Harry Potter: Magical Legacy

The ropes had barely finished tying up the rat when the door opened again and Amelia, Susan, Daphne, Tracey, Tonks and 'Snuffles' walked in. Snuffles had the decency to whine quietly and stare at the ground after Harry and Shiva cast him a withering glance. Remus' mouth just dropped open as he stared between Snuffles and Scabbers.

"Alright, Snuffles, jig is up," Harry said crossing his arms. "Everyone in this room believes you're innocent. You should already know this since you've sat with me and Hermione the last several Hogsmeade trips while we discussed this." He dimly noticed Hermione's soft gasp as her hand went to clutch at her throat. 'Time Turner. Right, Sirius knows about that too. Great.' He sighed and started tapping his foot. "Seriously, Sirius?" The dog looked up at that and wagged his tail hard enough to shake his whole body. "Yes, that was completely intentional. Now change back and make a crack about it so that we can get on with dealing with this situation before it goes arse over teakettle."

"Language, Harry," Hermione muttered grabbing his hand and squeezing softly.

Snuffles gave one final dejected sounding woof before suddenly, in place of the large black dog, there was a slightly worn looking Sirius Black. Sirius gave a sad little grin and rubbed the back of his head with one hand. "Uh, hey everyone," he gave a small little half-hearted wave. "Sorry for pranking you all...Harry, you and Shiva in particular...I really didn't mean for it to go as far as it had. I never expected you to take me in, I just wanted to make sure she was treating you well...but then there was food and it was good food and..."

Harry rubbed his scar and groaned. "I'm honestly far more annoyed that you never said anything afterwards even knowing we figured you innocent. But we can deal with being pissed at you later. We have far more pressing concerns currently."

Sirius glanced around the room. "It's a veritable war council in here. You know James never had this many friends this early. Good job, pup."

"Sirius?" Remus took a hesitant step forward. "Is it really you?"

"Yeah, Remus, it's me," Sirius shot the Professor a roguish smile. "I'm innocent by the way. Sorry for suspecting you were the leak originally, Moony." Remus laughed and lunged forward to pull the man into a hug.

Amelia cleared her throat drawing everyone's attention. "As heartwarming as this is, Harry was correct in that we have larger issues. Seeing as how everyone appears to be present, unharmed and in somewhat good moods I assume Pettigrew was captured successfully?"

"What!?" Sirius exclaimed.

"Yeah, he's over there, tied up and stunned," Neville pointed to the table. His eyes had never left the unconscious rat.

"It's really Wormtail, Sirius," Remus said shaking his head. "These teenagers managed to find not only you, but Wormtail as well. On the same night!"

"Let me kill him," Sirius growled. He pulled away from Remus and started walking towards the bound rat. "I want to finish what they threw me in there for. Move, Harry. This little rat – "

"I have a very good idea of what Pettigrew did, Sirius. But you can't kill him just yet."

"He was Secret Keeper. Move so I can kill him," Sirius said again with Remus stepping up behind him.

Shiva stepped up beside Harry and crossed her arms too and Hermione stepped forward as well. Tonks shifted uncomfortably while Daphne looked torn between which side she should be standing on. Neville and Luna were too involved watching the rat and Tracey was just shaking her head. Amelia Bones seemed to be the only one willing to try to broker peace. "I'm going to attempt to ignore that you just threatened murder in front of the Head of the DMLE, Lord Black." A loud gulp was the only response. "Sirius," her voice had dropped into something soft and sad. Harry had never heard that tone come from Amelia before and he noticed Sirius pause for a long moment as some of the tension in the man loosened slightly. "We all want Pettigrew to receive justice but be reasonable for a moment. Your allies consist mostly of the people in this room and only a few others. Let us interrogate him and get the truth on record prior to taking to vigilantism."

"If it's any help, Cousin," Tonks said with a small smile and a shift of her hair to a dull purple, "if you had actually had a trial where you were convicted of killing him we all probably would've just stood aside and let you have some fun."

Sirius turned to her and gaped for a second before laughing and shaking his head. "Nymphadora? You seriously need to work on what you consider to be positive points." The remaining tension in the room bled out.

"She's going to get you back for using the Name Unutterable by the way, Sirius," Harry said grinning. His prediction was obviously spot on as Tonks' hair had shifted to red before switching back to purple.

"Alright, all personnel maintain a protective circle around the suspect," Amelia said, using a hard tone again and taking charge of the situation. The group moved into formation around the rat as Amelia shifted him to the floor and moved the tables aside with a few flicks of her wand. "I'm going to force him back into human and resecure him. On three; one, two, three." Amelia said an incantation Harry hadn't heard before and Scabbers shifted into an overweight, squirrely looking man missing tufts of his hair and a large chunk of one of his fingers. The ropes binding the rat had been dispelled but were quickly reapplied before Amelia reawakened the man.

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