Okay, as you probably should know by now, nobody on this site owns Harry Potter unless they somehow have the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling.
"Parseltongue"
"Normal Talk"
Thoughts/emphasis
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Kiru's eyes snapped open, her fall somehow broken. She was lying face-down, her stomach draped over a large bird creature's withers. A large straggly man sat atop it, frowning deeply. The bird landed, and the first year realized that the bird had the body of a horse, but with feathers.
"Ah!" she screamed, and the man instantly grabbed her and held her mouth shut.
"I need you to keep quiet about this, understand? I made a deal with your father, and he's going to help me clear my name. I was framed for a crime, but you father's making the Veritaserum to force down the real criminal's throat and clear my name. You never saw me, understand?" the man growled, and Kiru felt her world fading. "Kid? Kid!"
Snape raced out to the forbidden forest. The coin was burning, he knew it meant trouble. The prefect was now in the Ministry's hands, and he had finally gotten a hold of that stupid rat of the youngest Weasley's, with the help of Crookshanks.
He frowned and sighed heavily. He heard the girl muttering an incantation angrily. This was going to end very badly, he just knew. A swarm of dementors was flocking near him, and he cast his patronus – a doe.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione quickly raced out to the whomping willow. They'd gotten fed up with waiting to solve this, and had gone to Hagrid for a visit to take things – namely Kiru and her attackers – off their minds. Ron grabbed Scabbers, but was startled by Kiru's oversized dog.
"Harry, look, it's the Grim!" he panicked, and Harry ducked to avoid the familiar canine. "Help!" Ron screamed as he was dragged under the whomping willow's roots.
"Look out!" Hermione squealed just before Crookshanks darted forwards to reveal the secret knot.
"Thanks, Crookshanks," Harry grinned, and raced down alongside Hermione. He heard a familiar snake urging him forwards, telling him to beware the illegal animagus, and to trust the false criminal.
"Any idea what it means?" Hermione asked when he translated it to her. He shook his head, and they continued up into the shrieking shack. They could faintly hear music, an odd, eerie sound that seemed eerily familiar with a different air. (A/N, the Nocturne of Shadows.) It morphed into a different, calm and bright song, one that the trio recognized.
"The Minuet of Forest," Ron murmured as he heard more creaking below.
"Ron!" they breathed in unison, and the redhead panicked.
"No! it's a trap! He's an animagus!" the boy panicked pointing across the room.
"Oh, I'm not the only one, boy. Expelliarmus!" the man waved a knife, brandishing it as a wand. Ron's wand was sent flying, and Lupin burst in on the scene.
"Sirius, no! These children are innocent. I'm no fool – I know why you came, and what you're after. We just need to have a little more patience my friend," Lupin assured.
"I did my waiting – thirteen years of it! in Azkaban!" Black roared manicacally, and Snape burst in.
"Ah, Severus," Lupin squeaked, and Snape grinned.
"We had a deal," Black glared, and the trio glared at him, Lupin confused as well.
"Weasley – the rat. Now," Snape said darkly. "Black, dog. Lupin – drink it. I've got the potion in my office. Not that one, Black, the one Lupin needs!"
"Harry, don't trust him, he's a werewolf!" Hermione shrieked, and Snape leered.
"I'd keep my mouth shut if I didn't want detention for the rest of the year, Granger," Snape snarled.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry bellowed.
"Relashio!" Kiru bellowed, pointing her own wand at Harry. She smiled softly, and Snape brought her into a side hug, kissing her forehead.
"Nicely done," he grinned, turning his attention back to Sirius and Remus, who were once again arguing. "Oh, look at you two – bickering like a married couple!"
"I'm telling you, he's alive!" Black insisted.
"You should listen to your friends more, Remus," Snape sneered, and the werewolf's eyes widened.
"You've been letting him in the whole time, haven't you?" Ron glared, pointing at Remus.
"Hardly," Kiru snorted. "He's been here the whole year. Isn't that right, Snuffles?"
"Indeed," Black grinned, and the girl immediately started scratching behind his ear. He started tapping his foot before snapping out of it. "Gah!"
"You know you liked it!" Kiru laughed, and Snape couldn't help but smirk at his daughter's cruel antics.
"Gaki," Sirius murmured. "I saved your life, and this is how you repay me?"
"Hey, that was you getting even for me covering for your sorry mutt ass," Kiru snapped.
"I recommend we head back to the castle, before sunset," Snape suggested, and they all immediately complied. Harry, grudgingly, but followed. "Potter, if you attack me, you lose the chance to put your parents' murderer behind bars. You wouldn't want that, now would you?"
"No, sir," Harry grumbled.
"Kiru! Where – Shit!" he panicked, realizing it was the full moon. "Get behind me!"
Lupin made the gruesome transformation into a werewolf, and Black snarled. A long brawl ensued, and Black stumbled away badly injured. Kiru frowned, having run away. Sirius was her familiar, sort of, and at least deserved a chance to be with Harry.
"Auuu!" she howled, holding her hands over her mouth.
"What are you doing?" Snape snapped, stopping her.
"Saving your friend's son," she retorted. "Auuu!"
"Now it's attacking us," Snape retorted angrily. "Run!"
Ron and Hermione panicked, Snape yanking Ron off the ground with a flick of his wand, and the trio raced back to the castle. He panicked once more when he realized that he'd only gotten Hermione and Ron to safety.
"Damn it! Stay here!" he yelled as he thrust Ron onto the front step and dove out of sight into the form of a black snake.
"Expecto Patronum!" Harry bellowed, a small shield coming out of the end of his wand. Just as his faded, another emerged from across the lake. A stag – his father! His father was a ghost and had come to protect him!
The stag chased off the dementors just as Harry let himself fall unconscious. Snape raced into the clearing to find the Stag dispersing, and recognized a certain wizard's handiwork. He saw the dementors coming back, but didn't recognize what was chasing them. It was a dragon, a long serpentine one that looked like something off of a movie. (A/N, think the long skinny one off of Mulan on the flags, or Haku on Spirited Away.)
"Kiru?" he murmured as he flicked his wand to lift Sirius and Harry back to the castle.
"Crookshanks, help me! I need you to translate to the werewolf! I need his help! Crookshanks, please, don't leave me alone to die!" Kiru panicked in Parseltongue as the wolf sauntered up to her. The cat hissed angrily, and the wolf growled. After a bit longer, the werewolf relaxed. Kiru felt cold – very cold. Happiness began to fade, and Kiru shook her head.
"No! Expecto Patronum!" she screamed, thinking of the moment her father had saved her life and told her that he loved her. A long, serpentine dragon burst out of the end of her wand, and began driving the dementors back towards the lake where they'd come from.
"A dragon, eh, girl?" a voice sneered, and Kiru swerved to face Pettigrew. "No doubt after Draco, Lucius Malfoy's boy. A pity he won't be able to help you, not now that I know your weakness. Remove your pants, or I'll put you under the Imperius Curse."
"You wouldn't! That's illegal!" Kiru gasped, falling backwards over her cloaks.
"And you are going to be the person to help me lose my virginity," Pettigrew sneered, yanking off Kiru's pants.
"Serpents! Help me, please! Bite him! Suffocate him! Anything!" Kiru pled, and three or four snakes slithered forward, hissing angrily.
"Blasted snakes you brat! Immobolize!" Pettigrew snapped, using her own wand against her. "There. Now, then, just remove your panties, then my pants, and – what the?"
The werewolf had returned, growling angrily at the death eater spy.
"Remus? Remus, it's me, Peter! You remember me? Peter Pettigrew! Wormtail!" the adult grinned, zipping his trousers back up. But, it was too late, and Kiru had already seen the excessive bulge in his underwear and boxers.
"Help!" she screamed, and Wormtail slapped her across the face.
The werewolf growled openly, baring his fangs before he leapt forward, slashing at Pettigrew's face. He continued growling angrily, and Pettigrew thrust him backwards with a powerful ricochet spell. Kiru screamed, and Pettigrew found himself immobilized.
"Hello, Peter," an adult Harry greeted lowly. "Tell me, what are you doing to the girl who is the owner of Padfoot's dog form?"
"Ah, James! I was just about to give her what she was asking for!" Peter lied quickly.
"Really? Because from the look on her face, she wants nothing more than to get away from you," the adult Potter spat angrily. "In case you hadn't noticed, she can summon the dead, and Lily and I. Well, needless to say you are in the biggest trouble yet. I believe it has something to do with her clan's secret weapon."
"James, keep him here, I'll get her dressed," a redhead said sternly. Kiru recognized the green eyes, and trusted the woman. Wary, but trusting. "Little one, little one, it's alright, I'm Lily Potter. You summoned my husband and me. We're here to help you."
"How?" Kiru sobbed, and the woman smiled softly.
"It was a gift of your mother's. She said she inherited it from her father. She also said something about only being able to summon when you play the right song, and if they signed a contract during that time they could come whenever you played the song again," Lily shrugged.
"Thank you," Kiru sobbed, holding the redhead tight. She fished around, and Lily pulled out a knife and cut herself.
"All the contract needs is a bloody fingerprint. Here," she said gently. "James, sign it."
"Hm? Oh," he grinned, also slicing his thumb and pressing it down on the blank parchment. "There. Fill it in how you please – we trust you. You don't seem like the normal cold-hearted Slytherin."
"James!" Lily scolded, immobilizing Pettigrew.
The wolf whined lowly, crouching down and laying on his back in a sign of submission. She gawked, and soon came to her senses. Werewolves must have been covered by the Minuet of Woods! That meant she could control him!
"Kiru!" a faint voice could be heard in the distance.
"Daddy! Daddy, Wormtail!" Kiru shrieked, writhing against Lily Potter's arms, and within minutes Snape had burst into the clearing. "Daddy!" she said breaking free and racing over to clutch him.
"March, both of you," Snape snapped. "Lily, what are you two doing out of your graves?"
"Your daughter summoned us in an act of desperate need for protection," she answered. "Wormtail was about to rape her."
"I can smell that," Severus wrinkled his nose up in disgust. "Kiru, did you inherit your mother's ability of Necromancy via…gifts?"
"Yes," Kiru squeaked, and fainted from exhaustion and terror.
"Kiru," she heard her father say. "Fine. Reenervate."
Her eyes snapped open. She shook her head, and Snape placed her on the werewolf's back.
"Relax, we'll be here to keep him in line while Severus goes to turn Peter in for turning us in to you-know-who," Lily assured. "We can be summoned at a moment's notice now, so summon us how you see fit, Kiru-chan."
"Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. Thanks dad! Love you!" she called out after his retreating frame. "Alright, Professor Lupin, let's go see what our golden trio's up to, huh?"
The wolf snarled ferociously, rocketing towards the castle on all fours. As terrified as Kiru was, she couldn't help but trust her new companions. James had transformed into a stag, and was now carrying a startled Lily on his back.
"So, let me get this straight," the board asked one final time. "You can prove Sirius Black's innocence?"
"Yes," Dumbledore said as Snape walked in holding Pettigrew at wand point. "My first witness is Peter Pettigrew, the one who commit the crimes. Severus Snape is assisting me with the Veritaserum."
"The truth syrum," Fudge said interested. "All right, Pettigrew. Did you or did you not act as secret keeper for Lily and James Potter?"
"I did. I turned them in to the Dark Lord. I knew that if I didn't, I'd get killed, or worse, Bellatrix would torture me like she planned to do the Longbottoms. I told him, begging him to leave James alone and to just kill the boy. I knew they could always have another one to replace him. When they ended up dead, I was distraught. I hid, not wanting Sirius to find me, for fear that he'd kill me for betraying them. When he tried to kill me, I dodged into a house, and plotted my escape. I cut off my finger, planted it in the street, and faked a final showdown with him. I knew he'd try something drastic, so when he tried to kill me, I blew up the street and transformed into a rat to hide. I knew that he'd take the rap for it, and so I hid. A few years ago, I found a nice home to hide in as an animagus rat, until Remus and Snivellus found me!" Pettigrew growled angrily. "So I ran from them, knowing they'd kill me if I was at Hogwarts."
"Did you or did you not kill Sarabella Peverell?" Fudge asked, and Snape dropped a few more drops of Veritaserum into the man's mouth.
"Yes, I knew it was only a matter of time before she sold me out. I knew the Dark Lord had put an Imperius curse on her, and would attack the girl as well. I wanted to atone for what I'd done to Harry, so I killed Sarabella – who was slowly killing her child with abuse – and took the child. When the child struggled and tried to blow my cover, I panicked and attacked her. The only thing that stopped me was a large stay mutt that attached itself to her," Pettigrew grunted angrily. "Just after the dementors entered the train, I convinced a fifth year prefect to help me in my quest. As an added bonus, she was the daughter of a fellow death eater. She attacked the girl, trying to put an Imperius curse on her, but the girl set up a shield and the spell ricocheted off onto a toad."
"Did you attack her again?" Fudge asked, and Pettigrew laughed loudly.
"Oh, I did more than that," he grinned evilly. "I watched as the prefect slapped Snape's girl, and grinned as I knew she'd probably commit suicide that night. Again, interference came, this time in the form of that stupid ghost Moaning Myrtle and the head of Slytherin house. So, I began plotting in the Forbidden Forest how to get the brat out of my way. I created a poison of my own special concoction – one that only true love with a pure-blood wizard can break – that would cause her to have extremely unstable use of her magic. I tried to do the same thing a second time in the Slytherin common rooms, but Lucius' boy got in the way. You know, the Malfoy. Oh, I would have tortured him then and there if I wasn't scared of Lucius and Narcissa's wrath. I tried numerous times over the course of the year, more and more often as Sirius kept getting closer and closer, but I could never strike at night. No, not with Sirius sleeping in his dog form sleeping at the foot of the girl's bed, and with Severus right next door. No, I had a much better idea in mind. So, I waited, biding my time. I finally seized my moment in the Forbidden Forest just tonight when a werewolf protected the brat. It understood some sort of cat, which understood Parseltongue, one of the brat's gifts from her mother. The brat used her mother's powers more to summon Lily and James Potter from the dead. Don't ask how, I don't know!"
"All in favor of snapping Pettigrew's wand and destroying his abilities as an animagus," Fudge announced, and the hands rose unanimously. "Very well then. Sirius Black is freed of all charges, and Peter Pettigrew will be sentenced to a lifetime in Azkaban! As for Black, I will need you to come here for a moment please."
"Yes?" he said warily.
"I understand you're an animagus. Now, if you can give us a reason to remain so, I will permit you to keep your form and not pay a fine," Fudge warned.
"I wanted it to keep an eye on a werewolf friend of mine in my fifth year. James, Peter and I loved going out with Moony every full moon. Now, though, I just want to use it to help catch Death Eaters and to protect my Godson," Sirius said honestly.
"Very well. Sign here," Fudge said, holding out the list.
"Severus is on here," Sirius realized. "and a … snake…"
"Yes, yes, my animagus is a snake," Snape said coldly as a familiar Slytherin burst into the room.
"Professor Snape, Ariadne just killed Kiru with the killing curse!" Malfoy yelled, and Snape's heart went from sky high to the deepest pit of his stomach.
Okay, now Kiru's doomed.
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