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"I've made a decision…" Pettigrew said after a brief period of silence.

"What, are you going to stop being a git?" Sirius asked.

"No. I've decided that I'm not going to go back to my Master."

"Really?"

"Yes. If I'm just going to be killed, what's the point? From now on, I'm on your side."

"I'll believe it when I see it."

"Oh no, Tonks!" Lupin cried out.

"What is it now, Moony? Did your girlfriend--"

"—snuff it?"

"No, Severus. She came to the battle of Hogwarts. Oh, and Ron, I'm sorry to say that Fred… Fred… well, he…"

"—loses an ear?" Ron finished hopefully.

Lupin shook his head.

"… an arm?" Lupin shook his head again. "… an eye? …a toe? … a leg? … a foot?"

"Snuffs it?" Snape asked.

Lupin nodded.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! FRED!"

"What about me?"

Ron gasped and turned around, only to meet the eyes of Fred, George, Percy, Neville, Dumbledore, and a guilty-looking Hermione.

Lupin paled and looked over the book, Sirius gave a yelp as though he had been hit in the face, Peter squealed, Snape smirked, Harry's eyes widened in shock, and Ron screamed, "What the bloody hell are you all doing here?"

Fred smirked. "Well, George and I were walking past ol' Professor Lupin's office – oh, sorry, didn't see you there, Professor, sorry about the old comment--" Lupin made a choked sobbing sound and shook his head from behind the book, "Professor, are you crying?"

Hermione rushed to Lupin's side and handed him the Wolfsbane potion. "Here, drink this, Professor," she said. Lupin smiled at her, wiping the tears from his eyes and downed the potion with a grimace.

"You were saying?" Ron said.

"Right…" Fred shot Lupin a worried look and then continued with his story, "So, we were walking past Professor Lupin's office – for our own perfectly innocent reasons, mind you –" Fred and George exchanged mischievous looks, "So, we found it rather odd when the door decided to open on its own accord…"

"…and we discovered Hermione, here sneaking into Lupin's office with the keys…" George continued.

"… probably stole his keys and broke into his office to make sure she passed her final…" Ron snorted and Hermione cast him a dirty look.

"… well, she claimed that she was just here for that potion on his desk and that she really had to get going…"

"… Amateur, really…"

"… So, we pretended to let her go on her merry way…"

"… But we followed her…"

"… Secretly, of course…"

"… She had mud on her shoes…"

"… Purely amateur…"

"And then I found them," Percy said. "While I was doing my patrols as Head Boy," Percy puffed his chest out to emphasize the Head Boy badge gleaming on his chest, "I spotted these two," he gestured to Fred and George, "skulking around for what I assumed was no good. So, I followed them…"

"… and then he caught me in the corridors," Neville interrupted. "I was on my way to Professor Lupin's office to ask him whether I had passed my final…"

"… and you did, Neville," Lupin said with a weak smile.

"Oh, good! But, before I got to his office, Percy caught me out of bed and he made me come with him so he could punish me later… said something about trying to catch some pranksters…"

"… and then I found them walking through the corridors," Dumbledore said with a smile. Lupin looked up and positively began to wail. "Er, Remus? Are you quite all right?" Lupin shook his head, putting down the book to blow his nose. Even Snape dabbed a rather gray and greasy-looking handkerchief to his eyes. "Well, it wasn't that heroic or selfless or anything, but… I decided to join them. We tracked Mr. Weasly and Mr. Weasly here to the Whomping Willow, which had been immobilized for some reason, and we went through the tunnel to find all of you here."

"So, now who's going to tell us what's going on here?" Percy asked, looking around the room, stopping when his eyes met Sirius Black. "YOU!" Percy pulled out his wand and pointed it at Sirius. "What have you done to my brother, you fiend?"

Sirius rolled his eyes but said nothing.

Dumbledore looked at Snape, who refused to make eye contact, blowing his nose on the greasy handkerchief. "Severus? Can you tell us what happened?" His eyes turned to a sobbing Lupin. "Remus? What tragedy has occurred here?" Dumbledore's eyes calmly surveyed the rest of the scenery, falling from Sirius holding Snape's wand, to Pettigrew floating by his ankle, to Ron on the ground with his mangled leg, to Harry, calmly standing next to Ron, and finally resting upon the forgotten unconscious girl on the ground. "I daresay that from what I see now, it seems like a very enthralling tale."

Harry piped up and explained how he, Ron, and Hermione had snuck out of the castle to see Hagrid before Buckbeak had gotten executed and how Pettigrew (Scabbers) had gotten away from Ron and how he had chased the rat and then when he had picked him up how he had gotten attacked by the large black dog, who dragged Ron into the tunnel under the Whomping Willow ("Sorry about that, Ron, it was necessary," Sirius said.) and how Harry and Hermione had gone in after him. Then they explained how they had fought Sirius and then how Lupin had come in before Harry could kill Sirius and disarmed all of them ("How could you, Professor?" Percy gasped. Lupin sobbed, trying to get himself to pull together.) Then, they explained the interruption of the strange girl with her strangely accurate series about Harry and then how Snape had sneaked in and how Sirius had discovered him using the third book.

Then, Lupin tearfully explained what happened, in detail, in the future books and where he had left off.

"This is some type of joke, right? I mean, I can't just drop dead like that, can I?" Fred said with a weak smile.

Lupin shook his head. "I'm afraid not."

Dumbledore merely smiled, benignly (and rather strangely for somebody who was just told that he would die in three years at the hands of one he thought to be trustworthy) and said, "Continue, then, Remus. Let us discover the fate of the others in this battle for Hogwarts."

Lupin gulped, having gained more composure and nodded, applying himself to the book left open on the ground.

"So… you're innocent?" Percy said to Sirius.

"Yes, your real murderer is right here, dangling upside-down by his ankle," Sirius sneered.

"But I told you that I don't plan to go back to him anymore! I'm on your side now! Can't you let me down now?"

"No."

"Let him down, Sirius," Dumbledore said. "If he tries to escape, I daresay that we have more than enough people to overpower him."

Begrudgingly, Sirius pointed Snape's wand at Pettigrew and muttered, "Liberacorpus." Peter fell down with a squeal and sat up, rubbing his head.

"Oh no…" Lupin groaned.

"Please tell me it wasn't me!" George shouted.

"No, it's not you, George, it's… it's… Severus."

This is the end of chapter six. I would like to thank Mina-chan AMD, The Amazing Chez, Flamespirit-eth, craziigirl, and Ogreatrandom for reviewing for the previous chapter. Please leave lots of reviews!