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"Is that what I think it is?" Hermione asked in a small whisper.

"Oh." Su muttered her eyes wide at what she saw.

"We have to get him away from there!" Harry said urgently.

"Shit, Gar- Ron! You need to get away from there now!" Andrew called out, staring at the imposing figure of the Whomping Willow.

But evidently the red head didn't hear him as he too looked up at the group and cried out.

"Harry, guys! Run it's the Grim!" he yelled out.

The others turned and true to form everything went from bad to worse as they stared at the large... very large, pitch black dog which growled and raised it's heckles at the small group.

"Oh for fuck sakes!" Andrew called out angrily as he stared at the canine.


Book 3 – Chapter 13: Sirius Betrayals

The imposing animal continued to growl at the group for a moment before it lunged. With various degrees of fear the group leaped out of the way and watched in fear as the animal found the weakest among the group and went for Ron.

Grabbing his leg, the animal crawled with the screaming teen pulling him towards the tree and seemingly disappeared under the Whomping Willow, the others could still hear their friend's cries of panic echoing from beneath the tree and in an instant Harry and Tonks charged the tree.

"No, wait!" Hermione screamed, but it was too late and in a flash the seventh year and second year students were flung back to the group as the Willow used a branch to whip them away from itself.

"Sentient tree." Andrew provided sarcastically.

"Yeah, we figured that out thanks!" Tonks yelled back her hair turning a bright red, indicating her anger.

They were all panicking, their minds unable to come up with a logical plan to get to the base of the tree. Tensions were rising until they heard a usually soft voice call out to them.

"Guys look over there!" Su yelled, pointing to the base of the tree were a Ginger cat sat staring at them patiently.

"Crookshanks?!" Hermione called out in confusion.

Crookshanks the cat meowed at his owner before placing his paw on one of the roots of the dangerous tree and the group was quite surprised to see the Willow submit and stop writhing around angrily.

Sparing a surprised look to the cat they heard him meow at them loudly and acted quickly, they ran under the now seemingly normal branches and reached the hole under the tree and were surprised to see that it was actually a tunnel.

"The hell...?" Tonks muttered before spared a glance at the others.

"Let's go." Harry said as he slid down the tunnel.

The others quickly follow but Andrew stayed behind for a moment to regard Crookshanks with a suspicious look. The cat looked back at him boredly.

"Hmm."

Andrew then leaped down the hole and slid down the tunnel himself, deciding he'd deal with the cat later.

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Remus Lupin sat in his office casually grading the papers, he sighed tiredly and pulled his arms up over his head in a stretch. Deciding to take a short break he pulled out the map he had confiscated from the Potter boys and smiled at it nostalgically.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." he recited as he tapped his wand to the parchment.

"He looked around, finding many surprising fifth – seventh year students in broom closets doing... whatever young people do behind closed doors... he cleared his throat and moved on.

He turned the page which incidentally showed the grounds and was more than surprised to see Harry, Andrew, Su, Tonks, Hermione and Ron's names near the Willow, he choked when he saw the next name to appear.

Sirius Black.

He stood up and felt his breath hitch in his throat. He then saw the Black dot, he would've chuckled but this was certainly not the time for poorly executed jokes! He saw the dot named Sirius attack the students and drag the Weasley boy into the passageway to the Shrieking Shack. He wouldn't be able to track them there, in an instant he jumped out of his chair and ran for his door. Maybe if he was fast enough he'd make it in time.

He rushed out of his office, the mug of steaming hot potion resting on his desk, completely forgotten.

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Severus Snape made his way out of the Great Hall and towards the dungeons to work on some of the potions he had been developing lately when the flurry of robes caught his attention, turning he saw Lupin rush out the castle.

The normally composed man seemed to be everything but as he rushed from the Great Hall.

He frowned in confusion before deciding that his potions could wait. Right now he needed to see what the commotion was about; and he had strong feeling it would involve Black. He felt a grin appear on his features, the dog would finally get what he deserved and he'd make sure the wolf got what he deserved as well.

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The three Gryffindors, one Ravenclaw and one Hufflepuff continued to trek through the dank hallway in search of their friend.

"Where do you think this ends up?" Su asked quietly.

The Potters shared a look.

"We have an idea-" Harry started.

"We just hope we're wrong." Andrew finished softly.

They finally reached a flight of stairs going upwards and heard some sniffling.

"Ron." they all said in unison.

They rushed up the stairs and entered a room, it seemed to be a bedroom as their was an extremely dusty dresser on one side of the room and a bed on the other. A bed that the teens could identify as been unused for many years.

They found Ron leaning against a wall, his leg had his crimson blood pouring from it. It was bad, but nothing Madam Pomfrey wouldn't be able to fix in a few minutes.

"Guys! It's not a Grim! It's an animagus, it's him!" he cried out.

"Who?!" Harry asked with furrowed brow.

They heard the bedroom door creak and all turned to the sound and froze at what they saw. Tattered black and white striped robes hung off an unhealthily thin body. They looked up and saw a beard attached to a gaunt face, a pair of steely gray eyes and shoulder length black hair, riddled with dirt and grime.

Sirius Black.

"Shit!" Tonks yelled as she drew her wand.

"Expelliarmus!" the man yelled, easily catching Tonks' wand as it soared to him.

"Ah, Harry. It's been so long." he said softly, his voice sounding extremely raspy.

Sirius had expected James and Andrew's carbon copies to draw their wands, what he didn't expect is Andrew taking three massive steps at him and tackling him to the ground.

"You son of a bitch!" he yelled angrily.

Harry was next to him in a second and had his wand in hand and pointed at the man in front of him.

"Give me a reason." he growled slowly.

"Expelliarmus!"

Suddenly Harry's wand was torn from his grasp and he and his brother backed off as their Defense professor entered the room.

"Step back." he told them.

The boys obeyed and stood by their friends once again.

"Sirius, I see Azkaban has brought out the madness from within." he said glaring at the man.

"Now Remus, you'd know all about the 'madness from within' wouldn't you?" Black responded with a crazed smile.

The teens watched on in bated breath.

The two adults laughed.

The teens stared in shock as the 'best defense teacher yet' pulled the mass murderer into an embrace and hugged him happily.

"What the actual fuck?!" Andrew yelled out angrily, making those around him wince slightly.

"Andrew, Harry listen to me, Sirius is innocent!" Remus tried.

"No! Don't listen to him! He's a werewolf, that's why he's been disappearing all year!" Hermione yelled as she pointed to him.

"Snape's lesson." Su muttered, wide eyed. "He was warning us."

"Well done, Miss Granger. You really are the brightest-"

"Come on Remus, let's be done with this! Let's kill him! I found him!" Sirius said loudly cutting Remus off, causing the man to sigh at Black's eagerness.

"No, we have to explain everything to Harry and Andrew first." he told him.

"Oh we know!" Harry said angrily jumping in.

"You killed them! You were the catalyst that lead to him to our parents!" Andrew screamed.

"No, Andrew, Harry it wasn't Sirius! Someone did betray your parents but it wasn't him!" Remus yelled raising his hands to try and placate the boys.

"Expelliarmus!"

"Oh for the love of Christ!" Andrew yelled in irritation as Snape entered the bedroom as well.

The Potions master ignored the outcry. "Well, well what do we have here? I knew you helped your old school mate into the castle." Snape accused while pointing his wand at Remus.

"Oh shut up, Snivellus! You aren't wanted here!" Sirius said to the man in an irritated way.

Suddenly Snape's wand was on the convict.

"Oh give me a reason..." he purred in delight.

"Sirius, think about this!"

"What's there to think about?! Snivellus doesn't have the balls."

"Stop antagonizing him!"

"Well, listen to you two bickering like an old married couple." Snape cut in digging his wand further into Black's neck.

"Something you didn't have a chance to experience huh, Snape? Now why don't you run off and go play with your chemistry set." Sirius shot back with a grin.

"Oh how I wish I could just end your miserable existence right here, right now; but why deny the Dementors the opportunity?"

Sirius' eyes flashed for a second.

Harry softly tapped his brother and instantly found a wand in his grasp and shot his brother a questioning look. He nodded over to Hermione subtly and Harry nodded.

Andrew's hand crawled to the small of Hermione's back, ignoring her soft gasp of surprise and the tingling sensation he felt as his hand softly brushed against her. He squashed down the feeling and continued to run his hand across her back until his hand found her wand. He discreetly extracted it and slowly pulled the girl behind him.

"Is that fear I detect?" Snape asked smirking at Sirius.

"Expelliarmus!"

"Stupefy!"

The potions master collapsed from Andrew's spell as Harry caught his wand.

"Andrew! What did you do!?" Tonks yelled as her changed from red to yellow; fear.

"You attacked a teacher!" Su screamed.

The boys ignored them.

"What were you saying?! Someone else betrayed them, who?!" Harry asked.

"Are you serious, mate?! It's obvious they're lying so that we don't turn them in." Ron yelled.

"Talk!" Andrew yelled.

"Okay, do you remember a few weeks ago, you told me about the map showing you the name of Peter Pettigrew?" Remus asked with raised brow.

"Yeah?"

"But he's dead, Black killed him!" Andrew shouted back.

"No, I didn't!" Sirius responded.

"The map must've been lyi-"

"The map doesn't lie!" Remus said.

"So then what?! Pettigrew is still alive?!" Harry asked in disbelief.

"Yes! When I went after him and when he saw he had no room to escape, he loudly accused me of killing James and Lily and then blew up the street killing all those muggles! Then cut off his finger and disappeared." Sirius recalled.

"But... then why were you in Azkaban?!" Andrew accused.

"I was in shock. The aurors found me laughing hysterically and then I woke up in a cell." Sirius replied.

"But if all of that is true, what are you doing at Hogwarts?! Why not go after Pettigrew?" Tonks asked with a frown.

"I am, dear cousin." he told her, ignoring the look of shock on her face. "Peter is here, in this room! And he's right there!" he yelled pointing to Ron.

"Me?!" he called out in surprise.

The others turned to look at the red head with various amounts of surprise and disbelief.

"I'm not a bloody old man!" he exclaimed at the others.

"That was a pathetic attempt." Andrew said pointing Hermione's wand back at the man.

"No not the boy! His rat!" he called out.

"What?! Scabbers? But he's been in my family for-"

"12 years! An abnormally long time for a common rat, isn't it?" Sirius asked with eyes wide.

"A common rat, surrounded by magic, it could've been mutated!" Hermione jumped in with Su nodding her head in agreement.

"Well then if we're wrong you can stun us and get the dementors, yourself!" Sirius exclaimed.

Harry and Andrew shared a look before nodding.

"Show us." Harry said with a nod.

Quickly picking up a wand, Remus and Sirius walked over to Ron and pried the rat from his hands before they dropped it on the ground and started blasting spells at it.

Eventually after an exciting chase they managed to hit the small animal and everyone watched with eyes wide as the rat morphed into a small stout man.

"Oh. My. God." Tonks muttered her eyes wider than saucers.

The man sniffled for a minute before turning to face the others in the room.

"Remus? Sirius? My old friends!" he cried out before he tried to run for the door but was blocked by the two men.

The rat man then turned and saw the other two people who could possibly help.

"Harry! You look so much like your father. He wouldn't want you to kill me." he said desperately. "And Lily, sweet Lily, she wouldn't me dead either."

"Shut up!" Peter heard before he felt a force slam into the side of his head. He turned to see Andrew and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Ray? Raymond! You're alive! Oh thank goodness! They gave you another chance?!" the tiny man asked with a hint of desperation before he realized.

"Wait, no not Raymond, you're too young, which means... Andrew? Oh, young Andrew. Lisa was a good friend of mine you know." he tried again before Sirius finally snapped.

"Shut up! How dare you mention their names as if you were still their friend?! How dare you try to manipulate the sons of those you betrayed?!" he cried out as he straightened his wand arm.

"I- I didn't mean to! The Dark Lord! He has powers too great to fight! You, Andrew! You're father recognized the Dark Lords power too! Sirius, what would you have done?!" he begged.

"I would've died! I would've died before betraying my friends!" The convict replied angrily.

The group of teens watched all of this with their mouths gaped open in shock. What the hell was happening? They all thought as a unit.

"That was your mistake, Peter, you assumed the Dark Lord would keep you safe, but now you're going to die by those who would've really protected you!" Remus yelled as he got ready to kill his old schoolmate.

"Stop!" Harry yelled.

"Stop?" three voices asked in surprise.

He turned to see Andrew's eyes and paused for a moment, immediately reminded of last year when they found Tonks and Su petrified, as two normally hazel – now gray eyes stared back at him.

"Yes, stop! Don't kill him."

"Harry-" Remus tried.

"No, he's right. My parents wouldn't want this." Harry said sternly.

"Oh, Harry, sweet boy. Thank you. Thank you so much!" Peter cried as he tried to hug the boy's legs.

"Get off me!" Harry yelled before kicking the man in the face and hearing the satisfying crunch of his nose breaking.

"We're not killing you. But we are going to make sure the dementors get you." he sneered at the pathetic, now whimpering man.

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After casting a levicorpus spell on a still knocked out Snape and binding Pettigrew the group of adults and teens made their way out of Shrieking Shack, the same way they came in.

Sirius and Harry were ahead of the group, each having one of Ron's arms wrapped around their shoulder as they carried him out. Next was Hermione who levitated the unconscious Snape, Remus said that waking him now would not be the greatest idea and Sirius agreed with a loud laugh which sounded suspiciously like a laugh, she walked along side Su and Andrew who were both rather quiet.

Remus and Tonks were next and they had their wands into the back of Pettigrew's head threatening him with violence of the man even considered trying something as he brought up the rear.

Finally they arrived at the entrance and crawled out of the hole and were greeted by the chilly air and partly cloudy night sky.

Sirius and Harry sat Ron down on the ground. Hermione, Andrew and Su followed and finally, Pettigrew, Tonks and Remus.

Andrew and Hermione walked over to Ron and Harry who were on the ground.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" The doe eyed girl asked with a soft smile.

"It really burns..." Ron said in a tone Andrew had never heard him use before.

"Oh no, what can I do?" Hermione asked with a small frown.

Andrew spared the two a glance and felt annoyed at their interaction before standing and walking over to Su.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" he asked the tiny Asian.

"A little shaken up... but otherwise alright." she replied with a small smile.

Andrew stared at her and noticed her hands shaking. Without thinking he took her hands in his and immediately the girl rushed into him and hugged him closely.

"Uhm..." Andrew stiffened.

"I'm sorry, I just..." Su muttered against his chest.

"It's alright." he said softly and rubbed a hand against her back softly.

From her position Su saw Hermione looking at them and both girls quickly looked away from each other when their eyes met.

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Harry joined Sirius who had stepped away from the others for a moment and was gazing at the school.

"Beautiful. Isn't it?" he asked with a small smile.

"Yeah, it is." Harry agreed.

"It'd be nice to step into that school again as a free man."

Harry didn't know what to say so decided to keep quiet.

"That was noble what you did in there. 'My parents wouldn't have wanted this.'"

"I just figured mum and dad wouldn't want their friends to be murders."

"Smart." Sirius said with a smile as he turned to face the others and saw Andrew and Su. He nodded to them.

"Are they a couple?" he asked.

Harry watched the two closely before frowning slightly and looked over to Hermione who was tending to Ron and frowned deeper when the bushy haired girl kept shooting glances at Andrew and Li.

"No, well, I don't know. They hang out occasionally, but always thought that he and Her- that he liked someone else." Harry provided while still frowning.

"Well, maybe he doesn't know what he's feeling." Sirius stated with a small shrug. "What's he like?" he asked Harry.

"He's... amazing. Andrew's had my back more than anyone else in my life." Harry said, missing the wince Sirius gave. "He's viciously protective of those he cares about and he's also wickedly smart. He's amazing and I know he's still looking for something to tell him about his biological parents, but lately, he's stopped referring to mum and dad as 'James and Lily'." Harry replied.

Sirius nodded. "Did you know I wasn't just named your Godfather, but also Andrew's?"

Harry smiled. "No I didn't."

"So I was wondering, when I get cleared, would you and Andrew... that is to say... would you like to live with me? I know you've got your aunt and uncle and I wouldn't want to put you out, I just thought, you know maybe during Christmas holidays... you'd come over and spend it with me..."

Harry stared at the man open mouthed.

Their moment was cut off though as they heard Tonks' desperate cries.

"Professor, Professor Lupin?! What's wrong?!"

The moon had been exposed from behind the clouds which had previously blocked it.


I didn't plan this but cliffhanger!

I really hope you guys enjoyed these chapters and like I said I've already started working on the next batch!

Thank you so much for reading!

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Zak