Y/n Potter and the Wizarding World

Werewolves And Happier Endings

They come out looking down at a wide red stripe cutting through the dust-laden floor as if something has been dragged to the end of the hallway where a light seeps from a door. Y/n's wand light dies and slowly they step to the door and exchange a look as Y/n kicks the door aside, Ron sits upon a sagging bed, clutching his bloody foot.

Sarah: Ron! You're okay?

Harry: The dog, where's the....

Ron: He's the dog. It's a trap, Harry. He's an Animagus...

Y/n and Harry look down and their eyes follow the paw prints on the floor to a pair of filthy human feet. Harry and Y/n look up slowly at the man standing in the shadows. Filthy, matted hair hangs to his shoulders. His skin is like a corpse. Sirius Black. He studies Harry's and Y/n's face keenly as Y/n goes to draw his wand as Hermione claws onto him and puts herself in front of Black.

Hermione: If you want to kill them, you'll, you'll... have to kill us, too!

Sirius Black: No. Only one will die tonight.

Harry: Then it'll be you!

Y/n & Hermione: Harry! No!

Just then, footsteps sound and Black wheels toward the door, edgy. As Harry eyes Black and tackles him with his wand hand shaking violently and Y/n now trying to cover Hermione, Sarah and Ron as Black looks at Harry cautiously.

Sirius Black: Going to kill me, Harry?

Harry: Yes.

Y/n: Harry enough!

Harry raises his wand. BLAM! the door crashes open. Professor Lupin, he ignores them and casts Expelliarmus on Harry and eying Black intensely.

Lupin: Looking a bit ragged, aren't we,
Sirius? Finally the skin reflects
the madness within.

Sirius Black: 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 and... Embraces Black like a brother.

Hermione: No! I trusted you! I covered up
for you. And all this time you've
been his friend! He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!

Harry and Ron stare dumbfounded at Lupin. Black howls then, bitterly amused. Lupin eyes him then turns back.

Lupin: How long have you known?

Hermione: Since Professor Snape set the
essay.

Y/n: Wait, there was an essay?

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

Sirius Black: Yes, you glow like 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.

Lupin: Wait, Sirius

Sirius Black: I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban! Trust me, you
wouldn't have lasted a week!

Lupin eyes Black, then nods.

Lupin: All right then. As you wish...

Harry: No!

Furious, Harry eyes Black murderously.

Harry: You betrayed our parents! You sold
them to Voldemort!

Sirius Black: It's a lie! I never would've
betrayed James and Lily!

Lupin: Harry! You've got to listen...