Chapter 3
“Stupid Pettigrew and his creepy- stupid- ugh!” Kit hisses under their breath as they struggle up the stairs of the burrow in snake form, almost hitting their head again.
They don’t even know which room he’s kept in! He should still be with Percy at this point… that knowledge would be more helpful if they knew where Percy slept! Wow, that sounded creepier than intended. Moving on!
Kit shrinks down and peaks under one of two doors on the landing they just reached, nope! Next! They turn and make their way to the other door and- score! Rat! Now how to get him… they really should have talked about this with Harry and made some sort of plan before he sent them in. Oh well! Too late for that now! They quickly go human and gently grab the rats cage, making sure not to wake him, before sneaking out the door, which luckily doesn’t creak.
“Who are you?”
Kit only just stops themself from jumping with a screech, as they turn to see- the twins?! Shit. Luck gone.
“What are you doing with Scabbers?” one of them asks.
What do they do? Be truthful or act?
“… He’s not a rat,” they finally whisper. “What are your names?” they ask before the twins can react to that news.
“I’m Fred-” “and I’m George.” “Who are you?” they alternate before saying the last bit together and wow that’s cool.
They wonder if they could do that with Har- nope! Focus!
“I’m Kit, and I need you two to do something for me.”
“What?” George asks, suspicious.
“This,” they start to explain, holding up the cage, “is a very bad man who has hurt people, he’s hiding here with you letting everyone think he’s dead while an innocent man rots away in Azkaban for his crimes. I want to hand him in to pay for what he’s done, but no one can know it was me. Can you two keep my secret?”
The two look at each other, seeming to have a whole silent conversation in seconds.
“Fine,” Fred says, turning back to them first.
“If we hear a bad man hiding as a rat has been arrested by the end of the week we won’t say a thing,” George finishes.
“Can I have two weeks? It might take a bit to go public.”
The two share another look before giving them a nod. Fred opens his mouth to say something else, but there’s a noise upstairs, making Kit pull the cage tighter to their chest, give the twins a quick wink with a grin and hurry downstairs. They hear one of them quietly call after them, but they don’t stop until they’re outside and down the road a little, where Harry’s waiting between some bushes.
He stuns Pettigrew to keep him unconscious, before looking up at Kit with a vicious smile.
“Any problems?” he asks, taking the cage from them.
“… maybe?”
He turns from glaring at the rat to give them a worried look.
“Do we need to run?”
“Nope! I convinced them to keep quiet.”
“Who?”
“Fred and George! They said they wouldn’t tell anyone if they see a man that was hiding as a rat is arrested within two weeks.”
Harry nods, turning back to said rat.
“Hopefully Madam Bones is fast.”
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It’s been a week and a half since they left Pettigrews cage on Amelia Bones doorstep with an anonymous note and there’s been no news since. Which has been difficult since Kit’s quickly running out of things to distract Harry with.
“Hey! Let’s talk plans!” they exclaim from their spot at the end of Harrys bed, in human form.
“Plans?” he asks, looking up from his sulk.
“Yeah! Like, are you going to go to Gryffindor again?”
“Definitely not,” he replies with a grimace.
“So, Slytherin?”
He bites his lip in thought at that.
“Maybe? Probably.”
“I think you’d be a good Slytherin!”
“And you’d be a Hufflepuff,” he tries to tease.
“Thanks!”
“Thanks?”
“Yeah! You just called me loyal and hard working! I don’t get why Hufflepuffs get such a bad rep!”
Harry turns to them in thought.
“Huh. You really do suit Hufflepuff.”
They smile brightly back.
“What about Moldy shorts?”
Harry snorts at that.
“Moldy shorts?” he asks, amused.
“Yup!”
“What about him?”
“What are we gonna do about him? You know where all his horcruxes are, right?” He looks away at that, nervous. “Harry?
“I- He… What if… we don’t kill him?” he hesitantly asks.
“What?” They look up at him confused.
“Obviously not how he is now! But… death said all those horcruxes made him crazy. Maybe we can merge them again?”
Kit looks down in thought. Would that work? He did bad things in the orphanage and that was before he’d made any horcruxes… but, he was just a kid…
“That’s-”
A knock at the front door has them shutting up. There’s the sound of the door opening, muffled conversation and then footsteps up the stairs. Kit immediately turns into a snake thinner than one of Harrys arms but a bit longer and curls up behind him, out of sight. Harry shuffles a little to make sure they’re fully hidden just as there’s a knock on Harrys door.
“Come in!” he calls, voice small.
The door creaks open.
“Harry… I don’t think you’ll remember me, but, I’m your god father. Sirius.” Seriously?! Wait. Pun unintended but still funny! “I’m sorry it took me so long to be here.”