Together [HP]

"It's an honor to meet you, Potter, Weasley, Miss Granger, Professor Lupine and Mr. Sirius Black." She said with an impeccable smile on her face.

Hermione screamed.Blake jumped to his feet.Harry jumped up, as if suddenly electrocuted. "I found it under the roots of the Whomping Willow," said Snape, throwing the cloak aside, still careful not to let his wand stray from Lupine's chest. "Very useful, Potter. I thank you." .”

Snape was slightly out of breath, but he had an overwhelming sense of triumph on his face. "You probably don't understand how I know you're here," he said.Eyes ablaze, "Jacqueline just dropped by your office, Luhu. You forgot to take your medicine tonight, so she brought a big glass over. Luckily she did. I mean, we're lucky .There's a map on your desk. One look and I see everything I need to know. I see you walking down this aisle and then disappearing."

"Severus, you're wrong," said Lupine eagerly, "you didn't hear the whole thing. I can explain that Sirius didn't come here to kill Harry."

"Two more people are going to Azkaban tonight," said Snape, his eyes lighting up wildly. "I'd be interested to see what Dumbledore would do when he heard that. He believed You're harmless, you know that, Lupine. A tame werewolf."

"You fool," Lupine said mildly, "can a student-level complaint send an innocent person to Azkaban?"

Bang! Snake-like bands erupted from the end of Snape's wand and wrapped themselves around Lupine's mouth, wrists and ankles.Lupine lost his balance and fell to the floor, unable to move.Black roared and rushed at Snape, but Snape's wand was pointed directly between Black's eyes.

"Give me a reason," he whispered, "Give me a reason for doing this, and I swear I will." Blake didn't move a bit.At this time, people can't judge whose face has the deeper hatred.

Harry stood there, not knowing what to do or who to trust.He looked at Ron and Hermione.Ron was as confused as he was, just trying to hold on to the struggling Scabbers.However, Hermione took a step towards Snape hesitantly, and Jacqueline shook her head behind Snape, hoping she would not do so, but Hermione turned a blind eye, she said as if out of breath : "Professor Snape, listen, listen to what they have to say, there's no harm in that, is there?"

"Miss Granger, you are already in danger of being suspended from school," Snape spat. "It's outrageous for you, Potter and Ron, to hang out with proven murderers and werewolves. Keep silent. Even if it's just once in your life."

"But what if, because there were mistakes before." Jacqueline closed her eyes in pain, she hoped that Hermione would stop talking

"Shut up, you silly girl!" Snape yelled, suddenly frantic. "Don't talk about things you don't understand!" A few sparks came from the end of his wand, which was still pointed at Black's face.Hermione fell silent.

"Revenge is sweet," Snape said to Black. "How I wished I was the one who caught you."

"That joke is working on you again, Severus," Black growled, "as long as the boy brings Scabbers back to the castle," he tossed his head in Ron's direction. "I'll go with you quietly."

"To the castle," said Snape flatteringly. "Of course I'll take Peter Pettigrew, who is now called Scabbers. But I don't think we'll have to go that far. All I'll do is, once out of that willow tree, Just call the dementors. They'll be so glad to see you, Blake, I daresay, they'll give you a little kiss."

What color remained in Blake's face was now gone. "You know, you know it's Peter Pettigrew?" he said hoarsely. "You, you listen to me, you must listen to me!"

But there was a crazy gleam in Snape's eyes that Harry had never seen before.Snape seemed to have lost his mind. "Come on, all of you," he said.He flicked his fingers, and the ends of the straps that bound Lupin flew into his hands. "I'll drag the werewolf. Maybe the dementor will kiss him too."

Without thinking, Harry strode across the room in three big strides, blocking the door.Jacqueline held out her wand at that moment, pointing at him.

"Get out of the way, Potter, you've had enough trouble," Snape growled, "if I wasn't here to save you."

"Professor Lupine has had a hundred chances to kill me this year," said Harry. "I've been alone with him many times, learning from him how to fight dementors. If he's one of Black's, then Why didn't he end me when

"Don't ask me about the mentality of a werewolf," Snape said sharply. "Get out of the way, Potter."

"Poor you!" Harry exclaimed, "only because they joked with you when you were a student and you couldn't even listen to them..."

"Shut up! Don't talk to me like that!" Snape screamed, looking even crazier. "Like a father, like a son. Potter! I just saved your life. You should be on your knees and thanking me! If he kills you, you deserve it! You'll die like your father , too arrogant to believe I've misjudged Black. Now, get out of the way, or I'll force you out of the way. Get out of the way, Potter!"

In a moment, Harry made up his mind.Before Snape could take a step towards him, he raised his wand.Jacqueline's eyes widened in disbelief,

"Armor protection," she shouted, pointing at Snape, but she was still a step behind.

"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled, but he wasn't alone.There was a loud explosion that shook the door on its hinges; Snape was lifted off the ground, slammed into the wall, and slid back to the floor, a stream of blood oozing from under his hair.He was knocked unconscious.His wand arced high and landed next to Crookshanks on the bed.

Jacqueline's wand flew through the air and landed at Ron's feet, and she fell to the ground screaming in pain.Hermione was taken aback, and hurried over to see her.

Harry looked around and saw that both he and Hermione had managed to disarm Snape at exactly the same moment.But Ron's wand was aimed at Jacqueline.

"You shouldn't have done that," Black said, looking at Harry, "you should have let me deal with him.."

Harry avoided Black's eyes, and he still doesn't know if he did the right thing or not.

"Jacqueline," Hermione sobbed, kneeling beside Jacqueline, "are you all right?"

"You guys are really capable of making things worse and worse." Jacqueline spit out a mouthful of blood from her mouth, gritted her teeth and looked at Ron who attacked her.

Hermione sobbed and helped her sit on the side bed.Jacqueline wanted to rub her back, but couldn't do it.Hermione hurriedly rubbed her back for her, with a look of fear on her face. "Oh, we attacked the teacher, we're in big trouble."

"You just thought of this now?" Jacqueline gasped, "Professor Snape understood everything." Jacqueline raised her head and stared at Black in front of her, "Just when he saw that map, He told me all the way here to be careful with Peter. I don't understand why he's so out of his mind though..." She looked around, and Lupine was breaking free.Blake bent down quickly to untie him. "But I hope you two get fired!"

Lupine stretched his limbs and touched the marks the straps had made on his arms.

"Thank you, Harry," he said.

"I haven't said I believe you," Harry retorted.

"Then he should know I'm innocent!" Black yelled.

Jacqueline glared at him, "It's up to the Ministry of Magic to decide whether to let you go or not!"

"Maybe it's time we gave them some evidence," said Lupine. "You, boy, give me Peter. Now."

Ron held Scabbers closer to his chest.

"Don't touch it," he said weakly. "Are you going to say that Black escaped from Azkaban just to get Scabbers? I mean..." He looked at Harry and Hermione for support. . "Well, let's say Peter Pettigrew will turn into a mouse. There are thousands of mice in the world. He's in Azkaban, how will he know which mouse he's looking for?"

"You know, Sirius, that's a fair question," said Lupine, turning to Black, frowning slightly, "how did you find out where he was?"

Blake reached inside his robes with a bird-clawed hand and produced a crumpled piece of paper.He smoothed the paper and showed it to everyone.

It was a photo of the Ron family, published in the "Daily Prophet" last summer, with Scabbers on Ron's shoulder.

"How did you get that paper?" Lupine asked Black, taken aback.

"Fudge," said Black, "he gave me this paper when he visited Azkaban last year. It's Peter, on the front page...on the boy's shoulder...I recognized him immediately Alright..how many times have I seen him transform? The caption under the photo says the boy will go back to Hogwarts for school..to where Harry is...”

"My God," Lupine said softly, looking at Scabbers, then at the photograph in the newspaper, then at Scabbers, "his front paws..."

"So what?" Ron said recklessly.

"It's missing a toe," said Jacqueline, still pissed off, glaring at Ron.Hermione gently stroked her back, trying to calm her down, "If that's not a troll's brain on your neck, you should know that the biggest piece of Peter's remains that people have found is his fingers."

"Of course," Lupine whispered, "so simple...so clever...did he break it himself?"

"Just before he transformed," said Black, with a look at Jacqueline, "I cornered him, and he yelled all over the street that I had betrayed James and Lily. Then, before I could curse him, he blew up the whole street with the wand hidden behind his back, killing everyone within twenty feet of him, and fled into the gutter with the other rats. . . ”

"Well, Scabbers might have fought some other rat or something! He's been in our house for years.."

"Twelve years, haven't you" said Lupine, "you never wondered how it lived so long?"

"We...we've been taking good care of it!" said Ron.

"He doesn't look too good, though, does he," said Lupine, "I guess he's been losing weight since hearing Black's gone..."

"It's from that crazy cat!" said Ron.Nodding to Crookshanks, who was still purring contentedly in bed.

But that's not right, it occurred to Harry, that Scabbers had been sick before he met Crookshanks, since the Ron family had come back from Egypt, since Black had escaped.

"The cat isn't crazy," said Black and Jacqueline at the same time, and they looked at each other, and Black reached out his bony hand to stroke Crookshanks' hairy head. "He was the smartest cat I've ever met. He knew what Peter was right away. When he met me, he knew I wasn't a dog. It took him a while to believe me. Finally, I Find a way to communicate with it, tell it what I want, so it has been helping me."

"That's because it has the blood of cat lizi," Jacqueline looked at Hermione, who quickly lowered her head. "If I'm not mistaken, it was Neville who stole the note with the password on it, and you," Jacqueline looked up at Black, "you didn't want to kill Harry or Ron that night. .”

Harry's brain seemed overwhelmed after hearing so much.Ridiculous, though. . .

"I was trying to catch him," panted Black, "but Peter got wind of it, knew what was going on, and ran away. This cat, Crookshanks, is that what you call it? Tell me Peter left blood on the sheets... I think he bit himself. Well, pretending to be dead has worked once..."

"And you're mad at Hermione for that!" Jacqueline turned to Ron, her eyes blazing.

Those words cleared Harry's head. "Why did he play dead?" he said angrily, "because he knew you would kill him, just like you killed my parents!"

"No," said Lupine, "Harry..."

"You are here to end him!"

"Yes, that's my plan." Black said, looking at Scabbers viciously.

"Then I should let Snape catch you!" Harry yelled.

"Harry," Luhu said hurriedly, "you don't understand? We always thought that Black betrayed your parents, and Peter went after Black. But the opposite is true, you know Peter betrayed your mother and father, Sirius is after Peter."

"That's not true!" cried Harry. "He's their secret keeper! That's what he said before you came. He said he killed them!"

He pointed at Black, who shook his head slowly, his sunken eyes suddenly lighting up.

"Harry, I kind of killed 'em," he said hoarsely. "I convinced Lily and James to swap me for Peter at the last moment, and convince them to use him as a secret-keeper instead of me. I'm to blame. I know, the night they died, I went to see Peter to make sure he was safe, but by the time I got to his hiding place, he was gone. But there was no sign of a fight. Something didn't feel right to me. I got scared I went straight to where your parents lived. When I saw their house, it was destroyed and I saw their dead bodies. I knew Peter must have done something bad. I knew how wrong I was. "He couldn't go on, and he turned around.

"Stop talking about such things," said Lupine, and Lupine's voice was steel, and Harry had never heard him speak like that before. "There's sure to be a way to prove what really happened in the past. Ron, give me the rat."

"What would you do to it if I gave it to you?" Ron asked Lupine nervously.

"Forcing him to reveal himself," said Lupine, "if it's really a rat, it won't hurt it." Ron hesitated, then he finally handed Scabbers over, and Lupine took it.Scabbers started screaming and writhing, and his little black eyes bulged out.

"Are you ready, Sirius?" said Lupine.

Black had taken Snape's wand from the bed.As he approached Lupine and the struggling mouse, his wet eyes suddenly seemed to burn on his face.

"Together?" he asked calmly.

"I think so," said Luhu, clutching Scabbers in one hand and his wand in the other, "count to three, one, two, three!"

Both wands glowed blue-white; for a moment Scabbers hung in midair, his little black body writhing wildly.

Ron yelled, and Jacqueline excitedly wanted to go up to take a closer look, but Hermione stopped her.

The mouse fell and landed on the floor.Another blinding flash, and then, it was like a quick shot of a tree growing.A head appeared on the ground; limbs stretched out; a moment later, a man stood where Scabbers had been, wringing his hands coweringly.Crookshanks snarled contemptuously in bed, the hair on his back bristling.

The man was short, not much taller than Harry and Hermione.His thin, light-colored hair was disheveled, with a large patch of baldness on the crown.His appearance is like that of an obese person who has lost a lot of weight in a short time.His skin appeared dirty, almost like a dappled fur, and his pointed nose and small, watery eyes had the features of a mouse.He looked at everyone, his breathing was short and weak.Harry saw his eyes flick to the door and quickly withdraw them.

"Are you..." Jacqueline asked, but Hermione cut her off.

"Oh, hello, Peter," said Lupin cheerfully, as if there were a lot of rats around him who became old schoolmates, "long time no see."