Sirius Black, holding Pettigrew by his clothes, Professor Lupin, Cassia, Harry, Hermione, and Ron, all being led by Crookshanks, left the Shrieking Shack, through the tunnel, and away from the Whomping Willow. Cassia walked in silence, supporting Ron with Hermione, tiredly hoping she hadn't sustained any injuries. She smiled at hearing Sirius and Harry talk, Sirius proposing that Harry live with him once he's cleared.
The grounds were very dark; it was a cloudy night. A cloud shifted, bathing the group in the moonlight. Lupin stopped suddenly. Sirius stuck an arm out to make the kids stop.
"Full moon," Cassia breathed.
"Run," Black whispered. "Run! Now!"
Lupin lengthened, a terrible snarling sound escaping his mouth. Hair sprouted from his face and body, claws breaking from his hands. The werewolf reared, snapping its jaws. Sirius transformed into the black, shaggy dog, wrestling with the large creature.
"Homorphus!" Cassia shouted, making Lupin return momentarily to himself.
"Run away, save yourselves, please," Lupin yelled, running back to the Shrieking Shack as quickly as he could.
Cassia dipped down to get Lupin's wand, tucking her's into her waistband. She felt a blow to the back of the head, her vision going black for a moment. She fell to the ground, hitting her head again. Pettigrew wrestled Lupin's wand from her hand, shooting a spell at Ron.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled, disarming the man. Cassia's vision returned to her, grabbing her wand.
Pettigrew started transforming again, but Cassia held her wand up from the ground, "Petrificus Totalus!"
She stood up and scooped up the rat, stuffing it into her pocket quickly. There was something wrong with her head, she felt wrong and she could hear her heartbeat in her head. Her feet felt heavy; she couldn't make them land where she wanted them to. Harry and Hermione darted to the Black Lake, where Cassia could hear Sirius yelping and then, transforming back to himself, groaning. She walked toward the lake, touching the back of her head and feeling warm, wet blood spilling out. As she made it to her friends, she saw the hoard of dementors and, as a dementor approached her face, she hit the ground a second time.
𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧
Cassia's eyes fluttered open. She was in the Hospital Wing. Her head felt much better, and she felt with her hand that the wound on the back of her head had been magically fixed. She ripped the curtain around the bed open, remembering all at once where she had been before she passed out. She saw Professor Snape, Professor Dumbledore, and Cornelius Fudge speaking quietly to each other. She got up quickly, storming up to the three.
"Oh! Miss Bright!" Cornelius Fudge smiled at her. "I'm very happy that you're okay. Professor Snape, here, found you and your friends and Sirius Black! You're very lucky to be alive!"
She reached into her pocket and pulled out Peter Pettigrew, still a rat and still petrified. She threw the rat on the table in front of the three men.
"That's Peter Pettigrew. He's alive and needs to be in Azkaban."
"Perhaps you need more medical attention..."
She searched for her wand, but it must have been taken. She scoffed and asked for her wand, to which Dumbledore handed it to her curiously.
"Finite Incantatem."
The rat reanimated, growing into a human.
"Peter Pettigrew," Cassia said. The Minister looked at her, horrified. "There is Veritaserum in the Potions classroom, and the Minister of Magic is here, so I figure that a trial can be held, yes?"
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chosen - harry potter
Fanfictionharry potter x fem! oc - Our story begins in Cassia Bright's first year at Hogwarts. Though most hope for her to be quiet and out of trouble, the odd group that she happens to meet on the train with her childhood friend Ron make sure that that isn't...
