Traitorous-Friend-Indeed (III) [Chapter 283]

~~Shrieking Shack, Hogsmeade~~

“Hello Peter” Harry greeted the rat as the rat stepped out from behind the couch for whatever reason, but Harry was certain that his intentions must have been something disgusting, just like the disgusting man he was. The rat squeaked miserably before it tried to bolt, but Harry easily stopped him by encasing him inside a translucent sphere.

Harry wasn’t surprised… Peter was a coward, so obviously he tried to run…

Meanwhile, Tonks, who was still tipsy, squinted her eyes at the rat inside the translucent sphere, staring at them with fear clear in its beady eyes. She clearly heard Harry call him Peter, but it didn’t click in her mind for at least a couple of seconds. “Fuck!! That’s Pettigrew?!” Tonks slurred out while pointing at the rat trapped inside the sphere.

“Yes” Harry confirmed with a nod of his head without turning back toward Tonks. He was busy glaring at the rat, who whimpered back in fear, but unfortunately for him, he had nowhere to run. Harry grinned at the man’s predicament… He wanted Voldemort to suffer like no other, and he wanted the same fate for the man in front of him.

Tonks hiccuped but looked pleased as she stepped forward toward Harry with a grin plastered on her face. “Wow… Look at him. He looks scared” Tonks cooed as she started to giggle.

“Yes. He is… Now, Peter, why don’t you turn back into your human form to make it easier for all of us?” Harry asked in a polite tone, but his intentions were anything but polite. Right now, Tom was busy and even if he wasn’t, he was certain that Tom wouldn’t have dared to come to save Pettigrew.

The rat once again whimpered, but it refused to turn back to its human form… Harry seemed to smile as he pointed one of his hands towards the rat. “Crucio” Harry mumbled and before the rat could react, the red beam struck the rodent. The rodent released a high-pitch squeaking noise before its form finally started to shift.

Moments later, Peter finally transformed back into his human form, but the translucent sphere around him didn’t disappear, instead, it simply grew in size to accommodate Pettigrew in his human form. Obviously, Pettigrew was still screaming in pain as Harry was yet to lift the Cruciatus Curse from him.

After a few seconds, what seemed to Peter like hours, Harry finally lifted the Curse as he didn’t want to break Pettigrew too soon. He wanted the man to suffer for as long as possible, so the man’s death wasn’t going to come anytime soon, nor was he going to break Peter’s mind as he wanted the man to experience misery and pain.

“Hah! Hah!...” Pettigrew started to breathe heavily after Harry finally lifted the Curse from him. Tears were freely flowing out of his eyes, but there wasn’t an ounce of sympathy in Harry’s eyes. “Harry… Harry… Please forgive me… I beg of you. He made me. He forced me. He would have killed me otherwise” Peter finally started to beg while looking as miserable as he could.

Harry simply snorted and started to laugh… “Do you really think I care about that?” Harry asked with a cruel grin on his face. “So what if he forced you to betray my parents? Do you really think that I am compassionate enough to spare you after you fed me that sob story of yours?” Harry asked in a mocking tone and Pettigrew seemed to whimper when Harry sat down in front of him.

“Even if your sob story was true, what makes you think I would have cared about your reasons, hm?” Harry asked with a cold glint in his eyes. “You betrayed my parents, and that’s the end of the story” Harry said while glaring at Peter, who started to whimper once again at his words.

“Please… Please… no!” Peter started to scream and beg. Meanwhile, he had been continuously trying to contact the Dark Lord through the Mark, but the Dark Lord wasn’t even answering. When Peter noticed that the begging and pleading weren’t working on Harry, he decided to turn his attempt toward Tonks since he knew that women usually are more compassionate than men.

Unfortunately, he forgot that Bellatrix Lestrange is also a woman…

“Please. You need to stop him… I beg of you. He would have killed me. I had no other choice!” Peter continued to beg and plead while looking at Tonks.

Tonks stared at him for a moment as it took a moment for everything to register in her mind. “Why the fuck am I going to stop him? I love him! He is my man! Whatever he wants to do with you, he can do to you… I think you should be grateful that he has such great plans for you!” Tonks slurred out with a fanatic glint in her eyes as she stumbled a bit.

Harry raised an eyebrow at her… This was the first time he was seeing this side of her. |I wonder what got into her?| Harry wondered aloud inside his head.

|Maybe, she had too much to drink| Lily suggested helpfully, already knowing why Tonks was acting like that. Lily may not have been an avid drinker but she knew all too well about what would happen if you drank too much, so she knew that Tonks was simply revealing her real thoughts after getting drunk.

However, she knew that it would be really helpful for Harry to have a fanatic like Tonks at her side…

|Right. That must be it!| Harry seemed to foolishly accept that explanation since he didn’t know much about alcohol and women in the first place. Everything he knew about women, either came from books or his mom and his mom was not someone sane. However, the words of his mom made him vow to never drink too much.

Peter was left completely gobsmacked at Tonks’ words. He never imagined that he would meet someone like Bellatrix on Harry’s side. “Well, you heard the lady. Night night, you fucking son of a bitch” Harry said with a grin on his face before knocking out Pettigrew… He wanted to do horrible things to the man, but this was not the place and he didn’t want to keep Sirius out of the loop…