Power and Persecution [1] || Harry Potter x OC x Draco Malfoy

88. He Was Their Friend

DICLAIMER

I do not own Harry Potter ... but Harry's reaction in this scene broke my heart bless him

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It didn't take long for Harry to suggest going to get a butter beer in the village.

The four had made their way back to Hogsmeade, both Harry and Bel no longer using the invisibility cloak but rather keeping the hoods of their coats up over their heads.

Somewhere along the way, Ron and Hermione had asked just how the two had managed to sneak into Hogsmeade in the first place.

"Those weasels! They never told me about any Marauder's Map", Ron exclaimed after Harry and Bel had finished their explanation.

"You didn't either!" the angry boy then turned to Bel.

"I was sworn to secrecy", Bel replied with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Well, Harry isn't going to keep it. He's going to turn it over to Professor McGonagall. Aren't you?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, sure. Along with his Invisibility Cloak?" Ron asked sarcastically as Bel and Harry scoffed.

"Oh look who it is. Madam Rosmerta. Ron fancies her", Hermione stopped the conversation from going any further as the group came to a stop opposite a pub called the Three Broomsticks.

Outside was a blond woman nailing a sign to the door.

"That's not true!" Ron quickly said rather loudly.

But Harry's attention was caught by three familiar voices speaking out across the street.

"Professor McGonagall!" called out Cornelius Fudge.

"Cornelius!" McGonagall called back as the professor approached the large sledge Fudge was standing upon.

"Allow me, Minister", Hagrid said as he went to open the door, pulling it right off its hinges.

"Oh, Hagrid", Fudge muttered whilst shaking his head.

"Rosmerta, my dear. I hope business is good", the Minister continued after Hagrid apologised as he stood down from the sledge.

"It'd be a lot better if the Ministry wasn't sending dementors into my pub every other night", Madam Rosmerta scolded as she waved her hammer accusingly towards Fudge.

"We have ... We have a killer on the loose", Fudge tried to reason.

"Sirius Black in Hogsmeade! And what would bring him here?" Rosmerta asked as she turned back to her sign.

The next words from Fudge were said in a whisper.

The group of four Hogwarts students all trying to make out what it was he said.

"Harry Potter?" Rosmerta asked in shock, and rather loudly.

McGonagall and Fudge immediately silenced her, pushing her inside the pub.

The second Harry heard his name, he had quietly pulled the invisibility cloak over his head and started to walk over to where the three adults had disappeared.

Ever since he was told by Mr Weasley that Sirius Black was after him, Harry had suspected there was more to the story that they weren't letting on.

Secrets that weren't allowed to be said.

It made sense that the Ministry would keep things about him from him.

Bel was a prime example of that.