Disclaimer: See chapter 1

A/N: Final chapter for third year! YAY! I'm so excited! AHH! I hope you are too!

"We WON! WE WON!" Was the cheer rising from the team and the Gryffindors around us. My face was stretched so tight in a smile and I was on the verge of tears. I was surrounded by crimson and gold and I was being hugged from all sides. I grabbed Harry around the neck and pulled him into a hug.

"HANNAH! WE WON!" He yelled in my ear.

"I KNOW! I KNOW!" I yelled back. We were pushed to the area where Dumbledore stood with the Quidditch Cup. I looked at Harry and I knew what he was thinking because I was thinking it too. I could have produced the world's best patronus.

Exams started the week after the Quidditch Final and we were all frazzled. Hermione had gotten about two hours of sleep all week and all of our class was on the very edge. 'Just imagine what O.W.L.'s will be like if this is third year.' Was the thought of all us as the week went on. As we drew closer to our DADA exam Harry and I were ecstatic. We just knew we were going to do well. Or so we hoped. And guess what? We both got full marks. AS we waited for Ron and Hermione to finish their exams I thought about what we had heard in the three broomsticks. Something had been nagging at me ever since and I couldn't place it.

"Harry?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"You know that day, in the Three Broomsticks when we…when we overheard all the stuff about Black?" I finished quietly. He stiffened and looked at me.

"Why?"

"I just…it doesn't seem to fit." I finally said. "I just highly doubt that he would do something like that. I mean, he was your dad's best friend! He was even his best man at the wedding just a year or so before! I mean, think rationally, do you think someone would do that?"

"Explain Pettigrew then!" He exclaimed. I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came to me. "There you go. You can't."

"What if Pettigrew didn't die? What if he faked it and framed Black?" I said randomly. Harry looked at me like I had a pig snout (I briefly wondered if I could do that) and I couldn't help but laugh a little. "I know, I know. It's crazy." I sighed. It didn't really make much sense. "Just forget I said anything okay?" Just as I said that Ron joined us and all we had to do was wait for Hermione.

"I've been doing some research lately Hannah." Hermione said as we walked back up to the castle. "About Metamorphiguses." I stopped.

"Seriously? Its exam week and you've been doing research about people like me?" Had she lost it?

"Well yes. I've noticed that you change your appearance based more on mood you know and well, I wondered if every other Metamorphigus was like that." She paused and looked back at me. I still stood still and looked at her like she was nuts. "And well, most people can change into just about anything and I'm sure you could too." I caught back up with them and we kept walking. "Not just your hair or your eyes either. I mean like face structure and height too."

"Really?"

"Yeah and I also…." She trailed off looking at the top of the stairs where stood none other than Cornelius Fudge.

"Hello there Harry." He said as if the other three of us weren't there. "Just had an exam I expect? Nearly finished?"

"Yes sir." Harry said quickly. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Harry caught it and hid a smirk.

"Lovely day," Fudge said absentmindedly. "Pity, pity." HE sighed deeply and looked down, though not that far, at Harry. "I'm here on an unpleasant mission Harry. I'm required as a witness to the execution of a mad hippogriff. I needed to come here anyway to check on the Black condition so I was asked to be the witness that they were lacking."

"Wait," I said quickly. Fudge turned startled and looked at me as if he hadn't really seen anything like me. "There's still the appeal though right?"

"Well yes but…" HE never got to finish.

"Then how do you know the hippogriff will be executed?" I asked.

"Yeah. They might win the appeal." Ron said stepping up from the back where he had been. "The hippogriff might get off." Fudge never had the chance to answer. Two wizards came out of the doors behind him. One was very old, like dead, and the other was tall and had an ugly little mustache. The older one looked at Hagrids cabin and I guessed they had to be the representatives of the Committee for Disposal of Magical Creatures.

"I'm getting too old for this," The well, old one said. "Two o'clock right Cornelius?"

"Yes. Well good day to you all." Fudge said as the three walked off and we headed towards the Great Hall. I glanced over my shoulder and saw that the tall man had nothing else but an axe strapped to his belt.

"Damn them!" I muttered angrily. "Damn them all to hell!"

"What was that?' Hermione asked after berating Ron for yelling at his dad's boss.

"Nothing. Nothing at all."

I was sitting under the trap door to Trelawney's room as Harry descended. Alphabetically they were always messed up, I should have been first. He looked startled.

"Harry, what…" But he took off before I could finish. I'd catch him after my exam I decided and climbed up the ladder as my name was called.

"Ahh, hello dear. Please take a seat." The misty voice called to me. SO I sat. "Now, I would like you to tell me what you see in the Orb." I looked down into the crystal ball. I sat staring at it for about five minutes when she spoke again. "Anything dear?" And I had a spark of genius.

"Yes, I…I see a room. There are a lot of people. Two men are being….tried I guess. One is…Sirius Black the other…"I tried not to laugh at the outrageousness of this next fact. "The other is…no…it's Peter Pettigrew!" I gasped.

"Really? My dear…" But I interrupted. I was on a roll.

"Sirius Black is being cleared and Pettigrew is being sentenced to a lifetime in Azkaban." I paused and leaned closer. "It's changing…I see, I see a hippogriff. It's…." She interrupted me again.

"Is it writhing on the ground? Does it still have a head?" She asked hopefully.

"Yes, it still has a head." Never thought I'd say that I must say. "It's fine. Hagrid is hugging it and…all is well." I said and looked up at her. She seemed a bit disappointed. I didn't blame her. That was a bunch of BS if you get my drift.

"Well that's all my dear thank you." I stood up and left. I had been in there for about twenty minutes and hoped that Ron, Harry and Hermione were still in the common room. I finally reached the Gryffindor tower and to my disappointment none of my three friends were there. I saw all of Hermione's stuff lying all over her favorite chair and table and I wondered. Were they at Hagrids maybe? I saw a small envelope and sure enough it was addressed to Hermione in Hagrids writing. I would be dead if I went now ad was caught. I needed to be invisible and luckily I knew a cloak that could do that. I ran up the boy's stairs and into Harry's dorm. I dropped to my knees in front of his trunk and threw it open. I dug threw all of it and couldn't fins his cloak.

"Damn!" Shouted and threw everything back into the trunk haphazardly. They had left me! The little twrips. I stood up and hurried down the stairs fuming. I was too busy being miffed at my best friends and brother to notice someone was coming up the stairs until I collided with them. "Ouch!" I said rubbing my head. I looked up-ish and saw George Weasley. I had collided with his chin due to the slant of the stairs and such.

"Wow, Fred was right, you do have a hard head." He said jokingly.

"And much like your brother you have a hard chin!" I snapped. Just then Fred walked up. "Speak of the devil." I muttered and trued to push past them.

"Wait just a minute. Where do you think you're going?" Fred asked putting an arm out to block me. "You missy are in the guys dorms. Care to explain?" I glared at him but knew I wasn't going anywhere till I did. But I needed to get to Hagrids.

"I was looking for Harry's invisibility cloak okay? The three of them ditched me and I thought I could use the cloak to catch up to them." I finished and glared at both of them again. "Can I go now? Thanks." Without waiting for their answer I slipped under Fred's arm and was off. I paced around the halls waiting, hoping. I was near the front doors when I saw Lupin race out of them looking worried. I had a feeling he might know where my friends were. SO, being me I followed, but at a safe distance. He stopped at the Whomping Willow and picked up a branch and prodded a spot on the tree and it froze. HE disappeared into the roots and I waited for a bit. I ran down to the tree just as it unfroze and took a branch to the face. I could feel the blood trickling out of the many cuts on my face. I levitated a branch, not thinking my arm was long enough to reach the tree from a safe distance, and hit the same spot Lupin had. The tree froze and I relaxed a little. I crawled into the door-ish space Lupin had and found myself in a tunnel. It was really low but I was short so I barley had to stoop at all. I walked quickly but quietly along the path and saw a door up a head. I opened is slowly and tiptoed in as to not make noise. I heard voiced above and I hoped they couldn't hear me. I reached another door and I knew if I walked through it I'd be in the same room as the rest of the people who were in here. I looked around briefly and realized I was in the Shrieking Shack. A loud voice brought me back to reality. I peeked back into the room and saw Harry, Hermione, Ron, Lupin and Sirius Black.

"He's a werewolf!" Hermione shrieked. I froze who was a werewolf? Lupin? I doubted it was Black and I knew Ron and Harry weren't so it had to be Lupin. I heard Lupin's muffled voice then Ron shout 'Get away from me werewolf.' Then Lupin again. I couldn't really hear what they were saying but suddenly I heard something behind me. I pressed deeper into the shadows and changed everything about me to bland in so no one could see me. I didn't see anybody but I knew someone was there and I didn't dare breathe. Then suddenly I heard Harry's choice clearly.

"So that's why Snape hates you."

"That's right." Said a voice near me as Snape appeared from under the invisibility cloak. Where had he gotten that? I moved closer to the door so I could hear and pulled my wand out, just incase.

"I found this at the base of the Whomping Willow." He said quietly. I mentally kicked myself. How had I not seen it? "Very useful Potter thank you." I could practically see Harry glare at him. "You're wondering perhaps how I knew you were here?" He asked. No, not really, I thought sarcastically. "I've just been to your office Lupin. You forgot to take your potion tonight so I took along a gobletful. And lucky for me, I saw a certain map lying open on your desk. I saw you running down this passage way and I could have sworn I saw your sister Potter but in my rush I may have imagined things." I bit my lip. That was a close call.

"Severus-" Lupin began but Snape kept talking.

"I've told the headmaster so many times that you're the one helping Black into the castle, old school friend and all but he doesn't believe me. Now I have proof." This is not proof, I thought angrily. "Not even I dreamed that you'd use this place as your hideout."

"Severus, you're making a mistake. You haven't heard everything." Lupin tried to reason. "Sirius isn't here to kill Harry-" Snape interrupted. Frankly it was getting on my nerve.

"Two more for Azkaban." Snape said quietly so I barley caught it.

"You fool!" Lupin said equally as soft so I was almost in the light as I tired to hear it. "Is a schoolboy grudge really enough to put an innocent man back in Azkaban?" A loud bang sounded and I jumped a little. I pressed my eyes against the hole in the wall and saw Lupin on the floor tied up. Black started towards Snape, hate flashing across those once handsome features. But he stopped as Snape pointed his wand at his eyes.

"Give me a reason and I swear I will do it." He said quietly.

"Professor?" Hermione started. "It wouldn't hurt to hear what they have to say would it?" She asked quietly. I saw Snape's eyes flick to her.

"Miss Granger. You are facing suspension from this school," He snapped. "You, Potter and Weasley are way out-of-bounds by being in the company of a convicted murderer and werewolf. For once in your life hold your tongue!" Oh burn Hermione. I thought briefly.

"But if there is a mistake-" Hermione tried to say.

"KEEP QUIET YOU STIPUD GIRL! DO NOT TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" A few sparks emitted from the end of Snapes wand that was still pointed at Blacks Face. "Vengeance is so sweet. I hoped I would be the one to catch you and here we are." I curled my hands into fists, my nails digging into my palms.

"The jokes on you again Severus," Black said quietly. His voice sounded familiar. "As long as the boy brings his rat up to the castle," He nodded towards Ron who was holding Scabbers. "I'll come quietly."

"We won't need to go to the castle. The dementors can be there the moment we reach the willow. Come all of you." He turned towards the door and I slid back into the shadow. But Harry reached the door first. "Out of the way Potter. I've had enough of you today. If I hadn't been here to save your skin…"

"Lupin had a load of chances to kill me this year. Me and Hannah. If he wanted to he would have." Harry said using an amount of venom that made me proud.

"Don't ask me how a werewolf's mind works. Get out of the way."

"YOU'RE PATHETIC!" Harry roared. "JUST BECAUSE THEY MADE A FOOL OUT OF YOU AT SCHOOL YOU WON'T EVEN LISTEN-"

"SILENCE! I WILL NOT BE SPOKEN TO LIKE THAT!" He glared down at Harry and I wondered if I could get into wand range of him without being seen to disarm him. "GET OUT OF THE WAY POTTER!" That was it. I stepped closer and raised my wand.

"Expelliarmus!" I shouted but I wasn't the only one. Harry whirled around wand pointed at me but he relaxed when he saw it was me. I stepped into the light and he winced at my cut up face. I looked at Ron and Hermione whose wands were both pointed at Snape too. "Ouch. A quadruple disarming. That's gonna hurt tomorrow." I said.

"About time you showed up." Harry said. I grinned.

"You shouldn't have done that. You should have left him to me." Black said quietly.

"We attacked a teacher….we attacked a teacher….we attacked a teacher!" Hermione was saying over and over.

"Hermione! Chill please." I said.

"We are going to be in so much trouble!" She squeaked. I sighed and turned to where Black was untying Lupin's binding.

"Thank you Harry." Lupin said quietly.

"I'm still not saying I believe you." Was his reply.

"Then it's time we offer you some proof." He turned to Ron. "You boy, please give me Peter."

"Wait a minute." I said stepping forward again. "That's a rat. His name is Scabbers. Not a dude named Peter."

"Ah, Hannah, I wondered when you'd arrive. But no, that's just what he wasn't you to believe." Lupin said. I snorted.

"Right. Absolutely."

"Besides, if Pettigrew could turn himself into a rat how did he know that this is him?" Ron asked. "There are millions of rats." Lupin turned to Black.

"You know that is a valid point Sirius. How did you know this was him and where he was?" Black dug into his pockets of his thin robe and pulled out a picture. It was of Ron and his family in Egypt, the one from the Daily Prophet. "How did you get this?" Lupin asked.

"Fudge, he gave it to me when he came to inspect Azkaban last year. And there was Peter on the front page on this boys shoulder. I knew it was him, I'd only seen him transform a thousand times. And it said he would be going back with the boy to Hogwarts…where Harry was." I bit back a retort about me being there too.

"Sirius look at his front paw. SO simple, so brilliant." Lupin whispered.

"What?" Ron snapped. "What is it?"

"He's missing a toe." Black replied.

"He cut it off himself right before he transformed." Lupin continued.

"I'd cornered him and he yelled to the street how I'd betrayed Lily and James and then he blew apart the street wand behind his back and transformed escaping down the sewer. He killed those muggles not me." Black said.

"I don't understand what that's got to do…" Ron started.

"Remember what Fudge said in the Three Broomsticks?" I snapped. "The biggest piece they ever found of Pettigrew was his finger."

"Exactly Hannah." Lupin said.

"Look, Scabbers probably just got into a fight with another rat! He's been in my family for ages."

"Twelve years in fact. Ever wonder why he's lived so long?" Lupin asked.

"We've taken good care of him!" Ron said defensively.

"But he's not looking to good now is he? I'd say he's been losing weight ever since her heard Sirius escaped."

"He's been scared of that mad cat!" Ron bellowed pointing at Crookshanks who was lying on the bed next to him. But Scabbers had been looking ill before Crookshanks was in the picture.

"You needed medicine for him before Crookshanks was around though Ron." I pointed out.

"Whose side are you on anyway Hannah?" He snapped. I glared back at him and he quailed a bit.

"That cats not mad. He's the smartest I've ever met. He spotted Peter for what he was. When he met me he knew I wasn't a dog but he trusted me anyway. I managed to communicate what I needed to him and he got it. He's been helping me." Black said.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.

"He tried to bring Peter to me but couldn't, so he stole the passwords into the Gryffindor Tower for me. From a boy's bedside table." It made sense but it was still so absurd.

"Peter realized what was going on and took off. The cat, Crookshanks, told me he had left blood on the sheets. I guess he thought he could fake his own death again. It had worked before."

"And why did he fake his death?" Harry asked furiously. "Because he knew you were about to kill him like you killed my parents."

"No Harry…" Lupin began.

"And now you've come to finish him off!"

"Yes I have." Black said with an evil look at Scabbers.

"Dude, you're not helping your case here." I said. Black glanced at me as if he had just noticed me.

"Then I should have let Snape take you!" Harry roared.

"Harry, don't you see? This whole time we've had it mixed up! We thought Sirius betrayed your parents and Peter tracked him down but in reality Peter killed your parents and Sirius tracked him down."

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Harry exploded again. "HE WAS THEIR SECRET KEEPER! HE SAID SO BEFORE YOU GOT HERE. HE SAID HE KILLED THEM!"

"I Harry, I as good as killed them." Black said. "I persuaded them to change from me to Peter as their Secret-Keeper at the last minute….I'm to blame and I know it. The night they died I had arranged to check in on Peter and make sure he was still safe. But when I got to his hiding place he was gone, there was no sign of a struggle. It didn't feel right. I was scared. I set off to your parent's house. I saw their house destroyed and their bodies….I realized what Peter must have done. What I must have done." His voice broke and he turned away.

"Enough of this." Lupin said in a tone that gave me chills. "Ron, give me that rat."

"What are you going to do with him if I give him to you?" Ron asked tensely.

"Force him to shoe himself. If he really is a rat then it won't hurt. If he's peter on the other hand." Lupin replied. Ron just held Scabbers tighter.

"For Merlin's sake Ron give him the eff-ing rat!" I cried. He glared at me but obliged. Sirius had already gotten Snapes wand and both he and Lupin pointed the wands at Scabbers. "

"One…two…THREE!" There was a flash of blue-white light and a short figure stood where Scabbers had been.

"Oh my god." I muttered.

"Well hello Peter." Lupin snarled.

"S—Sirius, R-Remus. My old friends." He said in a squeaky voice. He glanced towards the door and saw me. I straightened and crossed my arms defensively over my chest. "My old friends." Sirius raised his wand again but Lupin held it down.

"We've been having a little chat Peter. About what happened the night Lily and James died. You might have missed some of the finer points while you were down there squeaking around on the bed…."

"Remus!" Peter gasped. "You don't believe him do you? He tried to kill me Remus!"

"So we've heard." Lupin replied coldly. "I'd like to clear up one or two more things with you Peter. If you don't mind."

"He's come to try and kill me again!" Pettigrew said pointing at Black with his middle finger because he seemed to be missing his index one. "He killed Lily and James and he's here for me too!"

"No ones going to kill you until we've sorted some things out."

"What is there to sort out? I knew he'd come after me again! I've been waiting twelve years."

"You knew Sirius was going to escape Azkaban? When no ones done it before?"

"He's got dark powers the rest of us could only dream of! How else did he get out of there? I suppose He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named taught him a few tricks." Black started to laugh. A harsh mirthless laugh that totally freaked me out.

"Voldemort, teach me tricks?" he said. "What scared to hear your master's name?" He asked as Pettigrew flinched. "I don't blame you. His lot aren't very happy with you right now Peter."

"I don't know what you mean Sirius." Pettigrew mumbled still glancing at the door every so often.

"You haven't been hiding from me for twelve years. You've been hiding from them." Black said with a malicious glare. " I heard things in Azkaban Peter. I know. They think the double crosser double crossed them. Voldemort went to the Potters on your information and he met his downfall. What do you expect them to believe. And not all of his followers went to Azkaban did they? No some are still out there."

"You can't believe this Remus."

"I have a hard time trying to figure out why an innocent man would spend twelve years as a rat Peter." Lupin said.

"Innocent but scared. If Voldemort supporters were after me it's because I'd put their best man in Azkaban. Sirius Black the spy!"

"How dare you!" Black growled. "I, a spy for Voldemort? When did I ever sneak around with people who were stronger than me? But you Peter, I'll never understand why I didn't see you were the spy form the start. You always liked powerful friends to look after you didn't you? It was us first. Me, James, and Remus." Pettigrew muttered something about Black losing his mind. "Lily and James only made you there Secret-Keeper on my suggestion. I thought it was a perfect plan. A bluff. Voldemort was sure to com after me, he would never dream that you were Secret-Keeper. It must have been the best moment of your life betraying them to Voldemort.

I could hear Pettigrew muttering again about things like 'lunacy' and 'far-fetched' but his eyes darted more and more towards the door I was standing in.

"Professor Lupin?" Hermione asked. "Can-can I say some thing?"

"Certainly Hermione." Lupin said more like himself.

"Well Scabbers-this man-has been sleeping in Harry's dorm for the past three years. If he was working with You-Know-Who then why hasn't he hurt Harry before? And Hannah was close too. It doesn't add up."

"There! Thank you! Thank you!" Pettigrew cried shrilly.

"How could a man who is supposed to be dead commit murder and right under Albus Dumbledores nose? Plus Voldemort's been in hiding for twelve years. They say he's half dead. He didn't want to skrew up again did he? You kept your ears open to any news of him, just incase your old protector regained strength and it was safe to rejoin him." A thought suddenly struck me.

"Umm, Mr. Black-Sirius?" I asked. Black looked at me and a wave o shock passed over his face. Okay, that was weird, I thought. "If you don't mind me asking, how did you get out of Azkaban if you didn't use Dark Magic." He looked at me as if pondering this.

"I guess I'm not really sure. I think the only reason I never lost my mind was because I knew I was innocent. It wasn't a happy thought so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me. It gave me a sense of self so when it all became too much I could turn into a dog. Dementors can't see. They feed off emotion and thought." Black paused. "I guess they could feel that I wasn't as human when I was a dog but they didn't notice anything odd. I suppose they just thought I was losing my mind." He paused again and I opened my mouth to say something but he kept talking. "I was too weak to have any hope of driving them away with out a wand. Then I saw Peter in that picture and I realized that he would be perfectly poised to act if he heard one hint that the Dark Side was gaining strength, he was ready to strike the moment he knew he had allies. He would be welcomed back. So I had to do something. I was the only one who knew he was still alive. It was as if someone had lit a fire in my head, and the dementors couldn't destroy it. My one happy thought. It gave me strength. So one night when the dementors brought me my food I slipped out of the opening. It's much harder for them to feel animal emotions and they were confused. I swam back as a dog to the main land and traveled here and have been living in the forest except when I came out to watch a Quidditch practice and the game. You fly as well as your father did Harry." He looked up at Harry and he didn't look away.

"Please believe me Harry, I never betrayed James and Lily. I could have died before I betrayed them." He turned to me. I was staring into the dark eyes so much like mine. "I would never had. He was like my brother." I nodded through the lump that was growing in my throat and the tears that threatened to over flow. Harry nodded too.

"NO!" Pettigrew dropped to his knees. HE was groveling as if our nods had been his death sentence. "Sirius it's me! Your old friend!" Black kicked at him and he recoiled.

"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them!"

"Remus! You don't believe this do you? Wouldn't have Sirius told you they'd changed the plan?" He begged.

"Not if he thought I was the spy Peter." Lupin said calmly. "I assume that's why you didn't tell me Sirius?" he asked casually over Pettigrew's head.

"Forgive me Remus."

"Not at all Padfoot old friend." Lupin said rolling up his sleeves. And will you in turn forgive me for believing you were the spy?"

"Of course." Black said. He too was rolling up his sleeves. "Shall we kill him together then?'

"Yes I think so." Lupin said grimly.

"You wouldn't!" Pettigrew gasped. HE stumbled turning to face Ron. "Ron, haven't I been a good friend? You're on my side aren't you?"

"I let you sleep in my bed!" Ron roared outraged.

"Kind boy kind master, I was such a good rat wasn't I?"

"If you made a better rat than human it's not much to boast about now is it Peter?" Black snarled.

"Sweet girl," Pettigrew said turning to Hermione, "Clever girl, you - you wouldn't let them kill me would you?" Hermione lifted her robes out of Pettigrew's grasp and backed up against the wall looking horrified. He whirled on me this time.

"Hannah, you can't believe this can you?" I raised an eyebrow. "You can't let them kill you. You always liked me."

"Actually I hated you." I replied and saw Harry smile. "Allergies see."

"I never would have killed them." He begged. Then turned to Harry. "Harry, Harry you look just like your father. Just like him."

"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO HARRY?" Sirius bellowed. "HOW DARE YOU FACE HIM? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT JAMES IN FRONT OF HIM?"

"Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed." He looked at Harry with his watery rat like eyes. "He would have shown me mercy." Lupin and Black strode forward and grabbed Pettigrew by his shoulders and dragged him back.

"You sold Lily and James to Voldemort." Black said shaking. "You don't deny it?" Pettigrew burst into tears. It was pretty pathetic honestly.

"Sirius….Sirius…what could I have done? The Dark Lord….you have no idea. He has weapons you can't imagine! I was scared Sirius, I was never brave like you and James. I didn't want it to happen, he forced me."

"DON'T LIE! YOU WERE PASSING INFORMATION TO HIM ABOUT LILY AND JAMES LONG BEFORE YOU BECAME SECRET-KEEPER! YOU WERE HIS SPY!"

"He was taking over everywhere! What was there to be gained by refusing him?"

"What was there to gain fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives Peter!" Black said his furry mounting.

"He would have killed me!"

"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED! DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS AS ANY ONE OF US WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!"

"You should have realized that if he didn't kill you we would Peter." Lupin said standing shoulder to shoulder with Black, wand raised. "Goodbye."

"NO!" Harry shouted. "You can't kill him. You just can't." he said.

"Harry this man is the reason you don't have any parents." Black said pointedly. Then I got what Harry was feeling.

"I know. But we can bring him up to the castle. The dementors can deal with him then." He took a deep breath. I wanted to give him a hug but didn't want to move from the door. "He can go to Azkaban but don't kill him."

"Thank you Harry! Thank you so much! It's more than I deserve!" Pettigrew said.

"Shut up!" I snapped. "Don't you get it? He's not doing this for you. He's doing it because his dad wouldn't have wanted them to become killers just for your pathetic worthless skin." I snarled with more venom than I had expected. Everyone stared at me as I glared at Pettigrew.

"Harry think what he did." Black said.

"He can go to Azkaban. But it's like Hannah said."

"Alright. Peter we're going to take you up to school but if you try to transform we will kill you." Black said glancing at Harry who nodded.

"Right then," Lupin said suddenly business like. "Ron. I can't mend bones like Madam Pomfrey can, so I think we should just strap it up until we get to the castle." HE hurried over to Ron, flicked his wand and Ron's leg was in a splint. Ron stood up and put weight on his leg and didn't wince.

"That's better, thanks."

"What about Professor Snape?" Hermione asked.

"There's nothing seriously wrong with him, you four were just a little over enthusiastic. It's probably best of we don't revive him until we're up in the castle so this ought to do it." Another flick of his wand and it was if invisible strings were attached to Snape's arms and head.

"Two of us should be chained to this." Black said nudging Pettigrew with his toe. "Just to make sure."

"I'll do it." Lupin said.

"Me too." Ron said savagely limping forward. Black conjured heavy manacles from this air and within moments Ron, and Lupin were chained to Pettigrew. Crookshanks leapt off the bed and led the way back down the tunnel. Ron, Lupin and Pettigrew came next then a creepy looking Snape who seemed to just be floating along. Then Black, Harry and Hermione. I was in the very back. I was walking along thinking when Harry motioned me forward. I slipped past Hermione and was next to Harry.

"This is Hannah." Harry said as if he had just finished explaining my role in life.

"I remember you." Sirius said. "That night, you were there too. I offered to take you both home but Hagrid said Dumbledore had other pans and who am I to argue with Dumbledore. But now's it's different. I suppose no one has told you but I'm your godfather Harry, and yours too I suppose Hannah." He said. Harry and I just nodded. "And since I'll be free once this is over, I was wondering if you two would like to come live with me."

"Leave the Dursleys?" Harry asked.

"Live with you?" I asked.

"Of course I thought you wouldn't too," Black said quickly, "I understand I just thought…"

"Are you crazy!" I exclaimed. "EW absolutely want to leave the Dursleys!"

"Do you have a place? When can we move in?" Harry asked. Black turned around to face us.

"You want to? You mean it?" A true smile broke over his face and the difference was startling. A shadow of who he used to be shone out.

"No." I said my voice dripping in sarcasm. "We don't want to at all. Of course! You don't even have to ask!" HE grinned again and I couldn't help but grin either. WE didn't speak the rest of the time. I fell back next to Hermione and she smiled letting me know she had heard. We finally reached the exit of the tunnel and we were able to stand up straight.

"One wrong move Peter." Lupin threatened his wand still pointed at Pettigrew's chest sideways. Then a cloud shifted and their party was bathed in moonlight. Lupin went rigid and I gasped.

"He didn't take his potion! He's not safe!" I said. I moved towards the group of three to get Ron but Black caught me around my chest.

"Leave it to me. Run!" Suddenly a large black dog was in front of me and charged towards Lupin. I stood rooted to the spot, unable to move. The dog bit the werewolf around the neck and threw him down. The wolf then threw the dog off. AS luck would have it, Sirius came flying through the air towards me and before I could move or even really realize it I was falling backward with high force. My head hit a rock and everything was black.

"Okay, so you're telling me that Hermione had a time turner and that's how she's been getting to her classes all year." I asked as we sat in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express. "And you guys used it to save Buckbeak and Sirius after Pettigrew escaped and Lupin turned into a werewolf?"

"Yeah. Pretty much." Harry said.

"And you also think that the servant Trelawney spoke of was Pettigrew?"

"Yes again." I sighed and rubbed my right shoulder with my left hand. I had dislocated my shoulder when I fell hence, me needing to catch up on everything.

"SO Sirius and Buckbeak are on the run." Harry nodded. "And you produced a full fledged patronus to ward off a hundred dementors?" He smiled and nodded again. "Well done! I'm impressed. And it was a stag which was what your dad transformed into right?"

"Yes ma'am. I think that's it. Anything we missed Hermione?"

"Nope. You know that Lupin was sacked and that's about it." Then she grinned. "Fudge wasn't very happy was he?"

"No he wasn't. Neither was Snape." Harry said. "Oh, you know when we disarmed him? He told Fudge that we were under the Imperious curse and Sirius had put us up to it. HE didn't even realize that you were there or his case would have been out the window because you weren't even there for Sirius to curse you." I grinned and pictured it.

"Harry? What is that outside your window?" Hermione asked. We all looked and there was a little, what looked like an owl, bobbing outside the window. Harry opened the window and it flew in. It was possibly the smallest owl ever. Harry took the letter and read it out loud.

Dear Harry,

I hope this finds you before you reach your aunt and uncle. I'm not sure if they're used to owl post. Buckbeak and I are in hiding, I won't say where incase this owl falls into the wrong hands. I have some doubts about his reliability but he is the best I could find, and he did seem eager for the job.

I believe the dementors are still searching for me, but they haven't a hope of finding me here. I am planning to allow some muggles to glimpse me soon, a long way from Hogwarts, so the security from the castle will be lifted.

There is something I never got around to telling you. It was I who sent you the Firebolt-

"Ha!" Hermione said. "See! I told you to was from him!"

"Yes, but he didn't jinx it. Ow!" Ron said. Te tiny owl had nibbled one of his fingers.

Crookshanks took the order to the Owl Office for me. I used your name but told them to take their gold from my Gringotts vault. Please consider it thirteen years worth of birthday presents from your godfather. Hannah, yours are coming.

I would also like to apologize for the freight I think I gave you and Hannah that night last year when you left your uncles house. I only wanted a glimpse of you before I headed north, but I think I alarmed you.

I am enclosing something else for you which I think will make next year more bearable. If you ever need me send word. Your owl will find me.

I'll write you again soon.

Sirius.

I Looked at Harry and smiled. He was holding a permission slip for Hogsmeade. Next year would be better for him if only for that. Not much else was said on the rest of the trip. AS we met the Dursleys at the barrier Harry was still holding the letter.

"Who's that from?" Uncle Vernon asked.

"Our godfather." Harry said.

"You don't have a godfather."

"Yes we do. He's an escaped murderer though." Harry continued.

"He likes to check in on us make sure we're all right. Make sure we're happy." I finished. And with one last look at the platform we were off. Just the summer was all that was between us and seeing it again.

A/N: I'm done! Thank God. Okay you know the drill. Read and Review please!