Regulus Black the Potions Master

Capítulo 63

"Stay behind me, Potter, he's a Death Eater!"

"Stay behind me, Harry, he's a Death Eater!"

The brothers shouted at the same time, Regulus pointing his wand at Sirius' face, ready to attack at the oldest's slightest movement.

"By Merlin to two of them now" Remus grumbled from across the room.

Regulus ignored his speech in favor of protecting the children. The eyes were between the two men.

"You're both Death Eaters!" Hermione shouts.

"I'm not anymore" Regulus replied at the same time Sirius shouted.

"I've never been."

"Honestly," Remus continued to mutter, "can we talk instead of dueling, or at least not yell? My head hurts."

Regulus mentally retreated, it's a full moon, it's a bad time to test Lupin's patience, even though the other is unarmed.

"Show your arm" Regulus ordered.

"What? No" Sirius shouted back.

"Show your fucking arm Sirius" Remus shouted back.

Sirius looked a little confused before rolling up his sleeves to his elbows.

The sickly pale skin is dirty, filthy in fact, there are tattoos but the main thing is missing.

Regulus lowers his wand when he doesn't see the Mark on his brother's skin. Your heart sinks for having really distrusted him at some point, for not having done more for him, for having failed again.

"Professor?" Harry's voice brought him back.

"Explain yourself Sirius."

"No" Azkaban didn't take away Sirius' petulant tone, if anything it made it even more aggressive, "I don't talk to Death Eaters. And I'm busy."

"Sirius," said Remus.

Sirius turned for the children. His manic look was very similar to Bellatrix's as she tortured people and gave Regulus chills.

"Excuse me Lupin, I'm trying to commit the crime I was arrested for."

"You betrayed my parents!" Harry shouted, pointing a wand at Sirius.

"I would never do that."

"You were the secret keeper" Regulus countered.

"No, it wasn't. Pettigrew was."

Regulus knows he's lost control of his facial expression when he feels a confused frown forming.

"Why would Pettigrew be the secret keeper?" he asked in complete disbelief.

"Exactly why" Sirius said pointing to his brother's face, approaching aggressively. Regulus raised his wand to his face and the older man backed away "no one would think he would be, he was..."

"Weak, fragile, small and kind of stupid?"

"Who would suspect that slippery rat would have information like that? Nobody. Now if you could stop bothering me, I'm trying to kill him."

"Pettigrew is dead. You killed him" Harry shouted back.

Regulus was starting to get tired of the yelling too. Gryffindor didn't know how to talk like normal people? Even though he was screaming moments before too. He preferred to abstain from his own hypocrisy.

"Oh no, he's not," Sirius said with a frightening maniacal grin, "He's right there."

Sirius pointed at the Weasley boy and Regulus was absolutely sure that his brother was crazy, maybe Black's madness was something real, not a way to mock Bellatrix after all.