Chapter 3
-1-
Since Roxana because an animagus and perfected her control over it, she had a habit of leaving her lower body in a snake form or simply keeping her horns out.
Took the ‘comfortable in your own body’ to the next level.
-2-
Roxana hated many people. Voldemort and Bellatrix being at the top of the list as number 1 and 2.
Gilderoy takes third place.
She decided that buying his books was a waste of money and mental health, from the corner of her eyes she saw the Weasleys and Lucius, Roxana grabbed some interesting books before making her way to them.
“Here, girl — take your book — it’s the best your father can give you—" Lucius Malfoy sneers as he dropped the Diary in it.
Roxana runs as if she was in a hurry saying excuse me and passing through while ‘trying’ to avoid people until she crashed into Ginny making her drop her cauldron and her herself dropping her books.
“Oh goodness, am so sorry! I did not see where I was going!” Roxana grabbed Ginny’s books and put them in the cauldron before grabbing her books and the Diary.
“Hey Roxana! What is the hurry?” Fred asked.
“Zonko just released a new pranking kit, and I am not going to miss that! You should see it!” Roxana said.
Technically it was not a lie
“Wicked!” The twins smirked.
“No! Absolutely not!” Molly screamed. “No pranking!”
Roxana left them like that.
And the chamber of secrets was never opened that year, it gave Harry a vacation.
-3-
Roxana found Dobby with Draco, said wizard was screaming at the elf for some reason, she used wandless magic and made Draco’s glove fly out of his hand into Dobby’s.
Dobby belongs to the Malfoy and so if anyone from the house have him any kind of cloth, he will be free, heck it does not even matter to who the clothes belong to. Roxana smirked.
“Master had given Dobby a glove…Dobby is free!” Dobby smiled.
“WHY YOU –!”
“What is going on here?” Roxana frowned at Draco. “Draco Malfoy should have known.”
“Lestrange.” Draco growled.
“Get out of here Malfoy before I make you, and you know very well that I will not hesitate on using my hands, I don’t mind a bit of blood and you know that.” Roxana said.
Draco remembering the awful state Roxana left one of the seventh year decided to keep his mouth shut and walk away, Roxana turned to Dobby.
“Harry Potter will not be in danger; I took care of it do not worry.” Roxana smiled at him. “I saw the danger and took it out, do not tell Harry that it was me if one day this comes out somehow.”
Dobby’s eyes were wide, but he said nothing, he just nodded before he disappeared.
-4-
A year after, and the news about Sirius Black escaping Azkaban run like wildfire, Roxana stood in front of her mirror.
Oh, she was happy she was able to fulfil one of her childhood dreams.
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, show me what I desire most of all.”
A swirl of black and red smoke appeared in the mirror before it disappeared to show a black dog then the place where he is, Roxana shrank the mirror and put it in her pocket before walking out of her apartment in Diagon Alley.
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It did not take a lot of time to find Sirius as he was still looking at the direction where the Knight Bus disappeared to.
“Hello big guy.” Roxana smiled at the dog.
Padfoot turned to look at her curiously, Roxana raised her wand in the air and another Knight Bus stopped in front of her.
“Follow me, can’t keep you here.” Roxana said, Padfoot looked at bit suspicious. “Come on! I am not the bad guy here, am trying to help you.” She turned to look at the man in the Knight Bus who was waiting for her. “I am sorry my dog is stubborn.”
“Oh, tell me about that! Ma cat is tha same!” The man laughed.
Padfoot huffed before he followed her in.
~
Roxana got down the Knight Bus. “I hate this type of transport, how come wizards don’t get nausea with this!”
Padfoot gave a dog laughed.
“Oh, shut up.” Roxana rolled her eyes and opened the way for Diagon Alley.
She quickly made her way to her apartment followed by Padfoot, wizards did not even blink an eye at the dog, until one decided to scream.
“THE GRIM!”
Everyone gasped as they looked at Padfoot.
Oh great.
“The Grim?” Roxana raised her eyebrow before she laughed. “Oh, my good sir! I am so sorry, this is my dog Noir, I can see why you mistook him for a Grim, sorry to disappoint he is just a normal dog, he just decided to be mischievous and jumped in mud”
A witch looked at him for a moment inspecting him. “Well…he does look like a Grim in color only, but he is not one, he’s too small to be one and has black eyes instead of yellow ones.”
“I swear! Scaring us for nothing! Humpf shame on you!” A wizard said, others agreed with him.
The wizard that shouted looked down in shame.
“It is all right! It is all right!” Roxana smiled. “No one was hurt! So, it is okay, am sorry for scaring you my good sir, now if you will excuse me.”
Padfoot followed her, once he set foot in her apartment Roxana closed the door and the curtains in the house.
“You are going to take a bath.” Roxana said as she dragged him into the bath.
Padfoot whined and fought.
“You stick! You need this!”
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This is humiliating! He screamed in his head as Roxana bathed him.
“Good! Now you are clean, and you smell nice.” Roxana said as she dried his fur. “Change back into human and put the robes I hang behind the door, the food will be ready in a second.”
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Roxana put the food on the table, Sirius came out clothed with the robes Roxana left him.
“You have to admit, green and silver suits you.” Roxana joked.
Sirius decided to ignore that comment. “Who are you and how did you know.”
“Well…” Roxana poured the tea. “I know you’re innocent, I know what happened in the past.”
Sirius sat down at the table. “You’re a seer then.”
“You could say that.” Roxana said as she took a bite of her taco. “Eat.”
“How do I know that it’s not poisoned?” Sirius narrowed his eyes at her.
“Mate look, if I wanted to kill you, I would have done it while bathing you.”
“Can we not talk about that!” Sirius did not blush in embarrassment no he did not!
Roxana rolled her eyes. “Oh please, like I haven’t seen a dick before.”
“WOAH! WOAH! You are what? Fourteen?”
“Fifteen actually.”
“That doesn't matter ! You aren't supposed to be talking about dicks yet !” Sirius said.
“Listen, sometimes I see things that I am not supposed to see but I can’t control it.” Roxana said.
“Didn’t your parents try to help you?”
“My mother is a crazy bitch in Azkaban and my father is the Dark Lord who got ‘vanquished’ by Harry.” Roxana said casual like she was talking about the weather, she took another bite of her taco.
Sirius stayed silent for a while. “…that went from zero to one hundred way too fast, I need an explanation.”
“Bellatrix Lestrange née Black laid with Voldemort A.K.A the dark lord and I was born, because I ‘had visions’ about the future I decided to kill Voldemort once and for all cause he’s coming back.” Roxana said. “Honestly, I just want to live peacefully, but Voldemort is like ‘I don’t want peace I want problems always’ so yeah, am getting rid of him and Bellatrix in the future.” She gave him a look. “Keep that to yourself.”
Sirius seriously did not know what to say, it was a lot of information in one hit, so he just decided to eat and…think about the whole thing later.
-5-
“So, this cage will keep any kind of rodent animagus inside?” Roxana asked the owner of the store.
Knockturn Alley sure had everything.
“Yes! Yes! It was just like you asked Miss! Infallible! No fraud!” The owner said nervously.
The snake around Roxana slithered around her body glaring at the owned and hissing at him.
“Good, because if this doesn’t work out, I will find you…and I will kill you”
The owner gulped, he did not like the glare the red eyes send him.
-6-
“Sirius you can’t come.” Roxana said.
“Harry is in danger! I cannot leave him alone!” Sirius argued back. “I can’t abandon him!”
“Sirius, I am not telling you to abandon Harry, am just saying that what you’re doing right now is downright foolish and will get you into trouble, I already have a plan, and I need you to go to the forbidden forest as Padfoot, wait for me there, trust me I have a plan.”
Sirius sighed. “Fine…but its better work!”
-7-
Roxana did not like the ride in the train.
Luckily she knew the Patronus charm
-8-
Roxana walked up to the forbidden forest, making sure that no one followed her.
“Padfoot?”
A rustle was heard, and a black dog came out.
“Transform back, I will use a spell on you so you can enter the castle with me.”
Sirius transformed back. “What are you trying to do?”
“Am sorry for this.” Roxana gave him an awkward smile as she pointed her wand at him.
“Roxana…” Sirius started in a warning tone.
But it was too late the spell already hit and Sirius turned…into a cat.
Thankfully, Roxana learned legilimency.
Occlumency and Legilimency was also something she started teaching herself in first year, legilimency came easier for her, since she started to use it, the thoughts of some students started to flood in even though she did not use legilimency on purpose.
That is why she started to learn Occlumency to block them out.
In other words, she was able to read Sirius surface though.
Sirius now a cat gave her a look. You cannot be serious.
“It is the only way! That rodent knows how you look like as an animagus and so does the DADA professor Moony, am doing this for you and Harry”
You can be such a pain in the arse Roxie.
“So are you, but you don’t see me complaining!” Roxana huffed.
-9-
Ok I take it back, being a cat is not bad, this is the life! Sirius stretched his cat body.
Roxana sighed.
You know how McGonagall is a cat animagus? I realized that all this time, I have been seeing her arsehole in her cat form!
“Sirius I will hit you !!!!”
-10-
Do you know what is funny? Catching Pettigrew was not as hard as Roxana though, the guy’s guard was down because it been a while and he did not see Sirius as Padfoot lurking around.
But oh! He should have really paid attention to things.
Because he got knocked out only to wake up in a small rodent cage facing that Lestrange girl who always gave him the creeps.
“Hello Pettigrew.” Roxana smiled at him as the rat trembled trying to find a way to escape. “You’re in for a little shock~”
Roxana pointed her wand at Pettigrew and electrocuted him till he fainted.
-11-
Mister Alastor Moody
I would like for you to start an investigation, I just found out that the presumed dead Peter Pettigrew is alive hiding as a rat animagus, I have him in a cage.
I think it will be wise to get Sirius Black trial open, an explosion claimed the lives of twelve Muggles and their whole body was found but the only thing left from Peter was a finger. I smell framing in here, and he turned out alive in Hogwarts.
I wonder who is the real traitor that caused the Potters death.
Signed.
Roxana Lestrange.
-12-
The aurors came in a group led by Alastor Moody, and Roxana was called to Dumbledore’s office.
“Where is he?” Alastor called, not leaving a room for Dumbledore to speak.
Roxana showed him the cage and put it in the middle of the room. “Here he is”
Alastor took out his wand and stunned Peter before he opened the cage and used the animagus reverse spell.
Sure, enough the rat grew and turned into Pettigrew.
“Bloody hell.” One of the aurors said. “But this does not make any sense! Pettigrew was supposed to be dead! Black killed him!”
“Well, if you used your brains to think before using your wands, we wouldn’t be in this situation, would we?” Roxana said. “Twelve muggles and all their body found, but what left of Pettigrew was only a finger? It does not add up! Let not mention that Sirius Black did not have a trial.”
“He did not deserve—” Another auror started but he got stopped.
“You seriously do not want to start this now.” Roxana said in a calm tone.
Alastor snickered and crossed his arms, oh yes, he liked this lass.
“So, call me when the trial is open, I am ready to give my statement.”
With that Roxana walked out.
-13-
“We are gathered here today, for the trial of one Peter Pettigrew.” Fudge said.
Peter was chained to the chair and silenced, Roxana stood at the end of the chamber right behind him, she looked at the Gryffindor trio who stood beside Remus who was holding the cat Sirius.
“Miss Lestrange.” Fudge called, Roxana walked up to the center and stopped behind Peter. “How did you find out that Peter was an animagus?”
“Well…I was trying Legilimency, as a pureblood I have to learn everything I can so I can honor the name of my family, I think any pureblood standing here would understand”
Many pureblood supremacists nodded to each other agreeing on what she said.
“I most of the time use it on the owls at Hogwarts, because it makes it easy for me to know what they want, and so I decided to do the same thing on the rat ‘Scrabbles’ when I found him lurking around to know what he was searching for before returning him to Ron.” Roxana said the last part and looked at Ron before returning to Fudge. “Imagine my surprise when I found out human thoughts and memories instead of the normal ‘food’ thoughts most animals have, so I stunned him”
“But you put him inside an anti-animagus transformation cage, how did you get that?” Fudge asked.
“Am a Lestrange your honor.” Roxana deadpanned. “I found a cage in the Lestrange mansion”
Along with many other things made from gold.
Fudge looked uncomfortable. “Ahem right! Pettigrew will get to Azkaban because of being an unregistered anima—”
“Wait!” Roxana called. “I have something to say, years ago, Sirius Black killed twelve muggles and the supposed to be dead Peter Pettigrew”
As if Fudge did not look uncomfortable before he sure does now, he's sweating buckets. “Y-yes?” Not to mention, this was a pureblood child from the Lestrange family he cannot just throw her out or shut her up just because he wants to!
“I am here to say that it is bollocks, twelve muggles died, and their bodies were found sure not in a good state but still found, and the only things left from Pettigrew is a finger. And here he is! Sitting in this room right in front of your eyes! Do you still do not want to say it?” Everyone stayed silent. “Alright! Why did not Sirius Black get a trial!”
“Because he’s a murdered!” Fudge said.
“So let me get this straight, you gave a trial to Death Eaters, but didn’t give one to Sirius Black.”
Silence.
“Doesn’t anyone see what is going on here?! What if Pettigrew was the traitor and Sirius Black was the innocent one!”
Amelia decided to speak for this one. “But everyone knew that Sirius was the secret keeper, so what exactly are you trying to say?”
“Alright, let us think about it in a strategical view? You are a four group of friends all, right? And you need to hide from the dark lord, obviously the secret keeper would be the friend you trust the most”
“Yes, and for James it was Sirius and he made him the secret keeper.” Amelia said.
“Exactly! Because everyone is expecting you to make that choice!” Roxana said. “The enemy will not expect you to change the secret keeper at all! Everyone expected for James Potter to make Sirius Black the secret keeper…but it is an obvious choice, so let us say he changed tactics and decided to make Peter the secret keeper, this move is something no one will expect him to do.”
“Sirius Black was a follower of the Dark Lord, what you say does not have any based truth!” Fudge said.
“Oh really? But did you check if Sirius was really a follower? Did he have the dark mark? Oh yes sorry, he was directly thrown into prison so no one checked, you could have used veritaserum, but there is the fact that he could have been an Occlumens, all right then let me think, oh yes, there is a pensieve! Unless you are an incompetent wizard you would know a real memory from a fake, which would resolve the mystery of his innocence!” Roxana said. “But literally no one bothered to check!”
Roxana walked up to Peter and grabbed his arm, Peter fought but Roxana punched his eye making everyone in the room gasp, she raised his long sleeve.
“Behold everyone!” Roxana showed everyone the dark mark. “The real traitor and follower of the Dark Lord”
The gasp and gossip, and Rita Seeker who Roxana just noticed now, started to write so fast with a crazy look on her face.
“And while we’re at it” Roxana took out her wand. “I will use magic now, right in front of you, so you will exactly know what am doing!”
Roxana looked at Amelia who gave her the green light.
“I found Sirius Black a while ago and transformed him into a cat” she said.
Roxana levitated cat Sirius and put him in the middle of the room before transforming him back into human.
“SIRIUS BLACK!”
“CALM DOWN!” Roxana screamed. “I am begging you please ‘Magical Law 99: Every witch and wizard have to go through a trial before being sent to Azkaban no matter the crime’ this is the law! Sirius Black belongs to the Black House; he has the right to get a fair trial! Just like those Death Eaters! If they got a trial, he would get one too!”
Most of the pureblood that opposed Voldemort or the ones that stayed neutral started to force Fudge into giving a trial, which put him in a critical position.
It did not take him long to break. “Bring the pensieve.”
-14-
Sirius Black is innocent Peter Pettigrew is the real traitor.
Was the headline.
“Thank you so much, I don’t know how to repay you!” Sirius said.
“Oh, I know how, I need to go to Grimmauld place, I will explain once you have time” Roxana said while looking behind Sirius. “There’s a godson that needs you now”