You don't really want to know

'What… was… that… about?' panted Wormtail as he caught up with the twins at the entrance to the Gryffindor Tower.

'We cant tell you' George repeated.

They got into the common room quickly and ran up the stairs to their dormitory.

'It's something about Padfoot, right?' Wormtail asked as Fred locked the door behind them.

'Yeah.'

'I won't tell him anything. You can tell me!'

'No, we can't.'

'And you don't want to know it anyway.'

Suddenly they heard knocking on the door.

'Let us in, guys!' called someone from outside.

'No!' Fred answered

'Oh, come on! We have to sleep somewhere!'

'I refuse to sleep in one room with you.' said Fred.

'You can sleep in the common room' George suggested.

'Either tell us what's going on or stop acting like idiots!' demanded someone on the other side.

'You know they can't…' somebody else said.

'I HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHY I'M NOT ALLOWED IN MY OWN BEDROOM!'

'uh…' Womtail said nervously 'I think you should open this door… He sounds like he'll blow it up if you don't'

'That's exactly why we don't want to let him in.' George told him.

'Yeah,' Fred added 'better the door than us'

'All right, I'll sleep in the common room,' said the voice from outside the door 'just tell me why!'

Very carefully, Fred opened the door.

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'So what was it all about?'

'You don't really want to know,' George told them.

'Yes, we do,' Black insisted 'Tell us.'

'Well, all right,' Fred said 'In our time…' he was speaking very slowly, hoping his brother would stop him from saying it, remind him once again, that they were not supposed to reveal the future, but this time George remained silent. Fred sighed and began to explain.

XXX

Just a few sentences later four pairs of eyes grew wider than you'd think it's possible.

'No way! That's impossible!'

'Why?' George asked.

'Two reasons,' Black explained 'One: nobody escapes from that place, two: what the hell would I be doing there?'

'Wishing you hadn't done… um… whatever you did?' Pettigrew suggested.

'Wormtail, I'm so going to kill you now…'

'Hey, maybe you were arrested for killing me?'

Three boys laughed, one decided that he was not talking to Wormtail and two thought it wasn't funny at all.

'Wormtail, you're… good at Divination, aren't you?' Fred asked nervously. Wormtail moved as far away from Black as he could. Lupin stopped laughing. Only Potter still seemed to think it's a joke.

'Divination?' He laughed 'Oh, my God! Wormtail! Is that the Grim in your tea leaves! Have you seen a big black dog recently?'

This made at least some of the others laugh again, but it was a rather nervous laughter. As for Wormtail, he actually had seen a big black dog not so long ago. He knew, of course, that it was not the Grim(1), but at the moment its true identity seemed rather scary as well.


(1) Grims are actually rarer than Crumple-Horned Snorcacks.(2) And some people believe they also become invisible when somebody is looking at them.

(2) Ha! You thought I wasn't going to mention the Snorcacks in this fic?

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'I guess I'll just… go down to the common room to get some sleep,' said Black a few hours and some rather shocking stories later. The story had shocked him most of them all. Fred and George were beginning to feel sorry for him. He really didn't want all this to happen. He was almost crying. He really hadn't wanted to know this, had he?

But, as he got up and headed for the door, an alarm clock went off. It was eight o'clock in the morning. Nobody was going to sleep any more. Not that they would be able to sleep after everything they had found out that night…