Harry Potter Alternate Universe: Year Three
A/N: I hope you will be pleasently surprised that there is no Luke or Fred in this chappie. I'm pretty sure you'll love the next chappie, a big Harry-Hermione chappie.
They stopped at the top of the stairs, Harry slowly pushed the door open. He gave a sigh of relief when he saw Ron.
"Glad you could join us." Harry turned around with a smile.
"Sirius!" Harry exclaimed before throwing his arms around him. Sirius chuckled before hugging him back. "What're you doing here?"
"Well, a certain rat escaped form Azkaban twelve years ago. I wanted to catch up with him." Sirius said, Ron looked confused. Everyone stopped when a bird flew into view as the door opened. "Remus?"
"Sirius!" Remus exclaimed before pulling Sirius into a hug. "What're you doing here?"
"Well, I came for Peter. And found Tristan." Sirius said through gritted teeth as the bird transformed into Tristan Potter.
"Please, let me explain." Tristan said as five wands were pointed at him.
"Five minutes." Sirius said unsmiling, Tristan nodded and pushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Okay, I know everyone thinks I murdered my parents but I didn't." Tristan stated, the all looked at him. "They had nothing on me except for the Secret Keeper thing, which I was tricked into telling. Peter told me James needed to know."
"Don't talk about James." Sirius said in a deadly serious voice, Tristan sighed.
"Just ask him yourself!" Tristan exclaimed throwing a hand out towards Scabbers and Ron.
"I'm not Peter!" Ron exclaimed, they all turned to him. Becca gently took Scabbers from Ron. "What're you doing?" Becca stopped when they door swung open again. They turned to see Snape standing in the doorway.
"What're you doing here?" Becca asked narrowing her eyes, Snape walked into the room pointing his wand at Tristan.
"I'd hoped to be the one to catch you, Potter. It's a bonus to catch you with Black and Lupin." Snape said, Sirius glared at him.
"Leave Lupin and Sirius alone." Harry said, they all looked over at Harry but he kept his eyes on Tristan. "That's who you're after. And Pettigrew's here too."
"Harry, come on." Tristan said but Harry shook his head. "Please, get Pettigrew and make him tell you." Snape was about to wave his wand when Harry shook his head.
"Stop." Harry said but Snape continued. "Expelliarmus!" Snape flew back and was knocked out.
"Harry! You just hit a teacher!" Hermione exclaimed, Harry moved the wand to Tristan.
"Prove it." Harry said, Tristan nodded.
"Sirius, Remus, if you would." Tristan said, both mention put out their wands and muttered a spell under their breath. A bright blue light shot out of each wand and hit the rat, who slowly began to grown until it revealed a ragged looking man. His gray-brown hair was balding in some patches and his front teeth were quite large.
"Pettigrew." Tristan said, Peter turned to him with a scared expression.
"Tristan, what…what're you doing here?" Peter asked with a stutter.
"Tell them, tell them what you did and how you framed me." Tristan demanded, Peter looked scared.
"I didn't mean to!" Peter cried, Tristan glanced up to see Remus and Sirius nod slightly.
"And James and Lily? What about them?" Tristan asked, Peter shrunk back.
"The Dark Lord is strong, he had powers! He would've killed me! What would you've done?" Peter cried, Sirius took a menacing step forward.
"I would've DIED! Died rather than betray my friends!" Sirius exclaimed, Peter inched his way over towards the door only to stop short when he saw Becca blocking the only exit.
"I don't think they're done with you." Becca said keeping her wand trained on him, Peter tried a different approach.
"You look so much like your mother, Sam, I knew her." Peter said, he shrunk back as he saw her eyes change from her soft brown to almost black.
"Don't you dare!" Becca yelled stepping toward him.
"Becca." Ron said, Peter scurried over to him.
"I was a good rat, wasn't I?" Peter pleaded, hoping to get him on his side. "You took care of me."
"Get away from me! And stay away from my girlfriend." Ron said, he pushed himself up and hopped over to Becca. Peter scurried to Hermione.
"Sweet girl, you wouldn't let them harm me, would you?" Peter pleaded, Hermione looked down at him.
"Stay away from her!" Harry shouted, pulling Hermione away from him.
"You look just like James…" Peter was cut off.
"How dare you!" Sirius roared, everyone jumped. "How dare you speak of James in front of Harry when you're the one who killed him!"
"What would you have done?" Peter asked quietly.
"You should've died!" Sirius yelled, Remus put a hand on his arm.
"You should've known if he didn't kill you we would've." Remus said, Sirius nodded in agreement.
"No!" Harry shouted jumping in front of Wormtail.
"Get out of the way!" The three men exclaimed, Harry shook his head.
"No, if you kill him, you'll be just like him. And Aunt Sam nor my parents wouldn't have wanted you to become murderers." Harry said, Sirius and Tristan sighed. "Plus we need him to free uncle Tristan."
"Oh." Sirius and Tristan said together, Harry and Becca rolled their eyes.
"Oh, thank you. Thank you!" Peter sobbed, Harry looked down disgustedly at him.
"I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing this for aunt Sam and my parents and for my uncle Tristan." Harry said, Remus moved over to Becca and Ron.
"Oh, here, I'll help you." Remus said, Ron put an arm over his shoulder and the trio started out. "Really, Sirius, did you have to maul his leg?"
"I was aiming for the rat." Sirius said, Tristan chuckled at the pair. Harry and Hermione started out after the three and Sirius and Tristan brought up the rear, levitating a tied up Peter and an unconscious Snape. Once they finally made their way out of the hole under the Whomping Willow. Remus and Becca set Ron down. Becca lightly touched Ron's hurt leg and he winced.
"Sorry." She said, Ron managed a weak smile.
"You know, they might have to cut it off. You wouldn't mind dating a one-legged guy, would you?" Ron asked, Becca rolled her eyes. Lupin set Snape down beside Ron.
"He's alive, but he'll have a huge headache when he wakes up." Lupin informed them, they all nodded. Harry looked off to the side to see Tristan standing a couple feet behind them, staring at Hogwarts.
"I'll be right back." Harry said, Hermione smiled with Sirius. He walked over to his uncle, Tristan glanced at him. "So, you're my uncle."
"Yeah, and you know I just wanted to apologize for scaring any of you this year. I just had to get out of there, and I knew, I just knew, that if I could get you to believe me, it would be enough." Tristan said with a smile.
"Yeah, well, when we take Pettigrew up to the castle, everyone will know the truth." Harry said, Tristan nodded.
"Yes, and I'll be a free man. And you know, you could come and live with me." Tristan said, Harry looked over at his uncle. "I mean, if you wanted too."
"I'm sorry, uncle Tristan, but my home is with Sirius, Becca and Luke. But I'd totally stay over on weekends and stuff." Harry said, Tristan nodded with a smile.
"I'll take what I can get." Tristan said, Harry smiled back at him.
"Harry!" Hermione yelled, everyone turned to look at her. "It's a full moon!" Everyone followed her finger to see a full moon coming out of the clouds. Sirius rushed over to Lupin and grabbed his shoulders roughly.
"Remus, my old friend, did you take your potion?" Sirius demanded, Lupin's head flung back as his clothes started ripping from the pressure of his body changing. His hands went to his head and his skin started turning grey, and hair was growing. His nose got longer and formed a snout, while his hands moved down over his body, ripping away the rest of his clothing. A grey werewolf now stood in the place of Remus Lupin. Lupin swung his arm, sending Sirius flying to the side before he looked around and saw the teenagers standing there. His yellow eyes narrowed in anticipation. Snape woke up with a blinding headache and saw Harry standing a little ways away from him. Fuelled by rage, he stood up and made his way over to them.
"Think you'll get away with attacking me, Potter?" Snape asked as he grabbed Harry's shirt, only to see Harry wasn't looking at him but over his shoulder. Snape turned around, only to pale, when he saw a werewolf watching them closely. He spread his arms out in an effort to protect the four teens.
"Professor Lupin?" Hermione called out, Snape shook his head.
"He didn't take his potion, he cant recognize anyone." Snape said, the werewolf was getting steadily closer to them.
"Oh my god!" Becca whispered as Ron grabbed her hand. Lupin was about to strike at Snape when he was distracted by a bird. They saw Lupin swat the bird and it went over the side, Lupin chased after it.
"Uncle Tristan!" Harry shouted as he slipped under Snape's arm and ran after them.
"Potter!" Snape yelled while Hermione screamed his name as she, in vain, fought Snape's grip. Harry had one thing running through his mind at the time – save Tristan.
"Harry!" Becca called out as she chased after him. "You take care of Ron, I'll take care of Harry!" She shouted over her shoulder to her best friend. Harry came to a sudden stop when he saw the werewolf swatted the bird over the hill.
"Tristan!" Harry shouted, the werewolf spun around and locked his eyes on Harry. Becca stopped and Harry waved her ahead. The werewolf let out a small growl as Harry backed away slowly. The werewolf lifted his paw to strike, when a howling noise in the woods distracted him. The werewolf stopped a few inches short of Harry and looked towards the woods with a puzzled moan before he turned back to Harry and bared his teeth. Another howl came from the woods and Lupin charged off in that direction. Harry quickly made his way down to Tristan, who was lying next to the shallow lake. Becca was shaking him lightly but he didn't appear to wake up.
"Harry, the Dementors are coming! And he wont wake up." Becca said helplessly as she pointed to the water. He saw it was beginning to freeze over and he felt fear run through his veins as he knelt down next to Becca and tried to wake him up. They both looked up to see a bunch of Dementors surrounding them. "Harry." Becca whispered, Harry looked down at his uncle as a dementor moved closer to him and was sucking a small blue ball out of Tristan's mouth. Harry stood up and pulled out his wand, mentally scolding himself for not teaching Becca the spell.
"Expecto Patronum!" Harry yelled, a silvery mist shot out of his wand. Becca, however, felt herself weakening. Her eyes rolled up in the back of her head before she slumped down onto the ground beside Tristan. Meanwhile, Harry was reinforcing his good thoughts – his family, coming to Hogwarts and meeting Hermione, when all of a sudden a bright light shot out from over close to the woods. Harry watched, memorized, as a large silver stag, almost systematically, made its way across the icy lake, hitting each dementor with its antlers and causing them to shriek in free and agony. As each one was hit, more and more of them flew away, unable to deal with the pure happiness that was attacking them. Harry fell to his knees as he watched the stag walk back over towards a familiar-looking male standing at the other side of the lake as darkness claimed him. "Dad?" He whispered before he fell backwards next to Becca and his uncle.