Hallo Dog.
What are you doing out, Cat? He asks when he sees me.
I wanted to escape the happenings up in the castle. As I say this, we can faintly hear Run yelling a Purr~My~Knee. We both turn to look up at my window.
Does that mean you killed the rat? He asks
hopefully.
No, It just means that he got away, and I am
the one who will be killed if Run finds me.
Dog shook his head sympatheticly. Better
spend the night out here.
Prob'ly I look reluctantly at
the white ground.
Better out here with your head then in there with out it.
I have to smile, or what ever the closest thing to smiling is for a cat, at that line.
So, cat, what did you really come out here for? Not just to chat, I doubt.
I become quite serious. No, I was ease dropping on Wolf and Furry.
You mean Remus, right?
Yeah.
Dog laughs, This is getting to be quite a good reunion.
It isn't going to be a pretty one if you show your face.
Why? There is concern in his eyes.
If the dementors find you, well, you can hazard a guess.
I know that will happen, but what with Harry and Remus?
I dance around the subject for a little while. Then finally give in to answering him. They both think you are guilty… I pause for a second, Of both crimes.
With a great thud, Dog falls to the ground. Placing his head on his paws, he looks as if he is about to weep. He is defeated. There is nothing he can see that he can do to change their minds.
Dog, look, I am sure Wolf will believe you if you can prove to him who the Rat is. I go against all my principles, and try actually to cheer another being up.
But how? There is no why he'll even talk to me. I don't know where the Map is, that can prove it, and from what you say, Pettigrew is as good as gone. He thinks for a second, and then says, I am as good as gone.
Dog, I start, but I can't finish. I go off and find a nice dry bit of ground, wondering if I did the right
thing telling Dog what I had heard. I am a cat, I am never wrong.
