𝑹𝒐𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒚'𝒔 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 ⋆ Harry Potter x OC

•𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑹𝑫 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹• 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 15

Harry continues to calm Charlotte as she sobs into his chest, she sniffles and looks up as Ron suddenly hisses and let's out an "ow". He drops Scabbers and exclaims.

"He bit me!"

Charlotte sighs as Ron pelts after Scabbers, they follow closely behind him and Ron suddenly stops and yells.

"Harry, it's the Grim!"

He points behind the three and they look to see a messy looking black dog. The dog snarls and shows its teeth, making them duck as it jumps right over them and latches onto Ron's leg. Charlotte yells out.

"RON!"

She begins to run after the dog and Ron begs as the dog drags him away.

"Lottie! Help me!"

Charlotte runs faster and nearly grabs Ron's hand, just as the dog went down a hole and dragged Ron with him. Lottie goes to follow, but Harry suddenly grabs her hips and pulls her back, just in time for a tree branch to whip past her. Hermione speaks out of breath.

"It's the Whomping Willow, we have to be careful!"

Just as she says that, Harry and Charlotte are hit, making them fall to the ground, winded. Charlotte coughs and rolls over, immediately getting up and helping Harry up with her and finding his glasses as they got knocked off.

The three begin to jump and duck, avoiding the branches as they swing around wildly. Suddenly, Hermione is picked up by the branch and she grabs Lottie's shirt. Mione yells as they flew around in the air, she soon let's go and Charlotte goes flying down the hole. It's like a slide, but once she got down to the bottom, she had inhaled some dirt and dust making her cough.

Charlotte was just about to get up when she hears Harry yelling as he slides down the hole. Before she has the chance to get up, he falls right on top of her, making their eyes widen at their close proximity. One move and they would be kissing, but, Hermione had other ideas because she came sliding down and landed on both of them. She apologizes and helps them up.

Lottie dusts herself off as they look at the rickety stairs leading upwards. They get out their wands out and carefully went up the stairs. Charlotte winced as it creaked loudly. They also saw drag marks going towards a door so they followed them. Charlotte slowly opened the door to see Ron in the corner holding his leg in pain. He speaks as the three runs towards him.

"It's a trap! He's the dog!"

Charlotte's breath hitches as they all look behind them, the door Lottie had opened, was closing slowly, just to reveal a dirty, matted hair, rotten teeth, Sirius Black. Hermione stands in front of Harry and exclaims.

"If you want to kill Harry, you'll- you'll have to kill us too!"

Sirius smirks and replies dramatically.

"No, there will only be one death tonight."

Harry stands up and exclaims as he walks towards Sirius Black.

"Then it'll be you!"

He points his wand in Sirius' face and pushes him down onto the floor, Charlotte shouts.

"Harry, no!"

Sirius smirks and asks sassily.

"Going to kill me, Harry?"

Before Harry had the chance to reply, the door was opened and Remus was stood at the door with his wand in his hand and the map in his other. The four of them exclaim in shock.

"Professor Lupin!"

He ignores them and speaks directly to Sirius, Charlotte pulls Harry behind her.

"Looking a bit ragged, aren't we, Sirius? Finally, the skin reflects the madness inside."

Sirius let out a chuckle and replied.

"You'd know everything about the madness inside, wouldn't you, Remus?"

Charlotte looks between the two adults as it's obvious they know each other. Remus smiled and suddenly helped Sirius off the floor, Hermione gasped and exclaimed at him.

"No! I trusted you! I covered up for you! And all this time you've been his friend!"

She points to Remus and continued.

"He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!"

Harry and Ron stare, dumbfounded as Hermione makes eye contact with Charlotte. Remus looked to the two girls and asks.

"How long have you two known?"

Lottie let Hermione answer first.

"Since Professor Snape set the essay."

He then looks to Charlotte and she states.

"I had the idea when we first saw you, you had scar marks on your face, you were tired and such and I found out that it had been the full moon the night before. I also guessed when Snape set the essay and when your Boggart was the full moon."

Remus let out a soft laugh and replied.

"You're the brightest Witch of your age, Hermione, and you are strongest, Charlotte."

Hermione and Charlotte smiled sheepishly and Sirius sighs and mutters impatiently.

"Yes, yes, you glow in the sun and you howl at the moon, enough talk! He dies! Now, if you won't do it with me, Remus. I'll do it alone."

Remus sighed and replied.

"Wait, Sirius-"

Sirius cuts him off by shouting.

"I've done my waiting! Twelve years of it, in Azkaban! Trust me, you wouldn't have lasted a week!"

Remus nods and then responds.

"Alright then, as you wish."

Harry suddenly stood in front of Charlotte and pointed his wand at Sirius as he shouts.

"No! You betrayed my parents! You sold them to Voldemort!"

Sirius shouted back.

"It's a lie! I never would've betrayed James and Lily!"

Remus held up his hand and spoke to Harry.

"Harry, you've got to listen-"

Harry cut him off angrily.

"Did he listen?! When my mother was dying? Did he hear her screaming?!"

Charlotte's heart hurt for Harry, this must be really hard for him. Sirius responded.

"No! I wasn't there! And I'll regret it for the rest of my life!"

Remus added.

"Someone else betrayed your parents, Harry, someone in this room right now. Someone who, until quite recently, I believed to be dead."

Sirius mumbled under his breath.

"He's as good as dead."

Harry furrowed his eyebrows and asked.

"What are you talking about? No one other than us are here?"

Sirius replied.

"Oh yes there is."

He looked around the room and uttered in a sing song voice.

"Come out, come out, Peter. Come out, come out and play."

A shiver ran across Charlotte's back and she ignored it. Sirius looked to Ron and Ron stated.

"You're mad."

Lottie watched as Sirius' attention went to Scabbers and his hand twitched and clenched angrily. She furrowed her eyebrows and thought to herself.

There's no way that "Peter" could be Scabbers could it?

Her thoughts were interrupted when the floor creaked, they all looked over to see who it was.