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Chapter Sixteen

"Look. There we are." Harry whispers, pointing at themselves coming out from under the Whomping Willow.

Ginny looks up sleepily. She has been nodding off, because she hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately. The ground, where they are sitting, is wet, and not very comfortable. They are all silent as they watch Remus transform. Ginny shudders. She sees herself drop Pettigrew.

"This is weird." Hermione whispers. Harry nods, still holding onto Buckbeak's rope.

"Pettigrew's coming this way! We've got to catch him!" Ginny stands up. "I can't lose him again!" Harry and Hermione don't know whether she is talking about Pettigrew, or Sirius, but they get the idea.

Hermione puts a hand on Ginny's shoulder. "We'll get him." Ginny smiles.

The rat runs by, and squeaks when he sees the three. He speeds off into a thicket of tall grass. Hermione and Ginny take off after him. Buckbeak is uninterested, so Harry has to stay put.

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Hermione and Ginny are searching frantically through the grass. Pettigrew is nowhere in sight. There is no movement in the grass.

Tears fill Ginny's eyes. "This can't happen…. You can't do this to me!"

"He has to be here somewhere…. It's not like he could have…."

Ginny rests against a tree. "Disapparated." She sighs and sinks down into the grass.

"Wouldn't we have heard a crack?" Hermione asks to her hidden friend.

Ginny's voice comes up from the grass. "Peter has always been very talented at escaping. He's probably figured out how to do it silently." Her voice falters. "Now there's no hope…."

"We'll get him out of here."

"He'll still be on the run though. He'll never be free. He's going to-"

"Hermione! Ginny!" They rush back over to Harry.

"What's wrong?" Harry points at the wolf approaching them. Hermione's eyes go wide.

"Maybe he hasn't seen us yet. Can we get out of here?"

"We won't have enough time." Harry answers, sadly. He feels a tug on Buckbeak's rope. He turns around to see the hippogriff bowing to Ginny.

"One way out. Up."

Hermione and Harry rush to Buckbeak and bow. He lies down on the forest floor.

"Does that mean we can ride him?" Harry says hurriedly.

"One way to find out." Ginny answers. They all climb on. Buckbeak soars up into the sky.

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"I'd hate to say it," Ginny remarks, "But we're going to be up here for awhile unless we can chance landing. They're just now taking us in." Ginny points.

"We can't go back to the forest. Professor Lupin is still in there. The only place we could land is on the roof."

"True. I guess we'll just wait then…."

Harry looks back at Ginny. "Feel like telling me yet?"

Ginny sighs. "I will tell you. I promise. Maybe I'm waiting for a time when we aren't in mortal peril…."

"We're just flying…."

"Exactly."

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"There! Look!" Ginny points excitedly.

"What is it?"

"MacNair's coming out to get the dementors! It's time! Let's go!" They soar off toward Sirius's window.

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Sirius is sitting against the wall in the room that they put him in. 'This is it…. I'm going to die and no one can save me.'

'You knew it was coming,' the other part of his mind tells him. He stands up and walks over to the window.

"My last look at the outside world…." He says, forlorn of all hope. But then he sees a shape flying toward him. When it comes into focus, Sirius's jaw drops. He starts trying to pull up the window, but it's sealed shut.

"Get out of the way." He sees Hermione mouth. He steps off to the right.

"Alohomora." The window flies open. Ginny slips off Buckbeak into the room.

"How?"

"No time. Take this." She hands him his cloak. She then pulls a small bag out of her pocket. "And this." She puts it into his hand.

"But…." Harry and Hermione have slipped in now.

Harry states, "MacNair has left to get the dementors. You need to go- now."

"I don't know how to thank-"

"Go Sirius!" Ginny looks angry. "We don't have time to talk!" She pushes him toward the window. He slips through it easily and climbs onto Buckbeak.

He looks at them. "Bye, Sirius." Ginny says quietly.

"You truly are your father's son, Harry. See you three later." He says, and then takes off into the night.

"Well, I'd hope so…." Ginny adds, smiling, although the tears show through in her eyes.

"That's not going to be the last we see of him, Ginny."

"I know."

"We'd better get back to the hospital room; we only have ten minutes." Hermione suggests. They slip through the doorway.

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Oh yes. I think I liked that chapter a lot. Sirius got away! There will be one more chapter in this fic. Then I'm going to do the prequel, as promised (which I'm looking forward to.) I'm also thinking of doing a book 4 (just a couple of scenes)/5 part. Would you guys like that? Any way, looking at my reviews, a couple of people think they know what Ginny has to tell Harry. I'm really interested to see what you think it is. I know, of course, but what do you think? Put it in your review or email me (sora_doragon@lycos.com) about it. ^__^ I'll update really soon if you do! And then you'll get to see if you're right! Ja ne!

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