HP: For a better world

Sirius took a deep breath. "Of course I can prove it," he said, "as long as you let me go and let me confront him."

"That's a nice thought! If you run away——"

"Four wands and me alone," Sirius said simply, his voice hoarse, "I can't escape, and I don't even think about escaping." His eyes swept over Harry, Hermione, and Winchester who was holding Peter.

Snape stared at him angrily, as if he felt that every move he made revealed ill intentions.

"Okay." He agreed through gritted teeth, "But you have to stand in front of me. If there is any unnecessary movement, the Dementors won't have to do it for you - don't give me this chance, I'm warning you, Black -"

Seeing that they reached an agreement, Winster retracted his gaze, "Then I'll let go." He slowly pulled away his wand, "Three, two, one——" He suddenly let go and threw the mouse to the ground.

Wormtail had been waiting for the opportunity when they were discussing. The Slytherin boy didn't dare to strangle him to death after all... He didn't have time to catch his breath from suffocation and falling. As soon as he felt the pain of landing, he immediately ran in the direction of Ron's voice.

"Be gentle!" Ron shouted in dissatisfaction when he saw Winston treating his rat like that. "Are you going to throw it to death?"

No one cares about him.

"Recover quickly!" Snape and Black shouted at the same time, and a strange blue light burst out from their wands and hit the fleeing mouse Peter.

Following a roar that was not like a human voice, a bald man with a torn body and strange lumps on his skin appeared in front of everyone in a curled up posture.

Ron was the first to vomit and rubbed back on the bed. He rubbed his hand that had touched the mouse on the sheets, as if his nose had finally smelled the old, dirty sewer smell on the mouse, and he sniffed his hand again and vomited again, feeling nauseous.

Hermione's scalp tingled. She quickly picked up the cat that was circling around her feet, held it in her arms, stepped back, and hid behind Snape.

Winster also took a step back. He really couldn't imagine where the wormtail had been hiding these days... It was still okay when it was a mouse, but he could see that the environment in which it lived before had changed drastically, causing it to grow a body covered with moss.

There seems to be no difference between the spotted bald mouse and the bald mouse.

But when it comes to the bald man with spots and wrinkles, the difference becomes huge.

Only Harry did not move, holding his wand firmly pointed at the transformed mouse.

Wormtail smiled awkwardly at everyone, his eyes rolling around guiltily, his hands twisted together nervously, trying to find another way out.

"...Good evening, everyone." Wormtail said in a shrill voice and smiled awkwardly at everyone.

His eyes darted around, searching for a corner in the room where he could hide: tables, chairs…a broken flowerpot…a crystal ball…there were corners everywhere but no small hole through which he could escape.

He walked around the room very quickly and cast his eyes eagerly at Harry, "...Harry, hello...I haven't seen you for so many years, you have grown up...and you and James are simply..."

"Shut up!" Sirius yelled. He roared, "How dare you! How dare you mention this name in front of Harry!!"

Snape took a deep breath.

"Hello, Peter. It's hard for us old friends to meet again under such circumstances." Lupin was tied to the ground and raised his head to speak to him easily. "I hope you don't mind me talking to you in this state... After all, the two people next to us can no longer stabilize their emotions."

Wormtail's voice was very shrill, "No, no, no... how could that be... we haven't seen each other for a long time, my old friends... Remus," he quickly glanced at Black, who wanted to pounce on him immediately but was held back by Snape's wand, "and Sirius."

"I'm sure you've heard it, Peter... We were just arguing about what happened when James and Lily died... We thought there were some stories that no one else knew about, but there was no evidence..." Lupin raised his head and sat on the ground. He glanced at Snape, "And Severus has a different view on this. You know... He cares a lot about Lily." He was vague.

Snape's eyes looked like he was about to spit fire.

Harry was a little surprised at Lupin's concern.

Sirius let out a loud scoff.

"It's him...it's him! He wants to kill me, Remus...save me, he killed James and Lily, and now he wants to kill me!"

Peter Pettigrew screamed, pointing a finger at Sirius.

"The Dark Lord's craziest follower! His family - the entire Black family is synonymous with madness and darkness. Who knows what kind of magic he will have! He has been hunting me down..."

Harry saw that the finger he held out was a middle finger, pointing towards Black in place of the missing index finger.

"...has been hunting you?" said Lupin. "Why, all I know is that he escaped from Azkaban this year. What did he use to hunt you before that? Curses? Inferi?"

Peter rolled his eyes around restlessly, trying to escape. To make his testimony credible, Winston had removed the wand from him, pointing the tip of the wand down to the ground beside him. But all the exits were blocked, and he could not escape.

Sirius sneered again. Snape's wand was still against his lower back, but his eyes were fixed on Peter Pettigrew. "Am I hunting you?" Sirius sneered. "It is true that I am hunting you this year... Wormtail, but I am afraid it is more of the rage from your master Voldemort's lackeys... You turned into a rat and hid for twelve years... You are amazing. How did you get into Gryffindor? I wondered about this question with James back then."

He pronounced the name with indifference and hostility, and watched coldly as Peter Pettigrew shuddered inwardly at the sound of the name.

He spoke tremblingly: "Of course it was him, he taught you some evil and terrible black magic..." He was horrified to see that everyone's eyes had begun to change - the Death Eaters were the ones who dared not call him by his name directly.

Just as Black called out Voldemort's name, even Snape behind him couldn't help but clench his wand tighter, with cruelty flashing in his eyes.

"It's not me! It's really not me! Remus! Believe me..." Peter saw that everyone's eyes were full of suspicion towards him, and he screamed in fear and pleaded with Lupin, "I'm just afraid - afraid that someone will hurt me, only you... Remus, I went to you for help, but I ran into the cat who helped Sirius!"

"...Are you really coming to me for help? Peter, you didn't stop to change back to a human when I called you - Hogwarts, what fear do you have that makes you afraid to change back here?" Lupin sighed, "How many years have you been following this boy? Almost three years - how many opportunities have you had in these three years to find Dumbledore, to explain everything to him and seek refuge? But you didn't."

"Dumbledore!" Peter shouted, but his voice was still shrill and lacked momentum. "He can't protect anyone! How many people died during the war, and how many people died because they believed that Dumbledore would bring them victory! James! Lily! They all died at the hands of the Dark Lord, no one was spared! And we don't know where Dumbledore is hiding, he is old!... And what have I done wrong? Just because of the hero in your heart, you joined the Order of the Phoenix together... Now I just want to survive." Tears welled up in his black eyes like green beans.

"Because of us?" Sirius said in a strange tone, "Isn't it because Voldemort will never allow a neutral position to exist? Don't flatter yourself, Peter... Joining the Order of the Phoenix was your own choice. Blaming everything on your brothers... It's a pity that those standing here today are the ones who know your true nature very well!"

Snape's wand loosened slightly against his back. He moved it away and stared at Peter Pettigrew, who was slumped on the ground in supplication.

Sirius strode forward, ready to pull him off the ground.

"Harry... Harry!" Pettigrew knelt towards Harry tremblingly, looking like he was about to pounce on him, "You won't believe him, will you... He killed James and Lily!"

Harry smelled the fermenting stench on him and stepped back in disgust as Peter tried to grab his robe.

Sirius approached and was about to strangle him.

"Wait." Winster suddenly said, "You haven't explained how you escaped from Azkaban? Mr. Black, you have to explain it from beginning to end... otherwise how can you convict this disgusting rat."

"I just want to kill him!" Sirius growled, "Who cares about his damn crime! He deserves to die in my hands!"

"Sirius..." Lupin stopped him weakly. Seeing that he was stubborn and refused to give up, he looked up at Snape and said, "Severus..."

"Don't call me!" Snape growled, his lips whitened by biting his teeth, "... All three of you deserve to die... None of you are innocent... You should all die here! Bad seed, werewolf, traitor! Plus a rogue Potter who died early -" He suddenly stopped talking, his eyes bulging and staring at Peter Wormtail: "... I have to get things straight... figure it out!"

After the impulse, his pathetic rationality held him back tightly, forcing him to wait for the truth… He couldn't let the possible traitor escape… The Dark Lord would - he had already revealed his intention to kill the traitor... He needed his trust, Potter... Potter!

Harry looked at Black in silent prayer, watching the actions of the other insiders. What else was there to not understand? But he still wanted to know more.

Sirius retreated under his gaze, "...I heard a lot of news revealed by those Death Eaters in Azkaban...They are lurking, lurking like poisonous snakes...waiting for someone to catch Harry...I know I have to be one step ahead of them. If Peter knew, he would hand Harry over immediately and beg for his life." He spoke with gloomy eyes, as if he recalled his life in Azkaban. The look in his eyes when he looked at Peter crawling on the ground was even more terrifying.

"It was like a fire lit in my mind. I started thinking about escaping and finding Harry. Fortunately, the Dementors were not interested in the chaotic emotions of animals... I turned into an animal and survived until one morning they opened the door to bring me food. They were busy absorbing the emotions and reason of others and didn't care that a skinny dog ​​that was almost dead squeezed out of the bars to leave the prison... Then I didn't dare to stop for a moment. I didn't know when they would discover my escape. I jumped into the sea and ate the small fish that thought I was dead, all the way north."

Black said slowly, then looked at Harry, "Believe me... I would rather die than betray James and Lily..."

Harry nodded heavily and took another step back, avoiding Peter's unwilling hand. He pointed at Lupin with his finger and said in a hoarse voice, "What about him? Why didn't you tell him...about the change of the secret keeper?"

Black stepped forward and kicked Peter away when he tried to climb on top of Harry.

"Because we suspected that the traitor was around us, but we didn't know who it was... I'm a werewolf, Harry, and they were right not to believe me." Lupin's rope suddenly loosened, he stood up and loosened his hand, walked closer, took over the conversation, and said with a wry smile, "Many people in the Order of the Phoenix suspected me... and I was lurking among Voldemort's werewolves at the request of Dumbledore, and it was difficult to contact them in time... They didn't tell me, which was the right thing to do."

"Remus…I'm sorry," said Sirius.

"I don't blame you," said Lupin. "On the contrary, I doubted you too. We are even."

They surrounded Peter.

"No!!!" Peter Pettigrew screamed, cried bitterly and collapsed on the ground, moving backwards, "Let me go! James would not want to see his three friends kill one of them! Please! Harry -" He saw Harry moving back in disgust, and then hurriedly looked at Snape through the gap, begging: "Severus - Severus - please, please... tell me quickly, you won't believe him... The two of them once joined forces to murder you - and now! The two of them are going to join forces to murder me! Save me, save me -"

Snape's eyes flashed with ferocity: "You dare to mention me?" He stepped forward, "You don't need both of them to come - I can murder you alone -"

"He is my prey!" Black pushed him away angrily, "I want revenge for James and Lily - Snotlout! Don't you dare try to snatch it from me!"

Snape stared at him without giving in. "Who wants revenge for that stupid and arrogant bastard! I'm just doing this for Lily--"

"Okay, okay." Lupin said hoarsely, "We can act together as three people, right? Don't let him die so easily... Peter," he said slowly, enunciating each word clearly, "Do you deny it? You betrayed Lily and James to Voldemort."

Peter began to tremble violently, and the shadows of three people loomed over him.

"No—I don't deny—"