For the first time in his life, Harry could honestly say he got angry. Not just a little angry but really angry. Not only was he sick and tired of dealing with the man's rabid insistence that Harry was some kind of evil person he owed it to the world to suppress by being a first rate, abusive arsehole but he was frustrated that it always seemed to come down to him to be the damned adult while the real adults acted like the spoilt little brat they so often accused him of being. He was sick and tired of always being the one to have to save the blasted day. It was more than clear to Harry that the Potions Professor wasn't listening to a word that was being said or paying the slightest bit of attention to what was going on in the room. All he saw was a way to get revenge against those he hated beyond measure and who cared what the truth was.
Peter Pettigrew was the first to realize Harry's temper had snapped. He'd stopped begging for mercy during Snape's gloating and begun staring at Harry with wide fearful eyes. Lupin, Hermione and Ron were also staring at Harry with wide -eyes while Sirius was carefully moving away from them all. All of them seemed to be very aware of exactly how angry the repressed boy was. Peter stood stock still not even daring to whimper lest it fix the angry boy's attention on himself. His mouth was moving but not a sound escaped. He was forming the word Lily over and over again because in that moment in time, Harry Potter proved once and for all he was more his mother's son than his father's.
Naturally, Harry lashed out at Snape unconsciously putting three years worth of pent-up anger and resentment into the spell he unleashed in his direction. He'd completely forgotten his wand was in his hand but it wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't. When angry, Harry Potter was a force to be reckoned with and only a fool wanted to get him angry. He only hit the teacher with an expelliarmus to disarm him but because he was angry over the whole mess, his magic overwhelmed the poor man and succeeded in knocking him out cold. And Snape never knew what hit him at all. He was so focused on the Marauders he never realized he had finally goaded Harry into losing his temper.
Hermione's jaw had dropped at the sheer power evident in that single spell. The spell beam was so wide and clear she could actually see it. She just stood there staring at Harry with wide unseeing eyes as she struggled to comprehend it.
Remus had gulped, quietly murmuring, "Just like Lily. Just like Lily." as he moved back to stand next to Sirius who was whimpering quietly while muttering, "Danger Will Robinson. Danger," over and over again.
Ron simply grinned because once again Harry had slammed a Slytherin and Ron hated all Slytherins.
But Peter was a different story. In the chaos that followed, Peter saw his chance for freedom and took it, reverting back to his animagus form as he ran to better enable his escape. At that moment he was more afraid of Harry than he ever had been of the Dark Lord. Reality was, there was no way he was willing to take the chance that Harry would turn his awesome power on the true betrayer of his family now that he had incapacitated Snape. Pettigrew was a coward. Plain and simple. But even he had known in that one perfect second he truly deserved Harry's anger and righteous revenge. Which Harry was more than capable of delivering.
His escape had snapped Sirius out of his awed terror. Roaring in outrage, Sirius tore off after him, determined not to let him get away again. Which snapped Remus back to awareness. Remus ran after Sirius, just as determined not to allow any harm to befall Sirius now that he knew his friend was innocent of the charges against him.
Ronald had torn off after all three of them, determined to rescue his pet and show Scabbers even if he was a deranged murderer he could still have a home with him if he wanted it. Harry and Hermione had taken off after Ron, determined to talk some sense into the redhead before he got caught up in a fight twelve years in the making.
Harry had paused just long enough to taken possession of his family heirloom as he didn't trust Snape to return it to him voluntarily. He knew the man would keep it as some sort of prize for all he believed Potter men had done to him during his life. As was his habit long ago learned living with the Dursley family, not even Hermione had seen him secrete the cloak on his person.
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