(y/n) - your name

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"Ow!" Ron hisses lightly when he drops his rat, staring at the bleeding bite mark on his finger. "He bit me!" he gasps as the rat suddenly scurries away from the group. "Scabbers!" he quickly chased after his pet, the group running after him. They run across the field, calling for him and he stops right in front of the Whomping Willow when manages to catch his pet.

"You guys... You do realize what tree this is..." Hermione gasps, worry on her face.

"This is not good! Ron! Run!" the boy looks up at his friends, eyes going wide at the creature behind them.

"Behind you guys! Run!" They quickly turn around, staggering back when they see a wolf. "It's the Grim!"

The wolf bounds towards them and the group quickly drop to the ground when it leaps clearly over them, (y/n) looking up when she hears Ron screaming. "RON!" she yells out, ignoring that she would be using her powers in front of Hermione as she blasts at the dog who yelps and jumps away, snarling at her.

"(y/n)!?" Hermione gasps at the scene as her friend had red glowing eyes and flames bursting from her hands. She sends a lasso around the wolf to pull it away from Ron so he could run off but it grabs onto it with its canine and harshly throws her against the Whomping Willow Tree.

"(y/n)! Ron!" Harry yells as she slams against the tree, the wolf dragging away a screaming Ron into a tunnel. He and Hermione rush over to help the girl but she screams in fright when the tree suddenly picks her up. "(Y/N)!" The Whomping Willow sweeps Hermione and Harry into the air before their land painfully on their backside, the both of them groaning before getting up and rushing towards the tree again.

"I'm going to be sick!" she yells out, struggling to pry the branches off around her body with her powers but it tightens its grip making her lose her breath, swinging her around and making her dizzy. A branch swoops down and Harry and Hermione dodge it when another swoops down from the right. Hermione dodges it but Harry is flung away as his glasses fall off. "GUYS!" (y/n) shrieks as she is hurled around, trying to free her hands when Hermione was swept high up in the sky too. Both girls scream out in fright as Harry dodges the trees attacks, Hermione hanging on for dear life until she grabs hold of Harry's shirt when he put his glasses on. "FINALLY!" (y/n) yells out when she frees her hands, trying not to throw up as she gets flung around and she sends a blast of power to control the tree. It creaks and struggles against her hold, its branches halted for a minute and she breathes out heavily as she sits on one of them.

"About time!" Harry exclaims, his vision spinning from being whirled about.

"Well, I'm sorry I was trying to not get sick from everything spinning around me!" (y/n) hisses out, waving her hands to Hermione and Harry to float them back to the ground as she flies down with them. Hermione was gobsmacked, absolutely lost for words seeing her friend fly down while controlling the tree behind her. Her skin streaked with red lightning burns, her eyes aflame. "Yes, I have powers but we need to help Ron first. We'll catch you up after this." the Hufflepuff picks up her friends and they fly through the tunnel, landing on even ground and she shakes her powers away.

"You have powers!?"

"Yes..." (y/n) sighs, looking at Harry. "Can you catch her up please?"

"He knows!?" Hermione shrieks out, furious. "For how long!?"

"Since first year..."

"Ron only found out last year." Harry says thinking that might ease the girl but she just throws her hands in the air.

"Ronald knows!? Before me!?"

"It wasn't by choice. Neither was this situation either." (y/n) sighs out, letting Harry explain everything that has happened since their first year to Hermione until now, the girl correcting things here and there but Hermione starts to somewhat get the truth. The group still thinks that (y/n) is a human and that she has parents... only Draco knows the full truth...

The kids walk through the dark tunnel and up the stairs quietly, letting Hermione process everything. "Are you ok?" she whispers as she walks up to (y/n), holding her arm softly. She looked down at her skin, wincing at the faded streaks that looked so painful.

"I'm ok..." Hermione absolutely did not believe that. Not after what Harry told her about her breaking apart after killing the Basilisk and apparently exploding the quidditch pitch. "Really, I'm ok... I've been practising here and there on my offence and attack." Not by herself obviously. Draco was there setting up dummies for her to blast at and to help her get more control over her powers. 

"I'm sorry..." Hermione didn't know what to say but she promised to keep this secret with her at all times. She didn't want her friend to be taken away from her. She holds her hand, squeezing it lightly.

"Hey, what are friends for." the girls smile at each other, letting go when they reach an open trapdoor. Harry peeks his head up first before the girls, getting out and helping them after. The kids look around the building there were suddenly in, paper peeling from the walls, what looked like dried blood blotting the floorboards and shattered furniture strewn everywhere.

"We're in the Shrieking Shack, aren't we?" Harry doesn't answer Hermione, looking down at the wolf prints in the dust on the floor. He grabs hold of (y/n)'s hand and she grabs onto Hermiones, the boy leading the girls up the stairs. They faintly hear Ron and rush up the stairs, finding him sitting on a sagging bed with his rat. "Ron! You're okay-!"

"-the dog. Where's the-"

"-he's the dog. It's a trap! He's an Animagus!" The kids look down at the dusty floor, following the paw prints on the floor to a pair of filthy human feet. They look up slowly at the man standing in the shadows, filthy matted hair hanging to his shoulders and his skin like a corpse. He shuts the door and walks towards Harry, (y/n) standing in front of the boy to protect him

"If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us, too!" Hermione exclaims as she stands next to (y/n).

"No. Only one will die tonight." Sirius says.

"Then it'll be you!" Harry yells out, breaking free from the girls' grip and lunging forward to choke the man in front of him. The boy manages to get the prisoner onto the floor, holding his wand at him as he just laughs.

He's freaking deranged!

"Are you going to kill me, Harry?" the kids suddenly jump when the door slams open, Lupin barging in and casting a spell to disarm Harry of his wand. The professor nods at Harry and he quickly moves away, standing with (y/n) and his friends as she held his hands.

"Well, well, Sirius. Looking a bit ragged, aren't we? Finally, the skin reflects the madness within." Lupin says as he keeps his wand aimed at the prisoner.

"You'd know all about the madness within, wouldn't you, Remus?" The two regard each other, the moment taut with tension, then Lupin steps forward with a smile as he lowers his hand to help Sirius up on his feet.

"What the hell is going on?" (y/n) whispers as they see the men embrace.

"No! I trusted you! I covered up for you! And all this time you've been his friend!" Hermione yells out, furious. "He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!" she points at Lupin and her friends gawk at her before looking at the professor dumbfounded.

"How in the world did you realise this!?" (y/n) asks, even Lupin was curious.

"How long have you known?"

"Since Professor Snape set the essay."

"How did you connect that with the damn essay!?" (y/n) was still confused but lets the ball rolling.

" You're the brightest witch of your age I've ever met, Hermione."

"Enough talk, Remus! Come on, let's kill him!"

"Nope hold on, I have a question for you crazy." everyone turns to look at (y/n) as she points at Sirius and he points to himself. "if you wanted to kill Harry, why wait this long? You had so many chances. Even before outside the Whomping Willow but you grabbed Ron and didn't even go near Harry-he's not the one you're trying to kill are you!?" (y/n) gasps when she realises.

"What do you mean (y/n)!?" Harry asks. "He betrayed my parents!" he yells out at Sirius. "You're the reason they're dead and now he's come to finish the job!"

"No, Harry! It wasn't him." Lupin counters, stopping the boy in his tracks. "Someone else betrayed your parents, Harry. Someone in this room right now. Someone who, until quite recently, I believed to be dead!"

"Who is it, then!?"

"Peter Pettigrew! Your friend is correct Harry. I was never after you, I was after him! And he's in this room! Right now!" Sirius sang out for peter to reveal himself, Snape suddenly barging in and disarming Sirius. That's when (y/n) understood.

"He's the fucking rat!" She screeches out, pointing at the disgusting thing and it squeals in Ron's hand while trying to run away. "Keep hold of that little shit!" while the adults argued behind her, (y/n) quickly grabbed a dirty pillow cover from the bed and forced Ron to drop the rat into it, trapping the creature as it wails and tries to break free. While she was busy wrangling the little nasty rat, Harry grabbed Hermione's wand and attacked Snape, his body flying into a canape bed. "You didn't!" she gasped, seeing the debris fall on the man while Harry forced Sirius and Lupin to tell him about Peter but the boy thought he was dead, Lupin disagreeing with him and saying that he was alive because the Marauder's map showed otherwise.

"But Scabbers has been in my family for-"

"-twelve years?" Sirius snaps bitterly. "A curiously long life for a common garden rat. He's missing a toe, isn't he?"

"So what!?" Ron asks, (y/n) holding out the bag away from her as the rat inside starts to thrash around like a rabid creature.

"All they could find of Pettigrewwas his-"

"-finger. Dirty coward cut it off so everyone would think he was dead! Then he transformed into a rat!" Harry stares into Sirius' sunken eyes, wanting to believe, desperate to believe. He glances at (y/n), nodding to her and she passes the raging rat to Sirius.

"Show me."