The Potters, Sirius and Nojiko had arrived in the entrance hall of the hospital and were immediately shown to Peter. The first thing they saw when they came into the large room where two other sick witches were lying was a dead tired Remus. They said hello and learned from him that Peter had had a sleeping potion but would have to wake up again soon. “We'll visit the Pettigrews, see you later kids!” Mr. and Mrs. Potter disappeared and went to visit the intensive care unit, where Peter's parents were lying. "So it got you bad?" James asked, looking worriedly at the boy. He looked pale and had a few scratches on his face, like a broken arm. "Your condition is stable, but critical. His dad got it particularly badly, three Crucio curses hit him, his mum only one."

The four sat in silence for a while and watched their friend, each lost in his own thoughts. If it got Peter, it could be anyone. Sure, since Voldemort had become so powerful, many innocent people had died, but there had always been people they did not know or only briefly knew! It had suddenly become clear to everyone that they were practically in constant danger! “Why do you think you attacked his parents?” It was Sirius who broke the silence. “I don't know!” Remus replied tiredly. He had already found out yesterday because a friend of his father's worked for the Daily Prophet and had always received the newspaper earlier. Moony drove straight to the hospital, his mother had accompanied him, but later left him here alone. He hadn't slept, first he had to comfort Peter, who was still in shock, and then he had tried to distract him a little.

"Padfoot is right, why the Pettigrews? They were neither particularly influential nor powerful. A perfectly normal wizarding family, they have never done anything conspicuous!"“James didn't get it, what could the Death Eaters have against Peter and his family?” There's something else ... Peter told me when he was awake last night. He said they attacked him and that his parents wanted to protect him. That's why they stood in front of him and were hurt so badly! "Remus sank back in his chair, exhausted, feeling like even speaking was too much effort." You mean they wanted to kill Peter? That makes even less sense! "Nojiko was horrified. Why should you try that? He was a boy, 16 years old and a student at Hogwarts. Not even a particularly good one, or - if you were to be honest - talented. He posed no danger! Which, however, particularly frightened her the thought that something could happen to Sirius or James or Remus! That they might succeed next time ...

Sirius seemed to guess her thoughts because he took her hand and smiled encouragingly at her. Suddenly Remus jumped up and shouted "Look, he's blinking! Peter is awake again!" In fact, a few moments later her friend opened his eyes and looked around, confused. “James… how did you get here?” He sounded hoarse and coughed heavily. “Have a drink here first.” Sirius handed him a glass of water, which Wormtail immediately tumbled down. "We read it in the newspaper this morning and of course we came straight away! How are you?" Peter, who was not used to being the center of attention, blushed and smiled uncertainly. "How am I supposed to be ..."

“What happened then?” Nojiko wanted to hear it out of his mouth again and because of her curiosity, forgot all tact. In return, Remus gave her a reproachful look and stood up. “Excuse me, I've heard the story before and to be honest, I'm about to starve!” Only now did the other three notice that they could use some food.They had barely eaten breakfast, but were too distracted by concern for their boyfriend to realize. “Are you bringing something for us too?” Remus nodded and then left the room. For a moment it was quiet again, the other witches were sound asleep, and occasionally snored. "We wanted to buy another cloak and then suddenly they were there! At least 10, maybe more and they wanted me. But Mum and Dad defended me and now they are ..." Nojiko put a reassuring hand on Peter's arm, James assured him immediately: "It will be again, believe me!" Sirius nodded immediately and grinned encouragingly at him. “Everything will be fine, Wormtail!” The door opened and a healer entered. "I'm sorry, but you have to go now! You can visit your friend again soon!"

They protested, but it was no use. Eventually the three left the room and met Remus outside. “Visite, we have to stay outside!” He nodded and handed out his food to everyone. Together they found a row of seats and sat down. "Honestly, Peter? I don't get it!" James was still brooding, just like the others. "Who knows, maybe he was hiding something from us ..." Sirius didn't know why, but he had a feeling. “Peter and the Death Eaters? No, I don't think so!” Nojiko, who was sitting on his lap, shook her head vigorously. "Mum, Dad! How are Peter's parents doing?" The Potters had just come out of intensive care, worried expressions on their faces.

"Not so good. Mrs. Pettigrew will surely recover soon, but he ..." James Dad shook his head regretfully and sat down in the last vacant chair between his wife and son. "His dad won't ..." Remus' voice broke, everyone looked at the two adults fearfully and felt a lump in their throat. "That is not certain. If he survives the next few days, then yes." That was terrible, if Peter lost his father, he would probably not be able to take it!Sirius wrapped his arms a little tighter around Nojiko, who shuddered at the thought of Peter's dad.

The door opened and the healer came out. “Do you belong to the family?” The small group looked at each other indecisively, Peter had no other relatives than his parents. "No, but we are good friends of the parents. He has no other family than the two of them." Mrs. Potter looked at the young man and he nodded. "Well, he'll be released in a week. I've already written to Hogwarts, he goes to school there, doesn't he?" Everyone nodded and relaxed a little. If he was allowed to leave soon, he wouldn't be hurt as seriously as they'd feared. "You should go now, he needs rest above all!"

They didn't really want to go, but they had no other choice. Mrs. Potter offered Remus to spend the rest of the day in Godric's Hollow, but he thanked her. So the friends had no choice but to say goodbye to each other. They hugged longer than usual and looked a little scared. Everyone had a thought in the back of their mind: what if something happened to the others? Finally, Moony stepped into the fireplace and disappeared home. The others also left the hospital and came out a little later in the Potters' living room. The three teenagers disappeared into James' room and closed the door behind them.

"Now more than ever! I want to know why anyone or anything is targeting Hogwarts and its inhabitants!" Sunny's eyes shone with fighting spirit and determination as she slumped onto Krones' bed. James, who sat casually in an armchair, agreed. “Don't we already know who that was?” Sirius put an arm around his girlfriend's shoulder and pulled her closer to him. "Voldemort? No, it wasn't. I told you that I ended up in Moony's mind ..." The two boys looked at her expectantly and waited until she continued to speak a little more slowly.She thought about each word, not knowing exactly how to describe it. "All right, um, Padfoot, you learned mind-speaking from me, but you didn't really…" He raised his eyebrows and waited. "You can talk to me in your mind, but you don't feel what I'm feeling in the moment. You can follow me? Yes, very nice. I had the same instincts, thoughts and ... how do I say that? Moony's senses are incredible as a werewolf good and mine were too! "

Sirius and James were still listening to her, eager to see what she had to say. "What I'm getting at is that I heard the thing that attacked Monlos, too. It wasn't human, otherwise Moony would have smelled it and I would have smelled it with him. It was a little different ... this rustling was absolutely atypical. I have something like that never heard of it… "Now it was out, she had been thinking about it the whole time. “Do you think this thing has something to do with your suitor?” She looked at James in surprise, how did he know? "I just guessed it, but apparently hit the bull's eye!" Sirius looked at her in amazement. "You're right, I have such a strange feeling, but I can't explain it. I only know one thing, it's all connected!"

It was now evening and the three of them were sitting on the terrace after dinner, thickly wrapped in blankets and scarves, hats and coats. "We're going to have a party for Peter as a welcome gift! We owe him that." The others nodded and listened to James' suggestion. When he had explained everything, Nojiko jumped up and laughed. "You're awesome Krone - well, sometimes. Wait a minute!" She ran up to her room and returned with a stack of parchment. "Then let's start writing! Who do we invite?"

The last week was spent planning the party and doing homework, which was not a problem for either of the three. "How does McGonagall always say? It's a shame how such talented young wizards waste their talent on pranks ..." Sirius grinned and wrote the last paragraph of his essay."Next we'll do Oromatea in Potions! Well, it says here at least!" James raised his eyebrows and also finished his paragraph. "Sometimes your girlfriend is scary to me, Padfoot. She just knows everything!" He just grinned and shrugged his shoulders. "You two just have to read more! But since you're too lazy for that, I won't tell you what kind of potion it is!" She stuck out her tongue, for which she got a pile of leaves in her face.