hit Wormtail.
"Anti-transformation charm, found it yesterday, especially for this purpose" She told the others. Harry felt partly relieved that now there was no way Wormtail could get away again. Talitha glanced from Wormtail to Malfoy and then turned to look at the man on the floor who was just coming round from Ron's stunning spell.
"Rodolphus Lestrange. I knew it" she said "Well, it's time I reunited you with Bellatrix" a flash of green light and Rodolphus was hit by Avada kedavra. All eyes turned to Lucius Malfoy.
"It's your call Draco" Remus said. Talitha looked at Draco. He took a deep breath and nodded slowly.
Talitha turned back to Lucius Malfoy. He had started to come round from Ron's stunning spell. Nobody realized he still had his wand in his hand.
"Expellairmus" Lucius shouted suddenly and all of the other wands flew in the air
"Accio wands" Lucius added and they all flew to him.
"Aduro" He said as he pointed at the wands. The wands fell to the table. Harry glanced around at the three adults standing in the doorway wondering why none of them made a move to retrieve their wands. He leant forwards towards the table to grab his.
"NO! Harry! Don't touch them" Remus shouted. It was too late though. Harry's hand touched his wand just as Remus started shouting. Harry yelled out as he felt an immense pain shoot through his hand and up his arm. He looked at his hand which was glowing red and he could feel a burning pain in it, as if he had just put his hand in a fire. He let go of the wand quickly. His hand was still burning, feeling as if it was getting hotter and hotter.
"Very clever Malfoy but you forget who you're dealing with" Talitha said calmly. Harry didn't think this was a time to be acting calmly. A Death Eater had his wand pointed at them and they had no way of defending their selves. And his hand hurt, a lot. Lucius Malfoy stared at Talitha as if he was trying to work out what she meant and then suddenly the penny must have dropped as his eyes widened.
"Stupefy" Talitha held her hand up at Malfoy, her palm facing him and a faint red light shot out and hit him. He fell over stunned. Talitha pointed her hand at Harry's hand and arm
"Tepesco" she said, the counter curse. Harry felt his hand cool down. Talitha did the same counter curse on the wands and then picked them all up. She handed each one back to its owner. Remus took hold of Harry's arm and pointed his wand
"Medicor" Harry felt the pain go as suddenly as it had arrived.
"He put a burning charm on the wands so that we couldn't use them" Sirius was explaining as all this was happening.
"How did you…" Ron was stuttering "Do that without your wand?"
"Something I picked up" Talitha explained "If you concentrate very hard and you know how to, you can control your magic without a wand. Not many people can manage it though. Unfortunately the magic tends to be a lot weaker doing it this way so I expect that stunning spell will be wearing off soon. It's quite handy though if you get disarmed"
Lucius Malfoy began to stir as Talitha finished speaking. They were all busy checking out Harry's arm that they didn't see Malfoy crawl along the floor making his way towards the door. Suddenly he pulled himself up and with an evil laugh ran out of the door. Sirius was the first to go after him, followed immediately by Talitha and Remus. They ran out of the house and into the street. By the time Harry, Ron and Draco got outside they could just see them go round the corner.
"Go back and keep a watch on Wormtail" Remus yelled back at them.
"I'll stay" said Ron. Harry and Draco nodded
"Just keep him stunned and don't take your eyes off of him" Harry said as he and Draco turned and ran off after Malfoy.
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Ron walked back into the kitchen expecting to find Wormtail still stunned but although still a bit woozy he was up on his feet and had his wand in his hand.
"Stupefy" Ron yelled but Wormtail ducked and it missed. Wormtail returned a disarming charm but Ron was quicker.
"Protego" he yelled, protecting himself with an invisible shield.
"Impedimenta" Ron tried again and this time hit Wormtail. Wormtail recovered before Ron got anther spell in.
"Expellairmus" Wormtail shouted. This time Ron couldn't react quick enough to shield himself and his wand flew through the air. Ron made a spectacular leap and caught it out of the air.
"Ha! Not Gryffindor Keeper for nothing" He laughed at Wormtail. Worm tail slipped out of the door and back up the stairs, Ron followed.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius raced down the street. He could hear the feet of Remus and Talitha running behind him. He felt alive, just like he was twenty years old again, working as a Hit wizard. This was the part of the job he had loved so much. The excitement of the chase had always given him a buzz. He was firing stunning spells at Malfoy as he chased him. Red sparks were flying out of Sirius' wand so fast they were blurring together making them look like a constant stream of light.
"Where's he gone?" Talitha yelled when Malfoy was no longer in her sight.
"I can still see him" Sirius shouted back. They continued running through the village. Sparks flying, Talitha and Remus adding to those coming from Sirius. Talitha was shooting out anti-disapperating charms after Malfoy but she couldn't tell if they had hit him.
'They must have done' she thought to herself 'otherwise he would have gone by now.'
Sirius' mind was alert, concentrating on Malfoy, making sure they didn't loose him. 'As long as he doesn't apparate we'll get him' he thought to himself.
Talitha was thinking as well. She was trying to think ahead and work out where Malfoy might be trying to get to, trying to think of a way they could catch him out. They were catching up with him, he was getting closer and closer. Remus was ahead of the chase now, being a werewolf had its advantages, he was a fast runner.
Remus jumped suddenly, over a flash of green light that shot across the street in front of him, he cleared it and carried on running. Sirius looked round at where it had come from. A man standing at the side of the round 'Rebastan Lestrange' he thought to himself 'I knew you'd be here somewhere'. Sirius shot a stunning spell back at him but didn't stop to see if it was on target. Talitha followed it up with an anti-disapperating charm. She heard the sound of running footsteps behind her and glanced round to see Harry and Draco.
"You two get this one" She yelled at them and carried on running after Malfoy.
"Impedimenta" Harry and Draco both shouted at the same time. Rebastan Lestrange was blasted into the air. As he landed on the floor he shot a stunning spell at them.
"Protego" they yelled together again.
"Expellairmus" Draco shouted. Lestrange's wand flew through the air to be caught by a grinning Draco Malfoy.
"Bet you wouldn't have caught that one Potter" He laughed. Harry laughed as well.
"Petrificus Totalus" Harry said and Lestrange fell stiffly to the floor. Draco stayed to watch him while Harry ran on after Lucius Malfoy.
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Ron raced up the stairs after Wormtail. In and out of the rooms they ran dueling. Ron was glad he didn't still have his old wand that constantly backfired on him. Wormtail fired a stunning charm at him in James' bedroom, Ron dived out of the way and the spell bounced off of one of James' Quidditch trophies and back at Wormtail. He ducked as well and it missed him. Wormtail fired another spell at Ron which hit him in the face. Ron lifted his hand to his left cheek where the spell had hit causing him pain. It was bleeding.
"Now you've pissed me off" Ron yelled
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The chase for Lucius Malfoy continued. Remus still ahead, Sirius on his heels, Talitha was a few paces behind. 'He doesn't know where he's going' Talitha suddenly thought to herself. She had grown up in this village and she realized the road Malfoy had turned down was a dead end. They followed him round the corner and saw that he had stopped at the end of the road in front of a very high brick wall. Malfoy was trapped now.
Talitha raised her wand and was just about to cast another anti-disapperating charm on him, just to make sure, when he disappeared.
CRACK.
Talitha, Sirius and Remus all looked at each other in disbelief. Sirius kicked a nearby lamp post.
"NO!" Talitha yelled
"Shit!" Sirius muttered
They heard footsteps pounding up behind them.
"Did you get him?" Harry asked as he tried to get his breath. Remus shook his head
"Almost"
Once they had all caught their breath back they turned and started to head back to the Potter's house.
"What on earth did you think you were doing Harry?" Sirius started shouting now it was over and he realized how much danger Harry could have been in. The anger of losing Malfoy coming out as well.
"I saw Wormtail in my dream and my scar was hurting" Harry tried to explain.
"You could have got yourself killed back there" Sirius continued shouting "Look what damage they did when we were there. What would you have done on your own? And nobody even knew where you were. It was only by chance that we found you"
"Sirius, leave him. I think he knows already" Remus tried to calm him down.
"No I don't think he does" Sirius replied "How many times are you going to go off on your own and get into messes like this before something happens to make you realize." Harry remained silent, unsure of what to say.
"You should have come and found me" Talitha joined in the yelling "or Snape or Charlie. We could have got someone up here. The Death Eaters aren't going to be afraid to try and kill you, Harry. I suppose you wanted to catch Wormtail yourself. Thought you were better than everyone else"
"Shut up!" Harry yelled back "I don't know, alright. It was stupid. I shouldn't have done it but it seemed like a good idea at the time"
"Come on guys. Let's leave it, it's too late now to say what should have happened" Remus tried lighten the mood slightly "and the Obliviators are going to have a field day if you continue shouting out here in the street. They're going to have enough to do as it is"
They picked up Lestrange and Draco on the way back. Harry didn't speak as they walked along as he didn't want Talitha or Sirius to start yelling again.
"Ron" he suddenly said "We left him with Wormtail" Sirius and Remus looked at each other and set of running down the road again.
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Sirius and Remus arrived back in the Potter's Kitchen to find it empty except for the dead Death Eater lying on the floor. They heard a noise upstairs and soon they were up there. They found Ron and Wormtail dueling in Talitha's old bedroom
"Ultra-stupefy" Sirius yelled and Wormtail fell on the floor.
"Thanks for that" Ron said with a grin.
Harry lifted his wand and blasted the door open.
In the kitchen three men sat around the table. Wormtail, Draco's father and another man who Harry didn't recognize. The men jumped around in surprise.
"That's a shame" Harry said with a sarcastic laugh "It looks like we're too late for dinner"
~~~~~~~~~~
Remus and Sirius had spent the evening in the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. Sirius was fully enjoying being free again and fully enjoying the effects that Firewhiskey had on him. They were walking through Hogsmeade on their way to the Hogshead. Remus was staggering slightly and kicking an old tin can along the floor. Sirius walked along next to him singing.
"I loooove yooou babeeee. La la la la la"
"Shut up Padfoot" Remus laughed "You sound like a deranged banshee"
"Right, You've had it now Moony" Sirius replied in a tone of mock-threat. Remus took a sideways glance at him, grinned and started running down the street, Sirius set off after him and soon caught up. He grabbed Remus by the waist, in something vaguely resembling a rugby tackle, and before they knew it they were both in a heap on the floor in the middle of the street, laughing. Sirius was on top of Remus playfully punching him, Remus was struggling underneath desperately trying to kick him back. Remus noticed something unusual out of the corner of his eye and stopped fighting. Sirius took no notice and carried on.
"Isn't that the Weasley twins shop?" Remus asked Sirius. Sirius glanced in the direction Remus was pointing, still punching him.
"I think so, why?"
"The door, it's been forced open" Remus told him. Sirius stopped and looked at the shop properly. He climbed off of Remus and pulled him up from the ground. They crossed over the street and peered in the window of Weasley's Wizardly Wheezes. They couldn't see anyone in there. Sirius opened the door and they went inside. They both looked around for any signs as to why the door had been forced.
"Harry" Sirius said suddenly
"What?"
"Look" Sirius held up the invisibility cloak. "It was next to the fireplace"
Remus looked puzzled.
"Only one thing for it then" He said as he took some floo powder. Sirius did the same.
"Re-floo to last destination"
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Talitha had gone up to the hospital wing to see how Harry was doing only to find him not there. Ron and Draco's beds were empty as well. She pulled a small mirror out of her robes
"Sirius" she said "Sirius"
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"H..Harry" Wormtail stuttered "What… How?"
"Shut it!" Harry yelled.
"Draco…son" Lucius Malfoy started. The three boys looked round as the third man started to speak. Draco interrupted him.
"You! It was you! You tried to kill me!" He shouted at the third Death Eater. Draco glared at his father.
"How dare you call me your son when you are sitting here with a man who did that to me!" Lucius started to stand his wand in his hand hidden below the table.
"Stupefy" Ron shouted as he stunned Malfoy. Lucius fell back into the chair.
The third Death Eater had managed lifted his wand without being seen. He shot a curse at them which hit Ron and knocked him to the floor. Ron lay on the floor groaning. Before Harry or Draco could do anything, he had lifted his wand again.
"Crucio" He growled. Ron yelled out in pain.
"Impedimenta" Harry pointed his wand at the Death Eater.
"Expellairmus" Draco shouted seconds later and disarmed him.
"Stupefy" Ron managed to say from the floor and stunned him as well, the Death Eater fell to the floor next to Ron.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius and Remus arrived in the living room of the Potter's house.
"What's Harry come here for" Remus whispered. Sirius shrugged as he felt something buzzing in his pocket. He took out a small mirror and looked at it. Talitha's face appeared in it.
"Harry's gone" she said urgently.
"We're at the house in Godric's Hollow. We think he's here" Sirius said quietly. "We found the invisibility cloak"
"I'll be there in a few minutes" Talitha replied and then disappeared from the mirror.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Harry turned to Wormtail, who was now shaking. Harry laughed at him.
"Not so brave now your friends can't help you" He taunted.
"Please" Wormtail begged "I'll, I'll…
"Nobody asked you to speak" Harry roared. Harry was stalling for time now as he hadn't actually planned this far ahead. 'We could do with Hermione being here, she'd have an idea' Harry thought.
"You alright Ron" He asked. Ron nodded. Draco held out his hand which Ron took and pulled himself up.
"That bloody hurt" he muttered. Harry looked back to Wormtail whose eyes had suddenly widened in shock as he looked over Harry's shoulder towards the door.
Harry turned slowly half expecting to see Voldemort standing there. He was immensely relieved to see Sirius and Remus standing in the door way.
"I think we need to have a little chat Wormtail" Sirius said.
Wormtail had started to move around the table towards another door. Quickly he turned and ran up the stairs behind the door. Sirius went after him before anyone else had time to react.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius ran up the stairs two at a time.
"Get down here!" He was shouting as he did. At the top of the stairs he saw Wormtail disappear into one of the rooms. Sirius crashed through the door firing stunning charms.
"Are you purposely doing this to annoy me" he yelled as he looked around the room, James' old bedroom. His Quidditch posters still on the wall and one of his old brooms lay on the bed.
"Sirius… Padfoot" Wormtail was trying to talk his way out of the situation. Sirius walked up to him and looked him directly in the eye. Forgetting about the wand in his left hand Sirius raised his right arm and his fist connected with Wormtail's face.
"Don't speak to me! Get out of this room!" Sirius continued yelling. He grabbed Wormtail's robes and forcefully threw him out of the room. He then grabbed hold of him again and threw him down the stairs.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Harry could hear Sirius shouting and a flash of light lit up the door way. The there was more shouting and banging. Wormtail came tumbling down the stairs and landed in a heap on the floor. Sirius came down the stairs and pointed his wand at him. The red spark of a stunning spell hit Wormtail. Sirius shoved him into a chair. Another flash of light and Remus hit him with an anti-disapperating charm.
"You've been busy" Talitha smirked from the doorway, no one had heard her arrive. She shot a light out of her wand which hit Wormtail.
"Anti-transformation charm, found it yesterday, especially for this purpose" She told the others. Harry felt partly relieved that now there was no way Wormtail could get away again. Talitha glanced from Wormtail to Malfoy and then turned to look at the man on the floor who was just coming round from Ron's stunning spell.
"Rodolphus Lestrange. I knew it" she said "Well, it's time I reunited you with Bellatrix" a flash of green light and Rodolphus was hit by Avada kedavra. All eyes turned to Lucius Malfoy.
"It's your call Draco" Remus said. Talitha looked at Draco. He took a deep breath and nodded slowly.
Talitha turned back to Lucius Malfoy. He had started to come round from Ron's stunning spell. Nobody realized he still had his wand in his hand.
"Expellairmus" Lucius shouted suddenly and all of the other wands flew in the air
"Accio wands" Lucius added and they all flew to him.
"Aduro" He said as he pointed at the wands. The wands fell to the table. Harry glanced around at the three adults standing in the doorway wondering why none of them made a move to retrieve their wands. He leant forwards towards the table to grab his.
"NO! Harry! Don't touch them" Remus shouted. It was too late though. Harry's hand touched his wand just as Remus started shouting. Harry yelled out as he felt an immense pain shoot through his hand and up his arm. He looked at his hand which was glowing red and he could feel a burning pain in it, as if he had just put his hand in a fire. He let go of the wand quickly. His hand was still burning, feeling as if it was getting hotter and hotter.
"Very clever Malfoy but you forget who you're dealing with" Talitha said calmly. Harry didn't think this was a time to be acting calmly. A Death Eater had his wand pointed at them and they had no way of defending their selves. And his hand hurt, a lot. Lucius Malfoy stared at Talitha as if he was trying to work out what she meant and then suddenly the penny must have dropped as his eyes widened.
"Stupefy" Talitha held her hand up at Malfoy, her palm facing him and a faint red light shot out and hit him. He fell over stunned. Talitha pointed her hand at Harry's hand and arm
"Tepesco" she said, the counter curse. Harry felt his hand cool down. Talitha did the same counter curse on the wands and then picked them all up. She handed each one back to its owner. Remus took hold of Harry's arm and pointed his wand
"Medicor" Harry felt the pain go as suddenly as it had arrived.
"He put a burning charm on the wands so that we couldn't use them" Sirius was explaining as all this was happening.
"How did you…" Ron was stuttering "Do that without your wand?"
"Something I picked up" Talitha explained "If you concentrate very hard and you know how to, you can control your magic without a wand. Not many people can manage it though. Unfortunately the magic tends to be a lot weaker doing it this way so I expect that stunning spell will be wearing off soon. It's quite handy though if you get disarmed"
Lucius Malfoy began to stir as Talitha finished speaking. They were all busy checking out Harry's arm that they didn't see Malfoy crawl along the floor making his way towards the door. Suddenly he pulled himself up and with an evil laugh ran out of the door. Sirius was the first to go after him, followed immediately by Talitha and Remus. They ran out of the house and into the street. By the time Harry, Ron and Draco got outside they could just see them go round the corner.
"Go back and keep a watch on Wormtail" Remus yelled back at them.
"I'll stay" said Ron. Harry and Draco nodded
"Just keep him stunned and don't take your eyes off of him" Harry said as he and Draco turned and ran off after Malfoy.
~~~~~~~~~
Ron walked back into the kitchen expecting to find Wormtail still stunned but although still a bit woozy he was up on his feet and had his wand in his hand.
"Stupefy" Ron yelled but Wormtail ducked and it missed. Wormtail returned a disarming charm but Ron was quicker.
"Protego" he yelled, protecting himself with an invisible shield.
"Impedimenta" Ron tried again and this time hit Wormtail. Wormtail recovered before Ron got anther spell in.
"Expellairmus" Wormtail shouted. This time Ron couldn't react quick enough to shield himself and his wand flew through the air. Ron made a spectacular leap and caught it out of the air.
"Ha! Not Gryffindor Keeper for nothing" He laughed at Wormtail. Worm tail slipped out of the door and back up the stairs, Ron followed.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sirius raced down the street. He could hear the feet of Remus and Talitha running behind him. He felt alive, just like he was twenty years old again, working as a Hit wizard. This was the part of the job he had loved so much. The excitement of the chase had always given him a buzz. He was firing stunning spells at Malfoy as he chased him. Red sparks were flying out of Sirius' wand so fast they were blurring together making them look like a constant stream of light.
"Where's he gone?" Talitha yelled when Malfoy was no longer in her sight.
"I can still see him" Sirius shouted back. They continued running through the village. Sparks flying, Talitha and Remus adding to those coming from Sirius. Talitha was shooting out anti-disapperating charms after Malfoy but she couldn't tell if they had hit him.
'They must have done' she thought to herself 'otherwise he would have gone by now.'
Sirius' mind was alert, concentrating on Malfoy, making sure they didn't loose him. 'As long as he doesn't apparate we'll get him' he thought to himself.
Talitha was thinking as well. She was trying to think ahead and work out where Malfoy might be trying to get to, trying to think of a way they could catch him out. They were catching up with him, he was getting closer and closer. Remus was ahead of the chase now, being a werewolf had its advantages, he was a fast runner.
Remus jumped suddenly, over a flash of green light that shot across the street in front of him, he cleared it and carried on running. Sirius looked round at where it had come from. A man standing at the side of the round 'Rebastan Lestrange' he thought to himself 'I knew you'd be here somewhere'. Sirius shot a stunning spell back at him but didn't stop to see if it was on target. Talitha followed it up with an anti-disapperating charm. She heard the sound of running footsteps behind her and glanced round to see Harry and Draco.
"You two get this one" She yelled at them and carried on running after Malfoy.
"Impedimenta" Harry and Draco both shouted at the same time. Rebastan Lestrange was blasted into the air. As he landed on the floor he shot a stunning spell at them.
"Protego" they yelled together again.
"Expellairmus" Draco shouted. Lestrange's wand flew through the air to be caught by a grinning Draco Malfoy.
"Bet you wouldn't have caught that one Potter" He laughed. Harry laughed as well.
"Petrificus Totalus" Harry said and Lestrange fell stiffly to the floor. Draco stayed to watch him while Harry ran on after Lucius Malfoy.
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Ron raced up the stairs after Wormtail. In and out of the rooms they ran dueling. Ron was glad he didn't still have his old wand that constantly backfired on him. Wormtail fired a stunning charm at him in James' bedroom, Ron dived out of the way and the spell bounced off of one of James' Quidditch trophies and back at Wormtail. He ducked as well and it missed him. Wormtail fired another spell at Ron which hit him in the face. Ron lifted his hand to his left cheek where the spell had hit causing him pain. It was bleeding.
"Now you've pissed me off" Ron yelled
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The chase for Lucius Malfoy continued. Remus still ahead, Sirius on his heels, Talitha was a few paces behind. 'He doesn't know where he's going' Talitha suddenly thought to herself. She had grown up in this village and she realized the road Malfoy had turned down was a dead end. They followed him round the corner and saw that he had stopped at the end of the road in front of a very high brick wall. Malfoy was trapped now.
Talitha raised her wand and was just about to cast another anti-disapperating charm on him, just to make sure, when he disappeared.
CRACK.
Talitha, Sirius and Remus all looked at each other in disbelief. Sirius kicked a nearby lamp post.
"NO!" Talitha yelled
"Shit!" Sirius muttered
They heard footsteps pounding up behind them.
"Did you get him?" Harry asked as he tried to get his breath. Remus shook his head
"Almost"
Once they had all caught their breath back they turned and started to head back to the Potter's house.
"What on earth did you think you were doing Harry?" Sirius started shouting now it was over and he realized how much danger Harry could have been in. The anger of losing Malfoy coming out as well.
"I saw Wormtail in my dream and my scar was hurting" Harry tried to explain.
"You could have got yourself killed back there" Sirius continued shouting "Look what damage they did when we were there. What would you have done on your own? And nobody even knew where you were. It was only by chance that we found you"
"Sirius, leave him. I think he knows already" Remus tried to calm him down.
"No I don't think he does" Sirius replied "How many times are you going to go off on your own and get into messes like this before something happens to make you realize." Harry remained silent, unsure of what to say.
"You should have come and found me" Talitha joined in the yelling "or Snape or Charlie. We could have got someone up here. The Death Eaters aren't going to be afraid to try and kill you, Harry. I suppose you wanted to catch Wormtail yourself. Thought you were better than everyone else"
"Shut up!" Harry yelled back "I don't know, alright. It was stupid. I shouldn't have done it but it seemed like a good idea at the time"
"Come on guys. Let's leave it, it's too late now to say what should have happened" Remus tried lighten the mood slightly "and the Obliviators are going to have a field day if you continue shouting out here in the street. They're going to have enough to do as it is"
They picked up Lestrange and Draco on the way back. Harry didn't speak as they walked along as he didn't want Talitha or Sirius to start yelling again.
"Ron" he suddenly said "We left him with Wormtail" Sirius and Remus looked at each other and set of running down the road again.
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Sirius and Remus arrived back in the Potter's Kitchen to find it empty except for the dead Death Eater lying on the floor. They heard a noise upstairs and soon they were up there. They found Ron and Wormtail dueling in Talitha's old bedroom
"Ultra-stupefy" Sirius yelled and Wormtail fell on the floor.
"Thanks for that" Ron said with a grin.