i know the end ,, harry potter

chapter thirteen

HARRY let alyra lean against him as they walked back through the trees tunnel, as she still had a slight limp that got even worse at the way pettigrew pushed her to the ground.

"sorry about the bite." she heard sirius express to ron as he and hermione helped the boy walk along in front of herself and harry, "i reckon that twinges a bit."

"a bit? a bit?" ron snapped back in disbelief, "you almost tore my leg off."

"are you alright?" harry suddenly asked, holding the blonde close against his side, arm wrapped around her shoulders, alyra looked up from where her gaze was on the three in front of her and turned to harry with a tiny smile

"i'm alright harry," she replied back, the pair now tuning our ron and sirius, "thank you for what you said by the way."

"what'd i say?" he asked, smiling back at her as he rubbed her shoulder

"the bit that was like.." she cleared her throat before mimicking his voice, "if you touch her again i'll kill you personally."

"oh, is that how i sound?" he asked, grinning at her like a total idiot as he looked at her

"yeah no i think i was pretty spot on." she grinned back, her cheeks flushing lightly before she suddenly tripped slightly, making harry laugh at her as he pulled her to his side again, "quit laughing, potter, i think my ankles sprained or something."

"i sincerely sorry for laughing at you alyra." he replied, still laughing as they made it to the end of the tree stump, and harry carefully helped her out

they walked past where hermione sat with rob against the tree and just stood together looking up at the sky for a moment, just standing in a comfortable silence as alyra rested her head on harry's shoulder, not noticing how, while her eyes were on the sky above them, his were on her.

she eventually felt his eye on her after a few moments and without even looking up at him spoke softly, "i can feel you looking at me."

"that's not me." he lied, but his gaze stayed on her

she looked toward him and the two made eye contact. harry's eyes softened at the little glimmer in her blue-grey eyes as the moon reflected in them

"you're an idiot, harry potter." she muttered, giggling softly at the goofy grin on his lips

"and you are beautiful, alyra jane." he spoke, his voice barely audible at how quietly he whispered it.

"what was that?" lyra asked, moving ever so slightly closer to him, her gaze unconsciously moving down to his lips, and then back to his eyes, where she noticed him looking down at her lips

"i said you're beautiful." he muttered, louder this time but still more on the quiet side as he tucked a couple loose strands of blonde hair behind alyras ear. after moving her hair, he kept his hand rested on the side of the girls face as he moved even closer to her

"why are you looking at me like that?" she asked, it was her turn to whisper now as she noticed their closeness
"like what?"
"like you wanna kiss me."

"cause i do." he breathed out, alyra opened her mouth to say something when they heard a voice talking close to them

"can i steal harry for a moment?" sirius asked, clearly not noticing what was about to happen, right after he said it though, he noticed the closeness of the two and the way they were looking at one another, and immediately noticed his mistake, "unless you guys are too busy?"

"no, no, of course you can steal him for a minute." alyra moved back from harry, wincing at the way it felt to stand on her own feet without support from someone, "i'm that gonna..." she shared an awkward ey contact with harry before limping weakly over to hermione and ron

"what was that all about?" hermione asked as the girl sat down beside her

"what are you talking about?" alyra asked, playing stupid

"you and harry, you idiot." rob replied for hermione

"oh..." she smiled a little to herself, "well.. well i don't know. does he like me in any way?"

"oh, yes." ron nodded quickly, "he's crazy about you."

alyra was about to say something more when a hand touched her back, making her yelp in shock when she saw it was peter pettigrew.

"ron, ha- haven't i been a good friend, a good pet?" pettigrew leaned over alyra to speak to ron, the blonde girl could feel the man's hands all over her back as he did, trying to get close to ron. alyra was left just frozen, unable to move as he grabbed her and moved her aside, "you won't let them give me to the dementors, will you? i was your rat!"

alyra made eye contact with harry as he and sirius turned around, the look in her eyes was one telling him 'help.' she saw his fists ball up and she also saw sirius hold him back.

"oh, sweet girls, clever girls." he looked to hermione and alyra, his closeness to her making alyra want to crawl out of her skin, "surely you won't let them..."

"get away from them!" lupin grabbed the man's arm and a shiver ran down alyras spine as she sighed.

"the moon." she whispered when she noticed the full moon rising up

"harry!" she heard hermione exclaim as the girl stood up, pointing at the full moon

alyra watched in horror as the moon shown in professor lupins face, and watched with a dropped jaw as he transformed slowly

"remus, my old friend," sirius ran to the professor, trying to grab his attention from the moon as he changed, "have you taken ou potion tonight?" remus groaned in pain as sirius held him, "you know the man you truly are, remus!"

hermione and harry helped both ron and alyra to their feet as they watched the scene in horror

"harry!" alyra pointed to pettigrew holding a wand up to his forehead

"expelliarmus!" harry yelled, holding his own wand out towards the rat-man, but it was too late, he waved slowly to them before shrinking down into his rat form, scurrying away quickly

"oh, merlin." alyra hid her face in harry's back as she stood behind him, not wanting to watch lupin anymore, and just listening to the way he yelled out in pain as he changed

"run!" they heard sirius yell to them, "run!"

"come on." harry spoke, but hermione seemed to have different plans

"wait, wait." hermione took slow, cautious steps towards the werewolf, "professor? professor lupin?"

all she got in response was a loud howl at the moon, she gasped and quickly stepped back to ron harry and alyra, the four standing all huddled with each other.

"nice doggie..." ron's voice broke as he spoke, "nice doggie.."

"there you are, potter." professor snape suddenly appeared out of the tree trunk, taking immediate notice to alyra standing weakly against harry as he stood facing them all.

when lupin howled again, snape was quick to use his body as a shield in front of them all, but was quickly knocked down when lupin hit at him, making snape and all the young witches and wizards fall with him. both hermione and alyra screamed as they fell, harry still held on to the blonde girl so they both fell with each other, alyras face in his neck as fear took over.

she heard the low growling of a dog as harry pulled her up, still allowing the girl to use him as a stabilizer when snape stood in front of them all once more

she watched in horror as sirius and lupin fought wildly, before running off, lupin chasing after the dog

"sirius." harry whispered, making sure alyra was standing properly before running off

"harry!!" the blonde called after him, trying to go after him but snape held her back due to the slow speed she was limping at

"come back here, potter!" snape called after the boy

"harry!" lyra yelled again, trying to break hers or from snape grasp, but failing to do so as he held her back tightly

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suspense!