WE'RE UP HERE! WE’RE UP HERE, SIRIUS BLACK! QUICK!!!! yelled the bushy-haired girl. He looked up at his godson holding a wand to his throat, his face flushed with anger yet still hesitating, the boy who looked so like his best mate,his brother,but had emerald green eyes similar to Lily, their son. They would have been so proud of how he’d grown, but they're dead now. Have been for several years—in fact, about 12 years, he thinks—but can't remember well. Azkaban really messed up his head, but that doesn't matter now. All that matters is Revenge and perhaps later speaking to Harry.
Just as he starts to push the stubborn cat off of him the door of the shrieking shack bursts open with a shower of crimson sparks and with the dramatic entrance comes a face from his past, a face that shares not only his pain but joy,the face he grew up with.The one person he tried to avoid ever since he found out. He had come back to Hogwarts to teach, which suits him well enough, he always used to tutor the younger kids in their years at hogwarts. But Sirius couldn't face him not now, not here, not after everything he was too ashamed. The man who he had probably hated him thinking he betrayed James. There in the doorway stood Remus Lupin himself.
Remus wore a stoic expression as his eyes flickered around the room at the kids and finally landed on him. Remus' eyes softened for just a moment,though it was probably just a trick of the light it sent him back to the good days, when they were young and naive thinking they could win the war and get away unscathed, the days when the room was always filled with love,joy and warmth. He was pulled from memories of the past when Rumus suddenly shouted expelliarmus and harrys and the others' wand flew to Lupin's outstretched hand. He spoke in a tense voice never dropping sirius eyes, deep green eyes irises boring into sirius soul.
“Where is he Sirius?”
Sirius froze seeing Remus distracted him from the real reason at hand the rat! Slowly he turned and pointed at the deceitful scrappy little rodent. And everyone turned to the Weasley holding him with a bewildered look upon his freckled face.
“But then…” Remus whispered once again staring at Sirius so intently it felt as though he was using oclemencely though Sirius knew he wasn't, Remus could always read him better than he could himself. “Why hasn't he shown himself before now? Unless…” His dark green eyes windining with realization. “Unless he was the one….unless you switched…without telling me?!” Very slowly sirius nodded confirming the question feeling another flood of shame in his gut for lying to remus to moony.
"Professor" Harry interrupted "what's going on --?”
Though apparently Remus decided on something as he lowered his wand and strutted over to them,pulled Sirius up from the floor and gave him a bone crushing hug,warm and welcoming Sirius felt himself melting into Remus as always feeling right where he was meant to be. He wished he could just stay Here in this moment because wherever Remus went he would always follow, for in his arms he felt safe and at home.The one place he really belonged. Sadly this could not last.
"DON'T BELIEVE IT!" The girl screamed, interrupting, the moment."You -- you --"
"Hermione --"
"-- you and him!"
"Hermione, calm down –”
"I didn't tell anyone!" Hermione shrieked. "I've been covering up for you --"
"Hermione, listen to me, please'" Remus said with a note of panic in his voice . "I can explain --"
"I trusted you," Harry now shouted at Remus, his voice wavering, out of control, "and all the time you've been his friend!"
"You're wrong," said Remus. "I haven't been Sirius's friend. Now -- Let me explain...."
"NO!" The girl, Hermione screeched "Harry, don't trust him, he's been helping black get into the castle, he wants you dead too -- he's a werewolf!”
At this everyone froze and turned to remus, “How did she know sirius thought to himself”
"Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione," Remus said. "Only one out of three, I'm afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't want Harry dead. A a pale look passed over his face. "But I won't deny that I am a werewolf."
The Weasley runt made a valiant effort to get up again but fell back with a whimper of pain. Remus made toward him, looking concerned,like the kind soul he was but the little bastard gasped, "Get away from me, werewolf!"
At this remus stopped dead. Then, with an obvious effort, he turned to Hermione and said, "How long have you known?"
"Ages," Hermione whispered. "Since I did Professor Snape's essay..."
“Fucking snape of course this was his fault sirius thought bitterly to himself”
"He'll be delighted," said Remus coolly. "He assigned that essay hoping someone would realize what my symptoms meant.... Did you check the lunar chart and realize that I was always ill at the full moon? Or did you realize that the boggart changed into the moon when it saw me?
Boggart? Oh right Remus was a DADA teacher!
"Both," Hermione said quietly.
Remus forced a strangled laugh.
"You're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met, Hermione."
"I'm not," Hermione muttered."If I'd been a bit cleverer, I'd have told everyone what you are!"
"But they already know," replied Remus. "At least, the staff do."
"Dumbledore hired you when he knew you were a werewolf. Ron gasped. "Is he mad?"
Sirius shot one of his famous glares at the boy,talking to moony like that! But Remus just replied with.
"Some of the staff thought so,He had to work very hard to convince certain teachers that I'm trustworthy --"
"AND HE WAS WRONG!" Harry yelled. "YOUVE BEEN HELPING HIM ALL
THE TIME!"
Harry pointed at Sirius, who felt dead on his feet and crossed to the four-poster bed sinking onto it,hiding his face in one shaking hand. While the cat leapt up again and settled beside him stepping onto his lap, purring.
I have not been helping Sirius," said Remus. "If you'll give me a chance, I'll explain. Look --"
He separated Harry's, Ron's and Hermione's wands and threw each back to the group; Harry caught his,looking stunned.
There, Remus said, sticking his own wand back into his belt "You're armed, we're not. Now will you listen?"
"If you haven't been helping him," Harry stated with a furious glance back at Sirius,
"How did you know he was here?" Which fair how did moony know?
"The map," Remus replied.
He found the map he'd thought they'd lost it for good.
"The Marauder's Map. Remus continues “I was in my office examining it –”
"You know how to work it?" Harry interrupted.
"Of course I know how to work it," said Remus, waving his hand impatiently. "I helped write it. I'm Moony -- that was my friends' nickname for me at school."
Moony,wormtail,padfoot and prongs sirius thought back smiling when he thought of that day.
"You wrote --?”Harry asked obviously.
"The important thing is, I was watching it carefully this evening, because I had an idea that you, Ron, and Hermione might try and sneak out of the castle to visit Hagrid before his hippogriff was executed.And I was right, wasn't I"
Remus said, now pacing up and down, looking at the group Sirius included. Little patches of dust rose at his feet.
"You might have been wearing your father's old cloak, Harry--"
"How d'you know about the cloak?"
"The number of times we used it to hide from the staff" a small smile forming on Remus lips as he too seemed to remember too, then the blank look returned to his face and he continued.
“The point is, even if you're wearing an Invisibility Cloak, you still show up on the Marauder's Map. I watched you cross the grounds and enter Hagrid's hut. Twenty minutes later, you left Hagrid, and set off back toward the castle. But you were now accompanied by somebody else."
At this Harry exclaimed "What? No, we weren't!"
I couldn't believe my eyes," said Remus, still pacing, and ignoring Harry's interruption to his story.
"I thought the map must be malfunctioning. How could he be with you?" Remus started with a worried look.
"No one was with us!" Harry interrupted again, looking more and more confused.
"And then I saw another dot, moving fast toward you, labeled Sirius Black.... I saw him collide with you; I watched as he pulled two of you into the Whomping Willow --" At this Sirius flinched he probably should have been a bit gentler to the boy he dragged,after all it wasn't his fault.
"One of us!" Ron yelled now.
"No, Ron," said Remus "Two of you." He now stopped pacing, his eyes moving over Ron.
"Do you think I could have a look at the rat?" he said way too calmly.
"What?" said Ron. "What's Scabbers got to do with it?"
"Everything that rat did it. Could I see him, please?" Remus said now looking slightly annoyed but still calm.
Ron looked hesitant, then reached into his pockets. And he emerged,looking sickly and thrashing around;Sirius itched to snatch the despicable thing but let Remus go on at least he knew now.
Remus moved closer to Ron. He looked as if he was holding his breath.
"What?" Ron said again, holding it close to him, looking afraid.
"What's my rat got to do with anything?"
"That's not a rat,"Sirius yelled couldn't hold back anymore here he was right in front of him after all these years the traitor!
"What d'you mean -- of course he's a rat --"
"No, he's not," said Remus in a deathly quiet voice. "He's a wizard."
"An Animagus really,"Sirius stated giddy with revenge so close he could taste it, "by the name of Peter Pettigrew."