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Chapter Seventeen- Cat, Rat, and Dog

After Hermione found Scabbers in a pot the five friends left Hagrid's hut. They got as far as the stone towers overlooking Hagrid's hut. Jasper noticed that Alice was getting Goosebumps ever since they found Scabbers. He knew that she was afraid of the rat. Alice heard Ron cry out in pain because his rat bit him on the finger. Scabbers jumped out of Ron's hands and scampered off. He followed his rat towards the Whomping Willow.

Hermione, Jasper, Harry and Alice followed their friend towards the tree. The tree's branches were whipping all over the place. Suddenly a giant black dog appeared behind them. A low growl could be heard when he saw the rat running away from Ron. The big black dog jumped over Hermione, Jasper, Harry, and Alice to get to the rat. The dog bit onto Ron's leg and pulled him into a tunnel at the base of the Whomping Willow. The dog, the rat, and Ron disappeared.

It took a half an hour for Hermione, Jasper, Harry, and Alice to get close to the tree to go down the tunnel. Harry left his invisibility cloak at the base of the tree while Alice took hers with her. She and Jasper walked through the tunnel together behind Harry and Hermione. All four of them were following where the dog was dragging Ron and Scabbers. Alice had her cloak folded over her arm. "Harry where do you think this tunnel will lead us?" Jasper asked.

"I have a hunch."

"Jazz, this tunnel leads to the shrieking shack," Alice whispered into Jasper's ears.

After another half an hour Hermione, Harry, Jasper, and Alice came to some stairs. Soon the stairs came to an end. It was Harry pushed the cement pane up and pushed himself up. Once he was in a dusty room he began to help the others up out of the tunnel. He and Jasper helped Alice out of the tunnel. "Where are we?"

"We are definitely in the Shrieking Shack. Let's find Ron and get out of here."

The four of them walked up another flight of stairs. They finally found the room where Ron was in. He was sitting on a worn chair still clutching Scabbers. Blood was coming from his wound on his leg. Alice looked over to the black dog, but the dog wasn't there anymore. In the dog's place was a man. She knew whom the man it was Sirius Black. She smiled and guessed, " You're here to clear your name. You want to show the world that Peter Pettigrew is alive."

"How did you know that?" Sirius's voice was hoarse after years of not using it.

"Sirius you should know how I knew that you're innocent."

"You had a vision didn't you?"

"Yes, I did."

Only Jasper noticed that Sirius and Alice were talking. Harry and Hermione were talking to Ron. He was pointing in the direction of Sirius, Jasper, and Alice was standing. Hermione and Harry were now looking in the same direction. They gasped when they saw how closed Alice and Jasper were to Sirius. "Alice get away from him!" Harry yelled.

"Why, Harry?"

All of a sudden there was a new voice coming from the outside of the room. It was Remus Lupin. He disarmed Hermione, Ron, and Harry. Then he embraced Sirius like a brother. "I knew it! You've been helping Black into the castle! You want Harry and Alice dead! He's a werewolf!"

"Only one out of three I'm afraid. I have not been helping Sirius into the castle. I don't want Harry or Alice dead, but I don't deny that I am a werewolf."

While Ron and Harry gasped at the news, but Jasper and Alice weren't shocked at all. Hermione's eyes widened when she noticed that Jasper and Alice weren't scared to be in a company of a werewolf. "You knew what he was!"

"Yes, I knew. Let's here them both out okay because we just might learn what truly happened that night. I have known that Professor Lupin was a werewolf since I was four years old. Seeing him was the first real hope that I had."

"Was that your first vision, Alice?"

"No, Remus it wasn't. I remember having one of the attack just after I turned one."

"I remember because you woke up screaming. I know how to work the map because I helped write it."

Professor Lupin handed Hermione, Ron, and Harry their wands back. "Now will you listen?" Alice asked.

Professor Lupin started the story from the beginning. "Sirius wasn't your parents secret keeper. A man by the name of Peter Pettigrew was. They changed at the last minute. It was Lily who told us about the vision that Alice had a few months before the attack. I only knew that Peter was alive when I saw Alice's boggart."

"And where is he?" Harry asked angrily.

"Ron is holding him, Harry."

Scabbers the rat was missing a toe on his front paw. "He's not Peter, he's Scabbers."

"No he's not, Ron. Have you ever noticed why he has a toe missing?"

Harry changed the subject back to the marauders map. He wanted to know how Professor Lupin knew how to work the map. "Professor Lupin, why are you here?"

"Well, when I was watching the map tonight I noticed that five of you entered Hagrid's hut and six of you left his hut. "

"There weren't six of us," Ron protested.

Alice looked at Remus because she knew that the truth would come out eventually. He noticed that she wasn't looking at Scabbers because he knew how scared of Peter Pettigrew she was. "No Ron there were six of us that came out of Hagrid's hut."

Hermione, Ron, and Harry weren't convinced. Alice turned to Remus and sighed. "How should we convince them, Alice?"

"Maybe you should tell them what your nickname was while you here at school."

"I'm Moony." Remus smiled.

Please Review. What do you think? I wrote it like this on purpose. Yes, both Remus and Sirius both know about Alice's ability to see the future. I completely changed the way Remus Lupin finds out that Peter Pettigrew was still alive. New first years for the next story soon, so please put the name, gender, house you want them to be sorted into, and their personality. Please put it in the box below.