WARNING: SPOILERS!!! ~A Watty's 2019 Submission!

Saved for Karina Potter, Aunt Marauder

Karina checked the clock, and saw that it was nearing seven thirty. Buckbeak's execution! She promised Hagrid she would be there!

She hurried down the steps and out of the school, when she saw Harry, Ron and Hermione standing there as the execution was about to be performed.

"Harry?" Harry turned around, his eyes widening with anxiety.

"Aunt Karina! Its not what you think!" She ran down to them, barely hearing what he said.

"Look away!" She cried out, but it was too late. The the executioner's axe was down, and Buckbeak was surely dead. Karina put her hands on both Harry and Ron's shoulders, Hermione burying her face in Ron's other shoulder and Harry putting his arm around her comfortingly.

"Ow!" Ron exclaimed suddenly, and they looked to see him dropping a rat. "He bit me. Scabbers." He told them, and Karina's eyebrows arched.

"Scabbers?" She asked, turning her head to the rat. "I thought he was dead!" Ron shook his head, before running after the rat.

"Ron. Ron! Ron!" Harry and Hermione called.

Karina, however, felt her heart begin to race, her mind began to whirl, and she lost all sense. She stuck her wand into her pocket, snarled, and transformed into her fox persona, chasing after the rat like her life depended on it.

"Aunt Karina!" Harry called, him and Hermione chasing after her, Ron, and Scabbers, but Karina kept running, when she saw a big, black dog coming towards her, Ron running from it with Scabbers in his hands.

"Harry, Hermione, Professor, run! It's the Grim!" He shouted, and Karina planted her paws into the ground, snarling at the rat in Ron's hand. Poor Ron didn't understand what was happening. He just saw two growling, sharp toothed, vicious animals surrounding him and his rat.

That was when the dog grabbed Ron by the foot with his teeth, and started to pull him away towards the Whomping Willow "Harry!" Ron shouted, and Karina realised what was happening, and once again chased after them. Sirius was going to end up killing Ron if he wasn't careful!

"Ron! Ron, wait!" Harry called. "Aunt Karina, help him!"

"Harry! Help!" Ron screamed again, before Sirius dragged him underneath of the Whomping Willow.

Karina followed them all the way through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack, where she and Sirius changed out of their Animagus forms and she hurried over to inspect Ron's foot.

"Ron, are you okay?" She asked. The poor boy was shaking badly, terrified of seeing her and Sirius having changed back. "Ron, it's okay." She whispered, but Ron just tried to kick her away.

"S-S-Stay away from me!" He told her, his voice cracking, and she walked away, hurt by his words. "You're with him!" She found herself backing into Sirius, who put his hand on her shoulder as Harry and Hermione came running in.

"Come on. Ron. Ron. You're okay." Harry told him, and Hermione looked around vaguely.

"The dog. Where is it? Where's Karina?"

"It's a trap." Ron told them. "He's the dog. She's the fox. They're Animagi!" That was when the two turned around and saw Karina and Sirius in the shadows, and Hermione immediately jumped in front of Harry, her wand brandished like a sword.