HP: In The Magical World As a An Extra [ Chapter 121 ]

"Yes," Pettigrew shivered, still hunched over the table.

"And what was your purpose in doing so?" Amelia asked again, keeping a hard gaze on him.

"I… I was…. Hiding…. Listening for when it was …. Safe to come out again" Peter said fearfully.

"and you did so without the family's knowledge of your true identity or nature" Amelia asked for clarification, she had worked with Arthur Weasley a number of times and she didn't want to drag him or his family through the mud.

"Yes," Pettigrew admitted again.

"And from what were you hiding, the war has been over for ten years, surely you could have come out of hiding before now." Amelia pressed.

Pettigrew shuddered and it looked like he was not going to answer any time soon about that. Amelia glared at him, "Suspect is unresponsive. I ask again, why did you not reveal yourself."

"I…. I couldn't, not yet, not until… he returned." Peter stuttered out fearfully.

"Who returned?" Amelia asked a deep frown on her face.

"The…. The D-Dark L-Lord!" Peter answered before trying to shrink back in his seat as Amila's glare doubled in intensity.

"You confess to being one of his followers, a death eater," Amelia spat in disgust at him.

"Y-Yes," Peter stuttered fearfully at which Amelia stood up and pulled back the sleeves of his shirt to reveal his forearms and the faded dark mark on his arm.

"Let it be on record the suspect has admitted of his connections to the last Dark lord, and bares the mark of a death eater on his inner left forearm," Amelia intoned for the record before sitting back down and opening one of the files and taking out a plastic pocket holding the remains of the wand that Magnus had snapped.

"Mister Pettigrew, can you identify these wand remains?" Amelia said as she placed the pouch in front of him and watched as the rat seemed to pale drastically.

"t-t-t-t-the D-D-Dark lords," he stuttered out in abject fear as he looked at his master's snapped wand.

Both Andromeda and Moody gave a sharp hiss at the owner of the wands identity, they both remembered who snapped it.

Moody's magical eye turned on Magnus, "Real good choice there lad, I doubt there's an auror still alive from the last war who wouldn't want to have done the same given the chance."

Andromeda nodded in agreement and regarded her nephew with a side glance seeing that he was still too focused on Pettigrew to listen, she knew he must be trying hard to control his anger given the situation.

She was partly right, his lack of reaction was due to his already knowing, but he was also focusing on the interview at the time.

After processing the new information Amelia continued, "It was on your person when you were found and captured," Amelia stated as she glared at him, "where did you get it."

"I-I took it that night, the night when he attacked and disappeared." Peter swallowed hard.

"That night, the night when he attacked the Potters, you were there?" Amelia asked with heat in her voice.

"Yes, I followed behind after he went in, and watched from the D-Door way as he killed them." Peter admitted shaking and shivering.

Magnus had to grab the seat of the chair he was in as he tried desperately hard not to get up and barge in there.

Though he doubted he'd make it through the glass, that was likely heavily charmed, his emotions were raging as he heard Pettigrews confession to having been there.

Andromeda put a hand on his shoulder for both comfort and aid, she could tell he was having trouble dealing with this.

His eyes had turned red the second he had laid eyes on Pettigrew in the other room though she doubted that he realised.

Back in the interrogation room Amelia was putting together the facts in her mind at lightning speed, "who was the Potter's secret keeper?"

"I-I was," Peter stuttered after several long moments of silence.

"Not Sirius Black," Amelia asked hurriedly after that, finally getting to the answers she wanted.

"No…" Peter replied and continued after she kept glaring at him, "it was meant to be a bluff, people would think S-Sirius was the one who knew the secret so they would go after him, and not me."

"And yet you took their location right to the dark lord anyway didn't you." Ameila spat with venom in her tone, not expecting an answer.

Magnus was breathing heavily through his anger just barely restraining himself as he closed his eyes and tried to focus, "Ask him…" Magnus said through clenched teeth, "ask him who cast the charm to make him their secret keeper."

Moody heard him and blinked several times, damn it all to hell why hadn't they thought of that, and quickly pulled his auror badge from his pocket and tapped it with his wand before muttering into it.

Amelia felt her badge shake in her pocket and brought it up to her ear to listen as her gaze seemed to go right past Pettigrew for several seconds as she caught up before she came back into focus and glared hard at the rat in front of her.

"Who was the one to cast the Fidelius Charm and made you the Potter's secret keeper."

Peter seemed to freeze up the moment that she said that and his eyes began to dart everywhere around the room fast for several seconds.

"I…. I don't know, I… I don't re-remember," he said as if he was in pain before the next second he began to shake rapidly and hard. 

If it wasn't so sturdy Magnus was sure that the table would have been toppled as Pettigrew seemed to be having some kind of seizure.

"Goblin Shite!" Moody cursed just as Amelia drew her wand and shot Pettigrew with a stunner knocking him out.

"What, what happened," Magnus asked as he sat still in his chair looking at Pettigrew in the other room.