[HP] Dancing with the death #16 (Patreon)

Chapter #16: Caged rat.

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It’s been almost an hour since Voldemort and the inner circle were expecting the order to appear in Diagon Alley, of course, Voldemort and his men have given up about that after ten minutes passed and there was no sight of the order, however, they were still waiting in case something happened, it could be a strategy to catch them with their low guard, luckily wormtail was still there, however, the dark lord'd patience wasn't infinite.

“Well, I think it’s obvious that they’re not going to come, send wormtail a message and tell him to come back and tell him to kill the prisoners, this is going to send a message to the public, let this event not be a waste of time for the public!” Voldemort ordered.

Soon Snape sent a patronus to wormtail while Voldemort was fuming with anger, his plan failed and he was suspecting someone leaked the information, that's the only way they could've known about his plans.

“I’m afraid someone leaked our plans, that’s why I’m going to ask for an unbreakable vow from all of you to find out who did it!” Voldemort ordered and many of his followers shuddered but nodded.

The first one was Regulus, he didn’t think twice about making the vow, he was glad he wasn’t able to tell the order about this, he was glad they were smart enough to realize that this was a setup, and being the first one making the vow would grant him a good image with the dark lord, his position as a spy won’t be compromised for now.

Meanwhile at Diagon Alley wormtail received the message and soon, he felt relieved, he didn’t have to pretend any longer, it was time to kill and get the fuck out of this place.

However, for some reason, he suddenly felt confused and then he felt the need to do something he never thought of doing, he looked at the public who came to witness the executions and smiled at them.

“You know what? I’m tired, tell the dark lord to fuck himself!” Peter said before he freed the prisoners that were staring at the death eater with confused expressions.

On the other hand, Peter suddenly walked around Diagon Alley as he voiced the names of the death eaters in the inner circle, he didn't stop until he reached an abandoned alley.

“Expelliarmus!” He heard from one man with dark curly hair.

“Incarcerous!” He heard from another man with worn-out clothes and scars.

Wormtail suddenly realized what was going on the moment he saw Frank Longbottom pointing his wand at him, and next to him was Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, if James Potter were here this would’ve been a strange former Hogwarts dormitory reunion.

“Sirius…Remus…Frank…Let me go or else the dark lord is going to kill all of you!” Said the traitor with venom in his voice. “I know you used the imperius curse, you’re going to get thrown in Azkaban for that!” Peter tried to look brave but he was actually shitting himself right now.

He was now in control of the least people he wanted to be under control, at least the dark lord had use for him, he preferred to be dead rather than being captured by the order because he knew that he was going to wish he was dead and he's not going to have the luxury to have that wish fulfilled.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen Peter…After all, your master made the unforgivables legal,” Sirius chuckled and Peter's eyes widened before he mentally slapped himself for forgetting about that.

“Also, he’s about to deal with so many things in the next few hours, I’m afraid he's not going to have time for you, this is the beginning of the end Peter,” Remus was evily smirking at the traitor.

“This doesn’t make any sense…This place was surrounded by my own division, they were everywhere!” Peter was completely desperate, he knew it would be a matter of time before the dark lord classified him as a traitor, after all, this wasn't the first time he betrayed someone.

“Oh, don’t worry about them…They’re all dead,” Frank said with a smirk.

“We watched that meeting you guys held to plan this crap, I must admit that your lord became quite careless,” Sirius chuckled.

“B-But how?!” Peter tried to make time, he knew that eventually, his comrades were going to realize what happened, he was hoping the death eaters and the order fought each other so he could escape, that's the only way he could achieve that.

“That’s none of your business…Let’s get back to the headquarters before they realize we took their rat,” Frank said to his friends and they nodded.

Peter knew that resisting was futile, things were only going to get worse for him.

Back at the headquarters of the order of the phoenix, Sirius, Remus, and Frank were happy to find that they weren’t the only ones who had a successful hunt. However, mad-eye suddenly questioned them but after corroborating their identities Peter was moved with the other prisoners.

“Wormtail?!” Lucius asked angrily.

“What the—What are you guys doing here?!” Peter asked his brothers-in-arms.

“We got baited…That guy there,” Draco pointed at Harry who was moving slowly towards them. “He impersonated the dark lord with Polyjuice potion and caused chaos in the muggle world,” he added nervously.

“In a nutshell, he destroyed the statute of secrecy and there’s no way to make the obliviation charm to work, and he did that while impersonating the dark lord who now has been declared an enemy by the ICW,” Lockhart was nervous.

“They’re on the way to declare war on the dark lord and the worst of all is that Dumbledore got his ICW position back, or at least that's what we heard, I’m sure it won’t take too long for them to take over the ministry,” Lucius finally spoke.

“But why are you guys here?” Wormtail was confused.

The other death eaters stared at the ground with shame.

“We got tricked, we thought the dark lord finally decided to attack the muggle world, and well, we got easily defeated and brought here but not only that, our allies from the other countries were killed by that guy too,” Draco said as he shoots a glance at Harry who was on his way to meet them again.

“You see guys, one of my favorite hobbies in the world is killing death eaters, I had fun this evening, I killed a few from other countries and not too long ago I killed Dolohov without mercy,” Harry said with a soft smile on his face.

However, that smile only made the prisoners shudder, they knew this wasn’t a good sign.

“So, let’s not waste time shall we? I want everything, I want names on the ministry and the institutions of the country, muggle government, the world laders that are allied with your master, I want you to rat your friends and allies, if you do it willingly I can assure you that you’re not going to die,” Harry demanded with a soft smile.

“No…” Lockhart said and he surprised everyone.

He was acting braver than he was in reality.

“I trust the dark lord, I know he’s going to come to retrieve us, and I don’t know about you guys but I don’t want to betray him in case I face him again,” Lockhart’s reasoning made the other three feel confident.

“Yes, he’s right, you guys are nothing compared to our master,” wormtail said with a smirk.

“There’s no way you can defeat him,” Draco said this time.

“Let us go and you’re not going to suffer...Too much,” Lucius tried to buy his way out of here.

The death eaters felt confident right now, and considering the emerald-eyed wizard remained in silence for a few moments, they felt like they won this battle of wills, or at least that’s what they thought until they started to feel like they were suffocating.

“Ah, I wanted to get the truth out of you willingly, I didn't want to waste not even one precious drop of veritaserum in trash like you, this is my fault for believing in Dumbledore’s pacifist route, we’ll I guess it has been confirmed why we don’t need mercy when dealing with these people, right guys?” Harry asked the order members.

The prisoners shuddered for what was about to come, however, they’re the only ones at fault for being in this situation, they made their choices in their lives, and they willingly decided to hurt others, this was nothing compared to what they'd done since Voldemort took over.