the_debt_of_time

Sirius's face fell when he looked to where she was pointing. "Mia, this is a children's
book."
"No, it's the Tale of the Three Brothers."
"I know. I grew up on these stories, kitten. Children's stories."
"I don't care about the stories, I care about the pictures!" She tapped her finger on
the drawing on the page. "Two trees sitting just on the other side of the river, the river that
the three brothers used magic to cross before they came face to face with Death. One tree
was an elderwood, from which Death supposedly carved the Elder Wand. It's a real tree,
Sirius. Muggles call it the Harthorn Tree because there's the antler of a stag stuck in the
trunk."
"So, you saw Remus in front of a tree with an antler stuck in it?" Sirius raised a
brow. "How can we be sure it's the one in Whinfell Forest? Antlers get stuck in trees all
the time. Even Prongs got caught, sixth year, in the Forbidden Forest." He reminded her
of the time when they literally had to pry Prongs's antlers out of a tree trunk when he had
run into a tree and ended up stuck.
"I know it's Whinfell Forest because of the second tree. I saw a large hawthorn tree
next to the elderwood tree. Hawthorn. I'd know it anywhere. It's a landmark inside Whinfell
Forest. I never put it all together until now."
"Wait, is it a harthorn tree or a hawthorn tree?"
"Harthorn is what the Muggles call the elderwood tree," she clarified, "but the other
tree—the hawthorn tree—the one I know is in Whinfell Forest... it's actually called the
Three Brother Tree."
She was trying to focus on the matter at hand: finding Remus. But a part of Mia
could not help but be excited at knowing the location of a very important magical site: the
river the Peverell brothers crossed, the elderwood tree—from which Death carved the
Elder Wand—and the Three Brother Tree, named after the Peverell brothers. She
wondered if Draco's wand had come from that very hawthorn tree in Whinfell Forest and,
if so, had it always been destined to be the wand that would defeat Voldemort?
"Knowing both of these trees, these famous trees, I can pinpoint Remus's exact
location. But we have to go now. He's injured."