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"What the… but I never… who…?" Harry said weakly, taking the book from Sirius and staring at it. "This can't be right." Harry began flipping through the pages.

Remus began picking up the other six scattered books and looked at their titles. His eyes widened. "Harry…" He began.

"Blimey…" Harry murmured, not paying attention to Remus. "This is so accurate it's scary…" Harry handed the book to Ron. "Take a look at this, Ron, it gives a perfectly accurate description of how we took on that troll on Halloween two years ago…"

Ron flipped through the pages with Hermione looking over his shoulder. "Bloody hell," he murmured, "It's almost like this person's inside your head, Harry…"

"Are you sure you didn't give an interview to someone, Harry?" Hermione asked. "Maybe they used a memory charm like Lockhart used to do."

"Maybe…" Harry mused.

"Impossible," Remus stated.

"What?"

"Why not?"

"It sounded good to me."

Remus shook his head at the trio. "Look, there's no way that could be true. The author published a third book."

"What?!"

"No way!"

"Bloody hell!"

Remus opened the third book and read in silence for a few moments. Then, he paled. "Oh, shit…"

"What?" Sirius read over his shoulder. "Oh, shit…"

"How could I be so stupid?!"

"Yeah, usually it's me… or Wormtail… well, mostly it's Wormtail…"

The rat in Ron's hand gave an indignant squeak.

"Are you going to tell us what you both are talking about or what?" Ron asked.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no…" Remus groaned and started pacing the room.

Sirius sighed and flipped a few pages back and then smirked. "Excellent," a grin spread across his face and he dropped the book, "Snivellus."

"Oh, shit," came a disembodied voice near the entrance to the room.

Sirius lazily pointed Ron's stolen wand in the direction of the disembodied voice and muttered, "Levicorpus."

With a howl of rage, Snape became visible as his body was hung upside-down by his ankle and Harry's Invisibility Cloak fell off. He leered at Sirius murderously. Remus stopped pacing like a maniac and ran over to Snape.

"Severus! Severus! Oh thank God! Did you bring it? Please tell me you brought it!" Remus said with a slightly manic look in his eye.

"Tut tut, Lupin," Snape sneered. "If you can't remember what time of the month it is, you really shouldn't be here, should you? Somebody could get hurt by your… careless mistakes."

"You know, Snivellus," Sirius sneered back, "I wouldn't talk freshly like that if I were you considering your position." Sirius twirled Snape's wand in his other hand.

Snape let out a few choice swearwords as Remus groaned and continued to pace the room.

"Careful, Snivellus, there are children present," Sirius snapped.

"What are you going to do, Black? Kill me? Although I wouldn't be surprised considering your track record."

"Don't tempt me, Snivellus," Sirius retorted.

"Seriously, what's going on around here?" Ron asked.

Lupin stopped pacing long enough to pick up the dropped book, open it to a certain page and hand it to Ron. "Read it. It explains everything; Sirius is innocent and…"

"You're a werewolf!? That's impossible!" Ron exclaimed.

"No it's not, Ron," Hermione retorted. "It's been why he's been missing all those classes; they were all at the full moon, or didn't you notice?"

"And tonight's the full moon," Remus said, grimly.

"But then… what are you still doing here?" Harry asked. "Somebody could get hurt or…"

"For once, Potter, you display intelligence above that of a flobberworm," Snape said.

"Don't talk about Harry like that, Snivellus!" Sirius croaked, pointing his wand at Snape.

"I'll talk about Potter any way I want, Black," Snape replied.

"How come you're defending me if you're trying to kill me?" Harry asked.

"It's quite simple, Harry," Ron said, looking up from the book, "Sirius is innocent. He wasn't your parents' secret-keeper. Unknown to everyone else, Sirius suggested that your parents go with somebody else because he thought that he would be an obvious choice. Therefore, Pettigrew was made their secret-keeper and it turns out that he was You-Know-Who's spy."

"But Pettigrew's dead. Sirius killed him," Harry said.

Ron shook his head. "Pettigrew framed him, Harry."

"But he was blasted to bits!"

"No, he just made it look that way. He actually cut off his own finger and escaped. In fact, he's right here in this room."

"Is there another Invisibility Cloak that I should know about?"

"No, Harry, you simpleton, he's Scabbers. Sirius wasn't pointing at me, he was pointing at Scabbers. If I could just have my wand back… Ah, thank you Sirius," Ron said as Sirius handed him his wand back, causing Snape to fall to the ground. Sirius merely cast the spell again with Snape's wand, returning Snape to his rightful position in the air.

Ron pointed his wand at Scabbers and muttered something. Soon, Scabbers was squirming in the air and transformed back into the man known as Peter Pettigrew.

"Wow, Ron! See how smart you could be if you just read a book once in a while?" Hermione said.

"No thanks; I prefer to be the dumb sidekick that makes everybody else look like geniuses," Ron replied.

Sirius gave an evil grin and now pointed Snape's wand at Pettigrew, who had been attempting to quietly sneak out of the room while the side-conversation had been going on and said, "Levicorpus." Peter rose into the air with a shriek.

"Well, Snivellus, still think I have that track-record?" Sirius asked, gesturing to Pettigrew.

"I… I… I…"

"C'mon, Snivelly, it can't be that hard to say!"

"I… I… I…"

"Close enough, I suppose," Sirius pointed Snape's wand at its owner and said, "Liberacorpus." Snape fell to the ground again with a thump and a few more swearwords.

"Blimey, Professor, you could teach a class on those!" Ron said in reference to Snape's language.

"He's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" Lupin wailed. Everybody stared at him as he was holding a book entitled Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Apparently he had begun to read the book while all the others had been talking.

"Wow, Moony, you do read fast," Sirius said, gesturing to the thick volume. "But, who's back?"

"Voldemort," Lupin whispered.

This is the end of chapter two. I hope you enjoyed it. Please leave lots of reviews!