A/N: I know I said I wouldn't be updating for a month due to writer's block, but someone (ZARAKY!) managed to help me get over it, so I'm writing again, along with question why I had certain characters in this.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is the property of JK Rowling. Not mine.
Chapter 21
-----Flashback-----
Wormtail stared up, terrified, at his Master. Over the past few meetings that he had attended the Dark Lord had started asking him more and more questions, each riddled with hidden meanings that he could not pick up. But he did know it meant one thing. When the Master started asking you more and more questions it meant he suspected you of betrayal. And that was never good.
And now, for the first time in the 16 years that he had been in the Dark Lord's service he truly started fearing for his life, far more than he had even when Sirius had been about to kill him. He had only one choice now.
------End Flashback-----
That was a few weeks ago, and now, as he floated along one lonesome country lane, dead as a doornail, he wondered why he had even joined up with the Dark Lord. The dark mark tattoo still remained on his arm, even in death. They had been right when they had said that once you took the mark you were branded for the rest of eternity. There was absolutely no way to remove it.
He was still not quite sure about the real reason he was dead. He knew he was supposed to have betrayed his master, but, to the best of his knowledge, he hadn't. Someone had been leaking valuable information about the Death Eaters, so that may have been what he was suspected of. It hadn't been him though, at least not deliberately.
Sighing, the ghost of Peter Pettigrew stopped at a random point. It was said that wizards and witches who were scared of death would become ghosts. Funnily enough, no one had ever suspected him of becoming one. It was shocking really. It was obvious that he feared death more than anything (besides his own friends' revenge) but everyone thought that as soon as he died they would get rid of him for good. It didn't work that way. It never would.
"…survival"
Harry suddenly snapped out of his thoughts rather abruptly when he realised that Sirius had been trying to teach him something, as Dumbledore had asked him to, but he had been staring off into space, trying to think what Hermione was doing at that exact moment. Probably reading Hogwarts A History.
"Huh? What did you say?"
"I said," Sirius sighed. "That becoming an animagi could be the key to helping us to rid the world of Voldemort once and for all. It could also be the key to your very survival."
"I'm gonna be learnin' to be an animagi?"
Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Harry, you are talking to Sirius Black, prankster and marauder extraordinaire. Do you honestly think I wouldn't teach this to you some day?"
"Good point..."
"Plus your father would probably run me through with his antlers if I didn't."
This earned a small smile from Harry, causing Sirius to act offended, as if he thought Harry was smiling at the image of him with antlers coming through his chest.
"That is not funny young man! Now if you don't want to - crap, I sounded just like my father then."
This time Harry burst out laughing. Trust Sirius to be able to make anyone laugh, no matter how down they felt.
"Okay, okay. I'll learn. How do I do this?"
A/N: Short chapter, I know, but I got over writer's block and I updated sooner than I expected to. Plus I may be able to update more often son if I manage to save up enough money for this laptop I want (it'd be cheap, and without an internet connection, but it'll at least enable me more time to spend writing fanfics than I do now). I'm only a little bit off at the minute!
I just got one thing to say to all of the people who reviewed: I'm stunned. So many for one chapter!
1: I don't write smut, violence... that could prove interesting.
Madfoot Moony: Thanks! And I can't help the length of my chapters. True, nowadays I aim for 2000 or more words, but it can be hard.
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