"Listen, I know you two don't care but Buckbeak's execution is tonight." Hermione said, staring at Ron and Harry. At that, the mask of indifference slid from Harry's face. In that moment, she saw him as he now was. Hermione saw a wolf cub, bruised and beaten, weighed down by a great destiny. In the next instant, he was back to being a boy.
"I know you think we don't care but, thank you for trying to help Hagrid. If things were different, we would have been there for you but as is…" Ron petered off.
"And how do you know?" Hermione retorted.
"Well…"
"It's tonight." Harry piped up.
"What is?" The other two asked.
"I've been having visions of the future for over a year. Half of one has been fulfilled but the other half has become clearer. Four animals once stood in front of a mighty tree. One fell at the hands of a fifth while the other fell to shadow. The first rejoins the rest of the four at the night of great injustice. Otter, deer, and dog try to ease the passing of a noble beast but fail. One they thought their own leads them to a place two know well. From there, truth is found and lost. The group returns and stops the injustice but that gives way to more. The last images I see are a dog chasing a wolf and a stag protecting the future." Harry said. "We need to go to Hagrid's. What's more, we have to be there."
With those words, the three set off. "Where are you going?" Draco asked them. Hermione, grieving decides to do the unthinkable. "YOU! It's all your fault! You don't like us so you decide to have our friend's job go wrong!" With this, Hermione smacks the boy, not even noticing that he barely felt it. Draco fell to the ground, wondering what she was talking about.
Hagrid had welcomed their company but when the time came, he had quickly shooed the teens away. When the axe fell, they were in the pumpkin patch. Hermione was in tears but if she hadn't she would have noticed that the eyes of the other two were dry.
-This is strange, I feel like this isn't the last time we'll see Buckbeak.-
-What do you mean?-
-Well… Wait, is that Scabbers?- Scabbers, Ron's rat had been missing until today. When Hagrid gave him back to the boy, Ron had stuffed him in his jacket. Now however, the rat was running toward the tree that broke Harry's broom and that had last year broken Ron's wand. Quickly, first Ron then Harry and Hermione ran after the rat.
"Scabbers NO!" Ron yelled. The rat had vanished into the tree, known as the Whomping Willow and now Ron was at a loss as to how to get him. However, the problem was solved by a big black dog. The dog quickly grabbed Ron and dragged him through the roots. If this had been last year, Ron would have been crying out in pain, but his bones were no longer made of bone, now encased in Steel Digizoid. Even so, the boy spared a gasp at the dog's bite.
"RON NO!" Hermione cried, "No, not you too Harry!" As Ron was taken, Harry leapt into action, loping through the darting branches that gave the tree its name. Quickly, Harry disappeared, leaving Hermione outside. Knowing she shouldn't but deciding to do so, Hermione ran toward the tree, trying to duck and dodge. Just as a large branch came toward her, the cat she had bought at the start of the year, Crookshanks jumped past her and hit a strange knot in the tree. This froze the tree and allowed Hermione to rejoin Harry.
The two walked through the tunnel which led to a large room. When they entered it, they saw Ron shivering. "H-Harry, it's him, it's Sirius Black!"
Quickly, Harry turned and beheld a bedraggled man. The man shut the door and turned toward the two. Harry, acting on impulse, drew out his Holly wand and faced Hermione, "Petrificus Totalus!" He yelled. He saw her look of betrayal but did not linger on her face. "I know you aren't here to kill me." He told the man.
"Y-you do?" Sirius Black stuttered.
"You smell like anger at a betrayal. Also, there is a desire to extract revenge at a friend. If you wanted to kill me, you would not have this feeling since I am no friend. You aren't the stag and you aren't the wolf, I've already met one and the other will not return yet. That leaves the rat and the dog. However, the rat was the betrayer and you have been shown to be otherwise. Am I right, Padfoot?"
"How do you know my name?"
"Wormtail, Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs. Dogs don't have worm-tails nor do they have anything to do with prongs or the moon. I know you have something to do with my map because I have felt that you are tied to it. Ron gave me the piece of the puzzle I needed to figure it out when he didn't try to talk to me."
"But he told you who I was."
"Out loud so as to not throw off Hermione's suspicions. If he had warned me using other methods you would be in trouble. Even so, my visions don't tell me anything. Why are you on the run if you weren't a traitor? I know you had something to do with my parent's death but tonight shows it doesn't add up."
"As you may have heard, I was the secret keeper for the Potters." Sirius Black broke off as the four heard something. That something was revealed as Remus Lupin. Lupin quickly went over and hugged Black.
"Wolf and dog, together again. So you were secret keeper right?" Harry asked.
"Yes. However, Voldermort had been trying to get to the Potters so I secretly switched with a classmate and friend of mine, Peter Pettigrew."
"The rat."
"Correct. However, I later found out he was working for Voldermort so after he hit your house, I cornered Peter in the street. He acted like I was the traitor and then turned his wand backward and cast a killing curse on twelve people. He quickly turned himself into a rat and fled to the sewers. When I got the paper one morning, I saw him as a rat on that boy's shoulder. So, I broke out by transforming into a dog and began to pursue him."
"But everyone thought it was me he was after. I'm guessing Scabbers is Pettigrew but Hermione will need more proof. I'd give you my wand but it won't work for you. Ron? Can you give him yours?"
"Already have." Came the reply.
With that, Lupin and Black cast a spell that turned the rat, Scabbbers into a rat-like man, Peter Pettigrew. Black tried to kill him but Harry stopped him. "He killed my parents. I should be the one. However, I think he will prove useful so we should let him go." Harry said. As the group left the tree, the moon rose, full.
"He hasn't taken any potion!" Hermione shrieked. Black changed into a dog and went after the now werewolf Lupin. However, Lupin turned at a wolf call.
At this call, Harry froze, "Takuya?" He wondered.
Sirius Black was flung aside and Harry and Hermione dragged him to the lake where the group met up with Dementors. Harry tried to stave them off but he was too late. Hermione fell from the strain and just as Harry was about the collapse, a white stag charged the Dementors. With that last image, Harry fell to the ground, unconscious.
A.N. Since Harry is not human and Ron has special powers, this scene went different in the book. For this reason, the next will also be different.