A/N: Long chapter as it is either the second last or the third last.

I'm sorry I didn't put in the Whomping Willow bit, I saw no point as it had nothing to do with Sirius, Stephanie or Bec.

I also want to aoplogise, this chapter was hard to write as I didn't have the thrid book. I had to use my memory to the max and it was hard to remember. I am sorry if I left anything out. You are welcome to tell me what I did leave out and I can see if I can put it into the next chapter some how.

Chapter 9

'You killed my parents!' shouted Harry. He was breathing hard, getting angrier by the second. The dog had turned into a human, and to be more precise Sirius Black.

'I don't deny it, but it wasn't me who betray them,' he said.

Stephanie laughed, a cold, hard laugh. Which drew attention to herself.

He didn't have time to ask who she was though because Harry had pinned him to the floor.

The door flung open and Lupin strode in, 'Expelliarmus.'

The wand flew out of Harry's hand; he got up and stood back by Ron and Hermione.

'Remus? I didn't kill them, you believe me right?'

'Of course I do,' he said and then hugged him, like they had been friends all this time and it was an old school reunion.

'WHAT?' Stephanie shouted.

'I wasn't planning on you coming, who are you?' Sirius went up to Stephanie and examined her. Her orange coloured hair and green eyes disguised her perfectly.

'And you remind me of someone I know,' he said to Bec. 'You have beautiful eyes.'

Stephanie nearly grabbed Bec and ran, but maybe it was better that she knew. She made eye contact with all of them not to say anything.

'What's your name?' Sirius asked.

'I'm not telling you anything until you tell Harry why you betrayed his parents!' shouted Bec.

Steph couldn't have been prouder.

'You killed my parents. You're the reason they're dead,' said Harry in a shaky voice.

'No, he didn't!' shouted Lupin.

'He didn't?' said Stephanie, 'and how is that?'

'Harry mentioned seeing Peter Pettigrew on the map.'

'Peter died a tragic death,' Stephanie argued, looking at Black.

'No he didn't,' spat Sirius, 'he's alive and he's right there.'

He pointed at Ron.

Stephanie laughed, 'I've known you so long, I thought you were smarter than that, after all you were an Auror with James.'

'Who are you? I wasn't pointing to him; I was pointing to his rat!'

'So instead of a one-year-old who maybe could talk, just a little but you decide to blame it on a rat, he couldn't be . . .' Stephanie trailed off.

'Mum? Are you ok?'

'Ron could you please pass me your rat,' said Stephanie, really nicely.

'Mum, you don't believe him, do you? He killed Harry's parents.'

'PASS ME YOUR RAT!' Stephanie shouted.

Ron hesitated and then handed her Scabbers.

'Who are you?' asked Lupin.

'Yeah, we don't even know you,' said Sirius.

'Oh really,' laughed Steph. 'That's like saying Harry isn't Lily and James' son, like saying Hermione isn't smart or Fred and George aren't twins.'

'Well tell me who you are!' shouted a very impatient Sirius.

'After you explain to me why you think Peter did it,' she said.

It was Lupin who spoke. 'Well as you know I came to school with James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black. I would disappear for a while every month, making excuses that I had an ill mother or I had to go on holiday with my parents. Being really good friends they figured that I didn't really have to do that every month and that something else was going on.'

He took a sharp breath and kept going. 'I was a werewolf, and they found out they didn't blow me off and make a new friend. They, for two long years, tried to become Animagi so that I could overcome loneliness as a werewolf. James- a stag, Peter- a rat and Sirius- a dog.'

Harry was listening intently, trying to take everything in. Stephanie smiled encouragingly at him, trying to make him feel more secure, knowing that there was someone there for him.

Ron had started to shift away from Lupin, thinking that he might catch a disease from him. Lupin looked down at him and Stephanie saw the flicker of disappointment on his face.

'Anyway, every full moon we would transform and we would have a good time, running around as animals and in the morning we would become humans again.'

'That's really dangerous,' said Hermione. 'You could have got caught. I figured you were illegal Animagi as I looked up the list when we did a project on them a couple of months ago for Transfiguration.'

'I know, I always felt really bad, betraying Dumbledore like that, it was hard being a werewolf. I always wondered what he would say if he found out, but luckily I never had to find out.'

Sirius was now pacing, listening to everything Lupin was saying. Occasionally he would look like her was going to interrupt to say something, but he would never actually say it.

There was a series of sudden creaking, like someone was walking up the stairs, but no one appeared. Then out of no where, Severus Snape appeared.

'Thank you Potter, your cloak was well used,' he sneered.

Sirius stared at him, 'I didn't think I would have to see your face again when I left.'

'When you left?' Snape said coldly. 'Or when you betrayed your best friends?'

'I didn't betray them! It was Peter Pettigrew,' Sirius argued.

'Be quiet, the Dementor's are out looking for you, and now, my dream has come true. Ever since you escaped I hoped I would be the one to catch you.'

Sirius cowered. Lupin tried to stop him, but without a wand it was difficult.

Stephanie was starting to believe him, it was difficult though. Believing something for twelve years and then having to change your opinion in a night.

She could tell Harry was thinking hard about what was happening, and he wasn't about to let Snape get in the way of him hearing about what really happened.

'Expelliarmus!' shouted Harry.

Snape flung on to the bed. A cloud of dust appeared. The bed looked like it was going to collapse, but it never did.

'Harry! You just attacked a teacher,' whimpered Hermione.

'You shouldn't have done that,' Sirius said quietly.

'Now, you tell me who you are,' said Lupin.

Stephanie turned to Bec, 'I want you to know I'm still your mum, I just have changed my looks, ok?'

Bec watched as her mother changed into a beautiful brown, curly haired woman with entrancing blue eyes.

'Stephanie?' Sirius said, surprised.

'Sirius, I thought you killed them,' she said.

'MUM!' Bec shouted.

'Bec, I would like you to meet your father,' she said gesturing to Sirius.

Bec whimpered, 'prove that he's innocent, show me Peter Pettigrew.'

Stephanie had not yet decided to believe Sirius until he proved that they had swapped secret-keepers. She was happy to have her old hair back though; it was amazing that Gilda Berger knew who she was even though she didn't have her real hair.

While she had been staring at Bec and thinking, they had turned the rat into Peter Pettigrew.

'Peter, long time no see,' she said coldly.

'Steph?'

'Mmm . . . how does it feel?'

'What?' asked the small, fat, lump of a man with watery eyes and blonde hair.

'Knowing you killed all those people that loved you, knowing you ruined seven people's lives. Harry, Lily, James, Bec, Remus, Sirius and mine? How does it feel?'

'How do you know I did it?' he asked. 'Sirius, he was their secret keeper.'

'No,' spat Sirius, 'I was, and then I made James switch, I thought it would be better. I thought I might not be able to handle the pressure and Voldemort would know it was me, so I made them switch to someone else, and that someone was Pettigrew.'

'Why didn't you tell me?' Stephanie cried.

'Because, I thought about it, but as my wife, Voldemort would come to you. He would ask you about me, and if you still thought it was me it would be safer, he would know you're not lying,' he answered.

She nodded.

'How did you know where Peter was all this time?' Lupin asked.

Peter laughed, a nervous laugh, 'there, you see. Answer that!'

'The Minister came in, to do an inspection. He was carrying a newspaper. On the front was Ron's family and right there was the very rat I had seen every month for a long time. It's front toe was missing and it said that he was heading back to Hogwarts. I new that this was my chance to commit the murder I was sentenced for.'

Steph sighed. Her husband was innocent, all those years of worrying was finally over and she didn't have to worry anymore, and Bec finally knew who her father was, and that he was innocent.

Her emotions were building up, slowly and more steadily they were going to burst any second now.

All of a sudden she burst out crying, started to laugh and after controlling that she went over and punched Peter as hard as she could.

A/N: Nice ending, huh? I really need your help - Should I put in the timeturner bit? I'm thinking no because there is no point, it really doesn't affect my story and the ending. If I do include it, that will be the second last chapter. If not this will be the second last.

Thanks, please review and share your views on what I should do.