We walked through the dark hallway until we reached a ladder leading to a trap door. I climbed through, helping Florence and Hermione up after me.
"Alright, stay close." I said to them.
"We're in the shrieking shack, aren't we?" Hermione asked.
"Come on." I whispered.
I looked around at the room we were in. It looked like a house, a house that no one had lived in for a very long time.
"Guys look." Florence pointed to a set of stairs.
The three of us made our way up the stairs and through another darkened hallway until we reached a room. When we entered a familiar bright orange head of hair greeted us.
"Ron!" Florence and I yelled happily. I was relieved to see that he was okay.
"Ron! You're okay!" Hermione ran over and kneeled beside him.
"Where's the dog?" I asked, cutting Ron off as he was about to say something.
"It's a trap! He's the dog! He's an animagus!" Ron yelled, pointing frantically at something behind us.
Florence turned around first and gasped at what she saw.
I quickly turned around.
Standing, only eight feet away, was the man who betrayed my parents. The man who made me an orphan.
Sirius Black.
He was still wearing his Azkaban uniform, only it was now covered in holes, rips and dirt. His hair was greasy and grown out, and he looked like he hadn't slept in months.
"If you want to kill Harry or Florence, you'll have to kill us too!" Hermione shouted at him, pulling out her wand.
"No." He grumbled. "Only one will die tonight."
"Then it'll be you!" I yelled as I launched myself at him.
If one of us is going to die, I'm going to do everything possible to make sure it isn't Florence.
I wrapped my hand around his throat and we fell to the floor. I yanked out my wand and pressed it against his throat.
"Harry!" Florence yelled, while Hermione held her back.
Black laughed manically. "Are you going to kill me Harry?"
Suddenly another man burst through the door and yelled "Expelliarmus!" My wand flew out of my hand and across the room. The man, was Professor Lupin.
I climbed off Black and ran over to my friends. I watched as Lupin picked up my wand from the floor.
"Well well Sirius, looking rather ragged aren't we?" Lupin asked. "Finally the flesh reflects the madness within."
"Well you know all about the madness within, wouldn't you Remus?" Black replied, grinning.
Professor Lupin slowly lowered his wand, and did something that left us all speechless. He held out his hand for Black. He pulled him up and they embraced each other in a friendly hug.
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