Astra || H. Potter [1]

[15] One Innocent Life

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As Sirius was trying to calm my father while he groaned and screamed in pain Peter reached for my father's wand that had been disregarded to the ground. "No!" I shouted and flicked my wrist using my powers to send the wand far from Peter's grasp. Pater looked at me for a moment before a hideous grin pulled at his lips as he started to transform back into a rat, his clothes fell to a heap on the ground.

From the corner of my eye I saw Harry about to run after him but  grabbed his hand and pulled him back. "Harry!" Hermione and Ron held onto each other beside us while Harry  kept an arm around me, the four of us stood in horror watching my father transform into a werewolf. Tears pricked my eyes and the sight of him and how much pain he must have been experiencing, before we knew it my father had fully transformed and thrown Sirius off of him.

The werewolf version of my father had begun whining so I blinked back my tears and slowly walked forward. "Ophelia!" Hermione called but I ignored her and instead focused on what was my father. "Dad...Dad..?" The werewolf version of my father looked up at me and suddenly howled causing me to jump back in surprise, Hermione and Harry both reached out and grabbed one of my hands pulling me back to the group.

"There you are Potter" Snape sneered as he climbed out from the cave beneath the tree, he had grabbed onto Harry's arms roughly but when a loud growl escaped from my father Snape spun around and surprisingly guarded us. The werewolf lunged forward and smacked Snape away knocking us all to the ground, Hermione and Ron fell by Snape while I fell back into Harry. I looked up just as the werewolf was charging at me only to be caught off by a transformed Sirius.

The two were in the midst of fighting, glittering fangs glowing in the moonlight as they were in a fierce tangle. Sirius had managed to lead my dad away and around another rocky hill. "Uncle Sirius!" I yelled worriedly and ran after them followed by Harry, the two of us stopped short by the hill watching as my werewolf father threw sirius into a rock harshly making him yelp in pain.

I ran closer and stopped far enough away where I could run if needed "dad!" when he didn't back off of Sirius I huffed frustratedly, my eyes trailed down to the path below me, I grabbed a rock and threw it as hard as I could at the werewolf. He spun around facing me and growled bearing his teeth "Oh Godric" I muttered breathlessly as I stumbled backwards slightly until another howl sounded from the distance that distracted him.

He eventually gave in and ran off to find it, Harry grabbed my hand and looked me over "I'm fine. But we need to find Sirius" The two of us ran down towards the lake where a normal Sirius had been laying severely injured, I dropped beside him and started to use my powers and different spells I know to try and help him. I pulled out my wand and held it over Sirius's cuts "Ferula" I repeated quietly and watched as bandages wrapped around the lacerations protecting them for now until he could get treated professionally.

"Ophelia...keep helping Sirius" I looked up at the sound of Harry's shaky voice, my eyes widened at the sight of the many dementors surrounding us. Harry stood tall beside me and thrusted out his wand "Expecto...Patronum!" a white mist released from his wand and started to destroy the dementors only until Harry had dropped to the ground beside Sirius completely unconscious. "Harry!" I gasped and turned towards him, I shook his body trying to get him to wake back up but he wouldn't budge.

The dementors started to swarm us again, I stood up and took a deep breath before holding my hands out and focusing on trying to make them go away, apparently my body could only handle so much because I dropped as well.

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I woke up in the hospital wing not long after being brought there, though I was physically fine harry didn't get off that easy. I paced around the foot of his bed nervously biting my thumb, Hermione kept trying to calm me down and get me to stop moving. "He's fine Ophelia" I shook my head "He should be up by now 'Mione"

"I'm okay 'Phe" I spun around and instantly wrapped my arms around his neck, his arms slipped around my back returning my embrace as he looked at Hermione. "I saw my dad." I pulled away slowly and looked at him with furrowed brows "What..?" He nodded slightly "He sent the Dementors away... I saw him. Across the lake..." I looked up from Harry to Hermione and over to Ron who sat in a bed across the way.

I looked back at Harry and sighed silently "Harry...they took my Uncle Sirius" Harry frowned deeply, I looked back at Hermione and shook my head telling her I couldn't finish explaining. "Any minute the Dementors are going to perform the Kiss." Harry knitted his brows at Hermione's explanation "The Kiss...?" Hermione nodded sadly "It's what Dementors do to those they want to destroy. They clamp their jaws over the victim's mouth and... suck out his soul."

"You mean, they're going to kill Sirius?" I shook my head at the blue eyed boys question "No. It's worse, so much worse" My voice was soft as I looked down at my hands trying not to cry over the innocent man. "You go on living. But you have no memory. No sense of self. You're just a shell. An empty shell..." Harry swallowed thickly the information hitting him harshly, down the hall to the front of the room Dumbledore entered.

"Professor!" I called "Please you have to stop them, they've got the wrong man!" Harry nodded towards Dumbledore "It's true, sir. Sirius is innocent-" Ron cut him off "It's Scabbers who did it!" Wrinkling his face Dumbledore looked down at the ginger "Scabbers...?"  Ron nodded "My rat, sir. Only he's not really Well, he was a rat. You a rat. see, he used to be my brother Percy's-" hermione now cut Ron off with a shake of her head "The point is... we know the truth. Please, sir, you must believe us."

Dumbledore nodded earnestly "I do, Miss Granger. But I'm sorry to say the word of four thirteen year-old wizards will convince few others. Especially one who is related. A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who have forgotten how to listen." I sighed heavily and watched as he walked closer to the window and watched the sky. "Ah... a shooting star. If ever one was to make a wish, now would be the time. But time, I'm afraid, is precisely our problem..."

In perfect timing the clock strikes midnight and begins to chime and ding "Mysterious thing, time. Powerful. And, when meddled with... dangerous. Sirius Black is in the topmost cell of the Dark Tower." He turned towards Hermione and I "You know the laws, Miss Lupin, Miss Granger. You must not be seen. And you would, I feel, do well to return before this last chime. If not... well, the consequences are really too ghastly to discuss. Three turns should do it, I think. If you succeed, more than one innocent life may be spared tonight."

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Ahhhh omg only a few more chapters left of this part!
What are you guys thinking so far? Are there any suggestions or things you'd like to see coming up? Either between Harry and Ophelia specifically or in the whole plot in general.
- A